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For some years now we have been studying the behaviour of preschool children in nurseries and playgroups. From our early observations a feature which most caught our attention was the difference...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article presents a fine-detail analysis of one observation from a wider ethnographic study of four-year-old children in a primary school in mid-Wales. The social interactions of the...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article English participants in a cross-national study frequently discussed concepts of independence and risk, often seeing independence as structured choice making and risk to children as...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article Children often enjoy play fighting and wrestling together. From the preschool years onwards, this kind of play - often called rough-and-tumble play - is a common feature of school playgrounds or any...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Child's play – is it a needless luxury in an educational programme or does it provide long-term benefits to society? Kathy Sylva examines the results of three research projects which challenge both...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article How does the size of the building affect play? How does the size of the group? How does the type of equipment you provide, or the number of items, or the number of adults, or what they do? Many basic...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Learning about sustainability is now understood to be an important part of early childhood education. An important knowledge area associated with sustainability is biodiversity. Learning...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article