Early Childhood Folio Online First

This case study explores inclusive education through the experience of Daisy, a Deaf child in a New Zealand kindergarten, highlighting that true inclusion extends beyond access and into equity in experience and in outcome. Guided by the Aotearoa Deaf Community’s social model of disability, the study illustrates how kaiako, whānau, peers, and support services collaboratively removed barriers to participation. Using the five guiding questions aligned to Te Whāriki, the team creates a… Read more

With concerns of the potential push-down of academic school readiness pedagogies following revisions of the New Zealand Curriculum for schools, this research team sought to make apparent to others how early childhood kaiako of infants and toddlers are already weaving together diverse pedagogies to support tamariki learning dispositions and learning of language literacies and mathematics. In response, the research team engaged in collaborative video-stimulated research conversations to… Read more