Chicken Club: schools and their relationship with families     

Rebecca Brewer 《Support for Learning》2020,35(1):5-22

Over time, schools have developed systems that include the families of children. Families often sign a home school agreement and attend parent forums or more formal meetings designed to plan provision for children with special educational needs. These endeavours, however, are arguably inadequate when the full influence of the family is properly acknowledged. Research makes clear that the main influencer on the child’s self-efficacy and therefore learning behaviours, is the family. This article reports findings from literature and a case study looking at making the most of the partnership between families and schools in order to meet the learning needs of individual children. It also addresses many barriers that families face in approaching schools and three ways schools in Cornwall, a rural county in South West England, are 'opening out’ their practice. The case study provides evidence of the progress children made in learning as a response to the new school and family partnership.  相似文献   

Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Raikes H  Pan BA  Luze G  Tamis-LeMonda CS  Brooks-Gunn J  Constantine J  Tarullo LB  Raikes HA  Rodriguez ET 《Child development》2006,77(4):924-953

About half of 2,581 low-income mothers reported reading daily to their children. At 14 months, the odds of reading daily increased by the child being firstborn or female. At 24 and 36 months, these odds increased by maternal verbal ability or education and by the child being firstborn or of Early Head Start status. White mothers read more than did Hispanic or African American mothers. For English-speaking children, concurrent reading was associated with vocabulary and comprehension at 14 months, and with vocabulary and cognitive development at 24 months. A pattern of daily reading over the 3 data points for English-speaking children and daily reading at any 1 data point for Spanish-speaking children predicted children's language and cognition at 36 months. Path analyses suggest reciprocal and snowballing relations between maternal bookreading and children's vocabulary.  相似文献   

Preparing Teachers to Make the Formative Assessment Process Integral to Science Teaching and Learning     

Gayle A. Buck  Amy E. Trauth-Nare 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(5):475-494

Formative assessment provides a means to successfully scaffold learning. Unfortunately, few teachers understand the pedagogical implications of such scaffolding or their role in utilizing formative assessments. The purpose of our study was to develop an understanding of the experience of being a teacher that is seeking to improve learning through formative assessment and using that understanding to improve our practices in teacher education. Three categories emerged from the data analysis: (1) questioning the validity of tacit pedagogical understandings, (2) understanding the experiences of the students, and (3) exploring the need to develop a more reflexive classroom. The findings from this study are useful for persons seeking to prepare teachers to guide science learning.  相似文献   

Measuring the value and impact of health sciences libraries: planning an update and replication of the Rochester Study     

Kathel Dunn  Karen Brewer  Joanne Gard Marshall  Julia Sollenberger 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2009,97(4):308-312

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Stevenson,The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice,Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots     

Gayle Jansen Brisbane 《Journal of Radio & Audio Media》2016,23(1):186-187

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“They’re Going to Forget About Their Mother Tongue”: Influence of Chinese Beliefs in Child Home Language and Literacy Development     

Gonzalez  Jorge E.  Liew  Jeffrey  Zou  Yali  Curtis  Gayle  Li  Danni 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2022,50(7):1109-1120

Early Childhood Education Journal - The primary aim of this study was to explore and understand Chinese American parents’ language and literacy beliefs, perceptions, and practices with regard...  相似文献   

Recreating blood-brain barrier physiology and structure on chip: A novel neurovascular microfluidic bioreactor     

Jacquelyn A. Brown  Virginia Pensabene  Dmitry A. Markov  Vanessa Allwardt  M. Diana Neely  Mingjian Shi  Clayton M. Britt  Orlando S. Hoilett  Qing Yang  Bryson M. Brewer  Philip C. Samson  Lisa J. McCawley  James M. May  Donna J. Webb  Deyu Li  Aaron B. Bowman  Ronald S. Reiserer  John P. Wikswo 《Biomicrofluidics》2015,9(5)

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a critical structure that serves as the gatekeeper between the central nervous system and the rest of the body. It is the responsibility of the BBB to facilitate the entry of required nutrients into the brain and to exclude potentially harmful compounds; however, this complex structure has remained difficult to model faithfully in vitro. Accurate in vitro models are necessary for understanding how the BBB forms and functions, as well as for evaluating drug and toxin penetration across the barrier. Many previous models have failed to support all the cell types involved in the BBB formation and/or lacked the flow-created shear forces needed for mature tight junction formation. To address these issues and to help establish a more faithful in vitro model of the BBB, we have designed and fabricated a microfluidic device that is comprised of both a vascular chamber and a brain chamber separated by a porous membrane. This design allows for cell-to-cell communication between endothelial cells, astrocytes, and pericytes and independent perfusion of both compartments separated by the membrane. This NeuroVascular Unit (NVU) represents approximately one-millionth of the human brain, and hence, has sufficient cell mass to support a breadth of analytical measurements. The NVU has been validated with both fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran diffusion and transendothelial electrical resistance. The NVU has enabled in vitro modeling of the BBB using all human cell types and sampling effluent from both sides of the barrier.  相似文献   

What the CCC Might Have Been     

John M. Brewer 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(3):159-164

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“The Little Citizen” Images of Children in Early Nineteenth-Century America     

Priscilla J. Brewer 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》1984,7(4):45-62

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Intimate partner violence exposure, salivary cortisol, and childhood asthma     

MH Bair-Merritt  SB Johnson  S Okelo  G Page 《Child abuse & neglect》2012,36(7-8):596-601

ObjectivesNeuroendocrine alterations may help explain health differences between intimate partner violence (IPV) exposed children and non-exposed children. We sought to determine the feasibility of having families, recruited at a child asthma visit, collect at home and return via mail child salivary samples, and whether socio-demographic variables were associated with sample return. For those returning samples, we examined whether past-year IPV exposure was associated with total cortisol output (AUC) and the magnitude of the cortisol awakening response (CAR), and whether these cortisol values were associated with asthma control.MethodsFifty-five families with an asthmatic child of any age were recruited from 2 pediatric asthma clinics. At the time of the visit, parents completed a survey packet which included a modified version of the Conflict Tactics Scale to assess IPV. Parents were given supplies to collect 3 child salivary cortisol samples (awakening, 30-min after awakening, bedtime) at home on a typical day, and return them via mail. Medical records also were abstracted.ResultsFifty-three percent (n = 29) returned child salivary samples. Families who returned samples typically returned them within 2 weeks, most commonly before we made a reminder call. Parental male sex was associated (p = .06) with increased rate of return at the trend level. In multivariable models, a 1-unit increase in IPV was significantly associated with a .93 SD increase in root-transformed total cortisol output (AUC) (un-standardized beta = 2.5; SE .59; p = .001). The odds of uncontrolled asthma were marginally higher for every nmol/l increase in CAR (OR 1.04; 95% CI 1.0, 1.1; p = .06).ConclusionsThis study provides support for the feasibility of obtaining a moderate return of salivary specimens from a convenience sample. Findings that IPV was associated with elevated total cortisol output and uncontrolled asthma was marginally associated with cortisol awakening response suggest that future studies should investigate whether cortisol mediates the IPV-child asthma relationship.  相似文献