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Saracco, Susanna – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2016
Philosophy of childhood is a field of inquiry in which the protagonists are adults, who are trying to understand children, and children, who are trying to be understood by adults. These two operating agents must find a common ground that renders their communication possible. This piece develops and illustrates the notion that no theorisation can…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Friedrichs, Henrike; von Gross, Friederike; Herde, Katharina; Sander, Uwe – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
This research project was conducted to explore parental attitudes towards and their mediation of video games. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 28 parents (14 couples) assessed their media-related habitus, their media-educational habitus and the interaction between the habitus. The results show that the media-related habitus has a…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Video Games, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
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Russo, Theresa J.; Fallon, Moira A. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Family dynamics and the individual differences of each family member can impact their stress. For families in the military, stress occurs regularly due to factors such a reassignments, deployments, and the frequency of changes. For some families, the stress that occurs over time helps family members to develop resiliency. Learning to cope with…
Descriptors: Coping, Stress Management, Military Personnel, Resilience (Psychology)
Lerner, Claire; Nightingale, Marisa O. – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
So much more is known now than a generation ago about how and when brain architecture is built and how deeply it is influenced by early experiences. We know for certain now that the way adult caregivers, parents in particular, interact with children during the first 5 years can actually shape their brain architecture for life--for better and for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Parent Attitudes, Child Advocacy, Childhood Needs
Ina-Egbe, Esther Funmilayo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study was conducted to examine counselors' experience of providing services to looked-after children in the United Kingdom. The generic qualitative design was used. A purposeful sample of 15 counselors was used and semi-structured interviews were conducted. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis and constant…
Descriptors: Counselors, Experience, Foster Care, Foreign Countries
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Buck, Brandon – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2014
This paper examines the history of welfare policy discourse in the United States since the publication of the "Moynihan Report" (1967) and traces its implications for contemporary education policy research. The central thesis is that an overemphasis on "parents" historically invites unwarranted assumptions about autonomy and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational History, Welfare Services, Parent Rights
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Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
In 1984, the "Australian Journal of Environmental Education" commenced. At that time, this author was 6 years old, in her first year of primary school at Tieri State School in Central-Western Queensland, and knew nothing of the "Australian Journal of Environmental Education" (AJEE), or environmental education for that matter.…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Research, Children, Early Adolescents
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Perry, Sheila; Clarke, Marie – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
This article outlines parents' struggle to secure adequate educational resources for their child(ren) with special educational needs within the Irish State system. The authors challenge the view that legislation facilitates practical advances that are meaningful to individual families. This small-scale exploratory study reports the findings from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Legal Problems, Lawyers
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Gabbidon, Kemesha; Chenneville, Tiffany; Adeli, Scholastic – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
Kenya has the twelfth largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In 2016, there was an estimated 1.6 million people living with HIV in Kenya. Youth ages 15-24 accounted for over half (51%) of the HIV incidence reported in 2015, a significant increase from 2013 where youth accounted for 29% of all new cases. The purpose of this paper is to review HIV…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, School Psychologists
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Zhang, Junhua; Zhang, Yu; Xu, Fang – World Journal of Education, 2019
Compared with non-left-behind children, left-behind children in China have lower social adaptation and the underlying reasons deserve further study. This systematic review and meta-analysis included 29 studies published between 2006 and 2019. Protective factors of Left-behind children's social adaptation were resilience (r=0.574), self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, At Risk Persons, Social Adjustment
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Battle, Dolores E. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 35 million people around the world have been displaced because of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, or tsunamis. In addition, there are a number of persons who have been displaced or who have fled their homeland due to civil conflict or war. The WHO estimates that between…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Natural Disasters, War, Conflict
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Kindsvatter, Aaron; Desmond, Kimberly J. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2013
This article describes the use of attachment theory to address parent-child conflict. The authors propose that parent-child conflict is attributable to the unmet attachment needs of both children and parents and that attachment insecurity results in problematic patterns of attachment in parent-child relationships. Three conversational frames are…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Theories, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict
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Devaney, Carmel; Byrne, Paul – Child Care in Practice, 2015
The Family Welfare Conference (FWC) is a model used within the child protection and welfare services to address concerns about the needs of children and their family's ability to respond to these needs. The FWC model operates in partnership with family members, who participate in identifying both the issues of concern and potential responses to…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Child Safety, Welfare Services, Childhood Needs
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Pickard, Katherine E.; Ingersoll, Brooke R. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Research within the autism spectrum disorder field has emphasized the role of socioeconomic status in shaping parents' ability to access services for their child with autism spectrum disorder. However, research has yet to explore the possible mechanisms underlying this relationship. This study sought to address this research gap by examining the…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Socioeconomic Status, Parents
Gilpin, Ansley; Mennen, Ferol; Pakulak, Eric; Sommer, Teresa Eckrich; Dwyer, Kathleen M.; Cannon, Erin; Bell, Theodore; Boxmeyer, Caroline; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Chor, Elise; DeCaro, Jason; Dela Cruz, Kenn Lacsamana; Giuliano, Ryan; Gomsrud, Melissa; Karns, Christina; Klein, Scott; Lochman, John; Longoria, Zayra; Molina, Abigail Palmer; Monro, William; Neville, Helen; O'Neil, Lauren; Reynolds, Mary Margaret; Sabol, Terri J.; Sclafani, Marisa; Tighe, Lauren A. – Administration for Children & Families, 2020
This brief introduces four research projects testing promising interventions funded under the Head Start University Partnerships (HSUP): Dual-Generation Approaches1 grant program. Two-generation approaches are typically designed to address problems associated with poverty by combining child-focused services with adult-focused services. Head Start…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Early Intervention, Childhood Needs
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