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Fathering in India
This chapter seeks to explore fathering in the current urban context of India. Based on available research, it is argued that the expectations around...
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A Social Constructionist Perspective of Women’s Career Development
Developed by Mainero and Sullivan (2005), the KCM is based on the notion that women shift their career patterns by rotating different aspects of...
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Frameworks for Examining the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender on English Language Learners in K-12 Science Education in the USA
In this chapter, we argue that intersectionality and cultural sociology can be used as complementary theoretical frameworks to gain multifaceted...
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India: Streamlining the Academic Profession for a Knowledge Economy
In the land of the guru, the position of the teacher has for a long time been regarded with ambivalence. Traditionally, teachers were accorded the...
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The Ideal Worker or the Ideal Father: Organizational Structures and Culture in the Gendered University
While literature has focused on the ways in which organizational structures exclude women from the workplace, this article suggests that the inverse...
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Collaborative Play as New Methodology: Co-constructing Knowledge of Early Child Development in the CHILD Project in British Columbia, Canada
The Consortium for Health, Intervention, Learning and Development (CHILD) Project was a longitudinal program of research on early child development...
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Family and Community Perspectives: Voices from a Qualitative Statewide Study in the Southwest United States
This chapter draws from the family and community case-study component of a longitudinal, mixed-method evaluation of a statewide initiative for...
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Supporting Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Research studies have shown the importance of early intervention services for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families....
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Lifelong Learning and Life-Wide Work in Precarious Times: Reversing Policy-Making Optics
This chapter will argue that researchers and policy-makers on learning and work issues have been looking through the telescope backwards, and...
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A Political Analysis of Community Influence over School Closure
This study seeks to understand community member participation in and influence over an urban school district’s school closure process. Data from...
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Schools as Integrated Hubs for Young Children and Families
Canadian strategies for supporting young children and families increasingly begin with the question of what needs to happen at the community level...
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Parents and Jewish Educational Settings
There are many points of intersection between parents and the Jewish educational lives of their children. This chapter contains a summary, organized...
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Pacific Crystal Centre For Science, Mathematics, And Technology Literacy
The Centres for Research in Youth, Science Teaching and Learning (CRYSTAL; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [NSERC], 2009)...
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Supporting the Education and Care of Young Children: Putting into Practice What We Know
This chapter discusses understandings brought to light in recent years about how young children learn and about what practices best support their...
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Work and Career Orientations of Nurses
In the following two chapters the results of the empirical investigation with nurses and IT technicians working in Germany and the UK are presented...
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Rough and Tumble Play: An Investigation of the Perceptions of Educators and Young Children
This research investigated rough and tumble (R&T) play in two early childhood settings. Participants included 11 educators and 17 children (5 years...
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Women in Universities in Finland: Relative Advances and Continuing Contraditions
Finland is a small, sparsely populated country of 5.2 million people with long traditions of promoting gender equality and higher education for...
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Equity and Social Justice in Australian Education Systems: Retrospect and Prospect
Space, place, scale and flows are central in the formation of Australian national identity; marked by iconic landmarks and landscape. Australia’s...
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Children’s Memory: A Primer for Understanding Behavior
This paper provides the opportunity to understand children’s behavior from a memory viewpoint. For the last three decades, cognitive...