Changes in Handedness Associated with Onset or Disappearance of Stuttering

The relationships between scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF), the Brown Personal Beliefs and Teaching Practices Inventories, and the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale for 191 female, beginning teacher education students were investigated using canonical and simple correlation analyses. A significant canonical correlation of .51 was established between these measures, with factors M (Practical vs. Imaginative), and Q1 (Conservative vs. Experimenting) of the 16 PF and total scores on the Brown inventories accounting for the multivariate correlation. Teacher education students who indicate high agreement with Dewey’s philosophy on the Brown instruments appear to also score high on the imagination and experimentation factors of the 16 PF. An additional finding of importance was the absence of significant relationships between the 16 PF and the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale.     

Examining calculator use among students with and without disabilities educated with different mathematical curricula

This study assessed if students with and without disabilities used calculators (fourfunction, scientific, or graphing) to solve mathematics assessment problems and whether using calculators improved their performance. Participants were sixth and seventh-grade students educated with either National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded or traditional mathematics curriculum materials. Students solved multiple choice and open-ended problems based on items from the State’s released previous assessments. A linear mixed model was conducted for each grade to analyze the factors impacting students’ self-reported calculator use. Chi Square tests were also performed on both grade’s data to determine the relationship between using a calculator and correctly solving problems. Results suggested only time as a main factor impacting calculator use and students who self-reported using a calculator were more likely to answer questions correctly. The results have implications for practice given the controversy over calculator use by students both with and without disabilities.     

The four ‘R’s of openness and ALMS analysis: frameworks for open educational resources

A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By ‘open’ it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation and reuse in different contexts. However, ‘open’ is not a simple dichotomy; rather, there is a continuum of openness. We discuss four separate aspects of reuse and demonstrate how these describe different levels of openness. We discuss how the licensing and technical aspects of open educational resources affect the relative openness of an open educational resource. Implications for those creating open educational resources are discussed.     

Voices of senior rural men and women on falls and fall-related injuries: “If I fall outside and get hurt,what would I do?”

ABSTRACT

This qualitative study examined the falls and fall-related injury experiences of community-dwelling rural seniors. 42 senior men and women living in two rural areas in Saskatchewan, Canada were recruited, and in-depth interviews were conducted. Analysis revealed three main themes among responses: nature of falls and injuries, causes of falls and injuries, and consequences of falls and injuries. Men and women expressed a fear of falling, which led to activity limitations; however, women were more reflective on their potential to fall and showed an increased level of preparedness compared to men. The causes of falls included activities at the time of a fall, functional limitations, chronic diseases, and personal factors such as type shoes worn. While men and women downplayed the seriousness of their falls or injuries, indicating a level of hardiness, this trend was stronger among men. None of the participants discussed the role of health care professionals or the health care system in relation to fall risk and ways of preventing falls, despite reporting adaptations to prevent and deal with consequences of falls. Overall, these findings may allude to the scarcity of health care services provided in rural communities, highlighting a need to focus on falls prevention for community-dwelling rural seniors.     

Healthy Aging in Place: Perceptions of Rural Older Adults

To date, initiatives to support healthy aging in place have focused primarily on the views of policy makers, researchers, and health professionals. This article explored the meanings, experiences, and perceptions of healthy aging in place among rural older adults. Guided by a community-based participatory research approach, this study sheds light on the perspectives of rural seniors themselves. Through semistructured interviews with 40 rural older adults, the study found that rural older adults' conceptualization of healthy aging in place consisted of factors that policy makers and health professionals would not necessarily consider. In contrast to biomedical approaches, the rural older adults situated healthy aging in place within a more holistic context of health, ranging from social interaction to maintaining an optimistic mental outlook. If policy makers and researchers are to develop more effective interventions that support rural healthy aging in place, then the importance of rural older adults' perspectives, experiences, and input must be recognized.     

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF NATIONAL SPEECH EDUCATION SYSTEMS: VOLUME 1. CURRENT REPORTS ON TWELVE COUNTRIES. Edited by Fred Casmir and L. S. Harms, Foreword by William S. Howell. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1970; pp. xxviii+226. $7.50.

REDETECHNIK. EINFUEHRUNG IN DIE RHETORIK. By Herbert Biehle. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter &; Co., 1968; pp. 212. Paper DM5.80.

MODERNE RHETORIK: REDE UND GES‐PRAECH IN DER WIRTSCHAFT UND IM OEFFENTLICHEN LEBEN. By Heinz Elertsen. Heidelberg: Sauer‐Verlag, 1969; pp. 152. DM13.50.

REDE IN DER OEFFENTLICHKEIT: EINE EINFUEHRUNG IN DIE RHETORIK. By Hellmut Geissner. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 1969; pp. 103. Paper DM7.50.

LEHRBUCH DER RHETORIK. By Heinz Lemmermann. München and Wien: Günter Olzog Verlag, 1968; pp. 232. DM16.80.

THE LANGUAGE OF HISTORY IN THE RENAISSANCE: RHETORIC AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN FLORENTINE HUMANISM. By Nancy S. Struever. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970; pp. vii+212. $6.95.

THE COLONIAL IDIOM. Edited by David Potter and Gordon L. Thomas. (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address.) Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970; pp. xiii+639.

A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By John R. Alden. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969; pp. xii+541+xvi. $10.00.

THE FOUNDING OF A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1763–1776. By Merrill Jensen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968; pp. xiii‐+ 735. $13.50.

THE BIRTH OF THE NATION: A PORTRAIT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON THE EVE OF INDEPENDENCE. By Arthur M. Schlesinger. Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968; pp. ix+258+xi. $7.95.

HARD TIMES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. By Studs Terkel. New York: Random House, 1970; pp. xiii+ 462. $8.95.

THE SHATTERED DREAM. By Gene Smith. New York: Wiliam Morrow, 1970; pp. iii+278. $6.95.

IMAGEMAKER: WILL ROGERS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. By William R. Brown. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1970; pp. 304. $10.00.

AMERICA'S HEROES: THE CHANGING MODELS OF SUCCESS IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES. By Theodore P. Greene. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970; pp. ix+387. $8.50.

AN ARMED AMERICA: ITS FACE IN FICTION. By Wayne Charles Miller. New York: New York University Press, 1970; pp. xvi+294. $7.95.

THE SYSTEM OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. By Thomas I. Emerson. New York: Random House, 1970; pp. ix+754. $20.00.

THE POLITICS OF FEAR: JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY AND THE SENATE. By Robert Griffith. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970; pp. xi+362. $8.50.

FORERUNNERS OF BLACK POWER: THE RHETORIC OF ABOLITION. Edited by Ernest G. Bormann. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1971; pp. viii+248. $8.50; paper $4.50.

HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK'S ART OF PREACHING: AN ANTHOLOGY. Edited by Lionel Crocker. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1971; pp. xii+283. $13.75.

BLACK PREACHING. By Henry H. Mitchell. New York: Lippincott, 1970; pp. 248. $4.95.

VOICES OF THE NEW FEMINISM. Edited by Mary Lou Thompson. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970; pp. 246. $5.95.

RALPH McGILL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: VOL. II‐RALPH McGILL SPEAKS. Compiled by Calvin McLeod Logue. Durham, N.C.: Moore Publishing Company, 1969; pp. 517. $9.95.     

Organization and management of an institutional theatre

Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia is central to his concept of dialogism and the way discourse achieves meaning. Bakhtin ‘s catalog of kinds of heteroglossia in the novel offers a method for describing the narrative discourse in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a novel that has evoked disagreement about its quality and its effects. Bakhtin's concept has greater explanatory power than other theories used to explore the rhetorical effects of the novel and the values embodied in its language. In turn, the application of Bakhtin's theory suggests that some kinds of heteroglossia play a larger role in establishing ideology than even Bakhtin claimed.