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Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
Where are you from; This is the most common question that Greeks ask foreign visitors. The question talks about the need to understand where someone comes from, to understand... -
Time and interventions in children's causal structure learning
Imagine that you encounter three events A, B and C that tend to occur together. What are the relationships between A, B, and C? One possibility is that A causes B and B causes... -
Forward anticipation of movement in typically developing children and in chil...
All actions are composed of a string of movements; simply pouring water from a kettle into a cup requires the hand to grasp the kettle, lift and move the kettle, tip the kettle... -
Becoming literate in faith settings: Language and literacy learning in the li...
This is a 42-month project, from September 2009 to February 2013. The aims of the research are to examine the scope and nature as well as what it means in children's lives to... -
New urbanisms, new citizens: Children and young people's everyday life and pa...
The UK Government's 2003 Sustainable Communities Plan inaugurated a major programme of investment in urban development creating 260,000 new dwellings in a wave of sustainable... -
Shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes: A s...
The research examines Amartya Sen's contention that shame is an attribute of poverty in all societies. Shame is believed to reduce a person's agency, the capacity to act... -
Personal Inquiry (PI): Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across F...
The aim of this project is to support children aged 11-14 in coming to understand themselves and their world through a new approach of scripted inquiry learning. With the aid of... -
Young carers for AIDS-ill parents: social, health and educational impacts 201...
Children who act as young carers for their AIDS-unwell parents or guardians are potentially highly vulnerable. They provide both domestic and emotional support, and often also... -
British infants' use of vowels and consonants in word learning tasks
This data collection contains data from three experiments looking at word learning in toddlers aged 16 to 23 months, supporting a published paper (Floccia et al. 2014). Each... -
Multi-method study of the role of schools in supporting children affected by ...
The study was conducted in predominantly rural areas in Manicaland province in eastern Zimbabwe. A multi-method approach was employed with a combination of qualitative and... -
Assessment of pre-proceedings processes in children's social care
The Public Law Outline (PLO), introduced in April 2008 changed what was required of local authorities seeking to protect children through court proceedings. It imposed a... -
Experimental data on reasoning and cue competition effects in causal learning...
Data resulting from three sets of experiments with children to assess cue competition effects of blocking in causal learning using a purpose-built toy robot. Learning about... -
Nutritional improvement for children in urban Chile and Kenya
The social determinants of child malnutrition in the study sites were identified through literature reviews, semi-structured interviews (SSIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs)... -
Post-conflict Identities: Practices and Affiliations of Somali Refugee Children
Drawing on case study research with Somalis in Sheffield and Aarhus the research explored the the complex influences on young Somali refugee and asylum seeker's identity... -
Strengthening ODFL systems to increase education access and attainment for yo...
This research aimed to help two project countries (Malawi and Lesotho) increase access to learning for students living in high HIV prevalence areas who were at risk of grade... -
Vicarious learning of children's fears: mechanisms, prevention and reversal
Mechanisms underpinning vicarious fear learning in childhood: Establishing learning mechanisms was critical for understanding how fears and phobias are vicariously learnt in... -
Exploring the 4th Environment: Young People's Use of Place and Views on their...
27 group interviews were conducted to explore the views of young people about their environments particularly those outside of home, school and the playground. This data... -
Reading comprehension and morphology: English sample
The following measures were administered to children in their classrooms. Children recorded their responses in answer booklets. Three measures of morphological awareness that... -
Child-centred after school and holiday care: case study interviews
Dataset consisting of 24 case study interview transcripts of interviews with children and adults. In a first instance, the research involved statistical analysis of the Kids... -
Child wellbeing and household wealth in Burundi, Ethiopia and Vietnam
This qualitative dataset contains transcripts from qualitative data collection from Burundi, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Datasets include information on perceived differences between...