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Mountains Descending to the Atlantic Ocean
No full textA view of the mountainous coastline around Paùl. Craggy mountains descend into the sea are visible. The picture shows how striking and rugged the coastline can be. Slide CV-81-151 shows the same section of coastline at more of a distance.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/baxter_gallery/1371/thumbnail.jp
Harbor Scene, Mindelo
No full textShips in the Bay of Mindelo. Largely devoid of all other natural resources, Mindelo\u27s economy has evolved around it\u27s natural harbor.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/baxter_gallery/1252/thumbnail.jp
Stolkholm: Skärholmmen Apartments and Gardens
No full textThis photograph shows apartment buildings and urban gardens in Skärholmmen, a suburb in southern Stockholm. The apartments were mostly built in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of the Million Program, a program that attempted to create one million new dwellings in a decade. While it reached it’s goal of providing quality homes, it has been argued that the price has been paid in aesthetics.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1888/thumbnail.jp
A Picture Literally Is Worth a Thousand Words! Using Documentation to Increase Family Involvement
Get PDFResearch conducted over the past two decades indicates the predictive nature of family involvement in children’s education to child school and life success (Jeynes, 2005). Beyond factors such as socioeconomic status and parental education, the extent to which families are involved in children’s education at home and at school has been shown to have the strongest relationship to student academic success (Henderson & Berla, 1994). This manuscript details a collaborative project between Burris Laboratory School and Ball State University, through which early childhood practicum students created web-based documentation pages to showcase kindergarten student learning. These pages opened the door to the kindergarten classroom, and provided families the opportunity to more fully engage in their children\u27s learning. Additional benefits for children and preservice teachers are fully explored
The Effect of Physical and Music Education in the Development of Motor Skills in Children between Six and Eight Year-Olds in an Inclusive Environment
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The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the effect of the integration of music education and physical education programs on the development of locomotor skills in students who are between six and eight years old. Various activities were developed and implemented to assure the best quality of teaching in both academic subjects using 28 children –13 girls and 15 boys. Fourteen children were in an experimental group and followed the integrated class of physical and music education for two months. The rest served as the control group and followed the physical education program, separate from musical education, for the same time period. Six of the fourteen students of the experimental group (42.9%) participate in the special education program. Fifty percent (3 of 6) of these participants have an ADHD diagnostic. Two students in the control group (14.3%) are also inscribed in special education but lack an ADHD diagnostic. Children’s level in locomotor skills such as walking-running, sliding, skipping and jumping were assessed with a rubric developed by both music education and physical education teachers. The results of this study showed an increase in the post-arithmetic means of both groups (control and experimental) in the skills previously mentioned. Furthermore, there were statistically significant findings in the post-arithmetic means of the experimental group when compared to the scores obtained during the motor skills pretest. Finally, when comparing the control group pretest and posttest scores, there was no statistically significant increase. These outcomes could be regarded as an effect of the treatment to which the participants of the experimental group were subjected
A History of Named Places and Architectural Development: Rhode Island College, 1958-2012
Get PDFElizabeth Warburton, an aluma of Rhode Island College, created this publication of the history of the buildings that make up the Rhode Island College campus. Its purpose is to bring to light the history of architecture of the campus. It is a metaphorical and visual story, telling the history and growth of the college and of its excellence in education programs. Complete with photographs of the buildings and those they were named for, Warburton demonstrates how the story of the college is told though its physical presence by listening to its places and buildings.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/college_architecture/1000/thumbnail.jp
A Student\u27s Perspective of Learning on a Dedicated Education Unit
Get PDFIt is the intent of this honors project to give a student’s perspective of learning in the Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) on Bridge 7 at Rhode Island Hospital. Bridge 7 is a 38-bed unit specializing in general medical surgical patient care services. A student’s perspective is illustrated by journal entries written from each clinical experience over the course of one semester, during the course Adult Health II. In addition to a student’s perspective, it is the intention to compare the learning experience on the DEU, to the traditional model of clinical learning. This project will include current nursing research that focuses on different areas of dedicated education unit learning. Findings from these nursing research articles will be compared and contrasted to a student’s perspective of the same outcomes. Prior to each clinical day, students set personal goals. These personal goals will be addressed, with a focus on how learning on a DEU enhanced goal attainment. Lastly, well-known nursing theorist Pat Benner’s conceptual model of how nurses evolve from novice to expert will be utilized and directly incorporated into the student’s perspective
Perceived Job Readiness Among the Previously Incarcerated
Get PDFThis study aims to determine the primary factor in employment readiness for previously incarcerated individuals. Ex offenders were were surveyed for job readiness using a scale developed in the studies\u27 literature review. This scale emcompasses factors such as skills, knowledge, confidence and goals. Surveys were also done according to age, age of first incarceration, incarceration history and job training history. Because this population is marginalized, this study may bring new awareness about the effects of employer discrimination and the need for future programs to increase job readiness among the previously incarcerated individuals
Development of the Stroke Modules for Kent County Hospital Stroke Unit
Get PDFStroke is the number one cause of disability in the United States and costs over $68 billion annually. The majority of strokes are preventable but require education of the public on modifiable risk factors and prevention. Nurses play a major role in education related to prevention and care of stroke patients. The purpose of this project was to develop a self study educational program for nurses caring for stroke patients. A four module program was created. It was piloted by the sample population of nurses working on the stroke unit at Kent County Hospital. There was a thirteen point improvement in scores from the pre-test to the post-test scores after completing the educational modules. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) plays a key role in implementing, updating and evaluating the program as well as serving as a resource for nurses caring for stroke patients. The APRN should be instrumental in providing education and resource information to the stroke patient and their family. Recommendations are to implement the educational, self-study stroke modules throughout the hospital for use by all nurses who might care for a stroke patient
Environmental Justice Discomfort and Disconnect in IBM\u27s Tainted Birthplace: A Micropolitical Ecology Perspective
Get PDFThe ‘‘toxic time bomb’’ of the so-called ‘‘green’’ high-tech industry is no longer a secret. Today, ‘‘[h]igh-tech pollution is a fact of life wherever the industry has operated for any length of time, from Malaysia to Massachusetts’’ (Siegel and Markoff 1985, 163), and so is resistance to high-tech toxic disaster. Since at least the late 1970s, electronics workers, academics, and environmental justice and labor rights activists have ‘‘challenged the chip’’ industry (Smith, Sonnenfeld, and Pellow 2006; see also Pellow and Sun-Hee Park 2003). Their struggle exposed not only the toxic externalities of microelectronic modernization, but also the emergence of redgreen counter movements marked by both subtle and overt ecopolitical and ecosocialist aims