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One of the most interesting and remarkable developments in education during the 1960s and 70s was the growth of the teachers' centre movement. A British invention, it almost immediately...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Neville Bennett's controversial research into primary teaching styles unearthed one informal teacher who obtained higher learning gains for her children then any other teacher in the sample. E...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What do New Zealand teachers expect of their pupils? Are their expectations culturally stereotyped? Do they treat some pupils differently because of their stereotypes?
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most teachers are probably just as curious about what goes on in other classrooms as they are about what goes on in their own. But generally we do not get much opportunity to observe our...
| Year published: 1981 | 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
What are the features of a positive work environment for early career teachers? This article examines this question through interviews with secondary school early career science teachers. Findings...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article critiques a recent professional development course for history teachers that explored how students could use memorials and heritage sites to engage with the concept of significance and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2011_2_026.pdf | Content type: Set article
Starting teaching in a new country and a new culture is like being a beginning teacher again. If you come from a Confucian culture where teachers are automatically respected, the New Zealand...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Amid calls for more male teachers in primary schools, a representative sample of primary school principals gave their thoughts about the need for more "male role models" and listed the personal...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Constructive developmental theory examines and describes the way people grow and change over the course of their lives.
The author looks at New Zealand schools and discusses:
the special...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article