Research focus
Research focus
Round 1
A’oga Fa’a Samoa
What helps learning and language continuity as children make transitions within and from the A'oga Fa'a Samoa? How can the key approaches that help learning and language continuity be implemented in practice?
New Beginnings Pre-school (formerly Linwood Childcare Centre)
In what ways can visual art and a project approach to implementing Te Whāriki contribute towards building a community of learners in New Beginnings Pre-school?
Roskill South Kindergarten
What additional ICT practices can be successfully integrated into everyday learning and teaching practice? Does the enhanced use of ICT in assessment increase the involvement of families in children’s learning, and in the kindergarten’s curriculum? How does enhanced use of ICT in assessment assist the teachers to reflect and discuss work with the children, suggest future steps and document connections?
Te Kohanga Reo O Puau Te Moananui A Kiwa
Working with Mātauranga Māori, what changes and actions in Te Kōhanga Reo o Pūau Te Moananui a Kiwa will:enhance Te Reo Māori learning, contribute to strengthening Māori identity, prepare mokopuna for success in their life's journey in the world?
Wilton Playcentre
The research looked at how the playcentre functions as a community of learners - adults and children learning with and through each other. More specific research questions were to provide an investigation and analysis of: pedagogical approaches, especially the use of schemas and learning and teaching stories with their focus on dispositions for learning, and children’s learning progressions how Wilton Playcentre maintains continuity and quality across playcentre sessions and between home and playcentre parent engagement and sustaining a community of learners.
Wycliffe Nga Tamariki Kindergarten
The research explored the partnership between the Upu Amata and the kindergarten, and how learning and teaching could be improved in the intercultural afternoon session. More specific questions included:
When is it best to add English for children who have languages other than English?
How does the use of ICT affect parent engagement with children's learning?
How does the kindergarten create a community of learners?
Round 2
Citizens Preschool and Nursery
What difference does support for families make to children's learning and development in early childhood centres?
Massey Child Care Centre Inc
How does their attachment based learning programme and educational leadership, within a community of practice, impact on learning and on infants and toddlers' dispositions to learn?
Te Marua/Mangaroa Playcentre SPACE programme
How does the SPACE (Supporting Parents Alongside Children’s Education) programme for new parents and infants implemented at Te Marua/Mangaroa Playcentre support and foster their learning? How does the SPACE team and programme network and support collaborative relationships amongst individuals and agencies?
Te Kōpae Piripono
Te Kōpae Piripono explored how whānau development fostered leadership across all levels, and enhanced educational success and fulfilled lives for Māori children and their families.
Round 3
Botany Downs Kindergarten
How does an inclusive environment enhance the learning of all children? How do visual communication tools invite and extend engagement with children and their families? How do we support children on their journey from dependency to self efficacy?
Greerton Early Childhood Centre
How does a question asking and a question exploring culture support children to develop working theories to shape and re-shape knowledge for a purpose?
Kidsfirst Kindergartens Bush Street
How does storytelling and drama support young children's learning?
Hutt Family Day Care Limited
How do beliefs, practices and systems influence learning as children move from home into home-based early childhood education? What beliefs, practices and systems contribute to positive transitioning processes and how do these transition processes support children's learning in children's first critical life transitions from their homes?
Mangere Bridge Kindergarten
Learning dispositions (in Te Whāriki) and key competencies in the school curriculum. Home languages and literacies, and the kindergarten languages and literacies (including ICT). Early childhood and school settings.
Wadestown Kindergarten
What does multi-literate communicative competence mean in an early childhood setting? How do multiple literacies interact and support each other at individual, interpersonal, and community levels? How does an emphasis on multiple literacies within pedagogy, drawing from the concept of ako and involving project work, build community and children's communicative competencies?
Round 4
Childspace Ngaio Infants and Toddlers
In what ways does their Peaceful Caregiving as Curriculum approach based on respectful, responsive and reciprocal relationships with people places and things, improve learning?
Otaki Kindergarten
To further develop and research the kindergarten’s innovative approach which integrates biculturalism to make environmental use of indigenous knowledge and promotes citizenship by interweaving community and children
Te Kōhanga Reo o Mana Tamariki
To further develop and research the service’s innovative approach to the intergenerational transmission of language.
Round 5
First Years Preschool
To further research the co-construction of fearless science learning experiences with over two-year-olds.