ECE Diamonds

For our diamond anniversary, we’re sharing stories about people who have played an invaluable part in early childhood education in Aotearoa, New Zealand over the last 60 years.

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Sonja Davies – founder, visionary, activist

1/10/2023
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Noreen Moorhouse – an advocate for training and bicultural ECE

2/21/2023
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Marge Williams – an early childcare activist

2/21/2023
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Cathy Lythe – as long as you did nothing for childcare, you could keep women in their place

2/21/2023
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Joan Kennett – I’m going to look after children

2/21/2023
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Crispin Gardiner – childcare activist

2/20/2023
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Don Wilson – childcare is about people – their potential, our duty towards them

2/21/2023
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Helen May – documenting the herstories of childcare and early years education

2/20/2023
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Joyce Coss – a pioneer for childcare

2/21/2023
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Margaret Lamb – a slow battle to improve childcare

2/21/2023
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Mary Alice Bramwell – I was in a profession at the bottom of the heap. My ire was raised

5/10/2023
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Pat Hubbard – a missionary zeal for childcare and women’s opportunities

4/17/2023
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Helen Orr – early learning is magical

2/20/2023
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Pam Croxford – a social justice champion with children at heart

2/21/2023
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Berys Scouse – the child is at the heart

2/21/2023
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Barbara Hale – a visionary leader

2/20/2023
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Katherine Baxter – we all had the same end goal

2/21/2023
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Joyce Mitchell – changing the landscape for early childhood education

6/13/2023
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Maureen Te Wehioterangi Jehly – fighting the inequities for Māori in education

2/20/2023
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Kahuwaero Chase Katene – one who is aware of the forgotten ones

2/21/2023
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Parematarangi Fawcet (Nanny Pare) – rowing together for tamariki

2/21/2023
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Heather Te Huia – I demand that children are given a better world

2/21/2023
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Jan Taouma – a champion for Pacific children

2/21/2023
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Jude Simpson – we can do better than this

2/21/2023
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Jessie Donald – a fighting spirit

4/26/2023
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Alison Leonard - embracing biculturalism

3/29/2023
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Dr Alison Warren

7/25/2023
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Dr Rosina Merry - A lifelong commitment to ECE

7/28/2023