Teachers’ Perspectives on the Use of the Moon Code to Develop Literacy in Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (10) ◽  
pp. 601-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve McCall ◽  
Mike McLinden
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Children With Visual Impairments

This article reports on a study of teachers in the United Kingdom who use the Moon Code to develop literacy skills through touch in children with visual impairments and additional disabilities. It explores the motives, purposes, and values that underpin the teachers’ decisions to embark on and sustain instruction in literacy for these children.

Teachers’ Perspectives on Selecting Literacy Media for Children with Visual Impairments

1997 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 539-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Craig ◽  
L. DePriest ◽  
K. Harnack
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Residential School ◽  
Public School District ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Ability Levels ◽  
Primary Literacy ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Children With Visual Impairments

Teachers from a residential school and a public school district that serve children with visual impairments read scenarios of five children with various eye conditions and ability levels, chose a primary literacy medium for each child, and presented rationales for their decisions. Although all the teachers cited child-related factors more than mechanical or social factors, the two groups of teachers differed in the weight they placed on different subcategories of these factors and their attitudes toward the use of braille.

Main Contents and Comment on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
Outer Space Treaty

This chapter introduces the ratification by member states and main contents of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (Title: Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies). Furthermore, the author explains the reason it the contents of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty should be amended. The treaty was opened for signature in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union on 27 January 1967, and entered into force on 10 October 1967. As of June 2020, 110 countries are parties to the treaty, while another 23 have signed the treaty but have not completed ratification.

The U.K. 48-inch (1.2 metre) Schmidt Telescope and the SRC IllaJ Survey

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 323-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.D. Cannon
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Schmidt Telescope ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Science Research Council

The U.K. Schmidt telescope is one of three independent ‘observatories’ now on Siding Spring Mountain near Coonabarabran, and is operated by the United Kingdom Science Research Council. The telescope has been fully operational since September 1973. So far we have taken about 800 astronomical plates, about half being for the main IllaJ Survey and half for other scientific programmes. The latter have mostly been taken when the moon or mediocre seeing have prevented us working on the Survey.

scholarly journals Establishing a Nation - Kikilaga Nenfu

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Tony Angelo
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Mount Everest ◽  
Task Set ◽  
Cook Islands ◽  
The United Kingdom

There are many challenges in life. Some, such as climbing Mount Everest, circumnavigating the globe, landing on the Moon or exploring Mars, are reported as great human adventures. Few however could be more daunting than being empowered to establish one's identity at a time when knowledge of any previous national identity has, with the passage of a century, largely being lost. That nevertheless is the task set for Tokelau, 1 a small Pacific nation – 6,500 people, of whom only 1,500 live in the cultural homeland and in three discrete villages separated by the high seas.Tokelau and New Zealand are not approaching this task by following the typical externally driven decolonisation process used by the United Kingdom for its colonies or New Zealand for the Cook Islands or Niue. This paper is concerned with tracing aspects of the semiautochthonous process so far followed by Tokelau.

scholarly journals Children’s Plans for Writing: Characteristics and Impact on Writing Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-356
Author(s):  
Anna Llaurado ◽  
Julie E. Dockrell
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Text Quality ◽  
Text Length

Planning plays an important role in the production of written texts. Little is known about why children plan and the plans they create when they are not explicitly instructed. This study explores the plans that elementary school children in Years 1, 3, and 5 create before writing a text. We compared performance of children educated in Catalan and in English (the United Kingdom) and examined whether the plans were related to their language and literacy skills. Children of all ages produced plans before writing either by producing a draft or an organizer. The types of plan changed with age and were influenced by the educational context. Plans were not associated with either the text length or the text quality. Nor were language, literacy, and transcription skills associated with the plans. School instruction is important for producing plans but, at this stage, children’s self-generated plans do not impact on the texts produced.

A comparison of the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UK-CAT) with a traditional admission selection process

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishan Fernando ◽  
Gordon Prescott ◽  
Jennifer Cleland ◽  
Kathryn Greaves ◽  
Hamish McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Aptitude Test ◽  
The United Kingdom
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