The focus of our research was on what supervising adults do. We were interested in behavioural processes. Two play centres and two free kindergartens running V2 day sessions, and two day-care...
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In the best of all possible worlds, so goes the myth, students go to university because of their ability and interest, and the subjects they choose they choose for the same two reasons. Because...
In both Australia and New Zealand there has been a history of tension and prejudice as the English speaking majority has reacted to the presence of minorities. The basic tension revolved around...
These Initial Vocabularies for Reading have been developed by Brian Thompson of the Education Department of Victoria University of Wellington to help teachers in primary schools.
Children are not failures in the normative sense when they arrive at school but the process of labelling a child as a failure begins early in his school career. The early school years a:re...
Maybe your pupils are doing well in science tests and in examinations. But do they really understand the concepts and principles you teach them? New methods of probing reveal that apparent...
This lesson was one of a series of lessons considering the nature of matter. In the immediately preceding lesson the pupils had investigated crystallisation. At the end of that lesson pupils had...
In a London classroom the teacher and the children share a warm, supportive, and productive relationship. Mr A would be an asset to the staff on any school. The interaction we see here is...
In 1972, after four years of using mechanical calculators in my teaching now and again, I tried electronic calculators. It
was incontestable that they were a help in the classroom. They...
Technological improvements are still being made. Choose new performance and convenience, not new gimmickry or styling that is just new casing around old brains. On the whole, the more you pay...
If you believe that hitting children is right and proper and probably good for them, that it stiffens the moral fibre, gives them a taste of what life is an about, and so on, then no amount of...
Despite the excellent research of Janet Emig, Donald Graves and others, the writing process itself is still largely a mystery.
We know that it is a very complex process requiring the...
Each set is a collection of leaflets, articles, and small books. Each item has one or more articles on recent educational research findings, specially written or selected for relevance to...
The Report of the State Services Commission Working Party on Early Childhood Care and Administration was published in March 1981. It makes little mention of family day care. This omission is in...