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Rosemary Erlam Ed. – NZCER Press, 2024
As New Zealand society has become more diverse, there are increasing numbers of children at early childhood centres and at school for whom English is the language of instruction but for whom it is not a first language. This book is written as a resource for teachers and students who are learning how to respond to the language needs of learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, English (Second Language)
Fitzpatrick, Katie; Webber, Melinda; Allen, Jean MUasike; Powell, Darren; Wells, Kat – NZCER Press, 2023
This book is the result of a collaboration between academics at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau and teachers in schools. It is an excellent resource for teachers wanting to teach about resilience, mental health, interpersonal skills, and wellbeing. It contains lesson plans designed to enhance learning to enable primary students to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Resilience (Psychology), Well Being
Meyer, Frauke, Ed.; Meissel, Kane, Ed. – NZCER Press, 2023
For emerging researchers, introductory content that is specific to the Aotearoa context can be hard to find. Research methods for education and the social disciplines in Aotearoa New Zealand draws on the thinking of numerous local researchers to deliver an overview and introduction to research methodology and methods, in a way that closely ties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Science Research, Social Sciences, Research Methodology
Bishop, Russell – NZCER Press, 2023
In his 2019 book, "Teaching to the North-East: Relationship-Based Learning in Practice" [ED594672] Russell Bishop identified how Maori and other marginalised students--such as the children of migrant, refugee, and faith-based groups and neuro- and gender-diverse children--can benefit from a North-East relationship-based pedagogy. Now in…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Equal Education, Indigenous Populations, Migrants
Tom Nicholson; Susan Dymock – NZCER Press, 2023
A guide to understanding dyslexia in children and youth, with strategies for assessing and teaching reading and spelling. In today's digital world, reading and writing are more important than ever. Students are reading and writing text on smartphones, tablets, and laptops as well as in school for hours every day. Yet many of these students will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Rimoni, Fuapepe; Glasgow, Ali; Averill, Robin – NZCER Press, 2022
This book helps non-Pacific educators inform their work with Pacific learners and their families. There are differences in understandings of the values important to many Pacific people between Pacific and non-Pacific heritage educators. Pacific values of Belonging, Family, Love, Service, Spirituality, Reciprocal Relationships, Respect, Leadership,…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Minority Group Teachers, Values, Culturally Relevant Education
Emerson, Lisa, Ed.; Kilpin, Ken, Ed.; Lamond, Heather, Ed. – NZCER Press, 2021
This book examines significant questions related to information literacy learning and student transition to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It investigates important questions for student transition: what does it mean to be information literate in Aotearoa today? What could be the role of the library in our senior secondary schools and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Adjustment, Secondary Education, Higher Education
Aitken, Viv – NZCER Press, 2021
Mantle of the Expert is a form of inquiry learning developed by Dorothy Heathcote that includes drama for learning--so it's active, embodied, imaginative, and aesthetic. It's agentic in that it positions learners as responsible, competent co-constructors of meaning and allows them powers to influence, make decisions, and grapple with complex…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries
Hipkins, Rosemary – NZCER Press, 2021
What do a short car trip, a pandemic, the wood-wide fungal web, a challenging learning experience, a storm, transport logistics, and the language(s) we speak have in common? All of them are systems, or multiple sets of systems within systems. What happens in any set of circumstances will depend on a mix of initial conditions, complexity dynamics,…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Models, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Knowledge
Ratima, Matiu Tai; Smith, Jennifer Pearl; Macfarlane, Angus Hikairo; Macfarlane, Sonja – NZCER Press, 2020
This adaptable guide invites kaiako to rethink approaches to engaging akonga, re-envisage the teacher/learner dynamic, revise old habits, and reconfigure learning environments to acknowledge and embrace cultural differences. Kaiako can use "The Hikairo Schema for Primary" several times over, drawing on their previous experiences to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Inclusion
Macfarlane, Angus; Macfarlane, Sonja; Teirney, Sharlene; Kuntz, J. R.; Rarere-Briggs, Benita; Currie, Marika; Macfarlane, Roimata – NZCER Press, 2019
This adaptable guide invites kaiako to rethink approaches to engaging tamariki, re-envisage the teacher/learner dynamic, revise old habits, and reconfigure learning environments to acknowledge and embrace cultural differences. Kaiako can use the Hikairo Schema several times over, drawing on their previous experiences to inform and to develop new…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Culturally Relevant Education, Inclusion, Early Childhood Education
Bishop, Russell – NZCER Press, 2019
"Teaching to the North-East" responds to the marginalisation of particular groups of students with a way of teaching intended to increase equity in the education system. One way this marginalisation happens is when the special qualities students bring to the classroom are treated as deficiencies. This consigns Indigenous, migrant,…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Indigenous Populations
Grudnoff, Lexie; Ell, Fiona; Haigh, Mavis; Hill, Mary F.; Tocker, Kimai – NZCER Press, 2019
There is a strong relationship between student achievement, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background in Aotearoa New Zealand. This book is committed to providing a framework for teaching for equity, to ensure those students who are typically underserved by the system have equitable opportunities to excel. A group of teachers, principals, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Ethnicity, Racial Differences
Kamp, Annelies, Ed. – NZCER Press, 2019
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core disciplines, and contemporary concerns, that inform the study of education in Aotearoa. As a collection, the work provides a critical account of education policy trajectories and speculates on their limits and possibilities in the changing social and political landscape of Aotearoa New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Social Change, Political Attitudes
Jesson, Rebecca, Ed.; Wilson, Aaron, Ed.; McNaughton, Stuart, Ed.; Lai, Mei, Ed. – NZCER Press, 2017
New Zealand schools increasingly use inquiry to understand and address complex and persistent issues. This requires schools to have committed Lead Teachers with deep knowledge about inquiry. The collection of studies in this book have been compiled by the research team at the Woolf Fisher Research Centre, University of Auckland, to illustrate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
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