An exploration of field-based early childhood teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand

Funding Year:2008:2 years

Research team
Liz Everiss, Dr Margaret Brennan and Diane Mara, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand

Brief description
This is a small-scale, multisite exploratory study that uses an ethnographic research approach. It seeks to capture the reality of field-based initial teacher education (ITE) using interactions in the classroom between all participants in the teaching and learning process as a tool to begin to document, describe, and understand the nature and form of field-based ITE.  By taking this approach the study will contribute to the limited research base which explores the inner workings of teacher-education programmes internationally.

Project Outputs

Margaret Brennan, Liz Everiss and Diane Mara, 2011. An exploration of field-based early
childhood teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Full Report Wellington: Teaching Learning Research Initiative.

Margaret Brennan, Liz Everiss and Diane Mara, 2011. Field-based early childhood teacher education: "But they are already teachers..." Summary Report Wellington: Teaching Learning Research Initiative.

Everiss, L., Brennan, M., Mara, D. (2010). An exploration of early childhood teacher education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Paper presented by Dr Diane Mara at the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA), Birmingham, 6-8 September, 2010.