Contributors

Mark Bassett is a Senior Lecturer at New Zealand Tertiary College. He works with student teachers of early childhood education, supporting the development of their academic literacy, and is the coordinator of academic skills support at NZTC. Previous to this, he taught English as an additional language to adult learners in the UK and New Zealand for six years, completing a Master of Professional Studies in Language Teaching at the University of Auckland, where he is currently engaged in a Master of Arts in Education exploring the use of Web 2.0 in tertiary education.
mark.bassett@nztertiarycollege.ac.nz

Sarah McKenzie has been working within the early childhood education sector for the past nine years, three of which she has held the role of centre manager in an ECE setting in Palmerston North. She holds both a Diploma and Bachelor in teaching ECE and is currently studying towards a Postgraduate diploma in education (ECE) through the New Zealand Tertiary College. Sarah has also completed tertiary study focussing on child and adolescent psychology.

Lata Rana is a lecturer at New Zealand Tertiary College. She has extensive experience of teaching and research. She has taught students from economically low-income families at Navyug School (special schools set up in New Delhi – India, to promote education among low-income groups). Lata has done extensive research on globalisation and women’s access to education. Lata’s research focus is on globalisation, development and early childhood education research.
lata.rana@nztertiarycollege.ac.nz

Juliette Smeed has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Auckland. Books are her passion and her reading ranges from eighteenth literature to children’s picture books. She has a particular interest in nonsense poetry, especially the nineteenth-century poets Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, and the tradition of absurd and humorous rhyming poetry for children that developed after them. She is currently researching the links between literary nonsense and children’s playful uses of language.

Charlotte White studied at New Zealand Tertiary College, qualifying in 2012, with a Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education). She is teaching at a community based pre-school in Otago and is an advocate for promoting high quality education for young children, working alongside the Reggio Emilio philosophy of learning.
Charlotte.white@ihug.co.nz