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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Black Pine Afforestation on Growth and Soil Properties at Reforested Postmine Sites in Kastamonu, Türkiye. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Özden Keleş S, Topaçoğlu O.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrient resorption rather than root acquisition offsets increased N limitation induced by the stand development of a secondary Pinus tabuliformis forest in North China. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Duan S, Zhang Y, Chang T, Qiu W, Li Y, Zhang Z, Guo J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin, Kersty Hobson, Wouter Poortinga, Mark Stead, Julia Newth, Jonathan Reeves, Merideth Gattis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different major effects regulating productivity dynamics at different succession stages of monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forests. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Wang L, Liu L, Shang R, Shen J, Liu W.
europepmc   +1 more source

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

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
wiley   +1 more source

Metabarcoding Reveals Rich and Diverse Aeromycobiota in Protected Oak Forests. [PDF]

Microb Ecol
Lygis V, Marčiulynas A, Plepytė T, Šulčius S, Menkis A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Emotional nourishment begets academic coping during the primary to secondary school transition

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from primary to secondary school is widely viewed as the most demanding in a child's educational journey. Despite a wealth of research on this transition, little is known about the children's ‘lived experience’ of it across different contexts.
Peter Wood, Dave Putwain, Pedro Freitas Fernandes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest Bird Abundance Is Linked to the Interactions Between Forest Characteristics and Species Ecological Traits: Implications for Forest Management. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Szarvas F, Michálek J, Vermouzek Z, Voříšek P, Hanzelka J, Reif J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source