Parents who want their PreK children to have science learning experiences are outliers

The purpose of this study was to examine parental priorities regarding science education in the early years. The study sample included 1456 Turkish parents of pre-K children (36–72 months). Parents were asked to prioritize eight academic content areas, including science, in descending order. The results demonstrated that the number of parents who prioritized science over other academic content areas in pre-K classrooms was quite low. Parents who ranked science highly deviated from the whole sample and almost all of these parents were identified as outliers by the two-step cluster analysis. Parents of boys and younger children and parents with high-SES level were more likely to prioritize science over other academic content areas. The findings suggest that parental preferences overall align well with early childhood teachers’ tendency to teach less science than other content areas, and parental priorities might be another major factor that contributes to limited science learning experiences in the early years.     

An Innovative Approach to Involving Parents in the Education of their Early Years Children

This paper describes and evaluates a project undertaken with parents from an inner city primary school in Hartlepool, UK, devised to help realise children's potential and raise standards. In order to achieve this, it was necessary to create a partnership between parents, school and the child in an environment characterised by the ‘core conditions’ (Rogers, 1957). It was hoped to increase the self‐esteem of the parents and to give them an understanding of the preschool curriculum in order to develop their skills, knowledge and confidence. It was also the intention of the project to involve these, and other parents, in school life and to enable them to take ownership of their own children's education. The multimedia approach involved video, photographs, word processing and press and radio interviews. The process encouraged the fulfilment of the objectives described above. The paper concludes by describing the successful outcomes of the project and indicates some possible developments.     

Adolescents' Willingness to Forgive Their Parents: An Empirical Model

Objective. Drawing on prior social psychological and marital research this study tested a model of forgiveness in parent - adolescent relationships. Design. 164 adolescents from 2-parent families in north Italy (67 boys and 97 girls) reported on the positive affect experienced toward each parent and completed a relationship events questionnaire that included transgressions by each parent. Results. Support was obtained for a model in which the quality of the parent - adolescent relationship predicted benign attributions for negative parent behavior, which in turn, were related to forgiving directly and indirectly through affective reactions to the behavior. Adolescent forgiving, in turn, was associated with a decreased likelihood of subsequent parent - adolescent conflict. Direct tests of gender differences showed that the model was invariant across mother - son, mother - daughter, father - son, and father - daughter relationships. Conclusions. This study is the first to show that social-cognitive variables, such as relationship quality, attributions, and emotions, play a role in adolescents' willingness to forgive parents. The pattern of results is consistent with research on forgiveness in the marital relationship.     

How do teachers help children to learn? An analysis of teachers' interventions in computer-based activities

In British schools, educational software is normally used by children working under the supervision of a teacher, who will have set them specific tasks and organize them to work at the computer in pairs or groups. However, those theories of learning which have most influenced research into the design and use of educational software have been essentially concerned with individualized learning, and are insensitive to the nature of teaching and learning as a communicative, culturally-based process. The present paper discusses an alternative theoretical perspective, one derived from the work of Vygotsky. This is used in an analysis of interventions made by teachers in the computer-based activities of their pupils, using observational data gained from video-recordings of primary school classrooms. The usefulness of the theoretical perspective is evaluated, and implications for the development of computer-based activities are discussed.     

自选、自助式实验课的编拟与控管

分解了实施自选、自助实验课的影响因素;提出根据学制、学科、专业,以及理论与实验课时的比例等具体情况,确定自选、自助实验项目、内容、学时和管理办法;主张对实验课的效果、教学质量、学习程度、成本等实验效率的主要环节进行控管与考核。设计了优化实验课程的安排方法。     

巧用磁性板助力高中物理实验教学

物理是一门以实验为基础的学科,巧妙地借助于生活中的各种器具来改良和创新物理实验,尤其是通过一个器材设计多个实验即一物多用,引起越来越多教师的兴趣.通过改良和创新物理实验能更好地将物理规律呈现在学生面前,使学生能更好地理解相关物理规律和概念.下面,以磁性板为例,浅谈物理实验的改良与创新.     

生物学实验设计思想和原则的教学反思

本文简要阐述了实验设计的思想和原则,并通过对几道学生错题的分析,反思了实验设计思想和原则在生物学实验设计教学中的重要性。     

Written computer-mediated requests for help by French-speaking students: An analysis of their forms and functions

The present study regarded the self-regulated vs. not-self-regulated function and the indirect vs. direct (i.e., polite vs. impolite) linguistic form of middle school students’ requests for help. Natural data (149 requests were sent via an online homework-help forum by French-speaking seventh to ninth graders) was used. Nearly 60% of the requests were self-regulated and 70% were indirect (polite). Moreover, self-regulated functions (detailed or general requests about mathematics) were frequently combined with indirect request forms (embedded imperatives, question directives, or hints), suggesting that these students were capable of metacognitive reflection on their homework and followed the pragmatic communication rules of traditional student-teacher situations.     

“子女殴打父母”型家庭暴力探析

对“子女殴打父母”这一新型家庭暴力的成因进行了分析,并提出了相应的防治措施,以求维护家庭和睦稳定,促进社会和谐发展。     

A changing world: Books can help children adapt

Life today demands coping with the rapid change occurring all around us. Young children encounter rapid change and must learn to adapt to it. In order to adapt to it they need to develop an understanding of change. Children's books can be used to explain and explore the possibilities of change.Cynthia Szymanski Sunal is Professor of Early-Middle Childhood Education at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Barbara Hatcher is Professor in the Department of Education at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.     

Student responses to paradigmatic change: An Israeli experiment in Educational Anthropology

This article describes an experiment conducted at the University of Haifa, School of Education aimed at illustrating the cross-cultural usefulness of Educational Anthropology's theoretical core which, it is suggested, functions as a warning device that readily detects vulnerable spots in any given educational system. By highlighting a variety of personal, organizational, social and cultural conditions that either contribute to or hinder the assimilation of new learning this article demonstrates how students reorganize their cognitive maps as a result of such learning.An earlier version of this article was presented at the 1980 National Conference of the Israeli Educational Research Association, Haifa, Israel.