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Abstract Attainment grouping is an important policy issue and is increasingly practiced in UK primary schools, with researchers presenting contrasting stances on the impact to pupils' attainment and academic self‐concept. This original research statistically analyses the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data (N = 3510) and explores: (i) whether dyslexic ...
Esther Alice Outram
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Understanding the Home Math Environment and Its Role in Predicting Parent Report of Children's Math Skills. [PDF]
There is a growing literature concerning the role of the home math environment in children's math development. In this study, we examined the relation between these constructs by specifically addressing three goals.
Sara A Hart +2 more
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Growing up in rural Malawi: dilemmas of childhood [PDF]
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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Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives [PDF]
Edited by Keiko Yasukawa, Alan Rogers, Kara Jackson and Brian Street Routledge, London and New York, 2018, 260 pages.
Evans, Jeff
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Abstract School is an important setting for supporting young people's healthy development and positive mental wellbeing. Recent curriculum changes in Scotland and Wales reflect this, adopting a whole‐school approach to health and wellbeing as a central pedagogical focus and responsibility of all working in the sector. Alongside education system reform,
Mary Wilson +8 more
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The home learning environment includes parental activities, attitudes, affect, knowledge, and resources devoted to supporting children’s development, including literacy and mathematics skills.
Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk +10 more
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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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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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Background and aims: Research on typically developing (TD) populations has shown that the home learning environment plays a significant role in cognitive development and learning, but very little is known about the home learning environment of children ...
Erica Ranzato +2 more
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Analysis of the Role of Parents Role in Home Numeracy
The purpose of this study is to find out how the activities and roles of parents towards numeracy learning at home are reviewed based on parents with different types of jobs. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research. Data was collected using a questionnaire guideline which includes counting activities at home done with the mother ...
Gina Anggraini +2 more
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