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April 1999 Prepared for the New Zealand Ministry of Education
This paper has been prepared at the request of the Ministry of Education to identify and elaborate upon the theoretical and practical bases which have informed the initial draft developed by the co-ordinating writers for the draft document, The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum. In developing this paper, the writers have addressed the specific terms of reference as defined by the Ministry of Education. The current process of curriculum development in The Arts has been underway since March of 1998. This process has been informed by international academic sources, research studies and current New Zealand national syllabus and course statements. Development has also been informed by existing best practice in each of the ēarts disciplinesí at both classroom and professional levels in order to reflect the diverse specialist traditions, innovations and technologies of the disciplines that make up the arts in the New Zealand curriculum. Writing and reference groups have advised on content and structural issues in relation to their specialist disciplines, and in the case of music and the visual arts, comparable relationships with the 1989 New Zealand syllabus statements in these disciplines have been identified. This paper is structured into nine areas: Trends and Factors Affecting the Arts in Contemporary Society Culture within the Postmodern Paradigm The Arts: Conceptual Framework also Each of these areas will be elaborated briefly in order to provide an overview of the contributing ideas and conditions which shape the conceptualisation and practice of the arts in the New Zealand educational setting.
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