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Hardy, Nicola Elizabeth. "The effectiveness of doing grief work with children : an exploratory study." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2034.
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This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a group intervention with 12 bereaved children, aged 8-12. All of the children had been bereaved of a parent within the past 2 years. Due to the small number of children available for inclusion in the study, 6 of the children had previously received individual professional help for grief related issued. The design was a repeated measure pre and post intervention between group design. The study compared the two sub-groups of bereaved children with a group of non-bereaved children who were matched in terms of age and sex.
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Standard, Marion E. "The use of puppets in children's grief groups an exploratory study /." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999standard.pdf.
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Goliath, Chantal Debra. "A child's journey through traumatic grief: a case study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1018646.
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The death of a parent is one of the most serious stressors that can occur in a child’s life. The aim of this study was to describe an 11-year-old child’s journey through traumatic grief after the violent death of her mother. The conceptual framework utilised was Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT). The case study approach was applied as it provided a suitable research design in which to give an account of the subject in a therapeutic situation. A purposive sampling technique was utilised to select the research subject in the study. The following three principles of data collection were adhered to: a) using multiple sources of information, b) creating a case study database, and c) maintaining a chain of evidence. Irving Alexander’s content-analysis technique in conjunction with Guba’s model of trustworthiness was employed for data analysis. The finding that emerged from the study was the resilience shown by Linda in relation to her adaptive functioning following the trauma of witnessing the violent death of her mother. Conclusions and recommendations were made following the findings based on the information obtained during the therapy sessions.
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Haag, Marcy J. "A study of continuing bonds and their impact on life attitudes in parents of murdered children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5225/.
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For most of the past century, the positive outcome of grief in the West was characterized as the relinquishment of the bond to the deceased. Phrases such as "let go", "move on", and "get over it" were, and continue to be, common to the language of this pursuit. This 'breaking bonds' perspective does not take into account other means of grief resolution, nor does it consider historical or cultural findings. Consequently, reports of bereaved parents who indicate resolution of grief yet maintain a continued relationship with their deceased child were not given much attention until the 1990s. This research employed a Durkheimian approach, taking the social bond as the starting point of inquiry and examined continuing bonds of parents to their murdered children. How these bonds were related to the parents' attitudes of re-investing in life and their level of grief was measured. The relationship between the parents' level of grief and their life attitudes was also assessed. The sample consisted of 46 parents living in North Texas whose child had been murdered three or more years ago. A triangulated methodology was utilized and the data were collected by means of participant observation, unstructured interviews, and a mailed questionnaire which obtained information on continuing bonds, level of grief, life attitudes and demographic variables. Multiple regression techniques were utilized to analyze the quantitative data. Parents on the Continuing Bonds Scale reported high levels of bonds with their deceased child. Contrary to expectation, the level of continuing bonds parents maintained with their children was found to be independent of other variables in the study. The relationship between parents' level of grief and their life attitudes was inverse in that higher levels of grief were associated with lower levels of re-investing in life. The finding of the independence of the Continuing Bonds Scale indicates the parent's level of grief and life attitudes are not related to continuing bonds; the bonds exist regardless. The relationship between level of grief and life attitudes points to a crisis of meaning.
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Woodrow, Eleferia. "The experience of the loss of a sibling : A phenomenological study /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04252007-134513.
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Gehringer, Jennefer Fry. "A study of developmentally appropriate teaching strategies for teaching writing in the early childhood classroom." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2003. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M. Ed.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2003.Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaf i. Typescript. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2770. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-31).
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Singley, Vickie. "Teaching multiplication and division to learning disabled children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/169.
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Anderson, Ruth. "Identifying grief in parents who have had children removed from their care within Addictions Services : a pilot study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8434/.
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Background: Grief is an emotional reaction to a loss with negative grief cognitions making grief more complicated to process. Qualitative research has identified factors that may make the removal of a child challenging for birthparents including; blame of self or others, challenges to identity and perception of support from others. Aims: This study piloted the use of a grief questionnaire with an addictions population. It aimed to identify if birthparents experience grief following the removal of their child. The study aimed to identify the differences and similarities in grief between birthparents and bereaved individuals. Design: A cross-sectional design compared three groups from an addictions service; group one birthparents who have had a child removed from their care, group two a bereavement group with on-going distress and group three an addictions population control group who are no longer distressed by a past bereavement. Setting: Participants were 29 community addiction team patients. Measurements: A negative grief cognitions questionnaire (Grief Cognitions Questionnaire), a measure of anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and substance use were conducted. Findings: A three-group nonparametric analysis identified that the birthparents and bereaved groups had significantly more negative grief cognitions compared to the control group with large effect sizes. Birthparents reported slightly more negative grief cognitions that the bereaved group with a small effect size. Further nonparametric statistical testing identified that birthparents experience significantly more grief cognitions about self-blame than bereaved individuals with a large effect size. Birthparents reported slightly more negative grief cognitions about self and others with medium effect sizes. Conclusions: Birthparents and bereaved individuals both experience grief as measured by the grief questionnaire, with birthparents experiencing more negative cognitions around self-blame, self and others. Suggestions are made about improving accessibility and feasibility of recruitment and design for future studies.
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Melis, Miriam J. "A formative study to develop and test a health promotion strategy for adolescents who experience grief." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/354.
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The purpose of this research was to develop and test a health promotion intervention designed to minimise unhealthy adolescent grief reactions. A sample of Western Australian adolescents were consulted to identify their perceptions regarding the causes of grief for adolescents, the means by which they manage grief, their perceptions of what constitutes healthy and unhealthy grieving, and the risks associated with unhealthy grieving and the type of grief-management intervention they preferred.
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Shangyan, Li, and Yuan Tingjun. "mainstreaming teaching methods for disabled children in china : a quantitative study." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-18387.
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Lloyd, Lorraine Gladys. "The problem-solving strategies of grade two children : subtraction and division." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28106.
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This study was aimed at discovering the differences in how children responded to word problems involving an operation in which they had received formal instruction (subtraction) and word problems involving an operation in which they have not received formal instruction. Nineteen children were individually interviewed and were asked to attempt to solve 6 subtraction and 6 division word problems. Their solution strategies were recorded, and analysed with respect to whether or not they were appropriate, as to whether or not they modeled the structure of the problem, and as to how consistent the strategies were, within problem types.
It was found that children tended to model division problems more often than subtraction problems, and also that the same types of errors were made on problems of both operations. It was also found that children were more likely to keep the strategies for the different interpretations separate for the operation in which they had not been instructed (division) than for the operation in which they had been instructed (subtraction). For division problems, the strategies used to solve one type of problem were seldom, if ever used to solve the other type of problem. For subtraction problems, children had more of a tendency to use the strategies for the various interpretations interchangeably.
In addition, some differences in the way children deal with problems involving the solution of a basic fact, and those involving the subtraction of 2-digit numbers, were found. The 2-digit open addition problems were solved using modeling strategies about half as often as any other problem type. The same types of errors were made for both the basic fact and the 2-digit problems, but there were more counting errors and more inappropriate strategy errors for the 2-digit problems, and more incorrect operations for the basic fact problems.
Finally, some differences were noted in the problem-solving behaviour of children who performed well on the basic fact tests and those who did not. The children in the low group made more counting errors, used more modeling strategies, and used fewer incorrect operations than children in the high group.
These implications for instruction were stated: de-emphasize drill of the basic facts in the primary grades, delay the formal instruction of the operations until children have had a lot of exposure to word problem situations involving these concepts, use the problem situations to introduce the operations instead of the other way around, and leave comparison subtraction word problems until after the children are quite familiar with take away and open addition problems.Education, Faculty of
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Nicholson, Maureen Elizabeth. "Inferential comprehension by language-learning disabled children." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30170.
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This study evaluated the comprehension of inference statements by language-learning disabled (LLD) children and children with normal language development (NL) under two conditions: uncontextualized and contextualized. The contextualized condition was designed to encourage retrieval of information from the subject's general knowledge — a procedure proposed to encourage elaborative inference-making. Two text passages were analyzed according to a model developed by Trabasso and presented by Trabasso, van den Broek & Suh (1989), which yielded a set of bridging causal connections across clause units. Sets of three true and three false causal inference statements were developed to represent bridging inferences for each story. In addition, three true and three premise statements were obtained directly from each story, yielding a total of twelve statements for each text. Subjects were ten language-learning disabled students (7 boys, 3 girls) and ten children with normal language development (5 boys, 5 girls) aged 9 to 11 years old. Mean age for children in both groups was 10 years, 4 months.
Children were selected for the LLD group on the basis of the following criteria: (1) enrollment in a learning assistance or learning resource program for learning-disabled students, preferably for remediation of Language Arts; (2) history of speech-language intervention in preschool or early primary grades; (3) normal nonverbal cognitive skills; (4) lexical and syntactic comprehension within normal abilities (as determined by standardized language tests for the LLD group); (5) native English speaker and (6) normal hearing ability. Every subject received both stories and conditions. Story presentation and condition were counterbalanced across 8 of the 10 subjects in each group; condition only was counterbalanced across the remaining two subjects in each group. Inference and premise statements were randomized; each random set was randomly presented to each subject. Items were scored correct or incorrect. Subjects were also asked to answer open-ended wh-questions. Responses were compared and analyzed using a nonparametric statistical method appropriate for small sample sizes.
Results indicated significant differences between the LLD and the NL groups on the number of correct responses to inference and premise items. Both groups scored significantly worse on inference than premise items. Analysis did not indicate that the LLD group scored significantly worse on inference items than the NL group did. Results also suggested that a contextualization effect operated for both groups, which affected the retention of premise items but acted to improve scores on inference items. This effect was seen most notably for the LLD group.Medicine, Faculty of
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Koong, May-kay Maggie, and 孔美琪. "Development of addition strategies in young children." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31955927.
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Duffey, Jane Grenfell. "Home schooling children with special needs: A descriptive study." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154056.
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Arostegui, Carole W. "Helping children understand fractions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/160.
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Carey, Marilyn. "A phenomenological study of parents' experiences teaching their children values and morals." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ49164.pdf.
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Meyer, Karen. "Children as experimenters : elementary students' actions in an experimental context with magnets." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31132.
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In science education the nature and value of science laboratory activities have become the subject of critical debate. Some science educators argue that a better understanding of what students do while purposefully engaged with materials would provide some answers. The intent of this study is to explore elementary students' actions and the knowledge they use while designing and conducting experiments.
Four dyads each from grades 4 and 7 participated in three events. First, each pair was presented with a question (Which magnet is strongest?), two sets of magnets (one set at a time) and materials. The researcher observed and videotaped dyads' actions with materials until they made a conclusion for both magnet sets. Second, the researcher presented dyads with a selective set of materials to further explore their conceptions of magnetism. Finally, the pairs of students were interviewed while they watched the video of themselves experimenting during the first two events. The data were analyzed using an action theory perspective which emphasizes the cognitive nature of action.
Students' models of magnetism were constructed from the data. Students used more than one model to explain different effects they observed. The designs of student experiments were grounded in their operational knowledge of the materials. Dyads generated data from a series of experiments whereby they manipulated different materials in a variety of ways. Dyads who obtained variable data did not repeat experiments to confirm or disconfirm results; rather they used specific strategies to make conclusions. The designs and procedures of experiments of students from both grades were similar, likely due to their common knowledge of the materials and their limited experience with open-ended tasks.Education, Faculty of
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Chan, Yuen-yin Grace, and 陳婉燕. "Development of writing skills in Hong Kong preschool children." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38626007.
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Kelsay, Karla Lynn Fisher Robert L. Heyl Barbara Sherman. "The process of relfection [sic] in teaching as utilized by enablers a micro-ethnographic study of teachers of the gifted /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8901465.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1988.Title from title page screen, viewed Sept. 15, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Robert L. Fisher, Barbara S. Heyl (co-chairs), Paul J. Baker, John V. Godbold, Larry D. Kennedy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-167) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Lòpez, Muriel del Castillo. "Academic achievement in Filipino children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/890.
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McNabb, Cheri Andrea. "Oral history: An approach to teaching limited english proficient children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1054.
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McLay, Laura-Lee Kathleen. "A study of teaching strategies that facilitate stimulus generalisation in children with autism." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6351.
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Language development involves the learning of multiple sets of equivalence relations. Research has shown that if certain conditional relations are directly taught for one member of a class of stimuli, then additional conditional relations often emerge for other members of that class, without direct training. There are currently very few studies which have demonstrated this research finding in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research design used for the present experiment was a single-subject AB cross-over design replicated across five plus five children with ASD and five plus five typically developing children. The children with ASD and the typically developing children were matched on their level of vocabulary development. Participants were randomly assigned to either a teaching order Treatment A+B or a teaching order Treatment B+A. The first experimental treatment (Treatment A+B) involved teaching responses to S1 and S2 in the order Condition A followed by Condition B. The second experimental treatment (Treatment B+A) involved teaching responses to S1 and S2 in the order Condition B followed by Condition A. Condition A involved the teaching of AB and AC (hear-select) relations, and Condition B involved the teaching of BA and CA (see-say) relations. The participants in this study were taught stimulus-response relations that involved six names and numerical representations of quantities in the range 1 to 18. Tests for the emergence of symmetry and transitivity were then conducted. The relationships between the emergence of the untaught equivalence relations and teaching condition, the entering characteristics of the children, and trials to criterion were examined. The results of this study showed that five out of ten participants with ASD demonstrated the emergence of all of the untaught equivalence relations regardless of the treatment condition. The remaining five participants with ASD showed substantial variability. Of the children in the Typically Developing Group nine of the ten demonstrated emergence of all of the untaught equivalence relations. The variables that were most strongly correlated with the emergence of untaught equivalence relations were speed of acquisition of taught relations, functional academics scores, and the chronological age of the participants. The effect of communication ability, pre-academic numeracy skill level, and the experimental treatment (the teaching order conditions) were not strongly related to the emergence of untaught equivalence relations. These findings suggest that outcomes on tests for emergence may have been a function of children’s rate of development and prior learning history. The findings of the current study are best explained by Relational Frame Theory. The implications of these findings for teaching children with ASD and other developmental disabilities, and also teaching in general are discussed.
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Meli, Alisa A. "Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3081/.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an organizing idea for designing a thematic unit with the purpose of introducing elementary students to postmodern art and issues. One hundred and sixty first grade and fourth grade students looked at 20 pairs of art reproductions and picked the artwork they considered the most beautiful. The criteria elementary students use for determining beauty in artworks was found to be color, realism, subject matter and physical appearance of the subject of the work of art.
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Ho, Lok-yin, and 何樂然. "Transfer of morphological skills in Chinese bilingual children." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45589069.
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Delfakis, Helen 1950. "THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEOCASSETTES IN EDUCATING WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN PROGRAM (WIC) CLIENTS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277126.
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Gibb, Nancy Jo 1957. "AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL BILINGUAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION BY FOUR MINORITY-LANGUAGE PRESCHOOL CHILDREN (NONSENSE WORDS)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275394.
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McIlhenny, Alan J. "Secondary education of expatriate children through internationally supported self-study : theory and practice." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236992.
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Roller, James Paul. "Curriculum, communication and the internet: A project involving gifted special needs children creating curriculum for special needs children with autism." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1365.
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Mueller, Andrea Christiane. "A desire to inquire : children experience science as adventure." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ34595.pdf.
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林志明 and Chi-ming Lam. "Engaging children in doing philosophy to promote an open society." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45551777.
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Karl Popper developed a falsificationist epistemology in which knowledge grows through falsifying, or criticizing, our theories. Since criticism plays such a vital role in Popper’s falsificationist methodology, it seems natural to envisage his heuristic as a helpful resource for developing critical thinking. However, there is much controversy in the literature over the feasibility and utility of his falsificationism as a heuristic. This study argued that Popper’s falsificationism is justified on the grounds that it not only solves, theoretically, the problem of the bounds of reason in the form of comprehensively critical rationalism, but influences, practically, the research work of scientists from diverse fields. It also found that there is cause for cautious optimism about the effectiveness of falsification as a strategy for solving scientific problems.
Popper’s falsificationist epistemology carries profound political and educational implications. On a political level, it is necessary to establish and maintain an open society by fostering five core values, viz. freedom, tolerance, respect, rationalism, and equalitarianism, as well as three crucial practices, viz. democracy, state interventionism, and piecemeal social engineering. On an educational level, the overriding aim is to nurture in children the requisite abilities, skills, and dispositions characteristic of critical thinking for full participation in an open democratic society. In order to achieve Popper’s educational ideal, this study proposed implementing Matthew Lipman’s Philosophy for Children (commonly known as P4C) programme in schools, arguing that the programme can fulfil the requirements of Popper’s educational ideal through using community of inquiry as methodology of teaching, philosophy as subject matter for inquiry, logic as both means and ends of inquiry, and Socrates as a model teacher for inquiry.
The present study then conducted an experiment to assess the effectiveness of Lipman’s P4C programme in promoting Hong Kong children’s critical thinking. Forty-two Secondary 1 students volunteered for the experiment, from whom 28 students were randomly selected and randomly assigned to two groups of 14 each: one receiving P4C lessons and the other receiving English lessons. The students who were taught P4C were found to perform better in the reasoning test than those who were not, to be capable of discussing philosophical problems in a competent way, and to have a very positive attitude towards doing philosophy in the classroom. It was also found that P4C played a major role in developing the students’ critical thinking.
Considering that the construction of children by adults as incompetent in the sense of lacking reason, maturity, or independence reinforces the traditional structure of adult authority over children in society, it runs counter to the goal of fostering critical thinking in children. As a way to return justice to childhood and to effectively promote critical thinking in children, the present study suggested reconstructing the concept of childhood, highlighting the importance of establishing a coherent public policy on promotion of agency in children and also the importance of empowering them to participate actively in research, legal, and educational institutions.published_or_final_version
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LaFleur, Julie Lynnette. "Increasing emergent literacy skills in children with autism." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3099.
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Examines and rationalizes the instructional strategies used to teach young children with autism early literacy skills using a balanced, multilevel approach to reading. Explores the five domains of reading in a way that brings light to the areas of reading deficits in young children diagnosed with autism. Additionally, attempts to bring the concept of best reading practices to the attention of educators who serve children with autism. The project provides a handbook of literacy activities geared towards children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
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Karea, Syahrial. "Indonesian secondary-trained EFL teachers teaching English to primary-age children: A study of motivational factors and EFL teaching knowledge." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2016. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/51ec3e6ea2cd42bc4f4397fae43c5f03523106a671fcb1bce841ec2e129b8a20/4090745/201605_Syahrial_Karea.pdf.
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Indonesia has employed secondary-trained EFL teachers to teach English to children since the EFL program was introduced in primary schools in 1994 (Suyanto, 2004). Many EFL teacher educators in Indonesia have debated the employment of these teachers in primary schools because they were prepared to teach English to secondary school students; it has been assumed that their educational background is not relevant to undertake the teaching task at the primary level. The research investigated motivational factors that have brought secondary-trained EFL teachers in Indonesia to choose the EFL teaching profession and to teach English to children in primary schools, and analysed the EFL teaching knowledge these teachers used to work with children in primary classrooms. The overarching questions of the study are: “What motivational factors have led secondary-trained EFL teachers to teach English in primary classrooms?” and “How do these teachers approach the work of EFL teaching in primary classrooms in Indonesia?” The study used a qualitative research approach underpinned by interpretive phenomenology (Heidegger, 1962; van Manen, 1997) to understand the motivational factors and the EFL teaching knowledge of the participants. Interpretive phenomenology supported the researcher’s interest in the experience of secondary-trained EFL teachers working in primary contexts in Indonesia. Thirteen participants from nine primary schools in Jambi City, Indonesia were chosen to participate in the study. The participants were interviewed and their practice was observed...
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Chiu, Chiu Hing William. "Teachers' perceptions of collaboration between guidance and discipline : a case study /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B2347662x.
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Leavy, Deon G. "Facilitating communication about death between mothers and adolescent sons using fictional children's literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1049.pdf.
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Little, Catherine Anne. "A study of metaphor development in young gifted children." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154117.
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English, Merle Russell. "The effects of using computer graphics on preschool children." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26810.
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This study was designed to investigate the ability of young children to use a particular computer graphics program Colorpaint and its effects on their artwork. It was conducted in two parts : the pilot study in which five children participated and the main study which involved two children. Four predictions were made. Prediction one stated that of the total number of children's interactions with the program, more would be in the category of independent use than in the category of teacher-assisted use. The second prediction was that children would use goal-oriented behavior in aesthetic decision-making and problem-solving when using the program. Prediction three stated artwork, done with computer media would be rated higher in each of the categories of "Variety within Shapes", "Variety between Shapes", "Complexity", and "Texture" than would images made with other media. The fourth prediction was that computer-generated artwork, would be rated lower in the category of "Image Autonomy" than the artwork done in other media. For both parts of the study, anecdotal data in the form of field notes, transcribed conversations, and videotapes were kept and analysed to provide insight into the children's behavior when using the computer. During the main study the children's interactions with the computer program were recorded on a checklist indicating whether they were able to use the program independently or if they needed help. Artwork made by the subjects in the main study using the computer and other media were saved for analysis and were rated by three independent judges. The judges used five criteria derived from the literature on children's art to rate each image on a five point Likert scale. Results indicated that prediction one, which stated that more interactions with the computer would be in the category of independent use, was supported as there were more independent interactions than teacher-assisted interactions with the computer for each subject. Prediction two, which indicated that children would use goal-oriented behavior in aesthetic decision-making and problem-solving when using the computer, was supported by the descriptive data collected. Prediction three, that the computer images would be rated higher in each of the categories of Variety within Shapes, Variety between Shapes, Complexity, and Texture, was supported in the two categories Variety between Shapes and Variety within Shapes. The fourth outcome predicted was that the computer artwork would be rated lower in the category Image Autonomy than artwork done in other media. This outcome was supported by the results of the analysis of the artwork.Education, Faculty of
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Ng, Yim-wah, and 吳艷華. "Social skill training for children in institutional care: an exploratory study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249012.
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Proctor, Lindsay M. "Bullying: A Qualitative Study of Siblings of Young Children with Disabilities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3345.
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Research indicates that, in some instances, siblings can be a first line of defense when a child experiences bullying. Research also shows that children with disabilities are often prime targets of bullying. However, no research was located that specifically explored the relationship between siblings of children with disabilities, their perceptions of bullying and the roles that they play when bullying occurs. This study investigated siblings' perceptions of bullying through a qualitative interview. Twelve participants ranged in age from 7 to 13. Few participants described witnessing siblings with special needs being bullied; however, many of these children described themselves at bystanders who intervene when a peer is being bullied. Several factors, such as the young age of the participants' siblings or the fact that none of our participants attended school with their sibling, may be related to the lack of bullying that was reported. Future research may investigate the experiences of children with school-aged siblings with disabilities.
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郭悦生 and Yuet-sang Kwok. "Helping an autistic student to use money in daily life: a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31256624.
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Kibirige, Geoffrey. "Philosophy for children and McPeck's critique of the concept of generic and transferable thinking skills." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61304.
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This thesis attempts to apply McPeck's critique (one which contests the teaching of critical thinking by using lists of skills assumed to be generic; or applicable to all subjects) to Lipman's program, the "Philosophy for Children".The hidden question is: "Can Lipman's program withstand McPeck's critique?" Is there anything that can be salvaged? Though McPeck's critique undermines Lipman's claims regarding the use of generic thinking skills as a means of educating a critical thinker, this thesis suggests that the skills that Lipman calls "generic" seem to exist. In addition it is suggested that what is needed is to find out what impedes their transference.
This thesis suggests that McPeck's reflections and critique should send us to prepetual inquiry which is the very heart of "Philosophy for Children" where Lipman's program should be viewed simply as a resting place out of which to jump on to better answers.
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Yoshimitsu, Kuniko 1944. "Language maintenance efforts of Japanese school children in Melbourne." Monash University, School of Asian Languages and Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8560.
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Gill, Sally A. "The Predictive Relationship between Emotional Expressiveness and Discussing Death with Children: An Exploratory Study with Online College Parents." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2030.
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Death is a sensitive topic, and discussing death with children may be difficult for parents, especially parents who are uncomfortable with emotional expression. Many factors are associated with parents' decision to discuss death; however, a dearth of recent literature existed examining the role of parental emotional expressiveness and discussing death with children. Using Jackson's communications theory within the broader family systems theory, this exploratory non-experimental quantitative study examined if one or more of the selected variables of parents' emotional expressiveness, parents' gender, and any previous discussions about death with a child adequately predicted the age of a child when parents felt it was appropriate to discuss death with a child. Prospective participants were parents recruited from a national online university (n = 175). Multiple linear regression analysis using enter selection was conducted on the data from the instruments that included the Attitudes towards Emotional Expression Measure and the demographics questionnaire. Results indicated no significance between the predictor and criterion variables. Despite the non-significant results, this study has the opportunity to impact positive social change by encouraging further research to understand the association, if any, between emotional expressiveness and death conversations, de-stigmatizing discussions of death and bereavement, and informing parents and professionals regarding discussing death with children to help children cope with their emotions in bereavement.
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Metcalfe, Marta J. "Teaching phonics skills to young children via the formation of generalized equivalence classes." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1137509.
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An equivalence class exists if the stimuli that comprise the class are related by the properties of reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity. Through these properties, new behavior that has not been taught emerges. For example, when taught to match Set A stimuli to Set B stimuli and to match Set A stimuli to Set C stimuli, if equivalence classes have formed, subjects will (with no explicit instruction) match Set B stimuli to Set C and Set C stimuli to Set B stimuli. Although equivalence classes have been studied extensively, few studies have considered the application of this technology to educational concerns. The purpose of this study was (a) to determine if phonics skills could effectively and efficiently be taught to young children through the formation of equivalence classes and (b) to investigate the generality of those acquired skills. Using a conditional discrimination procedure, children were taught to match printed letters to dictated phonetic sounds and to match the initial sound of pictured items to dictated phonetic sounds. Test results indicated that equivalence classes had emerged and that generalization did occur. The children could match the initial sound of pictured items to printed letters and vice versa and could name letter sounds and initial sounds of pictured items. During generality testing, each child could identify the initial sound of several novel pictured items and could sound out the letters within the words. However, reading did not occur. Only 1 of 5 children could blend the sounds of letters into recognizable words. A significant difficulty encountered throughout the study was maintaining the children's motivation, possibly due to the children's inexperience in attending to academic tasks. This study did, however, demonstrate that the formation of equivalence classes is an effective and efficient method for teaching phonics and that the formation of generalized equivalence classes is effective in extending those taught relations to novel stimuli.Department of Special Education
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Lee, Kam-ming. "A study of values and value teaching in personal and social education among boys' social development schools." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21305158.
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Boies, Robert 1955. "RECEPTIVE ACQUISITION OF NOVEL VOCABULARY BY SPANISH-DOMINANT, BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL CHILDREN." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276450.
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The effectiveness of a bilingual and a monolingual treatment condition was compared in the receptive training of novel action words presented to two bilingual, Spanish-dominant, minority-language preschoolers. In the bilingual condition, one set of actions and referents was trained in Spanish (L1) followed by training in English (L2). In the monolingual condition, another set of actions and referents was trained in L2 alone. For one child, superior L2 learning occurred in the bilingual condition, results consonant with reports by Garcia (1983a) and by Oskarsson (1975). For the other child, unexpectedly, the monolingual condition resulted in superior L2 learning. Her findings suggest that the effect of preference to learn in L2 may result in behavior which runs counter to expectations of performance based on observed dominance. Generalization of receptive learning to expressive performance was also assessed. Both children performed at sufficient levels to indicate learning was generalized from reception to expression.
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Masters, Jennifer Ellen. "Investigations in geometric thinking : young children learning with technology." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36544/1/36544_Masters_1997.pdf.
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While it is usually assumed that the implementation of computers in the
classroom will enhance teaching and learning, research has suggested that
too often the use of computers does not meet this assumption.
This thesis investigated the implementation of a technology-based
mathematics curriculum unit that was characterised by tasks designed to
promote exploration and investigation of geometric concepts. In particular
it focused on the children's application of prior mathematical knowledge
while they worked in pairs on computer -based tasks.
The study found that children could often apply prior mathematical
knowledge to solve problems in a new context, however, on other occasions
they were unable to do so or they choose to apply less sophisticated
mathematical strategies (such as visual approximation). Other evidence
suggested that at times the children appeared to be constructing new
mathematical ideas or at least, implementing concepts not formally
presented in a school context.
A further observation of this study was that the results of this type of
technological project seemed to be highly dependent on dynamic group
structures and teacher support mechanisms such as scaffolding.
Consequently it was recommended that further research wa
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Ma, Kam-fong. "A study of teachers' perception towards resource teaching services for autistic children in schools for mentally handicapped." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2130483X.
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Low, Lori L. "Pre-service grief and loss preparation in CACREP accredited school counseling programs." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/30431.
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Youth today experience high degrees of loss and change, resulting in grief
(Goldman, 2001). Little evidence exists of school counselors' academic preparation in
grief counseling. The purpose of this research study was to determine how CACREP
school counseling programs prepare school counselors in the areas of grief and loss,
including course delivery methods, included curriculum areas, and reasons for exclusion.
A quantitative, descriptive design was utilized. The "School Counselors
Preparation in Grief/Loss and Substance Abuse Counseling" survey was designed for
data collection and sent to the 150 United States CACREP accredited school counseling
programs. A total of 79 programs responded, resulting in a 53% response rate.
Research results found that 40% of responding CACREP programs did not offer
any grief and loss preparation to their pre-service school counselors. Sixty percent
indicated providing some training. Data show that 11% of programs required a course
and 50% offered an elective course. Additionally, 48% of respondents taught a module
on grief and loss within a required course, and 13% through a module in an elective
course. Results found 6 respondents included all 17 suggested curriculum areas, while the
mean for curricula inclusion was 11 areas.
Research indicated 78% of programs not offering grief and loss cited a lack of
room to add more credits as their exclusion rationale. Furthermore 35% of respondents
did not offer curriculum because it was not a CACREP requirement. Lacking trained
staff and financial reasons were both reported by 25% of programs as reasons for non-inclusion.
Facing grief and loss are realities of life. Helping students to acknowledge and
cope with these realities is a necessary task, as loss is a normal, universal experience,
encountered repeatedly (Lenhardt, 1997). CACREP standards position that counselor
education programs will prepare students to meet the real life counseling situations they
will face while working in schools (CACREP, 2001).
Research results indicated an inconsistent delivery of appropriate training in grief
and loss among responding CACREP school counseling programs. Counselor education
programs may wish to examine if they are ethically and effectively preparing their 21st
century graduates. Recommendations and limitations are included.Graduation date: 2004
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Jackson, Monica Ann. "A study of children and grief : living through bereavement." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2200.
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The high levels of HIV/AIDS and violent crime in South Africa mean that millions of children are being forced, and will continue to be forced, to deal with the death of a parent/primary caregiver in their early and middle childhood years. Acknowledging that does not lessen the apprehension and uneasiness which lingers in formal and informal discussions of children, death, dying and grief, nor does it ameliorate the fact that childhood bereavement is becoming a normative childhood experience in South Africa. It is vital, therefore, to understand what are South African children's experiences of bereavement and grief, and to explore what impacts are likely to be exerted on their development. Children do not grieve in the same way; and children's grief is influenced by factors such as environment, unique experiences, developmental level, personality, age and gender. Family, too, is important because it is still the primary institution of society, and it influences substantially how children understand death, bereavement and grief. The school, too, has an impact on childhood grief. The majority of school-going children in South Africa are in primary school grades. Attending primary school corresponds with (most often) middle childhood, which is a critically important developmental stage. The experience of bereavement and grief during middle childhood is challenging precisely because it occurs in such a sensitive emotionally, cognitively and socially developmental period. Childhood grief experienced in that period can have long-term consequences. Important, too, is the fact that school-going children will, more than for younger children, not only experience grief privately but will grieve in public settings such as the school setting. This study, therefore, was concerned with exploring and gaining insight into the dynamics of bereavement and grief as experienced by children, who were in middle childhood, and enrolled in the primary school system. An exploratory design was chosen to explore the issue. A purposive sample was drawn from the school's list of scholars, and included 25 children attending Grades Five to Seven (Senior Primary Phase) at a co-educational, English-medium, state school. Data were collected both qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitative primary data collection, involving in-depth interviews, was chosen because it allowed the researcher to explore the issue from the children's own perspectives. Each child was interviewed by the researcher over two to three sessions. Quantitative secondary data collection, involving key demographic and academic information extracted from the school's records, was included, and that helped triangulate and contextualise the data collected in the interviews. This study found that children in middle childhood do experience a diverse range of grief responses to the death of their parents/primary caregivers in the school environment, among other places, and some of those grief responses were challenging. Although respondents experienced different and confusing emotions; and although some had had their grief acknowledged by significant others, while others had not, all were able to engage in honest, clear discussions about death and grief. Respondents reported experiencing a range of secondary losses associated with the initial loss on their daily lives, and that was especially so for girl children. Respondents did know how to access support services but had not done so. The respondents also expressed a need to be encouraged to remember and memorialize their dead parent/primary caregiver. The study found, too, that the more prepared and supported the bereaved child was prior to that death, the better s/he coped with the event. Understanding children's bereavement can help those individuals and organisations, which are responsible for children's optimal development, provide children with the necessary support to prevent the child's bereavement and grief from becoming a lasting trauma.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2007.
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Ke, Ya-Hui, and 柯雅惠. "A Study of Grief Experience of Bereaved Children--A Case Study of Four Children Who Experienced the Loss of Father." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40149514433536027722.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the grief experience of bereaved children, including their grief reactions and presentations of grief adjustment. Through an in-depth interview with four high-grade students who experienced the loss of father, the research data were collected and analyzed. The research results were summarized as follows: 1. The grief reactions of four children who experienced the loss of father could be divided into the physiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects. (1)Physiological aspect: the four bereaved children would not actively mention about their physiological response caused by their grief, so their physiological reactions were not evident. Besides, adults were usually busy with the funeral or immersed in sad emotions, so they would usually neglect children’s physiological response. (2)Emotional aspect: Sadness, sorrowfulness, loneliness, solitude, loss, and anxiety were the common emotions of bereaved children. However, sense of guilty, self-blame, relaxation, and sense of release were reactions not observed in this study. (3)Cognitive aspect: Bereaved children might feel ignorant and curious about death (where father has gone; father is not dead; one may be punished after death), not want others to see his sadness, and feel the dead is still there. Some bereaved children would be affected in their grief adjustment when they saw the ghost film and listened to ghost stories for fear that ghost would possess them. (4)Behavioral aspect: Crying, looking at the photo, and talking to the dead were the main methods that bereaved children maintained their relationships with their father. Besides, some of them had some explicit behaviors such as having nightmare, escaping, being nostalgic, pretending to be strong, change of temperament, change of daily behaviors, and withdrawal in interpersonal relationships. 2. The unique grief images of bereaved children The grief images included the fear for ghost, apprehension over the life of the still-alive parent, experience and concealment of grief in the game, and pretension of being strong. 3. The presentation of grief adjustment by bereaved children It was discovered from the presentations of grief adjustment by four bereaved children that most of their adjustment methods were invisible and psychological, including release of emotions (crying, writing, and reading), recollection, expression of feelings, transfer of attention, and setting goals to be connected to the dead father and express the missing for the dead father. However, some bereaved children had peculiar personalities. But it was not common for them to adjust their grief through the approaches only in the physical, spiritual, and social perspectives. There were also some bereaved children who would be reminiscent of their loved ones when they were playing. Adults might sometimes be confused in this myth. They would feel that their children did not know about grief and ignore the discussion about death and bereavement with their children. Finally, based on the above research findings, suggestions were proposed as a reference for parents, teachers, those involved in the practical work, and follow-up studies.