This case study takes an historical perspective to explore the curriculum decision-making of History teachers in New Zealand. It is argued that between 1986 and 2005, Year 12 History teachers were caught in-between curriculum ...

This thesis investigates early childhood teachers' perspectives of how they support children's scientific learning, and how they felt about the way they supported that learning, within one childcare centre setting. Using ...

This thesis set out to undertake a curriculum review. Scale was chosen as the focus of the review because the Mathematics and Science Taskforce (1997) indicated that measurement was an area of the curriculum that needed ...

The recently revised New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) encourages mathematics teachers to engage their students through the use of meaningful contexts for learning. One approach to making contexts for ...