Changing schools: still trying after all these years

The present study focuses on the way novice teachers, who are part of a one-year postgraduate diploma in post-primary teaching, have opted to negotiate their status as school teachers. In particular, it asks why novice teachers prefer to hide as they scramble to learn how to teach. On the basis of three separate interviews spaced out though the teaching year 2009 (January, March, May), a team of university-based tutors probed for student reactions to competence-based issues. Adopting a sociocultural perspective, this study drew upon roughly 10% of the pre-service student cohort (n?=?17), each in a different placement location. The study looked, in particular, at their negotiating power, particularly the effect of school supports for their reality as learners. Findings suggest that without quality mentoring support, our pre-service teachers prefer to become ‘invisible’ as learners. Three pre-professional stances are identified: fragile, robust and competitive. The key finding is that none of these pre-professional stances mitigate pre-service students’ lack of negotiating power. On the other hand, informal school-based supports can help students considerably.     

Theory of mind,executive function and social competence in boys with ADHD

Abstract

Twenty-two boys with a diagnosis of ADHD were com-KEYWORDS pared with 22 typically developing boys on an advanced theory of mind task and on two tasks measuring aspects of executive function. Parents completed rating forms measuring general social competence, as well as mentalizing and non-mentalizing social behaviours. There were no differences between the groups on the advanced theory of mind measure.The children with ADHD scored more poorly than controls on an inhibition task but not on a planning task once age and IQ had been covaried. Ratings of social competence were correlated with theory of mind and executive function ability for the typically developing controls but not for the children with ADHD. The results are discussed in terms of inhibitory and social information processing accounts of ADHD.     

Apocalypticism in secular public discourse: A proposed theory

Scholars have long studied biblical apocalyptic texts and later religious texts in the same genre, considering their distinctive features and their effects. Literary theorists have found apocalyptic strains in secular literature and studied the literary texts as apocalyptic. Studying speeches as apocalyptic illuminates the rhetorical effects of the speeches and underscores the narrative elements of apocalyptic discourse that have been merely taken for granted.     

Films and Stars

The Citizen Kane Book (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971---$15.00)

Ronald Gottesman (ed.) Focus on Citizen Kane (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971---$5.95/2.45)

Harry M. Guduld (ed.) Focus on D.W. Griffith (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971--$5.95/2.45)

Thomas Quinn Curtiss' Von Stroheim (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971---$10.00)

Garson Kanin's Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir (New York: Viking Press, 1971---$7.95)

Rudi Blesh's Keaton (New York: Collier, 1971 ---$2.95, paper)

Gerald Fine, Fatty (Los Angeles, author, 1971---$1.95, paper)

Ture Sjolander, Garbo (New York: Harper & Row, 1971---$12.00)

Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein's Lana: The Public and Private Lives of Miss Turner (New York: Citadel Press, 1971---$6.95)

Mary Astor's A Life on Film (New York: Delacorte Press,1971 ---$7.50)

Robert Wilson (ed) The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1971---$12.50)

Beverly Houston and Marsha Kinder Close-Up: A Critical Perspective on Film (New York: Harcourt, Brace &Javanovich, March 1972---$4.95, paper)     

Reducing Journal Stacks: How Tufts University's Hirsh Health Sciences Library Made Electronic Journals Work for Them

In 2007, the Collections Management department at Tufts University's Hirsh Health Sciences Library (HHSL) reduced journal stacks to make room for additional seating and classrooms as part of a renovation to the Medical School's Sackler Center for Medical Education. Additional space was necessary to accommodate the library's increasing role in education and research at the medical school and a growing student population. Offsite storage with compact shelving was under construction nearby. Journals were identified for offsite storage by focusing on print titles that came with an online equivalent rather than using chronology to shift journals offsite. The goal was to keep storage retrieval requests to a minimum for patrons and staff.