Crossing Boundaries and Valuing Diversity

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Remote teaching of Ume Sámi to young learners in Sweden

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'Nordic values’ and schooling during COVID-19 : how to balance comprehensive education and sustainable pandemic regulations

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A plain watch : a study of Henry Vaughan's use of time in Silex scintellans

Henry Vaughan: The Man in His Time Wanting to find out more about himself and the world he finds himself in, Man has searched differently in each age. Some generations have looked for an explanation in science, some in religion; but the seventeenth century was able to make a synthesis of mind and matter and in the process develop a new type of thought described as metaphysical. The men who followed this way of looking at the world combined reason and intellect with emotion and passion, and wrote of a world that few men had seen before, a world of both heart and head

Creating mosaics

The Honors problem with which I was involved this year was a study of mosaics, beginning with mental preparation which took place during the research period and reaching a culmination point with the presentation of the project itself, composed of five mosaics. The selection of the problem occurred after an experience which I had the previous year in the construction of a ceramic tile mosaic, originated in partial fulfillment of the requirements of an art course at the Woman's College. The experience was rewarding in that there was a personal realization that this form of expression allowed the artist to combine with his knowledge and feeling for color and line usage in painting his knowledge and feeling for a more structural form of art expression

Johnson, nature, and women : the early years

Critics enamoured of James Boswell's Life of Johnson have too frequently overlooked the empathy Samuel Johnson's work reveals toward women and other creatures of nature caught in the patriarchal web of eighteenth century domination. This dissertation focuses on Johnson's youthful poetry beginning with his earliest verse, "On a Daffodill," and concluding with London, his first major poem. These selections reveal his inability to resolve his role as a functioning male in a repressive society which discourages his desire for direct and nurturing relationships with women and nature that deal, not with heroic abstractions, but with personal involvement

Rousseau on the education of women

This study investigated the theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the education of women. The works of Rousseau were consulted in the original French and translated by the writer for the study. Many publications concerning the educational themes of Rousseau have appeared, but minimal attention has been given to the importance and significance of the inclusion of women in his writings. Rousseau's most famous treatise on education, Emile, contains one chapter given over to a discussion of feminine pedagogy. His novel, La Nouvelle Hèloïse, has as its heroine the "new woman," who personifies and gives substance to his theories. His incomplete and little-known sequel to Emile, entitled Emile et Sophie ou les solitaires, was considered as constituting a retrospective evaluation of his educational program. The study led to an investigation of the century and life of Rousseau, his philosophy of education in general, his pedagogical theorizing as applicable to women, and his novel where his idealized educated woman is given form

Preference, identification, dependence and the decision to move

This study examines the dimensions underlying the decision to move. The components of three dimensions of residential choice and the way that individuals evaluate these dimensions comprise the basis of the study. A distinction is made between the socio-economic components of residential choice, factors associated with style of life or "tastes," and affective components (i.e., feelings of being at home or community). These are labelled as dependence, preference, and identification, respectfully. Factor analysis supported the labelling of these three distinct dimensions of choice. Subsequent analysis shows the relationship between each dimension with movers and stayers, as well as by social class. The findings suggest that dependence factors are the most important considerations for the decision to move. However, when dependence is low, preference and identification also become distinct dimensions of residential choice. Furthermore, the importance of preference, identification, and dependence are distinguishable by social class

Construction of a situation-response scale to measure the attitudes of freshman and sophomore college women toward birth defects

The purpose of this study was to develop a valid scale to measure attitudes toward the prevention of birth defects and toward those who have birth defects. The situation-response measurement technique, which consists of a situation and five behavior responses for each item, was used in this study. A preliminary judges' study was used to improve the scale items and to give the writer an opportunity to become familiar with the statistical techniques to be used. In the preliminary study, thirty items were given to a panel of five judges. These judges were instructed to evaluate the importance of each item in the attitude scale and to weight the desirability of the responses for each item on a five to one scale. The judges were encouraged to make comments and suggestions concerning any aspect of the scale items. The rank-difference (rho) method of correlation was used to determine the degree to which the five judges agreed with each other in weighting the responses. An average item coefficient of correlation was computed by averaging the five judges' intercorrelations for each item. The lowest intercorrelation was .05 and the highest was 1.0. The criteria used to determine which items would be sent to a final panel of judges were: (1) the average item coefficient of correlation must be .700 or better, (2) three of the five judges must consider the item either desirable or essential, and (3) the five responses for each item must include three different rankings with at least one rank below 3 and one rank above 3

Educational concepts which home economics teachers in North Carolina accept and believe they apply

Home economics educators have given much thought to the problems of what and how to teach, how to evaluate results and the place of home economics in the total school program. They have recommended changes in methods of teaching and in evaluation which should parallel the changing trends in the home economics curriculum. Social and economic conditions have changed at an accelerated rate; yet, during this period of rapid change, classroom practices have lagged far behind the beliefs of leaders in the field of education. "Thinking" has pushed ahead of "practice." The dosing of this gap depends heavily on pre—service and in-service education