Discursive Struggles in Families Formed through Visible Adoption: An Exploration of Dialectical Unity     

Meredith Marko Harrigan  Dawn O. Braithwaite 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(2):127-144

This study is the first to provide best practices exclusively for communication about crises that involve issues of culture, ethnicity, and/or race from expert crisis managers' perspectives. Using complexity theory as a framework, this study provides an in-depth, theoretically grounded understanding of managing issues and crises involving culture, ethnicity and/or race through the experiences of 34 senior crisis communicators. Complex insider perspectives suggest that responsibility for crisis management must move beyond any managerial bias to become more organic, normative, inclusive, and community spirited. First, issues and crises involving culture, ethnicity, and/or race are defined, laying a foundation for future theory development on ways these issues can become or exacerbate crises. Second, research participants’ stories coalesce to produce best practices and a useful decision-making framework for practical application in organizations.  相似文献   

Serial Argumentation Goals and Their Relationships to Perceived Resolvability and Choice of Conflict Tactics     

Jennifer L. Bevan  Karin D. Tidgewell  Karissa C. Bagley  Lauren Cusanelli  Meredith Hartstern  Domina Holbeck 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(1):61-77

The present study utilized a scale that measured Bevan, Hale, and Williams' (2004) serial argumentation goals and associated these goals with the perceived resolvability of the serial argument and serial argument conflict tactics. College students reporting on current and former dating partnerships completed a written survey containing close-ended items. Six of Bevan et al.'s (2004) ten original goals again emerged from data analyses, and the four remaining goals combined to form a single goal. These seven serial argument goals were related to perceived resolvability and conflict tactics in generally expected ways.  相似文献   

Introduction to the Special Issue on Scaling Up Teaching and Learning Improvement in Urban Districts: The Promises and Pitfalls of External Assistance Providers     

Amanda Datnow  Meredith I. Honig 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(3):323-327

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Measuring Successful Aging in Southern Black Older Adults     

Meredith Troutman  Mary A. Nies  Monica Bentley 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(1):38-50

With the growing size of the population of aging Black individuals, it is important to understand successful aging in this group. This study, therefore, piloted the Successful Aging Inventory (SAI) with a convenience sample of Black older adults. Participants completed a demographic form, the SAI, Purpose in Life Test, Life Satisfaction Inventory-A, Mastery Scale, and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Internal reliability and convergent and discriminant validity were acceptable. The SAI appears suitable for examining successful aging in Black older adults.  相似文献   

Body size of contemporary groups of eight-year-old children studied in different parts of the world     

H V Meredith 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》1969,34(1):1-93

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Children's Vulnerability to Interparental Conflict: The Protective Role of Sibling Relationship Quality     

Patrick T. Davies  Lucia Q. Parry  Sonnette M. Bascoe  Meredith J. Martin  E. Mark Cummings 《Child development》2019,90(6):2118-2134

This study tested whether the strength of the mediational pathway involving interparental conflict, adolescent emotional insecurity, and their psychological problems depended on the quality of their sibling relationships. Using a multimethod approach, 236 adolescents (M_age = 12.6 years) and their parents participated in three annual measurement occasions. Tests of moderated mediation revealed that indirect paths among interparental conflict, insecurity, and psychological problems were significant for teens with low, but not high, quality bonds with siblings. High-quality (i.e., strong) sibling relationships conferred protection by neutralizing interparental conflict as a precursor of increases in adolescent insecurity. Results did not vary as a function of the valence of sibling relationship properties, adolescent sex, or gender and age compositions of the dyad.  相似文献   

Language Matters: Denying the Existence of the 30-Million-Word Gap Has Serious Consequences     

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff  Erika Hoff  Meredith L. Rowe  Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek 《Child development》2019,90(3):985-992

Sperry, Sperry, and Miller (2018) aim to debunk what is called the 30-million-word gap by claiming that children from lower income households hear more speech than Hart and Risley (1995) reported. We address why the 30-million-word gap should not be abandoned, and the importance of retaining focus on the vital ingredient to language learning—quality speech directed to children rather than overheard speech, the focus of Sperry et al.'s argument. Three issues are addressed: Whether there is a language gap; the characteristics of speech that promote language development; and the importance of language in school achievement. There are serious risks to claims that low-income children, on average, hear sufficient, high-quality language relative to peers from higher income homes.  相似文献   

Recent dissertation research in gifted studies     

Carol L. Tieso  Meredith J. Greene  Abdullah Ficici 《Roeper Review》2013,35(4)

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Student satisfaction,teacher internships,and the case for a critical approach to international education     

Julie Matthews  Meredith Lawley 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2011,32(5):687-698

In recent times distinctions between the economic and political imperatives of international education and its cultural and educational aspects have become conveniently aligned. This alignment is troubling because it allows the pursuit of profit to fit neatly and without apparent controversy into the pursuit of more lofty political cultural and educational goals. Measures of student satisfaction with international education do little to challenge this comfortable affiliation. Indeed, they appear to reinforce the view that international education as currently pursued is travelling well and yielding maximum profits and benefits for all. The discussion in this article is based on the results of a pilot study that examined international student satisfaction with a teacher education internship program in Australia. Our findings showed that students were satisfied with their international education experience and that the internship/work integrated learning experience enhanced their satisfaction. Importantly however, our pre-departure study showed that students expected study abroad to make a difference to their lives even before they left home. The study led us to consider the meaning of student satisfaction and whether assessments of satisfaction might simply confirm what students already expect. If this is the case, it is not altogether clear what student satisfaction with international education means or measures.  相似文献   

The cultural gap hypothesis as an explanation for the achievement patterns of Mexican-American students     

Meredith Buenning  Nona Tollefson 《Psychology in the schools》1987,24(3):264-272

This study investigated the hypothesis that the academic achievement of Mexican-American students could be explained in part by a conflict in the values of Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultures. Mexican-American and Anglo-American students, their parents, and teachers reported their adherence to traditional school values and their view of the importance of field independent behaviors to success in school. Differences in perceptions and values were observed between cultures and between high-achieving and low-achieving students. The greatest attitudinal differences were observed when high-achieving students were compared with parents and teachers. High-achieving students were less traditional in their attitudes toward school and more field independent than were parents, teachers, and low-achieving students.  相似文献