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Driessen, Geert – Education Sciences, 2018
Early childhood education (ECE) intervention programs nowadays are the core of the educational disadvantage policy in the Netherlands. They offer institutional compensatory activities to young children who lack educational stimulation in the home environment. Target groups mainly comprise children from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds and of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Bezcioglu-Goktolga, Irem; Yagmur, Kutlay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study investigated the family language policy of second-generation Turkish immigrant families in the Netherlands by exploring their language ideologies, practices, and management strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, data were collected through a set of observations and interviews with 20 families. Transcriptions of interviews and memos…
Descriptors: Turkish, Immigrants, Family Environment, Language Usage
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Cabus, Sofie J.; Ariës, Roel J. – Educational Review, 2017
Theory and evidence indicate that, if family size grows, the younger children will get less parental involvement than the older children. These differences in parental involvement through birth order may impact academic achievement if, and only if, parental involvement is an important determinant of children's educational attainment. The oldest…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Birth Order
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Pasztor, Adel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
With reference to capital theories and rational choice theory, this paper aims to understand how abilities and schooling ambitions are intertwined with social class, gender and ethnicity. By drawing on 16 in-depth interviews carried out with highly educated second-generation Turks in the Netherlands, the paper discusses the resources,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Educational Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Role of Education
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Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M.; Suarez-Orozco, Carola; Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
Schools the world over are being transformed by growing numbers of immigrant-origin children. As schools face the challenge of educating linguistically, culturally, and racially diverse students, globalization imposes yet another set of demands on education. In this article we examine the varied pathways taken by immigrant-origin children. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Environment
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Scheele, Anna F.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Mayo, Aziza Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and bilingual immigrant Moroccan-Dutch (n = 46) and Turkish-Dutch (n = 55) 3-year-olds, speaking Tarifit-Berber, a nonscripted language, and Turkish as their first language (L1), respectively. Despite…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages