Children as Photographers

NZ Research on what happened when children in early childhood centres were supported to document their own views using a camera. 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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Omissions and Presuppositions in Kei Tua o te Pae: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This research note describes some of the findings from an analysis of three introductory booklets of “Kei Tua o te Pae”, an early childhood assessment practice resource produced by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

Analysis involved taking a critical discourse perspective to identify ways in which text was likely to persuade readers to

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Vigil outside the Annual General Meeting of the Auckland Kindergarten Assn 2017

Auckland Free Kindergartens Claimed Back by the People

Auckland Kindergarten Association was privatising, charging fees and moving to 6 hour plus days for children. Parents fought to be involved in decision-making and to

NZ Infrastructure early childhood education and childcare

Getting Smarter on ECE in NZ’s National Infrastructure Plan

Getting Smarter on Early Childhood Education in NZ’s National Infrastructure Plan

Statement from the Office of ECE. Submitted to the Hon Chris Bishop and the NZ Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga. July 16, 2025.

Released August 6, 2025.

The draft National Infrastructure Plan notes that NZ has a formidable number of infrastructure

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regulation breaches compliance requirements standard

Early Childhood Services Not Meeting Minimum Standards in 2022

Below is the list of early childhood services that operated below the required minimum standard in 2022 and for which the Ministry of Education reports

Early childhood education financial and money matters

RS7 Return – Can You Afford to Opt-in to the Pay Parity Funding?

Opting-In to Pay Parity Funding.

Some service may opt-out and then lose their teachers to other services that have opted in. Others opting-in to pay parity funding could risk becoming insolvent. It’s bonus money for services already paying all their certificated teaching staff at least at the first 5 or 6 pay steps.

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Early childhood teachers meeting to discuss planning.

Focus Group Methodology

Focus Group Methodology and its Usefulness in Early Childhood Research. By Claire McLachlan. Published in NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2005, pp. 113-123.

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Focus groups are increasingly being used by researchers as a method of qualitative data gathering in educational contexts. The history of the focus group started with the ‘foc

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