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The new book on curriculum integration has come out of a TLRI project.

Connecting Curriculum, Linking Learning by Deborah Fraser, Viv Aitken and Barbara Wyte from the University of Waikato is published by NZCER Press.

Dr Fraser and Barbara Wyte won a Ministry of Education contract in 1998 to investigate curriculum integration and were able to further the research through TLRI funding.
Dr Fraser carried out a project on learning and teaching in the arts and then went on to lead another TLRI project on connecting curriculum, eventually developing it into the book. 

The book is featured on the university website and Dr Fraser's TLRI projects are

Connecting curriculum, connecting learning; Negotiation and the arts and The Art of the Matter: The development and extension of ways of knowing in the arts

 

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A major new project that seeks to improve tertiary education outcomes for mathematics learners has been jointly funded by the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) and Ako Aotearoa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.

A team of eight researchers and 10 mathematicians, led by Professor Bill Barton and Dr Judy Paterson at The University of Auckland, has been awarded $276,900 over the next two years to explore how to enhance the graduate attributes of mathematics graduates.

The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) has allocated funding to six projects in its 2012 funding round.

The fund aims to build knowledge about teaching and learning that will lead to significantly improved outcomes for learners.

Expressions of interest for the 2012 funding round closed in May. A selection panel drew up a shortlist of applicants, who then submitted a full proposal. The fund is open to the early childhood, school and post-school sectors.

We asked TLRI selector Josie Roberts for her impressions of the key strengths and weaknesses across this year’s Expressions of Interest (EOIs).