Generic or Specific? Deciphering the New Zealand Approach to Professional Standards for Early Childhood

Research exploring why NZ has taken the approach to professional standards for early childhood teachers that it has – generic to the primary and secondary sectors. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.

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Interviewing Young Children: A Socio-Cultural Approach

Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax – Taking a Sociocultural Approach to Interviewing Young Children. By Jill Robbins. Published in NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2002, Vol. 5, pp. 13 – 30

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When conventional interviewing methodology is employed with young children there appears to be a tendency to overlook or avoid the ‘talk of man

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