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Parent involvement in pre-school education in New Zealand commonly takes three forms: parent helping, parent education and parent organization and administration.

Spina Bifida is a congenital abnormality in which the arches of one or more of the spinal vertebrae have failed to fuse together so that the spine is 'bifid' or split in two. The severity...

Listening improvement programmes appear to be rare in New Zealand schools, possibly because listening is something we tend to take for granted. A case of familiarity breeds neglect perhaps?...

School leadership in New Zealand, both at primary and secondary levels, is dominated by men, despite the fact that women constitute half the combined teaching force.

Large numbers of children, sometimes very young children, are admitted to our hospitals each year. Many stay for only short periods and while they may show disturbed behaviour upon returning home...

One of the most persistent and frustrating challenges facing those concerned with specific learning disability is to formulate a definition that will serve the needs of teachers, parents and the...

Studies of spelling are not particularly numerous in New Zealand, the 2 standard bibliographies listing no more than 20 completed during the last 50 years. All but two of these studies appeared...

Why do students think teachers include poetry in the English curriculum? What aspects of poetry do they say teachers stress? Do the opinions of students and teachers on these matters coincide?...

Last August, 1600 delegates from 35 countries assembled in Adelaide for the 23rd World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art (lNSEAl. It was a memorable event for...

Going to school is an important milestone in a child's life and it is a major event for the parents too. How should you prepare your child for school? How can you prepare yourself? We asked...
