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)     

Exploring Correlation Coefficients with Golf Statistics

This article explores the relationships between several pairs of statistics kept on professional golfers on the PGA tour. Specifically, two measures related to the player's ability to drive the ball are compared as are two measures related to the player's ability to putt. An additional analysis is made between one statistic related to putting and another that measures how effectively the player tends to reach the green. An analysis of which statistic has the most impact on a player's score is also included. The article concludes with an interesting extension relating the statistics of professionals to the performance of an amateur golfer.     

Modern Language Teaching in Australian Universities

This paper reports the attitudes of academics teaching languages other than English in Australian universities. The data are derived from a national survey in 1984 which asked a range of questions ranging from background details on students, characteristics of course structures, methods of teaching, and perceptions of the attitudes of students to numerous issues relevant to the teaching of languages. The responses of these language teachers are analysed with respect to theories of language teaching. The matters of major concern to language teachers highlighted by the study are shown to be relevant to current debate about the future of modern, especially Asian, language teaching.     

The Keys to STEM: Australian Year 7 Students’ Attitudes and Intentions Towards Science,Mathematics and Technology Courses

Research in Science Education - Educational researchers have long noted the apparent link between positive student attitudes and a student’s desire to continue their study of particular...     

Mothers,learners and countermemory

This article explores how issues of learning and mothering emerged in research with women students. First it develops the notion of ‘a motherhood standpoint’. It then considers how Foucault's concept of ‘counter‐memory’, and, in particular, its reworking in feminist cultural theory as ‘countermemory’, can be used to explain why students persistently called up the mother when talking about themselves as learners, revealing this as both a political and psychic process. The mother can be seen as a double figure who represents both knowledge and its limits. The following analysis of student accounts demonstrates the tension between retelling their mother's memories, to bear witness to the educational injustice meted out to women, and their own memories of mothers, whom they are trying to escape to make an independent claim of knowledge.     

Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity

This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and external contextual conditions impinging on the research collaboration. It fosters the ability of participants in a collaborative project to align their interests and collectively extend their agency towards a common purpose. It influences the productivity and quality of learning outcomes of the research collaboration. The article is written by fourteen members of a larger research team, which comprised 18 individuals working within the academic development environment in eight South African universities. The overarching research project investigated the participation of academics in professional development activities, and how contextual, i.e. structural and cultural, and agential conditions, influence this participation. For this sub-study on the experience of the collaboration by fourteen of the researchers, we wrote reflective pieces on our own experience of participating in the project towards the end of the third year of its duration. We discuss the structural and cultural conditions external to and internal to the project, and how the social reflexivity of the participants mediated these conditions. We conclude with the observation that policy injunctions and support from funding agencies for collaborative research, as well as support from participants’ home institutions are necessary for the flourishing of collaborative research, but that the commitment by individual participants to participate, learn and share, is also necessary.     

S + T + M = E as a Convergent Model for the Nature of STEM

Science & Education - The paper provides a theoretical synthesis that addresses the multiple calls to consider the existence of an integrated nature of STEM (science, technology, engineering,...     

牛仔裤风靡美国和全世界

本文讲述的是美国的一个现已遍及世界大部分地区的坚实象征。这一象征不是美元,甚至也不是可口可乐。它只是一条叫做蓝布牛仔裤的普普通通的裤子,这种裤子所象征的是亚历克西·德托克维尔所谓的“对平等的勇敢而正当的渴望……”不论是官员还是牛仔,银行家还是赖账者,时装设计师还是酒鬼,都同样喜欢它。它对任何人都一视同仁,不分阶级;凡是美国人都可以穿。然而它几乎在世界各地都备受青睐,包括俄罗斯,那儿的当局最近破获了一个在黑市上以每条200美元的价格倒卖牛仔裤的青少年团伙。牛仔裤已经流行了很长时间,看来生命力甚至会比领带还旺盛…     

The associations among preschool children’s growth in early reading,executive function,and invented spelling skills

The purpose of the present study was to examine associations among children’s emergent literacy (early reading), language, executive function (EF), and invented spelling skills across prekindergarten. Participants included 123, primarily African American, 4-year-old children enrolled in a variety of prekindergarten settings. In addition to describing the concurrent and longitudinal relations between children’s emergent literacy, EF, and invented spelling skills, this study investigated associations among children’s growth in these targeted skills and explored potential indirect effects from children’s EF to invented writing skill. Multiple regression analyses suggested that although early reading skills were significantly and concurrently associated with invented spelling skills, children’s phonological awareness was the only early reading skill predictive of later invented spelling skills. Children’s EF was not concurrently or longitudinally associated with invented spelling after controlling for early reading skills. However, regression analyses of children’s residual scores suggested that children’s EF skill at the beginning of the semester was predictive of their later invented spelling skills through children’s letter-sound knowledge.