Corine M. P. Rivalland and Joce Nuttall
Early Childhood Folio Vol 14 no.1 (2010)
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Education settings are one of the key points of contact new migrants have with their host society, so the way early childhood teachers negotiate multiculturalism is important. This article is based on a study from Australia, one of the most multicultural nations on Earth. It examines how, in implementing equality by treating new-migrant families “the same”, the early childhood centres that took part might inadvertently be fostering inequality.
Myra Kunowski
Curriculum Matters 5 : 2009
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The study reported in this article trialled the effectiveness of cases as a teacher-education tool with a class of preservice history teachers. The collaborative critical analyses of cases, in a learning community of peers, enabled the teachers to develop their pedagogical content knowledge for history teaching, and helped them to make connections between their teacher-education programme and teaching practice in schools.
Jeanette Clarkin-Phillips and Margaret Carr
Early Childhood Folio 13 (2009)
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Jeanette Clarkin-Phillips and Margaret Carr examine how establishing a Parent Support and Development Centre at a kindergarten strengthened relationships with families and created new learning opportunities for children, parents and whānau.
Sally Peters, Tracey Hooker, Sue Biggar, and Frances Bleaken
Early Childhood Folio 12 (2008)
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In home-based early childhood networks, co-ordinators play a key role in supporting educators to provide quality education for children. This article investigates what co-ordinators can do to effectively support educators to enhance their work with children, including providing supportive advice and on-the-job training.
Sarah Boyd
Early Childhood Folio 12 (2008)
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Ann Hatherly distills three key messages from the Early Childhood Education Information and Communication Technology Professional Learning Programme.
Andrew Neil Gibbons
Early Childhood Folio 12 (2008)
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Cameras, personal computers, the Internet, educational software. Information and communication technology is everywhere in modern life. How should early childhood teachers respond to the challenges of ICT? This article explores the idea of developing a philosophy of technology as a way to empower teachers to think critically about the role of ICT in education.
Miles Barker
Curriculum Matters 4 : 2008
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Miles Barker analyses the development of The New Zealand Curriculum from the point of view of preservice teacher education. He presents 20 challenges that he believes the new curriculum poses for teacher educators.
Maggie Haggerty, Yvette Simonsen, Mandy Blake, and Linda Mitchell
Early Childhood Folio 11 (2007)
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Wadestown Kindergarten became one of the six designated Centres of Innovation in round three of the COI programme in 2006. This article discusses the kindergarten's focus on multiple literacies and its role in communicative competence and meaning making.
Sophie Alcock
Early Childhood Folio 11 (2007)
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The connecting role of playfulness in young children’s communication is explored with a specific focus on children’s playful narratives. Such narratives are useful frameworks for teachers’ understanding and interacting with children in meaningful ways to promote learning for teachers and children.
Janita Craw and Maggie Haynes
Early Childhood Folio 11 (2007)
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How teachers’ subject knowledge in mathematics enhances documentation of young children’s mathematical learning is explored together with strategies for sharing this learning with parents and whānau.
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