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What’s the Future for Science in the New Zealand Curriculum?

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Stewart, GT
Eames, C
Hipkins, R
Cheng, MMW
Birdsall, S
Buntting, C
Carpendale, J
Edwards, R
Hunt, D
Swanson, C

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This commentary article considers the current contentious debates over the national school science curriculum in Aoteaora New Zealand. The co-authors of this commentary are members of a group of science teacher educators and science education researchers who met recently to discuss concerns over aspects of these debates in the context of a wider political contest over the control and direction of education policy.

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3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy, 3902 Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy, 3903 Education Systems, 39 Education, 4 Quality Education, 13 Education, Education, 39 Education

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