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Melly Wilson; Adhann Iwashita; Kathlina S. Martin – Region 19 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The concept of Funds of Identity (FOI) comes from a theory of learning that emphasizes the importance of recognizing and using students' cultural, linguistic, and personal backgrounds to enhance their educational experiences. FOI is like a "toolbox" of resources that people gather over time. These resources are shaped by historical,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Cultural Background, Student Characteristics, Educational Experience
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Louise Khalid – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2016
The focus of this paper is on the development of early-years pedagogy for a beginning teacher during her initial training and newly qualified teacher year. A series of interviews was conducted with the beginning teacher and the class teacher and mentor she worked alongside. The findings suggested that a shared pedagogy of early-years practice…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Beginning Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Attitudes
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Read, Jane – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
This article explores policy development for under-fives and its implementation in nursery schools in the first two decades of the twentieth century and draws parallels with current policy initiatives such as Sure Start and the "Troubled Families" programme. It interrogates how discourse on British racial health shaped policy and…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Welfare Services, Public Policy, Rhetoric
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Broadhead, Pat; Armistead, Jo – Children & Society, 2007
This study reports on research into a Local Authority initiative in York, in North Yorkshire which aimed to establish early education and childcare partnerships between its 51 primary schools and local early-years providers from the community-voluntary and private sectors in close geographical proximity to the schools. The initiative was named…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Partnerships in Education, Community Coordination, School Community Programs
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Egan, Bridget A. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2009
Recent developments in early childhood education in the UK and other parts of Europe have emphasised the importance of dialogue between adults and children. In the UK, the EPPE project paid particular attention to the role of extended child-centred conversations ("sustained shared thinking"--Sylva et al. 2003) as an important element or…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Speech Communication, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Melhuish, Edward; Belsky, Jay; Anning, Angela; Ball, Mog; Barnes, Jacqueline; Romaniuk, Helena; Leyland, Alastair – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: An area-based initiative, Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs), was established by the UK government to reduce social exclusion through improving the well-being of children aged 0-3 years and their families in disadvantaged communities; a true community intervention in that all children under four and their families in specified areas…
Descriptors: Community Services, Early Intervention, Child Rearing, Social Isolation