Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Culture, Curriculum, Connections     

Janice Jipson 《Early education and development》1991,2(2):120-136

This study explores the implications of developmentally and culturally appropriate practice for early childhood education. Selections from classroom journals and personal narratives of 30 early childhood educators are presented to provide the context for the examination of the use of developmentally appropriate practice as a curricular base for early childhood programs. The capability of developmentally appropriate practice to respond to cultural diversity is analyzed and several questions are addressed Whose experiences are represented by developmentally appropriate practice? Whose ways of knowing are validated by developmentally appropriate practice? Teachers participating in this study noted that developmentally appropriate practice often failed to acknowledge the roles of culture, care-taking, inter-connectedness, and multiple ways of knowing in the teaching-learning experiences of young children. Their voices add the critical perspective of the practitioner to the consideration of what constitutes "appropriate" early childhood curriculum.  相似文献   

Mental models: A research focus for interactive learning systems   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Hueyching Janice Jih  Thomas Charles Reeves 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1992,40(3):39-53

The difficulty of understanding the structure and functions of computer programs is especially acute when learners are given the freedom to explore hypertext materials in which the possibility of disorientation is strong. Mental model theory is an attempt to model and explain human understanding of objects and phenomena during learning (and other activities). Research on mental models in human-computer interaction can identify important characteristics of cognitive processes and help in the development of research-based guidelines for designing interactive learning systems. This article calls for programmatic research on learners' mental models and provides guidelines for the conduct of such research.Hueyching J. Jih completed her doctoral program at the University of Georgia in 1991 and is in government service in Taipei, Taiwan.  相似文献   

Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfer Students in Iowa: An Expanded Look at Community College Students with Previous Degrees Earned     

Janice Nahra Friedel 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2017,41(4-5):273-287

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Corporate-university linkages in Canada: transforming a public institution     

Howard Buchbinder  Janice Newson 《Higher Education》1990,20(4):355-379

In the early 1980s, following a decade of financial retrenchment in Canadian higher education, government policy statements and various scientific and research funding organizations began to articulate a new direction for universities. This new direction, referred to in this paper as the corporate agenda, heralds a new era of cooperation between universities and the corporate sector which, its proponents argue, will be mutually beneficial to both.These growing linkages between corporations and universities in Canada are transforming the structure and the mission of the university system. This paper focuses on economic, political and institutional changes that have affected the universities as public institutions. The development of this new agenda is influenced by what we refer to as third party networks, groups which are neither universities nor businesses. Our paper explores the process and discusses its effects on the organization of academic work, research and the emerging image of the university as a corporation.  相似文献   

Cross-national perspectives on the role of assessment in counselling: A preliminary report     

Lorraine Wilgosh  Janice T. Gibson 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》1994,17(1):59-70

This preliminary report examines the role of formal assessment in the counselling process from a cross-national perspective. Counsellors and counsellor-educators from twenty countries were surveyed to determine the extent to which they use formal assessment procedures in counselling and the types of assessment instruments being used. Results indicated that many, but not all, counsellors use assessment instruments. In non-North American countries, there is some tendency to use instruments developed in the North American context, with or without modifications to test content and norms. This preliminary study suggests a perceived need for development of culture-specific assessment tools, and the implications for counsellor training of developing counselling and assessment skills with cross-cultural relevance.  相似文献   

Perspectives on the Contribution of Social Science to Adapted Physical Activity: Looking Forward,Looking Back     

Janice Causgrove Dunn  John Cairney  Chantelle Zimmer 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2016,68(1):15-28

ABSTRACT

In this article, we reflect on the contributions of the social sciences to the field of adapted physical activity by examining the theories and methods that have been adopted from the social science disciplines. To broaden our perspective on adapted physical activity and provide new avenues for theoretical and empirical exploration, we discuss and evaluate broad ideas/tensions arising from the social science literature—the individual versus social/ecological, and social science of adapted physical activity versus social science in adapted physical activity. We intentionally focus discussion on the application of specific lines of inquiry in the social sciences that have not yet emerged (or have done so only in limited applications) in the field of adapted physical activity. Such untapped areas of scholarship in the social sciences can lead to broader understanding, innovations, and new lines of inquiry when applied to an adapted physical activity context.  相似文献   

Common coding in pigeons: Partial versus total reversals of one-to-many conditional discriminations     

Thomas R. Zentall  Lou M. Sherburne  Janice N. Steirn  Christopher K. Randall  Karen L. Roper  Peter J. Urcuioli 《Learning & behavior》1992,20(4):373-381

Common coding in pigeons was examined using a delayed conditional discrimination in which each sample stimulus was associated with two different comparison stimuli (one-to-many mapping). In Experiment 1, pigeons matched circle and dot samples to red and green hues and vertical and horizontal line orientations. In Experiment 2, the samples were red and green and the comparisons were vertical and horizontal spatial positions (up vs. down and left vs. right). Following acquisition to high levels of accuracy in each experiment, the associations between the samples and either both sets or only one set of comparisons were reversed. Pigeons learned the total reversals faster than the partial reversals. These results suggest that when different comparisons are associated with a common sample, they may become functionally equivalent.  相似文献   

Social information processing and emotional understanding in children with LD   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

Bauminger N  Edelsztein HS  Morash J 《Journal of learning disabilities》2005,38(1):45-61

The present study aimed to comprehensively examine social cognition processes in children with and without learning disabilities (LD), focusing on social information processing (SIP) and complex emotional understanding capabilities such as understanding complex, mixed, and hidden emotions. Participants were 50 children with LD (age range 9.4-12.7; 35 boys, 15 girls) and 50 children without LD matched on grade, age, and gender. Children analyzed 4 social vignettes using Dodge's SIP model and completed 2 emotional recognition tasks (pictures and stories) and 4 emotional knowledge tasks, such as providing definitions and examples for 5 emotions (e.g., loneliness, pride, embarrassment). Study results demonstrated that children with LD had major difficulties in SIP processes and consistent difficulties with the different tasks in the understanding of complex emotions and in higher emotional understanding capabilities, such as understanding that 2 conflicting emotions (love and hate) can be simultaneously experienced. We discuss the implications of such difficulties for the understanding of social competence in children with LD as well as their implications for social skills intervention.  相似文献   

Home Environments and Parental Support for Literacy: Children's Perceptions and School Literacy Achievement     

Janice Porterfield Stewart 《Early education and development》1995,6(2):97-125

This study examined literacy in home environments and how children perceive literate events that occur in their families. Four children were selected from a larger study of 129 children. Two children (one African American and one biracial) were from a low income urban community. The other two were Caucasian and from a small farm community. Ninety-six hours of observations over eight weeks during the summer of the kindergarten school year were conducted. Data collected included field notes, tape recordings, parent questionnaires, awareness interviews and school achievement measures. Domains were identified and analyzed for literacy support in the home, The analysis indicated three major findings: 1) all the parents provided support for literacy but there were differences in the way literacy was constructed, 2) the differences in the children's awareness responses describing how they were learning to read at home reflected their home literacy experiences, 3) the home literacy environments of the four children who were from low income families were conducive to literacy development and school success.  相似文献   

Bionic mechanical design and 3D printing of novel porous Ti6Al4V implants for biomedical applications     

Peng  Wen-ming  Liu  Yun-feng  Jiang  Xian-feng  Dong  Xing-tao  Jun  Janice  Baur  Dale A.  Xu  Jia-jie  Pan  Hui  Xu  Xu 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2019,20(8):647-659

Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B - In maxillofacial surgery, there is a significant need for the design and fabrication of porous scaffolds with customizable bionic structures and...  相似文献