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Ma, Junqian; Hammer, Marie; Veresov, Nikolai – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
There is a consensus that the crises children encounter during the transition period might impact negatively on children's learning and development. However, from cultural-historical perspective, qualitative leap in development can hardly be achieved without crises. This paper, drawing upon cultural-historical theory as the framework and by using…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Student Adjustment, Child Development, School Readiness
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Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija; Salminen, Jenni; Torppa, Minna – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study quantified the possible learning losses in reading and math skills among a sample of Finnish Grade 3 children (n = 198) who spent 8 weeks in distance learning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. We compared their reading and math skill development trajectories across Grades 1, 2, and 4 to a pre-COVID sample (N…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills, Grade 3
Chanfreau, Jenny; Tanner, Emily; Callanan, Meg; Laing, Karen; Skipp, Amy; Todd, Liz – Institute of Education - London, 2016
The aims of this working paper were to investigate whether taking part in out of school activities during primary school is linked with end of primary school attainment and social, emotional and behavioural outcomes, for all children and specifically for children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The analysis is based on the Millennium…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Primary Education, Academic Achievement, Social Development
Suggate, Sebastian, Ed.; Reese, Elaine, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Contemporary Debates in Childhood Education and Development" is a unique resource and reference work that brings together leading international researchers and thinkers, with divergent points of view, to discuss contemporary problems and questions in childhood education and developmental psychology. Through an innovative format whereby leading…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Role of Education