Hunter, Philippa Anne2013-03-272013-03-272011Hunter, P. (2011). Disturbing history's identity in the New Zealand curriculum to free up historical thinking. Curriculum Matters, 7, 48-69.2253-2129https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7412This paper conceives history in the New Zealand curriculum as a curriculum problem. In exposing this problem, history’s identity is thrown into question. I outline a motif of disturbance in light of my professional experiences of history curriculum and assessment policy shifts (1990s to 2010). From a critical pedagogy stance, I conceive the national curriculum’s events-based orientation to history as traditional and played out in pedagogy as exclusive cultural reproduction. From a critical pedagogy stance, I consider a counter approach to history curriculum that engages teacher agency and frees up possibilities for students’ historical thinking.enJournal Article