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Literature for Young Readers 1
No full textRosemary Oliphant-Ingham, moderator; Christopher Paul Curtis, readings/remark
Literature for Young Readers 1
No full textRosemary Oliphant-Ingham, moderator; Trenton Lee Stewart, reading
Rosemary Stanton on ethical eating
No full textThere once was a time when what to have for dinner was a simple choice, decided by cost and availability. But no longer. In a world with increasingly diminishing resources, eating is now complicated by a range of social, environmental and agricultural concerns. Choosing our food is getting confusing, but here, talking at UTS in Sydney, nutritionist Rosemary Stanton gives some practical advice on ethical eating. She is joined by researcher Dana Cordell, who\u27s been studying the environmental implications of the decreasing supply of phosperous in Australia and the world. The event is chaired by Prof. Stuart White from UTS\u27s Institute for Sustainable Futures, and presented as part of the UTSpeaks Series.
Professor Stuart White has been researching sustainability for the last twenty years. In 1998 he was a member of the NSW Task Force on Water Conservation.
Dr Rosemary Stanton is a nutritionist and author of numerous books on the topic of healthy eating. She is also a member of the NSW Health Department\u27s Food Advisory Committee.
Dana Cordell is a senior researcher and doctoral student at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is also co-founder of the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative.
 
Progress - The changing times.
No full textInterview with Old Scholar and author Rosemary Hemphill (Goldie) about her memories of St Hilda's
The poetry preferences of fourth and fifth grade students in a suburban school setting in 1980
No full textThe purpose of the study was to obtain data relating to intermediate children's poetry preferences in 1980. The seven specific hypotheses that were used in this study were related in part to the findings of the 1972 study of upper elementary students' poetry preferences done by Ann Terry. This study was done on a local level while the Terry study was done nationally. The seven hypotheses were: 1. There will be a difference in the preference for specific types of poetry (limerick, lyric, narrative, and verse) of students in the 1980 study and the students in the 1972 Terry study. 2. There will be a difference between the 1972 and 1980 sample groups regarding selection of the best liked individual poems. 3. There will be a difference between the 1972 and 1980 sample groups regarding selection of the twenty-five best liked poems. 4. There will be no difference between the 1972 and 1980 sample groups regarding reasons given for liking the poems they chose as GREAT! or It's Good. 5. The 1980 sample group will have a higher preference for poems published since 1972. 6. In the 1980 sample the students who have teachers that read poetry to them will have a significantly higher positive response to the poems that they hear. 7. There will be a significant difference between the positive responses of the students who said they liked to have poems read to them when compared to the positive responses of the students who said that they did not like to have poems read to them. The students who said that they liked to have poems read to them will have a significantly higher positive response to the poems. The data used to test these seven hypotheses was obtained by two separate instruments: A Teacher Questionnaire and Student Poetry Preference Booklets. The subjects were one hundred and sixty-four students in eleven fourth and fifth grade classrooms. The students listened to 112 poems over a period of ten days from cassette tapes. The students recorded their preferences for each poem in the appropriate poetry preference booklet. The booklets contained a page for each poem with a five point scale from IT'S GREAT! to IT'S BAD! A frequency count of the Statistical Package of the Social Sciences (SPSS) was computed to obtain the mean score for each poem. These mean scores were used in testing the first five hypotheses. An analysis of variance of the mean scores was computed in order to test hypotheses six and seven. Hypotheses 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 were supported while hypotheses 6 and 7 were rejected. Children have consistently preferred humorous, narrative poems over the other types. Rhyme and familiar content are two traits of poetry that appeal to children. There appears to be a marked favoritism for contemporary poems when compared to the traditional poems. In this study there was no significant difference between positive responses of children who were in classrooms where the teachers read poetry when compared with children in classrooms where poems were not read. Also, there was no significant difference between the positive responses of children who said they liked poetry at the start of the study when compared with children who said they didn't like poetry.Education, College o
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