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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Red Rural Landscapes Yellow? Sufficiency Economy and Royal Projects in the Hills of Nan Province, Northern Thailand

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2012
This paper discusses the efforts of the royal family to moralise the environmental behaviour of their subjects in the name of the Sufficiency Economy philosophy solicited by King Bhumibol since the 1990s in Thailand.
Amalia Rossi
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CDFIs Stepping into the Breach: An Impact Evaluation—Summary Report [PDF]

, 2015
This report summarizes research undertaken by the Carsey School of Public Policy to evaluate impacts of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund on CDFIs and of the CDFI industry on the people and communities it serves. In summary, we
Hangen, Eric, Northrup, Jack, Swack, Michael E.   +2 more
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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

Success Factors in Implementation of The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy of Local Administrative Organization: A Case Study of Nong Bua Lam Phu and Udon Thani Provinces

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University
The purpose of this research was to study. - (1) The levels in implementation of the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy of Local Administrative Organizations.
Krisda Na Nongkhai, Sunit Hemnil, Patchadaporn Sangtamat, Manon Siaoprachuap   +3 more
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Conceptualisations of sustainable tourism development: an examination of the distance between ideology and local desires [PDF]

, 2008
This research seeks to resolve academic concern for the limited insight within existing bodies of knowledge in terms of how Sustainability and Sustainable Tourism Development is conceptualised at a grassroots level; by the stakeholders and more ...
Taylor, F
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Economic Autonomy of Regions in the New Reality [PDF]

, 2016
The article expands on the concept of new reality (new normal) for Russia, which includes the increased role of individuals and larger economic autonomy of territories in their interaction with the federal center. The rationale is based on the hypothesis
Bochko, V. S.
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes, Diana Sousa, Siew Fung Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recommendations for a New Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program In Illinois [PDF]

, 2002
The Chicago Jobs Council has prepared this "tool" to guide our Governor-Elect, transition team members, legislators, and a new Department of Human Services administration in the transformation of the TANF program in Illinois.
Rose Karasti
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Adam Smith’s Green Thumb and Malthus’ Three Horsemen: Cautionary tales from classical political economy [PDF]

, 2012
This essay identifies a contradiction between the flourishing interest in the environmental economics of the classical period and a lack of critical parsing of the works of its leading representatives.
Adam Smith, Adam Smith, Adel Daoud, Al. Gore, Amory Lovins, Andrew Jamison, Ben Fine, Betsy Hartmann, Christopher Lasch, Clive Hamilton, David Korten, David McNally, Donella Meadows, Edmund Burke, Elmar Altvater, Eric Richards, Francesco Nitti, Fred Pearce, Gareth Dale, Gareth Dale, Garrett Hardin, Geoffrey Hodgson, Gilbert Rist, Herman Daly, Hunter Lovins, István Mészáros, J. De Sismondi, John Hartwick, Jonathon Porritt, Jonathon Porritt, Joseph Townsend, Julie Matthaei, Karl Polanyi, Karl Polanyi, Karl Polanyi, Karl Polanyi, Kenneth Boulding, Kenneth Boulding, Larry Lohmann, Lester Brown, Lyla Mehta, Mark Blyth, Michael Perelman, Micheal O'Flynn, Mike Davis, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas Xenos, Patrick Curry, Paul Ehrlich, Paul Hawken, Philip Mirowski, Philip Mirowski, Richard Heinberg, Richard Heinberg, Roberto Romani, Rosa Luxemburg, Samuel Hollander, Samuel Levin, Sarah Lumley, Sheldon Wolin, Steve Rayner, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Malthus, William Dugger, William Easterly, William Grampp, William Lloyd, William Thompson   +70 more
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