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Free Download Chi-Ming Lam, "Philosophy for Children in Confucian Societies: In Theory and Practice "
English | ISBN: 0367137275 | 2019 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book contributes to the theory and practice of Philosophy for Children (P4C), with a special emphasis on theoretical and practical issues confronting researchers and practitioners working in contexts that are strongly influenced by Confucian values and norms. It includes writings by prominent P4C scholars from four Confucian societies, viz., Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. These writings showcase the diversity of the P4C model, providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to tell their stories in their own Confucian cultural contexts.

Free Download Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit, "Perfectionism and Gifted Children"
English | 2012 | pages: 142 | ISBN: 161048679X | EPUB | 6,2 mb
Parents and educators expect gifted children to be well-behaved, studious, and hard working. Why, then, do so many have trouble in school? According to Dr. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, perfectionism-the number one social-emotional trait of gifted children-can actually immobilize some children and cause social adjustment problems for others. This explains why so many of today’s gifted children do not, or cannot, complete school assignments or even follow through on personal responsibilities.

Free Download Parental Involvement on Children’s Education: What Works in Hong Kong By Esther Sui-Chu Ho, Wai-Man Kwong (auth.)
2013 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 9814021989 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental involvement in the primary schools of Hong Kong and, then, examining how the different forms and levels of parental involvement are related to individual and institutional factors through a series of survey studies on all these stakeholders in children’s education. Finally, the book assesses the extent to which different forms of parental involvement affect student performance based on student survey results and available school records.​

Free Download Lee Maracle, "Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth"
English | 1998 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 088922384X | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is the emotional story of a woman’s struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother’s funeral. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present.

Free Download Janusz Korczak’s Children By Gloria Spielman, Matthew Archambault
2007 | 40 Pages | ISBN: 1580132553 | PDF | 6 MB
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Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Internet Children’s Television Series, 1997-2015"
English | 2016 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 1476664625 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Created around the world and available only on the web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance.

Free Download Michael Sullivan, "Fundamentals of Children’s Services"
English | 2005 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 0838909078 | PDF | 0,9 mb
With more than one-third of library users under the age of 12, it may be said that children’s services drive public libraries. Still, many administrators don’t fully appreciate how integral these services are to their institutions.Sullivan conducts a friendly tour in this comprehensive reference, covering both innovative and standard practices in children’s services. From the collection and programming, to homework support, reference and reader’s advisory, to promoting and budgeting, children’s services parallel other library services and are no less important.Part of ALA’s Fundamentals Series, this overview provides hands-on, proven strategies for those on the front lines, while addressing questions critical to the long-term success of children’s library services: Why are children’s services so important? How do they fit into the library overall? What do children’s librarians do all day? Why should children’s librarians focus on administrative matters? What are the hot issues and cutting-edge trends?Those who want to become children’s librarians, experienced and new children’s librarians, library administrators and trustees alike will find this new "bible" of children’s services sets the record straight: Children’s services are the heart of the library.

Free Download Children’s Play and Development: Cultural-Historical Perspectives By Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist (auth.), Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist (eds.)
2013 | 265 Pages | ISBN: 9400765789 | PDF | 4 MB
This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.

Free Download Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story By Walter Hamilton
2013 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 0813561000 | EPUB | 2 MB
Following World War II, the Allied Powers occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, leaving a human legacy: thousands of children of Japanese mothers fathered by men from Australia, the United States, New Zealand, India, and Britain. These mixed-race offspring, and often their mothers, faced intense discrimination.Based on interviews with or research on 150 konketsuji-a now-taboo word for "mixed-blood" Japanese-journalist Walter Hamilton presents vivid first-person accounts of these adults as they remember their experiences of childhood loss. Using archival material from organizations dedicated to assisting the children, he combines moving personal tales with historical and political analyses of international race relations and immigration policy, particularly in North America and Australia.Not only were attitudes and behaviors of the Japanese biased against the mixed-race children, but so were the restrictive and prejudicial immigration policies of the fathers’ native countries. Japan’s racial intolerance was fully matched in the nations it fought against. Hamilton examines how attitudes about race relations have evolved and traces the impact of racial ideology on national policy and cultural identity in Australia, Japan, and the United States.

Free Download Joseph Tobin, "Children Crossing Borders: Immigrant Parent and Teacher Perspectives on Preschool for Children of Immigrants"
English | ISBN: 0871547996 | 2013 | 162 pages | PDF | 954 KB
In many school districts in America, the majority of students in preschools are children of recent immigrants. For both immigrant families and educators, the changing composition of preschool classes presents new and sometimes divisive questions about educational instruction, cultural norms and academic priorities. Drawing from an innovative study of preschools across the nation, Children Crossing Borders provides the first systematic comparison of the beliefs and perspectives of immigrant parents and the preschool teachers to whom they entrust their children. Children Crossing Borders presents valuable evidence from the U.S. portion of a landmark five-country study on the intersection of early education and immigration. The volume shows that immigrant parents and early childhood educators often have differing notions of what should happen in preschool. Most immigrant parents want preschool teachers to teach English, prepare their children academically, and help them adjust to life in the United States. Many said it was unrealistic to expect a preschool to play a major role in helping children retain their cultural and religious values. The authors examine the different ways that language and cultural differences prevent immigrant parents and school administrations from working together to achieve educational goals. For their part, many early education teachers who work with immigrant children find themselves caught between two core beliefs: on one hand, the desire to be culturally sensitive and responsive to parents, and on the other hand adhering to their core professional codes of best practice. While immigrant parents generally prefer traditional methods of academic instruction, many teachers use play-based curricula that give children opportunities to be creative and construct their own knowledge. Worryingly, most preschool teachers say they have received little to no training in working with immigrant children who are still learning English. For most young children of recent immigrants, preschools are the first and most profound context in which they confront the conflicts between their home culture and the United States. Policymakers and educators, however, are still struggling with how best to serve these children and their parents. Children Crossing Borders provides valuable research on these questions, and on the ways schools can effectively and sensitively incorporate new immigrants into the social fabric.