Story: Early childhood education and care

More links and websites

• Education Counts

  Statistics on early childhood education.

• Ministry of Education – Early Childhood

  Early childhood education pages on the ministry’s website.

• New Zealand Kindergartens

  The website of the national umbrella organisation for New Zealand kindergarten associations.

• Playcentre New Zealand

  This site includes a short history of Playcentre.

More suggestions and sources

• Barney, David, Who gets to pre-school?: the availability of pre-school education in New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1975.

• May, Helen. Politics in the playground: the world of early childhood in New Zealand. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2009.

• May, Helen. The discovery of early childhood: the development of services for the care and education of very young children, mid eighteenth century Europe to mid twentieth century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books, 1997.

• McDonald, Geraldine (updated by Helen May in 2018). 'Organisations concerned with early childhood care and education.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.