Understanding the role of private speech in children's emotion regulation

Self-regulation includes both cognitive and affective components, but few researchers have investigated how these components interact to better explain self-regulation. The purpose of this study was to investigate how children's private speech, which is typically related to cognitive ability, was utilized during an emotion-eliciting task. By examining the social and private speech that occurred as children coped with a frustration task, a better understanding of how children regulate their emotional displays can be achieved. Children's speech, emotional expressions (sadness and anger), and emotion regulation strategies (distraction and self-comforting) were coded during a frustration task completed by preschool-aged children (N = 116). Children's social speech to mothers and private speech were transcribed. Children's private speech was categorized according to five mutually exclusive categories: vocalizations, inaudible muttering, task-irrelevant, negatively valenced task-relevant, or facilitative task-relevant. Sadness was associated with more social speech and negatively valenced task-relevant private speech, whereas anger was associated with less distraction and facilitative task-relevant private speech and more vocalizations and negatively valenced task-relevant private speech. Additionally, private speech predicted unique variance beyond that explained by the emotion regulation strategies and moderated the relations of emotion regulation strategies to both anger and sadness. These empirical findings support theoretical propositions that language is a factor in children's emotion regulation. The implications of these findings include support for the encouragement of private speech in the classroom because of its relation to emotional, in addition to cognitive, regulatory functions.     

Training Paraprofessionals to Support Students with Disabilities: A Literature Review

The purpose of this literature review is to describe intervention research studies in which paraprofessionals received training applicable to student with disabilities. Thirty studies were systematically reviewed to identify (a) characteristics of study participants and settings, (b) characteristics of paraprofessional training and paraprofessional-implemented intervention evaluated within these studies, (c) quality of the studies, and (d) implications for practice and areas for future research. Overall, paraprofessional training and subsequent intervention with students yielded positive outcomes. Training sessions typically were delivered by workshops, lectures, or classes and classroom-based training. However, numerous studies failed to demonstrate characteristics of study quality.     

Curriculum coherence and teachers’ decision-making in Scottish high school history syllabi

Abstract

Debates over which historical content should be compulsory for study in the school curriculum are a common feature of education systems across the globe. These debates invariably weigh the perceived benefits to social cohesion of a ‘common core’ of knowledge against the perceived risks to democracy of government-sanctioned ‘official knowledge’. Scotland has, perhaps, taken an extreme position on this debate by specifying no mandatory historical content in its social studies curriculum. This paper uses 21 interviews with Scottish history teachers to explore how schools use this curricular autonomy: which historical periods they choose to teach and why.

?The paper suggests that, without access to theoretical debates about the nature of historical knowledge, schools fall back on instrumental justifications for content selection within the curriculum. The result in many cases is an extremely narrow and fragmented syllabus in which pupil preference, teacher interests and the logistics of timetabling guide content selection.

?The paper concludes that the formulation of coherent school-level history curricula is dependent on the fostering agency among a theoretically-informed teaching profession.     

Student Communities and Individualism in American Cinema

Hollywood films partially construct how Americans think about education. Recent work on the representation of schools in American cinema has highlighted the role of class difference in shaping school film genres. It has also advanced the idea that a nuanced understanding of American individualism helps to explain why the different class genres are shaped as they are. This article attempts to refine this theoretical approach by focusing on the paradox of individualism, which suggests that individualism must always be dependent on community. We examine 5 films (Rushmore 1988, The Breakfast Club 1985, Mona Lisa Smile 2003, School of Rock 2003, and Stand and Deliver 1988) and argue that, although the values of individualism are certainly celebrated, these films also show, perhaps unwittingly, that the achievements of individualism require robust student communities. We describe how student communities function in these films, what achievements they make possible, and what obstacles they face.     

A Comparison of the English Vocabulary Used by Children of Non-American Ancestry in Hawaii before they Reach the Age of Seven Years with that of Kindergarten Children in Continental United States

The authors investigated 2 issues concerning the power of latent growth modeling (LGM) in detecting linear growth: the effect of the number of repeated measurements on LGM's power in detecting linear growth and the comparison between LGM and some other approaches in terms of power for detecting linear growth. A Monte Carlo simulation design was used, with 3 crossed factors (growth magnitude, number of repeated measurements, and sample size) and 1,000 replications within each cell condition. The major findings were as follows: For 3 repeated measurements, a substantial proportion of samples failed to converge in structural equation modeling; the number of repeated measurements did not show any effect on the statistical power of LGM in detecting linear growth; and the LGM approach outperformed both the dependent t test and repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) in terms of statistical power for detecting growth under the conditions of small growth magnitude and small to moderate sample size conditions. The multivariate repeated-measures ANOVA approach consistently underperformed the other tests.     

Long-term Influences of Portfolios on Professional Development

In recent publications on the use of portfolios in professional training both their goals, application and success are reported in favourable terms. The main purposes of portfolios being put forward are: documentation of performance, monitoring growth, revealing discrepancies in development and enhancing self-responsibility. The findings, however, pertain to the introductory implementation of the portfolio instrument, most notably with (student) teachers. Not much is known about the sustained use of a portfolio as an instrument to support professional development in the long term. In this study the benefits of different forms of sustained portfolio use are focused on in particular. Use is related to the portfolio's function, which can be for both professional development and certification, and to the setting and conditions of use, which may be either mandatory or voluntary. We gauge its impact on indicators like ongoing documentation, systematic reflection, dialogue with significant others and learning for professional development. The difficulties experienced users found are discussed, as well as the gains they saw in sustained use of portfolios, which led us to conclude that portfolios are mainly used for documentation but have a high potential as mirrors of competence when issued as instruments for self-evaluation and self-assessment.     

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SELECTED PAPERS OF EMIL FROESCHELS 1940–1964. Introduction by H. Beebe. Amsterdam: North‐Holland, 1964; pp. x+232. Paper $5.60.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: A DEFINITION. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston, 1965; pp. 128. Paper $3.00.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston, 1965; pp. 164. Paper $3.00.

THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MEANING. By Marjorie B. Creelman. New York: Springer, 1966; pp. xi+219+unpaged Indexes. $6.75.

HUMAN MOTIVATION: A SYMPOSIUM. 1965. Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; pp. vii+87. $4.25.

NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION: 1965. Edited by David Levine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; pp. xi+344. S5.50; paper $2.50.

THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH. By Daniel Jones. (Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1966; pp. xxiv+223. Paper $1.95.

RULES OF PRONUNCIATION FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By Axel Wijk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. 160. Paper 8/6.

THE COLLOQUIAL STYLE IN AMERICA. By Richard Bridgman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. vii+254. $6.50.

CRITICAL DIMENSIONS: THE ART OF PUBLIC ADDRESS CRITICISM. By Anthony Hillbruner. Random House, 1966; pp. 180. Paper $1.95.

WILLIAM PENN, THE POLITICIAN: HIS RELATIONS WITH THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. By Joseph E. Illick. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965; pp. x+267. $5.75.

ADAMS AND JEFFERSON: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP. By John Murray Allison. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966; pp. xii+349. $4.95.

PROHIBITION AND POLITICS: TURBULENT DECADES IN TENNESSEE, 1885–1920. By Paul E. Isaac. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1965; pp. xi+301. $6.00.

GEORGE W. NORRIS: GENTLE KNIGHT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. By Norman L. Zucker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966; pp. x+186. $5.00.

THE IRISH AND IRISH POLITICIANS. By Edward M. Levine. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966; pp. xi+241. $6.00.

THE PAPERS OF WOODROW WILSON, Vol. I: 1856–1880. Edited by Arthur S. Link. Foreword by Raymond B. Fosdick. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; pp. xxviii+715. $15.00.

THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF WOOD‐ROW WILSON. Edited by E. David Cronon. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1965; pp. xcv+ 559. Paper $3.45.

DIONYSUS: MYTH AND CULT. By Walter F. Otto. Translated with an Introduction by Robert B. Palmer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965; pp. xxi+243. $6.50.

SOCRATES AND ARISTOPHANES. By Leo Strauss. New York: Basic Books, 1966; pp. 320+Index. $8.50.

TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC. By T. S. Eliot. New York: Farrar, Straus &; Giroux, 1965; pp. 189. $4.95.

THE CHOICES OF CRITICISM. By William Chace Greene. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1965; pp. vi+207. $7.50.

THE DYSKOLOS OF MENANDER. Edited by E. W. Handley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965; pp. x+323. $10.00.

THE PLAY CALLED CORPUS CHRISTI. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966; pp. viii+337. $8.50.

THE SHAKESPEARE INSET: WORD AND PICTURE. By Francis Berry. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1965; pp. x+173. $5.75.

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Gerald W. Chapman. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; pp. viii+176. $5.00.

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Gordon Ross Smith. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1965; pp. 249. $6.00.

DUALITIES IN SHAKESPEARE. By Marion Bodwell Smith. University of Toronto Press, 1966; pp. vi+252. $6.50.

SHAKESPEARE: TIME AND CONSCIENCE. By Grigori Kozinstev. Translated by Joyce Vining. New York: Hill &; Wang, 1966; pp. 276. $5.95.

KING LEAR IN OUR TIME. By Maynard Mack. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965; pp. viii+117+unpaged Index. $3.75.

METHOD AND MEANING IN JONSON'S MASQUES. By John C. Meagher. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966; pp. vii+214. $6.50.

THE IRISH STAGE IN THE COUNTY TOWNS, 1720–1800. By William Smith Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. xii+405. $11.20.

JAMES BRIDIE: CLOWN AND PHILOSOPHER. By Helen L. Luyben. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965; pp. 180. $5.00.

BEHIND SPANISH AMERICAN FOOTLIGHTS. By Willis Knapp Jones. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966; pp. xvi+609. $9–50.

FOLK THEATRE OF INDIA. By Balwant Gargi. Foreword by Millard B. Rogers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966; pp. x+217. $8.95.

JODISCHES THEATER IN NAZIDEUTSCH‐LAND. By Herbert Freeden. Tubingen, Germany: J. C. B. Mohr, 1964; pp. x+184. $6.25.

MODERN TRAGICOMEDY: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE OF THE GENRE. By Karl S. Guthke. New York: Random House, 1966; pp. xv+205. Paper $1.95.

MODERN TRAGEDY. By Raymond Williams. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966; pp. 208. $5.50.

THE SERPENT'S EYE: SHAW AND THE CINEMA. By Donald P. Costello. Foreword by Cecil Lewis. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965; pp. xxi+2og. $6.50.

THE JAPANESE MOVIE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. By Donald Richie. Preface by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Rutland, Vt.: Japan Publications Trading Co., 1956; pp. 200. $11.00.

PERFORMING ARTS—THE ECONOMIC DILEMMA. By William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1966; pp. xvi+582. $7.50.