She will be setting up learning situations which are designed to advance the child's linguistic and cognitive development, ... Throughout the book the analyses show that there exists a complex network of interrelated family environment ...

Author: Kevin Marjoribanks

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351847261

Category: Education

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First published in 1979, this study is one of the first works of educational research to include detailed assessments of family environments in an analysis of performance of children at their schools. Much of the research is based on data collected from families in Australia, Canada and England and the findings have been integrated with results from other family environments research. The study also explores social and psychological conceptual positions that will have relevance for further educational investigations. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the relationship between family environments and education, as well as the sociology of education.

Lerner, R. M., & Spanier, G. B. Child influences on marital and family interaction: A life-span perspective. New York: Academic Press, 1978. Marjoribanks, K. Families and their learning environments: An empirical analysis.

Author: Luis Laosa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781468441727

Category: Social Science

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The chapters in this volume reflect the work and thoughts of a group of researchers interested in studying families as learning environments for children. As we proceed in our quest to identify and understand with some specificity the familial factors associated with the intellectual and social development of children, the time is ripe for the reintroduction of families as units of study in psychological and educational research. With the increasing focus on the changing organization of the modern family, it is of more than academic interest to identify those variables that play a significant role in the child's development. Such knowledge certainly should help in the planning and design of appropriate and credible applications. These chapters, representing a broad spectrum of research, derive from papers presented and discussed at a working conference on families as learning environments sponsored by Educational Testing Service in Prince ton, New Jersey. Following the conference, the papers were revised and edited for inclusion in this volume. We are indebted to a number of people whose contributions helped make the conference a success: Samuel J. Messick and Winton H. Manning for their support; Jan Flaugher, Jessie Cryer, Linda Kozelski, and Betty Clausen for assistance with local arrangements; and William Nemceff, Kathleen Lingle, and Kalina Gonska for help with the audio-recording of the proceedings. LUIS M. LAOSA IRVING E. SIGEL vii Contents Introduction ..................................... Xl Luis M. Laosa Chapter 1. Families as Facilitators of Children's Intellectual Development at 3 Years of Age: A Causal Analysis ........................................ .

Author: Barbara Bodner-Johnson

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:7635469

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Everyday Expertise and Families in Science Centers In a study of museum-going families in a large science center, Zimmerman, ... To get a sense of how people were using the learning environment to support their sense-making practices, ...

Author: David Jonassen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136702600

Category: Education

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Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations. Leading experts describe the most important contemporary theories that form the foundation of the conception and design of student-centered learning environments and new applications of educational technologies. This book is well suited as a textbook for courses in instructional design, educational psychology, learning theory, curriculum theory and design, and related areas. The rise of constructivism and its associated theories represented a paradigm shift for educators and instructional designers to a view of learning as necessarily more social, conversational, and constructive than traditional transmissive views of learning. This bestselling book was the first to provide a manageable overview of the altered field, and the second edition has been fully updated to include expert introductions to Metacognition, Argumentation, and other key contemporary theories.

This book looks into various ways of creating this culture at district, school, and classroom levels.

Author: Arina Bokas

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781475830941

Category: Education

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Building Powerful Learning Environments takes a close look at the trends of the Post-Digital Era through the prism of how systems of education can meet the needs of our times and offers a systemic approach to creating a different canvas for learning that aligns to these changes. At the center of the book are the concepts of a learning environment and a culture of partnerships. A learning environment has traditionally been viewed as something that educators created and sustained inside their schools. Building Powerful Learning Environmentsexpands this understanding to embrace families, communities, other learning institutions, and businesses not as helpers, but as co-builders of a powerful learning environment. It demonstrates that schools have to take the first step in this direction by becoming the center of a new educational culture - a culture of partnerships. This book looks into various ways of creating this culture at district, school, and classroom levels. It provides practical guidance, strategies, and tips as well as some conceptual understanding of what can be done to create and support this culture at various levels of educational leadership.

Rethinking Library Spaces and Services Sandra Feinberg, Joan F. Kuchner, Sari Feldman ... Libraries build on family strengths and offer learning opportunities that reflect the interests , cultures , and needs of young children and their ...

Author: Sandra Feinberg

Publisher: American Library Association

ISBN: 0838907369

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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The vision of Learning Environments for Young Children: Rethinking Library Spaces and Services is about learning, families, and community, where the public library presents a community-based educational setting in which librarians serve as educators, guides, coaches, and facilitators of lifelong, active learning; access for children to enriching, satisfying, and developmentally appropriate resources and learning opportunities; diverse collections, programs, and technical resources for young children and the adults in their lives; programs and resources that encourage children's focused participation, creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, and problem solving; and a nonjudgmental, integrated, and interdisciplinary approach to lifelong learning, developing the whole person, child or adult. Included in Learning Environments for Young Children are field-tested measuring instruments that you and your staff can use to conduct a qualitative assessment of your library's children's services. These ready-to-use forms will help you collect information that will highlight the importance of early childhood services in presentations to funding sources, trustees, and other key stakeholders.

There are monthly meetings at Instituto Escuela Jacint Verdaguer (Spain) for the co-ordination of the management team and Parents' Association, the so-called “recipes to educate”, where both families and teachers think about the ...

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

ISBN: 9789264203488

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This report presents a wealth of international material and features a new framework for understanding innovative learning environments.

A “tour” prior to school starting is an ideal way to help the child become more familiar with his new environment. Invite the child and his family to visit your classroom. When he arrives, speak to him by name and welcome him, ...

Author: Clarissa Willis

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781412957182

Category: Education

Page: 222

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This book provides information on common disabilities and practical strategies for creating inclusive environments and building student relationships.

Managing the Online Learning Environment Efficiently and Effectively Theresa A. Middleton Brosche ... Pizza Night My stepdaughter and her family have always worked hard to set aside family time in spite of their busy schedules ...

Author: Theresa A. Middleton Brosche

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

ISBN: 9781449653958

Category: Medical

Page: 210

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Successful Online Learning: Managing the Online Learning Environment Efficiently and Effectively is a neccessary resource for students who are new to the online learning environment or for students who are already in the online learning environment and are seeking additional strategies or tips to help them manage the online environment more effectively. This handbook includes real-life scenarios, effective strategies, tips for success, and a checklist at the end of each chapter to assist students to function efficiently and effectively in the online learning environment.

AFRICAN. AMERICAN. FAMILIES. AND. EDUCATION. In the opinion of some skeptics, African American families are the single entity responsible for the lack of school achievement for their children. Although family background may be a factor, ...

Author: Festus E. Obiakor

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781483360690

Category: Education

Page: 256

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In this groundbreaking book, more than 25 leading scholars and practitioners provide concrete solutions for maximizing African American students' achievement.

After the Chancenreich program has ended, these families still attend courses regardless of their educational background and income. However, we find income to be a significant positive predictor for the attendance of early-educational ...

Author: Frank Niklas

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

ISBN: 9782889711222

Category: Science

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In Genetics , environment and intelligence , ed . A. Oliverio , 385–403 . Amsterdam : North Holland . 1979. Families and their learning environments . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul . Marjoribanks , K. , and Walberg , H. J. 1975.

Author: Judith Blake

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 0520062965

Category: Education

Page: 415

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Iverson, B.K. and Walberg, H.J. (1982) 'Home environment and school learning: a quantitative synthesis.' Journal of Experimental Education 50, ... Marjoribanks, K. (1979) Families and Their Learning Environments: An Empirical Analysis.

Author: John Canavan

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 9781853028502

Category: Social Science

Page: 240

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The contributors to this topical volume explore the role of family support in promoting the welfare of children and their families. The book integrates concepts and experiences from an international perspective, different levels of analysis (society, community and family) and different loci of intervention.

The book which he edited that year, Environments for Learning, considered both school and family factors. ... The results were published in two books, Families and their Learning Environments (Marjoribanks, 1979) and Ethnic Families and ...

Author: Sivakumar Alagumalai

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789462092570

Category: Education

Page: 282

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Teachers empower both the next generation of learners and educators. Communities value the intricate roles and responsibilities of teachers: many of whom who go beyond the tangibles to cater to the learning needs of their students. The multidimensional and multifaceted relationship between teacher-education providers and teachers is a complex one. At one end of the spectrum sits the scholarship of teaching while at the enacted zone sits standards-based praxis. Teacher education and scholarship of teaching provides the avenue to demonstrate this interaction of knowledge, pedagogy, research and broadly, scholarship. Unfortunately, there is no strong consensus about the value of pedagogical preparation for teachers. This monograph highlights the broad focus on how education draws its knowledge base from various disciplines; advancing that education itself can become a plethora for shared discourse and reflection. The chapters provide fresh demonstrated understanding into practice-enabled research directions and emphasise the position of research-based praxis in both schools and in institutions entrusted with teacher education. Importantly, the monograph demonstrates the two-way communication between the community and teacher educators about knowledge, experiences, values and diversity and to add value with the sole aim to enhance learning. It highlights education is a collective endeavour in that education and teacher education are subsets of the community, and deliberations in communities add important synergy to education’s evolution and revolution. Thus, the process of inquiry is fundamental in education, and implies transcending traditional discipline-bound knowledge and processes. This monograph provides the challenge to educators that no single or specific discipline directs educational development and enrichment, nor does the latter exclude any.

In H. Tajfel (Ed.), Social cognition: Perspectives on everyday understanding. ... In M. Perlmutter (Ed.) Social Cognition: Minnesota symposia on child development (Vol. 18, pp. ... Families and their learning environments: An empirical ...

Author: Irving E. Sigel

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317767152

Category: Psychology

Page: 352

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These companion volumes provide a "behind the scenes" look into the personal experiences of researchers in an effort to eliminate the lack of communication surrounding family research methodology. They show how the researchers achieved their results and why they chose particular methodologies over others. These volumes present more than just findings -- they present the real experiences of the authors in their own styles and personalities, exposing the problems, mistakes, and concerns they experienced during their research projects. Volume I presents the experiences of researchers into typical normative populations. Volume II describes work with clinical, atypical populations.

s (2002) study, the influences of children's IQ and family learning environment scores were examined to determine their effect on children's early literacy skills from kindergarten through the end of second grade.

Author: Robert V. Kail

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 9780080493299

Category: Psychology

Page: 496

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Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 31 discusses chidren's understanding of photographs as spatial and expressive representations, school relationships and their influence on behavior, literacy and the role of letter names, emotion, morality, and self, working memory in infancy, differentiated sense of the past and the future, cognitive flexibility and language abilities, understanding children with medical and physical disorders, bio-ecological environment and development, and early literacy.

This publication sets out to answer some difficult questions such as: How do homeless families engage with education? Teachers also may wonder where their responsibilities lie with children who are truant or drift out of school because ...

Author: Patty Towl

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000051513

Category: Education

Page: 220

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Children and young people from diverse populations are statistically more at risk of exclusion, however education providers can make a difference to all children and young persons’ learning outcomes no matter what their personal circumstances. To achieve this, not only must educators form closer and more authentic relationships with these children and their communities, but the governments that fund learning environments must also be prepared to provide adequate resourcing and training opportunities. Safe, Supportive, and Inclusive Learning Environments for Young People in Crisis and Trauma addresses both the general and specific issues that may prevent children and young people from diverse populations from being safe, supported, and included in learning environments. Some chapters focus on general factors that contribute to both inclusion and exclusion at early childhood and in formal school environments, while others present research-based best practice and practical advice to enable good education outcomes for indigenous, migrant, and LGBTQI children and those who experience mental health problems, drug misuse, and abuse. Lastly, the book includes information about how to negotiate and set up programmes that have been shown to be effective with communities that differ from the dominant culture. This book provides practitioners in education, health, and social work with information and practical advice on how to retain all children and young people in early childhood, formal school education, and tertiary settings.

When parents and other adults in the family strive to achieve their educational goals, they become a positive example to ... providers should support families as they make transitions with their children to new learning environments.

Author: Ann Roberts

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781440852558

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 177

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Focusing on adult patrons ages 19 through senior citizens, this book explains how libraries can best serve this busy portion of their community's population at different life stages and foster experiences that are "worth the trip"—whether actual or virtual. • Helps librarians make their libraries the go-to places in the community for both information and recreation • Enables librarians to accurately analyze the demographics of their communities and identify the services needed • Offers simple suggestions to help librarians with limited resources provide age-appropriate services • Describes information and resources most likely needed during each life stage, making it easier to target the audience for both programming and publicity

The main learning environment for both types of experience in early life is family interactions. Families in which people have warm and supportive relationships with each other are also likely to be families where there is fairness, ...

Author: Usha Goswami

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780199646593

Category: Psychology

Page: 134

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This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and bonding, showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-understanding. Exploring childhood learning, ranging from aspects of language and thinking to cognitive reasoning, Goswami looks at how babies and toddlers develop an understanding of the physical, biological, and social worlds, and develop complex abilities like language and morality. Demonstrating how learning is shaped by the environments surrounding the child; at home, school, with peers, and in wider society, Goswami emphasizes the importance of childhood friendships and siblings for psychological development. Introducing the key theories in child psychology, Goswami explains why children develop as they do and how society can further optimize their development through the adolescent years. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

the impact of these educational structures on Indigenous peoples may still not be fully understood by scholars, ... such as this and strive to create learning environments that view parents and families as partners and collaborators.

Author: Catherine Hands

Publisher: IAP

ISBN: 9781617354014

Category: Education

Page: 331

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The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation. Currently, parent and community involvement does not draw on school reform and educational change literature and conversely the school change literature often ignores the crucial role that communities play in educational reform. This edited volume focuses on structural considerations regarding education and the school communities, school-level and family culture, and the interrelationships between the agency and actions of school personnel, family members, community citizens and students. This book extends the dialogue on school reform by looking at parent and community engagement initiatives as part of the school reform literature. The contributors illustrate the negative impact on students and their education when assumptions made by school personnel regarding the organization of education, the nature of families, and the contributions they should make to their children’s education are not challenged.