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Rodríguez, Manuel; Kohen, Raquel; Delval, Juan – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Pollution phenomena are complex systems in which different parts are integrated by means of causal and temporal relationships. To understand pollution, children must develop some cognitive abilities related to system thinking and temporal and causal inferential reasoning. These cognitive abilities constrain and guide how children understand…
Descriptors: Pollution, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Ability, Attitude Change
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Villarroel, José Domingo; Ros, Iker – International Education Studies, 2013
This study examines the conceptual understanding of the mechanisms of rainwater among elementary educational level children by means of two different experimental procedures: a semi-open questionnaire and drawings. The sample study comes from four different schools located in The Basque Autonomous Community (Spain) and is comprised of 124 children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Childhood Attitudes
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Brown, Alan; Bimrose, Jenny – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
The study, upon which this special issue focuses, used narrative interviews to investigate how learning can support workers' transitions in the labour market in five European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). The five countries were chosen to represent very different contexts in the way learning can support career and labour…
Descriptors: Career Change, Labor Market, Interviews, Role of Education
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Gomez Espino, Juan Miguel – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2013
The objective of this article is to identify and analyse discourses in Spain on intensive parenting in the context of the changes that have taken place in relations between parents and their children in contemporary societies. To do this, the author analyses the discourses from 16 in-depth interviews carried out with parents and from 14 focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship