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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
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...
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Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
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...
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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
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...
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Gender groups
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.
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Do boys need male role models?
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...
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Cognition and gender development
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 ......
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Article 15 mins
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...children’s development. It must be emphasized that temperament is concerned with individual differences and therefore the impact on development centres on associations between temperament and variations in children’s cognitive and social development. There are several ways in which this can occur and these will be considered in turn. Direct effect of temperament on...
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Article 15 mins