4,358 research outputs found
M. Stol, Epilepsy in Babylonia. Cuneiform Monographs 2, 1993
No full textFoster Benjamin R. M. Stol, Epilepsy in Babylonia. Cuneiform Monographs 2, 1993. In: Topoi, volume 4/1, 1994. pp. 231-232
Views of children and young people in foster care survey: education
No full textThis paper explores the educational experiences of children and young people living in foster care in Queensland. Findings are drawn from the responses of 845 children and 1180 young people to the 2011 Views of Children and Young People in Foster Care survey, which is a rich source of information about children’s and young people’s attitudes towards and perceptions of their own education. Findings relate to educational status, key markers of educational disadvantage including suspensions and exclusions, and specific problems children and young people experience at school, as well as children’s and young people’s enjoyment of school and aspirations for the future. Information about educational support, including Educational Support Plans and support provided by Child Safety Officers and Community Visitors are also presented. Where relevant, comparisons are made between the 2011 survey results and prior surveys conducted in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Relationships between key educational measures as well as relationships to other important measures of health and placement stability are also explored.
The findings suggest that children and young people continue to experience educational disadvantage, including high rates of suspension and exclusion and a range of problems at school including problems with schoolwork, bullying and behaviour and that these difficulties can be exacerbated by the child protection system, for example, through placement instability. However, there are reasons for optimism. Children and young people are overwhelmingly likely to report that they enjoy school, expect to complete Year 12 and that their teachers generally like their schoolwork. Furthermore, over time, the proportions of young people reporting that they have an Educational Support Plan have grown, and, importantly, they are more likely to report that these plans are helpful. Analyses in relation to a number of educational variables reveal that young people with a plan they consider to be helpful fare better. Children and young people were also positive about the important role that CSOs and CVs are able to play in supporting their education.
While educational disadvantage is an enduring problem, the survey findings provide evidence of progress in key areas and suggestions for how continued improvements may be made
Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care
No full textNearly 20% of young prison inmates spent part of their youth in foster care - the placement of abused or neglected children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of child protection investigators as an instrument to identify causal effects of foster care placement on adult arrest, conviction, and imprisonment rates. A unique dataset that links child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across individuals who were investigated for abuse or neglect as children. Families are effectively randomized to child protection investigators through a rotational assignment process, and child characteristics are similar across investigators. Nevertheless, investigator placement frequencies are predictive of subsequent foster care placement, and the results suggest that school-aged children who are on the margin of placement have lower adult arrest rates when they remain at home.
William Foster Collection
No full textWilliam Patrick Foster (1919-2010) was the director of Florida A&M Universitys "Marching 100" and was highly influential as a bandmaster, composer, and author. His book, Band Pageantry, a Guide for Marching Band, introduced new marching styles to the band scene, breaking away from the militarized marching formations, which was the norm in past bands. Foster was appointed to the American Council on the Arts by President Bill Clinton and inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the National Association for Distinguished Band Conductors Hall of Fame, the Florida Music Educators Association Hall of Fame and the Afro-American Hall of Fame among others. He also served as the president of the American Bandmasters Association
Embeddedness as Condition and Strategy in Contemporary Art and Cultural Production
No full textThis thesis examines the concept of ‘embeddedness’ as condition and strategy in contemporary art and cultural production. Identifying embeddedness as a motif of contextual proximity and a strategy in contemporary art, the thesis proposes immediacy to be the result of intrinsic mediation. The project’s main concern is how embeddedness is contextualised by the current conditions that authors and cultural producers engage with. The primary question is whether and how embeddedness can convey a critical relation to the mediation that it undertakes. These concerns inform and arise from my work as an artist, and my participation in events, some of which I organise. The project claims that embeddedness in art is a critical condition and an editorial concept or a strategic plan that can be set up by the artist.
The investigation begins by looking at conditions of embeddedness by focusing on concepts of subjectivity and by elaborating strategies that I call ‘auto-direction’. For example, concepts of subjectivity are taken up in relation to Richard Serra’s video Boomerang (1974), in which the performer Nancy Holt reflects on her own spoken words, which are fed back with a short delay via microphone and headphones into her ears. Auto-direction, introduced with the example of Steven Spielberg’s initiative of a video diary exchange project between Israeli and Palestinian children, describes the activity of the producer, who self-directs his situated presence. Taking up idioms of embeddedness from artists like Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski and Erik van Lieshout the project examines embeddedness through a comparative analysis between contemporary art, visual culture, media theory, sociology, art theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy. These practices lead to an identification of embeddedness as an author’s immanent exposure, a claim taken up through analysis of theoretical texts and literature by Rosalind Krauss, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gregory Bateson, Hal Foster, Bernard Williams and Alfred North Whitehead
Authors' attitudes to, and awareness and use of, a university institutional repository.
No full textThis article reports the findings of an author study at Cranfield University. The study investigated authors' publishing behaviours, attitudes, concerns, and their awareness and use of their institutional repository (IR), Cranfield QUEprints. The findings suggest that despite a reasonable amount of advocacy many authors had not heard of QUEprints and were not aware of its purpose. Once explained, all authors saw at least one benefit to depositing a copy of their work to QUEprints, but many were unsure how to deposit, preferring to depend on the Library to do the work. The authors voiced few concerns or conditions regarding the inclusion of their work in QUEprints, but felt that it would be an extra, inconvenient step in their workload. This research led to the development of the Embed Project which is investigating how to embed the IR into the research process and thereby encourage more authors to deposit their work
An exploratory descriptive study of parental attitudes and authoritarian parenting style among foster parents and non-foster parents, 2001
No full textThe overall objective of this study was to explore parenting attitudes and authoritarian parenting style among foster parents and non-foster parents. The Index of Parental Attitude Scale was used to measure foster and non-foster parents7 attitudes towards their child or foster child. The authoritarianism scale was used to determine if authoritarian was a style of parenting that is used by foster and non-foster parents. The treatment included a ten-minute guestionnaire on the following topics: parenting attitudes and authoritarian parenting style used in rearing a birth child or a foster child. Thirty participants completed the questionnaire, 15 foster parents and 15 non-foster parents. The study showed no significant difference in parenting attitudes used by foster parents and non-foster parents. The study also showed no significant difference in the use of authoritarian parenting style among foster and non-foster parents
Attitudes to the rights and rewards for author contributions to repositories for teaching and learning
No full textIn the United Kingdom over the past few years there has been a dramatic growth of national and regional repositories to collect and disseminate resources related to teaching and learning. Most notable of these are the Joint Information Systems Committee’s Online Repository for [Learning and Teaching] Materials as well as the Higher Education Academy’s subject specific resource databases. Repositories in general can hold a range of materials not only related to teaching and learning, but more recently the term ‘institutional repository’ is being used to describe a repository that has been established to support open access to a university’s research output. This paper reports on a survey conducted to gather the views of academics, support staff and managers on their past experiences and future expectations of the use of repositories for teaching and learning. The survey explored the rights and rewards associated with the deposit of materials into such repositories. The findings suggest what could be considered to be an ‘ideal’ repository from the contributors’ perspective and also outlines many of the concerns expressed by respondents in the survey
Emotional experiences of foster-mothers at placing child in a foster family
No full textV magistrskem delu je avtorica raziskovala čustveno doživljanje rejnic v odnosu do rejniških otrok. V prvem delu naloge so predstavljeni zakonski vidik izvajanja rejništva, način pridobitve dovoljenja izvajanja poklica, delo strokovnih služb pri ugotavljanju primernosti rejniške družine in pogoje, ki jih rejnik mora izpolnjevati (izobraževanje). Predstavljeni so družina, njene naloge, izzivi, ki se tičejo rejniške družine, njena vključenost v sodelovanje s strokovnimi službami, individualno projektno skupino, delo z biološkimi starši rejniških otrok ter sama razbremenitev za rejnice ter kaj s tem doprinesejo k družinskim odnosom. V empiričnem delu je avtorica za raziskavo uporabila fenomenološko metodo, ki temelji na raziskovanju osebnega doživljanja nekega fenomena. Avtorica je s polstrukturiranimi intervjuji dobila podatke o doživljanju rejnic v odnosu do svojega poklica. Nato je s pomočjo kodiranja sledila petim dobljenim vprašanjem. Rezultati raziskave so pokazali, kako rejnice doživljajo delo, njihovo osebno naravnanost do rejniškega poklica, čustveno doživljanje otrok, njihove zgodbe, zahtevnost poklica, skrbi, izzive, ki se pojavijo ob delu in podporo družine v težkih trenutkih. Ugotovili smo, da so vse rejnice hvaležne za svoje izkušnje. Nobena ne obžaluje odločitve o skrbi za tujega otroka. Ponosne so na moč pogum in osebno rast, ki jim jo je prinesel rejniški poklic. Čustva rejnic se ob prihodu otrok gibljejo od navdušenja do skrbi, kako se bo otrok vključil v družinski sistem. S pogumom so se rejnice podale na sprejem novega družinskega člana, kjer so se spopadle tudi z razočaranjem in bolečino ob premagovanju ovir, ki so se pojavile sproti. Največ težkih čustev (žalosti, zavrnjenosti) so udeleženke izkusile ob krutih zgodbah otrok. Pojavi se nekaj kritik o sistemu rejništva v Sloveniji in o premajhni prepoznavnosti rejništva, kjer bi moralo biti več javnih predavanj, tem, delavnic, kjer bi se poklic rejnika ovrednotil kot temeljna pomoč otrokom v stiski. Rejnice so ob tem doživljale jezo in razočaranje. Največ pozitivnih čustev se je izrazilo ob zadovoljstvu vračanja v družino že samostojnih rejniških otrok, ki kažejo pozitivne posledice rejniškega dela. To udeleženkam predstavlja neke vrste nagrado ob uspešnem opravljanju poklica.In the present master\u27s thesis, the author researches the emotional experience of the foster mothers towards their foster children. The first part of the thesis touches on the topic of the legal aspect of the implementation of foster care, ways of obtaining a license to carry out the profession, the work of social services when determining the suitability of the foster family and the conditions the foster parents must fulfil (education). There is also represented the family, its chores, challenges with which it faces, its involvement in collaboration with social services, individual working group, work with biological parents of the foster children, the disburdening of the foster mothers and what they bring to the family relations. In the empirical part the author used the phenomenological method based on the research of the personal experience of certain phenomenon. With half-structured interviews the author received information about the experience of the foster mothers in relation to their profession, and afterwards, with the help of coding, she followed five obtained questions. The results of the research showed how the foster mothers experience their work, their personal stance towards the foster care profession, the emotional experience of the children, their stories, the difficulty of this profession, worries, challenges that surface and the support of the families when going through difficult times. It was discovered that all the foster mothers are very grateful for their experiences, none of them regrets taking care of someone else’s child and they are proud of the strength, the courage and the personal growth that this profession has given them. In the beginning the emotions of the foster mothers fluctuated from enthusiasm to worrying how the child is going to join the family. They started their journeys, the acceptance of a new family member, with courage, but also with pain and disappointment when facing the obstacles that appeared on the way. Most of the negative feelings foster mothers experienced when finding out about the difficult life stories of children. They also expressed some criticism towards the foster care system in Slovenia and insufficient visibility of it, for instance there could be more public lectures or workshops where the profession of the foster parent would be evaluated as an essential way of helping children in need. The most positive feelings were expressed towards the satisfaction of already-independent foster children returning to their foster families, which shows positive consequences of the foster care. For the participants of our interviews this represented a reward for a job well done
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