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Homework is one of those things about which most people can speak from personal experience. This is either because they have done it as children, have set it as teachers, or have supervised it as...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In a London classroom the teacher and the children share a warm, supportive, and productive relationship. Mr A would be an asset to the staff on any school. The interaction we see here is...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If you believe that hitting children is right and proper and probably good for them, that it stiffens the moral fibre, gives them a taste of what life is an about, and so on, then no amount of...
| Year published: 1982 | 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 The Montessori movement recently celebrated a century of international education, spanning from early childhood through to tertiary experience. The first Casa dei Bambini, or children’s house, was...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article A new series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from an aspect of their work over the years.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The authors argue the case for teachers to engage in and make use of research. Drawing on their experiences as consultants working in English schools they show how the "research-engaged" school can...
| Year published: 2006 | 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 main purpose of assessment was once its selection and grading functions. Teachers customarily marked work in order to grade it and to give a position in class. This prompted the question whether...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article examines the changes that 12 primary, intermediate and secondary schools made to the way they planned and organised professional development, and evaluates the experience of four of the...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article