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There is growing interest in the development of education for sustainability (EfS) in New Zealand schools. Over a third of all schools are now part of the Enviroschools Programme, and the...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Picture books are ubiquitous in Western early childhood and primary settings. This article explores how picture books are being used in culturally and linguistically diverse settings, by...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The significance of experiences in nature for children’s learning and development has been expounded by philosophers and educationalists for centuries. In many contemporary early childhood education...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The transition into early childhood education is a big step for children and their parents. It can help a child settle in if one teacher becomes their “primary caregiver”, giving them...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
An investigation of adult–child and child–child interactions in relation to children's schema interests, within the domain of early literacy. The authors explore continuity between...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
English participants in a cross-national study frequently discussed concepts of independence and risk, often seeing independence as structured choice making and risk to children as...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Problem solving is at the heart of mathematics, and is known to support learning for a diverse range of children. However, challenges can be encountered when teaching mathematics through problem...
| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set 2021_1_043.pdf | Content type: Set article
This action-research project investigated the efficacy of negotiation and power sharing during a physical education unit in an alternative education programme for students at risk. The students...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers in a Centre of Innovation reflect about their action research, which focused on how children’s working theories were developed through complex and sustained learning. Overlapping...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This article examines findings from an action research project by three early childhood teachers and one researcher in an Early Learning Centre in a private school setting in Australia....
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article