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In the Early World helped change the course of education in New Zealand and across the world.
Described by one reviewer as “possibly the best book about teaching ever written”, this book is...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Books In a child's eyes starting school is a rite of passage, associated with increased status. Children even link physical growth with this enhanced status - one boy said, 'I bet I grow a couple of inches...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Starting school is a major life event for all involved: children, families, preschool educators, and school staff. All groups engage in a range of activities designed to make the time of transition...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article For most lowest-achieving children, Reading Recovery offers a second chance to catch. What about those who are the hardest-to-teach - those who need a third chance? This study shows that they too can...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article For years I've had vague feelings of disquiet about my teaching of science and I couldn't work out what was worrying me. I read up the Units beforehand to see the scientific facts the children needed...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Children learn a great deal from other children. The power of this learning from peers is easily seen. Children learn such things as playground games, the language of their friends, and social...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Streaming (or ability grouping or tracking, as the Americans would have it) has been tried, thrown out, revived, recommended, debunked and debated periodically in recent decades. Writing for New...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Issues of grouping and streaming are still hotly debated by teachers and administrators. Many are moved to turn to the research workers, and ask the simple question - Should we stream our children...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The assertion above was made, not in 1976, but over 40 years ago, in a review of the research on ability grouping published in 1932. Are we any further ahead today? Issues of grouping and streaming...
| Year published: 1976 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set1976_2_014.pdf | Content type: Set article Californian experience and research bears on the problems of teaching children with diverse languages and diverse cultural attitudes to education. Solutions appear, and are relevant to...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article