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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

The Oman Botanic Garden (1): The Vision, Early Plant Collections and Propagation

, 2008
The Oman Botanic Garden (OBG) is a new botanic garden which is being constructed on a 423ha site near to Muscat, the capital of Oman. Oman is floristically rich and is considered a centre of plant diversity in the Arabian Peninsula.
Annette Patzelt, Morris, Leigh, Leigh Morris, Patzelt, Annette, Al Rashdi, Ismail, Laila Al Harthi, Al Harthi, Laila, Spalton, Andrew, Ismail Al Rashdi, Andrew Spalton   +9 more
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Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha, Frauke Hildebrandt, Caroline Wronski, Jan Lonnemann, Mathias Urban   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Oman Botanic Garden (2): Collections Policy, Nursery Construction, Expanded Plant Production and Initial Tree Translocation

, 2009
The first paper in this series outlined the vision for the oman botanic garden and detailed the early plant collections and propagation. this paper focuses on the oman botanic garden collections policy, construction of a new nursery on the site ...
Annette Patzelt, Khalid Al Farsi, Morris, Leigh, Leigh Morris, Al Farsi, Khalid, Patzelt, Annette, Spalton, Andrew, Andrew Spalton   +7 more
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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett, Bonny L. Hartley, Deborah Wallace, Adewale Magaji, Lorraine Smith, Rachel Wolfendale   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Super pan-genome reveals extensive genomic variations associated with phenotypic divergence in Actinidia

Molecular Horticulture
Kiwifruit is an economically and nutritionally important horticultural fruit crop worldwide. The genomic data of several kiwifruit species have been released, providing an unprecedented opportunity for pan-genome analysis to comprehensively investigate ...
Xiaofen Yu, Minghao Qu, Pan Wu, Miao Zhou, Enhui Lai, Huan Liu, Sumin Guo, Shan Li, Xiaohong Yao, Lei Gao   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen science data reveals the need for keeping garden plant recommendations up-to-date to help pollinators. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Anderson HB, Robinson A, Siddharthan A, Sharma N, Bostock H, Salisbury A, Roberts S, van der Wal R.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Adaptive Genomic Divergence Across Altitudes in Capsella bursa‐pastoris

Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
Genomic divergence was observed between high‐altitude and low‐altitude populations of Capsella bursa‐pastoris in China, consistent with an important role of ecological factors. Candidate adaptive loci associated with enhanced energy metabolism, photoprotection, and growth plasticity under altitudinal stress were identified.
Lu Liu, Jia Li, Xin Liu, Xue‐Jun Ge, Hui‐Run Huang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant Collecting for the Ecological Garden and the Scottish Heath Garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

, 2007
The Ecological and Heath Gardens at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were created in 1991 and 1997 respectively. The Ecological Garden started as a naturalistic area of native woodland plants where cryptogams were encouraged to grow.
Schofield, Gordon, McGinn, Andrew, Gordon Schofield, McHaffie, Heather, Heather McHaffie, Frachon, Natacha, Andrew McGinn, Natacha Frachon   +7 more
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Transformative Service Ecosystems for People, Plants, Place, Planet, and Prosperity: A Sustainable Operations Management Perspective

Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
The Transformative Service Ecosystem for Sustainable Operations Management (TSESOM) model reframes operations management as a co‐creative ecosystem shaped by philosophical foundations and macro–meso–micro contexts. Integrating governance, resilience, learning, systems thinking, and interdisciplinary collaboration, TSESOM advances regenerative SDG‐ and ...
Nicholas Catahan
wiley   +1 more source