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This article reflects on a school’s approach to gamifying the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s First CREST Award. The article explains how CREST was reconceived as a quest using elements of live action...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set 2018_3_074.pdf | Content type: Set article
A number of converging issues provided the impetus for 12 schools in the Western Bay of Plenty to form a support network to explore and develop play-based learning for the first years of school. This...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If The New Zealand Curriculum vision statement is aiming for students “who will work to create an Aotearoa New Zealand in which Maori and Pakeha recognise each other as full Treaty partners, and in...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We’re pleased to present this special issue, Learning through Play and Games, at a time when interest in play-based learning and game-based learning is growing in many New Zealand schools. The issue...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set 2018_3_001.pdf | Content type: Set article
Teachers have an important role to play in supporting and facilitating play-based learning for their students. This study aimed to explore one teacher’s understanding about her own intentionality...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Participatory game design as education for sustainability: Lessons from a Japanese university campus
This article discusses our experiments to create more engaged participation and build sustainability literacy among students in a voluntary “game lab” on two different campuses of our Japanese...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This case study explores child, parent, teacher, and school-leader perspectives of a play-based learning (Pb-L) approach in one new-entrant classroom. Data were gathered through focus groups,...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This commentary aims to encourage a research-based, critical, inquiring approach to the development of play-based learning in primary schools. I suggest that this approach could build from the wealth...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Play is very “on trend” in the primary sector, but is it a suitable pedagogy for secondary students? Based on research into play-based learning in a Year 11 English class, this article provides an...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Play-based learning is of growing interest in many English-medium primary schools throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. I share my insights from researching play as learning, and supporting teachers with...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article