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Road safety education for young children requires more than games, rhymes, and worksheets; it needs to be linked to everyday experiences of traffic and addressed “little and often”. This...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
How do early childhood teachers describe and enact their ideas about the curriculum? Two researchers, one from each side of the Tasman, describe how they have separately attempted to...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Progression and continuity are considered to be indicators of quality and effectiveness in early childhood education, but there are different and sometimes competing definitions of these concepts.
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The challenges of sociocultural assessment are complex but exciting. Discussion and debate will help to broaden the boundaries and empower practitioners to reconceptualise assessment so that they...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Literacy and numeracy have been receiving increasing attention in New Zealand in recent years. This paper discusses how early childhood practitioners might respond to current initiatives in the area...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Since 1996 in Aotearoa/New Zealand, we have had a bicultural early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 1996). This document was developed with regard to the early childhood field...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Many centres use valuable display space for notices to parents, rather than displaying children's writing. This study of New Zealand kindergartens gives insight into the kinds of environments which...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Technology education is a key learning area, yet very little is known about how young children should be involved in a technology curriculum. This paper reports on the mismatch between currilulum...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
In Europe and the UK there is lively debate about when children should start school and what kinds of curriculum and pedagogical approaches are most effective in the early years. Caroline Sharp of...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
There are challenges to be faced when blending elements of two curriculum documents. Here are the tactics used by two teachers who use both the national early childhood education curriculum statement...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article