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Validating Young Children's Feelings And Experiences Of Fear, Reesa Sorin
Validating Young Children's Feelings And Experiences Of Fear, Reesa Sorin
Reesa Sorin
Children experience a wide range of emotions, from happiness and excitement to anger and disgust. When children are happy, their caregivers encourage their expression of happiness and often join in to share this emotion with them. Yet when they are angry, afraid or disgusted, often children are encouraged to suppress or change their emotions. This is particularly true of the emotion of fear. While parents and caregivers currently employ a variety of strategies to respond to fear in young children, some of these methods may be positioning children in ways that increase their fears or invalidate their feelings of fear …
Student Mobility-Reasons, Consequences And Interventions, Reesa Sorin, Rosemary Iloste
Student Mobility-Reasons, Consequences And Interventions, Reesa Sorin, Rosemary Iloste
Reesa Sorin
Mobility in education can mean families moving from city to city or state to state as employment and housing changes for them. However, it can also mean families moving their children from one school to another within the same area, for other, more personal reasons. As student mobility increases, concerns about its impact on the young learner increase (Wright, 1999). Research studies report mobile students to be lower achievers in academic as well as social domains of schooling (Mantzicopoulos & Knutson, 2000; Rumberger & Larson, 1998; Wright, 1999). Student mobility can adversely affect children’s success rate in school, leading to …