Overview
Illustrates conceptions of an integrated secondary school curriculum
Demonstrates the inception of a new school in a modern learning space in New Zealand
Offers examples of what a future-focused curriculum might look like, which may inspire other school leaders embarking on similar curriculum change in their own contexts
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Flexible learning spaces
- 21st century learning
- New pedagogy
- Integrated learning
- Secondary school learning
- Education in New Zealand
- modern learning environment
- flexible learning spaces
- innovative learning spaces
- innovative learning environments
- School design
- School planning
- community partnerships
- New Zealand Curriculum
- culturally responsive pedagogies
- flexible curriculum
- learning and instruction
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Noeline Wright is a teacher educator whose work centres on the secondary school sector. She helps prepare those entering secondary teaching via graduate initial teacher education programmes. Her research interests span digital technologies in secondary school settings, secondary schools as modern learning environments, and possibilities for integrated learning for students. She has worked closely with a local secondary school to investigate how teachers from different subject areas incorporate mobile digital technologies into their lessons, and what changes occur in their thinking and practices as a result. She has published on pedagogy and digital technologies, social media in initial teacher education, and on new schools as modern learning environments. She has been funded by the national Teaching and Learning Research Initiative programme to investigate the inception of another new secondary school.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Becoming an Innovative Learning Environment
Book Subtitle: The Making of a New Zealand Secondary School
Authors: Noeline Wright
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0764-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0763-8Published: 13 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4493-0Published: 15 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0764-5Published: 02 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 145
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Educational Technology, Schools and Schooling, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Curriculum Studies, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation