Today's environment could be a catalyst
Today this article came up on my facebook feed. https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/23/tossing-out-teaching-by-subject-as-part-of-a-modern-high-school-education/ Which is quite an old article, but talks about how Finnish schools are phasing out subjects, to value contextual learning, and learning through projects. When we examine the New Zealand Curriculum, we normally skip straight to the back, where individual subjects look like they dominate, and have major priority (indeed it was the first thing I was taught to look at.) But if we look at the front we see a very different story. We see quotes like this: While the learning areas are presented as distinct, this should not limit the ways in which schools structure the learning experiences offered to students. All learning should make use of the natural connections that exist between learning areas and that link learning areas to the values and key competencies. -New Zealand Curriculum pp16 And this: Schools may, fo