What are the challenges that children face when they start school?

Discussion of attachment issues when children join new, larger peer groups and the school social structure. Discussion of how children’s resilience and risks that they have experienced might affect how well they can cope with starting school. Discussion of the development of children’s thinking at the start of middle childhood. Summary of the above sections, drawing points together.

Considering the portrayal of the conquest of Canaan in Joshua 1-11 and the covenant renewal celebration in Joshua 23-24, how does this portrayal fit the theological agenda of the Deuteronomic historian?

Consider the portrayal of the conquest of Canaan in Joshua 1-11 and the covenant renewal celebration in Joshua 23-24. How does this portrayal fit the theological agenda of the Deuteronomic historian? How does the total pacification of Palestine by violent conquest fit with this picture?