Last August, 1600 delegates from 35 countries assembled in Adelaide for the 23rd World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art (lNSEAl. It was a memorable event for Australia, and for this part of the world, and one in which more than 60 New Zealanders were able to ...

Going to school is an important milestone in a child's life and it is a major event for the parents too. How should you prepare your child for school? How can you prepare yourself? We asked some teachers and parents for their views, and based this guide on that information ...

Vertical grouping in secondary schools usually involves a 'house' system, where the school population is divided into roughly equal cross-sections, and within each house are an equal number of smaller class-sized groups also composed of vertical cross-sections. These groups, called 'house groups' or 'tutor groups' are an alternative to, and ...

A.R. Luria, the great Soviet psychologist, died recently. Lurra and other members of the Moscow school of psychology developed a theory about the relationship between speech and behaviour which has been remarkably influential. Not everyone agrees with the Moscow school, of course, but Reg Marsh, a Professor of Education at ...

The value of speaking with a regional accent is something which is subject to fashion: today, an accent tends to be valued as a mark of individuality in an increasingly mono-cultural and stereotyped world, and it is no longer the goal of an 'educated' person to 'get rid of his ...

In 1973 the Department of University Extension, Massey University, commenced a 2 year part-time correspondence course leading to  the award of certificates in early childhood education or early child development.

Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something decisive if they were ever to solve the problems created by the growing complexity of their society. They set up a working party and, in due course, the working party reported back that in their view, taking all circumstances ...

Specific learning disability (SLD) is one of the most discussed and studied topics in the field of educational psychology; at the same time, it is easily one of the most confused of questions, the quite voluminous literature (340 articles published in 1974 alone) providing little in the way of guidance ...

In recent years there has been a veritable explosion in the range of instructional materials produced for classroom use: reading laboratories, spelling laboratories, study skill schemes, structured maths apparatus, science programmes, audio-visual packages, not to mention material for overhead projectors and listening posts. During the same time improvements have been ...

Family day-care (child-minding in private homes) is probably the most widespread form of day-care in New Zealand and it is possibly the one which has been with us the longest. It is not subject to official supervision (unless more than two children are being looked after) so nobody has really ...