The Concordance between Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions of School Transition Practices: A Solid Base for the Future     

Annarilla Ahtola  Piia Maria Björn  Tiina Turunen  Pirjo-Liisa Poikonen  Marita Kontoniemi  Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2016,60(2):168-181

This study focuses on parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of practices aimed at easing the transition to formal schooling (e.g., familiarization with the school, discussions about the school entrants). A total of 230 preschool teachers, 131 elementary school teachers, and 2,662 mothers and fathers filled in a questionnaire containing items on how important they considered different preschool-school transition practices. The participants considered the various transition practices to be at least somewhat important. On average, familiarization with the school was considered to be most important, whereas teacher co-operation and joint writing of curricula were considered to be least important. The perceptions of the participant groups differed from each other significantly in almost all practices. We suggest that the information on school entrants should be transferred within joint meetings between transition partners and other professionals whenever possible.  相似文献   

Physical discipline and children's adjustment: cultural normativeness as a moderator   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Lansford JE  Chang L  Dodge KA  Malone PS  Oburu P  Palmérus K  Bacchini D  Pastorelli C  Bombi AS  Zelli A  Tapanya S  Chaudhary N  Deater-Deckard K  Manke B  Quinn N 《Child development》2005,76(6):1234-1246

Interviews were conducted with 336 mother-child dyads (children's ages ranged from 6 to 17 years; mothers' ages ranged from 20 to 59 years) in China, India, Italy, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand to examine whether normativeness of physical discipline moderates the link between mothers' use of physical discipline and children's adjustment. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that physical discipline was less strongly associated with adverse child outcomes in conditions of greater perceived normativeness, but physical discipline was also associated with more adverse outcomes regardless of its perceived normativeness. Countries with the lowest use of physical discipline showed the strongest association between mothers' use and children's behavior problems, but in all countries higher use of physical discipline was associated with more aggression and anxiety.  相似文献   

Towards community oriented curriculum in Finnish literacy education     

Marita Mäkinen 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2013,36(1):97-112

Finland’s successful PISA literacy results reflect the foundation of the Finnish education system, which could be characterised by the words equality, equity and individual support. However, international interest in this PISA success has not focused on curricular aspects, and yet the core curriculum specifies teaching and learning practices in Finland. This article presents a study on the development of the Finnish National Core Curricula for Basic Education (NCC), published in 1985, 1994 and 2004. Based on inductive document analysis, the article discusses the changing conceptualisations of the curriculum designers and contributes to an understanding of the roles that the literacy core curriculum has in defining the purposes of literacy education, as well as the cross-curricular intentions of literacy education from the 1980s to the present day.  相似文献   

What's Wrong with Telling?     

Dr. Wayne C. Malone 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(7):331-334

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The Influence of Peer Groups on Secondary School Students     

Robert C. Maxon  Dr. Bobby Malone 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(5):191-193

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International collaborations in learning and teaching: perspectives from a visiting professorship          下载免费PDF全文

Hannah Spring  Marita Kunkel  Isaac Gilman  Nancy Henderson  John White 《Health information and libraries journal》2016,33(3):249-254

This article provides a reflection on the outcomes of an international collaboration between health librarians and academics at York St John University and Pacific University Oregon. In particular, it describes how a month‐long visiting professorship from an academic with a clinical librarian background at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences helped to develop and inform teaching practice in the areas of information literacy and evidence‐based health practice on health programmes at Pacific University. Perspectives are offered from both institutions on the rich exchange of knowledge and practice that took place during the visit and the ongoing impact it has had on teaching practices. H. S.  相似文献   

TEACHING ABOUT OLDER PEOPLE WITH MENTAL RETARDATION: AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL     

Nancy P. Kropf  D. Michael Malone  Debra Welke 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(7):635-649

Extended lifespans and an increase in community‐based services have created an environment in which it is imperative that educational and service systems focus attention on older people with developmental disabilities. Although the cumulative effects of growing older with a lifelong disability create a unique set of issues and service needs, gerontology courses seldom include content on these elders. An insufficient educational focus translates into a service system inadequately prepared to meet critical individual needs. In this paper we describe an educational model used to prepare students to work with older people who have mental retardation. Students in the course described, part of the Interdisciplinary Leadership Training Program in Aging and Developmental Disabilities at the University of Georgia, are exposed to the ecological perspective as a way to examine various issues related to the aging population with mental retardation. Students explore issues relevant to older individuals with mental retardation and the various contexts in which these individuals function. The six units of the course are: overview of the older population with mental retardation, physiological issues, mental health issues, social support systems, service delivery networks, and legal and ethical concerns. Content from the course model can easily be infused into foundation gerontology courses to expose a greater number of students to the group of older people who have mental retardation.  相似文献   

American Political Plays after 9/11 by Allan Havis,Editor     

Travis Malone 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2010,33(4):336-337

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“Leaps of faith”: parents' and professionals' viewpoints on preparing adolescents on the autism spectrum for leaving school          下载免费PDF全文

Megan Hatfield  Marita Falkmer  Torbjorn Falkmer  Marina Ciccarelli 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2017,17(3):187-197

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Do brothers affect their sisters’ chances to graduate? An analysis of sibling sex composition effects on graduation from a university or a <Emphasis Type="Italic">Fachhochschule</Emphasis> in Germany     

Marita Jacob 《Higher Education》2011,61(3):277-291

In a recent paper on gender inequality in higher education Buchman and DiPrete (2006) assume that the decrease in the gender gap in college completion in the US can partly be explained by changes in the allocation of familial resources in favour of women. However, they do not test this hypothesis empirically. In this paper I examine the effects of sibling sex composition on the graduation of women in more detail by analysing data from the German Life History Study. I assume that resources are the key issue to explaining the effects of sibling configuration on educational attainment. Tertiary education is a good case for testing sex composition effects due to the unequal distribution of resources between and within families, because the direct costs and opportunity costs of higher education are relatively high compared to those of earlier educational decisions. Accordingly, I expect that working class daughters are most likely to be disadvantaged if they are raised with brothers. The empirical results show that in fact, not the presence of a brother as such hinders educational attainment of sisters, but older brothers have a negative influence on their sisters chances of graduation. In accordance to the hypothesis, this effect is stronger for university graduation than for graduation at Fachhochschule. For social class differences in sibling effects it turns out that working class daughters are particularly less likely to graduate compared to service class daughters if there are older brothers in the family.  相似文献