Abstract:
The preparation and writing of curriculum documents is one of the many endeavours of the Ministry of Education (MOE). This paper takes a teacher’s personal view of whether, and to what degree, a mismatch exists between curriculum documents and school practice. The technology education documents particularly referred to here are: Technology in the New Zealand curriculum (MOE, 1995), its antecedents, under titles such as Workshop Craft (Department of Education, 1986), and the current draft NZ curriculum (MOE, 2006).