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Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract In the context of aspirations that firmly position education as the key to multiple global development goals, we raise concerns about how education is experienced by many children, particularly in low‐income, postcolonial contexts. Drawing from two, in‐depth qualitative studies in Tanzania, we demonstrate that existing pedagogical practices ...
Laela Adamson, Rhona Brown
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Parent Perspectives of Digital Media for Learning at Home
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children use digital media for a range of different reasons, including communication, play and learning. For some children, learning with digital media might involve structured activities, but for others, learning might occur using digital media as part of everyday life.
Amanda Levido +3 more
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Bridging the work governance divide: Pluralism and performance
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces a new direction of studies that looks at the Workplace of the Future through enlarged interdisciplinary lenses. This article bridges the divide between different traditions – human resource management, industrial relations and economic democracy – arguing theoretically and demonstrating empirically their complementarity
Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira +3 more
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Economic impact of training and education in basic skills: summary of evidence (BIS research paper no.6) [PDF]
, 2009 This paper summarises recent quantitative evidence on the economic returns to having or improving literacy and numeracy skills. The summary includes evidence on earnings and employment, and distinguishes between returns to having basic skills whenever ...
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War and peace in the classroom: moments of reprieve; a strategy for reflecting on – and improving – students’ classroom behaviour [PDF]
, 2013 In this article I intend to outline a strategy for supporting trainee teachers on Certificate in Education (Cert Ed) and Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses in developing their ability to deal with disruptive student behaviour in their ...
Lebor, Merv
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Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective We examined relationships among parental self‐efficacy, parent–child interaction quality, and child vocabulary in families of low socioeconomic status (SES). Background SES is correlated with child vocabulary, but this relationship is mediated by parenting characteristics, as explained by the family stress and family investment ...
Kristina Strother‐Garcia +3 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenThis study examines parental support in developing foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) skills among schoolchildren in Bathinda District, India. A gap persists in understanding how various forms of parental support, particularly in the literacy and ...
Kadem Srinivas +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The past decade has witnessed a growth of interest in parental influences on individual differences in children’s executive function (EF) on the one hand and in the academic consequences of variation in children’s EF on the other hand. The primary aim of
Rory Thomas Devine +2 more
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Debunking the Climate Sceptic and the Threat of Self‐Defeat
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural cognition is the thesis that laypersons' factual beliefs about politically important issues are often shaped by their political values. The question, then, is whether a layperson who believes in anthropogenic climate change should doubt her beliefs insofar as they might be influenced by values.
Léna Mudry
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