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Educators’ and teachers’ perception of children’s transition from kindergarten to school according to the child-centered competences for early childhood education and care (CCECC) conceptual framework

The importance of early childhood education and care can be seen in the competences of six-month-old to school-age children, making it necessary to continuously establish connections between the two education systems. A good relationship between kindergarten and schoolteachers results in benefits that empower the child from an emotional, cognitive, and social perspective. In this way, …

Ecological Systems Theory: (Re)Constructing Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

In this paper, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987) will be considered from the point of view of developmental psychology. Morrison’s works can be seen as representing an intertwinement of social, historico-political and emotional themes which play acrucial role in the identity construction of the author’s characters. Therefore, the Ecological Systems Theory proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner …