Browsing Education Journal Articles by Author "47897"
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Ahakoa he iti: Early childhood pedagogies affirming of Māori children's rights to their culture
Ritchie, Jenny; Rau, Cheryl (Taylor & Francis, 2011-10)This paper considers the position of tamariki Māori, the indigenous children of Aotearoa (a Māori name for New Zealand), in relation to the impact of colonization on their rights, including a focus on the United Nations ... -
Bicultural development within an early childhood teacher education programme
Ritchie, Jenny (Carfax, 2003-01-01)This paper reports findings from a doctoral study which focused on processes implemented within an early childhood teacher education programme at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, that aimed to deliver ... -
Ecological counter-narratives of interdependent wellbeing
Ritchie, Jenny (University of Melbourne, 2011)This paper reports some insights garnered from a recent research project in Aotearoa (New Zealand) which explored possibilities for enacting ecological sustainability within early childhood education. The project was ... -
Fostering communities for ecological sustainability within early childhood education
Ritchie, Jenny (Auckland University of Technology, 2010)We are now at the half-way point of the UNESCO decade for education for sustainable development, promulgated in recognition of the seriousness of the global climate crisis, and positioning educators as potential leaders ... -
Hanging on to hope in troubled times. Ethics of care as foundation for pedagogies of relationality
Ritchie, Jenny (School of Education, AUT University, 2013)As a multiplicity of environmental concerns emerge with increasing frequency and intensity,our awareness of the seriousness of the climate crisis deepens.On a daily basis as we witness the increasingly devastating effects ... -
He tatau pounamu. Considerations for an early childhood peace curriculum focussing on criticality, indigeneity, and an ethic of care, in Aotearoa New Zealand
Ritchie, Jenny; Lockie, Colleen; Rau, Cheryl (Taylor & Francis, 2011-12)This article discusses some of the philosophical and pedagogical considerations arising in the development of a peace curriculum appropriate for use in early childhood education centres in Aotearoa New Zealand, with and ... -
Honouring Māori subjectivities within early childhood education in Aotearoa
Ritchie, Jenny (Symposium Press, 2008)For the past decade educators working within early childhood services in Aotearoa have been challenged to deliver a curriculum that requires inclusive representation of Māori, the indigenous people, their language and ... -
Indigenous onto-epistemologies and pedagogies of care and affect in Aotearoa.
Ritchie, Jenny (Symposium Journals, 2013)This article reflects on research conducted in one kindergarten that was part of a wider project focusing on 'caring for ourselves, others and the environment' in early years education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The project ... -
Induction of newly qualified teachers in New Zealand
Piggot-Irvine, Eileen; Aitken, Helen; Ritchie, Jenny; McGrath, Fiona; Bruce Ferguson, Pip (Routledge, 2009-01-01)In this research, commissioned by the New Zealand Teachers Council, the quality of induction of provisionally registered teachers (PRT) (newly qualified) was examined utilising qualitative ‘success case studies’ within ... -
Kei tua i te awe māpara : countercolonial unveiling of neoliberal discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand
Ritchie, Jenny; Skerrett, Mere; Rau, Cheryl (International Review of Qualitative Research, 2014)In this paper, we traverse both historical and contemporary discourses pertaining to early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand, offering a genealogical discursive analysis of assumptions of white superiority. ... -
Left Further Behind : How New Zealand is failing its children. Chapter 15: Early childhood care and education
Ritchie, Jenny; Johnson, Alan (2011)The National Equal Opportunities Network (NEON), a partnership between the Human Rights Commission and the EEO Trust,3 argues that the provision of high-quality, affordable, accessible and available early childhood ... -
Mā wai ngā hua? 'Participation' in early childhood in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ritchie, Jenny; Rau, Cheryl (International Critical Childhood Policy Studies, 2009-01-01)No abstract -
Narratives of relatedness in ecological sustainability in early childhood education in Aotearoa.
Ritchie, Jenny (New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2014)This paper provides an overview of the context and some preliminary findings from a current two year Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) funded study, “Titiro whakamuri, hokiwhakamua : We are the future, the ... -
An overview of early childhood care and education provision in ‘mainstream’ settings, in relation to kaupapa Māori curriculum and policy expectations
Ritchie, Jenny (Pacific Circle Consortium, 2012)This paper provides a brief overview of the history of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in Aotearoa New Zealand, before proceeding to discuss the range of documents produced by the New Zealand Ministry of Education ... -
A pedagogy of biocentric relationality.
Ritchie, Jenny (Springer, 2013)This paper theorises some implications for pedagogies for ‘sustainabilities’ in the light of the current climate crisis, reflecting particularly upon the work of eco-feminist philosopher, Rosi Braidotti, in order to ... -
Poipoia te tamaiti kia tū tangata: Identity, belonging and transition
Ritchie, Jenny; Rau, Cheryl (University of Auckland, 2010)In this paper we view infants, toddlers and young children as cultural beings and outline some implications regarding the need for educators to interrogate our individual and collective discourses pertaining to cultural ... -
Sustainability and relationality within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ritchie, Jenny (Springer Netherlands, 2013-02-21)This paper discusses one aspect of a recently completed two-year study, that of the enactment of relationality within early childhood care and education practice. The research project, Titiro Whakamuri, Hoki Whakamua. We ... -
Thinking Otherwise: ‘Bicultural’ hybridities in early childhood education in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ritchie, Jenny (2007)As we become more overtly aware of the embedded historical memories (O’Loughlin, 2001) that underpin our conscious theorising,our reflections cause us to re-consider long-held assumptions, re-minding ourselves of our ... -
Titiro whakamuri, hoki whakamua: Respectful integration of Māori perspectives within early childhood environmental education
Ritchie, Jenny (Yukon College, 2013)The early years are a foundational time for the establishment of dispositions for learning. This paper draws on a recent study in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to illustrate ways educators have been implementing programs, within ... -
Transgressing boundaries of private and public : Intercultural funerals.
Ritchie, Jenny; Morrison, Sandy; Vaioleti, Timote; Ritchie, Te Whaiwhaia (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013)In this chapter the authors take an auto-ethnographic approach to draw from recent experiences of being integrally involved in the death rituals pertaining to a close family member, ranging across three different ...