The third edition of Early Childhood Curriculum provides a comprehensive and accessible
introduction to curriculum theories and approaches in early childhood and early primary …

Early childhood education settings are characterized by the use of play-based learning and
the assessment of children's play by teachers to promote further learning. A problem with …

In 2016, Te Whariki: He Whariki Matauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa: Early
Childhood Curriculum (Te Whariki)(Ministry of Education [MoE], 2017), New Zealand's early …

Narratives that capture children's learning as they go about their day-to-day activities are
promoted as a powerful assessment tool within early childhood settings. However, in the …

A Learning Story is a narrative assessment approach and is one of the most widely used
assessment methods in early childhood education. The Learning Story approach has had …

This research reports intercultural dialogue of meaning making in literacy by lecturers,
engaged with an assessment moderation process of early childhood education (ECE) …

Inclusive experiences for all children are foundational to New Zealand early childhood
education, yet teacher beliefs and practices related to identification and referral processes …

This volume presents an international collection of research which has examined ways in
which teachers and researchers have researched effective assessment of young children …

Swinging from a predominantly developmental approach in the 1990s to a sociocultural
approach in the new millennium, assessment in early childhood eduation (ECE) has …

New Zealand was considered a leader in the field of early childhood education when it
developed the curriculum document for the field, during the 1990s. Te Whāiki (Ministry of …