Sociocultural input facilitates children's developing understanding of extraordinary minds     

Lane JD  Wellman HM  Evans EM 《Child development》2012,83(3):1007-1021

Three- to 5-year-old (N = 61) religiously schooled preschoolers received theory-of-mind (ToM) tasks about the mental states of ordinary humans and agents with exceptional perceptual or mental capacities. Consistent with an anthropomorphism hypothesis, children beginning to appreciate limitations of human minds (e.g., ignorance) attributed those limits to God. Only 5-year-olds differentiated between humans' fallible minds and God's less fallible mind. Unlike secularly schooled children, religiously schooled 4-year-olds did appreciate another agent's less fallible mental abilities when instructed and reminded about those abilities. Among children who understood ordinary humans' mental fallibilities, knowledge of God predicted attributions of correct epistemic states to extraordinary agents. Results suggest that, at a certain point in ToM development, sociocultural input can facilitate an appreciation for extraordinary minds.  相似文献   

Mathematical images in advertising: constructing difference and shaping identity, in global consumer culture     

Jeff Evans  Anna Tsatsaroni  Barbara Czarnecka 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2014,85(1):3-27

Mathematics educators have long emphasised the importance of attitudes, beliefs, and feelings towards mathematics, as crucial in motivating (or not) its learning and use, and as influenced in turn by its social images. This paper is about images of mathematics. Our search for advertisements containing such images in UK daily newspapers, during 2006–2008, found that 4.7 % of editions included a “mathematical” advert, compared with 1.7 % in pilot work for 1994–2003. The incidence varied across type of newspaper, being correlated with class and gender profiles of the readership. Three quarters of advertisements were classified as containing only very simple mathematics. ‘Semiotic discursive’ analysis of selected advertisements suggests that they draw on mathematics not to inform, but to connote qualities like precision, certainty, and authority. We discuss the discourse on mathematics in advertising as ‘quasi-pedagogic’ discourse, and argue that its oversimplified forms, being empty of mathematical content, become powerful means for regulating and ‘pedagogising’ today's global consumers.  相似文献   

Rural library service in the Republic of Kiribati     

John Evans  Kunei Etekiera 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(4):225-237

This paper reflects on the outcomes of a project undertaken in 1997/98, and examines issues relating to the development of the managerial expertise that underpins the library and information services in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews the results of surveys of schools of Librarianship and Information Sciences and a small selection of employers in the region, examining the congruence between the needs of the employers and provision by the schools and possible explanations for an apparent mutual lack of awareness of modern management techniques. Proposals for developing management expertise include: enhancing access to indigenous professional publications and teaching materials; developing a Hispanic language distance-learning programme for library managers; improving research into the job market and skills requirements; and developing an electronic network for communication between the schools. The role of international agencies and technical co-operation projects is assessed, and attention is drawn to the need for a more positive approach to overcome the issues surrounding the transfer of management know-how between different cultures.  相似文献   

Proving Our Worth: The Impact of Electronic Resource Usage on Academic Achievement     

Ed Cherry  Stephanie Havron Rollins  Toner Evans 《College & Undergraduate Libraries》2013,20(3-4):386-398

Samford University Library conducted a study to determine correlation between library use and student achievement. This research used electronic resources as a measure of library use and grade point average as an indicator of academic success. The data demonstrate that students with higher GPAs tend to use library online resources more and with a higher frequency than those with lower GPAs. While this does not prove that use of online resources leads to a higher GPA, it provides strong evidence that the two are positively correlated for some populations. This study provides persuasive evidence of the library's contribution to the academic success of students.  相似文献   

Photography     

Pamela Jeffcott Parry  Hilary Evans  John Sander  Harold E. Edgerton  James R. Killian  Deborah Turbeville 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(4):87-91

Pamela Jeffcott Parry's Photography Index: A Guide to Reproductions (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979–$25.00)

Hilary Evans' The Art of Picture Research: A Guide to Current Practice, Procedure, Techniques and Resources (Newton Abbot, Y.K.; and North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1979—$28.00)

Melissa Milar, ed. 1980 Photographer's Market: Where to Sell Your Photographs (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Rooks, 1979—$12.95)

Photographis '79 (New York: Hastings House, 1979–$49.50)

John Sander's Photography Year Book 1979 (New York: Fountain Press/Hastings House, 1979—$24.95)

Harold E. Edgerton and James R. Killian, Jr.'s Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1979—$20.00)

Deborah Turbeville's Wallflower (New York: Congreve Publishing Co, 1978—$27.50)

Robert L. Kerns' Photojournalism: Photography with a Purpose (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980—$14.95)

Focalguide to Slides by Graham Saxby (New York: Focal/Hastings House, 1979- 46.95, Paper)

Focalguide to Close-Ups by Sidney F. Ray (1978--$6.95, paper)  相似文献   

Canada     

Harry Bruce  Gary Evans  Sophia E. Voumakis  Richard V. Ericson  Peter Worthington  T. McPhail 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(10):115-119

EACH MOMENT AS IT FLIES, writings by Harry Bruce (Toronto: Methuen, 1984--- $18.95; 283 pp.)

CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1984--$29.95 176 pp.):

JOHN GRIERSON AND THE NFB (Toronto: ECW Press, 1984---$8.95, paper, 155 pp.)

JOHN GRIERSON AND THE NATIONAL FILL BOARD: THE POLITICS OF WARTIME PROPAGANDA by Gary Evans (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984---$24.95, 329 pp.)

NEWS ACCOUNTS OF ATTACKS ON WOMEN A COMPARISON OF THREE TORONTO NEWSPAPERS by Sophia E. Voumakis and Richard V Ericson (Toronto: University of Toront( Centre of Criminology, 1984---$5.00 paper, 98 pp.)

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: A JOURNALIST'S LIFE...AND THEN SOME by Peter Worthington (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1984--- $24.95, 470 pp.)

PROCEEDINGS OF COMMUNICATION IN THE 80'S: MAJOR ISSUES edited by T. McPhail and S. Hamilton (Calgary: University of Calgary Communications Studies Program, 1985---$15.00, 162 pp.)

THE NEWSPAPERING MURRAYS by Georgina Keddell (Toronto: Goodread Biographies, 1984---$5.95, paper, 301 pp.)

BORDEN SPEARS: REPORTER, EDITOR, CRITIC compiled and edited by Dick MacDonald (Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984--$12.95, paper, 220 pp.)

THE THOMSON EMPIRE by Susan Goldenberg (Toronto: Methuen, 1984--$24.95, 260 pp.)

BYLINE CANADA: THE 1984 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER AWARDS edited by Andrew MacFarlane (Toronto: Methuen, 1984-- $12.95, paper, 206 pp.)

CULTURE STATISTICS: NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS, 1981 (Ottawa: Education, Culture and Tourism Division, Statistics Canada, 1983---$6.35, paper, 52 pp.)

CHINA HANDS: THE GLOBE AND MAIL IN PEKING by Charles Taylor (Toronto: Mc- Clleland and Stewart, 1984---$16.95, 363 pp.)

LOVE'S SWEET RETURN: THE HARLEQUIN STORY by Margaret Ann Jensen (Toronto: The Women's Press, 1984---$9.95, paper, 188 pp.)

THE UPPER LEFT-HAND CORNER: A WRITER'S GUIDE FOR THE NORTHWEST (Vancouver: International Self-Counsel Press, 1984---$10.95, paper, 122 pp.)

MANAGING DIVERSITY: FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL COLLABORATION AND THE COMMITTEE ON EXTENSION OF SERVICES TO NORTHERN AND REMOTE COMMUNITIES by Catherine A. Murray (Kingston, Ontario: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Qns, Queens University, 1983---$19.00, 173 pp.)

MOVEMENTS AND MESSAGES: MEDIA AND RADICAL POLITICS IN QUEBEC by Marc Raboy (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1984--- $18.95, 165 pp.)

CANADIAN POLITICS THROUGH PRESS REPORTS edited by Donald C. Wallace and Frederick J. Fletcher (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984---$11.95, paper, 227 pp.)

MEDIA AND ELECTIONS IN CANADA by Walter Soderland, et al. (Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984---$9.95, paper, 163 pp.)

ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT IN CANADA by Rene Darmon and Michael Laroche (Toronto: Wiley Canada, 1984--$33.95, 577 pp.)

THE DYNAMICS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR by Winston Mahatoo (Toronto: Wiley Canada, 1985---$34.95)

FINDING CANADIAN FACTS FAST by Stephen Overbury (Toronto: Methuen, 1985 ---$19.95, 192 pp.)  相似文献   

Personal Beliefs and National Stories: Theater in Museums as a Tool for Exploring Historical Memory     

Susan Evans 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2013,56(2):189-197

How does what we remember about history relate to true historical understanding, and how can the museum become a location for these conversations? During the summer of 2011, the National Museum of American History challenged audiences to consider issues of historical memory and national history through the performance of an interactive museum theater program, The Time Trial of John Brown. Using the Time Trial approach as a case study, this article reveals that interactive theater in museums can provide a platform from which audiences assert their own historical understanding while learning firsthand about their role in creating a shared knowledge of American history. As the role of museums evolves in the twenty‐first century, new attention must be paid to this personal process of examining and creating history and memory through performance. It is through performance and participation that history and memory are both examined and created by the audience.  相似文献   

‘An experiment is when you try it and see if it works’: a study of grade 7 students’ understanding of the construction of scientific knowledge     

Susan Carey  Risa Evans  Maya Honda  Eileen Jay  Christopher Unger 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(5):514-529

The research reported here focuses on grade 7 (12‐year‐old) students’ epistomological views prior to and after exposure to a teaching unit especially developed to introduce the constructivist view of science. A clinical interview was used to assess students’ understanding about the nature of scientific knowledge and inquiry. Students’ initial epistemological stance is that scientific knowledge is a passively acquired, faithful copy of the world, and that scientific inquiry is limited solely to observing rather than constructing explanations about nature. We found that it is possible to move students beyond this initial view.  相似文献   

Teaching educational psychology in a subject‐orientated master's degree course in education at a British University     

David Evans 《教育心理学家》2013,48(3):9-11

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The Introduction of English‐language Education in Early Colonial Hong Kong     

Stephen Evans 《History of education》2013,42(3):383-408

This article examines the attitudes of the colonial and metropolitan governments towards the promotion of English‐language education on Hong Kong Island between 1842 and 1860. The study, which draws on a range of unpublished primary sources, was conducted in response to Whitehead’s recent call for detailed case studies of colonial education policies. This article explores, within the context of Hong Kong, a centrally important aspect of education in the Empire, and one that has been the subject of surprisingly little archival research: British policies towards the teaching and learning of English as a second language. The article begins by analysing the political, economic and demographic forces that influenced the study and use of English in Hong Kong during the 1840s and 1850s, and then moves on to examine language policies and practices in the colony’s mission schools, with a particular focus on the Morrison Education Society School, the first Western school to be established on the Island after the British occupation. The final section analyses the introduction of English teaching in the government vernacular schools in the early 1850s.  相似文献