Mary Hemenway: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-209
Author(s):  
Jacqueline G. Haslett
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Normal School ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
American Research ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of this paper is to give historical insight into the progressive thinking of nineteenth century American philanthropist, Mary Hemenway (1820-1894), and why she was interested and believed in physical education for females. Also interesting is how her integrated thinking is compatible with the thinking in present-day education reformThe presentation of the findings will include a brief background of Mrs. Hemenway’s family life, and a brief description of her philanthropic contributions and activities. These include: 1) public education in America, particularly female education, 2) physical education and home economics education, 3) Native-American research, and 4) other significant issues and philanthropic activities in American education. The major focus will be her contributions to physical education and her founding of the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, and influences that persuaded her interests in these pursuits.The sources used include early normal school catalogues, minutes of meetings, course syllabi and lecture synopses, written papers, early and recent bulletins, personal correspondences, government reports, college documents, pamphlets, memorial pamphlet, one new and several old books, and old newspaper clippings and professional journals.

scholarly journals How trainee physical education teachers in England write, use and evaluate lesson plans

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 964-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Capel ◽  
Sophy Bassett ◽  
Julia Lawrence ◽  
Angela Newton ◽  
Paula Zwozdiak-Myers
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Lesson Planning ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Trainee Teachers ◽  
Initial Teacher Training ◽  
School Based ◽  
Limited Choice ◽  
Insight Into

Traditionally, all physical education initial teacher training (PEITT) courses in England, and in many other countries, require trainee teachers to complete detailed lesson plans for each lesson they teach in their school-based practicum and then to evaluate those lessons. However, there has been a limited amount of research on lesson planning in PEITT generally or in England specifically. The purpose of this study therefore was to gain an initial insight into how trainee physical education teachers write, use and evaluate lesson plans. Two-hundred-and-eighty-nine physical education trainees in England completed a questionnaire about lesson planning after finishing a block school-based practicum. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for the limited-choice questions on the questionnaires and open-ended questions were analysed using thematic analysis. Results showed mixed responses, with no one method followed by all trainees. Some trainees stated they planned and/or evaluated lessons as taught. Some stated they completed the plan and/or evaluation proforma to ‘tick a box’. The highest percentage of trainees stated it took between half an hour and one-and-a-half hours to plan each lesson. Although most trainees stated they found the plan useful in the lesson, others stated they found it too detailed to use. Some stated they did not deviate from the plan in the lesson, whereas others adapted the plan. The majority of trainees stated that evaluation enabled them to see if objectives had been achieved. Results are discussed in relation to teaching trainees how to plan lessons in PEITT in England.

Northwest Native American Research Center for Health: A Summary of Fellowship Trainees’ Success Over 15 Years of Funding

2020 ◽  
pp. 237337992097438
Author(s):  
Grazia Cunningham ◽  
Thomas M. Becker ◽  
Tanya Firemoon ◽  
Ashley Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Native American ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
American Research

American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) continue to be severely underrepresented in biomedical research, particularly in principal investigator roles. Efforts to decrease health disparities have shifted to building research capacity and training highly skilled AI/AN health researchers who can conduct quality research within their tribal communities. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Indian Health Service, the Northwest Native American Research Centers for Health (NW NARCH) program has offered financial support and mentorship to 149 AI/AN biomedical and public health graduate students for the past 15 years. In 2018, trainees were surveyed to track their progress and career development. Survey results confirmed that the financial support and mentorship available via the NW NARCH program were instrumental to their professional advancement. Support to AI/AN biomedical graduate students should continue not only to diversify the public health workforce, but also to address risk factors and health conditions that disproportionately affect AI/AN people.

The Searchers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaylyn Studlar
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native American Studies ◽  
John Ford ◽  
Steven Spielberg ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
Production History ◽  
Important Trend ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Peter Bogdanovich ◽  
Insight Into

Since the 1970s, The Searchers, directed by John Ford, has become one of the most discussed films of 1950s US cinema. A story of captivity and revenge set in post–Civil War Texas, The Searchers is now regarded as one of the best films ever made, although it received mixed reviews upon its original release. The film’s artistic reputation did not rise until the early 1970s, buoyed by auteur critics like Andrew Sarris and Peter Bogdanovich and by film school–trained directors like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, who paid homage to The Searchers in their own movies. An important trend in scholarship coalesced around the film’s depiction of fear of miscegenation, with literary antecedents illuminated by June Namias, Barbara Mortimer, and Richard Slotkin. A significant number of considerations of The Searchers focus on Ethan Edwards, the psychologically complex Indian hater played by John Wayne. Many film scholars address the film’s relationship to genre, with Edward Buscombe and Peter Cowie calling attention to the film’s debt to pre-cinematic visual representations of the frontier. Gaylyn Studlar and Hubert I. Cohen emphasize the film’s break from western conventions. Major biographies of John Ford by Scott Eyman, Joseph McBride, and Tag Gallagher provide insight into the film’s production history, as does Glenn Frankel. Analysis of The Searchers has been sustained by many academic scholars who are not film specialists, by literary critics such as Jane Tompkins; political scientists such as Robert Pippin; Native American studies scholars such as Tom Grayson Colonnese and Cristine Soliz; philosophers such as Richard A. Gilmore; feminist critics such as Susan Courtney; historians, including James F. Brooks; and classicists, such as Martin M. Winkler and James Clauss. In spite of the variety of methodological approaches applied, the literature on The Searchers often seems to follow the nonlinear trajectory of the film’s own narrative with a retreading of familiar terrain.

Waniyetu Wówapi: Native American Records of Weather and Climate

2011 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Therrell ◽  
Makayla J. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Early American ◽  
Important Region ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Climate Events ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

Pictographic calendars called waniyetu wówapi or “winter counts” kept by several Great Plains Indian cultures (principally the Sioux or Lakota) preserve a record of events important to these peoples from roughly the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. A number of these memorable events include natural phenomena, such as meteor storms, eclipses, and unusual weather and climate. Examination of a selection of the available winter count records and related interpretive writings indicates that the Lakota and other native plains cultures recorded many instances of unusual weather or climate and associated impacts. An analysis of the winter count records in conjunction with observational and proxy climate records and other historical documentation suggests that the winter counts preserve a unique record of some of the most unusual and severe climate events of the early American period and provide valuable insight into the impacts upon people and their perceptions of such events in the ethnographically important region of the Great Plains.

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