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In Canada, where children attend school may have an effect on their health and the choices that are available to them
No full textMany schools in socio-economically disadvantaged communities struggle to provide their students with healthy food environments. In a study analyzing almost 500 children in 246 schools the Canadian province of Quebec, Caroline Fitzpatrick finds that that 10-12 year olds attending the least healthy schools had comparatively higher central body fat than those attending healthier schools, where students had easy access to quality food. The author argues that preventative strategies towards obesity and chronic metabolic disease is best to counter this effect
Caroline Gordon Collection
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Linear Feet: 2 linear feet
Number of Containers: 2 boxes
Series 1: Writings, 31 files
Series 2: Lectures, 19 files
Series 3: Courses, 10 files
Series 4: Book Reviews, 5 files
Series 5: About Caroline Gordon,8 files
Series 6: Correspondence, 18 files
Series 7: Books, 5 books
Series 8: Media: 9 digital files, 9 cassettes, 2 reelsCOLLECTION DETAILS
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BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note: Twentieth-century novelist Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville where she received her early education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916. Her father is the idealized subject of Gordon's second novel, Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), and the central character in her much-anthologized story, "Old Red." Gordon taught briefly; then, as a journalist, she became one of the first reviewers to comment favorably on a new Nashville-based magazine of poetry, The Fugitive. During the summer of 1924, Robert Penn Warren, a Todd County neighbor, introduced her to Allen Tate. Within a year they were married and living in New York City, where their daughter, Nancy Meriwether was born. With Tate, she began a period of life abroad, devoted to writing and sustained by various fellowships granted to one or the other. In London, Gordon was secretary to the influential British writer Ford Madox. In 1930 the Tates returned to the United States and settled in Clarksville in a house provided by Tate's brother Ben and called "Benfolly." Both Tates were exceptionally hospitable to friends and encouraging to younger writers. Both were prolific correspondents, generous with constructive criticism. (Gordon eventually became mentor to several writers, most notably Flannery O'Connor). Although she had to wrest time for her writing from domestic and social obligations, the eight Benfolly years were especially productive for Gordon, who published four novels and several stories before 1937. The first novel was Penhally (1931), followed by Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937), studies of the southern family during the Civil War and Great Depression. Academic appointments of the 1940s took the Tates throughout the Southeast and to Princeton, where they established a home near their daughter, who married psychiatrist Percy Wood in 1944. During this time Gordon published her fifth novel, Green Centuries (1941). Her second related group of novels, The Woman on the Porch (1944), which deals with a troubled marriage, The Strange Children (1951), based on life at Benfolly, and The Malefactors (1956), is informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. She and her husband wrote The House of Fiction (1950), which was followed by Gordon's How to Read a Novel in 1957. Gordon lived in Princeton until 1973, teaching, and writing: The Glory of Hera (1972). An appointment in the creative writing program drew her to the University of Dallas (Gordon was 77 years old when she proposed the new creative writing program at UD). When her health began to fail in 1978, she moved to San Cristobal de las Casas in Chapas, Mexico, with her daughter and family. She died there on April 11, 1981.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) was an American author. This collection consists of manuscripts of Gordon's work, including novels, lectures, and poetry during her time at the University of Dallas. It also includes correspondence with authors and family members, writings of others, and photographs.
Lectures and Commentary available here: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2548University of Dalla
Disadvantaged and visible minority students may be less likely to benefit from supportive relationships with teachers
No full textChildren’s success at school helps to lay the groundwork for career and personal success; the continued underperformance of disadvantaged and racial minority students is therefore of great concern to policymakers. In new research using data from a longitudinal child development survey in Quebec, Caroline Fitzpatrick and her co-authors found that race and appearance contribute to academic adjustment problems regardless of how academically talented students are, and that this may at least partially stem from conflict with, and lack of support from, their teachers
Making teens feel safer at school could help improve their achievement
No full textClassroom engagement is an important influence on how well students perform academically at school. In new research, Carolyn Côté-Lussier and Caroline Fitzpatrick find that how students engage in class can be affected by their environment – students who reported that they felt safer were more engaged . They write that teens might feel unsafe at school because of poverty at home, and if their school has a poor neighbourhood environment, such as a lack of green spaces
The role english plays in the construction of professional identities in nest-nnes bilingual marriages in İstanbul
No full textCaroline Fell Kurban (MEF Author)…WOS:000389065100011Book Citation Index- Social Sciences and HumanitiesArticle; Book ChapterOcakYÖK - 2014-1
Canadian preschooler’s trajectories of screen use and their association with executive functioning at age 5.
No full textChild executive functions are mental processes that play a central role in their ability to plan and organize their thinking and behavior. Preschooler executive function skills are key determinants of school readiness and later academic outcomes. Across the early childhood years, these skills evolve rapidly. Although maturation plays a role, the quality of children’s early learning experiences also contributes to the development of executive functions. Too much screen time in early childhood has been cross-sectionally linked to lower executive functioning skills. Other research using brain imaging has found that child screen is linked to brain development, particularly in areas responsible for executive functioning. Limited research has examined longitudinal associations between patterns of young children’s screen use and their executive function skills. The objective of the present study is to estimate how child screen use trajectories between the ages of 3 and 5 contribute to the development of executive function skills at age 5. Data are from 315 preschoolers from Nova Scotia, Canada studied at three time points longitudinally during the Covid-19 pandemic. Study measures were collected remotely in the Spring/summer of 2020 and 2021. In the summer of 2022, home visits were conducted to directly assess child executive function skills. Screen time was measured using parent reported child hours/day of screen time (TV/DVDs, computers, video games consoles, tablets, and smartphones) at the ages of 3,4, and 5. Child executive function was measured at age 5 using the National Institute of Health Toolbox, which provides validated, and age-normed assessments of the inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility domains. Covariates measured at age 3 include child sex and effortful control as well as parent education and stress. Using latent growth modelling we identified a low (mean=.9 hrs/day, 23%), medium (mean=3.0 hrs/day, 56%), and high (mean=6.38 hrs/day, 21%) screen time trajectory. This three-group model had a significant LMR P-value and had a lower BIC value than a 2 or 4 class solution. Multiple regressions adjusted for covariates revealed that children in the low (ß =.28) and medium (ß =.20) screen time trajectories scored significantly higher on inhibitory control. Children in the low screen use trajectory group also scored higher than children in the high trajectory group on cognitive flexibility (ß =.28). Our results suggest that helping children follow the pediatric recommendation of spending a maximum of 1 hour per day using screens, may help them develop stronger executive function skills
sj-docx-1-heb-10.1177_10901981231188137 – Supplemental material for Maternal Labor Force Participation During the Child’s First Year and Later Separation Anxiety Symptoms
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-heb-10.1177_10901981231188137 for Maternal Labor Force Participation During the Child’s First Year and Later Separation Anxiety Symptoms by Gabrielle Garon-Carrier, Arya Ansari, Rachel Margolis and Caroline Fitzpatrick in Health Education & Behavior</p
sj-docx-1-jad-10.1177_10870547211073473 – Supplemental material for Associations Between Video Game Engagement and ADHD Symptoms in Early Adolescence
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jad-10.1177_10870547211073473 for Associations Between Video Game Engagement and ADHD Symptoms in Early Adolescence by Gabriel Arantes Tiraboschi, Greg L. West, Elroy Boers, Veronique D. Bohbot and Caroline Fitzpatrick in Journal of Attention Disorders</p
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