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Growing up in rural Malawi: dilemmas of childhood [PDF]
, 2010 Rural Malawi is a place where families are generally poor socio-economically. In this chapter we discuss childhood development in a typical Malawian rural setting by focusing on the overall challenges facing families with young children, and we consider ...
Ellis, Sue, Kholowa, Foster
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
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Do teachers make better parents? -the differential performance of teachers’ children at school [PDF]
This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability.
Kevin Denny
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The home as a technological learning environment: children's early encounters with digital technologies [PDF]
, 2010 Today's children are growing up in homes with an ever-growing array of technologies supporting families as they work, play, communicate and learn. How have recent rapid changes to the home as a technological environment influenced what and how preschool ...
McPake, Joanna +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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Frontiers in EducationThis study employed a qualitative thematic analysis approach to investigate Chinese-American parents’ perspectives on early literacy development (ELD) in infants/toddlers and their home literacy environments (HLE), as well as how these environments ...
Yanhui Liu +5 more
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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 +5 more
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Effects of a Home Literacy Environment Program on Psychlinguistic Variables in Children from 6 to 8 Years of Age. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Romero-González M +5 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas +3 more
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[Relationship between home literacy environment and emotional regulation in children: the mediating effect of the parent-child relationship]. [PDF]
Zhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi, 2023 Zhang JL +7 more
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