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Inclusive Education
ABSTRACT The complex and collaborative work of early childhood practitioners (e.g., educators, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers) and families require... Read more
ABSTRACT During early childhood, practitioners and family members are often tasked with determining optimal approaches to support social skill development in young children with developmenta... Read more
ABSTRACT One in 30 American children experience homelessness, and yet educators are often unaware of the challenges these students face. Drawing on a qualitative study of 21 pre-service teac... Read more
ABSTRACT The term ‘higher apprenticeship’ has recently entered the vocational education and training (VET) lexicon in Australia, partly as a result of the ‘Apprenticeships training — alterna... Read more
ABSTRACT The issue of culturally diverse parenting has taken on increasing importance in Australia. While many studies have been conducted to explore parenting experiences of ethnic minority... Read more
ABSTRACT Around 60% of 17-year-old Australians have a job while at school, according to new data released today by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Many 17-year... Read more
ABSTRACT Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old pres... Read more
ABSTRACT ARACY has produced To have and to have not: Measuring child deprivation and opportunity in Australia which examines the extent to which children are having their needs met in five k... Read more
ABSTRACT Purpose: Research is only beginning to address the extent to which evidence-based parenting programmes have utility and merit within populations of children and families with neurod... Read more
ABSTRACT We analyze the effects of formal recognition of foreign higher education on employment probabilities and earnings for newly arrived immigrants in Sweden. Prior research has found th... Read more
SPOTLIGHT on VET: 2018 compilation Concise, clear and concrete pictures of countries’ vocational education and training systems: this is what the Cedefop Spotlight on VET series offers. Buil... Read more
4240.0 – Preschool Education, Australia, 2018 ABSTRACT This publication presents statistics on children enrolled in and attending a preschool program across Australia in 2018. It will... Read more
ABSTRACT Australians of Indigenous descent within south-eastern New South Wales and Victoria generally self-identify as Koorie. Gippsland’s Indigenous population is concentrated within the m... Read more
Journal of Sociology Vol. 55, No. 1, March 1, 2019 Georg Franck’s ‘The Economy of Attention’: Mental capitalism and the struggle for attention Robert van Krieken The economy of attention Geo... Read more
ABSTRACT Early Childhood Australia (ECA) and SNAICC – National Voice for our Children (SNAICC) are passionate about seeing all children, in particular Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander c... Read more