Over the past decade there has been an increasing visibility and focus on environmentally sustainable practices in early childhood centres in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article discusses a small-scale research project, which investigated a teaching team's journey into sustainability in one rural kindergarten over a nine-month period. Joining the…

This project focused on the transition between early childhood and school and explored ways to understand and enhance children's learning journeys as they move between the two sectors. Transitions can be seen as an intrinsic component of life, with individuals in any society experiencing a series of passages "from one age to another and from…

In this article we document the impact of tiered teaching on making the complexity of pedagogy transparent when teaching science education to pre-service primary teachers. Teaching science methods classes together and researching our teaching has enabled us to reframe our assumptions and move beyond the simplistic and misleading idea that teacher…