scholarly journals The correspondence system of teaching primary school children in New Zealand : an account of its evolution and a comparative study of the methods applied and of the standards attained

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Eric Norman Le Petit
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Reliable Estimate ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Method Of Instruction

Following on a visit paid by the Director of Education for New Zealand to some of the Australian states where Correspondence Classes had already been in operation for some years, it was decided to introduce on a much smaller scale a similar method of instruction to serve the educational needs of the very isolated families in New Zealand. A sole teacher was appointed to initiate the scheme but it is evident that, from the beginning, the Department had no reliable estimate of the subsequent growth of the institution nor of the work which it was later to accomplish.

scholarly journals The correspondence system of teaching primary school children in New Zealand : an account of its evolution and a comparative study of the methods applied and of the standards attained

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Eric Norman Le Petit
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Reliable Estimate ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Method Of Instruction

Following on a visit paid by the Director of Education for New Zealand to some of the Australian states where Correspondence Classes had already been in operation for some years, it was decided to introduce on a much smaller scale a similar method of instruction to serve the educational needs of the very isolated families in New Zealand. A sole teacher was appointed to initiate the scheme but it is evident that, from the beginning, the Department had no reliable estimate of the subsequent growth of the institution nor of the work which it was later to accomplish.

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>

Behavioural Characteristics of Primary School Children Referred to a Psychiatric Department

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (501) ◽  
pp. 885-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sula Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Matched Control ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Matched Control Group ◽  
Behavioural Characteristics ◽  
Psychiatric Department

This investigation is part of a larger comparative study of Edinburgh primary school children referred to a psychiatric department with behaviour disorders and of a matched control group of non-referred children.

Can we watch regional dialects developing in colonial English?

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Bauer ◽  
Winifred Bauer
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Regional Homogeneity ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Regional Dialects ◽  
Australian English

The regional homogeneity of New Zealand English is frequently commented on. Similar observations on varieties such as Australian English were simply precursors to the discovery of regional dialects. In this paper a report is given of a survey of New Zealand primary school children, which showed that in the vocabulary they use in the playground there is considerable regional variation. This might be taken as evidence of the inception of regional variation in New Zealand. However, it is argued that the birth of regional dialects cannot be perceived by the analyst; rather the analyst can observe a stronger or weaker regional distribution of variants. It is also pointed out that the spread of innovations does not always happen in the same way in modern societies as has been reported in traditional dialectological studies.

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