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Showing That Early Childhood Education Works: Lessons From Italy, China, And The Usa, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Lessons from around the world; What does it matter about early childhood education? Why the controversy about public support for early childhood education? What process or system should be used to determine what works in early education? Can the same process be used to improve services? What is the role of government? Alternatives: 1. Consumers should determine… (What happens when private choices drive the market for early childhood services?) Observed quality of care in four Midwestern states; Parent data: “All things considered, how would you grade the quality of the care your child is receiving from his/her current caregiver?” Role …

Postcard: One -Year Anniversary Celebration Of The William J. Clinton Presidential Center

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

A “Friends & Family Bar-B-Que Reunion.” November 18, 2005.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 14 [22], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Richardson, Kelly. Employee Sues Western for Discrimination – Ingrid Woods
• Hupman, Samantha. College Parents More Involved
• McNamara, Andrew. Storms Cause Damage, Cancel Classes - Tornadoes
• Richardson, Kelly. Board of Regents Meeting Moved to Saturday
• Coulter, Amber. South Campus Adds Parking
• Show Us the Green – WKU Benefits Committee
• Whitley, Rebecca. Less Noise, More Respect
• Page, Laura. Football is a Worthy Cause
• Hellmueller, Margaret. Guns and Butter
• Walker, Carli. Give It Up People – Girls Gone Wild
• Coulter, Amber. A Century on the Hill – Founders …

The Rattler (Volume 93, Issue 6, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 21, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Coulter, Amber. Money Missing from Faculty Insurance Fund
• Coulter, Amber. Parking Initiative to Begin
• Brandenburg, Katie. Four People Receive Positive Results in TB Skin Tests – Tuberculosis
• Teague, Hawkins. ‘Simpsons’ Star Nancy Cartwright Keeps Audience Laughing
• McNamara, Andrew. Bomb Threat Causes Evacuation – Mass Media & Technology Hall (WKU)
• Equilibrium Point – Enrollment
• Ashby, Robert. A Man’s Perspective – Girls Gone Wild
• Dillon, Ryan. Girls Gone Stupid
• Salsman, Andrew. Rest Room Usage 101
• Richardson, Kelly. Gary Ransdell Appointed to Equine Education Board
• Caudle, Leah. Exhibit …

International Education Week 2005

Diversity Programs

Lectures during International Education Week, November 2005.

Parental Ethnotheories Of Child Development: Looking Beyond Independence And Individualism In American Belief Systems, Carolyn P. Edwards, Lisa Knoche, Vibeke Aukrust, Asiye Kumru, Misuk Kim

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Over the past several decades, the topic of child development in a cultural context has received a great deal of theoretical and empirical investigation. Investigators from the fields of indigenous and cultural psychology have argued that childhood is socially and historically constructed, rather than a universal process with a standard sequence of developmental stages or descriptions. As a result, many psychologists have become doubtful that any stage theory of cognitive or socialemotional development can be found to be valid for all times and places. In placing more theoretical emphasis on contextual processes, they define culture as a complex system of …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Caudle, Leah. Foreign Students Transition to the Hill
• Richardson, Kelly. Coaches Get More Flexibility in Sick Leave Policy
• Brandenburg, Katie. TB Testing Continues on the Hill - Tuberculosis
• Hupman, Samantha. More Students Attend Western, Fewer Drop out
• Venzin, Megan. Students to Perform Updated ‘Tartuffe’
• Coulter, Amber. Officials Try to Resolve Retirement Issue – Kentucky Teachers Retirement System (KTRS)
• Road Redesign – College Heights Boulevard
• Turner, Dustin. Intramural Conspiracy
• Mead, Mallory. Editorial Was Insensitvie – Bill Powell
• Ransdell, Matthew. Bring Canned Goods to the Nov. 18 …

At-Risk Individuals' Awareness, Motivation, Roadblocks To Participation In Premarital Interventions, And Behaviors Following Completion Of The Relationship Evaluation (Relate), Melissa Lee Kigin

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to gain more knowledge about single individuals with specific premarital risk factors for later marital problems (e.g. neuroticism or low emotional readiness, family-of-origin dysfunction, poor communication skills, and hostile conflict resolution style). The sample (N=39) completed the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE) and were selected for the study based on the presence of one or more risk factors. Participants were contacted via email and asked to complete an online version of the Relationship Follow-up Questionnaire (RFQ) to determine their knowledge or awareness of their risk factor(s) after taking RELATE, their motivation for premarital interventions after …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Coulter, Amber. College Heights Boulevard Redesign Planned
• Fontana, Alex. Indiana, Kentucky Students Cope with Twisters - Tornadoes
• Coulter, Amber. Source of Wellness Funds Debated
• Wimnatt, Alex. Leadership Group Sees Growth – Dynamic Leadership Insitute
• Leslie, Joey. Kevin DeFebbo Hired as City Manager
• Terrible Tuberculosis
• Benetti, Vincent. Smokers Unite; Let Us Create Our Own Paradise
• Barati, Darius. Let’s Look at the Oil Companies
• Richardson, Kelly. Technical College Temporarily Closed – Bowling Green Technical College
• Erd, Mackenzie. Government to Survey View of City Life
• Shull, Abbey. Choral …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Brandenburg, Katie. Student Contracts TB, Classmates Warned - Tuberculosis
• Coulter, Amber. Buildings Will Replace Parking Lots – Health Services, Greek Village
• Leslie, Joey. Parties Inconvenience Neighbors, Police
• Masero, Angelika. Valuing Others Is Essential, Speaker Says – Steve LaBoueff aka Black Bear
• Leslie, Joey, Hupman, Samantha. SGA Won’t Trademark Bracelets – American Democracy Project
• Kids Walking the Hill
• Eoll, Allison. Grandma Would Be Proud, Girls . . . NOT – Girls Gone Wild
• Moody, Hannah. Western Gone Wild
• Peterson, Elizabeth. How Can You be So Heartless? …

An Exploratory Study Of Constructions Of Masculinity, Sexuality And Hiv/Aids In Namibia, Southern Africa, Jill Brown, James Sorrell, Marcela Raffaelli

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The goal of the current study was to explore notions of masculinity and their linkages to HIV/AIDS among Owambo men and women in Namibia, where an estimated one-fifth of 15–49 year-olds have acquired HIV. Thirteen open-ended interviews and three focus groups were conducted with 50 male and female participants aged 19–50 in rural and urban Namibia. Qualitative analysis revealed six central themes: the evolving meanings of masculinity, power dynamics between men and women, women as active agents, the tension between formal and informal education and HIV transmission, alcohol and masculinity, and the blending of masculinity and explanations of HIV and …

The Rattler (Volume 93, Issue 5, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Africa Organizing Manual: Peace With Justice Educational Tour, Prexy Nesbitt

Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches

Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist and educator, authored this book prepared for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Peacebuilding Unit African Program based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was edited by Imani Countess. 42 pages.

2005 Revised Omaha Economic Development Plan: Plan For Northeast Omaha, Robert Blair, Jerry Deichert, Heather L. Bloom, Jordan Fuller, Alvin M. Goodwin, Elizabeth Cunard, Michael Maroney

Publications

The 2005 Revised OEDP provides OEDC with current data and analysis to initiate and complete a strategic process to develop an action plan for community and economic development activities and projects.

The 2005 Revised Overall Economic Development Plan (OEDP) prepared by the Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) for the Omaha Economic Development Corporation (OEDC) replaces the original OEDP first prepared in 1978. While a variety of revisions and updates over the years helped keep the original OEDP relatively current and helpful in development activities, in 2005 OEDC President Alvin Goodwin commissioned …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Coulter, Amber. Schneider Renovation Planned
• McNamara, Andrew. Girls Gone Wild Party Bus Comes to the Hill
• Venzin, Megan. Children’s Theater Shows Kids It’s OK to Be Scared – Can’t Scare Me
• Coulter, Amber. Two Sororities May Join Greek Village – Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu
• Losing Homes in the Name of Expansion is Unfortunate, But It’s for the Love of Western
• Dillon, Ryan. In Response to the Liberal View: It’s All Bush’s Fault
• Smith, Shaun. Stop Complaining About Designated Smoking Areas
• Leslie, Joey. New Staff …

Successes And Challenges Among Community Technology Programs In Illinois, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Amy Kerr, Tanya Kellam, Aparna Sharma

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

The Illinois Community Technology Fund (ICTF) came about through the SBC/Ameritech merger that set aside $1.5 million in 2000 to provide advanced telecommunications services and skills necessary to improve the quality of live for low-income and rural Illinois populations through organizational grants. This is an evaluation report of a multiple organization community technology project funded by the Illinois Community Technology Fund. These funds were distributed in 2001 and 2002 grant rounds to prepare citizens to live and work in a growing technological society. A wide variety of organizations including community based organizations, community colleges, and schools were given a maximum …

An Investigation Into The Use Of Brands In Young Adult Females' Drinking Rituals, Kieran Joseph Tucker

Masters

Recent studies and media commentary have highlighted a dramatic increase in alcohol consumption amongst young people in Ireland. Of particular concern is the extent of heavy, episodic drinking motivated by a desire for intoxication, or binge drinking. Various possible reasons for this have been identified, among them marketing activity and the glamorising of drink culture. The majority of studies into binge drinking define the phenomenon by volume measures of consumption alone and ignore the socio-cultural context in which alcohol is consumed. Drinking behaviours can be seen to be symptomatic of highly formalised and symbolically meaningful consumption patterns. As a ritual …

Inside Unlv, Suzan Dibella, Gian Galassi, Carol C. Harter, Mamie Peers, Holly Ivy De Vore, Regina Bacolas, Cate Weeks

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

麻雀治療實務手冊, Social Services Department, Yan Chai Hospital 仁濟醫院社會服務部, Asia-Pacific Institute Of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University 嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Wing Suen Wan Au

Manual & Guide 手冊及指引

本港人口正急速老化，65歲以上的老年人口將在未來三十年佔總人口的四分之一。如何確保長者的生活質素，以及提升護老者的照顧能力，將會是未來香港社會的挑戰。過去十年，各政府部門、醫管局、大學、專業團體和社會服務機構，都致力發展和研究有關老年健康的課題，藉以提升長者的生理、認知、心理和社交健康。近年，很多從西方引入的治療研究，亦被嘗試應用在不同類型的疾病上，例如：懷緬治療、多感觀治療、音樂治療和認知行為治療等，但應用在華人身上的成效，則有待更多的驗證。

華人社會一向重視家庭和親屬關係，以及勤奮工作的文化。大部份長者的教育水平偏低，年青時都只着重工作，甚少娛樂；跳舞、上戲院、閱讀、攝影只是少部份長者的嗜好，普羅大眾的娱樂文化主要是往茶樓品茗、打麻雀、打天九、看電視和賭博等等。麻雀治療是從長者過往較多接觸的活動中，發展出來的一套具有本土特色而非使用藥物的治療方法，旨意在融入長者的日常生活中，達到既提供娛樂活動，亦同時提升長者的身體、認知、心理和社交功能。

傳統的中國文化，一直流傳著所謂「打麻雀能醫百病」、「打麻雀是一種心靈寄託」、「打麻雀可以使人忘記煩惱、病痛」等說法。而每逢節日和家人團聚，“打幾圈”麻雀已成為一種很普及的娛樂活動。最近，有些報導以及一些醫生均指出打麻雀有助老年人避免患上心理疾病，以及減輕老年痴呆症患者的退化症狀。然而，上述的觀點至今仍未有科學方面的引證。

在2004年，仁濟醫院社會服務部與嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心,採用科學化的研究方法，於仁濟醫院社會服務部轄下八間老人院舍中，選取121位患有輕度及中度認知能力受損的長者進行麻雀治療的研究。研究的目的是希望引證麻雀治療能否改善患有老年痴呆症長者的身體、認知、心理和社交功能，並找出一套具策劃及有效執行的麻崔治療模式。透過研究的經驗和成果，將麻雀活動發展成為一稱具本土特色的健康治療工具。我們盼望藉此實務手冊，為年長一聚提供多一個非藥物的治療選擇；同時亦希望本手冊能夠發揮拋縛引玉的效果，使各界人士能夠繼續推廣和實行麻雀治療，造福廣大的社群。

Crafting Qualitative Research Articles On Marriages And Families, Sarah H. Matthews

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

This paper aims to assist those who do qualitative research in the field of marriage and family to reduce the number of rejections received in response to article submissions. Recurring shortcomings identified by reviewers and suggestions made to authors about revising papers are organized using headings traditionally used in a research article—introduction and literature review, method, results, and discussion. Considerations stemming from the fact that data on marriages and families are produced largely through interviews also are addressed.

Youth Helping America - Building Active Citizens: The Role Of Social Institutions In Teen Volunteering, Corporation For National And Community Service

School K-12

At a time when many are worried that the United States is experiencing a general decline in civic and political engagement, volunteering appears particularly strong among today’s young people. While volunteering is just one form of community involvement, research has shown that it is often connected to other forms of engagement, and, among youth, volunteering plays a valuable role in shaping how youth learn to interact with their community and develop the skills, values, and sense of empowerment necessary to become active citizens.

Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits Of Electoral And Spatial Integration In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This paper examines Singapore's innovations in electoral and spatial integration. In examining the Group Representation Constituency and the Ethnic Integration Policy, a critique is made of the official discourse that multiracialism is internalized and entrenched in Singapore's political psyche and electoral process. While the electoral and spatial integration policies are driven by the objective of enhancing multiracialism, their actual workings do not adequately advance the development of norms and values that would be truly supportive of the need for a multiracial legislature and an abiding commitment to multiracialism. The layering of the electoral system with other political objectives, such as …

Walking On Uneven Paths: The Transcultural Experience Of Migrant Children In France And Ireland, Rossella Ragazzi

Doctoral

This thesis foregrounds the application of anthropological documentary methods and ethnographic investigation in examining the world of child immigrants and the cross-cultural dilemmas they encounter upon entering the formal educational system of the ‘host’ country- in this case, a primary school setting in Dublin and Paris. The specificity of the primary school classroom as an ethnographic site facilitates a sustained audio-visual examination of immigrant children as they work to re-build their identities in a new and unfamiliar environment. Such a richly textured space opens up potential avenues of exploration for the researcher: what, for example, can intercultural pedagogy learn from …

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 2, Issue 2), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Richardson, Kelly. Emergency Reserve Used to Buy Property
• Bosken, Nina. Students Help Kids to Read
• Green, Tavia. Fear Causes Physical, Mental Reaction
• Erd, Mackenzie. City to Open Dog Park Next Summer
• Richardson, Kelly. Some Western Employees May Lose Land to Campus Expansion
• Leslie, Joey. Flu Shot to Be Offered Today
• Coulter, Amber. Snell Site Rebuilding Planned
• Up in Smoke – Smoking Areas
• Alderdice, Corey. Big Macs, Speakerphone Prayers and Other Thanksgiving Ramblings
• North, Amber. Wackiest Holiday Requires Imagination - Halloween
• Harrell, Bobby. Forensic Team Wins …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Coulter, Amber. University Senate Vote Asks Western to Defend Benefits
• Richardson, Kelly. Tuitions Outpace Inflation
• Hupman, Samantha. Mobile Unit Provides Low-cost Health Care – Mobile Health & Wellness Unit
• Teague, Hawkins. Porn Addiction Ruined Life, Speaker Says
• Coulter, Amber. Parking Citation Board Hears Formal Appeals
• Caudle, Leah. Fair to Help Study Abroad
• Parking Predicament
• Barati, Darius. Harriet Miers is Not the Right Person for the Supreme Court
• Lawalin, Nick. Green Lights 101: Some People Need Traffic Education
• Coulter, Amber. Dialogue Day Fosters Familiarity
• Hupman, Samantha. …

Do We Want "Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Huddled Masses"? Immigration Today, St Mary's University

President's Peace Commission - Programs

The President’s Peace Commission existed from 1984 to 2013 at St. Mary's University. The Commission fostered an ethical commitment to participate in the establishment of world peace and social justice.

This program is about political and cultural impact of immigration.

Assimilation And Differences Between The Settlement Patterns Of Individual Immigrants And Immigrant Households, Mark Ellis, Richard Wright

Dartmouth Scholarship

Analyses of immigrant settlement patterns typically rely on counts of foreign-born individuals by neighborhood, metropolitan area, state, or region. As an alternative, this study classifies immigrants and their descendents into household types to shift attention from individuals to relationships between individuals. The study uses pooled current population survey data to identify seven household types, six of which have various degrees of immigrant or second-generation presence. The research compares distributions of first- and second-generation immigrants with different types of households that include first- and second-generation immigrants. Our analysis shows that the geography of immigration based on households differs considerably from geographies …

Ready Or Not? Perceptions Of Marriage Readiness Among Emerging Adults, Sarah Badger

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to better understand the current culture of marriage preparation among emerging adults and the primary factors that influence their attitudes about marriage and family life. A total of 254 students from five universities in the United States completed questionnaires on criteria for marriage readiness and criteria for adulthood. The results indicate that we are witnessing the formation of a unique culture of marriage preparation in the rising generation of educated young adults in comparison to the one experienced by their parents and grandparents. This study supports the notion that marriage still matters for the …