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Young people's judgements about social and ethical issues are influenced by developmental factors, by the demands of the context, by processing demands, and by the type of adult support that is...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For over a year I went to classes with two groups of I5-year-old girls, wagged with them, had lunch with them and generally hung around with them at school. I recorded interviews and conversations,...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Currently in secondary schools a special time allowance of 'up to five weekly teaching half days beyond regulation staffing' is available 'to permit schools to employ part time teachers when...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Philip, a fourth former in a Wellington high school, was not very keen on writing. He thought little of his own writing ability, tended to write very slowly and was of the view that his difficulties...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Discussing nuclear war informally with a group of 16-year-olds I discovered that they had a great many different opinions about it, and many misconceptions. Stimulated by Hugh Lauder and Alan Scott...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How can education help to break down unnecessary sex-stereotyping of school subjects? The issue was much discussed in the 70s. The 'Catch 22' situation in the diagram was common and it was realised...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are kids in secondary schools misbehaving more frequently? Do they have less respect for teachers? Do they have less respect for authority? Is what teachers do contributing to the problem? How would...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What is work experience for? The main goal may be to make students more employable, or it may be to teach students about the community in which they live. It may be to help students to become more...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If we distinguish what it is that good readers learn to do that poor readers do not learn we are half way to knowing what to
do to cure a lot of problems, for 'Failure in reading, virtually means...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Interested in exploring a form of learner agency that moves beyond a focus on using it to get better results? This article explores what happened when Year 11 students in a cross-curricular course...
| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article