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  • Falloon, Garry (Elsevier., 2012)
    In late 2006, the New Zealand Government embarked on a series of initiatives to explore how the resources and expertise of eight, small, state-owned science research institutes could be combined efficiently to support ...
  • Mitchell, Linda; Davison, Claire (Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, University of Melbourne, 2010)
    This paper draws on recent research to examine the tensions and challenges inherent in the current market approach to provision of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) services in Aotearoa New Zealand. We use selected ...
  • Peters, Sally; Hartley, Carol; Rogers, Pat; Smith, Jemma; Carr, Margaret (2009)
    From 2005-2008 Mangere Bridge Kindergarten in New Zealand carried out a Centre of Innovation research project exploring the transition between early childhood education and school. A flexible action research approach was ...
  • Berryman, Mere; Woller, Paul (Massey University, 2011)
    This paper examines Early Intervention (EI) service provision from within one Ministry of Education region in New Zealand. It does this in order to better understand what works well and what needs to change if children ...
  • Brown, Mike (2011)
    The papers in this issue of the journal, fortuitously rather than intentionally, focus attention on two themes pertinent to outdoor education researchers and practitioners. The authors address issues concerned with outdoor ...
  • Brown, Mike (2011)
    This issue features a collection of papers on safety and fatality prevention in outdoor education by Associate Professor Andrew Brookes from LaTrobe University in Australia. The genesis for the publication of this collection ...
  • Editorial 
    Locke, Terry (2002)
    The scrutiny of any educational system inevitably raises issues about constructions of worthwhile knowledge (content) and how the learning of knowledge so-deemed should be managed (pedagogy). Issues of national curriculum ...
  • Editorial 
    Strachan, Jane; Wright, Noeline (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2011)
    An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the sustainability of organisational changes for diploma programmes, the development of Preparation for Tertiary ...
  • Editorial 
    Wright, Noeline (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2011)
    An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including electronic learning tools, mathematical tasks of children in primary school settings, and teacher education.
  • Robertson, Jan (Routledge, 2007)
    Though this issue signals a change in the academic editor of The Educational Forum, the mandate for transformation and boundary-breaking educational debate established by Charles Webber throughout his term as academic ...
  • De Luca, Rosemary (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2008)
    An introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses several articles including those on today's teaching and learning of language and music, Sylvia Ashton-Warner's contribution to educational theory ...
  • Bell, Beverley (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2010)
    The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Beverley Bell on the use of theorizing in data analysis, the views on cross cultural research, and the collaboration between teachers and ...
  • Whitehead, David; Reed, Yvonne (2008)
    The articles in this issue foreground some of the tensions inherent in the use of “global” summative, norm-referenced measures of literacy on the one hand, and “local”, site and classroom specific literacy assessments on ...
  • Khoo, Elaine G.L.; Cowie, Bronwen (Centre for Distance Education and Learning Technologies, University of Otago College of Education, 2012)
    The New Zealand Curriculum [NZC] document states that information and communication technology [ICT] and eLearning have considerable potential to support the teaching approaches recommended in the curriculum (Ministry of ...
  • Locke, Terry; Myhill, Debra (2007)
    The act of writing is a complex task. About that, there is almost complete agreement, whether you are a psychologist, a linguist, a socio-cultural theorist, a teacher, or a student battling with an assignment deadline and ...
  • Kostogriz, Alex; Doecke, Brenton; Locke, Terry (Waikato Faculty of Education, 2011)
    This special and extra issue of English Teaching: Practice and Critique had its origins in an international symposium held in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato in November, 2010. The Faculty had already ...
  • Locke, Terry (2006)
    The river one dips one’s toes into from one editorial to the next is never the same, as Heraclitus might have observed. Part 1 of this double issue (December, 2005) consisted of eight articles from contributors based in ...
  • Peters, Michael A. (Wiley, 2012)
    Editorial. The philosophy of film, or film philosophy, has experienced new life since the 1980s, to explore various aspects of film as an artistic medium: the nature of film, director as auteur, film narration, and the ...
  • Locke, Terry; Myhill, Debra; Fecho, Bob (Waikato Faculty of Education, 2010)
    The decision to have regular non-themed issues of English Teaching: Practice and Critique was made by way of Board consultation some time ago. As a Board, we believe that the policy of having a panel of guest editors taking ...
  • Locke, Terry; Janks, Hilary (Waikato Faculty of Education, 2011)
    This journal has aligned itself with this “reignition” agenda, in large part because its mission statement aligns with a commitment to strengthening the voices of English teachers, teacher educators and researchers worldwide, ...

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