Browsing Education Journal Articles by Subject "130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Māori)"
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The assessment of children's language in early childhood centres
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Becoming Cognisant of Research Informed by Kaupapa Māori in Early Childhood Education: Issues and Contexts
(Childforum Research Network, 2013)This paper outlines tensions existing within student teacher self-study action research projects undertaken as a requirement of a Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) at Te Whare Waananga o Wairaka Unitec ... -
Cameras in early childhood settings : preliminary findings from a small scale study.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Over the last two decades, the use of photographs in assessment documentation has accompanied a shift towards Learning Stories in early childhood education (ECE). This was modelled within the assessment exemplars in Kei ... -
Challenging positional authority : navigating leadership as collaboration
(New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC), 2017)This article reflects a recent symposium presentation that explored ways positional leadership limits opportunities for members of the community of practice to contribute leading practices. As many early childhood ... -
Creating inclusive environments and catering for individual needs
(Massey University, 2016)In early childhood education (ECE) settings teachers need to be conscious conscious of the diverse learning needs of children in their care. Meeting individual needs has roots in the rights discourse which aims to promote ... -
Critical multiculturalism: Supporting early childhood teachers to work with diverse immigrant families
(2011)As early childhood settings in many English speaking countries are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic due to global migration, this poses challenges for many early childhood teachers who work with diverse immigrant children ... -
Critical multiculturalism: The challenge of multiculturalism within a New Zealand bicultural context - A Chinese perspective
(2009)For decades, notions of multiculturalism have been embraced by many countries in order to acknowledge and include diverse cultures and ethnicities. It has been assumed that the learning needs and rights of ethnic minority ... -
A critique of the use of Learning Stories to assess the learning dispositions of young children
(ChildForum, 2008)This paper discusses a number of concerns about the value of Learning Stories for assessing children’s learning in early childhood centres. The technique requires teachers to observe children and write narrative “stories” ... -
Culturally inclusive pedagogies of care : a narrative inquiry
(De Gruyter Open / University of Trnava, 2019-12-30)This paper is a reflection on culturally relevant pedagogies of care to achieve more equitable outcomes for diverse cultures within early childhood. The authors are academics at a tertiary institute in Auckland, New Zealand. ... -
Ecological counter-narratives of interdependent wellbeing
(University of Melbourne, 2011)This paper reports some insights garnered from a recent research project in Aotearoa (New Zealand) which explored possibilities for enacting ecological sustainability within early childhood education. The project was ... -
Gaps and contradictions in Kei Tua o te Pae: A critical discourse analysis
(2013)This paper describes one set of findings from an analysis of the three introductory booklets of Kei Tua o te Pae- the early childhood assessment exemplars. A critical discourse study perspective was taken in the analysis, ... -
Hanging on to hope in troubled times. Ethics of care as foundation for pedagogies of relationality
(School of Education, AUT University, 2013)As a multiplicity of environmental concerns emerge with increasing frequency and intensity,our awareness of the seriousness of the climate crisis deepens.On a daily basis as we witness the increasingly devastating effects ... -
'I caught your eye, I catched your teeth' : distributed playfulness connecting children.
(2009)This paper explores how playful activity mediates and connects children as “mind” becomes distributed across individuals (Rogoff, 1998; Salomon, 1993; Tomasello et al. 2005). “Mind” includes consciousness, cognition, emotion ... -
Indigenous onto-epistemologies and pedagogies of care and affect in Aotearoa.
(Symposium Journals, 2013)This article reflects on research conducted in one kindergarten that was part of a wider project focusing on 'caring for ourselves, others and the environment' in early years education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The project ... -
The invisible alphabet: Te Whāriki, letter knowledge, and the development of reading skills
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008-01-01)A large body of research indicates that children's letter knowledge is crucial for the development of reading skills. Letter knowledge is a strong predictor of children's progress in reading. Knowing the names and sounds ... -
Kei tua i te awe māpara : countercolonial unveiling of neoliberal discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand
(International Review of Qualitative Research, 2014)In this paper, we traverse both historical and contemporary discourses pertaining to early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand, offering a genealogical discursive analysis of assumptions of white superiority. ... -
Left Further Behind : How New Zealand is failing its children. Chapter 15: Early childhood care and education
(2011)The National Equal Opportunities Network (NEON), a partnership between the Human Rights Commission and the EEO Trust,3 argues that the provision of high-quality, affordable, accessible and available early childhood ... -
MAPS: Living, moving, emerging assemblages
(New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC), 2014)This research narrative tells the story of a Māori immersion early childhood centre’s engagement with the performing arts. In this research, and fundamental to this narrative is the provocation that ... -
Narratives of relatedness in ecological sustainability in early childhood education in Aotearoa.
(New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2014)This paper provides an overview of the context and some preliminary findings from a current two year Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) funded study, “Titiro whakamuri, hokiwhakamua : We are the future, the ... -
A pedagogy of biocentric relationality.
(Springer, 2013)This paper theorises some implications for pedagogies for ‘sustainabilities’ in the light of the current climate crisis, reflecting particularly upon the work of eco-feminist philosopher, Rosi Braidotti, in order to ...
