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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Children's learning"”.
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Social influences on children's learning
Adults greatly impact children's learning: they serve as models of how to behave, and as parents, provide the larger social context in which children grow up. This thesis explores how adults impact children's learning across two time scales. Chapters 2 and 3 ask how a brief exposure to an adult …
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Cooperative learning and elaborative interrogation: effects on children's learning
… study examined the effects of cooperative learning and a question-answering strategy called elaborative interrogation ("Why is this fact true?") on the learning of factual information about familiar animals. Retention gains were compared across four study conditions: …
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Andragogy vs. Pedagogy: Comparing Adult and Children's Learning Preferences
… are differences and similarities in adults' and children's learning preferences. Procedures: The study included both a review of the literature comparing andragogy and pedagogy, results from a questionnaire developed by the author and interviews of adults and children as to how they learn best, …
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Educational engagement practices of Tongan parents in relation to their children's learning
… of Tongan parents in relation to their children’s learning and designs an engagement framework to enhance this engagement. Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological systems theory framework was employed to conceptualise and inform the analysis of parental engagement of Tongan parents in this …
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Raising children's learning and performance : a study in a large UK primary school.
Raising children's learning and performance and implementing effective strategies to improve standards represent continuous challenges for government policy makers, schools and teachers. Whilst school effectiveness and school improvement policies and strategies have endeavoured to do this through …
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The Effects of Sibling Co-Viewing on Young Children's Learning of Television Content
… reported here examined 42 first and second grade children's interpretations and evaluations of two different television programs after viewing with older siblings or by themselves. It was hypothesized that those children who viewed a complex, adult oriented program with a sibling at least 3 years …
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Implications of Mothers' Ability Mindsets for Their Involvement in Children's Learning: An Experimental Investigation
… mindsets in the quality of their involvement in children's learning. Mothers (N = 81) of early elementary school children (mean age = 7.65 years) were given either an incremental or entity mindset. Mothers' unconstructive (i.e., performance-oriented teaching, control, and negative affect) and …
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They have their own thoughts : children's learning of computational ideas from a cultural perspective
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Barriers to Parents Supporting Children's Learning in Volksrust Circuit, Gert Sibande District in Mpumalanga Province
… inhibit parents from supporting their children's academic growth. The objectives for this study were to identify barriers parents face when trying to assist in children's schooling devise solutions to overcome them. The research also evaluated the procedures in three categories of …
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Teacher Mathematics Language: Its Use in the Early Childhood Classroom and Relationship with Young Children's Learning
… mathematics instruction has been linked to children's later outcomes in both literacy and mathematics. One important component of this instruction, teachers' mathematics language in the early childhood classroom, has been connected to children's mathematical gains. However, this work is …
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Leading or following children's learning?: a critical review of contradictory discourses in the role of early childhood educators
Eight publications are presented with this thesis, with the first published in 1996 and the last in 2016. Three of the publications are books and five are peer reviewed journal articles arising from the research underpinning the books. Together, the publications constitute a coherent programme of …
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LOOKING FOR A FAIRER ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT AND ATTAINMENT IN THE INFANT YEARS: AN EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH CASE STUDY
… to search for a fairer assessment of young children's learning, development and attainment. It is a journey that forces her to question everything about the professional world in which she works and lives. The story is intended to use and evoke the human senses within the context of a real …
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'n Waarderingsperspektief van ouers se betrokkenheid by hul kinders se leerproses in 'n landelike omgewing
… inquiry on parents' involvement in their children's learning in a rural area. The population consisted of parents with children in a primary school in a rural area, in and around Wellington. Information was obtained through individual interviews with parents and a focus group interview. …
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Violence, primary school learning and development in the Cape Flats township of Mitchells Plain: a case study of exposure to violence and its implications for children's' learning and development
… exposure to violence impacts on primary school children's learning and their cognitive and emotional development in two primary schools in the Cape Flats Township of Mitchell's Plain. The research aimed to explore the extent to which exposure to violence impacts not only on these learners' …
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O brincar na educação infantil
… act of playing can help in the development of children's learning in early childhood education, given that the playful plays a crucial role in students' learning in today's world. Therefore, in the National Curriculum Reference for Early Childhood Education (RCNEI) is highlighted, the play is a …
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Breathing Coloniality: An ethnographic case study of language and literacy ideologies and colonial power relations in the positioning and development of 1st generation black children's learning experiences in and outside school contexts
… ideologies have among first generation black children's attending English medium schools positioning and family language planning. I draw on the theoretical framework of [de]coloniality with a particular focus on coloniality of power and the colonial matrix of power in post-colonial South …
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A COMPARISON OF THE CULTURAL/ETHNIC PERCEPTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL BELIEFS OF KOREAN IMMIGRANT AND NON-IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
… and teachers for effectively facilitating their children's learning and socialization. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the variations in cultural/ethnic perceptions and educational beliefs about childrearing and early schooling among three Korean parent groups: (a) 79 Korean …
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Waiting to learn : an analysis of instruction in four preschool settings in poor contexts
… pointers towards better practices to support children's learning at school. Extending the study of pedagogy to the preschool level seems to hold great potential for better understanding how to support children's learning. This study, based within a sociology of education framework, poses the …
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Integrating children's art and environmental education : exploring a nexus
… end, the study explores connections betweeen children's creative art and environmental education, in the context of the theme of biodiversity. The research contributes to understanding children's learning experiences that may arise from the integration of visual art and environmental education …
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