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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"childhood studies"”.
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Early Childhood Studies as a site for Education for Sustainability, Eco Literacy and Critical Pedagogy
… and the pedagogies associated with early childhood education and the developing research area of Early Childhood Education for Sustainability. The peer reviewed publications have been circulated within various communities of practice bringing the research area of Early Childhood Education …
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Making sense of critical and creative thinking within an early childhood studies seminar – a phenomenological contribution to intercultural pedagogy
… development, and achievement on a BA Early Childhood Studies (ECS) course, for which the researcher serves as the course leader. The findings may also prove to be useful for designers and tutors on similar courses. The study employs a phenomenological analysis to investigate the sense-making …
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Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.
… study, it combines insights from Childhood Studies, Cultural Studies, Game Studies, domestication and performance theory. The concept ludic gendering is developed in order to explain how gender "works" in games, as designed semiotic and ludic artefacts. Ludic gendering also helps …
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Child and adolescent obesity and ADHD : psychological impact and bullying
… disorder, which is usually diagnosed in childhood. Studies indicate that ADHD children have a higher BMI than non-ADHD children. Furthermore, studies on both ADHD children and on children with obesity show that both children with ADHD and children with obesity are more likely to have …
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“Man-Cub They Call Me”: Mowgli’s Constructed Childhood in Kipling’s Jungle Books
… protagonist, Mowgli, through the perspective of childhood studies. While other scholars have concentrated on the imperial implications of Mowgli’s childhood, I argue that more facets of Mowgli’s childhood, especially body, instruction, pedagogy, and sexuality, are vital to understanding how …
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EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD
… I considered five representative images of childhood that the Fifth Generation filmmakers created throughout a thirty-five year period of post-Maoist social transition in China since the beginning of the market reform and opening policy in 1978. To look at evolving childhood through their …
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Children, young people and coeliac disease
… psychological effects of having the disease in childhood. Studies of parental views were also included. The results suggested that there is some element of psychological distress associated with having CD in childhood, and that adherence to the treatment appears to be influenced by age and …
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Neoliberal agency, relational agency, and the representation of the agentic child in the Sociology of Childhood
… the intersection of the fields of sociology and childhood studies. In these works I interrogate the canonical concept of agency and I argue that the inherent contradictions of how agency is conceptualised, has more to do with the neoliberal model of agency being applied than whether children can …
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Exploring aspects of the relationship between gender and leadership in early childhood care and education: Towards an engaged feminist pedagogy of adult education.
… between gender and leadership in Early Childhood Care and Education within an Irish context. Early childhood Care and Education includes day care facilities and services for children aged 3 months to 12 years. Services offer care, education and socialisation opportunities for children. …
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Journey With Me: Wanderings and Wonderings Through Childhoods
Dominant assumptions and views of children and childhood inform and guide educational policy and practice and have worked to institutionalize meanings of children and childhood. Within the sociology of childhood, literature has challenged these assumptions by recognizing the lived realities of …
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Franco's Children: Representations of Franco-Era Childhood in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cinema
… early Franco regime as children and recall their childhood as adults; on the other hand, it refers to the child protagonists in the selected works that are set in wartime and the post-War period. The aim of the present study is to explore different strategies - both rhetorical and political - …
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Teenage worlds, different voices: an ethnographic study of identity and the lifeworlds of disabled teenagers who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
… (AAC). Drawing on theoretical influences from Childhood Studies, Disability Studies and Social Anthropology it uses ethnographic methods, to investigate the lives of nine key participants aged 10-18 years. Participant observation in schools, homes and clubs, and extended narrative conversations …
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'Wow, what's that Dad?' Fresh and Dynamic Perspectives of Young Children's Museum Experiences
… children’s literature. Drawing on the field of childhood studies and in order to provide a means to listen closely to the young children’s experiences, a novel methodology called First Person Museum Ethnography (FPME) was developed and successfully trialled. FPME is underpinned by a novel …
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Attitudes of Preschool Teachers in South Korea toward Inclusion: Using the Rasch Model to Construct a Teacher Attitude Measure
… for children with disabilities. While many early childhood studies have reported attitudes of teachers toward early childhood inclusion, there has been lack of information about South Korean preschool teachers’ attitudes toward inclusion. Measuring teachers’ attitudes is a complex process that …
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Innocence and Experience: Figuring the Child in the Fiction of A. L. Barker
… psychoanalytic and modernist narratives of childhood and registering their influence on ideas about the child in mid-twentieth-century culture, Barker’s fiction troubles dominant assumptions about what different identities of age entail, meaning that her oeuvre should be read as a …
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Nothing changes : dangerous childhoods and the 'unprotecting' of children in Western Australia
… their location within the structural space of 'childhood', are (re )presented, positioned and understood within these key discursive sites. The purpose of taking a child-centred approach is to investigate the extent to which discourses about children and childhood constrain, or, expand, …
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Ballads for Remembering
… taking cues from the emergent playful worlds of childhood studies and music, with interbeing as the net holding all. The dissertation is important because the climate crisis is one of (if not the most) pressing and crucial challenges of the present, and we must keep finding ways to address it …
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Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent scholarship by historians such as Steven Mintz and Amanda Porterfield have …
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Avaliação plasmática, histológica e imunohistoquímica de biomarcadores da aterosclerose humana precoce e crônica
… adulthood, the atherosclerotic process begins in childhood. Studies show that individuals with early atherosclerotic changes possess one or more equivalent factors and markers of cardiovascular risk in adult life as dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity and hyperglycemia. Objective. Identify plasma …
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Telling Girlhood: Girls' Studies, Reparative Trauma And 20Th Century U.S. Popular Culture
… to be a contribution to the fields of girls' studies and feminism and media studies. Girls' studies, in its current iteration, is partially a response to a boom in the 1990s of interest in girls as a market for media and advertising. Girls' studies is largely concerned with girls' …
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