Homeless children

Each year, the numbers of homeless children are growing at an alarming rate all around the world. This issue has deeply affected the lives of millions of children nationwide. Poverty and non-affordable housing are the major leading causes of these rates. While homeless, they experience high rates of acute and chronic health problems. The constant … Read more

Education in the early years for children and outdoor play

The early years of the children’s life are crucial for everyone to shape life-long attitudes, values, patterns of behaviour and the basic skills for life. Early Childhood Education must provide different opportunities for children to experience different feelings such as peace, happiness and an interest towards nature because these emotions ‘undergird their developing knowledge, skills … Read more

Child protection policy and reform

The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Child Family and Community Australia (CFCA) (2014) identified that the current approach to child protection in Australia has acknowledged the roles the state and territory governments must play in protecting all children from abuse and neglect. It also explained that governments had assumed their obligation in meeting the … Read more

Grandparents raising grandchildren

The amounts of grandparents who are turn out to be substitute parents to their grandchildren are progressing significantly (Fuller-Thomson & Minkler, 2000). As a result of the United States Census, nearly 5.6 million grandparents taking care of the grandchildren. Apparently, the grandparents can give the grandchildren a warm house atmosphere that is better than foster … Read more

Child welfare policy

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89) was a major reform with regards to child welfare provisions since being enacted in the early 1980’s (Murray & Gesiriech, 2005). The legislation provided a background on which amendments to various acts have passed to date. According to David (2013), the Adaption and Safe … Read more

Video games and violence in children

The purpose of this research paper is to address the question does playing violent video games increase aggressive behavior in children? My hypothesis on this matter is that in fact playing violent video games does increase aggressive behavior in children and adults alike. My reasoning for this is unlike violent movies, violent video games require … Read more

Interpret the implications of child psychology?

Child psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the mental states and psychological processes of children and, specifically, how these processes differ from those of adults and how and why they differ from one child to the next. It includes both mental and social development of child. Implications of child psychology: • Child psychology … Read more

‘Motivation in the Classroom: Dealing with Disruptive Behaviour’

INTRODUCTION Research studies have shown the importance of motivation in supporting learning in education (Lai, 2011) and in raising educational attainment among pupils. A collective theme within the review is that a pupil’s behaviour is closely linked to the theory of motivation (Ikeogu, 2011). The transition into secondary school life has been shown to affect … Read more

Initiating improvisation (used & unused material) within the context of art education practice

ABSTRACT Maintaining a more reflective, explorative and critical approach within the Art and Design classroom environment, and beyond required an endeavour in enhancing learning. Important to this, is the emphasis on material practice. Working with material is fundamental to fully understand art by making art in art processes. It is through material manipulation and applying … Read more

Occupational therapy for children and teens with behavioural disorders

“The more I think about child development usually imagine a locomotive crossing uncharted territory and may at any time, derailed and go to tread new paths, many of them dangerous and treacherous. The earlier observe and identify such ‘course corrections’, soon have the chance to restore order and replace the ‘locomotive’ in the right track. … Read more

No Child Left Behind Act

Summary The paper is fundamental as it looks at the No Child Left Behind Act that was put into practice because the American education system was no longer internationally competitive. The outcome of the challenge is the federal education system function was increased towards holding schools accountable for the academic progress of all students. The … Read more