Specific types of encouragement varied, but usually focused on future success, pursuing passions and interests, growing perseverence, and being strengths-focused. Whānau Pasifika encouraged the ...

NZCER, on behalf of Remuera Rotary, is pleased to announce Sue Hone as the recipient of the 2024 Margaret May Blackwell Fellowship. The fellowship, established in 1988, supports those working in or ...

Working theories form an overarching learning outcome interdependent with learning dispositions in Te Whāriki. Working theories encompass children’s embodied, communicative, and social efforts to ...

Tēnā koe, and welcome to the first edition of our PAT mailbag! We received some great pātai to start us off with—and we’ll add everything new that comes through to our Understanding PATs page as well.

We want to hear what you think about AI! NZCER is conducting online surveys to explore perceptions and use of generative AI in New Zealand primary schools. We are inviting Year 5–8 teachers and ...

This book examines decolonisation and Māori education in Aotearoa New Zealand in ways that seeks to challenge, unsettle and provoke for change. Editors Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan have ...

This research report draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to ...

In three separate research projects involving Māori and Pasifika lower SES students in the Auckland region, the dominant theme to emerge is the critical importance of the relationship between teacher ...

What do we know about the situation of leadership in early childhood education (ECE) in Aotearoa New Zealand? What can we learn from relevant leadership research? How can we use these insights to ...

When children in Aotearoa New Zealand begin school at 5 years of age they take with them a wealth of learning. For the majority of children transitioning from early childhood education to school this ...

This is the first in a series of interviews with researchers whose work has made a difference in the area of early years education. Sarah Boyd interviews University of Waikato Emeritus Professor Jane ...