Rollins After Dark: The Hamilton Holt School\u27s Nontraditional Journeys

Rollins After Dark is a fascinating history of the eclectic program (and larger-than-life characters) that provided the underpinning of what would become today\u27s Hamilton Holt School - the Rollins College evening program. Although 2019 is the Holt School\u27s 60th anniversary, so-called adult education has been offered by the College for more than 80 years. In Rollins After Dark, Randy Noles presents an engaging and entertaining account of the development of the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College. From a series of popular public spectacles focusing on diverse topics, to a serious academic program for degree-seeking, nontraditional students, the evolution of adult education at Rollins includes some of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century. This roller-coaster narrative demonstrates that, over the decades, many of the most interesting things that have happened at the picture-postcard college have happened at night.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/archv_books/1016/thumbnail.jp

What\u27s age got to do with it? Examining how the age of stimulus faces affects children\u27s implicit racial bias

Discrepant results regarding the emergence of children\u27s implicit racial bias suggest additional research is needed to understand the developmental timeline of racial bias. Investigations using established explicit racial bias measures and the implicit association task with children demonstrate racial bias in young children (Aboud, 1988; Baron & Banjai, 2006). These findings do not corroborate the only known developmental use of the affective priming task (APT) to measure racial bias, which suggests implicit racial bias does not emerge until adolescence (Degner & Wentura, 2010). Variations in the task demands, the types of stimuli used to represent the construct of race, and child\u27s environment may be important factors to consider when investigating these discrepancies. The current study explored how same-age faces and adult faces influenced 6.5-, 10.5-, and 14.5-year-old children\u27s racial bias using the APT and whether cross-race interactions affected racial bias. Results indicated that children did not demonstrate significant racial bias at any age when viewing child or adult faces, though data from non-Hispanic Caucasian 6.5-year-olds suggested stronger racial bias to same-age faces. Cross-race interactions were positively correlated with 14.5 year-olds\u27 same-age racial bias. This effect occurred because greater cross-race interactions with peers predicted adolescents\u27 positive associations to Caucasian same-age faces but did not predict negative associations to African American same-age faces. The lack of significant racial bias observed in this sample suggests that children from racially diverse areas (i.e., Las Vegas, NV) may not have the same levels of implicit racial bias as samples collected in previous studies

Cleveland\u27s Second -Term March

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Domains and naïve theories

Human cognition entails domain‐specific cognitive processes that influence memory, attention, categorization, problem‐solving, reasoning, and knowledge organization. This article examines domain‐specific causal theories, which are of particular interest for permitting an examination of how knowledge structures change over time. We first describe the properties of commonsense theories, and how commonsense theories differ from scientific theories, illustrating with children's classification of biological and nonbiological kinds. We next consider the implications of domain‐specificity for broader issues regarding cognitive development and conceptual change. We then examine the extent to which domain‐specific theories interact, and how people reconcile competing causal frameworks. Future directions for research include examining how different content domains interact, the nature of theory change, the role of context (including culture, language, and social interaction) in inducing different frameworks, and the neural bases for domain‐specific reasoning. WIREs Cogni Sci 2011 2 490–502 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.124 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs websitePeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87128/1/124_ftp.pd

Choosing Sides: Children’s Expectations of Consequences of Loyalty Towards Authority

Previous research has found that children recognize social group membership and status early in development (Aboud, 2003; Gulgoz & Gelman, 2017). However, children increasingly value loyalty towards authority figures with age, although they prefer members of their own social groups (Norris & Noles, 2022). In this study, we are interested in whether children expect there to be positive consequences associated with loyalty towards authority figures over a subordinate, as well as negative consequences associated with loyalty towards subordinates over authority figures. We presented children ages 6-8, as well as adults, with a situation in which a worker was loyal to either the boss (authority figure) or another worker (subordinate). We then asked two questions: whether the boss was nice to the (dis)loyal worker (Positive Consequence) or mean to them (Negative Consequence). Both children and adults significantly chose the worker to receive a negative consequence when the worker was loyal to the subordinate as well as to receive a positive consequence when the worker was loyal to the boss. These results suggest that at a young age, children recognize that risks are associated with loyalty towards authority figures over in-group members. Future studies should further explore how loyalty influences the way children interact in relationships with friends, parents, and teachers

Eficiencia in Vitro de Microorganismos (EM) en aguas residuales de lagunas de oxidación de la Ciudad de Calceta- Bolivar - Manabí.

PDFEn América Latina, con sólo una cobertura del 49% de alcantarillado, más de 40 millones de metros cúbicos por día de aguas residuales se colectan y se vierten a los ríos, lagos y mares. Si en el Año 2000, el 90% de la población nos beneficiáremos con este servicio estaríamos arrojando más de 100 millones, agravando aún la situación. En el Ecuador el manejo de desechos líquidos, en lo que respecta al tratamiento de aguas residuales domésticas, representan un gran problema en sus ciudades por la falta de inversión económica, y el poco interés ambiental por parte de las autoridades competentes, lo cual está dando lugar a una contaminación progresiva de este recurso renovable. La siguiente investigación está relacionada con la aplicación de un tratamiento biológico a utilizarse en el sistema de tratamiento de aguas residuales (lagunas de oxidación) con microorganismo eficaces (EM) de la ciudad de Calceta en laboratorio. En la actualidad la cantidad de aguas residuales se ha incrementado considerablemente debido al desarrollo ya que el cantoón Bolivar cuenta con 40.735 habitantes y es pertinente citar que cuando las aguas residuales de tipo doméstico son lanzadas a los ríos o cuerpos de agua sin ningún tratamiento o desinfección suelen contaminarlos con altas concentraciones de bacterias, virus y parasitos creándose un grave problema de salud pública