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Christiaan Bezuidenhout; Melanie Moen – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Violent crimes and domestic violence are notoriously high in South Africa, which leaves many children defenceless to struggle with emotions such as loneliness and sadness. The healthy development and socialisation of children can be difficult in a society characterised by domestic tribulations, poverty, crime, single-parent homes, and absent…
Descriptors: Child Development, Violence, Poverty, Crime
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Patty Cloran; Mélina Rivard; Andrew Bennett – International Journal of Nurture in Education, 2022
Nurture Groups (NGs) are a school-based intervention for children who missed out on healthy early attachment experiences and who, as a result, present with marked impairments in social, emotional and behavioural functioning upon school entry. Researchers have consistently found that students are significantly more likely to exhibit improvements in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Intervention, Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation
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Alistair Goold – On the Horizon, 2024
Purpose: This paper investigates the interplay between consequences in restorative practices (RP) and the synergies with responsive classroom, particularly in international schools. Addressing critics who deem RP a "soft option", the study defines "restorative consequences" within the RP framework. It analyses literature and…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Classroom Environment, Accountability, Barriers
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Page, Timothy; Eugene, Danielle; Morgan, Christine – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Narrative Story-Stem Tasks (NSST) assess young children's perceptions of close relationship qualities via the spontaneous narratives they create in response to story beginnings using doll-like figures. Most NSST research to date has focused on family relationships. This study extends this research to children's perceptions of relationships with…
Descriptors: Narration, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Toys
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Drake, Gabrielle; Edenborough, Michel; Falloon, Jan; Fattore, Tobia; Felton, Rhea; Mason, Jan; Mogensen, Lise – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
The emotional aspects of children's social relations have generally been marginalised in social science discourse. Children, who participated in the Australian segment of the Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB) project used various media to 'voice' the importance for their well-being of emotional relatedness with family, friends,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Safety, Well Being, Program Descriptions
Davis, Marilyn Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Teachers have reported that they have difficulty providing support to traumatized children and youth because of a lack of training in how to identify and respond to the needs of these children. The program, "Amazing Help Skills for Teachers to Unmask Trauma in Children and Youth" (AHSUM), is a trauma-focused training program, designed…
Descriptors: Trauma, Teacher Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Program Descriptions
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Pritchett, Rachel; Nowek, Gail; Neill, Cróna; Minnis, Helen – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
Studies examining the well-being of British children find that about 5-10% are at risk of developing problems. This study aimed to examine the emotional and behavioural development of six to eight year olds in an area of socio-economic deprivation in Glasgow (Scotland) and compare this with UK norms. Furthermore, it aimed to look at overlap…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Social Development, Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged
McConnico, Neena; Boynton-Jarrett, Renée; Bailey, Courtney; Nandi, Meghna – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
Traumatic experiences are common in early childhood and may have enduring consequences on health and development. Cost-effective and developmentally appropriate interventions are needed to support the educational success of children affected by trauma. The Supportive Trauma Interventions for Educators (STRIVE) Project emphasized strategies for…
Descriptors: Trauma, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Social Development
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Allison, Judy; Craig, Shirley – Kairaranga, 2014
This paper discusses the Boxall Profile as an assessment and intervention framework designed to support disadvantaged children in mainstream schools. The Boxall Profile was developed in the 1970s in the United Kingdom by Marjorie Boxall to identify children who had come into school unprepared to meet the demands of classroom life and needed…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary School Students, Social Support Groups, Profiles
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Drake, Kim; Belsky, Jay; Fearon, R. M. Pasco – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This article presents theoretical arguments and supporting empirical evidence suggesting that attachment experiences in early life may be important in the later development of self-regulation and conscientious behavior. Analyses of data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Role, Attachment Behavior, Self Control, Metacognition
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Dann, Ruth – Education 3-13, 2011
The focus of this article is on children who are "looked after" or adopted. Specifically it explores some of the possible effects of early life traumas and insecure attachments on brain development and subsequent learning in primary school. The article draws on a range of research which helps to outline possible difficulties which these…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain, Adoption, Attachment Behavior
Wolfgang, Jeff Drayton – ProQuest LLC, 2013
National educational achievement statistics show that academic underachievement is a significant problem for all students in the United States and for culturally diverse students in particular. The relationship of attachment and its interaction with traumatic stress has been proposed as an alternative explanation for the persistent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Underachievement, Student Diversity, Stress Variables
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Seibert, Ashley C.; Kerns, Kathryn A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Previous research has focused on who the primary attachment figures are for children in middle childhood, but there has been relatively little research on other important people who may fulfill attachment needs. The goal of the study was to identify who children use as non-parental attachment figures and to examine whether children's use varies…
Descriptors: Siblings, Parent Child Relationship, Interviews, Attitudes
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Isabella, Russell A.; Diener, Marissa L. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
Self-representations of 1st-, 3rd-, and 5th-graders' social and academic competence were examined in relation to children's personal (grade/age); family (attachment to parents, marital conflict, anxiety related to conflict); and school (teacher appraisals) contexts. Children who reported higher levels of security of attachment to parents and lower…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Grade 1, Grade 3
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Bosmans, Guy; Braet, Caroline; Koster, Ernst; De Raedt, Rudi – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
To increase our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in internal working models of attachment, this study investigated the relationship between secure attachment and attentional breadth to mother using a dual task design. The content of the cues (mother vs. unfamiliar women) and the duration of the presentation of the cues (34 msec,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cues, Mothers, Attachment Behavior
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