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Reshaping the learning disposition domains: Rethinking the language for infants and toddlers

The authors work with infants and toddlers and had become interested in rethinking the language associated with learning dispositions in documented Learning Stories. They decided to develop a...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Reaching disengaged students through media skills

Author(s): Cathy Poole
Reprinted from Practical Research for Education, 41, 2009 The British Gaining Ground project aimed to develop a fresh approach to engaging young people excluded from mainstream education....
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Strengthening responsive and reciprocal relationships in a whānau tangata centre

Author(s): Margaret Carr
Jeanette Clarkin-Phillips and Margaret Carr examine how establishing a Parent Support and Development Centre at a kindergarten strengthened relationships with families and created new learning...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

How can a makerspace in the school setting support increased motivation, engagement, and achievement for Pasifika and Māori learners?

This article reports on a teacher-led inquiry at Mt Roskill Primary School from 2016 to 2017. Teachers worked with a group of Pasifika and Māori students to develop a learning environment and use...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon 2018_1_019.pdf | Content type: Set article

Adolescents’ experiences of identity development in schooling

Teachers, schools, and the wider education system have a responsibility to nurture young people’s identity development and to optimise youth wellbeing. For the study, 10 adolescents shared their...
| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

An initiative to counter the “summer reading drop”: An iterative process

This article describes one primary school’s approach to countering the “summer drop” in reading achievement. By the deliberate sharing of strategies to support reading at home during the holidays...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Access and opportunity: Student perceptions of dual and early enrolment at university

  Successful early or dual-enrolled students demonstrating competence in their university studies have not necessarily demonstrated strong performance in their high school studies. Some...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article