Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Existing literature on children's play materials predominantly reflects theoretical frameworks and empirical data generated in the Global North, where ideas of “developmental appropriateness” often overlook the socio‐cultural specificity of materials' affordances and parental expectations.
Zhiyu Zhang, Jingyun Zhang
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Influence of person-organization fit on job satisfaction among pre-service preschool teachers of China: Mediation of teaching self-efficacy and perceived teacher competence. [PDF]
PLoS OneXing L, Wu X.
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Death in Children's Lives: Reimagining Death Literacy in Childhood
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children encounter death in everyday life, through family, peers, media, and health care. Opportunities for meaningful engagement with death‐related topics are limited. In this article, we reimagine death literacy—the knowledge and skills needed to navigate dying, death, and bereavement—through a child‐centred, social constructionist lens ...
Anne‐Sofie Nyström, Rakel Eklund
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A pilot Roll-Out Implementation Optimization trial of an adjunctive intervention to improve teacher and caregiver uptake and adherence to a behavioral intervention for externalizing problems in preschool: a study protocol of Parent-Educator Action Response (PEAR). [PDF]
Implement Sci CommunEisenman SR +10 more
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti +3 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
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School belonging in the preschool period: school counsellors' views and documented institutional practices. [PDF]
BMC PsycholDağyar M +3 more
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Preschool Teachers’ Attitudes towards Play
Croatian Journal of Education : Hrvatski časopis za odgoj i obrazovanje, 2014 Uvidom u suvremene teorijske i empirijske radove o igri, utvrđena su proturječna tumačenja o igri općenito, a posebno o ulogama predškolskih odgojiteljica u igri. Uloge odraslih u igri u institucionalnom predškolskom kontekstu razmatraju se u rasponu od regulacije do podrške odraslih, odnosno participacije djece.
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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Abstract Aim To explore the experiences of mental health difficulties and access to mental health support among young people with cerebral palsy (CP). Method We used a qualitative descriptive design. Participants were young people with CP aged 13 to 25 years and parents of children with CP (6–25 years).
Manjula Manikandan +15 more
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Examining a Positive Variation of the Good Behavior Game with Head Start Children at Risk for Child Adversity and Externalizing Behavior Problems. [PDF]
Children (Basel)Gibson AB +5 more
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