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Direct linkScholes, Laura – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
A seminal body of work emerged in the 1980s recognising reading as a site for gender and class identity work. However, understandings around working-class girls' reading identities are invisible in the current Australian education policy space where gender equalities with respect to curriculum subjects have disappeared. This paper draws on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Females, Peer Acceptance
Tiggemann, Marika; Slater, Amy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between media exposure and body image concerns in preteenage girls, with a particular focus on the Internet. A sample of 189 girls (aged 10-12 years) completed questionnaire measures of media consumption and body image concerns. Nearly all girls (97.5%) had access to the Internet in their home.…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Females, Profiles, Social Networks
Amorim, Paulo R. S.; Byrne, Nuala Mary; Hills, Andrew P. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
The purpose of this study was to verify within- and between-day repeatability and variability in children's oxygen uptake (VO[subscript 2]), gross economy (GE; VO[subscript 2] divided by speed) and heart rate (HR) during treadmill walking based on self-selected speed (SS). Fourteen children (10.1 plus or minus 1.4 years) undertook three testing…
Descriptors: Physiology, Physical Activities, Responses, Reliability
Salmon, Jo; Timperio, Anna; Chu, Binh; Veitch, Jenny – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This study aimed to determine cross-sectional associations of dog ownership, dog walking, and physical activity (PA) among children and their parents. Objective measures of PA were obtained for children ages 5-6 and 10-12 years from 19 primary schools across Melbourne, Australia. Parents self-reported their PA, dog ownership, and frequency of dog…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Mothers, Ownership, Physical Activity Level
