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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Parental decisions"”.
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What Do Parents Want? Factors Affecting Parental Decisions in Charter School Enrollment
As an avenue of educational reform and organizational restructuring within public education, school choice has gained in popularity over the last twenty years. The charter school movement, in particular, has enjoyed a high growth rate since its introduction in 1992. Advocates of charter schools …
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Complicating choice : nuanced portrayals of parental choice decisions
… and social and cultural experiences in shaping decisions. Six in-depth interviews were conducted with parents and staff members at a high school in Houston to investigate this phenomenon. Findings from the study reveal that parents were not passive bystanders in their child’s education; all four …
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The Lived Experineces of Parents and Their Perceptions of Preschool in one neighborhood in Eastern Virginia
… about preschool, misconceptions arise regarding parental decisions to support or not to support their child's academic, social and emotional development prior to kindergarten. In a large urban district in the southeastern part of the United States, this qualitative phenomenological study …
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Leisure and surveillance in Irish childhoods: A cross-class study of Cork city
… on the cultural dispositions underpinning parental decisions in relation to children’s leisure activities, with a particular emphasis on their child-surveillance practices. In this research, child-surveillance is defined as the adult monitoring of children by technological means, physical …
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Communication Choices, Identity, and Outcomes in Children with Cochlear Implants
… hearing loss leads to early intervention-related decisions. For most parents of children with cochlear implants (CIs), access to oral communication and the ‘hearing’ world, is a priority. Disagreement between professionals around using a visual language make it difficult for parents to decide …
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Information provision, informational value, and relational support: assessing perceptions of pediatric family-centered communication as predictors of weight-related outcomes in preschool children
… at both time points. Survey measures assessed parental perceptions of communication with their regular pediatric health care providers, including the provision of recommendations for weight-related behaviors, the value associated with that advice in terms of influence on behavior and …