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Click on the link below to be taken to Index New Zealand.

Most articles on Index New Zealand are not fulltext. Once you have an article that you want to read, search the Library catalogue for the journal the article is printed in.

For this assignment you will need to search in 2 places - the library catalogue and Index New Zealand (INNZ).

1. The library catalogue will help you locate any curriculum drafts, submissions to the drafts and curricula held on the shelves in the library.It will also help you locate the journals that articles have been printed in.

2. Index New Zeland will help you locate articles relating to the development of the new curriculum. Index New Zealand tends not to have the fulltext of articles available online. Once you have found an article that you want to read, go to the Library catalogue. Search the library catalogue for the title of the journal that your article is printed in.

Most curricula were developed in the early 1990s. When searching the library catalogue and Index New Zealand scroll through your results until you get to the appropriate timeframe.

Things you tend to be able to find:

- The documents themselves

- Their drafts

- Submissions on the draft (sometimes if published)

- Implementation documents (might give clues)

- Critiques of the curriculum (and its design or history if you are really lucky)

- Articles on the draft - pro and anti

- Articles before the draft (good for context - curricula don't drop out of the sky uninformed by what has gone before)

- Later articles published looking back at the curriculum in context

- Articles / announcements etc in the Ed Gazette (good for time-lines).

Things you won't find:

- Internal ministry documents / discussion papers (unless you want to get into the whole vexed area of Official Information Act requests - and then you're on your own as a private citizen!)

- Minutes of meetings

- Names of the designers (apart from Te Whariki and Science documents - the others were published under the anonymous imprimatur of the Ministry)

- Anything not published in the public domain.

The Ministry of Education has a website with information about, and links relating to, the development and consultation phases of the New Zealand Curriculum Project between 2004 and 2007. Click here for more information.

The first step is to search the library catalogue for items held in the Library.

Use the Catalogue search box on the top left of this page or go to our Library's homepage at

http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/

Check to see if your lecturer has put anything onto the Restricted Loan for this assignment: Search the Library Catalogue using your course code- remember to change the 'keywords' search to 'course code' search.

Change the catalogue search back to 'keywords'. Search the catalogue using the word "curricul*" and the subject area you intend to research. Eg. curricul* social studies

(curricul* will give you titles with currlicula and curriculum in them.)

You can also try a subject keywords search using: curriculum change new zealand

Once you have found 1 or 2 items relating to your curriculum have a look at the 'Call number' information. You will find that most of the items you want will be shelved together. It is then just a matter of heading up to the shelves and seeing what else there is.

DISTANCE STUDENTS: You can not just head up to the shelves and browse the collection. You will need to be able to locate all the items you require on the catalogue and request them from us. Find a couple of titles that you want to request. Take note of their 'Call number' information. Using the Library Catalogue, change 'keywords' to 'Call number(LC)'. Put the 'Call number' information into the search box.

The search results will show you a list of titles in the order that they appear on the shelves. You can then see if there are any other titles nearby that might be useful and request them to be sent to you.

Do a search for articles in Index New Zealand. There is a link to Index New Zealand on the left of this page. 

Otherwise, Index New Zealand can be accessed from the Library homepage (http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/). Click on the 'Databases' link on the top-left of the Library homepage.  You will see an alphabet running across the page. Click on ther "I". Scroll down until you see Index New Zealand and click on it. You will be asked for your University username and password if you are off-campus.  

Go to the "Advanced search" option.

 In the first search box put your curriculum subject

eg social studies

In the second search box put:

curricul?

(Curricul? will get you results with the words curricula and curriculum)

This will net you  articles that were published in NZ journals and that are around the topic. You will have to move through them picking and choosing. The results are ranked in date order - most recent at the top - look first for articles around the time of the draft, the final version of the document and just before (for context). Gazette notices are good for timelines as they will often be calling for submissions, announcing delays, proclaiming drafts etc. After you have done this, look back through the more recent stuff for "retrospective articles" about the formation and the context they grew out of - useful if you can get it. Articles at the time will be critiques of the drafts and will be pro or anti - they are useful in themselves for what they will tell you about the design process (who's in and who's out; ideas in, ideas out) and also for what they reflect about the process itself.

 INNZ is a finding tool only - it tends not to have the fulltext articles available online. Once you have found articles you want to read, you will need to look for the journal titles on the library catalogue.

Defending the high ground: the transformation of the discipline of history... 
A very recent thesis on the development of histroy teaching by Mark Sheehan

Shards of teacher and curriculum development in four New Zealand secondary schools...
by John O'Neill