Education Outdoors New Zealand says the government has changed its mind over the future of outdoor education as a secondary school subject.<\/p>\n
Instead the Education Ministry would develop the subject for study by students in Years 12 and 13.<\/p>\n
EONZ chief executive Fiona McDonald said it was celebrating the decision because it would ensure the subject retained broad appeal to secondary students.<\/p>\n
“The advantage of a ministry-led subject for outdoor education is it can be a much broader curriculum than just focusing on the skills and knowledge needed for students to go on into the outdoor ed industry,” McDonald said.<\/p>\n
She said it would lead students to all sorts of further study without necessarily wanting to learn in what she described as “a rather small outdoor industry”.<\/p>\n
McDonald said shifting the subject to industry-driven would have reduced schools’ ability to deliver an outdoor education programme and fewer students would have been interested in the subject.<\/p>\n
She said more than 3000 Year 11 students studied outdoor education and EONZ was concerned the government did not plan to offer the subject for that year level.<\/p>\n
McDonald said more than 53,000 people signed a petition calling for outdoor education to remain a recognised Ministry-led senior subject.<\/p>\n
The Education Ministry confirmed the decision.<\/p>\n
“This reflects the significant educational value of the subject beyond any single industry, as well as feedback received through the curriculum refresh process,” it said.<\/p>\n
It said the subject would build on the Health and Physical Education curriculum and would “be credentialled through the new qualification system”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Education Outdoors New Zealand says the government has changed its mind over the future of outdoor education as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-542029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}