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Women are under-represented in senior positions in both the primary and the secondary teaching services. But why? Judy Whitcombe has been conducting a research project in the Department of...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How much of a child's development is influenced by the school he attends? Barbara Maughan and Janet Ouston- two of the research workers involved in the publication of the widely acclaimed...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It describes different types of solvent abuse, lists some of the signs and symptoms of sniffing, and makes some practical suggestions about ways of dealing with sniffing 'epidemics'. It is...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Of course fathers are important - aren't they? Fathers have always been important. Fathers provide for their families. Fathers supervise, discipline and train. Fathers teach children skills...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Young children often play fantasy or pretend games. It's especially common between about 2 and 7 years or age. It starts in simple ways. The Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget described how...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research shows that children from large families, especially later born children, can be disadvantaged in a number of ways.
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Legibility research has been going on for two hundred years and it has discovered some useful pointers for anyone who is writing down words, or selecting words, to be put in front of anyone...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In both Australia and NZ there has been a great deal of interest in the effects that external examinations have on the subjects taught and the way they are taught in secondary schools. In 1970...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article