Ego Integrity of Older People with Physical Disability and Therapeutic Recreation     

Allan B. de Guzman  Hye-Eun Shim  Charmin Kathleen M. Sia  Wilbart Harvey S. Siazon  Mary Joyce Ann P. Sibal  Joanna Brigitte Lorraine C. Siglos 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(4):265-291

Ego integrity, the last developmental task in Erikson's psychological theory, develops naturally among older people. However, the presence of loss–like physical disability–can considerably affect the quality of life, interactions, and well being of older adults. Hence, older people with physical disabilities need more assistance in accomplishing tasks of ego integrity. This study aimed to utilize traditional Filipino art to capture the essence of the lived experiences of a select group of older people with physical disabilities in relation to their ego integrity. Four Filipino elderly with physical disabilities were purposely selected for this study. Picture prompting and doodling sessions were held as pretest and posttest to ascertain the effectiveness of puni-making in facilitating ego integrity of participants. A series of interviews were pursued to elicit experiences and feelings of participants regarding their disability and old age. From the analysis of the triangulated set of data, two findings emerged. First, four activators of ego integrity, namely: work, family, belief in self and belief in God, were identified as essentials in the formation of the participants' ego-integrity. Second, shifts related to the activators were identified indicating ego integrity's source, meaning and connection elements have become more grounded, certain and integrated. The influence of puni-making in understanding the ego integrity of older people with disabilities was found to be a sound and novel recreational therapy. It can stimulate a select group of Filipino elderly for openness to share their subjective and yet illuminating life experiences.  相似文献   

Changes in Memory Prediction Accuracy: Age and Performance Effects     

Ann Pearman  Amanda Trujillo 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(7):467-475

Memory performance predictions are subjective estimates of possible memory task performance. The purpose of this study was to examine possible factors related to changes in word list performance predictions made by younger and older adults. Factors included memory self-efficacy, actual performance, and perceptions of performance. The current study examined the age differences in a sample of 59 older adults (M = 76.83 years) and 52 younger adults (M = 21.19 years) on memory predictions and the accuracy of those predictions for both an immediate and delayed word recall task. While memory self-efficacy did not influence predictions for either group, perceived and actual performance at immediate recall was related to accuracy of predictions at delay for both groups. In addition, there was a significant age-by-time interaction such that older adults became more accurate over time whereas younger adults declined slightly in their prediction accuracy. These findings suggest that older adults are able to make accurate adjustments to their predictions based on both their perceived and actual performance on tasks.  相似文献   

Instructional development in higher education: impact on teachers’ teaching behaviour as perceived by students     

Ann Stes  Liesje Coertjens  Peter Van Petegem 《Instructional Science》2013,41(6):1103-1126

Although instructional development has become an important topic in higher education, little is known about the impact on teaching practice. In this study we investigate the impact of instructional development on teachers’ teaching behaviour as perceived by students. Quantitative student data were assembled for 15 experimental and 12 control teachers. 45 experimental students and 27 control students were interviewed. Repeated measures analyses of variance and analyses of covariance showed no statistically significant impact of instructional development on teaching behaviour. The analysis of the qualitative data sustained this result. Several interpretations and perspectives for further research as well as for the planning of instructional development are discussed.  相似文献   

Linking curriculum theory and linguistics: the performative use of ‘equivalence’ as an educational policy concept   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Tomas Englund  Ann Quennerstedt 《课程研究杂志》2013,45(6):713-724

The linguistic turn has helped to create new methods within social and educational theory. This study draws attention to the constitutive force of political language and the performative dynamics of one essentially contested concept—equivalence—in Swedish educational policy at both the national and the local level. It illustrates the way in which different interpretations of the concept of equivalence produce different truths, the performative concept thereby becoming a way of advocating particular understandings of the purpose of education.  相似文献   

Leadership: A Supercomplex Phenomenon     

Betty Ann Block 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2013,65(2):233-246

Treating leadership as a supercomplex phenomenon and relating leadership research to the philosophical disciplines is a way to begin to understand its enigmatic and fluid nature. Its theories are living theories that change in an ever-dynamic world. Leadership is a phenomenon embedded in experience. This article examines leadership against the backdrop of the disciplines of philosophy (ontology, epistemology, politics, axiology and ethics, and aesthetics) with particular emphasis on phenomenology. I suggest that leaders and followers understand and filter subjective experiences through self-reflection until self-awareness is achieved in the moment by pausing and filtering subjective experiences before responding to people and situations. As a consequence, our intentions can be ethically focused, politically mitigated, and directed appropriately. Additionally, inappropriate intentions can be assuaged if the leader is self-aware and present in the moment.  相似文献   

LOOKING AT PEOPLE AND ASKING "WHY?": AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION     

Margaret Ann Crain 《Religious education (Chicago, Ill.)》2013,108(3):386-394

This article argues that ethnographic research can provide direction as to both the processes and content of religious education. Crain offers advice on a research method that relies on interviews and focus groups and concludes with clues from her research about how religious education can be more efficacious.  相似文献   

Trust or Bust?: Questioning the Relationship Between Media Trust and News Attention     

Ann E. Williams 《广播与电子媒介杂志》2013,57(1):116-131

This article establishes the theoretical significance of media trust and explores the relationships between individuals' levels of media trust and news attention. Three distinct types of media trust are introduced: 1) trust of news information, 2) trust of those who deliver the news, and 3) trust of media corporations. The findings indicate that these different types of media trust relate to news attention in distinct ways, specifically when examined across medium. The theoretical significance of the findings are discussed and contextualized in light of an evolving media environment.  相似文献   

Popular Culture     

Mary S. Costanza  Leslie Fiedler  Karen Ann Marling  Sam B. Girgus  Frank F. Mathias  Ray Bonds 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(3):36-37

WAITING FOR PRIME TIME: THE WOMEN OF TELEVISION NEWS by Marlene Sanders and Marcia Rock (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988—$19.95, ISBN 0-252-01435-9)

FAIR PLAY: CBS, GENERAL WESTMORELAND, AND HOW A TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY WENT WRONG by Burton Benjamin (New York: Harper &; Row, 1988—$17.95, ISBN 0-06-015928-6)

BEHIND THE FRONT PAGE: A CANDID LOOK AT HOW THE NEWS IS MADE by David S. Broder (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-671-65721-6)

BAD TIDINGS: COMMUNICATION AND CATASTROPHE edited by Lynne Masel Walters, Lee Wilkins, and Tim Walters ((Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-89859-951-2)

MEDIA, MYTHS AND NARRATIVES: TELEVISION AND THE PRESS edited by James W. Carey (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988—$35.00/16.95, ISBN 0-8039-3049-6, paper)

PREDICTIONS OF PUBLIC OPINION FROM THE MASS MEDIA: COMPUTER CONTENT ANALYSIS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING by David P. Fan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988—$42.95, ISBN 0-313-26296-9)

JOURNALISTS AT WAR: THE DYNAMICS OF NEWS REPORTING DURING THE FALKLAND'S CONFLICT by David E. Morrison and Howard Tumber (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988—$49.95/18.95, ISBN 0-8039-8057-4, hard 0-8039-8058-2, soft)

NEWS COVERAGE OF THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION by Joshua Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706—$19.95/9.95, ISBN 0-8447-3661-9 hard, and 0-8447-3662-7, soft)

IMAGE WARS: PROTECTING YOUR COMPANY WHEN THERE'S NO PLACE TO HIDE by Stan Sauerhaft and Chris Atkins (New York: John Wiley, 1989—$22.95, ISBN O471-60936-6)

THE IQ CONTROVERSY: THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC by Mark Snyderman and Stanley Rothman (Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-151-0)

NEWS AS HEGEMONIC REALITY: AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE FRAMING OF NEWS ACCOUNTS by Allan Rachlin (New York: Praeger, 1988—$37.95, ISBN 0-275-92534-X)

BEYOND MALICE: THE MEDIA'S YEARS OF RECKONING by Richard M. Clurman (Transaction Books, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-234-7)

MASS MEDIA, CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AND STREET GOSSIP: HOW COMMUNICATION AFFECTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN AN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD by W. Phillips Davison (New York: Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University, 1988—price not given, paper, ISBN not provided)

NEWS AND NUMBERS: A GUIDE TO REPORTING STATISTICAL CLAIMS AND CONTROVERSIES IN HEALTH AND OTHER FIELDS by Victor Cohn (Iowa State University Press, 2121 South State Ave., Ames, Iowa 50010—$17.95, ISBN 0-8138-1442-1)  相似文献   

U.S. Newspapers and the development of online editions     

Shashank Saksena  C. Ann Hollifield 《媒体管理杂志》2013,15(2):75-84

Abstract

Media managers in the 21st century will need to constantly assess and respond to emerging technologies that have the potential to disrupt the industry. This project examined the innovation‐management processes that the newspaper industry used to respond to the Internet, using an analytical framework of recommended innovation management techniques derived from previous research. The study found that newspapers’ innovation‐management processes were generally haphazard and that industry executives should be better prepared in the future to manage innovation. From a theoretical perspective, the study also found that organizational responses to emerging technology were related to the senior executive's perception of the nature of the technology. The paper concludes that future innovation management research should control for variances in the technology's perceived nature.  相似文献   

The Subtleties of Blatant Sexism     

Ann Johnson 《传播与批判/文化研究》2013,10(2):166-183

This essay examines The Man Show as a contemporary example of blatant sexism. A growing body of feminist criticism documents the emergence of subtle forms of sexism in popular culture. Such forms may be characterized as an accommodation or hegemonic negotiation in which dominant discourses must become flexible in the face of pressure from oppressed groups. Yet blatant sexism abounds in contemporary culture. I argue that The Man Show provides viewers with rhetorical resources to imagine their viewing practices as an act of protest against an imagined dominant female authority, and that those resources potentially allow viewers to accept the sexism of the program at face value.  相似文献