Portraits of Partnership: The Hopes and Dreams Project

This article describes an innovative practice in family involvement developed by one early care and education center engaged in professional development. The Hopes and Dreams Project documented family involvement in children’s lives and education through the pairing of pictures and narratives about their lives, histories, priorities, goals, and responsibilities with the school community. Narrative inquiry was a powerful method for increasing understanding of complexity of family involvement. Findings showed that families’ priorities in forming partnerships included the importance in belonging to the community, being involved in their children’s lives and education, experiencing diversity, and experiences in childhood for children’s futures. This research supports the importance of redefining family partnerships in early care and education in a manner that is inclusive of family values and priorities. The implications are that early care and education providers have an important role in developing and defining involvement practices that empower families and educate professionals.     

School governance and teachers' attitudes to parents' involvement in schools

This study probes teachers' attitudes toward parental involvement in schools as a function of four types of school governance as suggested by Bauch and Goldring. Participants of the study included headteachers, chairpersons of parents' committees, and teachers of 11 primary schools in a medium-sized town in Israel. A discriminant analysis found different profiles of teachers' attitudes toward parental involvement: resistant and negative attitudes characterized schools where parents were empowered. Ambivalent attitudes characterized schools with professional and bureaucratic modes of governance, and positive attitudes were found in schools with partnership governance. This implies that the latter mode of governance is a promising step toward a community-oriented approach.     

儿童注意缺陷多动障碍的学校干预研究回顾

回顾了国内外关于学校开展儿童注意缺陷多动障碍(简称ADHD)干预的研究,对ADHD的治疗和干预研究现状以及学校开展干预的措施进行了总结,其中包括单项干预措施和综合干预措施。最后作出结论,相对其他ADHD干预,学校干预对于改善ADHD学生的人际交往以及提高其学业成绩更具有优势。     

写作能力的培养从家庭教育开始

学生主观的写作恐惧情绪,客观的词句贫乏无话可说,起源都在于家庭教育。家庭教育中,家长进行孩子启蒙教育的开始,与孩子交流的言语习惯、思维习惯都已是在潜移默化地影响了孩子的语言与思维,这两点也直接地影响了将来孩子在写作中语句、内容、情感、观点的几大写作要素的发展。因此,以家庭教育为入口,从根本上解决写作难的问题具有现实意义。     

对大连理工大学硕士研究生的体质健康干预研究

为探索增强研究生体质的有效手段,进一步发挥体育锻炼在促进研究生体质方面的积极作用,本文对健身锻炼的120名研究生实施不同的运动处方,探讨篮球、游泳、羽毛球、瑜伽对研究生体质的影响,并进行比较研究.研究结果表明,在高校贯彻运动处方为指导的锻炼方式可以有效地提高研究生的体质和健康状况,此研究为运动处方理论融入高校体育锻炼奠定了基础.     

基于绩效技术的高校教师现代教育技术培训

通过把绩效技术引入到整个的教师培训领域,将人类绩效技术模型和教师现代教育技术培训的现状相结合,构建了基于绩效技术的现代教育技术培训模型,依据该模型设计了整个的培训过程,并根据高校教师教育技术能力标准,设计了高校教师绩效考评量表。     

农村社区体育：留守儿童心理成长干预的现实路径--基于公共治理视域

公共治理理论是后工业时代从“政府中心”向“公民中心”转变的公民治理理论,提倡政府、市场与社会各方协作互动。回顾我国农村社区体育和农村留守儿童问题现状及其相关研究,展望其未来趋势与前景,农村社区体育在干预留守儿童心理成长方面有天时、地利与人和的优势。从公共治理的视角看,以农村社区体育干预留守儿童心理成长,符合构建和谐社会的时代要求,因而是可行且必要的。     

The efficacy of `whole word' versus `analytic' reading instruction for children with Down syndrome

An intervention study was conducted toinvestigate whether children with Down syndrome(DS) would benefit from an `analytic' approachto reading instruction, which encompassedexplicit training in phonological awareness.Participants were seven English-speakingchildren with DS aged 8;6 (years;months) to11;1, who demonstrated little or nononword-reading ability prior to intervention.The children received weekly instruction (forsix weeks) in reading aloud 30 regularly speltmonosyllables (e.g., ten, bake) using an`analytic' approach, in which words werelearned by combining onsets with rimes (fourchildren), or a `whole-word' approach (threechildren). Participants' oral reading wasassessed pre- and post-intervention using areading test comprising the 30 trained wordsand 30 untrained (generalisation) words. Mostchildren (six out of seven) read more trainingwords correctly after intervention than before,with significant improvement shown by fourchildren (two trained analytically, and twotrained with whole words). More importantly,reading of generalisation words improvedsignificantly in only three children, all ofwhom had received analytic training. It wasconcluded that children with DS benefit from ananalytic approach to reading instruction, eventhough their auditory-verbal memory (assessedusing digit span) is poor.     

The role of invitations to parents in the completion of a child’s home reading challenge

The role parents can play in supporting early reading attainment is well documented. There is still, however, a need to understand what motivates parents to become involved in reading at home with their child. Past research, based upon correlational studies, has mixed findings regarding the influence of the teacher and the child on parents’ motivation at home. Through two quasi-experiments, the present study explored the influence of teacher invitations in Kindergarten classes, and child invitations in Grade 2 classes on completion rates of a home reading challenge. The completion of the home reading among families was investigated across two metropolitan schools in Sydney, Australia. Both of the interventions resulted in significantly higher completion rates compared to control groups (teacher invitations: d = .68; child invitations: d = .73). This paper adds to existing research by providing a clearer picture of the cause-and-effect relationship between schools’ use of invitations to facilitate children’s home reading.     

自闭症儿童幼儿园干预的心理学策略

儿童心理理论认为,心理理论受损是自闭症的重要原因之一。对儿童自闭症进行心理学干预是当前的一个重要课题。根据自闭症患儿的临床症状表现,幼儿园教育可以在非言语交际行为、共同注意能力、社会性情感沟通、语言和言语能力等方面对患儿进行心理学干预。