In this, the final of issue of set for 2007 we bring you a rich variety of articles that highlight both some key issues in education and the changing environment that we work in.

As this issue goes to press, the new national curriculum has recently been launched. To mark ...

A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.

Anne Smith has whipped across the Tasman to look after sick grandchildren in Melbourne when set catches up with her. The practical and personal has always been right up there ...

Bullying of Years 5–8 students on the school bus is examined and strategies for prevention are suggested.

Out-of-school programmes for gifted and talented students in New Zealand were surveyed as a part of a continuum of approaches to meeting students' unique needs.

Students participated in a cross-discipline drama and visual-art research project based on a story of a young Cook Island girl making the transition from island life to living in Auckland. This article explores how drama can provide a rich sensory, emotional, and physical context that stimulates visual-art making.

A literacy project aimed to raise the reading achievement of Māori students was conducted using Ripene Āwhina ki te Pānui Pukapuka (RĀPP), a tape-assisted reading resource for students learning to read in te reo Māori.

Teachers in a Māori-medium immersion bilingual unit explored teaching Māori bilingual students how to transfer their literacy skills in their first language (English) to become literate in Māori.

A group of trainee teachers was surveyed to find out if there were gaps in their knowledge of key linguistic ideas for teaching reading and spelling, and if these could be reduced through lectures as part of their coursework.

It’s a great pleasure for me to launch The Hidden Lives of Learners, a book which distils and clearly expresses the fruits of Professor Graham Nuthall’s outstanding academic career.

Over half a century Graham Nuthall pioneered research into how students learn, how teachers teach, and what happens between a ...

This is an account of Red Beach Primary School's experience in using the power of student voice to record development of the students as lifelong learners and to guide decision making.