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History of Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand

By emmiejoy135

  • Parish work houses

  • London Foundling homes for infants

    Mortality rate 100%

  • 1st book on child rearing written in Australia

  • Protestant and Catholic orphan school opened

  • Kindergartens spread throughout Germany

  • Sisters of Mercy founded an orphanage in Auckland

  • Anglican church (Parnell Orphan Home )

  • Neglected criminal children's act

  • 10 institutes established for orphaned and destitute children

  • Dunedin creche formed

    -Baby farming was also happening

  • Industrial Schools Act allowed for fostering

  • First Kindergarten opened in Dunedin

  • NZ first Founding Home

    -Infants under one were 1/4 of the deaths in the country.
    -Mother Aubert/Children's Protection Act.

  • Infant Life Protection Act

  • Adoption of Children Act

  • World Congress of Women

    Legislated the protection of children in family and workplaces

  • Mothering was seen as an occupation of value

  • First Creche in Wellington

    Mother Aubert established a creche for children of unmarried mothers

  • Professional Baby Farmer (Mary Ann Guy) convicted of murder

  • Infant mortalities became the lowest in the world

  • Plunket movement started in Dunedin

  • Karitane Home for babies opened in Dunedin

  • 60 branches formed with Plunket nurses and 6 Karitane hospitals opened

  • Manual- "feeding and care of baby"

  • The "great depression" and Dunedin Nursery established

  • Elizabeth McCombs- First woman member of parliament

    Established a community creche run by a city council

  • 34 free kindergartens, 2 charitable creches

  • New Playcentre movement

    1946- 40 Playcentres

  • NZ Playcentre federation is constituted

  • Moira Bell promotes child centred programmes

  • Playcentre and Kindergarten create workforce of women in preschool education

    Playcentre recieve 2,635 pounds and kindergartens 247, 000 pounds from the government

  • Recruitment and training of teachers was moved to teacher's colleges

  • 92 Playcentres

  • NZ Free Kindergarten Association is formed

    Government tries to get more cooperation between Playcentres and Kindergartens

  • NZTKA- Negotiates employment conditions

  • First NZ Childcare regulations

  • First married women accepted into Primary and Kindergarten training

  • Cultural awareness is accepted in centres and schools

  • All Kindergartens staffed with fully trained teachers

  • Funding cuts caused closure of Kartane Hospitals replaced by day units (Plunket Karitane Family Centre)

  • Plunket philosophy changes- Identifies child's development (0-5)

  • Government introduced fee subsities for parents unable to afford costs of childcare

  • Government commissioned a report into childcare issues

    Which found the need for better regulations and more trained staff (5 years until it was released in 1981)

  • National car seat rental programme introduced

  • Hine Potake developed the idea of Maori curriculum for Maori children

    Forerunner to Kohanga Reo

  • Government introduces grants to support ece training

  • Labour government transfers Early Childhood services from Department of Social Welfare to Department of Education

  • Department of Education by Ministry of Education

    Whose primary role was to focus on policy development and funding.
    Government report on ECE published "Education to be more"

  • "Before Fives" reform

  • ECE Curriculum- acknowledged a bi-cultural nation was under development

  • Period: to

    1029 New ECE Centres open

  • First University to established an ECE department (Waitkato Uni)

  • Impact of Budget

    • Fees went up -Wages went down -Cut in ratios but increase in roll numbers -Ratios for under twos
  • First NZ curriculum for Early Childhood- Te Whariki!

    First NZ curriculum for Early Childhood- Te Whariki!

  • Quality in Action (DOP's) & regulations released

  • 10 year strategic plan

  • 6 centres of Innovation named

  • Kei Tua o te Pae Assessment for Learning

    Early Childhood Exemplars

  • 20 hours free introduced by labour government

  • Updated Early Childhood regulations released

  • Budget

    -Announces removal of 100% funding rate
    - 20 hours extended to include 5 y/o, Kohanga Reo and Playcentre
    -80-100% new funding
    -Reduction in funding for 80% rate
  • Period: to

    Participation initiatives

    Intensive Community Participa- tion Programme (ICPP) and Engaging Priority Families (EPF), are established in areas of high need

  • ECE Taskforce: An Agenda for Amazing Children Report published

  • Sector Advisory Group on Early Childhood Education Funding established

  • Delivering Better Public Services: Supporting Vulnrable Children Result Action Plan published

  • Vulnrable Children's Act passed