What makes a landmark effective? Sex differences in a navigation task     

V. D. Chamizo  Clara A. Rodríguez  Irene Torres  Marta N. Torres  N. J. Mackintosh 《Learning & behavior》2014,42(4):348-356

In Experiment 1, two groups of female rats were trained in a triangular pool to find a hidden platform whose location was defined in terms of a single a landmark, a cylinder outside the pool. For one group, the landmark had only a single pattern (i.e., it looked the same when approached from any direction), while for the other, the landmark contained four different patterns (i.e., it looked different when approached from different directions). The first group learned to swim to the platform more rapidly than the second. Experiment 2 confirmed this difference when female rats were trained in a circular pool but found that male rats learned equally rapidly (and as rapidly as females trained with the single-pattern landmark) with both landmarks. This second finding was confirmed in Experiment 3. Finally, in Experiment 4a and 4b, male and female rats were trained either with the same, single-pattern landmark on all trials or with a different landmark each day. Males learned equally rapidly (and as rapidly as females trained with the unchanged landmark) whether the landmark changed or not. We conclude that male and female rats learn rather different things about the landmark that signals the location of the platform.  相似文献   

Newborns' face recognition: role of inner and outer facial features   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Turati C  Macchi Cassia V  Simion F  Leo I 《Child development》2006,77(2):297-311

Existing data indicate that newborns are able to recognize individual faces, but little is known about what perceptual cues drive this ability. The current study showed that either the inner or outer features of the face can act as sufficient cues for newborns' face recognition (Experiment 1), but the outer part of the face enjoys an advantage over the inner part (Experiment 2). Inversion of the face stimuli disrupted recognition when only the inner portion of the face was shown, but not when the whole face was fully visible or only the outer features were presented (Experiment 3). The results enhance our picture of what information newborns actually process and encode when they discriminate, learn, and recognize faces.  相似文献   

THE DECENTRALIZED CENTRAL AGENCY: Suburbia Meets the BJE of Greater New York     

Rabbi Arnold D. Samlan  Irene Lustgarten 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(3):59-63

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The Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center     

Irene Bush Steinbock 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(2):40-44

“It is revealed and known in front of the One who spoke and the world came into existence that a child loves¹ his mother more than his father because she appeases him with words. Therefore the Holy One Blessed be He put love of father before love of mother. And it is revealed and known before He who spoke and the world came into existence that a child fears his father more than his mother because he teaches him Torah. Therefore, the Holy One Blessed He put fear of mother before fear of father.²  相似文献   

Challenging the premises of international policy reviews: an introduction to the review symposium     

Noah Weeth Feinstein  Jeppe Læssøe  Nicole Blum  Dianne Chambers 《Environmental Education Research》2013,19(2):198-205

In 2009, a think tank called the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes (IALEI) announced the results of a study entitled Climate Change and Sustainable Development: The Response from Education. Intended for a policy audience, the study offered a glimpse into the status of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and an early look at the emergence of Climate Change Education (CCE), in 10 different nations. As with most international reports, the IALEI report provoked many questions, some of which are more broadly relevant to scholarship and practice. This paper introduces a review symposium that addresses three such questions: (1) How coherent is the concept of ESD across national contexts and what conceptual tensions continue to surround ESD and CCE? (2) Can nation-level analyses tell us anything useful about countries where education is not centrally governed? and (3) In light of the evolving relationship between educational research and policy, how should researchers engage with ongoing policy debates?  相似文献   

Digital resources in the family-school relationship during the 0–3 stage / Recursos digitales en la relación familia y escuela en la etapa 0–3     

Irene Sánchez-Garrote 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(1):221-233

Abstract

Digital resources can open up new means of communication between families and schools, helping to create links and build relationships between both educational agents. The role played by digital resources to establish family-school relationships in pre-schools for children up to three is identified and analysed on the basis of experiences in schools in which ICT resources are being used for communicative processes. The results show that the most commonly used resources are blogs/websites and email, mainly for providing families with information. It is also observed that the introduction of ICT tools in these relations lacks the pedagogical reflection that would determine the communicative goals and the role played by both educational agents in the relationship scenarios mediated by ICT.  相似文献   

Lost and Found     

Carole Edelsky  Ursula Casanova  Barbara Guzzetti  Sarah Hudelson  Helga Kansy  Irene Serna 《Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies》2013,35(3-4):307-315

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Technology User Groups and Early Childhood Education: A Preliminary Study     

Howard P. Parette  Jack J. Hourcade  Craig Blum  Emily H. Watts  Julia B. Stoner  Brian W. Wojcik  Shannon B. Chrismore 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2013,41(3):171-179

This article presents a preliminary examination of the potential of Technology User Groups as a professional development venue for early childhood education professionals in developing operational and functional competence in using hardware and software components of a Technology toolkit. Technology user groups are composed of varying numbers of participants having an interest in technology, and are led by one or more skilled facilitators who meet with participants across time to help them acquire and demonstrate new technology skill sets. A series of these groups were conducted with seven early education professionals serving young preschool children who were at risk or who had disabilities. The impact of these technology user groups was examined using self-reports subsequent to individual participation. Specific data were collected regarding the types of technologies that had been used, and the types of classroom instructional products that had been created and implemented in classrooms using the technologies. A discussion of the value of technology user groups is presented.  相似文献   

Kawaii Killers and Femme Fatales: A Textual Analysis of Female Characters Signifying Benevolent and Hostile Sexism in Video Games     

Jessica E. Tompkins  Teresa Lynch  Irene I. Van Driel  Niki Fritz 《广播与电子媒介杂志》2020,64(2):236-254

ABSTRACT

Game developers potentially convey socio-cultural values about gender through design choices. This study interpreted the designs of 11 purposively selected female game characters, developed by studios located in the United States and Japan, through the lens of ambivalent sexism. This social psychological theory posits that sexism consists of hostile and benevolent attitudes about women. Two themes emerged across characterizations: bodies as objects, bodies as weapons and (in)dependence. Both consisted of empowering qualities paired with problematic beliefs about women. This analysis contributes to interdisciplinary literature by using an empirical perspective to interpret gender representations in video games.  相似文献   

Benedictus Pererius: Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit Science     

Paul Richard Blum 《Science & Education》2006,15(2-4):279-304

Benedictus Pererius (1535–1610) published in 1576 his most successful book De principiis, after he had taught philosophy at the Roman College of the Jesuits. It will be shown that parts of this book are actually based on his lectures. But the printed version was intended as a contribution to the debate within his Order on how science should be conceived. Pererius redefined the meaning of scientific speculation to the effect that metaphysics was split into ontology and natural theology, and that further speculative sciences, such as physics, gained their own competence. Throughout this book, as well as in his warning against magic and in his commentaries on the Bible, the Jesuit addresses Renaissance strains of neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, and syncretism.  相似文献