Since 1996, early childhood educators in Aotearoa have worked under the rubric of the first national early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 1996). Te Whāriki has been recognised for its sociocultural emphasis (Nuttall, 2003), which was markedly different from the prevailing Western early childhood discourse dominated by psychometric normative developmentalist thinking (Cannella, 1997).
Being “sociocultural” in early childhood education practice in Aotearoa. Author: Jenny Ritchie
