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Gerzel-Short, Lydia – School Community Journal, 2018
Family involvement in a child's education is vital to student success. This article presents qualitative findings from a more extensive study that examined family participation within a Response to Intervention (RtI) framework for K-1 grade students receiving Tier 2 reading interventions. RtI is a problem-solving tiered framework designed to…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Response to Intervention, Kindergarten
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Bae, Berit – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2009
The article starts by illustrating how children's right to participation comes to the fore in legal documents regulating the field of early childhood education in Norway. Issues regarding the views of children, understanding of democracy and of play, which influence how this right is realised in early childhood practice, are taken as a point of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Evaluation, Student Participation
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Aasen, Wenche; Grindheim, Liv Torunn; Waters, Jane – Education 3-13, 2009
In this article we explore socio-cultural theories of learning and some of the processes by which children learn democratic values. Norwegian policy and practice emphasises children's right to participation and involvement in decision-making. We discuss the importance of adults' attitudes, knowledge and ability to relate to and understand…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Democratic Values, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
Kozol, Jonathan – School Administrator, 2005
An urban school in Columbus, Ohio, had in place a program of surprisingly explicit training of young children for the modern marketplace. Starting in kindergarten, children in the school were asked to think about the jobs they might choose when they grew up. The posters that surrounded them made clear which kinds of jobs they were expected to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Urban Schools, Child Advocacy, Career Exploration