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Who is encouraging them? Is it the media, their friends, their mothers or, in a surprise result from this study, their fathers?
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Children from homes with little money do not always fail, but it is usual! This careful study of three groups of high school pupils and their families compares and contrasts incomes,...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In Northern Ireland they used to assume that boys would catch up to girls at school. But the courts said there was discrimination and treating them differently must stop. Where does...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A very carefully run experiment in Ballarat High School shows definite benefits for schools like Ballarat H.S. These benefits, and critical comments, are detailed.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This story about sex-stereotyping was used by two American researchers to illustrate the persistence in United States' schools of traditional ideas on sex roles. But it could have come from a New...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article What is fairness?
NZCER concentrated on
(a) access (pre-school to continuing education);
(b) content and teaching style;
(c) allocation of educational resources;
(d) outcomes, e.g.,...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article For over a year I went to classes with two groups of I5-year-old girls, wagged with them, had lunch with them and generally hung around with them at school. I recorded interviews and conversations,...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Young people behave and talk very differently at home and at school. This research report shows that our assumption about potential can be quite wrong. (From New Society, Sept. 1984, pp. 270–272, (...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
ECFolio_2_1986_003.pdf | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article Nowadays it is widely assumed that professionals have a good deal to teach parents about how to educate and bring up children. Nursery school, for example, is seen, not just as a secure and enjoyable...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article How long should a young person continue at school? Should they remain and risk educational failure or should they leave and risk unemployment? Every year in New Zealand thousands of young people face...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article