The latest report from New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) provides a fresh perspective of literacy in early ...

As Prentice et al. (2024) note, climate stressors can begin to impact on children/learners even before they are born, due to ...

As of June 1, NZCER is using updated national reference information to report stanines and generate boxplots for PAT Pānui | ...

These transitions, which were still in progress at the time of the 2024 survey and our latest report on primary principal ...

This study, conducted in partnership with Hutt City Kindergartens, explores story sharing - a critical aspect of early ...

Taking a bite of the apple: The implementation of Fruit in Schools. Appendices (which include the 2006 case studies) Research publication 2007 Evaluation of the Literacy Professional Development ...

Martyn Davison, Paul Enright and Mark Sheehan ISBN 978-1-927231-07-4 This book is aimed at teachers working with young people to think critically about the past. Its blend of fresh thinking, classroom ...

The dichotomy between content knowledge and 21st-century skills (“zest for life” in the Japanese context) has been an issue since the early 2000s in Japan. Recently it has been evident in the demand ...

This article advances the argument that a priorities-based approach to assessment in early childhood education offers a middle way between inductive and deductive methods of assessment. A developing ...

He Taonga te Tamaiti, Every Child a Taonga: Early Learning Action Plan 2019–2029 (Ministry of Education, 2019) presents goals directed towards strengthening quality provision in early childhood ...

Transition from school to work is pretty haphazard in Australia and New Zealand; in Japan it is highly organised. We have young people unemployed, exams of doubtful educational worth, and a system of ...

The Infants' Lives in Childcare research project aims to investigate what life is like for infants in group care from the perspective of infants themselves. One outcome of the project is a greater ...