Full Description
This book traces how a new school, physically designed as a modern learning environment, has come into being in New Zealand. A key feature is how it designs its curriculum for future citizens. The book explores how flexible curriculum and assessment options support the provision of a well-balanced, coherent and future-oriented learning programme. It also illustrates how the school is implementing its vision and copes with being different from other schools which understand and embody the New Zealand Curriculum as well as the NCEA qualifications system in more traditional terms. School leaders', teachers' and foundation students' thinking and perspectives about what it's like to become a new school are highlighted and shed light on what is possible within an evolving education system.
Contents
1 Introduction.- 2 Framing the space: Mapping the territory of modern learning environments.- 3 Framing the research design.- 4 Framing the school: Hobsonville Point Secondary School.- 5 Framing the curriculum: 'Paradigm of one'.- 6 Framing pastoral care: 'Paradigm for one'.- 7 Framing the perspective: 'Paradigm of the many'.- 8 The first four years: Conclusion.
