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Our facilitators and associates love to write about what they are passionate about! Please browse through our articles below. To find a topic you are intersted in select from the category options above the images below.
“Dispositions” Isn’t A Dirty Word. Author: Gillian Fitzgerald
Early childhood teachers guide young children’s learning in ways that support their development. Traditionally, foremost in teachers’ minds is what knowledge and skills children should acquire. Today, however, many teachers...
“I Just Can’t Help Myself”: Understanding the Links between Urges and Play. Author: Gillian Fitzgerald
When you arrange your shoes, do you line them up symmetrically? When you are passing a lamp post, do you ever swing around it, or want to swing around it?...
Mud, Glorious Mud. Author: Gillian Fitzgerald
Baby boomers are probably the last generation to have run wild in the woods and paddocks, freely exploring the nearby creek bed, or building huts and tree houses in the...
Connecting and Reconnecting with Nature. Author: Tania Bullick
Recently in New Zealand, many early childhood settings have taken up the work of connecting children with nature in and around their communities.
A Potentiating (Powerful) Environment for Life Long Learning. Author: Carol Marks
In the dark of night, on 4 September 2010, a change happened for 4-year-old Max, in Christchurch. Woken violently from sleep, the house thrashing from side to side with deafening...