Literacy in church and family sites through the eyes of Samoan children in New Zealand     

John Dickie  Geraldine McDonald 《Literacy》2011,45(1):25-31

Samoan school children living in New Zealand were given disposable cameras and asked to photograph examples of the uses of reading and writing outside the school. Interviewed later, they explained their photographs including information about literacy in church and family. Rote learning and oral presentation of biblical texts that were read and committed to memory were characteristic of church literacy and supported by practices in the home as Shirley Brice Heath and others have reported. The purpose is closely connected to maintenance of Samoan culture and survival of the language. However, it was found that older siblings introduced school ways of learning to younger family members and that church literacy involved techniques for understanding and assessment that were similar to those of the school. It is asked whether the disparity in measured literacy performance of Samoan people is the consequence of a mismatch between church and family literacy and the literacy of the school.  相似文献   

Narrative Engagement and Vicarious Interaction with Multiple Characters     

Shu-Fang Lin  Katherine R. Dale  Daniel G. McDonald  James G. Collier  Kaitlyn Jones 《Mass Communication and Society》2019,22(3):324-343

This study investigates how audience members relate to and vicariously interact with multiple characters while viewing a narrative. Under the framework of the theory of situation models, we applied a real-time thought-listing technique that incorporated Twitter and focused on three debuting TV dramas to explore how the participants followed multiple characters while watching prime-time television dramas. We examined 3,274 tweets across the three TV series and found that monitoring a greater diversity of characters is associated with an increased number of questions asked and more accurate predictions of future events. The participants who made more accurate predictions had higher narrative engagement. In addition, the participants who had more thoughts about the self tracked a greater diversity of characters and made more accurate predictions about the plot. The results are discussed in terms of the developing literature on narratives in mass communication and entertainment research.  相似文献   

Measuring season ticket holder satisfaction: Rationale,scale development and longitudinal validation     

Heath McDonald  Adam J. Karg  Andrea Vocino 《Sport Management Review》2013,16(1):41-53

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What can age by grade tell us about education in Australia?     

Geraldine McDonald 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2001,28(2):81-105

The education systems in the States and Territories of Australia are analyzed using age by grade (Year) tables produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics from the 1 July returns from government and nongovernment schools. The demographic patterns of 8-year-olds at Year levels show that the system of promotion through school and the rates of retention in the early years differ by State and Territory. The factors producing these variations are explored. Indigenous/non-indigenous differences in school progress are uneven across States and Territories and there are small differences favoring girls. Policy implications for the findings are discussed.  相似文献   

Factors Influencing New Entrant Dairy Farmer's Decision-making Process around Technology Adoption     

Roberta McDonald  Kevin Heanue  Karina Pierce  Brendan Horan 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2016,22(2):163-177

Purpose: The aims of this paper are to (1) evaluate the main factors influencing grazing system technology adoption among new entrant (NE) dairy farmers within Europe and the Irish pasture-based dairy industry, and (2) to determine the extent to which economic factors influence decision-making around technology adoption and use among NEs to the Irish dairy industry.

Methodology: Multivariate analysis is used to investigate the associations between region, education level, previous experience in dairy farming, herd size, age and the farmer's perception of the usefulness (PU) and ease-of-use of a technology (PEOU), and the likelihood of that technology being adopted.

Findings: The results of this study identify a high rate of grazing, artificial insemination (AI) and financial management technology adoption among NE dairy farmers whose technology decisions are primarily motivated by financial considerations and are closely related to the PU and PEOU scores of the technology. Grassland measurement had the lowest adoption rate (51%) compared to AI (86%) and farm financial management (84%).

Practical Implications: The substantial importance of PU and PEOU to technology adoption decisions indicates that future research, extension and education programmes should place increased emphasis on the benefits and usability of key technologies in addition to evaluating their scientific merit.

Originality/Value: For the first time information assessing technology adoption amongst new dairy farmers is available. This has the potential to improve and increase extension and education for new dairy farmers in a future post-quota environment.  相似文献   

Can parents and teachers provide a reliable and valid report of behavioral inhibition?   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Bishop G  Spence SH  McDonald C 《Child development》2003,74(6):1899-1917

Reliability and validity of parent and teacher report of behavioral inhibition (BI) was examined among children aged 3 to 5 years. Confirmatory factor analysis supported 6 correlated factors reflecting specific BI contexts, each loading on a single, higher order factor of BI. Internal consistency was acceptable, with moderate stability over 1 year and strong correlation with a brief inhibition subscale from a temperament questionnaire. Children who were rated by mothers and teachers as high BI took longer to initiate contact with a stranger, spoke less often and for shorter periods, and required more prompting to elicit speech compared with low-BI peers in a simulated stranger interaction task. Father report of BI was significantly associated with mean duration of speech and eye gaze.  相似文献   

Cultural studies of science education     

Joanna Higgins  Geraldine McDonald 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(2):507-515

In response to Stetsenko’s [2008, Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3] call for a more unified approach in sociocultural perspectives, this paper traces the origins of the use of sociocultural ideas in New Zealand from the 1970s to the present. Of those New Zealanders working from a sociocultural perspective who responded to our query most had encountered these ideas while overseas. More recently activity theory has been of interest and used in reports of work in early childhood, workplace change in the apple industry, and in-service teacher education. In all these projects the use of activity theory has been useful for understanding how the elements of a system can transform the activity. We end by agreeing with Stetsenko that there needs to be a more concerted approach by those working from a sociocultural perspective to recognise the contribution of others in the field.

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Joanna Higgins   is Associate Director of the Jessie Hetherington Centre for Educational Research and Director of the Mathematics Education Unit at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The primary focus of her research has been the teaching of elementary school mathematics incorporating four interrelated areas: children’s learning; teachers’ understanding and practice; the process of facilitation; and the links to policy. Studies from a sociocultural perspective include: teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge; models of facilitation for improving teacher knowledge and practices, representing mathematical ideas in teaching tasks, and classroom processes for mathematics teaching. She is particularly interested in exploring transformative practices that foster equitable outcomes for all learners. The investigations have had an impact on government policy in mathematics teacher education. In 2006 she won a contract to be the National Research Co-ordinator for the In-service Teacher Education Practice (INSTEP) Project. She gained her doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington in 1999. Geraldine McDonald   is Research Associate in the School of Education Studies Victoria University of Wellington. Formerly she was Assistant Director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research where she established the first program of research in early childhood education. She encountered exciting uses of Vygotskyan ideas when she was at Teachers College Columbia University in 1981. Her own first use of sociocultural theory was a study of early writing as a cultural artifact and this expanded to the study of classrooms. She is interested in the demographic characteristics of school populations and has for a long time argued against the use of psychometric tests standardized for age to compare population groups which differ in age at grade level. The results are unfair to disadvantaged groups which tend to be older for grade level than advantaged groups. She gained her doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington in 1976 and in 1993 the university awarded her an honorary DLit. She was the foundation president of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education.  相似文献   

Moving from reader response to critical reading: developing 10–11‐year‐olds' ability as analytical readers of literary texts     

Lorraine McDonald 《Literacy》2004,38(1):17-25

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Comprehensive School Reform in Middle Schools: The Effects of Different Ways of Knowing on Student Achievement in a Large Urban District     

Marco A. Muñoz  Steven M. Ross  Aaron J. McDonald 《Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk》2013,18(2):167-183

Comprehensive school reform (CSR), a federally funded program, is designed to raise student achievement via the implementation of whole school reforms. Unfortunately, although close to 400 CSR models have been adopted by schools nationally, there is relatively limited empirical evidence from rigorous research studies regarding the effectiveness of CSR in general or of specific models in particular. Of additional importance is the extent to which CSR models can demonstrate positive effects over time. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects on student achievement and attendance, in an urban school district in Kentucky, of the Year 3 implementation of the Different Ways of Knowing (DWoK) for the Middle Grades model. Results indicated that achievement results on both the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills and Kentucky Core Content Test were significantly superior for the DWoK schools relative to matched control schools; no positive impacts on student attendance occurred for Year 3. The implications of the study lies in revealing that learner-centered CSR models that integrate the arts with the core curriculum can produce observable achievement gains in both normed- and criterion-referenced tests.  相似文献   

Mixed Doubles: Political Hegemony,Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Australian Open Tennis Championships     

Alistair John  Bob Stewart  Brent McDonald 《国际体育史杂志》2013,30(2):162-178

The National Tennis Centre in Melbourne, Australia, occupies a symbolic role in the repositioning of a once ‘rust-belt’ city as a place for ‘footloose’ capital and tourism. This paper explores the decisions that have been made by successive Victorian state governments between 1984 and 1998 to construct and upgrade the National Tennis Centre. Thematic content analysis of three daily newspapers, and one monthly tennis magazine, was undertaken to map political decisions and accompanying public discussion surrounding the foundation and upgrades of the National Tennis Centre. Successive state governments, representing both the left and right side of politics, have adopted an urban entrepreneurial approach to development and economic regeneration of Melbourne since the early 1980s. Targeting sport as a competitive advantage, significant public investments have been made to ‘sell’ this product to consumers identified as citizens and tourists. Worthy of note, and of particular concern, is the limited consultation with important interest groups, particularly environmentalists and the citizenry, when creating an elite sporting entertainment centre.  相似文献