Articles
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Our facilitators and associates love to write about what they are passionate about! Please browse through our articles – to find a topic you are interested in, select from the category options above the images below.
“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...
Do you know me? Do teacher attitudes towards gaming influence learning? Author: Carol Marks
Do we create an environment where the use of ICTs is controlled in ways that are meaningful to teachers but is limiting for children? I wondered why I was drawn...
A Walk in the Park? Connecting a Child’s Early Childhood Experience with School. Authors: Christina Leef, Lorraine Sands and Melissa Osmond
This article explores the growing relationship between Greenpark School and Greerton Early Childhood Centre as we began to listen actively to the passion and commitment to make a difference for...