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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"child-centred"”.
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Toward a theory of positive psychology in supporting child-centred family language policy
… the role of positive psychology in the design of child-centred family language policy (FLP) to support home language maintenance in transnational bilingual families with young children learning two or more languages simultaneously at home. This study aims to understand and describe how FLP is …
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How can I foster a child-centred approach to the teaching of writing?
… how I could improve my practice by fostering a child-centred approach to the teaching of writing. My value of being child-centred was the driving force behind my research as I was concerned with my teacher led instruction of writing. A self-study action research approach enabled me to examine my …
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Twenty-First Century Working-Class Girls' Imagined Futures: A Child-Centred Socialist Feminist Research Project
… as a “norm” shaping agent of socialisation. The child-centred feminist standpoint epistemology focuses on hearing the girls’ voices through co-participatory research methods. Key findings demonstrate these working-class girls are highly media literate, who wish to challenge media representations, …
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Towards effective child-centred mathematics education with lessons designed round the use of a film
The crucial issues associated with child-centred learning in mathematics are seen to be addressed by the lessons and activities developed round the film. The lessons have captured the essentials of the humanistic mathematics method. Children become actively involved in discussion amongst themselves …
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Learning Irish in English-medium primary schools in Ireland: understanding children’s views and experiences through a child-centred methodology
This study examined children’s views and experiences of learning Irish in English-medium primary schools in Ireland. To date, children’s voices have largely been absent from these discussions, and this study set out to address this gap in the research by documenting primary school children’s …
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Issues and Challenges in Implementing the 1999 Curriculum for Visual Arts: Case Study in a Junior School.
The 1971 child-centred curriculum for primary schools, Curaclam na B unscoile, has been reviewed and revised and the most recent curriculum, the Revised Primary School Curriculum (1999), has been introduced into Irish primary schools. Revisions to the nine subjects on the curriculum have been …
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The right to education and the resettlement and integration of refugee children in New Zealand: A legal perspective on the rights of refugee children
… of the right to education for refugee children in New Zealand, establishing the analysis within both international and domestic legal frameworks. It argues that despite New Zealand’s obligations under international law and domestic provisions safeguarding children’s rights, refugee …
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Building Nurture: Care and Protection of the Growing through the Built Environment
… education, sanitation, job opportunities and child care amongst others. Limited access to the aforementioned, on top of the exponential growth of South Africa's population, has left many in extremely undesirable living conditions and immense poverty. These ubiquitous issues have not gone …
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Nothing changes : dangerous childhoods and the 'unprotecting' of children in Western Australia
… of dominant claims to truth which position children as variously vulnerable, dependent and passive social actors-in-waiting: constructions which produce limitations in the conditions of possibility for their 'protection'. My aim has been to consider critically whether these fundamental and …
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Precarity and Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of the African Child in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers
… and redresses, the neglect of the figure of the child, specifically the African child, in ecofeminist theory by focusing on recent fiction by women writers from the continent in which the child’s experience of precarity is foregrounded in relation to the slow violence perpetuated by legacies of …
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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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Phonological Representations in Language Models
… new contributions: a cross-lingual dataset of child-centred speech, and an improved grapheme-to-phoneme conversion tool that better preserves alignment with established phonemic inventories. These resources enable a comprehensive modelling study that confirms the viability of training language …
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The application of drama in education methodology to the teaching of history to Stds. 6 and 7 in white secondary schools in South Africa
… and Drama. A. Towards the author's definition of child-centred education, based on the writings of eminent philosophers. B. Theatre's relationship with educational drama, given that the two modes of communication share many elements relevant also to history education. C. The links between …
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Headteachers’ responses to government policy on primary education 1988 to 2005
… generated two broad professional identities: the child-centred and the curriculum-led headteacher. In response to the government initiatives, the former tended towards 'resistance'; the latter tended towards 'compliance'. The textual analysis of the narratives reveals the detailed patterns of …
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Local area planning and primary geography: enabling children’s active participation in local decision-making through primary geography education in the Republic of Ireland
Current research into the consultation of children during local planning processes nationally and internationally points to a misalignment of practices with legislation and policy provision. The benefits to the participation of children in planning processes include better outcomes, as well as …
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Can my use of Guided Inquiry Based Science Education enhance my pupils learning of and attitude towards Science?
… inclusion and autonomy. I aimed to improve the children’s learning of scientific concepts while fostering positive attitudes towards Science using a child-centred inquiry approach to teaching and learning. Applying a self-study action research paradigm allowed me to gain a deeper insight into my …
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What are the experiences of the two-year-olds in the emotional environment in early childhood education and care settings that offer funded places?
… the emotional environment of two-year-old Early Childhood Education and Care settings that provided funded provision. The extensive literature review drew upon social psychological theories and concepts such as the consciousness of emotions (Damasio, 1999), attachment theory (Kinreich et al., …
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Life Experiences of Street Children in Bulawayo: Implications for Policy and Practice
… problems with very little mention of Zimbabwe’s children, or indeed street children. In this study I explore the experience of street children in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo. The study explores the work and activities that street children engage in as they negotiate their way through …
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