ニュージーランドの学校自治と教育スタンダード

抄録

In this paper, I discuss the neoliberal nature of NZ educational policies since the 1980s, and examine National Standard policy and educational assessment policy against this background. In the educational reform of the 1990s, a Standards-based assessment system （SBA） was introduced. The assessment reform in the 1990s was called ‘the paradigm shift of educational assessment system’ from internal assessment to external assessment in NZ. External assessment deprived the teachers' independence and professionalism and teachers couldn't assess the progress and achievement of each student correctly. It was very important for NZ teachers were placing a heavy emphasis on internal assessments, especially portfolios. Setting the National Goals and standards by the State involve the issue of state control of education through the financial allocation in the neo-liberal educational reform. The NZ decile funding system is introduced as more providing extra resources to Low-decile schools which are located in social and economic disadvantaged regions and communities. I raised the question of whether this decile funding system is a neoliberal system or a welfare system and the point of argument about how they defend the educational freedom and how about recent school autonomy and school-based curriculum design in NZ educational standard policy and funding system.