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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Children’s Experiences"”.
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A phenomenological study of parents of autistic children’s experiences with safety
… disorder with varying presentations. Autistic children are most often cared for by parents who, at the time their child is diagnosed, are overwhelmed and have limited knowledge of autism and the potential safety issues that exist. Safety may not be an immediate consideration while they learn to …
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Understanding Czech Children’s Experiences of Parental Incarceration – Ambiguous Loss and Gain
This thesis explores the experiences of Czech children of prisoners and their primary caregivers and how these experiences can be interpreted using Ambiguous Loss (and Ambiguous Gain) theory (Boss, 2007). The experiences of Czech children of prisoners and their primary caregivers are …
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Does Resilience Moderate the Impact of Children’s Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination on Internalizing Problems?
… study’s objectives were to investigate how children’s experiences of discrimination impact the severity of their internalizing symptoms, and whether the relation between discrimination and internalizing symptom severity is moderated by resilience. It was predicted that children who had …
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‘You have to go on a journey’. Looked After Children’s experiences of primary to secondary school transition.
… for vulnerable groups such as looked after children (LAC), many of whom have already experienced challenges, instability, and other significant transitions in their lives. Previous research concerning LAC and education has mainly focused on the academic outcomes of LAC, which has been found …
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Readiness and Relationships across the Transition to School: Children’s Experiences and Interactions between Home and School Contexts
… that brings opportunities and challenges for children, their families, and their teachers. Children vary significantly in their ability to adapt into the classroom environment, and intervention efforts require greater understanding of the malleable factors that contribute to this variation. …
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A psychosocial exploration of bereaved children’s experiences of exclusion from school: what understanding can be gained from a psychoanalytic perspective?
… research into the impact of parental death on children and young people. This psychosocial study explores the experiences of children and young people who have been bereaved of a parent and who are subsequently excluded from school. Three participants of school age were interviewed about their …
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Time to stop blaming parents: A case study of parents’ and children’s experiences of family life and in marginalised communities with implications for parenting interventions, educational welfare policy and practice
The inclusion of the voices of parents and children from marginalised communities is quite a departure from traditional rigid assumptions in parenting research. This study sought to explore parents' experience of family life and participation in the universal roll-out of Parents Plus Children's …
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Children on the move : experiences of children living in a temporary relocation camp in Cape Town, South Africa.
This thesis focuses on six children’s experiences from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. The research was conducted over a three-year period from February 2010 to February 2013, with a one-year field-research period from October 2010 to October …
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The Public Perceptions and Personal Experiences of Only Children Growing Up in Britain, c. 1850-1950
… sole, and only ever a minor, determinant of only children’s experiences. It analyses autobiographies and oral history interviews of only children who grew up between 1850 and 1950 to show how personal inclinations, parental attitudes, domestic circumstances, geographical location, class, gender, …
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Children under three in Greek day-care relationships with adults, peers and environment
This thesis explores the experiences of ten children aged one year four months to two years eleven months old in two Greek day-care nurseries, with the aim of informing thinking about the future development of policy and practice in relation to Greek Early Childhood Education and Care (henceforth …
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Physical education for students with spina bifida : mothers' perspectives
… understanding of mothers’ perspectives of their children’s experiences in inclusive physical education. It describes the value mothers placed on physical education, the meaning they ascribed to their children’s physical education experiences, the role of the Personal Program Plan (PPP) in …
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Phenomenal Landscapes: exploring children’s neighbourhood mobility and their experiences within three east London neighbourhoods
This study explores children’s neighbourhood mobility and their experiences within their neighbourhoods at different times of the year, focussing on their use of the public places and spaces within these both for travel and play. It takes a child-centred approach to the research, working with a …
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Family Nature Clubs: Exploring the Parent-Child-Nature Relationship
… ultimately influence the degree to which their children have contact with the natural world (Chawla, 2015; Clements, 2004; Louv, 2005, Rivkin, 1998; Sobel, 2008), the parent-child-nature relationship (PCNR) was identified as the main area of interest for the research reported in this thesis. …
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Play and paediatric health: exploring children's perspectives of play in the context of early health adversity
Background <br>Children possess rights to play and to express themselves on matters related to childhood. Though it is recognised that children can be experts of their own lives, the realisation of these rights and children’s agency is contextually dependent, especially in circumstances of health …
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The Role of Attributions in the Connection Between Authoritarian Parenting and Peer Victimization
… was to dig deeper into the associations between children’s experiences with their parents and their peers, and to identify possible mediators. More specifically, using data from 46 middle-school participants, this study explored the effect of children’s attributions (i.e., causal interpretations) …
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Examining the Experiences of Athletes in Adult-led and Peer-led Youth Sport
… was to investigate the subjective and objective experiences of the same individuals across adult-led and peer-led sport activities. Recreational male soccer players (n = 27; Mean Age = 10.11) were examined using direct observation and experience rating scales in an effort to shed light on the …
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Deconstructing children's expectations for psychotherapy: Understanding how parents prepare their children for mental health treatment
… are a primary factor in determining whether children receive psychotherapy and how therapy progresses, understanding how parental perceptions of psychopathology and psychotherapy are associated with children’s mental health treatment seems to be an important step in investigating how stigma …
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The development of a model of continuing professional development for teachers of primary science
… teach science. A review carried out in 2008 of children’s experiences of this curriculum found that its implementation throughout the country was uneven. This finding, together with the increasing numbers of teachers who were requesting support to implement this curriculum, suggested the need …
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Searching for Art in the forest: An examination of how nature inspires children’s creativity.
This study aimed to examine how school-aged children’s experiences with outdoor, play-based, inquiry-based, and artful pedagogies shaped their creative outcomes. The benefits of being outdoors and engaging with the arts are commonly overlooked. Researchers argue that teaching drama, particularly in …
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