The Contradictions of Contemporary Culture: A Tribute to Norman Jay Levitt (1943–2009)     

Paul R. Gross 《Academic Questions》2012,25(1):153-157

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Piaget and the Mende of Sierra Leone     

R. Ogbonna Ohuche 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(4):75-77

Piaget’s (4) principle of conservation of quantity has been demonstrated by many researchers to apply to American, European, and West African children. This investigation set out to determine the relevance of Piaget’s ideas to a particular ethnic group in Sierra Leone. Mende pupils (N=231) of three age groups in sixteen schools located in towns or villages in four districts were interviewed on three tasks. The results showed that pupils in the 7 to 8 year age group received significantly higher (p <. 01) scores than those younger than 7. It was concluded that conservation of quantity varies with chronological age and task and that there are individual differences.  相似文献   

DEVELOPING A CONFERENCE FOR THE ELDERLY AS PART OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL GERONTOLOGY CLASS     

Janice K. Kauffman Ph.D. 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):651-656

The undergraduate course Educational Gerontology taught at Hampton University includes the development and implementation of a community conference for older adults. The conference is developed in conjunction with the local senior center. Students spend two hours each week throughout the semester observing and participating in the programming at the senior center in order to become familiar with the needs and interests of older adults. During scheduled class times, students select an appropriate conference theme and begin conference plans and committee assignments. The class culminates with the conducting of the conference at the center. Such a project gives students the opportunity to get valuable hands‐on experience in educational gerontology programming.  相似文献   

Further Studies on Some Effects of Physical Fatigue on the Peripheral Circulation of Athletes     

Marie A. Hinrichs M.D. Ph.D. 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(3):175-181

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The Centre for Studies in Science Education at the University of Leeds     

D. Layton  K. Lovell 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(2):216-221

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of aesthetic science activities on improving elementary school at-risk families’ children's positive thinking, attitudes toward science, and decreasing their anxiety about learning science. Thirty-six 4th-grade children from at-risk families volunteered to participate in a 12-week intervention and formed the experimental group; another 97 typical 4th graders were randomly selected to participant in the assessment and were used as the comparison group. The treatment for experimental group children emphasized scaffolding aesthetic science activities and inquiry strategies. The Elementary School Student Questionnaire was administered to assess all children's positive thinking, attitudes toward science, and anxiety about learning science. In addition, nine target children from the experimental group with the lowest scores on either positive thinking, or attitudes toward science, or with the highest scores on anxiety about learning science in the pre-test were recruited to be interviewed at the end of the intervention and observed weekly. Confirmatory factor analyses, analyses of covariance, and content theme analysis assessed the similarities and differences between groups. It was found that the at-risk families’ children were motivated by the treatment and made significant progress on positive thinking and attitudes toward science, and also decreased their anxiety about learning science. The findings from interviews and classroom observations also revealed that the intervention made differences in children's affective perceptions of learning science. Implication and research recommendation are discussed.  相似文献   

So Many Colors in a Flower: Cultural Diversity and Pedagogical Variety in the Classroom     

Elaine R. Ognibene  Siena College 《Teaching Education》2013,24(2):139-145

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Education And Liberation: The Native Peoples Of Manitoba     

D. bruce Sealey 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(6):18-20

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In their very own words: authors and scholarly journal publishing     

David Nicholas  Hamid R. Jamali M.  Paul Huntington  Ian Rowlands 《Learned Publishing》2005,18(3):212-220

This paper presents the results of a major investigation by questionnaire of author attitudes towards scholarly publishing, which was funded by the Publisher's Association. Altogether, the views of nearly 4,000 authors were obtained and this paper concerns just those thousand or so authors who accepted the invitation to write freely about their own personal feelings and experiences. Using QSR N6 textual analysis software, their comments were processed and themes extracted. While the rest of the questionnaire, which was formed of closed‐question, tick‐box type questions, clearly must have had some impact on their thinking, the authors had considerable latitude in regard to what they could say. The paper provides a unique opportunity to hear their views directly. The pressing topics turned out to be (in rough order of concern): the peer‐review system, copyright, journal prices, alternative business models for journal publishing, big deals, Elsevier, electronic publishing and digital journals.  相似文献   

Diversity in the Information Seeking Behaviour of the Virtual Scholar: Institutional Comparisons     

David Nicholas  Director of CIBER  Professor at  Director of the School of Library  Paul Huntington  Senior Researcher  a founder member of CIBER  SLAIS  University College London  WCE  BT  UK  Hamid R. Jamali  a researcher in CIBER  SLAIS  University College London  WCE  BT  UK 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2007,33(6):629-638

The logs of four universities using the OhioLINK journal system were evaluated for a period of fifteen months using deep log analysis methods in order to compare and contrast the information seeking behaviour of their users. Large differences were found, especially between the research and teaching universities. Methodological problems associated with making the comparisons are discussed in some detail especially in terms of defining online sessions.  相似文献   

The Central Asylum for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, Canajoharie, New York, 1823-1835     

Campbell CD 《American annals of the deaf》1999,144(5):365-372

The Central Asylum for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, Canajoharie, NY, was a public school for the Deaf that existed from 1823 to 1835. Little has been written about it. This study draws upon as much information as appears to be available on the history of this school. The history of the Central Asylum adds to the understanding of the beginnings of public education for the Deaf in the United States.  相似文献