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Article: Physical education and the New Zealand curriculum: Maximising the opportunity
- Article from:
- New Zealand Physical Educator
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Abstract
Curriculum revisions and other Ministry of Education initiatives implemented over the past two decades have drastically changed schooling in New Zealand. In particular, the 1999 release of Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand (Ministry of Education, 1999) required significant shifts in both teachers' thinking and practices of school-based Physical Education. While many teachers made these shifts, others did not, and now, nearly ten years on, teachers have another curriculum to contend with - The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). In this paper I briefly discuss some of the challenges and promises that Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand ...