Understanding the Te Whariki Approach: Early Years Education in Practice
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Education & Teaching |
| ONIX Text |
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly |
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| Number of Pages |
144 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 174mm
Height: 246mm
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| Weight |
Not specified - defaults to 600g |
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| Dewey Code |
372.210993 |
| Catalogue Code |
238971 |
Description of this Textbook
Understanding the Te Whariki Approach introduces the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will enable the reader to analyse the essential elements of the Te Whariki Approach to early childhood and its relationship to quality early years practice. Providing students and practitioners with the relevant information about a key pedagogical influence on high quality early years practice in the United Kingdom, the book explores all areas of the curriculum, emphasising: strong curriculum connections to families and the wider community; a view of teaching and learning that focuses on reciprocal and responsive relationships with people places and things; a view of curriculum content as cross-disciplinary and multi-modal; the aspirations for children to grow up as competent and confident learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body, and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valued contribution to society; a bicultural framework in which indigenous voices have a central place With summaries of key ideas and points for reflection, this is a vital text for students, early years and childcare practitioners, teachers, early years professionals, children's centre professionals, lecturers, advisory teachers, head teachers and setting managers.
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Author's Bio
Wendy Lee is the Project Director of the Educational Leadership project, which provides professional development for early childhood teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. This professional development has focused on curriculum development, assessment in early childhood settings, and leadership. She has been a co-Director and researcher on a number of research projects designed to strengthen teaching and learning with Te Whariki in mind, and was the co-author with Margaret Carr and Carolyn Jones of the 20-book series Kei tua o te pae. Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars, published for the Ministry of Education by Learning Media (Wellington). Linda Mitchell is a senior lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Waikato. She is currently project leader for Phase Two of an evaluation of New Zealand's strategic plan for early childhood education and for an action research project investigating experiences of Congolese refugee families and their views of early childhood education. She has acted as research associate for two Centres of Innovation, investigating multiple literacies in one and communities of learners in the other. Brenda Soutar is a Kaitiaki (Leader) at Mana Tamariki, an education setting that nurtures children 0 -- 17 years through total immersion Maori language learning environments in their kohanga reo (early childhood setting), kura kaupapa Maori (primary school) and wharekura (secondary school). Brenda is responsible for overseeing the learning programme in the kohanga reo and she carries a managerial role in the primary and secondary school. Brenda is Maori and has affiliations to Ngati Awa, Ngai Tai and Ngati Porou tribal groups. Margaret Carr is a Professor of Education at the University of Waikato, and was one of the Directors of the curriculum development project that developed Te Whariki. She has recently: worked with Wendy Lee and others on a Royal Society Marsden Fund project that has been published by Sense Publishers as Learning in the Making: disposition and design in early education, researched with Brenda Soutar on a Centre of Innovation research project at Mana Tamariki, and co-authored Outcomes of Early Childhood Education: Literature Review with Linda Mitchell and Cathy Wylie for the Ministry of Education.
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