Journal article

An economist looks at what it costs society to invest in children and their education- and what it pays.

What do New Zealand teachers expect of their pupils? Are their expectations culturally stereotyped? Do they treat some pupils differently because of their stereotypes?

The booklet developed by the Mangere Home and School Project to help parents help their own children.

The aspects of teacher stress which have been researched range from general surveys on the prevalence and sources of teacher stress to more specific surveys on absenteeism, morale, anxiety, satisfaction/dissatisfaction, biographical characteristics of teachers prone to stress, school environment, teacher health, workload, and the nature of the teaching task.

It never takes very long to discover what a secondary school student's attitude to a school subject is. Typically the reply will be in the current idiom and mean either totally enjoyable or totally unenjoyable. It is more difficult to find out exactly what it is about the subject that makes it enjoyable or unenjoyable. In an effort to find out something about this a small study was mounted. The results are reported in this article. Interesting conclusions are drawn. However, these are hypotheses that need to be tested further, rather than firm findings.

Using research findings from the United States which throw light on family stress Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for New Zealand and points ways ahead. An address given at the second Early Childhood Care and Development Convention, Christchurch, August 1979.

In Ypsilanti, Michigan a project has been underway since 1962. It now shows that significantly more of those who had pre-schooling have jobs, stay out of prison, and so on.