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Kast, Dieuwertje J.; Bansil, Surbhi; Kast, W. Martin – Science and Children, 2022
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosis and is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States for both men and women. The etiologies of many different types of lung cancer can be linked to risk factors that can be prevented, such as chronic tobacco smoking. Lung cancer is significantly more prevalent among…
Descriptors: Cancer, Clinical Diagnosis, Etiology, Risk
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Højholt, Charlotte; Kousholt, Dorte – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
Parental collaboration is both promoted for enhancing children's performance and criticized for reproducing educational inequality. The issue of parental collaboration, thus, presents an opportunity to discuss theoretical differences in current debates about education, notably the educational consequences of social background and governmentality.…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Background, Children
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Roofe, Carmel G. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
The attainment of Education for All (EFA) goals is crucial to the productivity of any country. However attaining these goals cannot be realised unless due consideration is given to the inputs and processes that must be enacted to achieve such goals. In this article, the Revised Primary Curriculum (RPC) used at grades one to three in Jamaican…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Grade 1, Grade 2
Xiao, Sonya Xinyue; Martin, Carol Lynn; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; DeLay, Dawn; Hanish, Laura D.; Fabes, Richard A.; Oswalt, Krista – Grantee Submission, 2022
Promoting prosocial behavior toward those who are dissimilar from oneself is an urgent contemporary issue. Because children spend much time in same-gender relationships, promoting other-gender prosociality could help them develop more inclusive relationships. Our goal in the present research was to better understand the extent to which…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Intergroup Relations, Gender Differences, Elementary School Students
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Veraksa, Alexander N. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
This article used two studies to investigate sign and symbol mediation in children aged 8-11 years. In role play, children exist at one at the same time in objective reality and their representation of reality. We cannot observe their mental representation directly, but the issue of whether signs or symbols mediate early role play is an important…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Children