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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

The Arizona Kith and Kin Project Evaluation, Brief #3 [PDF]

, 2016
Professional Development with Family, Friend, and Neighbor Providers: Implications for Dual Language Learners. Indigo Cultural Center, for the Association for Supportive Child Care, with support from First Things First and Valley of the Sun United ...
Farago, Flora, Shivers, Eva Marie, Yang, Charles   +2 more
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Principals' Leadership Content Knowledge in STEM contexts

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we consider the nature of school principals' leadership content knowledge (LCK) for STEM subjects and for integrated STEM. We present a conceptualisation of STEM LCK based on aspects of principals' STEM capability and consideration of the differences between LCK and pedagogical content knowledge.
Kim Beswick, Vince Geiger, Sharon Fraser
wiley   +1 more source

Teachers’ well-being, home learning environment and children learning outcomes in emergencies: a case of Afghanistan

Cogent Education
Teachers’ well-being and a conducive home learning environment play a pivotal role in improving children learning outcomes, but little is known about this in a humanitarian setting. This article assesses the role of teachers’ well-being and home learning
Conrad Murendo, Zahra Azemi, Than Zaw Oo, Silvia M. Arlini, Men Chanbona, Rachel Fermin, Nishtha Shrestha, Sayed Maher Sadat, Edwin Kimani, Kasundu Bosco   +9 more
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Interaction Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Emerging Literacy and Literacy Skills among Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Children: A Comparison Study [PDF]

, 2019
Socioeconomic differences in children’s reading and educational outcomes have been thoroughly documented throughout literature. Bobalik, Scarber, and Toon (2017) examined the link between socioeconomic status (SES) and classroom instruction on emerging ...
George, Kathleen, Newman, Heather, Richardson, Lydia P., Thompson, Kasey   +3 more
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Potential of a digital parenting app to support parents of toddlers: Relations between the intensity of app use, language‐related parental self‐efficacy and the home literacy environment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The home literacy environment (HLE) has a considerable influence on children's language development. How parents perceive their own parenting abilities (e.g., how well they encourage their children's language development) is particularly important when it comes to guiding their children appropriately through different stages of development ...
Luisa Prokupek, Theresia Hummel, Sabine Blaurock, Franziska Cohen, Yvonne Anders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Mindset and SES: Mitigating Income–Vocabulary Gap in Early Childhood of Emergent Bilinguals

Education Sciences
In addition to being influenced by structural factors like socioeconomic background (SES), children’s achievements are also influenced by psychological factors like the parental mindset.
Huilin Luo, Jialin Lai, Jing Zhao
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Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot [PDF]

, 2016
The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents.Doodle Families was originally designed as
Agnes Higgins, Ruth Bourke
core  

Age and schooling effects on early literacy and phoneme awareness [PDF]

, 2011
Previous research on age and schooling effects is largely restricted to studies of children who begin formal schooling from the age of 6 and the measures of phoneme awareness used have typically lacked sensitivity for beginning readers.
Carroll, Julia M., Cunningham, Anna Julie   +1 more
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Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Environmental literacy and global citizenship education (GCE) are necessary to the development of a fairer, more peaceful and more sustainable world, but teachers frequently lack practical examples of their implementation in the classroom.
Claire Lee, Aminath Shiyama, Fathimath Shafeeqa   +2 more
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