Teachers' Conceptions About the Child's Developmental Needs: A Structural Analysis

Educational practice should be based on the developmental needs of the student, but teacher training rarely focuses on the link between those needs and practice. The aim of the present study was to investigate what teachers think about the needs of students. In this initial report of research on teachers' beliefs, 247 practicing teachers from the Republic of Tatarstan, recruited from continuing education/recertification classes conducted in Kazan, Russia, responded to a list of 26 statements drawn from Self-determination theory (SDT), Maslow's hierarchical theory of needs, and several other sources, rank-ordering them in terms of their importance for the child's healthy psychological development. The article presents the rank-ordering of teachers' beliefs about student needs as well as the factor structure of those needs. Two needs from SDT (relatedness, competence) ranked more highly than Maslow's needs, but, unexpectedly, teachers ranked the need for meaning most highly

Представление педагога о потребностях ребенка в процессе развития

Рассматриваются представления педагога РТ о потребностях ребенка в процессе развити

Салихова Н. Р., Lynch M.F. Представления российских педагогов о целях образования как экзистенциальный вызов для ребёнка // Шестая Всероссийская научно-практическая конференция по экзистенциальной психологии: Материалы сообщений / Под ред. Д.А.Леонтьева, А.Х.Фам. Москва "Смысл", 2016. - С. 93-95.

В поисках ответа на вопрос "Как представляют конечные цели образования учителя?" мы опросили учителей, воспитателей, детских и школьных психологов г. Казани и районов РТ (всего 247 человек). Особенно нас интересовало, насколько важной представляется российским учителям потребность ребенка в автономии, какое место она занимает по отношению к другим очень важным и необходимым целям образования. в качестве наиболее важной для ребенка была оценена потребность в смысле жизни. Далее равными по значимости следовали потребности в компетентности и отношениях с другими людьми. С отрывом от них, но почти равными между собой по оценке значимости стали потребности в самоактуализации, достойном уровне самооценки и безопасности. И только затем, почти наравне с последней по значимости витальной потребностью следовала потребность в автономности

Barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe

The Eurobarometer Survey of the <i>EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe</i> is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the provision of palliative care across Europe. Aim: To identify barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe. Method: A qualitative survey was undertaken amongst boards of national associations, eliciting opinions on opportunities for, and barriers to, palliative care development. By July 2006, 44/52 (85%) European countries had responded to the survey; we report here on the results from 22/25 (88%) countries in Western Europe. Analysis: Data from the Eurobarometer survey were analysed thematically by geographical region and by the degree of development of palliative care in each country. Results: From the data contained within the Eurobarometer, we identified six significant barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe: (i) Lack of palliative care education and training programmes (ii) Lack of awareness and recognition of palliative care (iii) Limited availability of/knowledge about opioid analgesics (iv) Limited funding (v) Lack of coordination amongst services (vi) Uneven palliative care coverage. Conclusion: Findings from the EAPC Eurobarometer survey suggest that barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe may differ substantially from each other in both their scope and context and that some may be considered to be of greater significance than others. A number of common barriers to the development of the discipline do exist and much work still remains to be done in the identified areas. This paper provides a road map of which barriers need to be addressed

The Structure Of (+/-)-21-Oxoisopteropodine

Methyl (1'S*,3S*,4a'S*,5a'S*,10a'R*)-3',4a',5a',6',7',8',10',10a'-octahydro-2-hydroxy-1'-methyl-10'-oxospiro[3H-indole-3,6'-[1'H]pyrano[3,4-f]indolizine-4'-carboxylate, (1), C21H22N2O5, M(r) = 382.42, monoclinic, P2(1)/c, a = 12.920 (4), b = 10.342 (4), c = 15.192 (8) angstrom, beta = 105.68 (3)degrees, V = 1954.4 (14) angstrom 3, Z = 4, D(x) = 1.30 g cm-3 (298 K), mu = 0.8738 cm-1, Mo K-alpha radiation, lambda = 0.7107 angstrom, F(000) = 808, T = 298 K, R = 0.0800 for 1000 reflections, F(o) greater-than-or-equal-to 4-sigma(F(o)). The indole NH group is hydrogen bonded to the amide oxygen, O15' (related by x, 0.5 -y, -0.5 + z), of the indolizine moiety with relevant parameters: N...O 2.79 (2) angstrom, H...O 2.02 (15) angstrom, N-H...O 145 (14)degrees. A close, non-bonded contact of 2.28 (8) angstrom is also observed between O15' and H7' A (related by - x, 0.5 + y, 1.5 - z).Robert A. Welch FoundationNational Institutes of Health (GM 25439)Chemistr

Detection of reduced carbon in a basalt analogue for martian nakhlite : a signpost to habitat on Mars

C. W. Taylor and J. Still are thanked for skilled technical support. J. Parnell, H.G.M. Edwards, I. Hutchinson and R. Ingley acknowledge the support of the UKSA and the STFC Research Council in the UK ExoMars programme. L. V. Harris and S. McMahon acknowledge STFC studentship funding.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Homozygous nonsense and frameshift mutations of the ACTH receptor in children with familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD) are not associated with long-term mineralocorticoid deficiency

Familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by isolated glucocorticoid deficiency with preserved mineralocorticoid secretion. Mutations in the ACTH receptor (MC2R) account for approximately 25% of all FGD cases, but since these are usually missense mutations, a degree of receptor function is frequently retained. A recent report, however, suggested that disturbances in the renin-aldosterone axis were seen in some patients with potentially more severe MC2R mutations. Furthermore, MC2R knock out mice have overt aldosterone deficiency and hyperkalaemia despite preservation of a normal zona glomerulosa. We wished to determine whether a group of patients with severe nonsense mutations of the MC2R exhibited evidence of mineralocorticoid deficiency, thereby challenging the conventional diagnostic feature of FGD which might result in diagnostic misclassification

Thermal excitation of heavy nuclei with 5-15 GeV/c antiproton, proton and pion beams

Excitation-energy distributions have been derived from measurements of 5.0-14.6 GeV/c antiproton, proton and pion reactions with $^{197}$Au target nuclei, using the ISiS 4$\pi$ detector array. The maximum probability for producing high excitation-energy events is found for the antiproton beam relative to other hadrons, $^3$He and $\bar{p}$ beams from LEAR. For protons and pions, the excitation-energy distributions are nearly independent of hadron type and beam momentum above about 8 GeV/c. The excitation energy enhancement for $\bar{p}$ beams and the saturation effect are qualitatively consistent with intranuclear cascade code predictions. For all systems studied, maximum cluster sizes are observed for residues with E*/A $\sim$ 6 MeV.Comment: 14 pages including 5 figures and 1 table. Accepted in Physics Letter B. also available at http://nuchem.iucf.indiana.edu

The Collider Phenomenology of Technihadrons in the Technicolor Straw Man Model

We discuss the phenomenology of the lightest SU(3)_C singlet and non-singlet technihadrons in the Straw Man Model of low-scale technicolor (TCSM). The technihadrons are assumed to be those arising in topcolor--assisted technicolor models in which topcolor is broken by technifermion condensates. We improve upon the description of the color--singlet sector presented in our earlier paper introducing the TCSM (hep-ph/9903369). These improvements are most important for subprocess energies well below the masses of the technirho and techniomega, and, therefore, apply especially to e+e- colliders such as LEP and a low--energy linear collider. In the color--octet sector, we consider mixing of the gluon, the coloron V_8 from topcolor breaking, and four isosinglet color--octet technirho mesons. We assume, as expected in walking technicolor, that these technirhos decay into qbar-q, gg, and g-technipion final states, but not into technipion pairs. All the TCSM production and decay processes discussed here are included in the event generator Pythia. We present several simulations appropriate for the Tevatron Collider, and suggest benchmark model lines for further experimental investigation.Comment: 42 pages, 7 figure