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Children’s interest in media-inspired play and teacher reactions: Resistance in the playground

What happens when teachers exclude an aspect of children’s home culture—popular media—from early childhood centres? This case study documents how teacher rules (“no guns”, “no toys from home”)...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Don't Take that Dress Off James! Have we got anywhere in trying to remove sex-role stereotyping in pre-schools and junior school classes?

Author(s): Anne Meade
Have we made advances in eliminating sex-role stereotyping in our preschools and junior school? Two studies in 1975 and 1980 compared. Hints for the 80s. (From set: Research Information for Teachers...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Parents – the Untapped Resource in Special Education

Project PATH (Parents as Teachers of the Handicapped) has asked parents and professionals about the services given, has trained parents in how to teach their handicapped children, and has monitored...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Who Talks to William? and Karla, and Susan, and Michael, and ...? Adult-child interaction, particularly conversation, in early-childhood centres.

Author(s): Anne Meade
How much contact is there between adults and children in N.Z. preschools? Focussing on conversation as one aspect, this account of recent research tells us. (From set: Research Information for...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Editorial

Author(s): Linda Mitchell
This issue of Early Childhood Folio ranges from a big-picture and readable review of the main debates within the literature about play in Western settings, to a small, qualitative, in-depth case...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

“Same, same but different”: The dangers of binary definitions of dis/ability in the neoliberal marketplace of early childhood education and care

This article questions whether the increased involvement of private enterprise in the ECEC sector in recent years has unintentionally reinforced a simplistic understanding of disability. Reliance on...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

The tightening noose: Scientific management and early childhood education

  The scientific management of compulsory education in Aotearoa New Zealand has been well documented and it appears that it is being extended to early childhood education (ECE). Using the...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Comment

Author(s): Linda Mitchell
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Comment

| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon ECF2014_2_001.pdf | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Early childhood initial teacher education students’ learning about assessment

This article examines conceptions of assessment in early childhood initial teacher education (ITE) students’ learning and relative to assessment policy and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

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