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How does the size of the building affect play? How does the size of the group? How does the type of equipment you provide, or the number of items, or the number of adults, or what they do? Many basic...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This innovative programme for Pacific Islands families in New Zealand shows that parents are offering more than they realise to their children. When encouraged to use their first language while...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Published 101 years ago by an anonymous author, a small pamphlet extolled the virtues of votes for women. Here is the original re-written as a play for schools and any other group.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Perhaps girls miss out on pre-school experiences with equipment which would help them find mathematics much more natural at school. Action was taken in four kindergartens to help and the results are...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The authors explore the notion of pedagogy in early childhood education, particularly the way it has become synonymous with provision of play-based programmes.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
A real challenge children face is how to successfully enter collaborative play that is already in progress. Some children achieve this with little trouble, while others struggle to be included....
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Learning about sustainability is now understood to be an important part of early childhood education. An important knowledge area associated with sustainability is biodiversity. Learning...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This article is written in response to listening to teachers query the place of fun in learning. Students often express that learning should be fun but teachers are often unsure what they mean by...
| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What happens when teachers exclude an aspect of children’s home culture—popular media—from early childhood centres? This case study documents how teacher rules (“no guns”, “no toys from home”)...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This issue of Early Childhood Folio ranges from a big-picture and readable review of the main debates within the literature about play in Western settings, to a small, qualitative, in-depth case...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article