Weaving a local curriculum from a visionary framework document (original) (raw)
Many national curriculum documents include competencies that add dispositional demands to traditional knowledge and skills, and link these to ‘21st century’ challenges. New Zealand’s national curriculum includes a set of key competencies adapted from the OECD originals. However, weaving a coherent curriculum from the more traditional subject-based content and newer components such as key competencies has proved to be more demanding than was anticipated. This paper introduces a curriculum-weaving model based on the premise that key competencies should change learning in non-trivial ways. The model draws on the ‘capabilities approach’ from developmental economics and emphasises the teacher’s role in shaping rich learning experiences with both immediate and future-focused learning in mind. The model identifies a small number of capabilities that add important intellectual and practical changes to the subject-based elements of the curriculum. Where these capabilities need to be deployed...
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