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Already Reading in Early Childhood: Issues of Identification, Accomodation and Collaboration

Margrain, Valerie (2003)

Children who are precocious readers, or able to read at an unusually young age without having had formal instruction, have attracted considerable interest from literacy researchers (Henderson, Jackson & Mukamal, 1993). ...
Crossing the Threshold: Masculinities and the Transition to School

Norris, Jenni (2001)

Starting school is a significant cultural and social milestone in the lives of children (Ramey & Ramey, 1994; Renwick, 1984). However, the experiences of boys making the transition has not been a particular focus for ...
The Establishment of Parents' Centre: Successful Advocacy for Parents of Children Under Three By the Parents' Centre Organisation in its First Decade 1952-1962

Bell, Marie (2006)

This paper discusses the establishment of Parents' Centre and identifies the dynamics involved in this organisation from the perspectives of the pioneering women and men who remained involved in its development for the ...
Field-Based Teacher Education at Multiple Sites: A Story of Possibilities and Tensions

Bell, Nancy (2004)

In this paper I will tell a story of Te Tani Puna Ora o Aotearoa/New Zealand Childcare Association as a provider of field-based teacher education for early childhood practitioners at multiple sites throughout Aotearoa/NZ. ...
"How Is My Child Doing?": Selected Case Studies of How Childcare Centres Meet the DoPs Requirement to Discuss Children's Progress with Parents

Launder, Doreen; Dalli, Carmen (1997)

The 1989 New Zealand educational reforms heralded major changes in all sectors of education. These changes included the introduction of a charter, which is essentially a contract, between the Crown and each individual ...
Music for Fun, Music for Learning: Finding the Music Curriculum in Early Childhood

Willberg, Helen (2002)

In my position as a lecturer in early childhood music education to early childhood teacher trainees, I have found myself over the years becoming increasingly distant from the reality of making music with young children. ...
Opening Up the Outdoors: A Case Study of Young Children's Outdoor Experiences in One Childcare Centre

Stephenson, Alison (1999)

"Let's go outside" is where I began: I became intrigued by how often I saw evidence of children's enthusiasm for the outdoors when I visited centres as a supervisor of early childhood teacher trainees on practicum. Having ...
Pathway to the future? Doing Childcare in the Era of New Zealand's Early Childhood Strategic Plan.

Nuttall, Joce (2005)

I have always been interested in teachers' work in groups, partly because of my background as a teacher in centre-based childcare and, more recently, as a facilitator of in-service teacher education. When I turned to the ...
Pedagogical Documentation: Beyond Observations

Alcock, Sophie (2000)

This paper explores some of the issues for teachers in New Zealand / Aotearoa using pedagogical documentation. My interest in pedagogical documentation developed after visiting Sweden and Denmark as the 1996 recipient ...
The Place of Blocks in the Early Childhood Curriculum: Do We Need a New Set of Free Wooden Blocks?

Dyne, Janine (2001)

The central place of blocks as important and valuable materials in Western early childhood settings is well established. Literature includes statements that comment on both the value of block play for individual children, ...
Practicing with Respect: What Does that Mean for Teachers Working with Infants

Christie, Toni (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This qualitative case study examines the teaching practices, inspired by the Pikler approach and RIE philosophy, in one infant and toddler centre in a main city of New Zealand. Specifically the practices studied were ...
Public Spaces in Private Places: Quality Review in the Context of Family Day Care

White, Jayne (2005)

This paper explores an encounter between public and private worlds in a family day care (home-based early childhood education) network as caregivers and coordinators took part in a process of quality review based on The ...
Quality Evaluation of Early Childhood Education Programmes

Cubey, Pamela; Dalli, Carmen (1996)

In 1989 the New Zealand Council for Educational Research organised a seminar on Assessment in Early Childhood Education. This was one of the first times that the topic of assessment and evaluation received formal airing ...
The Sinking of the Early Childhood Education Flagship? Government's Plan to Privatise Kindergartens: The Bulkfunding Story

Davison, Claire (1997)

Kindergartens in New Zealand have been viewed historically as the flagship for Government support of the early childhood sector (e.g. Wylie, 1992). The bulk funding of kindergarten operational grants introduced in the ...
Using Socio-Cultural Approaches For Educational Research

Brennan, Margaret (2006)

This paper discusses insights arising from my doctoral study in a New Zealand early childhood setting. I was interested in how young children learn to be part of the group. Using a socio-cultural framework, I carried out ...
Young Children's Mathematics: A supporting document for the "Making Things Count" resource

Jenks, Jo; Peters, Sally (2000)

Making Things Count (Ministry of Education, 1999) is a teaching resource for early childhood educators. This paper expands on the ideas in Making Things Count and is intended as a resource for teachers, parents and ...