set 1979 : no. 2

Using research findings from the United States which throw light on family stress Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for New Zealand and points ways ahead. An address given at the second Early Childhood Care and Development Convention, Christchurch, August 1979.

It never takes very long to discover what a secondary school student's attitude to a school subject is. Typically the reply will be in the current idiom and mean either totally enjoyable or totally unenjoyable. It is more difficult to find out exactly what it is about the subject that makes it enjoyable or unenjoyable. In an effort to find out something about this a small study was mounted. The results are reported in this article. Interesting conclusions are drawn. However, these are… Read more

Maori and other Polynesian children underachieve in the New Zealand school system and educators have often suggested that more research is needed to find out why. More specifically, what skills do Maori and other Polynesian children lack that results in their lower educational achievement? The results of recent research on social behaviour, however, seem to point to a quite different problem: the 'traditional' social organisation of New Zealand classrooms leads to Pakeha children… Read more

The aspects of teacher stress which have been researched range from general surveys on the prevalence and sources of teacher stress to more specific surveys on absenteeism, morale, anxiety, satisfaction/dissatisfaction, biographical characteristics of teachers prone to stress, school environment, teacher health, workload, and the nature of the teaching task.
Many of the general articles describe preventive and corrective action, particular emphasis being given to the role of the… Read more

The booklet developed by the Mangere Home and School Project to help parents help their own children.