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.

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.