This report focuses on the perspectives and experiences of 92 ākonga and 52 whānau members associated with these schools. It ...

Sue McDowall is a senior researcher at NZCER. She has over 20 years of research experience in the areas of teaching, learning, and curriculum across the primary and secondary school sectors. Sue has ...

Liz Patara, principal of Clyde Quay School, Wellington, responds to a question from Mark Bradley of Wellington College: "What advice would you give to someone who is new to teaching in Aotearoa New ...

The findings of a recent Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project. Researchers used a collaborative whakawhānaungatanga approach to explore how early childhood educators in settings ...

Te Whäriki has two indicative learning outcomes: dispositions and working theories. The notion of dispositions has been explored extensively over the past few years, but the concept of working ...

We will retire the tests currently designed for Year 8 (Test 6) and Year 10 (Test 8) at the end of 2025. Listening ...

Educators have a central role in the advocacy and implementation of children’s rights. In reframing Western notions of wellbeing, rights, and student voice from a Māori view, educators are more likely ...

Relationships lie at the heart of early childhood education principles, curriculum, and pedagogy. Building strong relationships is taken for granted as a capacity all teachers possess; yet this might ...

The overlaps between the requirements of good research and good practice provide both a foundation and a rationale for the development of teachers as researchers. Viviane Robinson examines some of the ...

Why has the Curriculum matauranga project chosen these competencies (of relating to others, managing self, participating and thinking, using languages symbols and texts), why now and what next?

The significance of experiences in nature for children's learning and development has been expounded by philosophers and educationalists for centuries. In many contemporary early childhood education ...

Since 1996 in Aotearoa/New Zealand, we have had a bicultural early childhood curriculum, Te Whariki (Ministry of Education, 1996). This document was developed with regard to the early childhood ...