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Based at AUT, LitPlus is focused on literacy education for children and young people, with a significant and internationally recognised body of research on children and young people's enjoyment of and motivation for reading.

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Writers ignite kids' reading joy

09 Sep, 2025

Authors giving talks at New Zealand schools stoke enthusiasm for reading and writing, new research has found.

Māori knowledge of animals

24 Sep, 2024

Teachers now have new groundbreaking classroom resources on Māori knowledge of animals, and Māori concepts as they relate to animal ethics.

Enhancing education for young Samoans

25 Jul, 2024

Research led by AUT academics shows how to enhance early childhood education for Samoan pepe meamea (infants and toddlers).

School science and mātauranga Māori

17 Jul, 2023

There is a need for careful reading and thoughtfulness in the discussion over mātauranga Māori and school science, Professor Georgina Tuari Stewart says.

New professors and associate professors

17 Nov, 2022

AUT is delighted to announce the promotion of 15 of its academics to the position of Professor and 30 to Associate Professor.

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