This paper is one of three commissioned by ACE Aotearoa. It is intended to review the TEC consultation document on the proposed new funding framework released on 9 March 2005. The first part of this paper provides an ...

Professional Development programmes in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT PO) in schools have had significant growth since the development of successive national ICT strategies by the Ministry of Education. ...

This study examines the way that middle school students' classroom experience shapes how they learn. The ways that the culture of learning created in the classroom provides opportunities for students to learn or not learn ...

Why should sexualities matters matter in early childhod education? 1)sexualities isues impact on our ideas of who and how teachers in early childhod education can 'be' 2)sexualities isues impact on our understandings of ...

The study introduces an alternative analytic framework for the investigation of online discussion forums. It focuses on the social dynamics occurring in online discussion threads situated within a tertiary e-learning ...

Reading skills are essential for all students for their successful advancement through school and on into adult life. With limited English, many Non English Speaking Background (NESB) students are under-achieving at ...

Positive reinforcement contingencies are often used by teachers to improve the academic performance of inattentive and poorly motivated children in the classroom. Previous research suggests that the response dimension ...

How can we, as scholars, policy makers and teachers of young children work in ways that unsettle the silencing of queer lives in our educational settings, or even, should we presume that it is desirable to do so? By ...

This study was designed to improve motivation and attitude towards mathematics in a mainstream Year 10 class, in a co-educational urban school. Many students in the class displayed a lack of endurance with set tasks, and ...