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Family violence against children in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: a review of current perspectives and risk factors
The situation of crisis produced by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic poses major challenges to societies all over the world. While efforts to contain the virus are vital to protect global health, these same efforts are exposing children and adolescents to … Continue reading
Elaborating Funds of Knowledge: Community-Oriented Practices in International Contexts
This article discusses a sociocultural approach we have developed, which we refer to as funds of knowledge. The emphasis of the funds of knowledge work has been to develop both theory and methods through which educators can approach and document … Continue reading
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Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors: A Cultural Paradigm
The book documents the organization of children’s learning and social lives, especially among children whose families have historical roots in the Americas (North, Central, and South), where children traditionally are included and contribute to the activities of their families and … Continue reading
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods : The Science of Early Childhood Development
”From Neurons to Neighborhoods” presents the evidence about ”brain wiring” and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community within which the child grows. How we raise young … Continue reading
Posted in Early childhood development, Family, Social disadvantage, Social environment, Social exclusion, Socioeconomic
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Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family
Children are much more likely than not to grow up in a household in which their parents work, and in nearly half of all two-parent families today, both parents work full time, a sharp increase from previous decades. What hasn’t … Continue reading
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
In 1884 Frederick Engels first published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. This work systematically set out to provide a social explanation for the emergence of women’s oppression with the development of the social institutions of … Continue reading
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Technology, Culture, Family: Influences on Home Life
Why does the profound technological transformation of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries appear to have done so little to effectively change patterns of care and ways of living in the home? Why is it that long-lasting social divisions … Continue reading
Family, Neuroscience and Academic Skills: Children’s Social Class Gaps
Current explanations of social class gaps in children’s early academic skills tend to focus on non-cognitive skills that more advantaged children acquire in the family. Accordingly, social class matters because the cultural resources more abundant in advantaged families cultivate children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cognition, Cognitive development, Family, Neuroscience, Parenting
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play when no one has the Time
In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes until 2 a.m., frantically but surreptitiously sent important emails during school trips and then worked long into the night after her children were in bed. Realising … Continue reading
The Future of the Family to 2030 – A Scoping Report
Since the 1960s the family in the OECD area has already undergone significant transformation. In many countries, the extended family has all but disappeared, and the traditional two-parent family has become much less widespread as divorce rates, re-marriages, single parenthood … Continue reading