The consumption market for children
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
Companies looking to reach young consumers are forced to understand the viewpoint of children. Imagining the marketing approaches through the eyes of children is not easy, but good information about the target may be the key to success. Nestlé has for instance created websites...
Does Marketing threaten children's education at primary school?
Dissertation - 60 pages - Services marketing
This project aims to identify the ethical problem of marketing by aiming at children, and will focus on children in primary school. This area has interested people since the last decade and the likes of psychologists, doctors, marketers have always tried to understand the power of...
Taking pictures of children
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
To capture an image of childhood requires the skill of a craftsman, the eye of an artist and most important all the enlightened insight and best instincts of a friend. Taking pictures of children, irrespective of their age is a complex and a fascinating subject. It is a subject that is...
Tips on photographing children
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Taking pictures of children, irrespective of their age is a complex and a fascinating subject. It is a subject that is challenging as well as frustrating, both for the heart and imagination of the photographer. The results can be very amusing, rewarding, disappointing but never for a...
Upbringing of children
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This study was designed to disprove all usual speculations that children growing up in wealthy households usually have the much easier lives than those of children growing up in middle-class and lower-class households. Just as the study stated that nobody has really paid much...
Issue of instruction through delight in children's literature
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
The literary label of crossover fiction to contemporary children's literature is commonly associated with J K Rowling's “Harry Potter” phenomenon. However, arguably it was Phillip Pullman's “Dark Materials” trilogy that operated as a catalyst for this change in...
The resiliency of the children of Kauai
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This study on the resiliency of the children of Kauai really interested me in many ways. I was amazed at the extent in which those who conducted the study did in order to completely analyze these people's lives. I guess it's because I never heard of a longitudinal study; actually I didn't...
Children's stories: Basic propaganda
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
“No; it is never worth while to do wrong. Little boys who read this story, consider which you would have rather been- the honest boy, or the thief?” So read the very last lines of The Orange-Man; or The Honest Boy and the Thief. This tale clearly espouses a moral message, as the story...
Some useful tips when you are photographing children
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Taking pictures of children, irrespective of their age is a complex and a fascinating subject. It is a subject that is challenging as well as frustrating, both for the heart and imagination of the photographer. The results can be very amusing, rewarding, disappointing but never for a...
Children and conflict: Afghan children and post conflict processes
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Historically, the processes of securing peace, reconciliation and reconstructing a country have neglected the specific needs and rights of children. However, the approach to the role of children in post conflict societies is slowly changing. To ensure the long-term peace, security...
Emotional and behavioural disorders in children
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Most early years practitioners, child carers and parents report have some behaviour related problems with children at some time or another. However, the "behaviour disorder" label may only be warranted if those behaviours are persistent and impinge on the basic rights of others, if major...
Educating children with special educational needs and disabilities
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
Special Educational Needs (SEN) has a legal definition: children with SEN have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age. These children may need extra or different help from that given to other...
The impact of television advertisement on children
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The average child is exposed to more than 40,000 television commercials a year. My focus is devoted primarily to the examination of television advertising for three reasons. Firstly, marketers who seek children for commercial purposes rely primarily on television because it is the easiest...
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the flower children
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is 1836 and a pioneering new essayist has just made his debut. His first work is entitled “Nature,” a simple and concise name for an elaborate and layered piece. It is a bizarre article, one which lionizes the natural earth and calls on the younger generations to break away from...
What are the most efficient media and related strategies used by companies to target children?
Essay - 20 pages - Services marketing
This dissertation is about children and companies and as the title suggests it, we want to find out which the main media that companies use to target children are and what strategies they develop related to those media. The first part of this dissertation will be focused on a...
Parent's responsibility: The moral development of their children
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
In today's culture the deprivation of morality seems to pervade into every realm of society; the home, the school, the church, the government, the media, etc. Why has our country apparently become void of components that encompass the definition of a moral society or rather, a moral person? Who...
Does television advertising have a negative effect on children?
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Advertising is a collective term for public announcements designed to promote the sale of specific commodities or services. Advertising is a form of mass selling, employed when the use of direct, person-to-person selling is impractical, impossible, or simply inefficient. ‘It is to be...
The sex talk for children: A look at modern sex education
Thesis - 6 pages - Educational studies
Every year, hundreds of thousands of American teenage girls become pregnant. According to the Guttmacher Institute (2006), a private research company in the field of teenage pregnancy studies, 821,810 teen girls, ages 15-19, became pregnant in the year 2000, and many more may occur, only not...
The squabbling children
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Reasonable, brother-sister squabble, Just be reconciled, is a "busy" again. You can not avoid. But, why do they quarrel? How do I cope? "No! This is mine! "Sister cried while retake toys taken brother. But younger sister did not want to lose. He was behind the snatch toys. Be they rebut squall....
How behaviorist concepts of learning processes can be used to explain how children learn to talk and think
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay will explore the behaviorist approaches to both language and cognitive development, at the same time critically evaluating it in terms of the main alternative approaches of nativism and constructivism (which also includes the social interaction approach to language). To do this it will...
A review of Legacy of silence: Encounters with children of the Third Reich
Book review - 5 pages - Modern history
Silence has always been a persistent theme in Holocaust studies. How did so many people remain silent as millions of their neighbors were taken off and killed? Why did so few people resist, and why did so many otherwise rational people blindly follow orders and not speak up against the atrocities...
Children and the importance of a healthy diet
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The aim of this essay is to create a body of knowledge for a follow-on research on the subject of the nutritional health needs of children from 3 to 5. For this purpose, information was gathered through observations as well as through study and analysis of materials presented in books,...
The problem of other minds: Empathy in the psychological development of children
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Discerning other minds is an issue rooted in the philosophical tradition with implications for ethical morality, epistemology, phenomenology, cognitive studies, psychology, and childhood development. While this list is by no means exhaustive, it suggests the extent to which an agent's attempt to...
The impact of violence on the mental health of South African Children
Case study - 6 pages - Psychology
Violence as a national problem in South Africa needs little introduction. South African citizens are exposed to daily, sensationalised reports of violence in the media, emphasising this problem's national and international pervasiveness. However, little emphasis is laid on the negative...
Effects of television advertising on children
Thesis - 5 pages - Services marketing
In their article, The Commodity Flow of U.S. Children's Television, authors Matthew P. McAllister and J. Matt Giglio argue that commodity flow is one of the most prominent aspects of television programming for children, and that this commodity flow and corporate brand imaging builds...
A qualitative study examining children's development of scientific thinking
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
This study compares Piaget's (in Oates et al, 2005) and Vygotsky's (ibid.) respective theories on processes involved in children's cognitive development. Specifically, scientific thinking is examined using children's explanations for why things float or sink obtained via...
Who holds the responsibility for the moral development of children?
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
On initial consideration, the question posed here seemed to bracket nicely few main points of the subject, but that impression appeared to be wide of the mark, especially when it came to making judgments concerning the notions of "morals" and "morality". Really, what is a morality? What does it...
Teaching children reading and writing
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this essay is to create a body of knowledge for a follow-on research on the patterns of emergent reading and writing in young children in relation to the underpinning philosophies of two different instructional approaches - the Phonics approach and the Whole Language approach....
The role of play in children's learning and development
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
"Learning for young children is a rewarding and enjoyable experience in which they explore, investigate, discover, create, practise, rehearse, repeat, revise and consolidate their developing knowledge, skills, understandings and attitudes. During the foundation stage, many of these aspects...
Partnership and collaboration in education for children with Down syndrome
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the concept of partnership and collaboration in education. The study emphasizes on assessing the educational services for children with special needs, specifically those of Down syndrome (DS). The 1970 Education Act insures all...
