Education policy and practice in challenging times

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The education agenda of the current Labour Government is one of the boldest and most far-reaching since the inception of Tomorrow’s Schools in the late 1980s. Following a period of relatively limited – albeit often highly contentious (for example, National Standards and Partnership Schools) – policy innovations by the previous National-led governments from 2008-2017, significant policy developments and changes have been signaled and, to some extent, implemented across each part of the education sector from early childhood education (ECE) through to tertiary education since the 6th Labour-led government was elected in late 2017. These policy developments include He taonga te tamaiti: Every child a taonga. Early learning action plan 2019-2029 (Ministry of Education, 2019) developed and released in 2019; the development and promulgation of the compulsory Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2022a); the ongoing review and Implementation of revisions to the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) (Ministry of Education, 2022b); the refresh of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) (Ministry of Education, 2022c); and the establishment of Te Pukenga (Ministry of Education, 2022d) that brings together all 16 polytechnics with nine industry training bodies into a national mega-polytechnic. While these major developments and changes in educational policy have been – and continue to be – front and centre of work in the educational space within Aotearoa New Zealand over recent years, they also have occurred within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, the entire education system has endured three challenging years responding to the resulting fallout on student and teacher wellbeing, the need for rapid shifts in approaches to teaching and learning (including increased use of online and hybrid pedagogies), and the negative impact on student enrolment and engagement in education across all parts of the sector.

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