What we know about doctoral student persistence

Recognizing that the focus of studies on retention has been at the undergraduate level, a hypothesis is presented that to accomplish their objectives of providing scholars for the future, doctoral degree granting universities must focus attention on the factors affecting persistence of doctoral students. Further, due to the changing nature of the doctoral student population, doctoral students must now be defined as adults. Bringing together the themes of retention, persistence, and adult education, this review of the literature presents areas for further research and study.The author wishes to express his thanks to Dr. Nancy Gadbow, Assistant Professor of Adult Education, Syracuse University and Theodore Rector, Associate Dean, School of Education and Human Development, SUNY-Binghamton for their assistance in the preparation of this work.     

浅谈父母的儿童心理学意识

爱孩于是父母的天性,教育孩于是父母的职责。那么,怎样爱孩子,怎样教育孩子才有利于孩子的健康发展,这并不是每个做父母的都十分清楚的。只有了解一些儿童心理学的知识,懂得点儿童心理发展的特点和规律,科学地教儿、育儿、克服溺爱,避免家庭教育超常化和家庭教育学校化,这才能真正尽到父母的职责,才是对孩子的真爱。     

International political socialization of sixth grade elementary children: What and how do Japanese and Thai children know about the world?

This study investigates cognitive and affective components of Japanese and Thai children's attitudes toward international political socialization. The survey results report how children feel about people from other nations, international political institutions, and their country's involvement with the world community. An important concern of the study is the assessment of how much accurate knowledge Japanese and Thai elementary school children have about other nations. This study includes information on children's feelings about, and knowledge of such problems as warfare between nations, world government, stereotypic thinking about people not belonging to one's own culture and awareness of cross-cultural diffusion between Japan, Thailand and other nations.

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Zusammenfassung Diese Studie befaßt sich mit den kognitiven und affektiven Elementen der Einstellung japanischer und thailändischer Kinder zu internationaler politischer Sozialisierung. Aus den Ergebnissen der Untersuchung geht hervor, wie Kinder über Mitglieder anderer Nationen, über internationale politische Organisationen und über den Zusammenhang ihres Landes mit der Weltgemeinschaft denken. Ein wichtiges Ziel der Studie war es, festzustellen, wieviel akkurates Wissen von anderen Völkern japanische und thailändische Kinder besitzen. Der Bericht enthält Informationen über die Einstellung der Kinder und ihre Kenntnisse in bezug auf Probleme wie Kriege, Weltregierung, stereotypische Vorstellungen von Menschen, die nicht zur eigenen Kultur gehören, sowie darüber, inwieweit sie sich der grenzübergreifenden kulturellen Diffusion zwischen Japan, Thailand und anderen Ländern bewußt sind.

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Résumé Cette étude est une recherche des composants, cognitifs et affectifs, des attitudes des enfants thaïlandais et japonais devant la socialisation politique internationale. Les résultats de l'enquête montrent comment les enfants réagissent devant les gens des autres nations, devant les institutions politiques internationales et les relations de leur propre pays avec la communauté mondiale. L'auteur s'intéresse plus particulièrement à l'évaluation des connaissances exactes que les enfants thaïlandais et japonais des classes élémentaires possèdent sur les autres nations. L'étude donne des informations sur les sentiments des enfants à l'égard des autres pays, sur la connaissance qu'ils ont des problèmes tels que la guerre entre nations, le gouvernement mondial, la pensée stéréotypée sur ceux qui n'appartiennent pas à leur propre culture, et sur leur prise de conscience de la diffusion interculturelle entre le Japon, la Thaïlande et les autres nations.

     

What you should know about testing for radon in schools and homes

A recent series of tests in eight states by the Environmental Protection Agency shows surprisingly widespread concentrations of cancer-causing radon gas in homes. EPA administrator William Reilly estimates that as many as 10 million homes in the U.S. could have year-round average radon concentrations which exceed EPA's safe standard of 4 picocuries per liter of air. The acceptable level of 4 picocuries poses about the same lung cancer risk as smoking a half pack of cigarettes daily or receiving 200 to 300 chest X-rays annually.Paul Martin is a writer who lives in Riverside, II.     

What does Simon know about writing?-looking closely at one child's writing

In many ways Simon is a competent writer and learner, and yet he needs to know more about spelling. Janet White analyses his strengths and looks closely at what he still needs to learn. She shows how it would be possible to devise an individual spelling programme for Simon which would help him to spell better without diminishing his obvious achievements as a writer.     

儿童不安全依恋研究综述

不安全依恋的形成给儿童的健康发展及成人后形成良好的社会关系等各方面带来了许多不利的影响,并且因和各种心理疾病的形成有重要关联日益受到心理学界的关注。该研究从不安全依恋的定义、类型及测量方法、影响因素及对应的解决策略等方面对其进行了详细的论述。     

What teachers come to know through school portfolio development

This article distills what teachers at six diverse, urban schools came to know as a consequence of engaging in school portfolio development from a teacher knowledge perspective. Grounded in a narrative method and form, the work highlights the asking of hard questions, the concept of powerful learning, the idea of high quality professional development, the layered nature of knowledge, the aesthetic qualities of knowing and the limitations of what reflective school portfolios can and cannot do.     

What teachers need to know about the struggle for self-determination (conscientization) and self-regulation: adults with disabilities speak about their education experiences

The purpose of this paper is to help teachers better understand the struggles that people with disabilities experience in attaining their educational goals and to encourage the development of teaching and learning strategies that help to respect and facilitate the struggle itself. The authors share the generative themes that emerged using a critical pedagogy approach (dialogic interviews) to elicit the voices of adults with disabilities speaking about their public school experiences. In discussing the implications for teachers, the authors show the intersections of educational psychology's concept self-regulation and critical pedagogy's concept conscientization and special education’ s concept self-determination. Why the ‘struggle’ itself is important (from the perspectives provided by conscientization, self-regulation, and self determination) is discussed.The major question is whether or not teachers can structure the awareness process that results in learners becoming aware enough to verbalize, “I have difficulties”. What do teachers do to stimulate the metacognitive thinking processes that makes it possible for students with disabilities to think, “I can monitor myself!”? How can teachers capture the power of the conscientization experience that leads students with disabilities to experience the generative will power “to use the powers that I have to make a difference in my life's situation?” How do adults with disabilities come to these kinds of awareness and how can teachers help facilitate the awareness?     

Something You Don''''t know about Killing Bill

This you know:Bill dies-hence the title.That’S nosecret.Other things you know already about the in-tense,kitschy(艺术上浅薄鄙俗但技巧娴熟的)revengemovie Kill Bill:Volume 1:It's packed with kung fu, samurai swords,Uma Thurman and the big comebackof 90s film-geek savant(家)Quentin Tarantino. But what you don’t know about Kill Bill could fill aTokyo skyscraper.The flick’s stuffed with obscure film lore(学