Economic decision models: can they inform child welfare policy?     

Kaplan RM 《Child abuse & neglect》2012,36(1):1-3

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The Delphi method: gathering expert opinion in religious education   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Vivienne M. Baumfield  James C. Conroy  Robert A. Davis 《British Journal of Religious Education》2012,34(1):5-19

The ‘Does Religious Education work?’ project is part of the Religion and Society programme funded by two major research councils in the UK. It sets out to track the trajectory of Religious Education (RE) in secondary schools in the UK from the aims and intentions represented in policy through its enactment in classroom practice to the estimations of its impact by students. Using a combination of approaches, we are in the process of investigating the practices which determine and shape the teaching of RE in secondary schools through linked case studies, semi-structured interviews and a practitioner enquiry strand. In this article we focus on the first stage of the project where we used the Delphi method to elicit expert opinion on the aims and intentions of RE in secondary schools in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. We outline the place of the Delphi process within the rationale of the project, discuss emerging themes and some of the issues arising from the use of this approach.  相似文献   

Young learners: mapping the beliefs and practices of preschool teachers in relation to early literacy development     

Robert Brown  Janet Scull  Andrea Nolan  Bridie Raban  Jan Deans 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2012,39(3):313-331

This paper introduces the Young Learners?? Project, which is a large scale longitudinal study that aims to identify a number of factors associated with positive outcomes in literacy in the first year of school: the role of the preschool teacher, home life and child characteristics. In particular, it presents the design of one sub-study within the larger project that is focusing on the beliefs, theoretical constructs and literacy practices of 25 preschool teachers. The paper deliberates the methodological choices of a group of researchers who set out to represent in diverse ways, and for diverse purposes, the layered meanings inherent in preschool teachers?? beliefs and practices in relation to early literacy development. In particular, through reference to illustrative extracts of a single case analysis, the paper explores the possibilities and complexities of adopting mixed methods and in doing so, responds to a call for researchers to make explicit the purposes and challenges of case study methodologies.  相似文献   

Children's early child care and their mothers' later involvement with schools     

Crosnoe R  Augustine JM  Huston AC 《Child development》2012,83(2):758-772

Theory and policy highlight the role of child care in preparing children for the transition into school. Approaching this issue in a different way, this study investigated whether children's care experiences before this transition promoted their mothers' school involvement after it, with the hypothesized mechanism for this link being the cultivation of children's social and academic skills. Analyses of 1,352 children (1 month-6 years) and parents in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development revealed that mothers were more involved at their children's schools when children had prior histories of high-quality nonparental care. This pattern, which was fairly stable across levels of maternal education and employment, was mediated by children's academic skills and home environments.  相似文献   

Housing quality and access to material and learning resources within the home environment in developing countries     

Bradley RH  Putnick DL 《Child development》2012,83(1):76-91

This study examined home environment conditions (housing quality, material resources, formal and informal learning materials) and their relations with the Human Development Index (HDI) in 28 developing countries. Home environment conditions in these countries varied widely. The quality of housing and availability of material resources at home were consistently tied to HDI; the availability of formal and informal learning materials a little less so. Gross domestic product (GDP) tended to show a stronger independent relation with housing quality and material resources than life expectancy and education. Formal learning resources were independently related to the GDP and education indices, and informal learning resources were not independently related to any constituent indices of the overall HDI.  相似文献   

Chiming in on Museums and Participatory Culture     

Robert Stein 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2012,55(2):215-226

Abstract The deep trove of information available on the Internet and the expanding connections it affords to new communities online have been a transforming force in museums in the recent past. A single individual can publish thoughts and ideas to an audience of millions with a few simple clicks of a button. The cultural sector has made great strides in adopting these same methods to advance the missions and content of our organizations; however, a rise in participatory culture poses a number of challenges for the role of museums and our place in the evolving culture of our community. A debate surrounding the changing nature of authority and the participatory expectations of society is central to defining how museums can meaningfully engage with contemporary audiences. When making decisions that define how audiences play a role or not in their organizations, museums must consider the far‐reaching consequences of these choices on the relationships they have with their communities.  相似文献   

Looking Through Different Lenses: How Preservice Science Teachers Use Practice-Oriented Reflections to Negotiate More Reform-Minded Identities     

Robert M. Danielowich 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2012,23(4):323-346

This study used identity as a framework to understand how preservice science teachers develop the reform-minded ideas inherent in science-specific reforms. Six participants systematically reflected about their reform-based and field lessons taught during a methods course and field lessons taught during student teaching. Patterns in their reflections revealed five different lenses they used to propose changing their practices and negotiate the dissonances those proposals created with their core conceptions about teaching. The extent to which participants expressed reform-minded thinking and enacted science-specific reforms in the field was associated with how they used the lenses to resolve dissonances. The findings suggest why preservice teachers need explicit opportunities to engage in work to cultivate the reform-minded identities required to enact science-specific reforms.  相似文献   

Paradigm thinking: passionate hopefulness and more than 20 cents of effort     

Robert A. Schultz 《High Ability Studies》2012,23(1):107-108

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Effects of the shape and size of a mooring line surface buoy on the mooring load of wave energy converters   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

KRIVTSOV Vladimir  LINFOOT Brian  HARRIS Robert E 《重庆大学学报(英文版)》2012,11(1):1-4

This paper describes the physical model testing of a wave energy converter (WEC) undertaken in the Henot-watt wave basin during October 2010 as part of the SUPERGEN2 project funded by the British gover...  相似文献   

“Life Between Fingers”: A Response to News Photography of an “Urban Ghetto”     

Robert E. Gutsche Jr. 《Visual Communication Quarterly》2014,21(1):14-23

This photo essay updates research previously presented in Visual Communication Quarterly about news characterizations of a “Black neighborhood” in Iowa City, Iowa. Shot by preschoolers in the city's Southeast Side, the images in this essay—peppered with the inadvertent appearance of the photographers' fingers—added to an artistic value that cast life there being other than dangerous, dark, and devious. Whereas hands can often be used to conceal, the fingers in these photographs frame special and specific glimpses of life, ultimately presenting a counternarrative to neighborhood characterizations constructed by news photographs.  相似文献