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Direct linkKutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Schroeder, Janice – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare scores on state standardised tests for five-year-old children in full- and half-day kindergarten programmes in the United States. Four thousand four hundred and eleven students participated in this three-year cohort study; each completed standards-based instruction in an urban public school setting.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Language Arts, Academic Achievement, Kindergarten
Paton, Grace – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
A key policy response to continuing concerns about levels of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom has been the promotion of integrated children's services, involving professionals from education, social work, health and other fields working together on an inter-agency basis. This small-scale qualitative research project, using an…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Trust (Psychology), Early Childhood Education, Poverty
Ferreira, M. Luisa; VanHoudt, Patrick – European Journal of Education, 2004
The article attempts to assess the major sources behind the exceptional Irish growth performance in the 1990s. Unlike other Tigers, Ireland's growth is due to efficiency gains, rather than capital deepening, but the causes for the swift growth in total factor productivity cannot be pinned down to a single factor. Human capital, foreign direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Compulsory Education, Education Work Relationship
Angelides, Panayiotis; Leigh, James – European Journal of Education, 2004
Cyprus will soon become a member of the European Union. The negotiations for its access have ended and as from next year it will represent one of the countries that will expand the EU. The member countries of the EU have progressed in the field of education, they have high requirements from their schools and offer quality education (although there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Unions, Educational Change
Rauhvargers, Andrejs – European Journal of Education, 2004
Whereas supra-national higher education policies in the past decade have been criticised for their possible harm to the national governments autonomy, the Bologna process as an international agreement has received much more positive reactions from national governments, at least in the rhetoric sense. Nevertheless, a variety of approaches of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Academic Standards
Yorke, Mantz – European Journal of Education, 2004
Government policy around the world is heavily influenced by a human capital perspective. Education systems are pressed towards developing young people for their roles in the labour market: in the UK this is signalled in the term employability. Curricula differ in the ways in which they respond. Data are provided from three recent UK surveys that…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Public Policy, Undergraduate Students, Labor Market
Tomusk, Voldemar – European Journal of Education, 2004
This article attempts to look at Russian students in the broader social, economic and political context as it has developed over the past 13 years. While society needs higher education to consolidate its identity that was deeply wounded by the shock of the political and economic collapse of the early 1990s, it still lacks the means to maintain it.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Youth, Young Adults
Finocchietti, Giovanni – European Journal of Education, 2004
Recent developments of the Italian student body are marked by an increasing diversification of prevailing student profiles. The presence of new student groups is surveyed next to the groups which are the traditional target of national policies for higher education and student welfare. Examples of such traditional target groups are, amongst others:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Welfare, Student Surveys, Profiles
Bateson, Rositsa; Taylor, John – European Journal of Education, 2004
Since the 1980s and early 1990s, much attention has focused on the position of students as stakeholders in the process of higher education. The importance of student evaluation is now widely recognised; in many countries, the move toward fee-based funding has increased the power of students as consumers of their education. At the same time, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Governance, Activism
Tavernier, Franois – European Journal of Education, 2004
Since 1968, according to the French higher education law, elected students must participate in the different academic boards in every university. As trustees, they must formulate opinions about the institutional policy. Moreover, they must deliberate on equal terms with teachers. According to a common discourse, this democratic activity is still…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Foreign Countries, Student Role, Elections
Fleer, Marilyn; Raban, Bridie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
The work of Vygotsky (1987) on everyday and scientific concept formation has provided a useful theoretical framework for considering the nature and connectedness of learning between the home and the early childhood centre. This paper will present the findings of an investigation which sought to examine the potential connections made between home…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Investigations
Yeo, Lay See; Clarke, Christine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This paper investigates the concept of adjustment to school for a group of primary one (first grade) pupils in Singapore. Pupils rated by their teachers as being well adjusted obtained significantly higher grades at the end of the school year, did not require additional learning support, and exhibited better social skills compared to children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Student Adjustment, Grades (Scholastic)
Dunne, Joseph – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This paper analyses the problematic nature of citizenship as a modern achievement faced with the challenge of vindicating ancient ideals in what is increasingly considered to be a "postmodern" world. It offers a parallel analysis of childhood as a characteristically modern construct whose reality in children's life-worlds is threatened by social…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Citizenship, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Rourou, Amina; Singer, Elly; Bekkema, Nienke; De Haan, Dorian – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
In this paper we discuss a study of cultural perspectives on peer conflicts in multicultural child care centres. On the level of child behaviour we did not find differences between native Dutch. Moroccan-Dutch and Antillean-Dutch children with regard to occurrence, duration and actions to solve peer conflicts. On the level of mother' opinions…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences
