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View article: Collaborative Leadership Structures: Conduits To Instructional Coaching Success
Collaborative Leadership Structures: Conduits To Instructional Coaching Success Open
Educational research literature documents the positive effect instructional coaching has on teacher efficacy. This study investigated how instructional leaders coupled instructional coaches' daily work with the reforms outlined in district…
View article: Belittled citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok’s marginsGiuseppeBolottaCopenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021. ISBN 978‐87‐7694‐301‐1, 252 pp., £22.50 (pb)
Belittled citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok’s marginsGiuseppeBolottaCopenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021. ISBN 978‐87‐7694‐301‐1, 252 pp., £22.50 (pb) Open
Belittled Citizens is a fascinating and vividly engaging book which illuminates the lives and experiences of marginalised children in Bangkok and their interactions and relationships within their communities and schools, as well as with th…
View article: Mothering, education and culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish middle‐class mothers in Israeli Society By DeborahGoldenLaurenErdreichSvetaRobermanLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐53630‐3, 225 pp., £89.99 (hb)
Mothering, education and culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish middle‐class mothers in Israeli Society By DeborahGoldenLaurenErdreichSvetaRobermanLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐53630‐3, 225 pp., £89.99 (hb) Open
Mothering, Education and Culture is a fascinating and immensely readable ethnographic study of mothering in modern Israel. Based on a comparison of middle-class Russian, Palestinian and Jewish women, it examines how these groups mother the…
View article: Childhood Studies and child psychology: Disciplines in dialogue?
Childhood Studies and child psychology: Disciplines in dialogue? Open
Childhood Studies is a dynamic and still‐growing subject, bringing a child‐focused, rights‐based and (usually) constructionist perspective to children's lives. Its early days were also marked by wariness of, even hostility to, developmenta…
View article: Reimagining Childhood Studies Edited by SpyrosSpyrou, RachelRosen, DanielThomas Cook. London: Bloomsbury, 2018 ISBN‐13: 978‐1350019218, 272 pp, £24.99 (pb)
Reimagining Childhood Studies Edited by SpyrosSpyrou, RachelRosen, DanielThomas Cook. London: Bloomsbury, 2018 ISBN‐13: 978‐1350019218, 272 pp, £24.99 (pb) Open
Children, as Claude Levi-Strauss nearly said, are ‘good to think with’ and the wealth of scholarship on children's lives and experiences, and the concurrent examination of ideas about childhood over the last 25 years, has certainly given t…
View article: Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village. Shaping Hierarchy and Desire By Bambi L.Chapin. Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2014 ISBN 978‐0813561653, 211 pp, £25 (pb)
Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village. Shaping Hierarchy and Desire By Bambi L.Chapin. Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2014 ISBN 978‐0813561653, 211 pp, £25 (pb) Open
Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village is a beautifully written account of childhood, child rearing and the daily lives of children from infancy through marriage and adulthood in a small community outside Kandy. The book examines how local chil…