• Collaborative relationships in practice: Possibilities and challenges 

  Mitchell, Linda (Otago University Press, 2006)

  The following three papers examine what collaboration is happening in New Zealand’s early childhood education services currently, and provide exemplars of collaboration in three key areas: with parents and whänau; with ...

  

• Comment 

  Mitchell, Linda (NZCER Press, 2012)

  This issue of Early Childhood Folio ranges from a big-picture and readable review of the main debates within the literature about play in Western settings, to a small, qualitative, in-depth case study of a single child and ...

• Comment 

  Mitchell, Linda (NZCER Press, 2012)

  This issue of Early Childhood Folio has a diverse range of articles focusing on highly relevant and current pedagogical issues. Several involve case studies, where in-depth analysis enables opportunities for learning and ...

• Constructions of childhood in early childhood education policy debate in New Zealand 

  Mitchell, Linda (Symposium Journals Ltd., 2010)

  What assumptions about children and childhood are held by government officials and organisation representatives who are influential in policy formation in early childhood education (ECE) in New Zealand? How are assumptions ...

  

• Discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability in early childhood education 

  Mitchell, Linda (WIlf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)

  This article explores discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability that have become dominant under New Zealand’s National-led Government as a rationale for policy directions in early childhood education. It ...

  

• Discursive constructions of teachers’ professional identities in early childhood policies and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand: Complexities and contradictions 

  Kamenarac, Olivera (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  Over the last two decades, neo-liberal education reform has notably transformed the landscape of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Aotearoa New Zealand. From an increasingly supportive approach, aiming to ensure ...

  

• Exploring Timorese family funds of knowledge and their use in education 

  Soares Pinto, Zulmira Da Cruz (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  There are many factors that contribute to children’s development, including their social and cultural background. Families play a significant role in children’s development and the funds of knowledge that reside within a ...

  

• Negotiating fairness and diversity : Stories from an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten 

  Kelly-Ware, Janette Patricia (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  A number of research studies have utilised ‘working theories’, a key learning outcome of Te Whāriki, the Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum, as a lens to explore pedagogy in early childhood education. The perceived gap that ...

  

• Teachers’ perspectives and implementation of the child-centred curriculum for preschool education in Timor-Leste. 

  De Araujo, Lucia Guterres (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Timor-Leste has been an independent nation for more than 15 years. However, the acts of decolonisation and the rebuilding of the education system has been a dilemma. Today, providing health care, quality education, and ...

  

• Understanding the construction of belonging in a for-profit ECE centre: An ethnographic study 

  Westerbeke, Lynley Ann (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Participation in high quality early childhood education [ECE] is recognised as having long ranging academic and social benefits for children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds (Mitchell, Wylie & Carr, 2008). ...

  

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