Relaxation and guided imagery as an intervention for children with asthma: A replication     

Robin L. Dobson  Melissa A. Bray  Thomas J. Kehle  Lea A. Theodore  Heather L. Peck 《Psychology in the schools》2005,42(7):707-720

Asthma is a pervasive inflammatory disorder of the bronchial airways that causes the normal functioning of the airways to become overreactive. This disorder affects approximately 8 million children in schools per year and accounts for a significant amount of absences. Researchers have speculated that pharmacological interventions are alone insufficient or overaggressive in treating asthma, and numerous studies have demonstrated a connection between emotions and asthma. It has therefore been suggested that psychological interventions may be appropriate for this population. One such intervention, relaxation and guided imagery (RGI), that incorporates mental representations as well as the senses in a process of relaxing all the parts of the body has been shown to be effective with children with asthma. The current study served as a replication and extension of this previous research. The purpose of the investigation was to examine the effectiveness of RGI with an elementary school sample as well as determine the overall improvement in happiness, anxiety, and quality of life of the participants. Results demonstrated that RGI significantly improved the lung functioning of 3 out of 4 participants in the study. Furthermore, overall happiness improved for 1 participant in the study, state anxiety decreased for 2 of the 4 participants, and trait anxiety decreased for all 4 participants. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 42: 707–720, 2005.  相似文献   

Forms of support and challenges to developing international-mindedness: a comparative case study within a national and an international school in Turkey     

Akın Metli  Robin Ann Martin  Jennie Farber Lane 《Compare》2019,49(6):983-1001

ABSTRACT

This paper uses mixed methods to explore perceptions of international-mindedness within two case study schools in Istanbul, Turkey: a national school with mostly Turkish students and an international school with students from many nationalities. Using a conceptual framework developed by an international education programme, the authors critically analyse pillars of international-mindedness: multilingualism, intercultural understanding, and global engagement. Findings reveal that the national school was striving to overcome limitations of homogeneity, while the international school struggled to address its assumptions that a heterogeneous population alone would be enough to encourage intercultural understanding. Neither school had developed clear conceptual links among multilingualism, intercultural understanding, and global engagement. Thus, deliberate efforts are needed to provide students with experiences that foster international-mindedness. Other researchers and educators can use this framework and associated methods to examine how international-mindedness is implemented in different schools in other regions of the world.  相似文献   

THE LOST PROFESSION     

Ronald Barnett  Robin Middlehurst 《Higher Education in Europe》1993,18(2):110-128

In the United Kingdom, the higher education community is being deprived of components of its professionalism just when it is clarifying to itself the nature of that professionalism. Historically, academics were not required to define their obligations to society. Now, they must function in an age of accountability in which public services are being asked to demonstrate their wider value. Behind this shift stands a changing relationship between higher education and the state in which the state has moved to assess the quality of what was on offer and is now playing a direct part in influencing the shape of graduate formation. Currently, academic life is becoming so subject to external control that the autonomy required as a necessary component of professionalism is being lost. In Halsey's terminology, academics are changing from being a status group to being a proletariat but without ever having properly been a profession.  相似文献   

Walking the Walk          下载免费PDF全文

Robin L. Wright 《CBE life sciences education》2006,5(4):311-312

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Facilitation in action research   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Chrysoula Kosmidou  Robin Usher 《Interchange》1991,22(4):24-40

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Bookreviews     

Gilbert de Landsheere  Marten Groen  John Biggs  John F. Willatt  David Thomas  Clare Burstall  Robin Russell  J. R. Barr  Gerhard Pause  Donald E. Super  John B. Biggs  Alan C. Purves  Klaus Schleicher  Herbert A. Thelen  Neville Postlethwaite  Börje Holmberg  Kenneth Austwick  Sven Hilding  A Group of Scottish Physics Teachers 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1967,13(1):90-123

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Finding Diego: A Bilingual Student Integrates School,Language, and Identity     

Robin L. Danzak  Louise C. Wilkinson 《Journal of Latinos & Education》2017,16(1):51-64

This article presents a mixed-methods case study of Diego, a bilingual teen who completed public school in Florida. During adolescence, Diego negotiated multiple identities: successful student, Mexican American, bilingual, and typical U.S. teenager. Diego provided interviews and bilingual (English/Spanish) writing (narrative/expository) in 2008 (at age 12, Grade 6) and in 2012 (at age 16, Grade 10). A qualitative analysis of his interviews and a quantitative linguistic analysis of his writing reveal central elements of Diego’s language development as related to academic English and identity. Educational implications for working with bilingual adolescents are discussed.  相似文献   

Promoting Metacognitive Decision-Making in Teacher Education     

Robin Griffith  Michelle Bauml  Sarah Quebec-Fuentes 《理论付诸实践》2016,55(3):242-249

Effective teachers are characterized by their abilities to make thoughtful, deliberate, and informed adaptations while teaching (Hoffman & Pearson, 2000). These in-the-moment teaching decisions are guided by a complex web of teacher knowledge. Raising teachers' awareness of the decisions they make on a moment-by-moment basis may aid in thoughtful, more deliberate decision-making and more robust instruction. We charge that preservice teachers can acquire this skill, as well. This article highlights practices employed in preservice teacher education courses as a means to promote awareness of, and engagement with, in-the-moment teaching decisions. Using examples from mathematics, social studies, and literacy methods courses, we describe our processes to intentionally cultivate preservice teachers' adaptive teaching skills through metacognitive decision-making.  相似文献   

Learning Experiences—a hermeneutic approach to classroom research     

Robin Sinha 《Educational studies》1976,2(3):201-216

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Hunting the Snark: the search for Q     

Robin Moss 《Learning, Media and Technology》1992,18(2-3):107-116

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