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Direct linkAnne Shinkfield – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
Across cultures, young children learn primarily within their family, with the family's culture positioning the values, language and purpose of children's learning toward the family's goals. Quality education begins within families, and at school entry age, children's learning within their families is critical to their educational success. However,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Non Western Civilization, Western Civilization, Cultural Differences
Researching Memories about Starting School: Autobiographical Narratives as a Methodological Approach
Turunen, Tuija A.; Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
This article reports on methodological issues in the study of autobiographical narratives about transition to school within a life course approach. The data consist of 89 Australian participants' recollections of starting school between 1928 and 1995. These narratives are considered as life reviews and part of the story of "continuing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
Lever-Chain, Judy – Literacy, 2008
This paper reports the first part of a 2-year longitudinal study, which examined the impact of age of entry to school on the reading development of 60 summer-born boys during Key Stage One. The sample was drawn from 18 schools in six Local Education Authorities operating different admissions policies. Thirty-one had attended nursery part-time,…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, School Districts, Males, Emergent Literacy
