The analysis and treatment of child abuse by behavioural psychotherapy

The results from use of behaviour therapy with child abuse cases is very encouraging. Data has been presented to show the approach both economical and rewarding. Our experience suggests that selected social workers may be able to learn to use the approach with a relatively short period of training.     

CAMPUS EARLY CHILDHOOD LABORATORY SCHOOLS: PARTNERS IN TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS

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Making Theory and Development of Early Childhood Education come alive for elementary master's degree students in two learning sites offers opportunities and challenges. In constructing the class, a primary goal was to expose the students to the context under which early childhood educators developed programs and theories. Also, students were challenged to uncover the relationship that the education of young children had with social change and emerging human rights. Utilizing distance learning, contemporary books such as Who Moved My Cheese (Johnson, 1998) and a field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum and the Rock'n Soul Museum, students developed a sense of the place early childhood education had and continues to have in social change and the advancement of civil rights in this country.     

Comparative studies on phenotypic plasticity of two herbs, Changium smyrnioides and Anthriscus sylvestris

INTRODUCTION Changium smyrnioides Wolff, a monotypicspecies of family Umbellaceae, occurs only in anarrow zone in the middle to eastern part of theChangjiang (Yangtze) River Basin, China. As ahighly valued medicinal herb, the fleshy roots ofthis species are widely picked, and as its habitatsare being disturbed increasingly by land use, it hasbecome an endangered species (Qiu and Fu, 2001).Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm belongs to thesame family; has similar morphology and life…     

China's Golden WeekGreates Buzz

历经锤炼之后,黄金周铅华褪尽渐显本色。随着第21个黄金周的落幕,已经实施9年的黄金周休假日,即将被撤销。回头想想,是不是已经到了反思的时候:这种长假真的让我们得到放松了吗?黄金周,欲求黄金只见粥?     

The Effect of Cooperative Groups on Regular Class Spelling Achievement of Special Needs Learners

This study examined the utility of cooperative groups as a technology for mainstreaming academically deficit students in a regular fourth grade classroom. Twenty‐seven students (mean age 8.6 years), including five targeted special needs learners, took a weekly spelling test of 20 words chosen from the fourth grade reader. A return to baseline research design indicated that cooperative groups promoted higher academic mastery among those with special needs and regular education learners when compared with two types of individualistic techniques. Results support the use of cooperative groups as a technique for academic as well as social mainstreaming in the regular classroom.