Parental guidance of young children’s mathematics and scientific inquiry in games,cooking, and nature activities     

Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler  Lauren Westerberg  Hailey Fleishman  Kaitlin Sands  Melissa Mischka 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2018,26(4):369-386

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the influence of guidance instruction and type of activity on parental guidance of young children’s mathematics and scientific inquiry during cooking, games, and nature activities at home. Thirty families participated with their preschool-aged child; half were randomly assigned to an inquiry guidance instruction group and encouraged to support children’s reasoning with open-ended prompts and questions. Families participated in activities for one month, some of which they audio-recorded. Families engaged in processes of comparing, predicting, evaluating and concluding more often after inquiry guidance instruction, and incorporated inquiry processes into all activity types. Mathematics was most frequently observed in games and cooking. The results suggest that parents can use inquiry guidance to support preschoolers’ mathematics and scientific inquiry in a variety of activities performed at home. As children engage in inquiry-based learning during co-constructed activities with parents, they develop conceptual understanding of mathematics and scientific inquiry in a positive social context.  相似文献   

“My Child,My Choice”? Mandatory Curriculum,Sex, and the Conscience of Parents          下载免费PDF全文

Lauren Bialystok 《Educational theory》2018,68(1):11-29

In this essay Lauren Bialystok argues that the standard liberal defense of parental opt‐outs is inconsistent in the case of comprehensive sex education. Using the recent controversy over a new sex education curriculum in Ontario, Canada, as a case study, Bialystok examines the aims and effects of sex education and the self‐described conscience of opposing parents to reveal that children's interests may be harmed by deferring to parents' views on sexuality. The opt‐out strategy is a merely formal solution, which appears to be indifferent to both the strength of the justification for sex education and the content of the grounds on which parents oppose it. Being overly respectful of parental conscience in the case of sex education risks reproducing the illiberal paradigms that the curriculum is intended to erode, and thus subverts its own liberal intentions. Bialystok concludes by suggesting ways of honoring parents' right to involvement in their children's education while delivering a mandatory curriculum.  相似文献   

Predictors of portable technology adoption intentions to support elementary children reading     

Lauren Eutsler  Pavlo Antonenko 《Education and Information Technologies》2018,23(5):1971-1994

Much attention has focused on technology acceptance in the classroom, with little investigation into how parents make decisions about their children’s use of portable technology to support reading development in the home. Applying the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, this study identifies predictors of parents portable technology adoption intentions to support children’s reading development in the home. Participants were parents from two elementary schools within 46 classrooms in the southeastern United States. Phase one of data collection included 120 parents who responded to a validated survey that identified predictors and behavioral intention to adopt technology. The regression model explained 64% of parents have intentions to use portable technology to develop their children’s reading skills, with social influence and attitude as the most important predictors. Surveys indicated 99% of children used portable technology to support reading in the home, therefore phase two included explanatory interviews to examine adoption predictors. Interview data specified social influence ensued from the child’s school and parent community; attitude resulted from children’s affinity to use technology. Though parents’ intentions indicated continued portable technology use, parents preferred their child read print books. Interview data also revealed parents perceived an increase in performance expectancy when their child used portable technology. This study highlights the need for teachers and school administrators to be cognizant of educational requests on home learning, influences of the broader parent community on parent intentions to adopt educational technology, and children’s enjoyment reading with portable technology.  相似文献   

Situational interest helps correct misconceptions: An investigation of conceptual change in university students     

Thomas  Christopher L.  Kirby  Lauren A. J. 《Instructional Science》2020,48(3):223-241

Instructional Science - Many learners possess misconceptions regarding instructional content; toward this aim, educational practitioners employ teaching practices that support learners’...  相似文献   

Effects of word and morpheme familiarity on reading of derived words   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Joanne F. Carlisle  Lauren A. Katz 《Reading and writing》2006,19(7):669-693

The purpose of this study is to examine factors that influence students’ reading of derived words. Recent research suggests that the lexical quality of a derived word depends on the familiarity of the word, its morphemic constituents (i.e., base word and affixes), and the frequency with which the base word appears in other words (i.e., members of the same word family or family frequency). On the premise that better and more experienced readers have higher quality lexical representations, we explore the extent to which accuracy of reading derived words by 4th and 6th graders is related to measures of familiarity, including derived and base word frequencies, family size, average family frequency, and word length. The results of an exploratory factor analysis indicated that these measures formed two factors, one representing morphemic constitution and the second representing exposure to the word family; both factors accounted for significant variance in the students’ derived word reading. Comparisons of sets of derived words contrasted on familiarity properties showed that performance on derived words, overall, is better for 6th than 4th graders and for good than poor readers. On the measures of family frequency and family size, there were significant discrepancies between grade level and reading ability and frequency characteristics. These add support to the view that morphemic analysis and wide reading experience contribute to derived word reading.  相似文献   

Developing an HIV/AIDS Education Curriculum for Takalani Sesame, South Africa's Sesame Street     

Lauren Segal  Charlotte Frances Cole  Janice Fuld 《Early education and development》2002,13(4):363-378

The HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa has prompted a need for extensive efforts to educate citizens of all ages about the disease and ways of coping with its impact. This paper describes the process of developing an HIV/AIDS education curriculum for Takalani Sesame, an educational media project for young South African children. The process began with formative research with adults and children, and extensive discussions with HIV/AIDS health specialists. Guided by the research and advice from specialists, a team of educators developed a comprehensive curriculum that the Takalani Sesame production team will use to create HIV/AIDS education messages for television, radio and outreach materials for children ages 3-7 and the adults who care for them.  相似文献   

Neighborhood Characteristics,and Child Care Type and Quality     

Margaret Burchinal  Lauren Nelson  Mary Carlson  Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 《Early education and development》2013,24(5):702-725

Research Findings: Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, this article relates neighborhood characteristics to the type of child care used in families with toddlers and preschoolers (N = 1,121; representative of children in Chicago in 1996–1998). Neighborhood structural disadvantage was assessed via U.S. Census data, and neighborhood processes (i.e., density of social networks, collective efficacy, and level of participation in neighborhood organizations) were accessed with a community survey. Child care decisions (i.e., whether they chose care in centers; child care homes by non-relative, by relatives, and exclusively by parents) and the quality of center child care (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale–Revised) were assessed in a longitudinal sample. After controlling for family characteristics, various neighborhood characteristics were related to child care characteristics. In communities with denser social networks, children were less likely to experience care in child care homes by unrelated adults. Children were more likely to be in child care homes and less likely to cared for by parents exclusively or by relatives when collective efficacy was higher. Center care quality was lower in disadvantaged neighborhoods and higher for publicly funded programs. Further, neighborhood structural disadvantage was more negatively related to quality when mothers had less education. Practice or Policy: These findings provide further evidence that public programs such as Head Start and public pre-kindergarten programs may be especially important to ensure that children living in poverty in disadvantaged neighborhoods have access to the types of child care that promote school readiness.  相似文献   

Departments Can Develop Teaching Identities of Graduate Students     

K. Denise Kendall  Matthew L. Niemiller  Dylan Dittrich-Reed  Lacy D. Chick  Lauren Wilmoth  Austin Milt  Melissa Burt  Nick Lopes  Lisa Cantwell  Laura Rubio  Amanda Allison  Elisabeth E. Schussler 《CBE life sciences education》2013,12(3):316-317

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It's Money! Real-World Grant Experience through a Student-Run,Peer-Reviewed Program     

Sonya B. Dumanis  Lauren Ullrich  Patricia M. Washington  Patrick A. Forcelli 《CBE life sciences education》2013,12(3):419-428

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Expert searcher,teacher, content manager,and patient advocate: an exploratory study of clinical librarian roles     

Maria C. Tan  Lauren A. Maggio 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2013,101(1):63-72

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