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Direct linkWestbrook, Fiona; White, Jayne – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Early childhood scholars in New Zealand have long lamented a rising dominance of neoliberalism. Correspondingly they suggest that there has been a lessening of socialist ideals and principles of Te Ao Maori after years of a right-wing government. With the 'refresh' of New Zealand's national early childhood curriculum, "Te Whariki" under…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Neoliberalism, Preschool Curriculum
Thrupp, Martin – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article discusses the everyday politics surrounding research on a controversial government policy. The research in question is the Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) project on National Standards in New Zealand primary schools being undertaken by the author. This three-year study was funded by the New Zealand…
Descriptors: National Standards, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Zepke, Nick – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
A major challenge facing higher education is balancing two competing discourses. One sees higher education as a place of learning and teaching in academic freedom, a place to enable staff and students to research and learn without restrictions, a place in which to be able to critique the status quo. The other discourse is rooted in neo-liberalism.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Benade, Leon – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
The revised New Zealand Curriculum became mandatory for use in New Zealand schools in February 2010. The ongoing reform agenda in education in New Zealand since 1989 and elsewhere internationally has had corrosive effects on teacher professionality. State-driven neo-liberal policy and education reforms are deeply damaging to the mental and moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Educational Change, Politics of Education
Sinkinson, Margaret – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
A key function of health education in New Zealand schools has always been to educate individuals to be responsible and accountable for their own health status. Educational, economic and political stances on what best constitutes effective health education, however, shift over time. The outcome of these shifts is that a multiplicity of disciplines…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Foreign Countries, Influences, Curriculum Development
Mansfield, Janet – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
Economic and cultural globalisation has resulted in particular political ideologies in policy and practice that have created a certain essentialism--a tightened modernist "will to certainty"--which is reinscribed in curricular practices in New Zealand teacher education. At a time when the naming and framing of educational practice in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Global Approach
