This session consitutes an investigation of heteronormative discourse and early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand, the discursive construction of heteronormativity in early childhood education through the 20th ...

Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments' audience: the learners. This paper focuses on taking into account the learners' ...

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 ...

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 development of a regional statement of needs, gaps and priorities in tertiary education in Canterbury forms an important element in the reform of tertiary education set in motion by government over the past year. ...

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 ...

The introduction of Te Whariki (Ministry of Education, 1996b) to the early childhood sector in New Zealand created a move to viewing children's learning through a socio-cultural lens. With this change Carr (1998a) ...

This paper investigates the role that classroom conversations and dialogue play in learning in technology education. It reviews literature in this area. It argues that to enhance our understanding of how children learn ...

Gives an account of the learning journey taken by a group of teachers at an urban primary school who, wanting more from their appraisal experiences, explored and trialled an approach known as the quality learning circle ...