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One divorce can create two step-families, and as the pool of men and women available for remarriage grows the increase in step-families outstrips the rate of divorce. In 1981, 29.1% of all marriages...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Who cares for the caregivers of pre-school children in New Zealand when sickness, financial problems or emotional crises strike? This research project examined the support networks of sixty-eight...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
In 1975 and again in 1977, Anne Bray and Bruce McMillan carried out a family survey as a class exercise in Stage I Education at Otago University. Students were asked to provide descriptive data about...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Aggressive and unmanageable children pose one of the more difficult of the problems faced by the classroom teacher. Overseas research suggests that there are two factors which more than anything else...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'Who cares for the caregiver?'. American researcher and' grand old man' of family studies, Urie Bronfenbrenner, asked that question at the Second Early Childhood Convention in 1979. He suggested that...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Using research findings from the United States which threw light on family stress, Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for N.Z. and points ways ahead. An address given at the Second Early...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
In the 1940s New Zealand government reports and policy about early childhood education were written with the assumption that parents were part of a nuclear family consisting of mother,...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This article looks at how the belief system of “special” education can act as a barrier to inclusion in early childhood education for children with disabilities and their families. The author...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: ECFolio_10_2006_012.pdf | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This is the first in a series of interviews with researchers whose work has made a difference in the area of early years education. Sarah Boyd interviews University
of Waikato Emeritus Professor...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio 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