Perspectives on the Knowledge Problem in New Zealand Education

Towards Equity

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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It addresses a social justice concern about access to the unique affordances of subject knowledge which comprises two forms of knowledge - propositional (knowledge-that) and applied knowledge (know-how-to). The book provides perspectives on curriculum design by grounding arguments in a theory of knowledge.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-07
Mått155 x 235 x 7 mm
Vikt189 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringerBriefs in Education
Antal sidor97
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811629075

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Dr Graham McPhail is a senior lecturer in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He took up this position in 2015 after twenty years of work in the secondary education sector. His research is centred on the role of knowledge in the curriculum, in particular within C21 schooling and music education contexts. Graham currently has over 30 papers published in a wide range of journals both in New Zealand and internationally. He has recently presented on curriculum change at Universities in the UK and the USA.Dr Megan Lourie is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Prior to that she was a Languages teacher in secondary schools. Megan researches in the area of education policy and has a particular interest in how ideas about education travel on a global scale. Recently, she has been tracing the emergence of differentideas about knowledge in the New Zealand curriculum, and the extent to which this reflects global trends.

1 Introduction.- 2 The components of a national curriculum.- 3 Three models of teaching: A framework for thinking about education.- 4 Knowledge: What teachers need to know.- 5 Knowledge marginalisation in curriculum and practice.- 6 Knowledge and the 'Identity Directive'.- 7 The TAP/CDC combination for bi/multilingual students: Illustrating the relationship between knowledge-that and knowledge-how.- 8 A curriculum for 21st century learners.

“The book will prove valuable for several groups of readers. It provides postgraduate students and academics alike with a useful introduction to core concepts in social realism, as applied to the New Zealand educational context. … The book also provides an accessible read for teacher-curriculum developers seeking to understand the curriculum development process and experiment with using the CDC model to improve the coherence of their curricula.” (Liyun Wendy Choo, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 58 (1), 2023)