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A look at some factors in the selection and training of primary teachers, with some suggestions for a radical change in approach.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
One of the most interesting and remarkable developments in education during the 1960s and 70s was the growth of the teachers' centre movement. A British invention, it almost immediately...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Women are under-represented in senior positions in both the primary and the secondary teaching services. But why? Judy Whitcombe has been conducting a research project in the Department of...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
These are comments from the noted Sociologist, Willard Waller, in 1932. After 50 years and nearly 500 research papers there seems to have been little change. Indeed, in recent literature one...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Neville Bennett's controversial research into primary teaching styles unearthed one informal teacher who obtained higher learning gains for her children then any other teacher in the sample. E...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
To read well and widely is a central objective of formal education. People who cannot read are seen to be at a crippling disadvantage, personally, educationally, and vocationally. Public concern...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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
Most teachers are probably just as curious about what goes on in other classrooms as they are about what goes on in their own. But generally we do not get much opportunity to observe our...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most of the findings of research into teaching and learning seem fairly self-evident. Good teachers know about them almost intuitively and may be disappointed that educational researchers have not...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In a London classroom the teacher and the children share a warm, supportive, and productive relationship. Mr A would be an asset to the staff on any school. The interaction we see here is...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article