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Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle; Grootenboer, Peter; Pendergast, Donna – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2019
This study presents an exploration of the lived experiences of eight twice-exceptional children through their own voices. The narratives reveal a meta-narrative of stigma where identified contextual factors related to discrimination, perceptions of difference, and stigmatized views of disability, giftedness, and subsequently twice-exceptionality.…
Descriptors: Gifted Disabled, Experience, Personal Narratives, Social Bias
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McKay, Kathy; Shand, Fiona – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2016
While children both understand the concept of, and have died by, suicide, little research has been conducted on children's experiences of healthcare systems during and after a suicidal crisis. This article focuses on three case studies of mothers with suicidal daughters and aims to describe the health service experiences of parents whose children…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Health Services, Suicide, Trauma
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Bland, Derek; Sharma-Brymer, Vinathe – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
A visual research project addressed school children's concepts of ideal learning environments. Drawings and accompanying narratives were collected from Year 5 and Year 6 children in nine Queensland primary schools. The 133 submissions were analysed and coded to develop themes, identify key features and consider the uses of imagination. The…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Imagination
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Graham, Anne; Fitzgerald, Robyn – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2010
Children's participation is increasingly ambiguous and contested. Such complexity emerges in response to its emancipatory possibilities as well as unresolved tensions and power practices. The authors argue that closer attention must now be given to the interpretative milieu of children's participation, that is, to the act of dialogue that has…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Teaching Methods, Child Role, Foreign Countries
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Crestani, Catherine-Ann M.; Clendon, Sally A.; Hemsley, Bronwyn – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2010
Background: This study examined the narrative vocabulary of typically developing children for the purpose of guiding vocabulary selection for children with complex communication needs. Method: Eight children in their first year of schooling (aged 5 years 0 months to 5 years 8 months) and 10 children in their second year of schooling (aged 6 years…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Child Language, Vocabulary, Children
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Saunders, Bernadette J.; Goddard, Chris – Children & Society, 2008
Despite ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children remain the only people in Australia against whom violence may be justified as discipline. This article presents findings from qualitative research conducted in the State of Victoria, in which children were invited to contextualise incidents of physical…
Descriptors: Discipline, Childrens Rights, Children, Foreign Countries