Current Perceptions of the New Social Studies Curriculum in New Zealand

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Carol Mutch
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Curriculum Framework ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines

In 1993 The New Zealand Curriculum Framework outlined the key areas of study for all New Zealand schools. One by one curriculum guidelines for the implementation of these key areas were released. The development of the social studies guidelines was a strongly contested process and led to three quite different versions being worked through before the final one was released late 1997. A recent qualitative study shows that this elongated process was not to the detriment of social studies but rather led to a clarification of what is meant by social studies in the New Zealand context. It also raised the profile of social studies and cemented its place in the New Zealand school curriculum.

scholarly journals PENGINTEGRASIAN MATERI ISLAM DI INDONESIA DENGAN HASIL KEBUDAYAAN ISLAM (GREBEG SURO DI JIPANG, CEPU, BLORA, JAWA TENGAH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Fitriah Hanim ◽  
Sariyatun Sariyatun
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The Social

Social Science lessons that have been in the school curriculum only exemplify and discuss material globally or nationally. And students pay less attention and are less interested because the scope is not in their environment. From these problems, in the social studies curriculum it is necessary to add local historical material related to the local culture. Which in this case is the national material on Islamic material in Indonesia and its cultural results, the example of that culture can be exemplified is Grebeg Suro Jipang. It is expected that from studying this material, students know the benefits of learning to preserve and can benefit from learning, at least from the meaning of the grebeg, the attitude that can be learned is social attitudes such as mutual cooperation, cooperation, and sharing with others. Nor do spiritual attitudes like gratitude.  

scholarly journals Unreal Tournament: The Battle Over the New Zealand Social Studies Curriculum

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
Social Democrat ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Curriculum

This article examines the process and content of the highly contentious social studies curriculum recently introduced in New Zealand. Essentially, there was a conflict between two ideological perspectives: that of the social democrats who wrote the original draft, and that of the neo-liberals as represented by the Education Forum. The article concludes that in the contest over the new curriculum, the social democrat perspective nominally gained the upper hand.

History and Social Studies Curriculum

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Ross
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Standards ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Widespread Agreement

Social studies education has had a turbulent history as one of the core subjects in the school curriculum. The fundamental content of the social studies curriculum – the study of human enterprise across space and time –however, has always been at the core of educational endeavors. It is generally accepted that the formal introduction of social studies to the school curriculum was instigated by the 1916 report of the National Education Association’s Committee on Social Studies, which emphasized development of citizenship values as a core aim of history and social science education. Earlier commissions of the N.E.A. and American Historical Association heavily influenced the Committee on Social Studies recommendations. The roots of the contemporary social studies curriculum, therefore, can be traced to two distinct curriculum reform efforts: the introduction of academic history into the curriculum and citizenship education. There is widespread agreement that the aim of social studies is citizenship education, that is the preparation of young people so that they possess the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for active participation in society. This apparent consensus, however, has been described as almost meaningless because social studies educators continue to be at odds over curricular content as well as the conception of what it means to be a good citizen. Since its formal introduction into the school, social studies curriculum been the subject of numerous commission and blue-ribbon panel studies, ranging from the sixteen-volume report of the American Historical Association’s Commission on Social Studies in the 1930s to the more recent movement for national curriculum standards. Separate and competing curriculum standards have been published for no less than seven areas of that are part of the social studies curriculum: United States and global history, economics, geography, civics, psychology, and social studies. Social studies curriculum is defined a lack of consensus and has been an ideological battleground with ongoing debates over its nature, purpose, and content. Historically there have been a diverse range of curricular programs that have been a prominent within social studies education at various times, including the life adjustment movement, progressive education, social reconstructionism, and nationalistic history. The debate over the nature, purpose, and content of the social studies curriculum continues today, with competing groups variously arguing for a social issues approach, the disciplinary study of history and geography, or action for social justice as the most appropriate framework for the social studies curriculum.

Aesthetic value teaching in social studies textbooks

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Tolgahan Ayantas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Values Education ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Studies Textbooks ◽  
The Aesthetic

The purpose of this qualitative study is to evaluate how the aesthetic value is handled in social studies textbooks. In this study, document analysis was used. Firstly, the sections devoted to the teaching of aesthetic value in the social studies curriculum were examined. After the social studies, curriculum was reviewed it was found that only two of the textbooks (the 5th and 7th grades social studies textbooks) contained sections that taught aesthetic value. The findings of the research indicate that values education has a significant place in the social studies curriculum (2018), but the teaching of aesthetic value is very scarce in social studies textbooks. Aesthetic value is being taught by giving only examples of historical buildings or historical relicts. Aesthetic value has not presented in the context of creativity, beauty, thinking of beauty, meaning of beauty, creation of beauty or the emotional and intellectual basis of beauty. Keywords: Aesthetic value, values education, social studies textbooks, social studies teaching.

scholarly journals Transcending the ethically silent space of New Zealand’s social studies curriculum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrea Milligan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stipulative Definition

<p>This is a largely theoretical thesis about social studies education in New Zealand. Its aim is to consider how learners’ ‘ethical decision-making and action’ (to paraphrase the curriculum) could be better supported by proposing a broad theoretical orientation to this curriculum requirement. It argues that although ethics is central to learners’ lives and to the purposes of social studies education, this has hitherto been minimally communicated and elucidated through New Zealand curriculum documentation. It takes the view that while providing pedagogical guidance to teachers is urgent and vital, theoretical considerations should be a first priority. The thesis begins by offering a partly stipulative definition for ethics and foregrounds the complexities of ethical decision-making and action in our everyday lives and in academic ethics. It then considers the relationship between ethics and the purposes of social studies education, and uses a form of content analysis to describe the curricular meanings that have been implicitly ascribed to ethics over time. It explores how the present New Zealand social studies curriculum is framed theoretically and what could be possible within this framing to better support learners to navigate in their ethical worlds. Three adjustments to the curriculum’s framing are proposed: social studies as issues-based education, as counter-socialisation, and as engagement with the philosophy of ethics. These are defended as a matter of social justice, and on the basis of their contribution to a range of social studies outcomes. The thesis then considers the theoretical underpinnings of these proposed adjustments in greater depth. It explores whether an ethically reflexive orientation would better support social studies learners’ ethical decision-making and action, through three analytic moves: charting reflexivity’s tropes in the social sciences and social theory literature, developing an understanding of ethical reflexivity, and questioning the work this concept could do in social studies education. The thesis argues that an ethically reflexive orientation is a theoretical space in the literature worthy of attention, not least because it maps onto the contemporary ethical space in which learners find themselves. The considerable challenges ahead for such an orientation are readily acknowledged, but the thesis finds within the literature, and from the perspectives of a small group of social studies teachers and learners, some optimism that a reflexive orientation could transcend the ethically silent space of New Zealand social studies education.</p>

scholarly journals Transcending the ethically silent space of New Zealand’s social studies curriculum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrea Milligan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
Social Studies Curriculum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stipulative Definition

<p>This is a largely theoretical thesis about social studies education in New Zealand. Its aim is to consider how learners’ ‘ethical decision-making and action’ (to paraphrase the curriculum) could be better supported by proposing a broad theoretical orientation to this curriculum requirement. It argues that although ethics is central to learners’ lives and to the purposes of social studies education, this has hitherto been minimally communicated and elucidated through New Zealand curriculum documentation. It takes the view that while providing pedagogical guidance to teachers is urgent and vital, theoretical considerations should be a first priority. The thesis begins by offering a partly stipulative definition for ethics and foregrounds the complexities of ethical decision-making and action in our everyday lives and in academic ethics. It then considers the relationship between ethics and the purposes of social studies education, and uses a form of content analysis to describe the curricular meanings that have been implicitly ascribed to ethics over time. It explores how the present New Zealand social studies curriculum is framed theoretically and what could be possible within this framing to better support learners to navigate in their ethical worlds. Three adjustments to the curriculum’s framing are proposed: social studies as issues-based education, as counter-socialisation, and as engagement with the philosophy of ethics. These are defended as a matter of social justice, and on the basis of their contribution to a range of social studies outcomes. The thesis then considers the theoretical underpinnings of these proposed adjustments in greater depth. It explores whether an ethically reflexive orientation would better support social studies learners’ ethical decision-making and action, through three analytic moves: charting reflexivity’s tropes in the social sciences and social theory literature, developing an understanding of ethical reflexivity, and questioning the work this concept could do in social studies education. The thesis argues that an ethically reflexive orientation is a theoretical space in the literature worthy of attention, not least because it maps onto the contemporary ethical space in which learners find themselves. The considerable challenges ahead for such an orientation are readily acknowledged, but the thesis finds within the literature, and from the perspectives of a small group of social studies teachers and learners, some optimism that a reflexive orientation could transcend the ethically silent space of New Zealand social studies education.</p>

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