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- Fees, subsidies, and funding rates
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- Childcare subsidy rates and parent income thresholds - Work and Income (WINZ) subsidy
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- Funding rates for different services - per child per hour (20 Hour and 30 Hour subsidy rates)
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- ECE Service Providers to Pay for Staff First-Aid Course Costs
- Curriculum: Questions Hanging Over the Update of Te Whāriki
- Analysis: Services that had licensing actions taken against them in the last year
- What's Really Going on with ECE Pay Parity and the Pay Equity Claims
- Teachers and parents come forward in Childcare Centre case
- ECE Teacher Pay National Meeting
- Safer eating at last
- In troubled waters. Regulatory challenges for the Ministry and a glimpse behind the scenes of a New Shoots Children's Centre
- How the participation of children in ECE has been affected by COVID-19
- Regulation Changes – Here’s What You Need to Know and Do
- Why Christchurch early childhood centres don't have a problem attracting teaching staff
- Minister extends ECE pay parity coverage
- Expert Testimony relating to the petition with more than 15,000 signatures requesting pay parity with primary teachers for all ECE teachers
- Attestation of minimum salary levels for certificated teachers
- Forced closure leaves parents confused and upset
- “We face closure within 12 months” – The financial outlook for ECE Services coming out of the COVID-19 Crisis
- Unclear regulations on staffing in ECE centres: Complaint heard by Parliamentary Select Committee
- ECE Service Providers for Paid Pay Parity
- Behind the Early Childhood Council business group’s push to make government keep all ECE centres closed
- Fully paid childcare for essential workers nationwide
- COVID-19 Open Letter from Chinese NZ Early Childhood Teachers
- Covid-19 latest information and updates for the ECE Sector in New Zealand
- I hope you got your Pen and Muffin
- Overseas ECE teachers backed by the Minister of Education over local teachers
- Supporters of the Petition for ECE Teacher Pay Parity
- Government's New Early Learning Action Plan – Why is there not more excitement about it?
- Recruiting Overseas Teachers – Has the ECC Business Group Got It Right?
- An Open Letter from Early Childhood Teachers to Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and to Hon Chris Hipkins
- Staff without an early childhood education qualification to be responsible for early childhood centres
- Misleading: NZEI’s claim it can deliver an immediate 11% pay increase to all ECE teachers
- Amazing Honeybees all the buzz in early childhood education
- Ingredients for a truly ‘community’ based successful preschool
- A 1% rise in minimum wage rates stipulated by the Ministry of Education for most teachers in early childhood centres
- Vaccination - should it be compulsory for children attending ECE?
- Christchurch Shooting: How best to support children's learning and coping in the aftermath of it
- Failing to make the grade: Ministry of Education and ERO handling of early childhood services not meeting minimum standards in 2018
- China-NZ relations in early education flying high
- Child kicked out for attendance of less than 7 hours a day
- A recipe for disaster (Early Childhood Council)
- Early childhood teacher training scholarships 2021
- Centre shut down following allegations of horrific abuse against children
- Toddler’s death: Too early to be naming and blaming early childhood centre
- Early Childhood Teacher Health and Safety Needs Addressing
- Protecting the title of 'teacher' - 2 days left for submissions on a new bill before Parliament
- Pro-gun centres: Evolve and Early Childhood Council Centres
- The Success of Pro-gun Childcare Providers in NZ - How this came to be
- Why school starting age is a hot political issue
- Research throws new light on school-entry age
- An agenda for raising the quality of early childhood education in NZ
- Doing their best to keep children cool as temperatures soar
- Heritage language of Aotearoa - the ‘new’ target language in Early Childhood Education
- Education Minister Chris Hipkins and his interest in ECE
- Working as a contractor in home-based ECE can be crap – An educator’s request for any advice or suggestions
- Payout for bullying won by early childhood teacher
- Free play in playgrounds subverted by technology - A new problem
- What the National Party has done for ECE while its been in government
- Freezing cold early childhood centre – saving centre power bill comes before children
- I did not expect to be working at an early childhood centre where children were force-fed
- Ministry must front up over centre manager’s abuse of children
- Community of Learning – the Why, What and How to Take Part
- Food served in childcare centres falls short on nutrition
- Practising Teacher Criteria and Code of Ethics Replaced by New Single Code
- Bungle over new Early Childhood Education Curriculum
- Unionisation - Is there a need for a new union for the ECE sector?
- Inadequate checking of early childhood education standards may lead to danger
- Target Not Achieved of 98% Children Participating in ECE in 2016
- Teachers not attracted to work at Early Childhood Council centres
- Consultation process for Te Whariki claimed to breach statutory and legal requirements
- ECE Teachers are Made of Money – Education Minister
- Four-year-old dies in Early Childhood Centre
- Tree incident at Auckland childcare centre rare and horrific and children need cuddles and understanding
- Overworked, injured and bullied – how can we make work safer for early childhood teachers and senior staff?
- Teaching about Death and Sacrifice and Erection of War Memorials at Early Childhood Services
- Early Childhood Education Services Scammed
- Will the Primary School Curriculum go the Early Childhood Way?
- Vulnerable children: Messages for ECE teachers and services from the Growing Up in NZ Study
- ERO investigating leak of infant and toddler communicators and explorers report
- Waitangi Tribunal Claim by the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust – Arguments from Both Sides of the Table
- Kindercare acquired by global private markets investment management firm
- Early Childhood Education System Failing to Support Maori Language and Culture – Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board’s Reaction to the Government’s ECE Taskforce Report
- Fees Incorrectly Treated as Donations - Inland Revenue Investigating
- Home-Based ECE Providers Reminded To Make Sure Educators are Paid For Their Work
- Profit-Driven Early Childhood Education is Flourishing
- Kidicorp is no longer a commercial ECE operation
- What's Happening to the Cost of Childcare / ECE
- Adam Buckingham - early childhood teacher extraordinaire
- ECE in Australia Will Have a Voice in the Highest Place Over the Next Few Years
- Early Childhood Education Services Not Doing Enough to Promote Sign Language
- Bullying Believed to Start Very Young in Early Childhood Education
- How Well is Government Doing in the Regions with its Target to Get More Parents to Use Childcare/ECE?
- Early Childhood Teacher Censured by Teachers' Council for Stealing Food From Children
- Adult Daughter of Centre Supervisor Banned From Centre
- For ECE, little hope of positive change from National post-election
- ECE Participation for the Most Disadvantaged Children: Child Poverty Action Group Report
- Kindercare Told Off By Employment Relations Authority
- Confidence in the early childhood education sector eroding further ahead of this year's election
- Budget 2014 spending increases and new initiatives for the Early Education (ECE) Sector
- Vaccinations Provided En-Masse at a Daycare
- NZ Tertiary College lets students (and the ECE sector) down - Ombudsman ruling released
- How Long Parents Spend Caring For Their Children Each Day
- An Australian Parenting Expert says ECE/Childcare is Bad for Children in his Latest Book
- Returning to work mothers prefer known carer to look after their first child in the home
- Early Childhood Centres Could Be Reviewed as Infrequently as Every Four Years
- New Home-based ECE Business Lobby Group Forms
- Parents of Children with Disabilities Struggle to Access Quality ECE Support
- Plans to Review the Home-based Sector Shelved
- Budget 2013 - Spending Increases, Cuts, and Implications for the ECE Sector
- Participation in ECE (but Not ECE itself) is Associated With Greater Weight Gain in Children
- Government Decides ECE Participation is a Social Obligation. How People and Services May Adjust and Respond
- Serious Child Harm Cases at Early Childhood Education Centres this Week
- Crown Should Apologise for Failures in its Treatment of Kōhanga Reo, says Waitangi Tribunal
- Latest Figures on the Costs of Providing ECE, the Cost Drivers, Revenue Sources and Volunteer Contributions
- Government Better Public Service Action Plan for ECE Short-sighted
- ECAC - Greater Transparency in the Pipeline for Early Childhood Advisory Committee (ECAC)
- Teaching Children about Competition and to Want to Achieve
- Demand for ECE Teachers Drops
- New Government Working Groups to Provide Advice on Improving ECE Quality
- Fears for the Future in the Early Childhood Sector
- Survey Results Out: What Govt Should do for Children & ECE
- Competent Learners Study Shows ECE Doesn't Have Significant Long-Term Benefit for NZ Kids
- Developing Policy for Gifted Children
- Kidicorp, One of NZ's Largest Providers of Early Childhood Education, Purchases ABC Learning Centres
- Minister Comes Clean on ECE Taskforce Purpose and Playcentre is Saved
- Commercial Approach to ECE Provision Fails Children: Salvation Army Report
- Childcare Services & Providers to Face Stiff New Fines For Poor Practices
- NZ Police heads towards gender balance while the Ministry of Education holds on to sex-role stereotypes for early childhood education
- For Heaven’s sake, leave our children alone – don’t subject them to performance rating tests when they should be playing and having fun in Early Childhood Education!
- Students take a gamble on recognition of their early childhood qualification
- Newsletter - Early Childhood Education Alert
- NZ ECE Sector Investigations and Surveys
- About the ECE Sector Employment National Survey
- Staff Pay and Workforce Retention: Results from the 2020 Early Childhood Education National Survey
- Is Our Publicly-Funded Early Childhood Education Good Enough for Children? Results from the 2020 Survey of Teaching Staff
- ECE Sector Survey May 2014
- Covid-19 and ECE Sector Reactions to Government Recommendations
- Early Childhood Teacher Pay Parity Campaign Book
- Early Childhood Sector Confidence Survey Results 2019
- Choking on raw apple: A report into a tragic incident in early childhood education and care in NZ
- How Safe are ECE Workplaces? - The 2014 Survey Results
- Bullying in the Early Childhood Education Sector
- Teachers' Views on the Quality of ECE for Children - 2014 Survey Results
- Confidence and Funding Survey 2018
- Staff workplace safety (2017 survey results)
- Improvement yet to arrive: ECE worker endorsement of the quality of ECE services (2017 results)
- Union membership and what teaching staff about NZEI Te Riu Roa
- The State of Early Childhood Education, 2011 Report
- Salary attestation, teachers counted in ratios when not on the floor, and wage protections for non-kindergarten ECE teachers
- Wage rates and pay parity
- Forced to take my ECE qualification and experience overseas - the choice government asks ECE teachers to make between passion and money
- Service Providers - what you really need to know about equal pay claims
- Teachers - what you really need to know about your choices for Equal Pay Claims
- Early Childhood Teachers to Use New Law to Get Pay Parity
- 2nd Meeting with the Ministry of Education on its work towards achieving pay parity for all ECE teachers
- Synthesis of Evidence on Pay Parity and Early Childhood Teacher Pay for the Ministry of Education
- Pay Parity Campaign Update – June 2020
- Pay Parity Campaign Update – November 2019
- Help get pay parity for ECE teachers put into law - how to easily and quickly do a submission
- The Pay Parity Campaign: What’s Happened in our First Week?
- NZEI’s 11% Campaign – It Sounds Great, but What’s Inside the Package?
- Unqualified teaching staff exploited
- Video of speeches on ECE teacher pay and the effects on children of high staff turnover
- David Haynes: ECE Teachers - Pay Parity or Pay Equity?
- Like chalk and cheese: Pay Equity and Pay Parity an analysis of different paths to get better wages and conditions
- Exploitation of Teachers Working in ECE - What the government can do to end this
- Janet Dixon: "Investing in teachers is investing in children - our future leaders"
- Cost Analysis: Can centres afford to pay teachers more?
- National Survey Results: Sector views on ECE teacher wage rates set by the Ministry of Education and on pay parity with teachers in primary schools/ kindergartens
- Bethany O'Hagan: "Ask an early childhood teacher why there is a teacher shortage and we can tell you"
- Karen Girvan: "The pay realities for teachers when moving from a kindergarten setting into another community ECE setting"
- Hugo van Stratum: Pay disparity, profit making, fair treatment and advocacy for a unified pay scale
- Regulations Review
- Quality of ECE - Theory and policy
- The Production of 'Worthwhile' Knowledge about 'Quality' in Early Years Education
- How Plans to Raise Quality Came to be Seen as a Bureaucratic Pointless Exercise
- The Descriptive Quality of Different Centres: Kindergarten, Kohanga Reo, Childcare, and Playcentre
- Constructions of Quality in Early Childhood Services (PhD thesis)
- Field-testing a Rating Scale for Quality in NZ Early Childhood Centres
- Government Introduction of Quality Standards: Reactions and Impact
- ECE effects on children - research
- Influence of ECE participation on children's later literacy, maths, and science at school
- Staff must be ECE Qualified for Children to Benefit from ECE
- Children who benefit and those that don't from participation in early childcare education
- How well does ECE in NZ work for children?
- How well does ECE help to reduce educational inequalities?
- ECE increases the odds of children being overweight
- The Abecedarian Intervention Project - generalising findings to NZ
- Assessing the Evidence on Early Childhood Education Effects on Children: A Systematic Review
- Biographies and People's Stories
- Liam Bowen: A multi-talented new recruit to ECE teaching
- Josh Allen: Twenty-one year old says ECE is a logical career choice
- Elizabeth Pakai - Advocate of Bilingual and Bicultural Education
- Matthew Lambert: Finding work that feels right and makes one happy
- Alison Ford - Christian Early Childhood Education Leader
- Joshua McKay: Taking up training to be an early childhood teacher to give children the best experiences
- Laine Barker - Playcentre Campaigner and Association Manager
- Ben Goris: Working with children is inspiring
- Wendy Ure - Centre Manager and Advocate for Community-Based ECE
- Patrick Lockley: A Decision to Put His Family First Led Patrick to Early Childhood Teacher Education
- Prof Anne B Smith's story - Researcher, Academic and Children's Advocate
- Robert Barlow: From Company Director to Being a Father and Discovering ECE Teaching as a Rewarding Career
- Heather Te Huia - Manager of an ECE Centre and Long-time Advocate for ECE Quality
- Jade Bollond: Turning a Passion for Working with Children into Reality
- Claire Rumble - Plunket Community Development Manager
- Dr Sue Cherrington - Teacher Education Director
- Prof Heather Joshi - Director Of One of Britain's Largest Studies of Children and their Families
- Participation in ECE
- The UK's Millennium Cohort Longitudinal Study
- Making Choices: Contradictions and Commonalities in the Valuing of Caring and Working by Government Policy and First Time Mothers
- Major policy platform under both Labour and National led governments
- The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child Wellbeing - What We Can Learn from UK and USA Research
- Who Cares for Baby? Women's Preferences: First Time Mothers and their Decisions About Infant/baby Care
- The Costs of Poverty for Children - Is the solution to have parents in (what can be low paid) jobs and children in care?
- The 'Family Partnership Model' in NZ - Implications for Policy and Funding
- What is in the Best Interests and Rights of Children: A Mother's View
- A Stay-at-home Mum's Experience
- A Social Commentator's Look at Child Poverty and ECE
- Motivations behind Government Increasing its Investment in ECE
- "Future for Children". The 2nd national Early Childhood Policy Forum 2011
- A Stay-at-home Dad, Using Centre and Home-based Care
- A lesson on what happens when more hours of ECE are provided
- What the Research Says about ECE Effects and the Influence of Parents/Families on Development and Educational Outcomes
- "Future for Children". The 1st national Early Childhood Policy Forum 2008
- Commissioner for Children's Inquiry into Children aged under-2 years in ECE/ Childcare
- Right to a Free Pre-School Education
- Kindergarten Committees dismissed - Auckland Kindergarten Chief Executive takes power and money from kindergartens
- Auckland Kindergarten Association Should be Treated by Government Differently says AKA Vice President
- Kindergartens Change from Sessional Preschool to All-day Licences
- Skeletal staffing plans at kindergartens leads to problems
- What’s changed for Auckland children, teachers and kindergartens
- Free kindergartens claimed back by the people: Evening vigil outside the AGM of the Auckland Kindergarten Association
- Kindy head resignation just the start
- Serious outcomes of kindergarten changes for children
- Digging its own hole deeper - the Auckland Kindergarten Association ongoing story
- Democracy missing – the troubling state of management and relationships at the Auckland Kindergarten Association
- Heroes or Dictators – a Charitable Community Board, its chief executive and standard of consultation on changing a publicly revered early childhood education service
- Open letter on Kindergarten Changes
- Kindergarten under threat
- Where have all the sessional kindergartens and childcare centres gone?
- Childcare and kindergarten employment practices - ERO Report
- High Public Satisfaction with Kindergartens
- Children Attending Two Kindergartens is Okay by Kindergarten Assn Rules
- Kindergartens to get More Funding than other Community-Based Services
- Kindergarten Assn to make Staff Redundant Ahead of Govt Funding Cut
- Funding System
- Proposals for funding improvement worthy of consideration
- $20m blunder: ECE services paid funding twice and get to keep the money
- 20-Hour Free ECE Funding Policy (2007) - predicted consequences and problems
- Giving Parents a financial choice to use or not to use ECE
- How much funding is too much to go on management salaries and profit instead of on children and teacher salaries?
- A Broken Promise – Where did the 20 free hours of early childhood education go?
- Targeted Funding for Disadvantage - A new source of funding
- Same Old – Same Old. Treasury Advice on Targeting ECE Funding Assistance but is the Government Listening?
- NZ childcare costs are among the highest in the world
- Touch and Physical Contact
- Parent Influence on Learning Outcomes
- Parents as First Teachers (PAFT) research reports
- "Early Reading Together" handbook and kit materials for parent workshops
- Engaging with Families and Communities: OECD Recommendations
- All Together Now – Family Learning Sessions in Early Years Education
- Parents as the Amateurs (or not) in their Child's Early Learning
- Political Party Promises and Ideologies
- Political party early childhood education election promises 2020
- Political Party Early Childhood Education Election Promises 2017
- Political Party Early Childhood Education Election Promises 2014
- Compare Party Policies by Topic/Subject (2011)
- Political Party Early Childhood Education Election Promises 2011
- Policy and Funding Challenges in Providing Children with a Great Early Education
- The ECE Taskforce 2011 Report "Amazing Children"
- The NZ Competent Children Research Study. A Flagship for Public Policy and Spending in ECE
- Political Party Early Childhood Education Election Promises 2008
- Political Party Early Childhood Education Election Promises 2005
- ECE Qualified Teaching Staff
- Is the Government Actively Devaluing Your ECE Teaching Qualification?
- Does Training Make a Difference for Understanding Pedagogy? The Perspectives of Semi-trained and Degree Qualified Teachers
- The value of good centre support for students in training and doing teaching practicums
- Who will benefit from a 100% funding band and by how much?
- Qualified Teachers 100% - What a small study found
- Class size maximum - group size
- Breastfeeding
- Complaints System
- 2019 Complaints Report
- The Ministry of Education complaints system for early childhood education
- What the rise in ECE complaints in 2018 tells us
- ECE Complaints in 2017 and names of services that did not meet operating standards
- Complaints Made Against NZ Early Childhood Services in 2016 Released
- Education Ministry failing its own standards by not releasing promised information on ECE complaints
- Ministry releases data on Early Childhood Education complaints
- Ministry’s move on complaints a small step in the right direction
- Complaints Suggest Problems with Quality Control in the Early Childhood Sector
- Food safety and risk reduction
- Child deaths and serious injuries in ECE
- ECE services not meeting regulatory requirements
- 7 Recommendations to the Ministry of Education for change to improve communication and child safety
- External review needed of Ministry of Education’s work to ensure child safety in ECE
- Child death and serious injury in early childhood education – Let’s get it out in the open
- In the Education Ministry we place our trust to enforce ECE minimum standards and practices but it is letting us down
- Supervision of Children
- Food safety and safe eating
- Men in ECE and Workforce Gender Balance
- How to Achieve 8% Male Teachers in Early Childhood Teaching - The example of Norway
- Teachers' Gender and their Interactions and Behaviours with Children
- Men at Work: Sexism in Early Childhood Education. A report
- Proceedings of the First Summit on Men in Early Childhood Teaching & Care in NZ in 2007
- Running a Successful Campaign to Get More Men into ECE
- Proceedings of the 8th National Summit on Men in Early Childhood Teaching and Care
- A Short History of Men's Involvement and the Characteristics of Men Who Enter Early Childcare and Teaching Work
- NZ Representation at International 'Men in Early Childhood Education and Care' Conference in Berlin
- SET Early Childhood Research Folio Paper
- Teaching: A Women-Only Profession? A 1997 NZ Annual Review of Education journal article
- "A Few Good Men or a Few Too Many?" The Original Massey University Research Study on Male ECE Teachers (1997)
- 'Of Puppy Dog Tails, Sugar and Spice': Gender Inequality and Discrimination in ECE. A Delta journal article
- National Survey Results Report "Time for Men to Be Invited into Early Childhood Teaching"
- Symposium - Dr Sarah Alexander speech
- Symposium - Dr David Brody speech
- Staffing, space, ratios, & class size
- Person Responsible
- Books and Book Reviews
- Rush! Rush! by Elena De Roo
- Te Whare by Ngaere Roberts with Christine Dale
- Ko Kiwi Ma by Ngaere Roberts with Christine Dale
- Men who Teach Young Children: An International Perspective by David Brody
- I am NOT Bacon by Carlie Mascelle
- Suffer the Little Children by David Smith
- Progressing Play: Practicalities, Intentions and Possibilities in Emerging Co-constructed Curriculum by Leanne Hunter and Lisa J Sonter
- Teaching Early Years Mathematics, Science and ICT by Geoff Hilton Annette Hilton, Shelley Dole and Chris Campbell
- Ideas for Play: Literacy by Emma Smoldon and Megan Howell
- Infant and toddler NZ board books
- Young Children Becoming Curriculum: Deleuze, Te Whāriki and Curricular Understandings by Marg Sellers
- Crossing the Border: A Community Negotiates the Transition from Early Childhood to Primary School by Carol Hartley, Pat Rodgers, Jemma Smith, Sally Peters and Margaret Carr
- Insights from the Playgroup Movement: Equality and Autonomy in a Voluntary Organisation by Ann Henderson (Editor)
- What’s Happening To Our Boys? by Maggie Hamilton
- All You Need to Know About Action Research by Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead
- Be Brave by Karen Rochester
- Smart Parenting for Safer Kids by Freda Briggs
- The Excellence of Play by Janet Moyles (Editor)
- Learning from Sure Start: Working with Young Children & their Families by Jo Weinberger et al (Eds)
- Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education by Nicola Yelland (Editor)
- Leading to Reading – The Easy Way by Barbara Morris
- What is Research? Methodological Practices and New Approaches by Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
- Rethinking Parent and Child Conflict by Susan Grieshaber
- Birth to Three Matters: Supporting the Framework of Effective Practice by Lesley Abbott and Ann Langston (eds)
- Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education & Care Postmodern Perspectives by Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss & Alan Pence
- Turning Trash into Treasure by Adam Buckingham
- Young Children's Behaviour, Practical Approaches by Louise Porter
- Understanding Early Childhood Issues and Controversies by Helen Penn
- The NZ Early Childhood Literacy Handbook by Judy Hamer & Paul Adams
- "A City Possessed": The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood
- Celebrations, Special Events & Holidays
- Birthday cakes – Should we allow these and what are the options?
- World Teachers' Day, 5th October
- World Down Syndrome Day 21st March
- Commonwealth and Olympic Games Activities for Children in ECE
- Birthday party ideas and tips for under-5s in early childhood education and home settings
- Gifts appropriate to give and loved by toddlers and preschoolers
- Guy Fawkes on 5th November - The History and Age-Appropriate Ways for Celebrating
- St Patrick's Day in March - Mischievous Leprechauns & More
- ANZAC Day activity ideas, discussions and biscuit recipe for young children
- Waitangi Day and including this in your planning and curriculum
- Shrove Tuesday - 25th Feb in 2020
- Halloween and Some Different Ways of Celebrating
- Father's Day and Mother's Day Activity Ideas
- Rugby World Cup - Capturing the Interest and teaching tips
- Chinese New Year 2021 新年快乐 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Children's Day in New Zealand for Children Under 5 years
- Diversity in Cultural, Religious, and Family Beliefs Concerning Celebrations
- Matariki: Celebrating the Māori New Year
- Christmas activities, present making, games and discussing the meaning of Christmas with children
- Diwali or Deepavali - the 'Festival of Lights'
- Easter celebrations and appropriate activities for children
- Engaging with parents of different gender and culture
- Parent newsletters can be used to support children's maths learning by crossing the home-school boundry
- Engaging with fathers supports the needs of mothers - innovative ways of looking at an old problem
- Changes and Issues in Parenting
- Becoming More Father Friendly
- Immigrant children and families
- Engaging with Families - How an Early Childhood Centre Did This
- Creating Family Support and Building Local Partnerships
- How May Female Educators Find Common Ground with Dads?
- Doing, Writing and Presenting Research
- Reflective Practice Based Enquiry: Supporting Early Childhood Practitioners to Publish their Research and Develop an Academic Voice
- Master's thesis directory (includes M.A., M.Ed., M.Phil, M, Health Science)
- A short guide to doing Action Research to bring about change or improvements in your centre or ECE programme / environment
- ICT - Starting an Assignment or Research on ICT
- Research as a Journey: The New Researcher as a First-Time Traveller
- Ph.D thesis directory
- Finding and Choosing a Good Supervisor for Your Research
- Abstracts - How to Write a Good Abstract and Guidelines for Reviewing Abstracts
- How to Find Research on Your Topic
- Preparing your talk or presentation - tips for introduction, content and structure
- Is Everything We Call 'Research' Research?
- Discovering Meanings in Research with Children
- From a Good Idea to a Robust Research Design: A Discussion of Challenges in Designing Early Childhood Research
- Ethical Guide for Researching in Early Childhood Settings
- Personal techniques for giving a good presentation to a group of people at a meeting or conference
- Interviewing Young Children: A Socio-Cultural Approach
- Researching with Men
- Researching to Inform Teaching Practice
- Getting Ethics Approval: A Researcher's Personal Perspective
- Whether to Use Focus Groups or Not
- Collaborating with Practitioners to do Research
- How to Get More People to Respond to Your Survey or Participate in Your Research Study
- Child Health, Attachment, & Wellbeing
- Death of a child or other adult at the service - supporting children
- Picky Eaters and managing children's eating habits
- Nappies – The Options and what's best to use in early childhood services
- Death of a pet at the service or at home
- Grief - responding to a grieving child and questions about death and dying
- Implementing primary caregiving at your service - How to do this effectively
- Administering medicine including painkillers such as paracetamol
- Effects of Natural Disasters, Evacuation and Separation from Parents on Children and How ECE Teachers and Services Can Help
- Infant sleep practices and policies: Steps to reduce the risk of a baby dying at an ECE Service
- Supporting Parent-Child Attachment: How to identify when there are attachment problems and strategies to help
- Sleep, Nap and Rest Times for Children (and staff rest breaks)
- Can a child with HIV or AIDS be excluded from attending an early childhood service?
- Understanding how Daylight Saving Affects Children and What Teachers and Parents Can Do
- “Earthquake… Quick, Turtle drop” - Reflections and Discussion about what is Best Practice
- What a Primary Caregiving System is in ECE and Q&A on Issues
- When a Child Has a Nose Bleed for No Apparent Reason
- Tips for Enjoying Fireworks Safely and also for Helping Children Keep their Pets Safe
- Best Ways to Protect Children's Skin, Eyes, and Health from the Harmful Effects of the Sun
- Vaccination requirements and the basics of what you need to know and be aware of
- Training Children to Settle Themselves to Sleep - Should We Support Controlled Crying?
- Cough and Cold Medicines for Young Children - Problems & Recommendations
- Technology Warnings - 3D Movies/TVs, Eco-bulbs & Fluorescent Lighting, Mobile Phones
- Head Lice and Nits - Prevention and Best Treatment
- Supporting mums in expressing breastmilk and managing reactions of other parents
- When Parents Insist on Unwell Children Attending
- Helping children to eat healthily and get active - the Healthy Heart Award scheme
- Transitions: Home-ECE-school
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- Children with Disabilities in ECE and How an Education Support Worker Can Help
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- Working in ECE and Workplace Issues
- Personal stories of bullying in early childhood education
- Unpaid work and getting paid for what you do
- Survival Tips for Beginning Male Teachers
- Pay reviews and negotiating pay
- Domestic violence leave - Information for Early Childhood Teachers and Staff
- Non-contact time – your entitlements, how much teachers can need and why
- Lunch and rest breaks - what early childhood staff are entitled to and what if you don't get these
- Relieving Work – What you need to know if you are a reliever or thinking of doing this
- Volunteers – ECE Workplaces risk breaking the law when relying on free labour
- Back from Holidays? Here are 7 Tips to Ease Back into the Swing of Things
- When Adults Do Not Count Toward the Regulated Minimum Adult:Child Ratios and How to Respond If You Think Minimum Regulations are Breached
- Job Interview Preparation and Questions
- What to Wear and How to Dress When You are Working in ECE (this is for men and women)
- Can a Male Teacher Be Fired For Not Being 'Man' Enough?
- On Being a Home-based Educator: The Joys, the Disappointments, and Why One Educator Knows She Has Made the Right Job Choice
- Making a Good Job Application - CV or Resume
- Hearing loss or ringing or buzzing in your ears? How to tell and what to do
- Teaching Overseas or Coming to NZ to Work? Some information that may help you not to be disadvantaged
- Professional learning and development (& the PGC)
- Professional Growth Cycle
- Teacher Certification Folder how to and sorting out mentoring
- The Place of Travel in Teachers' Professional Development
- The Experiences of Newly Qualified Early Childhood Teachers and their Professional Development and Support Needs
- Why would a Qualified Teacher want to do more study?
- Speaking Up - Just Do It!
- Teacher Education Programme Staff Uncertain About Accepting Male Students
- Boy and girl play, needs, and issues
- Providing for Boys' Play, Interests and Learning
- Boys Wearing Girls Clothes and Gender Stereotypical Play
- Boys and Underachievement - Shakespeare and Superheroes
- Female teachers feeling a bit peeved at John's popularity as a teacher
- Can Women Understand How Boys Tick? Is it Best For Boys to Have a Male Teacher?
- Ideas for activities and how-to
- Caring for a pet/ orphan lamb
- Aircraft, geography and ICT – Interest children in all 3 of these things
- Rhythm Ribbons : A Teacher's Learning Story on Using Ribbons to Promote Children's Physical Activity
- Teaching Culture and Cultural Learning in Early Childhood Education
- Make Pet Rocks - A Great Craft and Gift Making Idea With Children
- Teaching Pre-schoolers Sports
- Baking with Children and Going For ‘Slow Cooking’
- Make a Volcano
- Fresh Play Ideas for Winter and Rainy Day Activities - Including Outings and Science Experiments
- Take a Trip to the Farm Park
- Take a Trip to the Zoo
- Edible Gardens - A Valuable Resource for Early Childhood Teaching and Learning
- Take a Trip to the Library
- Heuristic Play and Treasure Baskets
- Plant and Growing Activities - For Science, Art, and Making Presents
- Take a Trip to an Art Gallery
- Sandpit ideas for extending play and turning it into an amazing social hub for learning
- Take a Trip to the Beach
- Take a Trip to the Museum
- Laughter & Humour in Our Relationships with Children and in the Workplace
- Sun Protection and Learning Activities for Teaching About Being Safe in the Sun (songs, art & craft, science, drama etc)
- Help Children Develop a Love for Learning Languages from a Young Age
- Easter Ideas and Fun Activities
- Playdough Best Recipes and Making the Fun Last
- Exposing Children to [Real] Art
- Books Children Prefer
- Colouring-in Books and Drawing Templates
- What's all the Fuss About Playdough?
- Gifted and Talented Children
- Research report: Views, teaching practices, resourcing and administration issues relating to gifted children in NZ early childhood education
- Gifted Children: Feedback on a Survey of the Education of Gifted Children Under 8 Years of Age
- How to identify a child gifted in reading and provide a responsive ECE learning environment
- Workshop Presentations on the topic of Education for Gifted Children in ECE
- The Joy of Having a Young Gifted Child - A Parent's Experience
- Teaching, curriculum and theories of learning
- Integrating New Zealand sign language into our ECE settings – how teachers can help
- Scientific learning in early childhood education – what can we teachers do to support this?
- Tikanga in Practice - Teaching Aspirations
- Do You Allow (Or Even Encourage) Gun Play?
- Te Whariki Early Childhood Curriculum Review and How it Compares to the Early Years Framework for Australia
- Using ICT as Part of Children's Learning: What One Kindergarten Did
- Appropriate Ways to Introduce and Use ICT with Children and Questions to Consider
- Sign Language and Signing for Babies and Toddlers
- Co-construction, Problem-Solving, Scaffolding and Hypothesising: Super Teaching for Super Success
- "Putting the Cog into Cognitive": Theories to Put into Practice When Teaching Young Children
- An Example of Child Directed Learning
- Pikler and Gerber Theories: Putting Ideas into Practice and Questions / Issues
- Ko Tau Rourou Ko Taku Rourou ā Kua Mārama Shared Understandings and Reflection on Wairua
- The iPad and other Tablets: Handy Technology for Learning and What to Consider
- The Importance of Fun in the Learning Process
- Helping a Preschool Child Learn Pre-Reading Skills
- It all Comes Out in the Wash! Teaching Style and Thinking About The Kind of Teacher You Are
- An Authentic Version of the Concept of Tuakana-Teina dictated by Whakapapa
- The importance of a play-based approach - Helping young learners to flourish
- Self Review: How You Can Work Smarter, Not Harder for Best Practice
- Literacy Learning and Teaching Essentials to Know
- Men Who Change Nappies, Change the World
- Concept Mapping with 3- to 6-year olds to Support Meaningful Learning
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- Online Portfolios: Our centre's journey from paper to screen
- Individual Child Plan - An "ICP" template and an example
- How is it Possible to Know From Your Observations What Children Learn?
- Documenting your teaching and learning, and an example of a teaching story
- "Learning Notes" - A useful alternative to doing Learning Stories
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- Are Learning Stories Working? Read and add to the discussion here on this topic
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- Is 'Child Development' a term we should be using today?
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- Communication and Advertising
- Preparing a press release to get free publicity for your service
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- Building Your Networks
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- Employer Guides and Help - click here to view more articles
- Staff Wages and Employee Benefits Guide 2020 - 2021
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- The ECE Employer's Guide to Employing and Managing Staff
- Fostering Teamwork Within Your Team
- Job Description Templates for various ECE positions
- TLC for Managers and Leaders and Looking After Yourself
- Paying staff for work outside of normal work hours
- Effective Leadership and Learning to Share the Load
- Pay reviews - why, when, how and links to performance reviews
- Using the Internet in Ways to Benefit Your Staff and Service
- Centre Owner Doesn't Want to Put Centre at Risk By Employing Men
- Meal and rest breaks - legal requirements and issues
- Probationary period or 90-day trial period for new staff - Which should you use?
- Union rights, staff rights and duties of the ECE service provider
- Domestic violence leave early childhood service provider employer advice
- Relievers - Finding, paying and managing relief staff
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender staff – how to be an inclusive early childhood education employer
- Salary and Wage Earners and Maximum Hours of Work
- Redundancy - the Process and How to Avoid Problems
- Annual holiday leave entitlements, carrying over, cashing up and pay-as-you-go
- Performance Appraisals - Teaching Staff and Members of Management
- Staffing at the Beginning and End of the Day and 'Person Responsible' Requirements
- Employment of Men in Early Childhood Teaching
- Free Childcare and Fringe Benefit Tax Implications
- A Case For Why Men are Needed in Childcare and Teaching
- Faking sickness or staff who need to take unscheduled time off work
- Staff Late for Work? How to Manage Problem Behaviour
- Interview Questions for Applicants for a Teaching Position
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- Mandatory reporting of teachers to the Teaching Council and confidential exit agreements
- Review and Evaluation
- Internal evaluation and how to get a good ERO review
- Audits - Internal and external audits and guidance for doing these
- Two Case Studies of Centres that Successfully Completed Self-Review
- Record Keeping and Retention of Electronic and Paper Reports - Requirements of the Ministry of Education, Auditors, ERO, IRD and Charities Commission
- Self-Review - Working Smarter, Not Harder for Best Practice
- Beyond Regulatory Standards and Expectations to Building Quality
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- Funding breakdown for pay increases - test what impact pay rises would have
- Improving the financial outlook of your service after the Covid shock
- Exploiting 20 Hours ECE funding during holidays
- 20 Funding Questions You Asked and Answers by the Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Education financial audit of your service - tips on how to prepare for it
- Cashflow management tips
- Targeted Funding amount per child and ways to capitalise on the funding
- 20 Hours ECE Casual Change of Permanent Booking Administration
- Preparing your Special Purpose Annual Financial Reports for the Ministry of Education
- Differences between a Statement of Financial Performance and a Receipts and Payments Report
- Frequently Asked Questions on Financial Accounting and Audits
- Arranging finance - short term lending to bring forward your service's next bulk funding payment
- Glossary of Financial and Accounting Terms & Jargon for Early Childhood Education Centres and Services
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- Does Your ACC Bill Seem Much Too High? What You Can Do To Try To Bring the Amount Down
- Responding to Parents’ Wishes to Bargain Over Fees and Other Charges
- Inland Revenue clarifies for parents and services Rules around when an ECE payment is a donation or not
- About the Various Accounting Reports - About Profitability, Cash Flow, Budgets, Performance, Receipts & Payments, etc.
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- Charging Parents for Late Pick-ups and Early Drop-offs
- Birth Certificates and Accurate Child Enrolment Records
- Tips for Aligning Your Early Childhood Service to Government Goals and Being Politically Strategic
- Free Checklist Looking at Money Management and Accounting
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- WINZ Childcare Subsidy Payment - Managing Arrears in Fees and Improving Cashflow
- Saving Some of Your Income & Building Up Reserves for Special Projects or Financial Security
- Change in What Can Be Included in 20Hour ECE Optional Charges
- Fundraising: A Guide for all Early Childhood Services
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- Manual Handling Training to Reduce Staff Injuries & Promote Worker Safety
- What did you say? I can’t hear you. I’m cuddling a circular saw!
- Risk assessment of playgrounds and children's activities: Or, “why tree climbing is not banned by the Health and Safety at Work Act”
- Food Act - What you need to know and do
- Electrical testing
- Flooding: What to do during floods
- HIV and AIDS - Guidelines for Early Childhood Education Services
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- The Sandpit - Health and Safety Considerations
- Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 as it applies to Centres and Homebased
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- Food Allergy Management and Meeting Children's Needs
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- Artificial Turf vs. Natural Grass – A growing concern as to what to go for and problems
- Organising Space and Ideas for Room Arrangement and Layout
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- Sandpits - What Makes for a Good Sandpit
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- Policy guide, templates and checklists
- Centre Operating Procedures for Covid-19 Alert Level 3 HS7 Appendix 9
- Preventing 'escapes' and keeping children safe and secure policy
- Lockdown Policy and Procedures
- What policies a service legally must have
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- Child Protection Policy [Template]
- How to write a policy and a template
- Social Media Policy
- Collection of Children in Cases of Parental Separation and Disclosure of Information about a Child
- ECE Service Blogs - tools and policy
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- Immunisation Certificates and Register
- Parent and whanau forms & communication
- A Family Protests the Appointment of a Teacher who is a Man - What Advice Would You Give to the Early Childhood Centre?
- Waivers and liability for theft, managing child medical conditions, accidents, injury, death and loss
- Parent / Family Exit Form and Leaving Process
- Complaint and Feedback Form for Parents, Caregivers, and Children
- Visiting Teacher Forms for Recording Home Visits
- Community ECE Governance Guide
- Business Structures for ECE Services and Broad Legal Requirements
- No more time-wasting committee meetings
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- 'Conflicts of Interest'
- Governance Training and Building Governance Capacity
- 'Management' and 'Governance' - What's the difference?
- Managing relationships from the top-down and vice versa
- Child Protection
- When a Child Tells: Responding to a Child’s Disclosure of Abuse
- Female teacher sexual abusive of children: The factors which supported this in a Childcare Centre
- Safety checking of centre owners, teachers, homebased educators, relievers, students, researchers, etc.
- What Can Parents Do to Protect and Support their Child to Disclose Sexual Abuse?
- Body Safety Skills to Teach Children
- What can ECE services, visiting officials, and teacher education providers do to safeguard children from abuse in an ECE service?
- Confidentiality agreements and ability of staff suspected of child abuse to have this covered up
- Should Men Change Children's Nappies?
- A Parent writes: My son's daycare is covering up abuse
- Trusted and Liked Preschool Teacher Takes Indecent Pictures of Children to Share Online
- Values-based interviewing as part of safety checking staff and others at your early childhood service
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- Learnings from serious incidents in ECE
- 2012 NZRECE Journal Articles
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- Early Childhood Practitioners ..Making Sense of the Research Process
- Brooke’s Day: One Child’s Experience in ECE
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 15 (2012)
- Being Agreeable?... IP Groups in Early Intervention
- Children as Teachers: ...Opportunities for Children to Share Expertise
- Shared Language of Coping: ...Parents and Preschool Children
- Characteristics of Optimal Outdoor Environments ...
- Airplane Grows in the Tummy of Clouds..
- Embedding Literacy in an Early Childhood Education Programme: A Look into Montessori
- It is Difficult to Review ...
- 2013 NZRECE Journal Articles
- Undertaking Action Research Informed by Kaupapa Māori in Early Childhood Education
- Talking with Children in Prams and Supermarket Trolleys While Shopping
- The Experiences of Overseas-born, Ethnic Minority Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers in New Zealand
- Field-Based Students Experiences of Mentoring When on Teaching Practicum
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 16 (2013)
- Observation - An Effective Research Tool or a Rude Intrusion?
- Kei Tua o te Pae Analysis
- 2015 NZRECE Journal Articles
- “It made me argue more confidently and I can stand by my words”: Beginning teachers’ perspectives about mentoring, goal setting, and leadership during teacher registration
- Supported playgroup located on school grounds: Developing family relationships within a school environment to support children’s transition to school
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2015, Volume 18
- Children’s visual art experiences
- “It is a risk, but it is a risk worth taking”: Early childhood teachers’ reflections on review of practice using an approach of practical philosophy
- Advocating for a comprehensive approach to assessment in New Zealand early childhood education
- Early childhood education: Fracture lines of social context and neural development (Te Whariki curriculum)
- 2014 Special Policy Issue
- Mapping Policies and Pathways in Early Childhood Education: A Note from Aotearoa New Zealand
- The State of Play in Early Childhood Policy: A Note from Australia
- NZ Research in ECE Journal, Volume 17 (2014)
- Early Childhood Care and Education Policy: Ireland Country Note
- Children's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction as Curriculum
- Parents’ Choices of Child Care in Australia
- Breach of Trust - Getting it Right for Children in Early Childhood Care and Education in Ireland
- Play and the professional early childhood teacher: A personal reflection
- Negotiating Policy-Driven and State-Mandated Expectations of Leadership: Discourses Accessed by Early Childhood Educators in Australia
- Early Intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand: Services and Challenges
- Supporting Participation of Indigenous Families in Early Childhood Education
- The Relationship between Early Childhood Education and Care and English Proficiency at School Entry for Bilingual Children in Australia
- NZ-International Research in ECE Journal - Details for Authors
- Call for Papers for the Special Journal Issue on "Health and Wellbeing in Early Childhood Education Settings"
- Peer Review Policy Statement
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- Call for Papers for the 2021 general issue of the NZ International Research in ECE Journal
- Author Instructions for Submitting a Manuscript to the Journal
- 2016 NZRECE Journal Articles
- Visible difference: Photostory as capacity building, research and evaluation method
- Whose decision is it? Unpacking shared decision-making as a component of partnership in New Zealand early childhood education centres
- Whiteness scholarship in early childhood education
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2016, Volume 19
- Early childhood science exploration: A vehicle for inclusive practices
- A whole school approach to language development in the early years: Professional development in action
- Changing roles and responsibilities: The development of coaching in early intervention education settings
- Removing socio-economic barriers to participation in early childhood education: Is current policy in Aotearoa New Zealand effective?
- 2017, NZIRECE Journal, No. 1
- Making inclusion happen in early childhood setting: Excepts from success stories
- Index for the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, 2017, Volume 20(1)
- A multi-dimensional approach to pedagogical development in long day care centres
- Developing curriculum for the early years: A perspective from Bangladesh
- Creating an early childhood curriculum pathway for sustaining indigenous Fijian cultural knowledges
- Te Whāriki: Curriculum or philosophy
- Children as photographers: Joyful exploration
- 2017, NZIRECE Journal, No. 2, Special Issue
- Field-based early childhood student teachers – who are they and what challenges do they face?
- Advancing early childhood educators’ access to professional learning in gifted and talented education
- Early childhood teachers’ emotional labour
- Index for the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, Vol 20(2)
- Retaining early childhood teachers: What factors contribute to high job satisfaction in early childhood settings in Australia?
- 2018, NZIRECE Journal, No. 1.
- Increasing early childhood education enrolment and attendance rates
- Index for the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, Volume 21, No. 1
- Preschool teachers’ and parents’ perspectives on primary school preparation in Singapore
- Reconciling perspectives on quality in New Zealand early childhood services
- Effective transition to school: Integrating philosophy, pedagogy and curriculum
- Primary school entry assessment in New Zealand
- Where are the men in Jamaica’s early childhood classrooms? The experiences of those who choose to teach young children
- Can early years’ practitioners facilitate social development during conflicts between young children?
- Early childhood educator perceptions of children’s physical activity and the outdoors
- 2018, NZIRECE Journal, No. 2
- STEM in Early Childhood Education: Using the inquiry approach to scaffold learning
- Generic or specific? Deciphering the New Zealand approach to professional standards for early childhood
- Early childhood educators’ and parents’ perspectives of literacy for children under three: An exploratory study
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2018, Volume 21, No. 2
- Is there an optimum age for starting school in New Zealand?
- Building early childhood educators’ capacity to apply a strengths approach to working with vulnerable families and children
- Exploring early childhood teachers’ beliefs and practices in emergent literacy: Does practice vary by the socioeconomic status of the children?
- 2019, NZIRECE Journal, No. 1
- Should we consider rhizomatic thinking when educating young minds?
- Supporting parents to use schema theory to understand and manage challenging behaviour in the home
- Embedding parents’ perspectives in the discourse for quality education and care in the early years
- Advanced empathy in the early years - a risky strength?
- Factors influencing the use of digital technology in early childhood education
- Neoliberalism and post-colonialism in conflict: Hybridisation in early childhood in the South Pacific
- Researching pedagogies for sustainability in Australian bush kinder: A reflective analysis on a framework and methodologies
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2019, Volume 22, No. 1
- 2019, NZIRECE Journal No. 2
- Nurturing the learning and development of children who are refugees
- Prioritising the development of spirituality in early childhood education and care
- Screens or no screens: Understanding young children’s use of digital technologies
- Index for NZ International Research in ECE Journal, Vol 22, No. 2
- Early childhood educators’ workplace well-being: A case for using self-determination theory to understand and support workplace well-being in early childhood services
- Affordability of quality early childhood education and care
- 2021, NZIRECE Journal No. 1
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