A critical stocktake of practice identifies key factors for environmental education programmes as being resource provision, professional development, time for planning and action, funding, overcrowded school curricula, and the non-mandatory status of environmental education.

This New Zealand study proposes that the ethos and culture of schools can be a major protective factor in helping children to cope with violent and traumatic events. Implications for teachers are discussed.

This article gives findings from the Iceberg project—conducted with students who were bereaved when they were of school age—reviews the background to childhood bereavement, and examines how children can be supported after a death.

How are children’s languages, identity, and confidence supported during transitions? This article describes participant research on innovative practices in transition at a Samoan-immersion early childhood "Centre of Innovation". The research investigated the relationship between learning and language continuity as children and educators make transitions from the point of entry to ...

Leadership coaching with a professional partner assists leaders to be reflective in action, on action and for future action, resulting in knowledgeable practice.

Findings from a collaborative research project looking at benefits from hosting international students and related concerns. Changes are recommended for practice in terms of national policy implications directed towards the Ministry of Education, Education New Zealand, and the export education industry.

What is alternative education today?  What is the nature of its relationship to mainstream schooling?  What is and is not possible within a framework that now encompasses alternative as well as mainstream education?

Traditionally, the beginning of the school year sees a flurry of assessment activity.  In many schools this includes the use of standardised tests such as the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs), the Essential Skills Assessment: Information Skills (ESA:IS), and the Supplementary Tests of Achievement in Reading (STAR). 

Because teachers are familiar with ...

This issue marks the end of our celebration of thirty years of set: Research Information for Teachers. We finish the year with a bumper issue: two bonus articles and a competition with NZCER published tests and books as prizes (see pps. 6 and 34).

There are two feature sections ...

set started in 1974 as a kit—looseleaf pages and little booklets with articles, reviews, and even
stories. set generally came out twice yearly—free for the first few issues, funded by the Department
of Education, then on a subscription basis. It covered education from preschool to tertiary level.