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Much of our current educational practice is based on the assumption that play is important to children - indeed that it is essential to their growth and development. We also assume that adults,...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Infant Teachers try to ensure that all young people in their classrooms have access to the necessary tools of trade. In some classrooms books, pencils, rubbers, rulers, sharpeners, etc. are kept in...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Child's play – is it a needless luxury in an educational programme or does it provide long-term benefits to society? Kathy Sylva examines the results of three research projects which challenge both...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
What's to be done to improve things for 'latch key' children, those youngsters with both parents working full-time? Working from data collected in one area Anne Meade is able to put together advice...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
When we look at recent research on reading acquisition, there has only been one exciting show to watch, and that has been the debate between Ken Goodman and Phil Gough. Ken Goodman's (1967) paper, '...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The young people who are the subject of the National Child Development Study are now aged 25. For most of their lives they have been monitored by the National Children's Bureau and described in 19...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In February 1985 Glenys and Ray Stephens found themselves both teaching new entrants at schools a kilometre apart, Ray at Sumner Primary, Glen at Van Asch College, a school for the hearing-impaired....
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The great man was awesome but inspiring. His work sprang from a European tradition somewhat foreign to ours but nonetheIess stimulating. A revealing review of his work. (From set: Research...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The task of teaching a severely handicapped child mainstreamed into an ordinary secondary school is far from easy. Very little help can be found in the research literature. The bulk of this is geared...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is a true and unique language. Like any human language it transmits information efficiently,
using, in its case, great economy of movement rather than sounds. It is...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article