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1、14August2006EarlyChildhoodCentresofInnovation(COI)ActionResearchattheA’ogaFa’aSamoa“Oletamamalanaa’oga,Oletamamalonafa’asinomaga”“Nurturingpositiveidentityinchildren”FinalResearchReportfromtheA’ogaFa’aSamoaanEarlyChildhoodCentreofInnovationValerieN.PodmorewithTanyaWendtSamuandtheA’ogaFa’aSamoaPre

2、paredfortheMinistryofEducationundercontractbetweentheMinistryandVictoriaLinkLtd.115©Crowncopyright.TheviewsexpressedinthisreportdonotrepresenttheviewsoftheCrown.August,2006.ISBN0-478-13547-5A’ogaFa’aSamoaC/-RichmondRoadSchool113RichmondRoadPonsonbyAucklandNewZealandWebsite:www.aogafaasamoa.school

3、.nz115ExecutiveSummaryBackgroundIn1984agroupwithvision,madeupofgrandparentsandinterestedparents,setupanincorporatedsociety“A’ogaFa’aSamoa”,foundpremises,andstartedaSamoanearlychildhoodeducationcentreinAuckland.WhentheA’ogaFa’aSamoaopened,itwasthefirstPasifikalanguageandculturalimmersionearlychild

4、hoodcentreinNewZealand.In1990,theA’ogaFa’aSamoabecameNewZealand’sfirstlicensedandcharteredPasifikaearlychildhoodcentre.Thenin2003,theA’ogaFa’aSamoawasselectedasoneofthe6initialearlychildhoodeducationcentresofinnovationinNewZealand.TheearlychildhoodCentresofInnovation(COI)programmeispartoftheNewZe

5、alandGovernment’s10-yearplanforearlychildhoodeducationpolicy:PathwaystotheFuture/NgāHuarahiArataki(MinistryofEducation,2002).SpecialcharacteristicsoftheA’ogaFa’aSamoaareitsSamoanlanguage-immersionprogramme,andits“communityoflearners”collaborativeapproach.OurkeyinnovationsasaCOIare:·Smallgroupsofc

6、hildrenstaywiththesameteacher(their“primarycaregiver”)fromthepointofentrythroughdifferentgroupsandspacesinthecentreandintoschool.·Thisinnovation,withtheeducatorabletomovethrougheachdevelopmentalstagefrombabiesto5-year-olds,wasintroducedtobenefitchildren,familiesandeducators.LikeallCOIs,theA’ogaFa

7、’aSamoawasengagedina3-yearactionresearchprojecttoshowhowthecentre’sinnovativepracticesinfluencelearningandteaching.OurresearchwasdesignedtocollaborativelywiththeA’ogaFa’aSamoaanditscommunity,andforthebenefitofitscommun