This research study was undertaken to address questions and concerns about the language teaching textbook as regards to its role in input, feedback, and production of learner output. Specifically, it investigates whether literature-based reading texts generate different interact…
This investigation identified the learning styles and creative performances of Bruneian primary, secondary, performing, non-performing, regular, elite, creative and noncreative students and their teachers' teaching styles. It also compared the significant differences between/amo…
This research investigates links between diarrhea among pre-school children in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and their subsequent primary school performance. Diarrhea is closely associated with malnutrition and a variety of trace element deficiencies that have been associated w…
This research focuses on an awareness raising programme for primary school children in relation to domestic abuse. This area of research was considered to be of value due to the prevalence of DA and the impact that witnessing domestic abuse has been shown to have on children. Fi…
This research explores how children recount and account for their developing political competence at primary school. To access participants’ experience and perceptions of political participation and agency and the structures and practices within which they operate, I designed a …
Relationships and sex education (RSE hereafter) is a fiercely political subject, and nowhere is it more contentious than at the primary school where, by some accounts, children's innocence is at risk and which is, by other accounts, an opportune moment for children to acquire im…
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the impact of primary school management on learning outcomes of females in Bangladesh. A major research question that guided this study was: Why the children of government primary schools have lower levels of competency compared to c…
Metacognition is increasingly recognized as an important component in successful learning. In science, metacognitive instructional interventions have been successfully incorporated to promote conceptual change learning, facilitate negotiating and constructing of meanings, and fo…
This ethnographic study examines the processes of identity negotiation among immigrant children at a Cypriot public primary school. It particularly focuses on the ways in which children situate themselves in, through, and across contexts (the home, the school, the playground) of…
This study examined Arabic reading and civics education textbooks used in Iraq to determine whether their content was consistent with the policy of sex equity of the Ministry of Education. Specifically, the study sought to establish whether there was fair representation of both …