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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Children first"”.
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On a Mission to Put Children First: Integrity in Charity Media
… presenting over-simplified presentations of children experiencing poverty to privileged audiences who have an opportunity to flex their saviour muscles by making an armchair donation and considering their role and responsibility for social justice to be complete. Yet, despite the ongoing …
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Women with children first? Parenthood, policies, and gender gaps in three European labour markets
Parenthood divides today the careers of women and men. A family gap has emerged in labour markets: Women pay economic and career prices for motherhood, while the career progression of men marches on come fatherhood. Gender inequality in paid work persists despite institutional change aimed at …
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An exploratory study of the impact of the Children First program in reducing parental conflict in the divorce transition
… parents on increasing parent awareness of children's needs and reduction of interparental conflict. Behavioral changes on dimensions of conflict, communication and cooperation indicated notably positive outcomes. Fifty divorcing parents completing a court mandated Children First program, …
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Non-compliance and breach: youth justice decision-making in Wales
… justice strategy has, since 2004, promoted ‘children first, offenders second’ as a core principle. This is generally viewed as indicative of the efforts of successive Welsh Governments to embed youth justice–a policy area for which they have no legislative competence–into their wider social …
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Tennessee Textbooks, 1889-2002.
… because they learned inaccurate information as children. Most children first learn of the war in school textbooks. I became curious as to the accuracy of Civil War information. As there is little research on this topic, this paper begins the process of bridging the gap between education …
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Towards a more hospitable learning environment : a design exploration of public, private, and the zones in-between for an elementary school in Boston
… thereby fostering social interaction among children and adults. A delicate balance between the public, the private, and the transitions in-between can help accomplish flexible use of space. This balance should occur at the classroom level, the hallway level, and the school level. The thesis …
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Breaking the Silence: An IPA study exploring the experiences, thoughts, feelings and perspectives of teachers working with Selectively Mute children.
… within the school setting particularly when children first start school. A great deal of the research available on Selective Mutism within the school setting is based on evaluating intervention and there is currently a gap in the literature concerning the experiences of teachers. Therefore, …
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The social costs and benefits of volunteering for a public agency
… have highlighted the many benefits for children who participate in youth sports. However, little research has been conducted to examine the experiences of parent volunteer coaches. The lack of research on parent volunteers is particularly surprising given the increased importance of …
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Early conceptions of national identity: causes and consequences
… conceptions; specifically, I ask whether young children (beginning at age 5) are aware of the extrinsic determinants of nationality, or whether their conceptions are more biologically-based, as is their reasoning about other influential social categories (e.g., gender; Rhodes & Gelman, 2009). I …
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Children’s thinking about regret and relief
In six experiments, I investigated children’s thinking about their own and others’ regret and relief. The results were described in relation to the developmental counterfactual thinking literature which offers an account of gradual improvements in order to achieve adult-like counterfactual …
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Children's motivational patterns and conceptions of intelligence: A study of the developmental relationship between motivation and cognition
… and concomitants of helplessness among older children have been well-established. Among children in fifth grade and older, the helpless motivational pattern is known to occur, and is associated with the idea that intelligence is a fixed entity. A controversy exists in the literature, however, …
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Exploring the Experiences of Foster Parents Caring for Children with Complex Medical Needs: A Phenomenological Study
When children first enter the foster care system, most are placed in a foster home. These foster parents are tasked with ensuring the child is safe in a supportive environment designed to meet their emotional, healthcare, and educational needs. While no two children are the same, foster parents …
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Experiences of Parents of Emergent Bilingual Children Facing Autism Inquiry
Parents are unique experts on their children and their developmental environment. This is especially the case of emergent bilingual children’s parents, who are promising untapped sources of knowledge and wisdom about their children’s language learning, social communication, and development. …
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The Diaspora of Korean Children: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Educational Crisis in Contemporary South Korea
The diaspora of Korean children first started after the Korean War in the 1950s. Abandoned by their impoverished mothers and shunned by society, many orphan children were sent abroad for adoption, which was the best, if not the only, available solution at the time. Half a century later, South Korea …
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The Diaspora of Korean Children: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Educational Crisis in Contemporary South Korea
The diaspora of Korean children first started after the Korean War in the 1950s. Abandoned by their impoverished mothers and shunned by society, many orphan children were sent abroad for adoption, which was the best, if not the only, available solution at the time. Half a century later, South Korea …
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The acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish
… systems of ergative languages suggests that children acquire ergative and accusative languages equally easily (Van Valin 1992), depending on the degree to which the case morphology is consistently ergative or accusative and the degree to which adults use the morphology (Pye 1990). However, …
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Sustainability of psycho-social support by teachers to enhance resilience in a school
… thematic data analysis four main themes emerged. Firstly the importance of teamwork in sustaining psycho-social support initiatives was identified, with the various roles and responsibilities within the team, and school management acting as a silent partner emerging as sub-themes. Secondly, …
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Who helps the helpers? Vicarious traumatisation in psychologists and their experiences as mandated reporters
… Psychologists in Applying Mandatory Reporting (Children First) Abstract: Background: To address child protection concerns countries often implement mandatory reporting (MR) laws. This ensures that relevant professionals alert child protection services of children who are at risk of or are …
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Young motherhood and consumption : an exploration of the consumer practices of a group of young mothers in Bristol
… themselves as 'good mothers', who put their children first. The thesis also explores how for the participants in the research material goods, and in particular the adornment and presentation of infants, played a crucial role in displaying maternal competence in the face of a sense of public …
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The administration of a child care center during the war emergency
… need to supplant man-power with woman-power. At first he had the feeling that once the emergency was over, we would revert to the belief that the mother's place was in the home and that the child should remain there as long as possible and that we would continue the standard educational pattern …