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Mental Health Stigma in Psychiatric Genetics: Insights and Recommendations From the ISPG Member Survey on Stigma

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about how stigma is perceived within psychiatric genetics, a field increasingly central to public discussions about heredity, neurodiversity, and psychiatric risk. Understanding how stigma is perceived and experienced by psychiatric geneticists is important for guiding responsible communication and future stigma‐reduction ...
Anaïs B. Thijssen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading at risk: why effective literacy practice is not effective. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The gap between high and low achievers in reading is wide in New Zealand compared to other countries as shown in PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) 2001 and 2006 studies.
Sheilpa Patel, Patel, Sheilpa
core   +1 more source

Empathy and Listening in Research-Based Theatre

open access: yesArts
This article shares excerpts from the playscript Unload, which brings to life research on military veterans and the lived experience of civilians carrying trauma. Co-developed by veterans, artists, researchers, and counsellors, the play follows a veteran’
Christina Cook   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educators' perceptions and practices regarding early literacy instruction and language issues in a Cape Town township primary school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-104).This thesis examines the teaching practices and ideas about language and teaching that Foundation Phase educators hold as regard literacy and language issues, and the effect of these ideas and practices
Xhalisa, Thabisa Patricia
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collecting Sensorial Litter: Ethnographic Reflexive Grappling With Corporeal Complexity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2020
In this three-part narrative paper, I put forward “collecting sensorial litter” as an innovative method for helping ethnographers reflexively grapple with complicated corporeality during fieldwork.
Kathleen A. Hare
doaj   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home literacy experiences of two Hmong dual language learners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis study examines the home literacy experiences of two Hmong children who are dual language learners. The research consists of two case studies in which each case specifically focused on one child?s literacy-related activities at home.
Lor, Phanat
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