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Programming for Older Children in School Age Care: Adult and Child Engagement with Developmental Pedagogies
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Bruce Hurst – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
How to work with older children has been ongoing question in Australian School Age Care (SAC) for over 30 years. Children aged 10-12 years are often spoken of as a problematic Other whose pose a risk to the younger children who attend SAC in higher proportions. This article aims to address the gap in research about what practices might work with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, After School Programs, Child Caregivers
Stories from Third Space - A Case and Considerations of Design Research Education from a Swedish Vantage Point
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Maria Hellström Reimer; Ramia Mazé – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2024
Debates continue about the positioning of design within research-driven universities. While the idea of autonomy has had a strong appeal, it is the bridging across established academic cultures that has proved especially effective for legitimizing design research and research education. Revisiting a conception of design as a 'Third Space' and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Educational Research, Knowledge Economy
Spatial Ideologies on Official Bilingualism and Co-Located Schools in Finland and South Tyrol, Italy
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Tuuli From; Verena Platzgummer; Petteri Laihonen; Fritjof Sahlström; Tamás Péter Szabó – Language and Education, 2024
In countries with several official languages, language separation often remains a structural principle in institutional education. Co-located schools, in which two autonomously administered schools with different languages of instruction share a physical space, may challenge this separation. Such schools have existed for a long time, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Facilities, Bilingual Schools, Finno Ugric Languages
"Medicus Interruptus" in the Behaviour of Children in Disadvantaged Contexts in Scotland
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Allan, Julie; Harwood, Valerie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
The medicalisation of the behaviour of children is a phenomenon that is attracting growing attention, with particular concern about the increased likelihood of children living in disadvantaged contexts receiving a medical diagnosis, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and treatment. This paper reports on a study of professionals…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries
OECD Review of the Secondary School Modernisation Programme in Portugal
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Blyth, Alastair – CELE Exchange, 2010
On 26 February in Lisbon a team from the OECD's Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) presented its first review of a national school building programme. The school building renovation programme in Portugal, which began in March 2007, involves the renovation of 332 schools by 2015. However, Portugal plans to complete 205 by the end of…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, Facility Improvement, Environmental Standards, Foreign Countries
Social Space: Philosophical Reflections
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Strauss, D. F. M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Our analysis of the phrase "social space" first of all concentrates on the modal or functional nature of the different aspects of reality, including the social and spatial aspects. Subsequently this leads to an analysis of the problem of modal analogies--one way in which an answer is given to the perennial philosophical problem…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Colleges, Educational Environment, Social Environment