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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"children's participation"”.
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Young children's participation in a Sure Start Children's Centre
… 2006 and 2010 New Labour launched a network of children's centres as one element in a programme of reform of services for children. Sure Start children's centres were set up as multi-agency settings for children under the age of five and their families. Concomitant with these developments a …
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Children's participation in chronic illness decision-making: an interpretive description
Participation in decision-making and inclusion in the important matters of one’s life are upheld as measures of equality and indicators of the moral status of individuals in liberal democratic societies. To some extent, the status of children in western societies is a contested question, and hence, …
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Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk
This thesis is about how the concept of participation constructs children as subjects within social welfare formations. It is the result of a qualitative and interpretive research project using narrative and discourse analysis as key methodologies. The research is theoretically framed within the …
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Children's participation in local government: The Makkala Panchayats of Kundapur, southern India.
… is the most fundamental potentiality to affect children’s lives for the better, through the dynamic relationship between its provisions for child participation, protection and the best interests of the child. I investigate how the Convention is being implemented in Kundapur, in southern India. …
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Investigating children's participation in decision-making in New Zealand primary schools: Participation, pathways and potential.
The notion of children and young people participating in a school’s decision-making processes has been the topic of much research and writing throughout the Western world since the 1980s. Existing research has included work that spans the continuum from individual students having input into …
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The effectiveness of restorative justice in preventing children's participation in armed conflict in North Kivu Province, the Democratic Republic of Congo : a participatory action research
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Doctor of Technology: Public Management (Peacebuilding), Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
… study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of consequences that such traversing …
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Children's political rights: participation in legislative processes in the South African Parliament
The aim of my study was to measure the extent of children's participation in legislative processes that affect them and examine the factors that facilitate or inhibit such participation.
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Peer Rejection and Children's School Adjustment: A Structural Model of the Mediating Processes of Negative Peer Treatment and Classroom Participation
… representing the effects of peer rejection on children's school adjustment, via the mediating processes of negative peer treatment and classroom participation. Using data collected from a sample of 378 fourth- and fifth-grade children, a structural model of these mediating pathways was …
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Effectiveness of Story Enactments Versus Art Projects in Facilitating Preschool Children's Story Comprehension
… this study was twofold: (a) to compare preschool children's comprehension of a story after either enacting the story or participating in an art project, and (b) to qualitatively describe the children's interactions during the more interactive story enactment instruction. Twenty children from two …
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Exploring the Experiences and Perspectives of Parents from Marginalised and Minority Backgrounds in Leicester City on Traditional British Arts and Cultural Activities, and Their Role in Shaping Children's Artistic and Cultural Participation
… critical for developing a range of key skills in children, including creativity, critical thinking, and communication. Different art forms—music, drama, dance, and visual arts— contribute uniquely to various aspects of childhood development, from language and analytical skills to empathy and …
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Local ways of knowing : schooling, language, and literacy in a marginal, culturally distinctive community in Botswana
… and how these are likely to impact on their children's participation in schools. The methodological frame for both data collection and analysis for this study aligned with those employed in most 'ethnographies of literacy'. I however. settled for what is referred to as an ethnographic-style …
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Socioeconomic Status and Youth Participation in Extracurricular Arts Activities
… cultural resources are significant predictors of children's advantageous social development in both institutional settings and interpersonal relationships. Several theories and empirical analyses illustrate the importance of children's leisure-time activities in the accumulation of valuable …
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Cultural and traditional practices and the implementation of the right of the child to be heard under Article 12 of the UNCRC
… of the international instruments that broadened children's rights and placed it at the top of government agenda. A fundamental objective of the UNCRC is to establish the status of children as rights-bearers, and for their rights to be considered as important as those of adults with regards to …
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Participation of children with autism spectrum disorder : comparing the perspectives of children and their caregivers
Participation in activities in one’s home, school, and community setting is a human right that positively affects one’s well-being. However, children with disabilities often do not enjoy this human right. The bulk of existing participation research includes proxy interviews with caregivers to …
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Exploring and Promoting Family Connections at a Distance Through FamilySong
… American migrant families (with parents and children in the United States, and grandparents in Ecuador and Mexico), and one from the U.S., interact with FamilySong. We have found that, individually, family members have differing motivations and reactions to using the system. However, …
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Towards being heard : representations of the child's voice in custody evaluation reports by the Family Advocate's Office
… and legal contexts insofar as it relates to children's participation in matters that affect their lives. It set out the debates in the literature on whether not children should participate in family law matters, specifically custody disputes, and if so, how this participation should take …
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Perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy in a private kindergarten in China
… perspectives of practitioners, parents and children on the curriculum and pedagogy of a private kindergarten delivering the Western Multiple Intelligence (MI) programme. This ethnographic study captures practitioners and parents perspectives by employing multiple methods including …
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The engagement of children with learning difficulties within primary classroom interactions
… to further an understanding of the engagement of children with learning difficulties in curricular activities, by focusing on classroom interactions within mainstream primary schools. In the current educational climate, there is a shift towards increasing the participation of children with special …
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Negotiating childhood: the gendered experiences of street children and children in difficult circumstances in Tanzania
… this thesis analyses the experiences of children and young people in difficult circumstances in Tanzania from a gender perspective. Using the social construction of 'childhood' as the theoretical framework, the study is based on participatory, child-focused ethnographic research, which …
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