Traces of the secondary Geography curriculum

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Expressions of dissatisfaction about the post-compulsory Geography curriculum in the early 1970s were unusually concerted, leading to the creation of a National Geography Curriculum Committee. This essay reviews this history and the resulting Syllabus for Schools: Geography Forms 5-7 as a prelude to a discussion of contemporary curriculum development. The essay argues that curriculum development from 1975 and the 'education reforms' of the late 1980s failed to produce conditions in which satisfactory outcomes for a Geography curriculum can be assured in 2005, and that a new and concerted period of participation in curriculum discussion is required. Some goals for this process are outlined in the final section of the paper. © 2005 The New Zealand Geographical Society Inc. Published by Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

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Chalmers, L. (2005). Traces of the secondary Geography curriculum. New Zealand Geographer, 61(2), 148–157. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2005.00018.x

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