Health, Sports & Psychology
Gender groups
Emily Foster-Hanson talks about her own research (2023) showing how children form stereotypes about gender and how they are related to their parent’s political views...Transcript.
Health, Sports & Psychology
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
...research to argue that teens - unlike younger children - are competent decision-makers. They argue teens understand advertising and can make good choices about their food and snack consumption, so food advertisers should be free to target teens. Child and media psychologists have carried out experiments to identify when children learn to assess advertising. Most of this...
Languages
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
...researchers Elisha Babad, Jacinto Inbar and Robert Rosenthal provided evidence for the Golem effect “with low-expectancy students of high-bias teachers receiving a more negative treatment and performing less well than any of their peers”. [Models of Golem] Golem models awaiting purchasers in Prague The transformation of teacher expectations into student academic...
Education & Development
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
...centre on horses so the children could become familiar with them. Additionally, we had visitors from as far afield as Poland and Serbia who wanted to set up similar services in their countries. As a result of the education and support the young mothers received, some of them went on to set up their own child-minding businesses. [Police in Moss Side] During the mid-1990s,...
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Education & Development
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers
...research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities...It is widely recognised that supporting children to become capable and engaged readers plays an important role in their future success. Reading empowers; it facilitates education and...
Digital & Computing
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
...research opportunities arise. In fact, what is more astonishing is how well many women have done despite the constraints of a typical university career and the entrenched attitudes that have worked to men’s advantage. Put off by short-term contracts The select committee set out to discover what universities and government could do to change this situation. Although...
Education & Development
Do boys need male role models?
...Children and Working With Men. The research team carried out interviews in various locations across the UK with vulnerable young men and women and male and female staff in services for young offenders, care leavers, young carers, and disabled young people. In the interviews, some young men and staff used the term ‘male role model’, but there was a lack of clarity...
Education & Development
Cognition and gender development
...children’s gender development. In particular, researchers have suggested that children’s concepts of themselves as male or female play a critical role in encouraging children to identify and endorse gender roles. This notion was first set out at the same time as the early social learning approaches to gender development. The book that contained ......