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Curriculum and Instruction

Edith Cowan University

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

2008

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Enterprise In The New Zealand Curriculum And Its Challenge To Ethical Teacher Professionality., Leon Benade May 2008

Enterprise In The New Zealand Curriculum And Its Challenge To Ethical Teacher Professionality., Leon Benade

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The release in 2006 by the New Zealand Ministry of Education of a Draft national Curriculum set for release in November 2007 challenges schools and teachers to evolve their role to align with the priority to ‘embed’ enterprise values and methodologies. These values and methodologies will be expressed in curricula that school communities will develop locally in line with the new national Curriculum. This paper contextualises the place of ‘enterprise’ in the Draft New Zealand Curriculum of 2006 and considers some modifications in the final version released in November 2007. The possible impact of an emphasis on enterprise for teacher …