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Wadestown Kindergarten became one of the six designated Centres of Innovation in round three of the COI programme in 2006. This article discusses the kindergarten's focus on multiple...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The connecting role of playfulness in young children’s communication is explored with a specific focus on children’s playful narratives. Such narratives are useful frameworks for teachers’...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Strategies to support children’s active participation in research about them or the conditions of childhood are investigated in this article. Some participatory-research approaches used with children...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The main findings from a literature review exploring thinking skills in the early years (for children aged three to seven) are summarised, and some practical recommendations for teachers seeking to...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Exploring children’s views on their outdoor experiences in an early childhood education setting was the focus of this article, as well as the parents’ and teachers’ views on the value and role of the...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Rules are presented as cultural tools that assist socialisation, yet observations revealed that young children subvert adults’ messages. A sociocultural interpretation offers teachers an alternative...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This article looks at ways of bridging the discontinuities young children experience between three settings: the home environment, the early childhood setting, and the new entrant classroom. It...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The findings of a recent Teaching and Learning Research Initiative project. Researchers used a collaborative whakawhanaungatanga approach to explore how early childhood educators in settings other...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
An investigation of adult–child and child–child interactions in relation to children's schema interests, within the domain of early literacy. The authors explore continuity between...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article