Experiencing spiritual aspects outdoors in the winter: a case study from the Czech Republic using the method of systemic constellations     

Ivo Jirásek  Miroslava Jirásková  Petra Majewská  Michaela Bolcková 《British Journal of Religious Education》2017,39(2):122-148

The article focuses on spirituality on two semantic levels: the first one analyses participants’ experiences during a winter expeditionary course on snowshoes and considers the question of whether residing in the winter landscape with a community of other people may acquire a spiritual dimension in spite of the non-religious environment. The second level verifies whether the trans-rational method of systemic constellations may be used as a research tool, that is, as a specific source for data collection (different from other sources and methods). The research applied a phenomenological approach to the analysis of unstructured interviews (n = 12) and constellation insights; the result confirmed indisputably that certain kinds of experiences obtained in a completely non-religious environment (namely, during a winter expedition on snowshoes in the mountains) can be considered spiritual. The answer to the second question is also positive, since the application of systemic constellations results in different data in comparison with their verbal acquisition. Symbolic images that point out the system and its unaccepted elements deepen the understanding of both the individual and the nature of their spiritual experience.  相似文献   

Relation between cognitive and motor performance in 5- to 6-year-old children: results from a large-scale cross-sectional study     

Wassenberg R  Feron FJ  Kessels AG  Hendriksen JG  Kalff AC  Kroes M  Hurks PP  Beeren M  Jolles J  Vles JS 《Child development》2005,76(5):1092-1103

The relation between cognitive and motor performance was studied in a sample of 378 children aged 5-6. Half of these children had no behavior problems; the others were selected for externalizing (38%) or internalizing problems (12%). Quantitative and qualitative aspects of motor performance were related to several aspects of cognition, after controlling for the influence of attention. No relation between global aspects of cognitive and motor performance was found. Specific positive relations were found between both aspects of motor performance, visual motor integration and working memory, and between quantitative aspects of motor performance and fluency. These findings reveal interesting parallels between normal cognitive and motor development in 5- to 6-year-old children that cannot be ascribed to attention processes.  相似文献   

Urates in exhaled breath condensate of children with obstructive sleep apnea     

Vlasic V  Trifunovic J  Cepelak I  Nimac P  Topic RZ  Dodig S 《Biochemia medica : ?asopis Hrvatskoga dru?tva medicinskih biokemi?ara / HDMB》2011,21(2):139-144

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The unacknowledged value of female academic labour power for male research careers     

Petra Angervall  Jan Gustafsson 《高等教育研究与发展》2015,34(5):815-827

Academic work in Sweden's higher education system is changing character. Distinctly different career pathways are emerging, as facilities for developing research careers and capital have become both more restricted and more dependent on external funding. These developments are in focus in the present article. Based on ethnographic research and a series of semi-structured interviews with new academics and senior academic mentors in education faculties, the research suggests that several factors intercede in how careers are developed and experienced. The unacknowledged exploitation of female academic labour is perhaps amongst the more significant of these.  相似文献   

Womentalkin': A reader's theater performance of teachers' stories     

Natalie Adams  Tammie Causey  Mary-ELLEN Jacobs  Petra Munro  Molly Quinn  Ann Trousdale 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(3):383-395

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Does immigration background matter? How teachers’ predictions of students’ performance relate to student background     

Axinja Hachfeld  Yvonne Anders  Sascha Schroeder  Petra Stanat  Mareike Kunter 《International Journal of Educational Research》2010,49(2-3):78-91

Accurate teacher evaluations of student performance are crucial for effective teaching. This study examined whether students’ immigration and language background affect teachers’ evaluations. Multilevel analyses tested whether teachers overestimate the performance of immigrant relative to that of non-immigrant students. As part of the German PISA 2003 assessment, 305 teachers predicted the performance of seven of their students on two mathematics problems of different linguistic complexity. Results revealed an interaction effect of students’ language background and linguistic complexity of the problem on teachers’ predictions. Teachers overestimated the performance of bilingual students more than the performance of monolingual immigrant or non-immigrant students on a linguistically complex problem. Teachers need to consider both students’ language background and linguistic demands of the material used to appropriately support bilingual students.  相似文献   

Bewegung unterrichten     

Petra Wolters  Eckart Balz 《Sportwissenschaft》2007,37(2):232-235

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Differential growth patterns in emerging reading skills of Turkish-German bilingual and German monolingual primary school students     

Christina K. Limbird  Jessica T. Maluch  Camilla Rjosk  Petra Stanat  Hans Merkens 《Reading and writing》2014,27(5):945-968

Students from Turkish-speaking families are the largest minority language group in Germany. Yet, little is known about this group’s literacy development. Using data from a 3-year longitudinal study, we examined whether the same base reading skills are involved in early reading comprehension of 100 Turkish-German bilingual and 69 German monolingual children. We applied a basic theoretical model of reading development to examine how emerging literacy develops for monolingual compared to bilingual children. Both the bilingual and monolingual children in this sample developed the investigated base reading skills at the same rate. However, the relations among phonological awareness, German vocabulary, and word decoding showed differential patterns in the development of German reading comprehension skills for the two groups: monolingual children appeared to make use of their phonological awareness skills more, whereas reading comprehension depended more on vocabulary skills for bilingual readers. Our findings indicate that bilingual emerging readers require specialized models of reading development to account for their unique routes into reading comprehension. The results of the study point to a need for increased attention to vocabulary building in the early phases of literacy acquisition for bilingual children.  相似文献   

Sprachförderung von Kindern und Jugendlichen aus Zuwandererfamilien     

Jennifer Paetsch  Katrin M. Wolf  Petra Stanat  Annkathrin Darsow 《Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft》2014,17(2):315-347

Children and adolescents of families with immigrant background are less successful in the German education systems than those without immigrant background. These differences can largely be explained by deficits in the language of instruction, indicating a lack of learning opportunities in the second language. The present paper investigates how it is possible to reduce language disparities before children enter school on the one hand and during the course of schooling on the other hand. This is being done by presenting the current state of research on the acquisition of a second language. In particular, recent findings on the influence of the quantity and quality of early childhood education on the language acquisition of children are summarized. Furthermore, findings on the effectiveness of attending all-day schools and of current programs for language instruction are presented. Finally, potential avenues for further development of language instruction as well as for future research are discussed.  相似文献   

Quality Audits as a Tool for Quality Improvement in Selected European Higher Education Libraries     

Núria Balagué  Petra Düren  Arja Juntunen  Jarmo Saarti 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2014,40(5):529-533

From the beginning of the 1990s, different types of quality management and evaluation systems have become integrated into higher education institutes throughout Europe due to the creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This has meant that the university libraries have had to learn how to evaluate their services and improve their quality. Quality audits are one tool that can be used in quality management approaches to assess how well an organization is being managed. This paper describes and benchmarks the use of external and internal auditing in three European academic libraries, i.e. the Medical Library of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Library (Spain) and the University of Eastern Finland Library (Finland). The results reveal the best practices of auditing in these institutions; and recommendations are provided for the further development of library auditing and ways to improve co-operation between libraries.  相似文献