Browsing School of Education by Author "Gilbert, J"

Back to the Future? Aims and Ends for Future-Oriented Science Education Policy – The New Zealand Context

Gilbert, J (Addleton Academic Publishers, 2017)

Science and science education are a focus of high-level government policy settings in many countries. Greater public interest in and knowledge of science is seen as being an important prerequisite for economic growth and ...

Building a future-oriented science education system in New Zealand - how are we doing?

Gilbert, J; Bull, A (New Zealand Council for Educational Reserach (NZCER), 2013)

This paper makes the case for deep and radical change to New Zealand's approach to science education. It discusses the implications of recent science education research and policy work, and argues New Zealand still has a ...

Educational Makerspaces: Disruptive, Educative or Neither?

Gilbert, J (AUT University, 2017)

Makerspaces are now common in schools. This idea, which originated outside education, is being advocated as a way to improve student engagement in learning and/or to foster creativity and/or innovation. It is also linked ...

Leading in Collaborative, Complex Education Systems

Gilbert, J (Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2015)

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On the Edge: Shifting Teachers’ Paradigms for the Future

Gilbert, J; Bull, A (Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI), 2015)

This project was designed to explore the conditions needed for New Zealand teachers to experience the transformational learning we argue is needed for future-oriented schooling. Its focus was teachers’ thinking. The research ...

Resurrecting Science Education by Re-inserting Women, Nature and Complexity

Gilbert, J (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

The development of capitalism and then science over the last 500 years or so has produced a very specific way of organising the relations between humans and the rest of nature. Both depend on excluding—and “cheapening”—women, ...

Strengthening engagements between schools and the science community

Gilbert, J; Bolstad, R; Bull, A; Carson, S; MacIntyre, W; Spiller, L (New Zealand Council for Educational Reserach (NZCER) for the Ministry of Education, 2013)

This research aimed to generate evidence-based recommendations for strengthening partnerships between schools and the science community to support students’ science learning and engagement. It was underpinned by a ...

Supporting Future-oriented Learning and Teaching: A New Zealand Perspective

Bolstad, R; Gilbert, J; McDowall, S; Bull, A; Hipkins, R; Boyd, S (Ministry of Education, 2012)

Teacher professional learning and development for a future-oriented education system – a “wicked problem”?

Gilbert, J (Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2014)

In this presentation we present some initial findings from a research project designed to explore the kinds—and level—of support a group of teachers needed to experience the “step change” in thinking that (we argue) they ...

Transforming science education for the Anthropocene-is it possible?

Gilbert, J (Springer, 2015)

Since its inception, science education has been the focus of a great many reform attempts. In general, the aim has been to improve science understanding and/or make science study more interesting and/or relevant to a wider ...

Untangling Constructivism, Knowledge, and Knowledge-building for ‘future-oriented’ Teaching

Gilbert, J (The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER), 2018)

Building on earlier work in Set on “confusion” around the term constructivism in education, this article explores four different meanings of constructivism, looking at their very different origins and purposes. It argues ...