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Mothering work: supporting children’s education at home
This chapter documents and examines the extensive and diverse range of work the mothers do to support their children’s education. Participating in educational activities at home requires mothers to deploy a range of strategies to generate different types of capital for their children in relation to their education at home and their role and status within the family. This chapter examines how …
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- 9789813294295
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- 371.192 ALD m
The Right response!: discovering necessary skills for teachers and parents to…
Having grown up in a small town and having strong ties within the community, I found it a challenge to balance the personal/professional balance needed by educators when dealing with children and their families inside and outside of the school context. By observing my mentor teachers, I slowly began to identify key principles needed to handle the teacher/parent relationship, which led me to inv…
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- 9789811394751
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- 372.1192 YOU r
Design and implementation of cognitive ystem of children’s education based …
This paper mainly introduces the creative design of a children’s cognitive system based on RFID. The electronic tag is affixed to the real learning object, and the card reader is carried by the children. The main functions to be realized are vivid images, which give children quick and vivid knowledge of objects. Through the education of physical objects that can be touched, they can be vividl…
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- 9783319935546
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- 372.1192 HON d
Parental involvement on children’s education
The decentralization policy and school-based management in Hong Kong has elevated the issue of home–school cooperation to the agenda of educational reform, and has since fueled a growing interest in promoting parental involvement as one of the strategies in enhancing children’s education and improving accountability of schools to communities (Epstein 1990; Ho and Willms 1996; Jeynes 2005, 2…
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- 9789814021999
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- 162 p.; 22 cm.
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- 372.1192 EST p
Situating children of migrants across borders and origins : a methodological …
This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus o…
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- 9789402411416
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- viii, 287p. : ill.
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- 304.8 SIT s
Collaborating against child abuse : exploring the Nordic Barnahus model
This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in the Nordic region. This book discusses both its potential to affect change and the challenges facing it. The model was introduced as a response to a growing recognition of th…
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- 9783319583884
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- xxxii, 384p. : ill.
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- 362.767 COL c
Trauma-informed school practices : building expertise to transform schools
This textbook represents the combined insight and experience of Morton, a k12 educator, and Berardi, a psychotherapist, both of whom are also university educators with extensive work experience serving districts and their teachers seeking to incorporate trauma-informed principles into their school culture and classroom. The authors identify that the field of education is now ready to deepen its…
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- 9780999829226
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- 318p. : ill.
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- 371.7 BER t
Nordic mediation research
This open access book presents twelve unique studies on mediation from researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Each study highlights important aspects of mediation, including the role of children in family mediation, the evolution and ambivalent application of restorative justice in the Nordic countries, the confusion of roles in court-connected mediation, and the chal…
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- 9783319730196
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- x, 269p. : ill.
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- 347.09 NOR n
Barriers to play and recreation for children and young people with disabiliti…
This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right …
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- 9783110526042
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- 50 p.
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- 305.231087 BAR b
Young children’s play practices with digital tablets : playful literacy
This book focuses on how young children play and have fun while indulging in digital worlds, discovering and problem-solving with a variety of narratives and interfaces encountered on these digital playgrounds. These playful encounters are richer experiences than one might expect. Through engaging with digital interfaces, children expand their visual and verbal vocabulary, plus develop an embod…
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- 9781787567061
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- XIX, 133 p.
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- 004.083 FRO y
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