This book addresses the cognitive, social, and psychological dimensions that shape students’ mathematics experience to help students become more capable, cooperative, and confident in the process of engaging mathematics. In these ways they can have a more valuable and enjoyable mathematics experience, and become more valued participants in society. The book focuses on the mathematics classroo…
This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students’ bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence bilingual identity development – sociocultural connection, investment and interaction. The cas…
Gender Studies; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family
Using the Dynamics of a Person-Context System to Describe Children’s Understanding of Air Pressure
Learning in Cognitive Niches
Interaction Design for Preventing Child Abuse
Increasing Awareness of Brazilian Family Health Team Professionals on Reporting Child Abuse: A Case Study
Human Trafficking of Young Women and Girls for Sexual Exploitation in South Africa
The Emergence of Scientific Reasoning
Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to do with the needs of children at risk. Wendy S. Hesford shows how the figure of the child-in-peril is predicated on racial division, which, she argues, is central to both cons…