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CONTINUITY OF LEARNING: adding funds of knowledge from the home environment

This article looks at ways of bridging the discontinuities young children experience between three settings: the home environment, the early childhood setting, and the new entrant classroom. It...

| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Continuity of Learning: adding funds of knowledge from the home environment

This article looks at ways of bridging the discontinuities young children experience between three settings: the home environment, the early childhood setting, and the new entrant classroom. It...

| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

What’s Important In Early Years Education? Some messages from research

In Europe and the UK there is lively debate about when children should start school and what kinds of curriculum and pedagogical approaches are most effective in the early years. Caroline Sharp of...

| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Factors impacting on children's adjustment to the first year of primary school

Starting school need not be traumatic, especially if schools and early childhood centres are aware of the factors most likely to cause problems for children adjusting to the new situation. Reprinted...

| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

This is school…where people come to learn for school: What children need to know when they start school

Beginning formal schooling is a time of change and challenge for children, families, and educators. This article focuses on one approach by the Starting School Research Project to engage first-year...