School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?     

Susan Edwards  Karen McLean  Jacinta Bartlett  Andrea Nolan  Maria Evangelou  Michael Henderson  Helen Skouteris  Joanne Tarasuik 《British Educational Research Journal》2022,48(3):598-616

This paper identifies the shared features of provision in exemplar school playgroups defined using the social capital concepts of bonding and bridging relationships. Relationships promote capabilities amongst people, with play a known capability for advancing children's developmental and educational outcomes. By attending to the bonding and bridging relationships in each school playgroup, exemplar groups were identified and studied to reveal their shared features of provision. Six main features of provision were identified, including materials, facilitator, space, location, scheduling and health and safety. Awareness of these features may benefit school leaders and/or governance seeking to implement a school playgroup within their own community. Findings from this project suggest high-performing school playgroups can operate in areas of lower and higher socioeconomic status and/or parental education, and in regional and rural areas.  相似文献   

Perceptual completion in newborn human infants     

Valenza E  Leo I  Gava L  Simion F 《Child development》2006,77(6):1810-1821

Despite decades of studies of human infants, a still open question concerns the role of visual experience in the development of the ability to perceive complete shapes over partial occlusion. Previous studies show that newborns fail to manifest this ability, either because they lack the visual experience required for perceptual completion or because they fail to detect the pattern of motion. To distinguish these possibilities, newborns' perception of a center-occluded object was tested, using stroboscopic motion. Infants (mean age of 72 hr) perceived the object as a connected unit, providing the first evidence that the newborn is capable of filling in gaps in the visible surface layout when the relevant visual information can be detected by his or her immature visual system.  相似文献   

Online instructional delivery. Lessons from the instructor's perspective     

K. Peter Kuchinke  Steven R. Aragon  Kenneth Bartlett 《Performance Improvement》2001,40(1):19-27

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Volunteering for Museums: The Variation in Motives across Volunteer Age Groups     

Margaret Deery  Leo Jago  Judith Mair 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2011,54(3):313-325

Abstract The value of volunteering is well documented, and though there is a readily available recruitment pool for volunteers, many come from an aging population that is also relatively affluent and has many more opportunities and demands for their free time in retirement. This paper examines the motives of older volunteers in a state museum in Australia with the aim of differentiating motivations within subsets of volunteering groups. The study undertook a census of 450 volunteers at the museum, using the Voluntary Functions Inventory (VFI). The findings reveal various levels of motivation within the older age groups. Such findings can assist volunteer agencies in enhancing the quality of their volunteers’ experience.  相似文献