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Challenges and Priorities in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: A Multi‐Scaled Global Analysis

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The existing literature widely addresses countries' specific challenges and priorities in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, these efforts mostly remain either global‐generalist or local‐narrower scales, containing a big gap for the studies holistically exploring the issue through geographic and economic scales in a ...
Volkan Göçoğlu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age effects in primary education: A double disadvantage for second‐generation immigrants

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The immigrant background is an acknowledged source of disadvantage. We study whether this background interacts with absolute and relative age effects generating additional barriers—that is, a double disadvantage—for second‐generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school.
Antonio Abatemarco   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study of first‐year primary school draws on Goffman's concept of “collective behavior” to examine how order is established and disrupted through the mutual adjustment of all participants' actions. We employed a multi‐method longitudinal design, using semi‐standardized observations and qualitative interviews with teachers and children at three ...
Doris Bühler‐Niederberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early years care and education [PDF]

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Children learn and develop through a combination of experiences, within and outside the family home. This Policy Brief explores the distinction that is often made about the role of care and education in children’s services and highlights the importance ...
Centre for Community Child Health
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