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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
This New Zealand study proposes that the ethos and culture of schools can be a major protective factor in helping children to cope with violent and traumatic events. Implications for teachers are...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The principal of Mangere Central School describes his school's transition to multi-age grouping and gives advice for other schools contemplating a change in class structures.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Exploring children's perceptions of families as part of a classroom activity can be a valuable way of broadening and challenging their pictures of families.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
School computers can now provide very versatile and exciting ways for children to present cross-subject 'projects'. The learning, and what the teachers learnt too, was researched.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An everyday discussion involves an issue and a sense of argument and debate, examination and consideration. Hence we say that something is 'under consideration' or 'open to discussion' and mean that...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'He needs so much time - what do I do with the other 30?' The question is not obstructive, not reactionary, not symptomatic of laziness and it revolves around a collection of seemingly insoluble...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As soon as we consider teaching about Race Relations we strike a dilemma: how to promote desirable values and still let the children learn for themselves. Trying to persuade children to believe what...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article is based on a paper given at a special seminar on multicultural teaching at Auckland Teachers' College in 1984. The paper gave rise to several strong responses, one of which could be...
| Year published: 1985 | 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