“If They're Trying to Say Something About My Culture … I'm Confused”: Recognizing and Resisting Authenticity in Latino-Themed Television     

Kristin Moran 《Mass Communication and Society》2013,16(1):79-96

The television landscape has expanded to include an ever-increasing crop of culturally themed programs aimed at the Latina/o audience. Assumptions about the audience have shaped this trend, resulting in questions about the effectiveness of niche programming to satisfy viewer taste. This project investigates LatiNation with specific focus on the differences in the reception process based on participants' connection to their ethnic identity. In-depth interviews were conducted with self-identified Latina/o students who were also given a survey with scaled items to measure their connection to their ethnic identity. In general, the findings indicate that audience members produce varied readings of the text showing the participants actively negotiate identity by using LatiNation as an opportunity to both embrace and critique Latinidad.  相似文献   

Difficult from the Start: Implementing the Brown Decision in the Kansas City,Missouri Public Schools     

Peter William Moran 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(3):278-288

This article explores the history of school desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri. It examines the development of the school district's initial 1955 desegregation plan based on neighborhood schools, and the impact of that plan. Extensive analysis is devoted to the plan's shortcomings, particularly the provisions allowing students to transfer between schools and the manner in which massive demographic change in the city undermined school desegregation. Finally, the article explores the origins of busing for school desegregation in Kansas City during the early 1960s, the modifications made to the busing plan following protests by the city's civil rights organizations, and the subsequent court decisions that gave shape to the city's magnet schools desegregation plan.  相似文献   

Back to the future: do lessons from Finland point the way to a return to model schools for Northern Ireland?     

Anne Moran  Linda Clarke 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2012,35(3):275-288

The paper examines the school-based element of initial teacher education (ITE) and the ways in which it contributes to the professional learning of student teachers in Finland (University of Helsinki) and Northern Ireland (University of Ulster). In particular it seeks to assess the potential of Training Schools for Northern Ireland. Universities in Finland that provide teacher education have at least one designated training school in which all student teachers have the opportunity to undertake a practicum. The Finnish model was selected for comparison because of the country’s consistently excellent results in the OECD’s Programmes for International Student Assessment which is undoubtedly due, in part, to the quality of the teachers. Teaching/training schools have featured prominently in recent reviews of teacher education in England and Scotland and, while not specifically mentioned in the Northern Ireland (NI) review document, the overall concept could enrich the school-based element of ITE in NI, using existing collaborative networks of schools.  相似文献   

Income and the development of effortful control as predictors of teacher reports of preschool adjustment     

Stephanie F. Thompson  Liliana J. LenguaMaureen Zalewski  Lyndsey Moran 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

This study examined the relations of income and children's effortful control to teacher reports of preschoolers’ social competence and adjustment problems. This study tested whether changes in effortful control accounted for the effects of income on children's adjustment. A community sample (N = 306) of preschool-age children (36–40 mos.) and their mothers, representing the full range of income (29% at or near poverty, 28% at or below the local median income), was used. Path analyses were used to test the prospective effects of income on rank-order changes in two aspects of effortful control, executive control and delay ability, which in turn, predicted teacher-reported adjustment problems and social competence. Lower income predicted smaller rank-order change in executive control, but did not predict changes in delay ability. Smaller rank-order change in delay ability predicted greater adjustment problems above the effect of income. Larger rank-order change in executive control predicted greater social competence and fewer adjustment problems above the effect of income. These findings provided some support for the hypothesis that disruptions in the development of effortful control related to low income might account for the effects of low income on young children's adjustment. Effortful control is potentially a fruitful target for intervention, particularly among children living in low income and poverty.  相似文献   

Postgraduate coursework in Australia: issues emerging from university and industry collaboration     

H. Forsyth  R. Laxton  C. Moran  J. van der werf  R. Banks  R. Taylor 《Higher Education》2009,57(5):641-655

Coursework masters degrees in Australia have experienced rapid, decentralised growth since deregulation at the end of the 1980s. The result is an extraordinarily high level of diversity and some confusion as to standards, strategic positioning, purpose and educational approaches. Throughout this period of growth, a sense that large-scale (often distance-education based) collaboration between universities and with industry would be beneficial has not always led to successful outcomes. Using a new collaborative, industry-funded postgraduate coursework program as a case study, this paper describes the issues that decision-makers need to address and evaluates the challenges and benefits of the coursework masters in higher education. The outcomes of industry surveys, student interviews and action research suggest that postgraduate coursework can facilitate technology transfer and aid capacity building, through mechanisms similar to ‘mode 2’ research. With some additional systems to ensure sustainability and standards, this could position coursework masters to be uniquely valuable nationally.

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对中小企业融资贷款难问题的理性思考     

邓默燃 《玉溪师范学院学报》2009,25(12):55-60

目前,向金融机构贷款难、向民间吸收资本难、向政府争取扶持难、向担保机构争取担保难、想上项目征建设用地难是中小企业发展过程中遇到的一个普遍问题.对此,一方面,金融机构应树立安天下意识、高度重视中小企业发展,坚持职业操守,健全完善金融服务体系,积极主动为企业排忧解难;另一方面,企业则应合理利用好自身资源,苦练内功、凝心聚力做大做强企业,并遵行企业发展的客观规律、循序渐进地提升企业自我发展能力.  相似文献   

We Are Wyoming: an arts integrated teaching and inquiry project     

Allen Trent  Peter Moran 《Education 3-13》2018,46(2):157-173

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Inter-disciplinarity in sport sciences: The neuroscience example*     

Patrick Fargier  Christian Collet  Aidan Moran  Raphaël Massarelli 《European Journal of Sport Science》2017,17(1):42-50

Abstract

Sport science is a relatively recent domain of research born from the interactions of different disciplines related to sport. According to the European College of sport science (http://sport-science.org): “scientific excellence in sport science is based on disciplinary competence embedded in the understanding that its essence lies in its multi- and interdisciplinary character”. In this respect, the scientific domain of neuroscience has been developed within such a framework. Influenced by the apparent homogeneity of this scientific domain, the present paper reviews three important research topics in sport from a neuroscientific perspective. These topics concern the relationship between mind and motor action, the effects of cognition on motor performance, and the study of certain mental states (such as the “flow” effect, see below) and motor control issues to understand, for example, the neural substrates of the vertical squat jump. Based on the few extensive examples shown in this review, we argue that by adopting an interdisciplinary paradigm, sport science can emulate neuroscience in becoming a mono-discipline.  相似文献   

Identification of a nonlinear dynamic biological model using the dominant parameter selection method     

Ilya Ioslovich  Marco Ivan Ramirez-Sosa Moran 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2010,347(6):1001-1014

The identification of nonlinear models sometimes encounters problems because of the limited amount of available measurements in combination with a large number of uncertain model parameters to be identified. E.g., the determination of the chemical composition of a lettuce crop is a rather expensive procedure; thus the number of experimental measurements is limited. As a result, the number of parameters of the dynamic model that can be successively identified is also limited, and the subset of the parameters to be identified must be chosen in a reasonable way.Parameter estimation for an extended nonlinear three-state model for lettuce growth in greenhouses is presented in this paper. The varying structural nitrogen concentration and water contents are the new elements included in the model. The dominant parameter selection (DPS) method was used to select a suitable set of identifiable parameters. The resulting calibrated model predicts quite well the experimental data which also include observations with severe nitrogen stress.  相似文献   

Experimental loading on granular material     

Daniel E. Moran 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1925,199(4):493-501

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