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Kudirat Alli-Balogun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Learning and teaching mathematics can be challenging, especially considering its importance for academic, occupational, and personal success, yet disparities persist in achievement among diverse racial and ethnic groups. Racial inequality, educational bias, and injustice impact success in mathematics education, with White and Asian-American…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Kindergarten, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Aptitude
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Corr, L.; Davis, E.; Cook, K.; Mackinnon, A.; Sims, M.; Herrman, H. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
Family day-care (FDC) educators work autonomously to provide care and education for children of mixed ages, backgrounds and abilities. To meet the demands and opportunities of their work and regulatory requirements, educators need access to context-relevant and high quality information. No previous research has examined how and where these workers…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Child Care Centers, Child Care, Access to Education
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Kazlauskiene, Ausra; Gaucaite, Ramute; Juodaityte, Audrone – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2011
Society qualitatively participates in the implementation of corresponding tasks only when it is informed. An analysis of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development of Lithuania expresses concern regarding shortage of information: information receivers are scantily informed, whilst information providers themselves are scantily informed about…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Access to Information, Preschool Education
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Shenton, Andrew K.; Nesset, Valerie; Hayter, Susan – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2008
Although information has become increasingly prevalent in young people's lives, minimal research has addressed children's attitudes to the word itself. This paper scrutinizes questionnaire-based data to explore how 45 eight- to ten-year-old Canadians understood the term. "Information" was often considered to be material that met a need,…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Student Attitudes, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests
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Thorsen, Arlene Arstad; Bo, Inge; Loge, Inger Kristine; Omdal, Heidi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
The study has focused on the transition from day-care centre to school. Questionnaires were completed by staff at several day-care centres, at three schools recruiting pupils from these and by the parents of these children. Schools were asked what kind of information they thought it was important to receive from the other parties about children…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, School Surveys, Child Care Centers