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   

Health education for Somali Bantu refugees via home visits   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Eisenhauer ER  Mosher EC  Lamson KS  Wolf HA  Schwartz DG 《Health information and libraries journal》2012,29(2):152-161

Background: Somali Bantu refugees, with unique health information needs, created challenges for health and social service providers. Objectives: A service innovation was developed (i) to raise awareness, especially among local health and social service providers, about the Bantu refugees’ presence in the community, their culture, and their information needs and (ii) to deliver needed health information, emphasizing child health, to the Bantu mothers in their homes. Methods: The project consisted of: (i) a community conference targeting local health and social service providers, describing the refugees’ presence in the community, their culture, and information needs. (ii) Focus groups conducted with members of the Bantu population elicited additional information needs. (iii) Curriculum was developed based on identified needs, and (iv) the curriculum was delivered to the refugees in their homes. A clinical informationist and MP3 technology enhanced the project. Findings: Conference attendees’ evaluation responses indicated improved understanding of Bantu culture. Focus groups’ identification of health information needs provided a framework for the health education curriculum. A project website made educational materials available to other healthcare providers. Conclusions: The project raised awareness of the Bantus’ presence, culture, and information needs. Identification of other unmet needs demonstrated that additional support for refugees is required.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Diane Mayer  Michael Singh  Ninetta Santoro  Jo-Anne Reid 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2012,40(2):79-81

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Producing ‘quality’ teachers: the role of teacher professional standards     

Ninetta Santoro  Jo-Anne Reid  Diane Mayer  Michael Singh 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2012,40(1):1-3

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Stability of Core Language Skill from Early Childhood to Adolescence: A Latent Variable Approach     

Marc H. Bornstein  Chun‐Shin Hahn  Diane L. Putnick  Joan T. D. Suwalsky 《Child development》2014,85(4):1346-1356

This four‐wave prospective longitudinal study evaluated stability of language in 324 children from early childhood to adolescence. Structural equation modeling supported loadings of multiple age‐appropriate multisource measures of child language on single‐factor core language skills at 20 months and 4, 10, and 14 years. Large stability coefficients (standardized indirect effect = .46) were obtained between language latent variables from early childhood to adolescence even when accounting for child nonverbal intelligence and social competence and maternal verbal intelligence, education, speech, and social desirability. Stability coefficients were similar for girls and boys. Stability of core language skill was stronger from 4 to 10 to 14 years than from 20 months to 4 years, so early intervention to improve lagging language is recommended.  相似文献   

Self‐Socialization of Gender in African American,Dominican Immigrant,and Mexican Immigrant Toddlers     

Kristina M. Zosuls  Diane N. Ruble  Catherine S. Tamis‐LeMonda 《Child development》2014,85(6):2202-2217

This article advances a self‐socialization perspective demonstrating that children's understanding of both gender categories represents an intergroup cognition that is foundational to the development of gender‐stereotyped play. Children's (N = 212) gender category knowledge was assessed at 24 months and play was observed at 24 and 36 months. Higher levels of gender category knowledge and, more specifically, passing multiple measures of knowledge of both gender categories at 24 months was related to increases in play over time with gender‐stereotyped toys (doll, truck), but not gender‐stereotyped forms of play (nurturing, motion). In contrast to the long‐standing focus on self‐labeling, findings indicate the importance of intergroup cognitions in self‐socialization processes and demonstrate the generalizability of these processes to a diverse sample.  相似文献   

Lifelong learning in the new millennium: Voices from the XV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies     

Suzanne Majhanovich  Diane Brook Napier 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2014,60(4):449-462

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Hoaxes in Educational Policy     

Diane Ravitch 《The Teacher Educator》2014,49(3):153-165

This article address the falsehoods regarding No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top legislation, the educational reformers' stance that schools are failing, the privatization movement in education, and the issues of technology in the schools. The importance of poverty is emphasized, although policymakers ignore it and advocate school choice as a civil rights issue. The article examines the distortions of the teaching profession, including the lack of respect of teaching as a profession, evaluations of teacher preparation programs, the Teach for America program, and complications that result from teacher evaluation. There is hope for real change, but advocates must be vocal and take action.  相似文献   

FAST-Future Academic Scholars in Teaching: A High-Engagement Development Program for Future STEM Faculty     

Claudia E. Vergara  Mark Urban-Lurain  Henry Campa III  Kendra S. Cheruvelil  Diane Ebert-May  Cori Fata-Hartley  Kevin Johnston 《Innovative Higher Education》2014,39(2):93-107

Doctoral granting institutions prepare future faculty members for academic positions at institutions of higher education across the nation. Growing concerns about whether these institutions are adequately preparing students to meet the demands of a changing academic environment have prompted several reform efforts. We describe a professional development model designed to prepare the future faculty to integrate the multiple components of academic careers. The program emphasizes the study and application of effective teaching practices centered on student learning and assessment and expectations for faculty careers. We describe the impact of the program on its participants.  相似文献   

Ciencia en Nepantla: the journey of Nepantler@s in science learning and teaching   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jean R. Aguilar-Valdez  Carlos A. LópezLeiva  Deborah Roberts-Harris  Diane Torres-Velásquez  Gilberto Lobo  Carol Westby 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2013,8(4):821-858

This paper presents a new approach to science education that takes a path through sociocultural theory and into the ideas of Gloria Anzaldúa. We apply Anzaldúan theory to science education by illustrating it in action through various examples which explore the multidimensionality of teaching science with Latin@ students in various contexts including dual language settings. We present what it is to journey through transformation using examples from educators at various levels of science within the world of teaching science with Latin@ students in the U.S. Our examples illustrate how Latin@ students cross many cultural borders in Spanish, English, Latin@ home culture, school culture, and the world of scientific dialogue and content, and in doing so, go through tensions and transformations between dominant and non-dominant worlds, which should be acknowledged and better understood through Anzaldúan theory. Fundamentally, we present a transformative notion of Latin@ science learning as “living on the bridges” of many dialogic and cultural practices, and having to negotiate these in-between spaces, or “nepantla” (Anzaldu´a and Keating in Interviews, Psychology Press, London, 2000), where Latin@ students must contend with the fragmented and sometimes painful struggle of living in racialized reality amidst the demands of a dominant culture, and where transformation and healing are possible through the path of conocimiento. We advocate for teachers to become science teacher nepantler@s, who guide their students through nepantla, and into a new mestiz@ consciousness of science education.  相似文献