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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"children's perspectives"”.
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Children's perspectives on child well-being : a pathway to a sustainable futures
… environmental domains, which are interrelated. Children’s well-being influences their quality of life during childhood and later as adults, and is influenced by the social, economic, and environmental contexts in which they live. Many children in South Africa live in contexts that have negative …
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Play and paediatric health: exploring children's perspectives of play in the context of early health adversity
Background <br>Children possess rights to play and to express themselves on matters related to childhood. Though it is recognised that children can be experts of their own lives, the realisation of these rights and children’s agency is contextually dependent, especially in circumstances of health …
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Same but Different: Exploring Young Children's Understandings About Disability
… organization and structure and how they affected children's relationships with and perspectives about peers with disabilities. Furthermore, study findings are linked with existing literature on children's perspectives about peers with disabilities, as well as literature from the field of …
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Understanding Death in Cultural Context: A Study of Mexican Children and Their Families
The present study addressed young children's socialization with respect to death in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The goal was to understand parents' and children's perspectives on death within the context of local beliefs and practices. This study was informed by concepts and methods from clinical …
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Images and perspectives : young children and digital photography
… explores the use of digital photography by young children as a visual language for expressing their views regarding the outdoor environment. It was carried out in a licensed daycare setting with a group of twenty-one 2-4 year old children. A qualitative multi-method design was used, based on the …
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Presidential Communication to Children: An Analysis of Persuasive Strategies in Presidential Speeches
… the content of presidential communication to children, specifically the only three presidential speeches that have been designed for children. These three speeches are President Barack Obama's speech to children in 2009, George H.W. Bush's speech to children in 1991, and Ronald Reagan's speech …
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Children's acting senses in place-making: mapping and analysing children's reflective individual and collective sensepointscapes in a primary school playground renewal co-design project with architecture students.
Children's preferences for place-responsive architecture and place-making are not easy to explain. Conversing effectively about these subjects is also a challenge, not just for children but also design professionals and the general public more broadly. This thesis represents an in-depth enquiry …
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Child spirituality and holistic ministry: a qualitative study in Wonji Shoa, Ethiopia
… views and actions on the spiritual dimension of children among stakeholders in positions of influence. The research focuses on an in-depth understanding of a group of Ethiopian children's perspectives and experiences of spirituality and the implication this may have on holistic child ministry run …
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Time to stop blaming parents: A case study of parents’ and children’s experiences of family life and in marginalised communities with implications for parenting interventions, educational welfare policy and practice
The inclusion of the voices of parents and children from marginalised communities is quite a departure from traditional rigid assumptions in parenting research. This study sought to explore parents' experience of family life and participation in the universal roll-out of Parents Plus Children's …
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An exploratory investigation of middle childhood friendships, quality of care and children's satisfaction with school-age care programs
… friendships in relation to 8-to-12-year-old children's levels of satisfaction and willingness to return to school-age programs the following year. Various aspects of middle childhood friendships were explored in this study: (1) number of friendships, (2) types of friendships, and (3) …
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Stadsbarndom : Om barns vardag i en modern förort
Children's conditions in urban environments are an important theme for understanding modern childhood, yet children have rarely been asked about their views of urban childhood conditions. The aim of the dissertation is: To describe the experts' attempts to create good conditions for growing up in …
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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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Using a mosaic-based approach to construct children's understanding of safe space in school
… ‘safe space’ at school, defined as areas which children could access when emotionally dysregulated. This conceptually confused term, originating in 1960’s civil rights movements and popularised through psychotherapy, has recently been described as the second-most popular strategy for supporting …
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Play in Hospital - Through the Looking-Glass: Exploring Children and Young People’s Perspectives regarding their Interactions with Health Play Professionals
Background: Children and young people are confronted and challenged, on many levels, by illness and hospitalisation. Child-focused anthropologists have described how children utilise play and imagination as tools to cope and make meaning of their illness experiences. Over time, research on the …