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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2013
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 31-03-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SOC12020060
Abstract: The field of digital parenting is an emergent and dynamic area of research. This paper presents a structured literature review of research papers published between 2016 and 2021 which report empirical studies of parenting in the online space. Studies were sourced from Scopus and Web of Science using combinations of parent*/father/mother AND engage*/involve* articipat* AND online/digital*/virtual. A corpus of 144 papers were subjected to a first round of analysis, which resulted in the identification of two main clusters: Digital Parenting (Digi-P) and Digital Parental Involvement in Schooling (Digi-S). The first of these, constituting 92 papers, was the focus of a thematic analysis which is reported in this review. This review analysis is informed by theories of mediation in general, and parental mediation specifically. It finds that restrictive mediation was the most commonly reported parental approach to managing children’s online activities that child age, gender, and vulnerability and parents’ ICT knowledge and experience impact on parents’ mediation practices that children and parents have different perspectives and knowledge about children’s online activities that parents’ online activities also impact on their children and that parenting at a distance is supported by digital tools.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S44020-023-00041-7
Abstract: This paper examines analyses of adolescent romance fiction, highlighting key themes and debates over time. I will argue that contemporary social conditions underline the need to reconsider the value of this genre in the secondary English classroom. However, working effectively with genre literature (including romance) requires educators to ersify reading practices, challenging the dominance of the standard ‘class novel’ approach. I will describe the integration of a module on teen romance into a literature course for preservice English educators. Finally, focusing on a specific text, Frankly in Love by David Yoon, I highlight the skilful way in which authors of contemporary adolescent literature weave multiple perspectives into engaging and nuanced narratives in which characters navigate identities, relationships, and ideas about love.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-01-2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2015
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2011
Abstract: An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children’s literacy participation. Five libraries serving a ersity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, visual documentation, and parent and librarian interviews. A geosemiotic approach was taken to the analysis of this data with an emphasis on the ways in which sociocultural and material qualities of libraries as places and spaces impacted on families’ access and participation. It was found that physically accessing the library is not equally easy for all, not all communities have equally well-resourced libraries, and the social space of the library does not hail all categories of family in the same way. However, in the case of one site where discourses of leisure, consumption, and modernity were materialized throughout the space, the effect was more inclusive. For those families that do navigate successful membership of libraries, there are potential benefits related to strong connections between the performance of early literacy activities in libraries and the participation structures of the school-entry classroom. However, literacy activities run in libraries require unobtrusive parental regulation of children’s participation, a requirement that may marginalize some families.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-12-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: University of South Australia
Date: 2019
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.2304/CIEC.2008.9.2.118
Abstract: There is currently movement internationally towards the integration of services for young children and their families, incorporating childcare, education, health and family support. Shifting service provision towards partnership between services, and between these services and families, has been the subject of policy formation at various levels. As part of a study into the first year of operation of integrated children's centres in South Australia, a policy analysis was undertaken surveying policies in two domains: education on the one hand and human services (incorporating health) on the other. This analysis found different policy framings of partnership operating in the two domains. Additionally, the policy landscape is layered with old and new constructions of the relationship between families and services. The authors argue that the terms within which policies frame partnership, families and services should be the subject of debate and also dialogue involving those practitioners whose role it is to make integration work on the ground.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2000
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: University of South Australia
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-02-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/0272684X211022572
Abstract: Supporting a child’s healthy development is determined, in part, by a parent’s ability to seek, access, interpret and effectively utilize health information. This aspect of parenting draws on a set of skills referred to as health literacy. To assess the level of health literacy among parents/carers in a regional South Australian community. Parents/carers of primary school-aged children, residing in Whyalla, South Australia, were invited to complete the 13-item All Aspects of Health Literacy Survey. 155 parents/carers completed the survey (79% mothers). Most participants were English-speaking (97%), employed (62%) and had 2–3 children (62%), with 52% completing tertiary education. Median total health literacy scores were mostly in the moderate-high range (median 27, IQR 26,27), as were critical health literacy scores (median 7, IQR 6,8). Higher scores were reported for functional health literacy (median 8, IQR 7,9), communicative health literacy (median 9, IQR 8,9) and empowerment health literacy (median 4, IQR 3,5). Our findings reveal modest levels of health literacy among a s le of parents/carers of primary school-aged children in a regional South Australian community. Further work is needed to understand the differential effect of parental health literacy on child health outcomes, and the types of strategies that may mitigate the impact of these barriers on a child’s healthy development.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-06-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: Based on interviews with Australian parents and service providers and examination of parenting resources, this study examined the respective influence of cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism on parenting in the early years. This analysis found, contrary to research on children’s social identities, that ideas of nation were significant to Australian parents and service providers. However, there are significant challenges to articulating and resourcing a vernacular orientation to family life. These include the dominance by multinational enterprises of the marketplace for parenting resources, the generic nature of these resources and the difficulty in defining what an Australian family or parenting style might be. At the same time, some parents identified with a cosmopolitan orientation to socialising their children. Their motivations were various, including future transnational mobility, conferring advantage in a competitive local job market and fostering an appreciation for erse cultures. This was a strategic and entrepreneurial rather than a philosophical orientation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-02-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-03-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-05-2011
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-10-2016
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-10-2012
Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries
Date: 07-08-2012
DOI: 10.20360/G2TP4B
Abstract: The role of the internet is becoming ever more significant in the production and circulation of resources for literacy teaching, and in the process is changing teachers’ relationships with educational resources and professional communities. In this paper, we present case studies of four online resource networks established specifically for educational practitioners: TeacherTube, TES, TWRC Tank and Teacher Toolbox. We explore how and why the managers of these sites engage teachers, the online activities of educators using the sites, and the kinds of literacy teaching resources that are available to them. Based on an analysis of literacy teaching resources and associated activity on these websites, we argue that teacher professionalism in contemporary times involves new digital literacy practices in addition to conventional modes of using textual resources in teaching.
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 09-08-2012
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2012.30
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a dog safety program on the protective behaviour knowledge of children in the first year of school. This mixed methods study utilised pre- and post-testing (N = 121), observation of six sessions and in idual interviews with a sub-group of children (N = 49). These interviews utilised a co-constructed narrative strategy where children were invited to assist an imaginary alien to safely navigate hypothetical safety scenarios. All schools improved their knowledge of safe dog interactions, with an overall increase in knowledge of 18%. Most children were able to apply abstract knowledge to hypothetical scenarios involving accompanied and unaccompanied dogs. Of concern, 24% of children still believed that dogs liked being patted on their heads and 16% of children had not overcome their intuitive reaction to run from a threatening dog. Whilst the program has made significant improvements to children's knowledge of safe dog-interactions, more gains can be made. We identify important opportunities for improving dog safety programs in general. We comment on the need to consider the impact of different models of child–dog relations in terms of either similitude or difference.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2000
Abstract: This interview-based study on middle-class Australian parents' involvement in young children's literacy found that reading to children (particularly in the pre-school years) is a routine part of family life, a task shared between mothers and fathers. However, there were patterns of gender difference in the accounts. Mothers were more likely than fathers to emphasise the importance of the child's early exposure to books. They were also often reported to take a supervisory role in relation to their partner's story reading. Men were more likely to undertake reading at bedtime than at any other time and also more likely to report using various strategies to shorten the time spent on story reading. Fathers reading to sons appeared to take on a special significance related to masculine bonding and modelling.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-11-2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-03-2017
Location: Russian Federation
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End Date: End date not available
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2007
End Date: 2009
Funder: Australian Research Council
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