1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. Parental Involvement in PIRLS-2011 -- 4. Modeling Parental Involvement -- 5. Relation between Parental Involvement and Student Achievement in PIRLS-2011 -- 6. Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- Appendix: Technical details on the implementation of the bi-factor model.Open AccessThis volume offers insights from modelling measures of parental i…
Preface: John Siraj-Blatchford -- 1. Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood Care and Education: An Introduction; John Siraj-Blatchford and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson -- 2. The OMEP ESD Research and Development Project; John Siraj-Blatchford -- 3. Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Development in Chile; Selma Simonstein -- 4. Early Childhood Education For Sustainable Dev…
This book proposes a new theory on children’s thinking (cognitive) development. According to this theory, the stages of said development should be divided into four stages: first, the stage of animalistic thinking (birth–before possessing basic language ability); second, the stage of elementary thinking (beginning to possess basic language ability–beginning to possess proficient oral abil…
Introduction; Nel Noddings -- This Handbook; Helen E Lees -- Section 1: Thinking Differently -- Chapter 1: The Mind of the Educator; Kris De Meyer; Chapter 2: an ordinary day; Philipp Klaus -- Chapter 3: Mother Nature’s Pedagogy: How Children Educate Themselves; Peter Gray -- Chapter 4: Using the Future in Education: Creating Space for Openness, Hope and Novelty; Keri Facer -- Chapter 5: Prom…
Fictional Narratives in DLLs -- Collection, Analysis, and State of Research -- The Developmental Continuum of Narrative Skills -- The Role of Peers in Language Acquisition and a Conceptualization of Peer-Assisted Learning.The current work follows the premise that fictional oral narratives represent socio-emotionally and academically relevant communicative practices. Two studies are presented, a…
PART I: TYPICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN -- Typical Language development of monolingual Spanish-speaking children by Sonia Mariscal & Alejandra Auza Benavides -- Language development in bilingual Spanish-Catalan children with and without Specific Language Impairment: A longitudinal perspective by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucia Buil-Legaz, Raül López-Penadés &…
1. Summary of Key Findings -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Overview of the Structures of the Early Childhood Education and Care Systems in the Participating Countries.-4. Public Policy -- 5. Delivery Models and Providers -- 6. Participation and Enrollment -- 7. Supporting Quality in ECE -- 8. Expectations for Child Outcomes, Assessment and Reporting -- 9. Individual Country Profiles -- 10. Final Refle…
Part 1: Development With a Disability -- 1. Beyond a bio-medical and social model of disability: A cultural-historical approach -- 2. Early development (infant) -- 3. Toddler – preschool -- 4. School-age -- Part 2: Developmental and Educational Themes during Early Childhood -- 5. Impairments in sensation and perception -- 6. Emotional development and mental and behavioural difficulties -- 7. …
Foreword Jaap Doek -- Introduction. Antonella Invernizzi and Manfred Liebel -- 1 The 3Ps of Judith Ennew: person, philosophy, pragmatism. Brian Milne -- 2 Judith Ennew and the Knowing Children project. Henk van Beers, Jasmin Lim and Prof. Roxana Waterson -- 3 Children out-of-place’ and their ‘unwritten rights’. Alejandro Cussiánovich -- 4 Other Children, Other Youth: Against Eurocentrism…
Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Tracing Conceptualizations of Well-Being: Locating the Child in Well-Being Discourse -- Chapter 2. Researching Children’s Understandings of Well-Being -- Part II -- Chapter 3. Overviewing a Child Standpoint on Well-Being -- Chapter 4. Agency, Autonomy and Asymmetry in Child–Adult Relations -- Chapter 5. Safety and Ontological Insecurity: Conte…