Refugee and asylum-seeking children

I have found two TeachersTV videos regarding Refugee and asylum-seeking children.  I thought I'd blog them as they may be of some use for insight into the challenges they face, for Rachel's presentation / Assignment.

(Hope these help you Leanne)

The first video shows some of what schools can do to help Refugee children that have just arrived, with the challenges they face.   

Secondly this video shows the moving life stories of Refugee children.

Childhood and Ethnicity

Journal articles I have found for ethnicity: 

Brown, C., (2011), Ethnicity and Gender in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence - Group Identity and Awareness of Bias, Developmental Psychology, 47(2), pp. 463-471.

Gibson-Davis, CM., Gassman-Pines, A., (2010), Early Childhood Family Structure and Mother–Child Interactions - Variation by Race and Ethnicity, Developmental Psychology, 46(1), pp. 151-164.

Radey, M., Brewster, KL., (2007), The influence of race/ethnicity on disadvantaged mothers’ child care arrangements, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 22(3), pp. 379-393.

Now a website I have found: http://www.open2.net/healtheducation/family_childdevelopment/2005/ethnicity.html that gives some clear information about children and ethnicity :)

Lastly I have found a sociology research paper that's quite interesting it's not directly about childhood and ethnicity but more generally about ethnicity and social class in society, it's worth a quick practice of our new speedy reading techniques :)

www.c-s-p.org/flyers/9781847184702-sample.pdf

Childhood and Gender

Directed Time Tasks for this week :)
I've have done a key word search on childhood and gender, and found some interesting journal articles through Google Scholar on aspects of gender, they focus mainly on the social construction of gender identity.

Fagot, BL., (1985), Gender identity: Some thoughts on an old concept, Journal of the american academy of child psychiatry, 24(6),  pp.684-688.

Green, R., (1968), Childhood Cross-Gender Identification, Journal of nervous and mental disease, 147(5), pp.500-509

Ruble, D. N., Taylor, L. J., Cyphers, L., Greulich, F. K., Lurye, L. E. and Shrout, P. E. (2007), The Role of Gender Constancy in Early Gender Development. Child Development, 78(4), pp.1121–1136.

Also, I have found these additional books not on our reading list through the Warwick Catalogue for further reading.

Martin, B., (2011). Children at play: Learning gender in the early years, Dulles : Stylus Publishing.

Root, AK., Denham, SA., eds., (2010). Focus on gender: parent and child contributions to socialization of emotional competence, San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.

Lastly, I have found a YouTube clip showing three panelists, including Dr. Ken Zucker a controversial gender identity professional, discussing and giving their views on typical and atypical gender identity in children.

A useful ICT Journal

I've found a really useful article in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, for the ICT and child presentation group. A very interesting article with plenty of research into the effects of ICT on development :)

http://0-onlinelibrary.wiley.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/doi/10.1046/j.0266-4909.2003.00016.x/full

PLOWMAN, L. and STEPHEN, C., 2003. A 'Benign Addiction'? Research on ICT and Pre-School Children. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19(2), pp. 149-164.

Now.. The History of Childhood

I am now attempting one of our Directed Time Tasks,
Google Key word searches for The History of Childhood.

2006, Re-inventing childhood, (Online) Available at: http://www.open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/childhood_inventions.html (Accessed 8 October 2011).

Corbett, B., 1985, Centuries of Childhood, (Online) Available at: http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/children/aries.html (Accessed 8 October 2011).
- Overview of the Centuries of Childhood book by Philippe Aries.

Vandergriff, J., 2002, Factors of Influencing The Development of The Idea of Childhood in Europe and America, (Online) Available at: http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/mitc/vandergr/201%20Web%20site/History%20of%20Childhood.htm (accessed 8 October 2011).

And now three further reading references:

Heywood, C., 2010, Centuries of Childhood: An Anniversary—and an Epitaph? The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 3(3), pp.341-365.

Hanawalt, B., 1995, Growing up in medieval London: The experience of childhood in history. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Walvin, J., 1982, A child's world: a social history of English childhood, 1800-1914. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Now that referencing was difficult! So, sorry everyone if it's not right.

Theories of Child Development

My second post today :)

My reflections on Fiona's lesson last week.
Initially when we were told to explore the areas of development (P.I.L.E.S) and the components of these, I was a bit confused and did not understand. But after a little bit of help from Fiona I was well on my way :).
I find the theories of child development very interesting and have chosen to focus on Cognitive development and Piaget's theory for next week.
Piaget believed children were active in their own learning, building their own perception and understanding of things. By the child linking past experiences with their present ones, they would start to get a true concept of the world at a very early age.

Piaget's stages of Cognitive development:
- Sensori-motor Stage: Birth to two years
- Pre-Operational Stage: From around 18 months to seven years
- Concrete Operational Period: Seven to Eleven years
- Formal Operational Stage: Twelve years onwards


I have found a video on YouTube that gives an overview of his theory and outlines these stages of development.

More Resources for ICT and the child

I've been very busy researching more into ICT and the child, looking for information on the impact of ICT on a child's learning.
I have found two interesting Becta Reviews:

A review of evidence on the use of ICT in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- If you Download the PDF file on this page and look at Chapter 5 pages 37-42, it gives some good information and relevant research. 

ICT in the home and children's preparation for primary school
- By clicking this link it should start to download the PDF for you. In this report it lists and explains the Learning competences for ICT, pages 18-19.

ICT in the Foundation Stage: A Position Paper 
- I have also found a Blatchford and Blatchford report, that is rather long but has interesting research.

And a very short Becta ICT Excellence video, showing how a primary has put the learners needs at the heart of its practice!

An ICT resource

Hello fellow Bloggers :) 
Just posting another video I have found on TeachersTv: ICT
It may be of particular interest to the members of Lin's presentation group, ICT and the child.
I feel it gives us a broad understanding of how ICT is embedded in an early years setting, covering all areas of learning.

Week One

Well week one is done and I must say I feel overwhelmed with emotions of relief that everyone is so nice and excitement for our coming journey!
Like everyone else I feel I am on information overload and I will need to train my brain to take in all the information we are being given. However, I can't wait to officially get going!

I have been scouring the newspaper internet sites for articles of interest for us.

A few things I have found,

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/children-hit-hardest-by-legal-aid-reform-says-study-2356830.html   

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/unhappy-british-children-trapped-by-consumerism-unicef-2355035.html  

I also found a video on Teachers TV: How do they do it in Sweden? 
I thought this carried on what Fiona was saying about Britain ranking bottom in the league for child development and well-being among the 21 developed countries and Sweden topping these results.  This video shows the Swedish approach to Early Years Education.