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Download full textClive Hedges; Ewan Ingleby; Mervyn Martin – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2023
An examination into the origins of rights' discourse and contemporary debates around child labour in developing countries, illustrates some of the problems with the discursive uses that children's rights is put to, and its weakness as a means of addressing issues of social justice. Addressing the discourse around child labour, and how this is…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Child Labor, Social Change, Social Problems
Direct linkAndreas C. Smeritschnig – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Retention in kindergarten involves holding students back from advancing to the next grade level due to unresolved learning gaps. This practice has been the subject of continuous research as educational experts seek to balance the potential developmental risks of prolonging kindergarten by providing students an additional year to fill their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, School Holding Power, Achievement Gap
Luis Faundez; Robert Kaestner – Evaluation Review, 2025
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is often inconsistent with human capital theory. We…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
Abraha Asfaw; Silvia Diazgranados; Betty Akullu Ezati; Jonathan Kwok; Christina Raphael; Anne Smiley; Peter Ssenkusu – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2025
In this article, we investigate understandings and practices of learning through play (LtP) in refugee and host-country contexts in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This is an area in which international donors have increased their investments in recent years. We used a positive deviance approach to select 12 best practice preprimary and primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Play
Verónica Viñas; Elizabeth Pike – American Journal of Play, 2025
The authors discuss their application of John W. Kingdon's multiple streams framework (MSF) and the role it plays in the analysis of a pioneering local public policy in the United Kingdom (UK). The aim of this policy, instituted in 2009 and initiated by a group of Bristol's mothers, was to reclaim children's right to play, mainly for their own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Play, Recreational Activities
Katherine Halcrow – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: This paper describes oral language as a multi-faceted and unconstrained phenomenon, including its social purpose in societies and the implications of this for education. It provides a critique of the concepts of oral language which have come to dominate literacy and language education policy across the Organisation of Economic…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy Education, Educational Policy, Criticism
Damla Eyuboglu; Murat Eyuboglu; Ferhat Yaylaci; Baris Guller; Begum Sahbudak; Aslihan Avunduk; Onur Oktay Dagli; Seval Caliskan Pala; Didem Arslantas – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the AFEQ for Turkish parents of children with ASD. The Turkish-translated version of the AFEQ was administered to 241 parents of children aged 2-12 years with ASD to examine the construct validity and internal consistencies. Parents completed the Autism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Family Relationship, Questionnaires
Jennifer E. Lansford; Laura Gorla; W. Andrew Rothenberg; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Jeremy D. W. Clifton; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini – Child Development, 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is "Good" and "Enticing." Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Mothers
Tian Yang – Education and Urban Society, 2025
This study employs a qualitative case study approach to investigate the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) implementation in an exemplary kindergarten in urban China. It examines how the urban kindergarten collaborates with ICT companies to create learning environments such as Smart-pad and motion sensing rooms for children, and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Urban Schools
Yeon Ha Kim; Melissa Stormont – School Psychology Review, 2025
This study investigated Korean children's negative emotionality trajectories from infancy to age 4 and their learning (i.e., executive functioning), behavioral, and self-esteem outcomes in first grade. Using nationally representative data from the Panel Study on Korean Children, negative emotionality trajectories were explored to determine whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Child Behavior, Affective Behavior
Patricia Cantor; Melinda Holohan; Jean Rogers – Teachers College Press, 2025
This book equips early childhood professionals to grow their "screen awareness"--the knowledge and practices that uphold the developmental well-being and rights of children in a screen-based, media-centric society. The authors introduce the Screen-Aware Framework for Early Childhood (SAFEC), a versatile approach for making informed,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Song, Ju-Hyun; Volling, Brenda L. – Infant and Child Development, 2018
This study investigated relations among children's Theory-of-Mind (ToM) development, early sibling interactions, and parental discipline strategies during the transition to siblinghood. Using a sample of firstborn children and their parents (N = 208), we assessed children's ToM before the birth of a sibling and 12 months after the birth, and…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Theory of Mind, Parenting Styles, Discipline
Williams, Liz – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018
This highly accessible and much-needed resource sets out practical advice on positive behaviour management in primary schools, exploring how to support children effectively with their personal, social and emotional development. With an emphasis on implementable strategies, this book will give primary school teachers and staff an understanding as…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Elementary School Students, Social Development, Emotional Development
Meghan E. McDoniel; Kristen A. Buss – Grantee Submission, 2018
Research Findings: Exuberant temperament, characterized by high approach and positive affect, is linked to socioemotional outcomes including risk for externalizing symptoms across development. Externalizing problems interfere with children's school readiness and lead to disruptive behavior in the classroom. While some moderating factors help…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Personality, Mothers
Zehra Gülseven; Kayla Puente; Nestor Tulagan; Nicole Zarrett; Sandra D. Simpkins; Deborah Lowe Vandell – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Guided by the ecological model of civic development, this study examined the extent to which the growth in children's self-control during middle childhood predicted their civic engagement at age 26 directly and indirectly via their prosociality at age 15. We used data from 1,042 children (50% female, 77% White) in the NICHD Study of Early Child…
Descriptors: Self Control, Prosocial Behavior, Prediction, Volunteers
