Key learning competencies across place and time
Kimihia te ara totika, hei oranga mo to ao

2005 – 2007
Margaret Carr, School of Education, The University of Waikato.

Project Aim

The aim of this project is to investigate pedagogy designed to develop learning competencies over time in a number of early childhood centres and early years school classrooms that have already begun to explore in this area.

Project Plan

Beginning in 2005, the researchers will work with teachers over a three-year period. Pedagogical practices and learning episodes associated with competencies will be investigated using interviews and observations, together with on-going discussions that include researchers’, teachers’ and children’s views. Key features of pedagogical practices and progress over time within and across contexts will be developed and refined. The project concludes in 2007 with final reflections from teachers and children on their key competencies and pedagogical practice over time and place. Position papers will document the progress of the research and a final report will be written in December 2007

Partnerships involved

The project involves partnerships between university researchers and co directors Dr Margaret Carr and Dr Sally Peters (University of Waikato), teacher researchers from three schools and three early childhood centres in Rotorua and Christchurch, and associated coordinators.

Expected Outcomes

• A range of pedagogies implemented or trialled by the project teachers will be identified, to assist teachers as they develop learning competencies over time in early childhood centres and school classrooms.
• The project will have explored the way that these learning competencies are interpreted and situated in a range of settings, and how they might be defined over time and across the sectors.
• An analysis of observations about what the children do in these diverse contexts that reflect key competencies will be accompanied by how the children interpret these actions and competencies.
• Ways in which teachers and researchers can include children’s ideas in research and teaching will be identified.

Selected Publications

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