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These documents relate to the development of the curriculum statement Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum. They are in chronological order.

Health and Physical Well-being: Literature reviews
These 1994 literature reviews for both health education and physical education preceeded the development of the policy specifications for the writing of the draft curriculum statement.

Policy Specifications for a National Curriculum Statement in Health and Physical Education
These specifications prepared by the policy advisory group in 1995 formed the basis for the development of the curriculum statement.

Physical Education: Liberate It Or Confine It To The Gymnasium?
This paper by Ian Culpan, originally published in Delta: Policy and Practice in Education (1996/1997), examines the position of physical education within the New Zealand Curriculum Framework and the development of the Draft Health and Physical Education Curriculum Statement (1996). It does so in terms of the political context of education change in New Zealand. This paper should not be read as Ministry of Education policy.

For Whose Benefit? The Politics of Developing A Health Education Curriculum
This paper by Gillian Tasker, originally published in Delta: Policy and Practice in Education (1996/1997), describes curriculum development processes, key contemporary concepts underlying health education, issues in learning and teaching health education, equity issues which have implications for such a curriculum, and aspects of a post-modern approach to health education, all of which have informed this development process. This paper should not be read as Ministry of Education policy.

Developing the Draft Statement
This material, reproduced from Curriculum Development Update 29, 1998, describes the process the Ministry of Education employed to develop the curriculum statement.

Responses to the Draft
This material published in November 1998 provides an overview of the key findings of the consultation process used to review the draft curriculum statement. This process included written responses from schools and other interested parties, responses from trial schools and regional consultations schools, and questionnaire responses.

Implementation – Making the Magic Happen
This extract from an address in July 1999 to the New Zealand Health Teachers' Association Conference was originally published in Curriculum Update 39, 1999.

what's new?
This pamphlet was published in July 1999 and provides information for parents and trustees to answer the following questions:

  • what is in the health and physical education curriculum;
  • what it means to be healthy;
  • what health and physical education issues are facing our students;
  • how you can be involved in health and physical education programmes at school;
  • how you can help your child.

Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum - Gazetted
This extract from New Zealand Gazette (13/12/2001, No. 170, p. 4172) endorses that all state and integrated schools are to provide learning and teaching programmes based on this national curriculum statement.

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