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Learning to Move: Moving to Learn. Author: Robyn Lawrence
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...
Pedagogical strategies that support young children’s civic action. Authors: Jenny Ritchie and Jared Lambert
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” individual with increasing capacities to contribute to...
Making “Eco-Waves”: Early Childhood Care and Education Sustainability Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. Authors: Iris Duhn and Jenny Ritchie
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 of...
Learning from the wisdom of elders. Author: Jenny Ritchie
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 they incorporate within their...
Te Whāriki and the promise of early childhood care and education grounded in a commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Author: Jenny Ritchie
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...
Toku reo toku ohooho – my language my awakening. A personal reflection on equality and equity. Author: Lynn Rupe
Language cannot be separated out from culture and culture cannot be separated out from language. Could this statement ring more true than that the use of te reo Māori will...