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NZ’s draft science curriculum favours rote learning over critical thinking

By Sara Tolbert, Professor of Science Education, Monash University
Ben Kennedy, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Canterbury
Sibel Erduran, Professor of Science Education, University of Oxford
Troy D Sadler, Professor of Science Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Critical thinking is an essential skill students should be encouraged to develop as part of their science learning. NZ’s draft science curriculum fails the test.

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