Religious and Spiritual Education: the Way Forward. [PDF]
An updating of an article formerly published as "Religious Education for the 1990". A postscript assesses how much was done and what the author believes the new agenda will be.
Bigger, Stephen
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The article outlines the problem of relevance of multiculturalism in Ukrainian society and educational practice of the modern Ukrainian school. The authors analyze the artistic works by Oksana Lushchevska, addressed to young readers, representing the coexistence of various forms of cultural life, highlighting the problem of preserving one's own and ...
Kachak, Tetiana, Blyznyuk, Tetyana
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Interactive Storytelling for Children: A Case-study of Design and Development Considerations for Ethical Conversational AI [PDF]
Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) systems and Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPA), such as Alexa, Cortana, Google Home and Siri are becoming ubiquitous in our lives, including those of children, the implications of which is receiving increased attention, specifically with respect to the effects of these systems on children's cognitive ...
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Jacqueline Woodson's narrative style in 'The Other Side': an African American picture book for children [PDF]
The Other Side (2001) is a children's story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge.
Reyes Torres, Agustín
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Stochastic Gradient Descent Captures How Children Learn About Physics [PDF]
As children grow older, they develop an intuitive understanding of the physical processes around them. They move along developmental trajectories, which have been mapped out extensively in previous empirical research. We investigate how children's developmental trajectories compare to the learning trajectories of artificial systems.
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An Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge of Diversity and Multicultural Literature at One University [PDF]
The research study surveyed students classified as Juniors at the University of Arkansas currently enrolled in the Children’s Literature course, a required class for both Elementary Education and Childhood Education degree program students attending the ...
Yeager, Rebecca
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Death and the adorable orphan: Marcelino pan y vino (1954; 1991; 2000) [PDF]
The Spanish journalist and writer José María Sánchez-Silva, unaware that he was adapting a folk tale about religious devotion rewarded, produced a complex narrative about the mother-son dyad: Marcelino pan y vino (1952).
Harvey, Jessamy
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Musculoskeletal full-body models including a detailed thoracolumbar spine for children and adolescents aged 6-18 years [PDF]
Currently available musculoskeletal inverse-dynamics thoracolumbar spine models are entirely based on data from adults and might therefore not be applicable for simulations in children and adolescents. In addition, these models lack lower extremities, which are required for comprehensive evaluations of functional activities or therapeutic exercises. We
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Representing addition and subtraction : learning the formal conventions [PDF]
The study was designed to test the effects of a structured intervention in teaching children to represent addition and subtraction. In a post-test only control group design, 90 five-year-olds experienced the intervention entitled Bi-directional ...
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Partnering Public Library services with Public Schools
The Washington County Public Library worked with kindergarten teachers to implement lessons that would broaden the students' understandings of global cultural through global picturebooks and crafts, food, and music. This vignette discusses the books read,
Heather Dantzler , Jessica Ross
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