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Tsakpounidou, Kalliopi; Loutrari, Ariadne; Tselekidou, Freideriki; Baskini, Maria; Proios, Hariklia – Health Education Journal, 2020
Background: Stroke is a worldwide leading cause of disability, and around 50 million people are affected by stroke annually. Public stroke educational and awareness programmes can make a great deal of difference. Young children are in key position to seek urgent medical care if grandparents suffer a stroke, as grandparents are often their…
Descriptors: Health Education, Role Playing, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Vartiainen, Henriikka; Leinonen, Teemu; Nissinen, Saara – Educational Media International, 2019
Connected learning is claimed to support children to connect their formal learning with wider social network and media tools in an interest-driven and inquiry-oriented manner. In a formal context there are few successful implementations of connected learning. This study explores how a kindergarten community of 8 adults and 42 children, equipped…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Networks, Social Media, Sociocultural Patterns
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Ferguson, Jason L.; Ready, Douglas D. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
Inherited privilege and status remain powerful factors in the distribution of opportunity in American life. These transfers of socioeconomic resources across generations are facilitated by the links between adult educational attainment and children's cognitive skills. Our current study expands the notion of social reproduction beyond this narrow…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Young Children, Grandchildren
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Quigley, Cassie F. – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Through the use of narrative enquiry, this paper tells the story of how a kindergarten teacher in an all-girls' school incorporates family and community members' involvement to the construction of the congruent Third Space present in the classroom, and the ways the girls respond to this involvement, thereby providing a successful model for other…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Single Sex Schools, Females