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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"poor children"”.
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Educating Lyon’s poor : children, charity, and commerce in the seventeenth century
… in the seventeenth century. Catering to Lyon’s poor youth, these schools taught proper Catholic comportment, reading, writing, counting, and the acquisition of craft skills. Official and unofficial records reveal the charity schools’ daily practices and pedagogical exercises as well as the goals …
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A comparison of homeless and housed poor children on psychological and environmental factors /
… existing research on homelessness has focused on children. Those studies that do exist suggest that homeless children experience serious psychological and environmental problems. However, findings are inconsistent and most are comprised of nonrepresentative samples, have a limited range of …
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Listening to all of the words: reassessing the verbal environments of young working-class and poor children
… one of the most commonly cited reasons that poor and working-class children fail at school is due to differences between the language within these children's homes and the language within the school. Unfortunately, these differences are often conceptualized as language deficits or language …
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Portable Space and Interior Design for Dentists
… Examination Survey in 2000, concludes that poor children suffer five times as much tooth decay as their more affluent peers. Furthermore, in poor children with tooth decay, almost 80% remain untreated. Poor dental health there-fore is a major health concern for under privileged families.The …
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A therapeutic landscape created by the children's Comprehensive Health Investment Project of the Roanoke Valley
… to meet the needs of disadvantaged infants and children. That need for coordinated health services exists among poor children in the Roanoke Valley. The local solution has developed since 1988 as the Children's Health Investment Project (CHIP). This thesis explores, from a geographic …
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Understanding the impact of user fees on gender in Tanzania
… user fees in health care services. The poor, children under five, Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning and maternity services are among the groups exempted from fees. However, it is observed that the fee exemption system in public health facilites is not functioning. According to …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… to the 1930s. The growing community concern with poor children in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was contingent on a notion of racialized citizenship formed upon a base of Anglo-Saxon superiority. Children functioned as an important symbol and resource in struggles over citizenship …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… and Whig advocates of education for the poor, however, these pedagogies proved inadequate for addressing the challenges faced by nineteenth-century poor children. Object Lessons helps to explain why humanities scholars portray education, alternately, as an ideological state apparatus used …
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Children and childhood under the Irish Poor Law, c. 1850-1914
This thesis examines the provision of poor relief for children under the Irish Poor Law during the post-Famine era, and it argues that prevailing social constructs of childhood had a major influence upon how welfare was provided for the children within the workhouse institutions. The Irish Poor …
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Collaboration of a Religious Order and a Public School Chartering Authority
… a variety of governmental agencies to educate poor children. Subsequently, the Christian Brothers developed a faculty formation regimen unique among charter schools that inspires the work of the Catalyst Schools to be carried on in a way that is consistent with the charisms of the order. The …
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Exploring beneficiary perceptions about the use of refurbished container classrooms for early childhood development in vulnerable communities in the Westen Cape
… of acceptable standards of ECD centres for poor children.
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From single mom to supermom : a transformative journey to heroine.
… other household makeups. Furthermore, women with children are more likely to live in extreme poverty, and over half of all poor children live in families headed by women. The impact of poverty housing is detrimental to the physiological and psychological well-being of children and their …
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Poverty and the public school system: Student persistence from elementary school to college graduation
<p>Children living in poverty are at an elevated risk for academic, behavioral and emotional problems compared with children who are in the middle and upper classes (Kim-Cohen et al., 2004). Students living in poverty generally have fewer opportunities in schools as schools are less likely to offer …
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Risk, family functioning, and child competence in head start families
… having a meal together. Information on children's socio-emotional competence in three domains--Regulatory Skills, Maladaptive Behaviours, and Social Relatedness, was obtained through teacher and experimenter ratings done in the children's Head Start classrooms. Hierarchical multiple …
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The Clemente Course in the Humanities and critical pedagogy : a comparative analysis of Earl Shorris and bell hooks on poverty, racism, imperialism and patriarchy
… intervention for adults who self-identity as "poor" and humanities instructors. The course was created in 1995 by journalist Earl Shorris, who based the curriculum on a Socratic method of pedagogy and the "great books" canon of Robert Hutchins. It began as a community-based initiative in urban …
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No School Left Behind: A Multiple Case Study of High-Performing Third-Grade Reading Programs in Low-Income Rural Schools in Southern Illinois
… for relevant research that meets the needs of poor children to increase academic achievement and educational opportunity. Currently, there is limited research that describes high-performing reading programs in low-income, rural southern Illinois schools that would guide comprehensive reform of …
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Challenges facing the recipients of the child support grant in the Umhlathuze Municipality
… Skweyiya, to put about 8 million orphans and poor children in the safety net in 2008. However as successful as it may be the Child Support Grant as a strategy is fraught with administrative problems and fraudulent activities committed by the recipients of the grant themselves. The writer's …
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A theory-driven evaluation of an early childhood school readiness programme in an under-served area in the Western Cape Province
… that are aimed at stimulating growth for young children. Resource constraints in low and middle-income countries contribute towards a lag in childhood development initiatives compared to high-income countries. This thesis focused on the context of South Africa where the government has a …
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