Preparing Doctoral-Level Consultants for Systems Change: Implementing and Supervising Multitiered Practices in Early Childhood Education

Implementing changes that support a preventative approach in early childhood education (ECE) requires the collaboration of skilled professionals. The present case study describes a change effort to implement multitiered systems of support (MTSS) in early childhood settings that included collaboration of agency personnel, school psychology program faculty and trainees, and ECE faculty. It describes a competency-based training initiative that provides applied experiences in consultation, supervision, and change facilitation for systems change efforts. The implementation of a systems-level approach for promoting positive behavior at three ECE agencies is described, with resulting teacher and child outcomes. Implications for future consultation research, training, and practice are discussed in relation to a consultation training model that provides competency-based field experiences to support change in ECE.     

Football boundary-layer separation via dust experiments

A method of examining the separation of the boundary layer of air from a sports ball, specifically a football, is presented. Using a ball launcher, a non-spinning football is fired into a dust cloud. A high-speed camera records the ball passing through the dust cloud. Unlike wind-tunnel methods, the dust method described here allows for the examination of the boundary-layer separation without a ball-supporting arrangement. Boundary-layer separation for speeds surrounding the drag crisis is studied. Though the general trend is for the boundary layer to separate farther back on the ball as the ball’s centre-of-mass speed increases, anomalous behaviour is seen just past the drag crisis, namely a rise in the separation angle, followed by an expected decrease.     

MORALIZED PSYCHOLOGY OR PSYCHOLOGIZED MORALITY? ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGY IN RECENT THEORIZING ABOUT MORAL AND CHARACTER EDUCATION

A bstract .  Moral philosophy seems well placed to claim the key role in theorizing about moral education. Indeed, moral philosophers have from antiquity had much to say about psychological and other processes of moral formation. Given this history, it may seem ironic that much systematic latter-day theorizing about moral education has been social scientific, and that some of the major trends in the field have been led by empirical or other psychologists. Moreover, while acknowledging the influence of such major past philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, and Kant on the primary modern movements of cognitive developmentalism, care ethics, and character education, some recent social scientists have called for the development of a "psychologized morality" in the interests of an even more leading role for psychological research in the theory of moral formation. In this essay, David Carr surveys and critically evaluates these trends in theorizing moral education.     

Authoring systems reassessed

A study of authoring system technology was done to update a previous study done in 1985. While the earlier study focused on software selection methods, the current one emphasizes trends in authoring tool characteristics, vendor approaches to the market-place, and evaluation methods. It also raises questions about some of the often tacit assumptions underlying the technology's development and use.