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Participatory-research methods with young children: experiences from the field

Strategies to support children’s active participation in research about them or the conditions of childhood are investigated in this article. Some participatory-research approaches used with children...

| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Beyond Expectations: Using calculators with young children

Exciting ways young children use calculators. And no, calculators do not inhibit learning.

| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Once Upon a Time, Amongst Blocks and Car Cases . . . Action Research to Enable Girls' Mathematics Learning

Author(s): Anne Meade

Perhaps girls miss out on pre-school experiences with equipment which would help them find mathematics much more natural at school. Action was taken in four kindergartens to help and the results are...

| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

The transition from kindergarten to school for children with special needs

Interviews with nine families about the transition to school for their special needs children showed that parents faced rejection and a multitude of dilemmas over access to resources, specialist...

| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Book reviews

Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Otago University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tatebe Kalantzis, M., & Cope,...

| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Hidden stories of our landscapes: Walking and mapping the land with children

This article is based on a 2-year TLRI-funded research project that examined how three early childhood centres explored the ways in which walking, reading, and storying the land with teachers,...

| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

From the shallows to the deep—connecting to Mauao with head and heart

This article stems from participation in a TLRI research study, Renewing Participatory Democracy: Walking with Young Children to Story and Read the Land. It presents an account of the growing...