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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...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research shows sex differences in the development of children and adolescents. This review examines how these influence behaviour and attainment.
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What do New Zealand teachers expect of their pupils? Are their expectations culturally stereotyped? Do they treat some pupils differently because of their stereotypes?
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Concern about disruptive behaviour has increased dramatically in the last decade. Three reasons are often put forward for this.
(i) Disruptive behaviour in schools is the inevitable...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If you believe that hitting children is right and proper and probably good for them, that it stiffens the moral fibre, gives them a taste of what life is an about, and so on, then no amount of...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Bullying of Years 5–8 students on the school bus is examined and strategies for prevention are suggested.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The weather does have an effect on children's (mis)behaviour. Evidence from Britain puts rain, wind and temperature alongside referrals for 'time out' and comes up with a predictive...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
One divorce can create two step-families, and as the pool of men and women available for remarriage grows the increase in step-families outstrips the rate of divorce. In 1981, 29.1% of all marriages...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the United Kingdom, classroom seating with desks or tables arranged in rows is the norm in secondary schools. This was also the case in most primary schools until the sixties when a less formal...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article