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Listening to parents and teachers and then working on ways to close the gap between their widely differing expectations.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This review of research looks not only at the effects of class size on children's academic success but also at children's behaviour, teacher stress, cost effectiveness and the unique...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers and pupils see school work quite differently. Quality counts for teachers, but most children just want to finish. We can help by uncovering skills which are already enjoyed without the drive...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 1984 I heard it claimed that, 'Teachers rarely report child abuse, partly because they lack knowledge of how to identify and report and partly because they are reluctant to get involved in legal...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The classroom time can be divided up into a series of location times, for example in an infant class, seat-work time, mat-time and out-door time. Teachers expect different behaviour from the children...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Society accepts violent behaviour and it is modelled in homes, schools and streets. This accepting and modelling is the major cause of violent crime. This is no longer supposition but fact, supported...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children of around six have rather different perceptions of people's roles than do older children and adults. They tend to focus on one aspect or characteristic of a situation instead of scanning all...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers are the keepers of attendance registers. They have a legal obligation to do so. But where there are absences, what can be said? What can be inferred? What can be done? Most research into...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Australia had the idea first, New Zealand has seen it take off: child sized equipment and modified rules develop skills and give great fun.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Otago University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tatebe
Kalantzis, M., & Cope,...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article