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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Asian children"”.
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Asian children at home and at school: an ethnographic study
This thesis is an ethnographic study of Asian children who attended Cherrydale School, a mixed comprehensive in the south of England. It is concerned with the first generation of Asian children educated in Britain and is a study of their lives at home and at school. The main focus of this thesis is …
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Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census
… examined the racial identification of biracial Asian children by their parents, in a sample (N=9,513) drawn from 2000 Public Use Microdata Series Census data (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series 2009). I used competing theories of Asian assimilation to examine how characteristics of the …
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Developing a Discipleship Curriculum for Educators of East Asian Children at Children’s Education in Christ Network East Asia
… East Asia to enhance their ability to disciple children, starting with the creation of a textbook and followed by teaching the curriculum at an online camp. Pre- and post-surveys evaluated the effectiveness of the curriculum and equipped educators to engage in koinonia education with children. …
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Ethnicity and attitudes to body shape
… of this study were to compare British-born South Asian and Caucasian pre-adolescents and their views of their parents in their attitudes to obesity and importance of thinness. Secondary aims were to investigate the role of the family in terms of levels of conflict between girls and their parents …
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Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Transracial Adoption
… attitudes toward TRA families with Black versus Asian children using both explicit and implicit (the IAT) measures of bias. In addition, religiosity was tested as a moderator of the attitudes toward TRA adoption. It was found that individuals had much more supportive attitudes toward transracial …
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Childhood obesity and its prevention in primary school-aged children: a focus on South Asian communities in the UK
… obesity prevention strategies. People of South Asian origin are a specific target group for obesity prevention as they are vulnerable to cardiovascular health effects of obesity. This thesis explores the contextual influences on the development of childhood obesity by presenting two studies; a …
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Three-Generation Family Households and Child Wellbeing
… few years of life are critical in preparing children for school and for long term development. Families play a primary role in the development of cognitive and social skills as well as physical health. Changes in family structure that have occurred over the last several decades have resulted …
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SOUTH ASIAN DIVORCE AND DISPUTES INVOLVING CHILDREN OF SOUTH ASIAN ORIGIN
… of considerable socio-legal significance: South Asian divorce and disputes involving South Asian children. Both themes are explored empirically by means of a qualitative research study conducted in an urban and industrial area of Britain with a high South Asian population. The thesis thus seeks …
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A grounded theory of the balancing act South Asian mothers engage in to negotiate a healthy family lifestyle
… evidence is consistent and robust that UK South Asian communities are at elevated risk of lifestyle related disease. A potential worsening of obesity related risk in South Asian children carries implications for persisting disparities in chronic disease across generations making it advantageous …
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Asian-named minority groups in a British school system: A study of the education of the children of immigrants of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin from the Indian sub-continent or East Africa in the City of Bradford.
… It offers an analysis of the situation of the Asian children of immigrant families, socially and racially disadvantaged in Britain, in the Bradford school system from the mid-1970's to 1980*, and their relative success in terms of external examination assessment in comparison with their peers. …
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Mainstreaming second language learners: teachers' instructional strategies in the classroom
… interested in how instruction influences African children in the classroom. The U.S. immigration policies allowing citizens of foreign countries to migrate into the country, has favored the immigration of many Africans into the country either for educational purposes or in the hope of a better …