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  2. School transitions - Wikipedia

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    Normative school transitions refer to the transitions of students from elementary school to middle school and from middle school to high school. As each transition occurs, the student generally undergoes many different changes. These changes can be anything from an increase in the size of the school, to the change in friends that one meets.

  3. African-American Vernacular English and social context

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    [79] With the negative impacts within school faced by students who favor AAVE, researchers searched for a way to both uplift AAVE users while also creating a better understanding of SE. Some argued that AAVE should be used as a bridge to Standard English, while others argued that AAVE should be recognized as a legitimate language variety in its ...

  4. Third culture kid - Wikipedia

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    Research has indicated that TCKs need special attention during their transition phase. The stress and grief students feel during transitional phases can distort their psycho-social development, which can affect their grades and school work. Therefore, TCKs need a comfortable and inviting school setting to offset the effect of their transition.

  5. Unschooling - Wikipedia

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    Unschooling is a practice of self-driven informal learning characterized by a lesson-free and curriculum-free implementation of homeschooling. [1] Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, under the belief that the more personal learning is, the more meaningful, well-understood, and therefore useful it is to the child.

  6. Hidden curriculum - Wikipedia

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    Various aspects of learning contribute to the success of the hidden curriculum, including practices, procedures, rules, relationships, and structures. [1] These school-specific aspects of learning may include, but are not limited to, the social structures of the classroom, the teacher's exercise of authority, the teacher's use of language, rules governing the relationship between teachers and ...

  7. Social change - Wikipedia

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    Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by evolutionary means.It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure, for instance the transition from feudalism to capitalism, or hypothetical future transition to some form of post-capitalism.

  8. Free school movement - Wikipedia

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    The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.

  9. Child development - Wikipedia

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    Middle childhood/preadolescence or ages 6–12 universally mark a distinctive period between major developmental transition points. [2] Adolescence is the stage of life that typically starts around the major onset of puberty , with markers such as menarche and spermarche, typically occurring at 12–14 years of age. [ 3 ]