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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Child agency"”.
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Evaluating the impact of child agency and autonomy on parental care and supervision in the context of socio-cultural practices with specific reference to African communitarianism
… United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), child autonomy and agency has garnered more support and advocacy from the international law community. There has been support in favour of giving children a bigger voice and including them in the decision-making process when it comes …
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Museum education: exploring its value for schoolchildren, teachers and museum professionals. A qualitative study
… of three stakeholder groups to museum education: children, teachers and museum professionals. It examines democratised museum education practice as a means of raising public awareness of the relevance and value of museums. It explores the potential for recognising child voice in children's …
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The Art of Play
This thesis examines how children's interactions with their environments can inform the design of early learning spaces. Through iterative design cycles and hands-on feedback from educational settings, it demonstrates that real-time observations lead to more functional and adaptable spaces. The …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… manual activities as education and child’s play as serious work. When adopted by utilitarian and Whig advocates of education for the poor, however, these pedagogies proved inadequate for addressing the challenges faced by nineteenth-century poor children. Object Lessons helps to …
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Young Children’s Executive Functions in Context: Classroom Experiences and Measurement Approaches
… (Blair & Razza, 2007; Riggs et al., 2006). Children show individual differences on these skills and researchers aim to understand how these skills can be enhanced. School offers an opportunity to introduce change. However, it is not yet clear how children’s executive functions can be best …
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Visual and textual representations of childhood by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1999 to 2003
… is to investigate how UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) represents the notion of childhood. A content analysis of 690 photographs as well as an in-depth textual analysis of the most authoritative publications is conducted to decode childhood representations. The methodological approaches …
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Preparation for school art: young children's meaning making practices in out-of-school settings
This thesis examines children’s meaning making with art related media in the home of a set of siblings, a brother and sister, of 8 and 6 years old respectively. It is argued that children’s meaning making with art related media is a self-sustaining, multimodal and dialogic site where family …
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Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt
… and critically-acclaimed authors of American children’s literature of the past fifty years. My corpus of texts consists of Taylor’s Logan family novels and Voigt’s Tillerman family novels. The primary aim of this research is: to compare Taylor’s and Voigt’s representation of character agency …
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Maternal autonomy support and control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ behavioral regulation
… of maternal autonomy support and control on children’s self-regulation and adjustment. Cross-cultural studies have mainly focused on early adolescence, and the studies in early childhood are limited. Furthermore, the transactional process of mother-child interaction is an important context of …
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Play-based kindergarten in an era of academic rigor: A case study of one teaching team’s experience
… were bound by the experiences of educators and children at one early childhood school. I observed in the naturalistic environment of the teachers’ classrooms and collaborative spaces and explored two focal participants’ daily interactions with children and decision-making practices with regard …
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Choices, choices, choices : the nature of children’s agency within a forest school context
… embraces a woodland environment and espouses a child-centred pedagogy. Six principles outlining the key features of FS underpin the ways that FS leaders (FSLs) have been trained to uphold the central tenets and generate a constructivist ethos within the outdoor environment. Policy regarding …
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Leisure and surveillance in Irish childhoods: A cross-class study of Cork city
… analysis of the leisure experience of children, aged between six and ten years, living in Cork city. This study focuses on the cultural dispositions underpinning parental decisions in relation to children’s leisure activities, with a particular emphasis on their child-surveillance …
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Competing voices: Dialogic perspectives on Chinese children’s use of touch screen devices in a New Zealand early childhood education setting
Internationally, preschool children’s use of touch screen devices is increasingly discussed from the perspectives of teachers and or caregivers. However, there is little discussion of this topic from a cross-cultural perspective. Furthermore, children’s own voices on their touch screen experiences …