by Claire | Mar 16, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
For a long time now the teachers at Greerton Early Childhood Centre have asked the question: “What does it mean for a child and their wha-nau/family to walk through the doors of our early childhood centre for the first time, each day and every day?” Over time as we... 
by Claire | Mar 4, 2021 | Articles, Infants & Toddlers
Gandini, in the book ʻ The Hundred Languages of Children – The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Educationʼ (Edwards, C. et al., 1996, p. 148) describes environment as ʻ a space that teachesʻ. My understanding of the word environment has undergone considerable... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2018 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
Views of children, childhood, children’s roles and responsibilities, and children’s citizenship differ across different eras and cultures (Bath & Karlsson, 2016). In Western countries, developmentalist discourses have positioned the child as a “developing”... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2014 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
This article discusses aspects of a recent research project in New Zealand, which utilized ethnographic and narrative methodologies to explore the topic of sustainability within 10 early childhood care and education settings (Ritchie et al. 2010). A particular feature... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2014 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
This chapter offers a series of provocations coming from a critical, place-based orientation, regarding the ways in which early childhood educators, might develop relationships with local Indigenous peoples, in order to strengthen the Indigenous understandings that... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2013 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori, Uncategorized
This chapter draws on over a decade of research that has focused on the implementation of Te Whāriki: He Mātauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa: Early Childhood Curriculum, with a particular focus on the ways in which educators have been working to uphold the...