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...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 ......

...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...

...research and innovation to transform education...[Paper illustration - lots of hands reaching for the world in the sky] We all are called to engage in a dialogue based on two fundamental principles: the right to quality education throughout life, and education as a public endeavour and a common good. Home education is a form of educational provision alternative to...

...children reading with their teacher] In England, where reading for pleasure is mandated (DfE, 2013), the term is often used interchangeably with ‘reading for enjoyment’ or developing a ‘love of reading’. Such reading can involve any kind of text: novels, magazines, poetry, comics or non-fiction for example, in electronic as well as in printed form. It can take...

...research with 99 home-educating families. Children had originally enrolled at school and been expected to remain in mainstream formal education. For example, one parent ‘assumed they would go down the same route as me and go to school and then maybe uni.’ Another believed ‘they would be supported as an individual throughout the mainstream education that we thought...