Education and Early Childhood Development

Trust me, I’m a robot: relational determinants of social robot acceptance among university students

Purpose Although social robots are increasingly being used in higher education‚ the relational antecedents of students’ acceptance of these robots remain unexplored. This study re-conceptualises the technology acceptance model (TAM) for social robots by shifting the theoretical f...

Story Comprehension and Storytelling Production among Chinese Kindergarteners in Different Family Contexts

The purpose of this study was to examine kindergarten children’s story comprehension and production in relation to emergent literacy in a sample of final-year kindergarten children. This study employed a quantitative descriptive cross-sectional survey design involving 104 final-y...

Mapping the Intellectual and Conceptual Structure of Early Childhood Science Education: Epistemic Continuity, Thematic Evolution, and Emerging Research Fronts

This study maps the development, intellectual roots, and conceptual transformation of early childhood science education between 1990 and July of 2026 through performance analysis and science mapping of 1147 English-language research articles indexed in the Scopus Social Sciences...

What makes a good early childhood graduate?

With the Government reforming how early years teachers are trained and assessed, Prof Verity Campbell-Barr and Dr Sam Hoyes ask how we quantify good graduate practice, using the recently updated graduate practitioner competencies framework to break it down

Comics as a tool for teaching alternative energy: effects on cognitive achievement, motivation, attitudes, and learning environment among sixth-grade students

This study examined the effects of comic-based instruction in an alternative energy unit on sixth-grade students’ cognitive achievement, science learning motivation, attitudes toward alternative energy, and perceptions of the classroom learning environment. The study responded to...

PEPTIDE RECEPTOR RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY (PRRT) AND THE PITUITARY: SAFETY AND EFFICACY

Abstract Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is an emerging and promising targeted treatment for aggressive pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (PitNETs) and pituitary carcinomas refractory to conventional therapies. Its use is supported by the frequent expression of somato...

GENDER DISPARITY IN PUPILS' USAGE OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING PACKAGES AND ITS EFFECT ON THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN OYO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

This study investigated the extent to which gender disparity in pupils’ engagement with digital storytelling packages influences their academic outcomes. Four hypotheses formulated at 0.05 significance level served as guides for the study. A quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test...

Gender Roles in Chinese Children’s Picture Books: A Descriptive Content Analysis

Early childhood is a critical period for gender-role development, and picture books are one of the important mediums through which children encounter social expectations about gender. However, limited research has compared gender roles in Chinese-authored and non-Chinese-authored...