Open AccessPrimary Problems and the New Zealand Curriculum
Author(s) -
Sandra Aikin
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
new zealand annual review of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1178-3311
pISSN - 1171-3283
DOI - 10.26686/nzaroe.v0i4.1088
Subject(s) - curriculum , argument (complex analysis) , context (archaeology) , relevance (law) , extension (predicate logic) , primary (astronomy) , sociology , pedagogy , primary education , mathematics education , political science , psychology , medicine , computer science , geography , law , physics , archaeology , astronomy , programming language
Selected features of the New Zealand curriculum framework are examined and their relevance to, and potential impact upon, primary schools considered. Because every school is a medium through which the implementation of curriculum policy must pass, these features are examined within the context of primary school culture.The argument is made that despite attempts to make the framework appropriate to primary school teaching methods and values, there are contradictions in the framework that inevitably favour secondary schooling and, by extension, the labour market. As a result, the framework has the potential to jeopardise many valuable aspects of primary school.