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Jue Wang – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
This article is a critical ethnographic study that examines rural Chinese girls' literacy practices in sanctioned and unsanctioned spaces, and their negotiations with the articulated and delivered literacy program. In particular, this study focuses on a group of 1st-grade girls, who I call the "Spy Girls," engaged in the celebration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Cui, Yixin Kelly; Clegg, Jennifer M.; Yan, Eleanor Fang; Davoodi, Telli; Harris, Paul L.; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
When learning about the existence of unobservable scientific phenomena such as germs or religious phenomena such as God, children are receptive to the testimony of other people. Research in Western cultures has shown that by 5 to 6 years of age, children--like adults--are confident about the existence of both scientific and religious phenomena. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Beliefs
Mackaye, Hazel – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1924
The theme or story of the pageant is Youth's search for a school in which his threefold being--body, mind, and soul--may find release and fulfillment. This fulfillment has been the purpose of education "down through the ages," however unconsciously or gropingly it has moved toward its goal. In the "school of to-day," however,…
Descriptors: School Activities, Educational Objectives, Educational History, Educational Principles