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Negotiating Gendered Identities in Primary School = Children’s Lives with T…
This open access book explores young children’s lives in their later years at primary school, from their own point of view. It focuses on how girls and boys experience life in their informal peer group and explores the dynamics of friendships and social hierarchies, identities and how time is spent outside of lessons, including the use of social media. The author interrogates how children mak…
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- 1
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- 9783031691843
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- XIX, 281 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest: Response and Continuity of Indigenous Pott…
The Spanish colonization dramatically interrupted the autonomous development of ancient Mesoamerican culture. Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also an extraordinarily creative time period in which material culture reflected indigenous peoples’ varied responses and adaptations to the changing circumstances. This work pre…
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- Volume: 2
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- 978-90-04-21745-4
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Reading Success in the Primary Years = An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Ap…
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better support those students who struggle with reading. It provides an easily accessible overview of each step of the process involved in implementing this approach and highlights the c…
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- 9789811534928
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- XVI, 149 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kin…
Author: Stefania Pastore In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner spirituality was a widespread response to the increasing repression of religious dissent enacted by the Inquisition. Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims…
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- Volume: 85
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- 978-90-04-71423-6
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Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe : Talking in Everyday Life
This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instance…
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- 978-3-031-46630-4
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- XX, 350
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Teaching Mathematics as to be Meaningful – Foregrounding Play and Childrenâ…
This open access book’s theme is Teaching mathematics as to be meaningful – foregrounding children’s play and perspectives. It discusses the relation between teachers, children and mathematical content within the context of play with a particular focus on the framing of these relations within this context, which is an important theme in the debate on whether teaching should be integrated …
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- 9783031376634
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- XII, 260
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(Re)theorising More-than-parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education an…
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts with a critical reflection on the colonial undertones of parental involvement (PI) and acknowledges a strong political will to improve this aspect of early childhood educati…
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- 978-3-031-38762-3
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- XXI, 203
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 40)
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- 370 RET
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professional…
This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There …
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- 978-3-031-14583-4
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- XII, 181
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 38)
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- 370 MET
Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education
This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phyl…
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- 978-3-030-15958-0
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- XIII, 183
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 26)
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- 370 PRA p
Outdoor Learning and Play : Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural For…
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions for children's play, formal and informal learning and cultural formati…
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- 978-3-030-72595-2
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- XV, 201
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 34)
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- 370 OUT
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