scholarly journals Baseline survey of sun protection policies and practices in primary school settings in New Zealand

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 778-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Reeder ◽  
J. A. Jopson ◽  
A. Gray
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Sun Protection ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Policies And Practices

scholarly journals Business managers in children’s playground : Exploring a problematic (or not!) identity construction of early childhood teachers in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 146394912198936
Author(s):  
Olivera Kamenarac
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Early Childhood Education Policies ◽  
Policies And Practices

The impacts of neo-liberal education reforms on the early childhood education sector have been a focal point of scholarly critiques in New Zealand. Interestingly, only a few studies have addressed how teacher professional identities and professionalism have changed in response to the neo-liberal context of New Zealand early childhood education. It has been, however, recognised that understanding the complexity of teacher professional identities within the rapidly transforming landscape of early childhood education is a key consideration in implementing and sustaining a change agenda in education policies and practices. In this article, the author draws on data from her research study about how teachers’ professional identities have been reconstructed in response to the shifting discourses in New Zealand early childhood education policies and practices. Specifically, the author explores the construction of teachers as business managers, which has emerged through an interplay of discourses of marketisation and privatisation driving some of the country’s early childhood education policies and practices. It is argued that the construction of teachers as business managers has altered core professional ethical values underpinning the teaching profession, professionalism and the purpose of early childhood education in New Zealand, which were traditionally embedded in discourses of collective democracy, equity and social justice.

The burden of infertility in New Zealand: A baseline survey of prevalence and service use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Righarts ◽  
Nigel P. Dickson ◽  
Alec Ekeroma ◽  
Andrew R. Gray ◽  
Lianne Parkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Baseline Survey

What future for school business leadership? Recent change and looming possibilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 089202062096985
Author(s):  
Karen Starr
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
International Research ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
School Communities ◽  
The Cross ◽  
School Business ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Policies And Practices

Fundamental widespread changes affecting education’s purposes, policies and practices have had transformational repercussions for school business across the developed world. Subsequently, school business demands and accountabilities continue to escalate in scope and complexity and governments, education authorities and school communities are acknowledging the primacy and imperative of proficient school business leadership. International research chronicling the subsequent rapid professionalisation of school business leaders demonstrates pervasive policy moves that have re-focused school business priorities. Drawing on research conducted in Australia, USA, UK, Canada and New Zealand this article describes recent widespread changes before discussing issues and trends portending future professional adaptation for school business leaders whose work lies at the cross hairs of macro pressures and micro necessities.

Access to Curricula in Three School Settings for Students with Severe Intellectual Disability

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Grbich ◽  
Stewart Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Special School ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Special Training ◽  
Severe Intellectual Disability ◽  
Educational Placements

The area of severe intellectual disability has received little attention in Australian research. This Victorian study examined the issue of access to curricula in post primary school and special school placements for a group of students with severe intellectual disability. Results from the investigation indicated: that parents were generally dissatisfied with the lack of choice available regarding educational placements and the lack of opportunity for them to contribute in a supportive manner to their daughter's/son's schooling: that teachers in post primary schools reported an urgent need for special training or for specialised staff to assist them with curricular modification: and that the female students in this group experienced disadvantage in several curricular areas.

scholarly journals The Historical and Psychological Significance of the Unorganized Games of New Zealand Primary School Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Brian Sutton-Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Small Group ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
The North ◽  
Psychological Significance ◽  
East And West ◽  
Recurrent Motifs ◽  
East West

<p>In the Spring of 1948 while teaching at a primary school, I observed a small group of girls playing a game called "Tip the Finger". During the game one of the players chanted the following rhyme: "Draw a snake upon your back And this is the way it went North, South, East, West, Who tipped your finger?" I recognized immediately and with some surprise that this rhyme contained elements which were not invented by the children and were probably of some antiquity. I knew, for example, though only in a vague and unlearned manner, that the four pattern of the North, South, East and West and the Snake symbolism were recurrent motifs in mythology and folklore. I was aware also that there did not exits any specialized attempt to explain the part that games of this nature played in the lives of the players.</p>

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