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Carleen J. Mitchell – Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice, 2023
Research into leadership in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand is in its infancy. At this early stage, distributed leadership has been identified as the most common style of leadership used in teacher-led early childhood education and care services. However, as a parent-led early childhood education service, Playcentre uses emergent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Leadership, Indigenous Knowledge
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Freeman, Sola – Early Childhood Folio, 2021
This article presents findings from a doctoral study which examined the ways teaching teams in six New Zealand early childhood education (ECE) centres fostered and supported young children's scientific experiences. The focus of this article is the pedagogical practice of using provocations to facilitate scientific opportunities. The way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Preschool Education, Child Care Centers
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Burke, Rachael S.; Duncan, Judith – Global Studies of Childhood, 2016
Children's bodies occupy a culturally contested space in the early childhood arena. In New Zealand, children's bodies have increasingly become the focus of regulation. The early childhood centre has become a site of constant surveillance, turning teachers into 'disciplinary individuals' who are internally controlled by their own behaviour. This…
Descriptors: Human Body, Children, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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Ritchie, Jenny – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2013
This paper discusses one aspect of a recently completed two-year study, that of the enactment of relationality within early childhood care and education practice. The research project, "Titiro Whakamuri, Hoki Whakamua. We are the future, the present and the past: caring for self, others and the environment in early years' teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
Test, Joan – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
It is not only in families that young children are influenced to become members of their culture. Around the world and within individual countries, culture influences how care is provided to infants and toddlers in child care settings. In turn, infants and toddlers begin to learn how to act and think as members of their culture. From ways that…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Cultural Influences