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Reprinted from Practical Research for Education, 41, 2009
The British Gaining Ground project aimed to develop a fresh approach to engaging young people excluded from mainstream education....
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In early childhood education, the arts have traditionally been taught based on ideas about developmentally appropriate practice and the creative self-expression of the child. This is ...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Teachers are keen to adopt new ICTs to support student learning. This article looks at one example—interactive whiteboards. Skilfully used by the teacher, sequences of magnified images wowed students...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article presents evidence of the first activity in a sequence of history pedagogy Thinking About History that engaged learners in connecting to their pasts as a way into history.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on the ways in which effective teachers plan instructional tasks that provide diverse learners with opportunities to access and engage with important mathematical concepts and...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article, the third in a series about carrying out research as a student learning activity, discusses how research relates to context—in this case, history.
The challenge is to help students...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Helping students to use metacognition involves assisting students to think about their own learning. This article shows how a teacher in a final-year high school biology class scaffolded learning by...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Keeping a journal in the mathematics classroom has clear benefits. In this study a group of students kept journals on their mathematics lessons and were found to become more regular and deeper...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_050.pdf | Content type: Set article
This article discusses the merits of using cancer as a context for teaching about social and ethical issues. It is based on part of a larger research project that investigated the teaching and...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article