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Playing with Happiness: Biopolitics, Childhood and Representations of Play
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Saltmarsh, Sue; Lee, I-Fang – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
Play is a central discourse in policy and practice pertaining to young children's learning, development and well-being in many countries around the world. Dominant ways of understanding and advocating for play often construct universalising notions of children and childhood, overlooking that play is always-already culturally situated and…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Child Development, Psychological Patterns
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) of Newcomer and Refugee Students: Beliefs, Practices and Implications for Policies across OECD Countries. OECD Education Working Papers. No. 266
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McBrien, Jody – OECD Publishing, 2022
Social and emotional learning (SEL) strengthens students' abilities to regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviours and to interact successfully with others. There are an array of important social and emotional skills (SES): goal-setting, working to one's potential, resilience, creativity, perseverance, problem solving, and caring about the…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Refugees, Immigrants, Goal Orientation
Re-Engagement to Where? Low SES Students in Alternative-Education Programmes on the Path to Low-Status Destinations?
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Smyth, John; McInerney, Peter; Fish, Tim – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
This paper poses a rarely asked question--Re-engagement to where? Or to what valued social purpose for the young people concerned? Drawing from a larger project funded by the Australian Research Council, the paper analyses the "portraits" of two young people whose lives were seemingly better within a re-engagement programme, but whose…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Groups, Foreign Countries, Track System (Education)
Dark Funds of Knowledge, Deep Funds of Pedagogy: Exploring Boundaries between Lifeworlds and Schools
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Zipin, Lew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
Among social justice efforts to make curriculum more engaging and achieving for "less advantaged" learners, the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach, as developed by Moll, Gonzalez and associates (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 1992), offers sound conception and a track-record. The Redesigning…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Influences
MCEETYA Four-Year Plan, 2009-2012: A Companion Document for the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians
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Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2009
This Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth (MCEETYA) four-year plan outlines the key strategies and initiatives Australian governments will undertake in each of these eight areas to support the achievement of the educational goals for young Australians and will be reviewed and updated as needed. The plan is aligned with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Australian Association of Early Childhood Educators: Papers of the National Conference (1st, Ursula College, Canberra, May 17-18, 1975).
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Australian Association of Early Childhood Educators, Canberra. – 1975
Papers included are: (1) Presidential Address, (2) Challenges to Early Childhood Educators, (3) The Home Start Program in the U.S.A., (4) Early Childhood Training Programs, (5) Initiatives being Taken in Early Childhood Education Field by the Australian Government, (6) Audiovisual Materials for Parents' Discussion Groups, (7) The Role of the Adult…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiovisual Aids, Child Development, Curriculum