A Case-Study Assessment of ‘Pointing’ during the First Three Months of Life

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Hannan ◽  
Alan Fogel
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Behavior ◽  
Infant Behavior ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Behavioral Organization ◽  
Naturalistic Setting ◽  
Continuous Activity ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right

The emergence and behavioral organization of the earliest form of ‘pointing’ was examined through the use of microanalytic measures applied to bouts of face-to-face interaction. A female infant and her mother were videotaped in a semi naturalistic setting once a week for the first 12 weeks of the infant's life. Trained coders transcribed maternal and infant behavior into time-based, event-concurrent, mutually exclusive categories of action. One central question was addressed: are there behavioral regularities (i.e., sequential, temporal, co-occurrent or contingent patterns of organization) in the display of a ‘point’ when considered with other movements of the infant's hands, expressive movements of the face, and categories of maternal behavior. Analysis indicated that ‘pointing’ was a relatively stable and continuous activity across the first three months of this infant's life. ‘Pointing’ occurred in eight of the 12 sessions examined, with the first ‘point’ observed at 18 days of age. Moreover, a significant majority of the ‘pointing’ occurred with the right hand. Finally, specific occurrences of ‘pointing’ were sequentially organized with movements of the same hand and co-occurred with movements of the eyes and mouth. It was suggested that these early ‘points’ may already be a separate part of a cluster of orienting behaviors that appear soon after birth.

Evaluating the alliance in videolink teletherapy

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
G J Ghosh ◽  
P M Mclaren ◽  
J P Watson
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Working Alliance Inventory ◽  
The Face

The use of videoconferencing in psychotherapy remains largely unexplored. Videoconferencing compromises the range and quality of interactional information and thus might be expected to affect the working alliance (WA) between client and therapist, and consequently the process and outcome of therapy. A single case study exploring the effect of videoconferencing on the development of the WA in the psychological treatment of a female–male transsexual is described. The self-rated Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) was used to measure client and therapist perceptions of the WA after each session over 10 sessions of eclectic therapy conducted over a videolink. The serial WAI measurements charting the development of the WA in 4 cases of 10-session, face-to-face therapy by Horvath and Marx1 were used as a quasi-control. Therapist and client impressions of teletherapy are described. WAI scores were essentially similar to the face-to-face control group except for lower client-rated bond subscale scores. It is suggested that client personality factors accounted for this difference and that videoconferencing did not impair the development of an adequate working alliance or successful therapeutic outcome.

Developing and Implementing an Online Chinese Program

2013 ◽  
pp. 160-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingyu Sun ◽  
Yea-Fen Chen ◽  
Andrew Olson
Keyword(s):  
Online Instruction ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
The Face ◽  
Guidelines And Recommendations

The virtual language classroom is becoming more commonplace, and for many instructors it is even a requirement. This chapter aims to present a virtual language classroom case study and to propose a prototype for instructors to develop and implement fully online entry-level language classes, as well as to provide guidelines and recommendations for their reference as they redesign traditional face-to-face language courses to fit the online modality. As the case study progressed, the authors discovered that this new modality of online language instruction poses many challenges. Their research aims to answer questions, such as: 1) is the online instruction in the case study comparable to the face-to-face class? and 2) how can one best balance synchronous and asynchronous components in an entry-level online language (Chinese in specific) course?

scholarly journals Ali Smith’s There But For The: Identity, Hospitality and Transcendence in the Age of Surveillance

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Andrei-Bogdan Popa
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Subjective Identity

Abstract The aim of this essay is to prove that, throughout Ali Smith’s There But For The (2011), the “narrative” subjective identity (Alphen 83) accessed via the face-to-face relation (Levinas and Hand 42), as well as through storytelling itself, is liable to be turned into archivable information under the pressures of a surveillance state in which its citizens are complicit. I will use this archival/narrative identity dyad as articulated by theorist Ernst van Alphen in order to investigate at length the novel’s staging of hospitality as corrupted by surveillance. I will oppose the notion of identity as information against Emmanuel Levinas’s conception of the face-to-face relation (Levinas and Hand 42), whereby true hospitality depends upon the mutual respect one person has for the absolute singularity of the other, which involves personal information and the right to privacy. As it will become apparent, these identities lose or gain agency according to the engagement of the self with a newly arrived foreign alterity. Thus, the arrival of strangers throughout Smith’s novel thematizes the scenario of hospitality in tension with the stranger as surveyor or as surveyed. The doubling of language, the self-editing of one’s discourse and the risky openness towards the Other are modes of resistance that eschew the artificial categorizations upon which the archival identity is contingent. However, the bridge from interiority to exteriority is mediation. Smith therefore develops a conception of secularized Grace that works by exploring the revolutionary potential of this very mediation and can disrupt the logic of tyrannical surveillance. Part of this approach to history and language is informed by the witnessing of the traces left on the bodies of martyrized dissidents by unjust systems at their apex. There But For The is narrated by four characters in the mediatic aftermath of a bourgeois dinner party in an affluent suburb of London that witnessed the sudden and unexplainable reclusion of Miles Garth into the spare room of his stunned hosts. The event, as well as those leading up to and following it, is recounted by a grieving nature photographer in his sixties named Mark; May, a rebellious old woman suffering from dementia; an unemployed, middle-aged Anna; and Brooke, a ten-year old girl and voracious reader. The essay will approach these characters’ meditations upon the nature of identity as split between its narrative and archival forms.

scholarly journals Perubahan Budaya Tatap Muka Menjadi Online dalam Bimbingan Skripsi Mahasiswa

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Iswanto Iswanto ◽  
Dasrun Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Cognitive Dimension ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Positive Communication ◽  
The Face ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Communication Culture

Face-to-face communication has turned directly online, which encourages changes in the communication culture of lecturers. Changes in the communication culture require communication competence so that face-to-face thesis guidance runs effectively. Therefore, this research aims to measure the communication competence of lecturers and students when carrying out online guidance. To answer the research objectives, researchers used a case study with a qualitative approach. The theory of analysis used in this study uses the theory of communicative competence based on two dimensions: the cognitive dimension and the behavioral dimension. The data technique used in this study used purposive sampling, which includes several criteria for informants, including two final-year students preparing a thesis using the zoom cloud meeting application, then actively carrying out online thesis guidance and other supporting informants of two supervisors. The results showed that the face-to-face change to online in the guidance of the online thesis culture is still positive because there are communication competencies that are owned; there are two components of communication in online thesis guidance, namely: knowledge (knowledge) and skills (skills), the most positive communication competence—perceived by students and lecturers, namely skills.

scholarly journals THE USE OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA IN LEARNING BASED ON DISRUPTION ERA AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizki Widyawulandari ◽  
Sarwanto Sarwanto ◽  
Mintasihu Indriayu
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
Analyze Data

<p><em>The disruption era is defined as the time when so many innovations are emerging, unrecognized by established organizations that they interfere with the activities of the old system's order or even destroy the old system. The world of education must also be ready in the face of this disruption era, especially in the era of increasingly advanced technology. One of the efforts in the development of learning-based disrupted era, especially in primary school is the use of interactive multimedia. With the steps and processes of using the right interactive multimedia, using interactive multimedia as a message media will stimulate the thoughts, feelings, concerns and desires of students so as to encourage more interactive and communicative learning process and can improve the learning experience of students become more concrete. The research method used is qualitative with case study design where researchers collect and analyze data about the use of interactive multimedia in primary school. The results revealed that interactive multimedia is considered important in the effort of IT utilization in learning in disruption era but there are still many teachers who have not realized and apply it.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Role of Responsive Leadership in Meeting Customers' Needs during Crises

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Leadership Support ◽  
The Face ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
The Impact

This case study conducted to investigate the impact of a responsive leadership approach in meeting customers' needs in a higher education institution in the UAE during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, a mixed-method model has been used. The data has been collected from a convenient sample working and studying at Al Qasimia University Language Center, in fall 2020. This result indicates that the provided responsive leadership support during COVID-19 was effective and helped in motivating learners and customers to keep learning and making progress greater than what was shown before COVID-19, during the face-to-face teaching and physical assessment. Although the qualitative and quantitative results in this case study revealed a significant impact of responsive leadership approach on customers’ progress, there is still a need to conduct other researches to develop and validate a responsive leadership inventory to facilitate measuring of responsive leadership attributes in a large scale sample and/or population.

The "Pastoral" in Virtual Space

2007 ◽  
pp. 218-231
Author(s):  
Mary Griffiths ◽  
Michael Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Flexible Learning ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Intercultural Skills ◽  
The Face ◽  
Learning Software ◽  
English Classroom

Two online undergraduate media and communications projects, one in Australia (1999-2003), and the second from New Zealand (2004-5), are analysed and compared in this chapter. Written by two flexible-learning practitioners, the case study gives the background and contexts of the two projects. We describe how we developed intercultural, pastoral pedagogies suited to contrasting ‘internationalised’ cohorts, despite trends in new ‘market-driven’ universities. The framework used is Michel Foucault’s ‘pastoral’ power, as modelled by Ian Hunter in studies of the milieu of the face-to-face English classroom, and the agency of the teacher in constructing self-reflexive subjectivities (Hunter, 1996). The development of valuable intercultural skills in the student depends in part on the composition of the ‘internationalised’ student groups themselves, and on their and their teacher’s awareness of the formative nature of the software being used. Learning software has the potential to mediate conduct the choice of what kind of relationships ensue rests with the e-practitioner.

Customary Connection to Land and Practices of Resilience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria C. Stead
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Material Form

An ethnography of Cacavei, a rural subsistence community in eastern Timor-Leste, provides a case study for theorizing customary connection to land. When the community was displaced during the period of Indonesian occupation, forms of customary connection to land—including ritual practice, gardening, burial, and story-telling—were a source of resilience in the face of enormous change and suffering. In Cacavei, and in other communities where customary forms of sociality endure, people and land are mutually constitutive. Customary sociality privileges embodied, face-to-face encounters, but in the emphasis placed on genealogical continuity across time it also accords importance to relationships with the dead, with spirits, and with the yet-unborn. Connection to land plays a key role in mediating the abstraction of physical death, with relations to ancestors and other disembodied kin embedded in the land itself, and thus given material form. The capacity to negotiate abstraction underpins the resilience and negotiability of customary systems.

Out of Site, Still in Mind? A Case Study in Video Mediated Communication

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-246
Author(s):  
Beverly L. Harrison ◽  
Mark H. Chignell ◽  
Ronald M. Baecker
Keyword(s):  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Video Communication ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Floor Control ◽  
The Face

Video mediated communication alters our perception of the way in which we interact and communicate. In contrast to face to face or audio only (e.g., telephone) communication, there is relatively little systematic research on the effect of video conferencing on communication within groups of people at dispersed locations (Harrison, 1991b; Harrison et al, 1992b; Sellen, 1992; Wolf, 1988; Cohen, 1982; Short, Williams, and Christie, 1976). In this paper we describe a study of how participants at three distant locations perceived differences between face to face (within site) and video mediated (between site) communication. Results indicate that participants perceived between site, mediated communication to be unnatural and uncomfortable. They felt there were problems with gaining floor control and with conversation flow. Additionally, participants perceived the between site, mediated communication to be less interactive, less social, and less enjoyable than the face to face, within site communication. The insights gained through this and other case studies, summarized here, will be used to guide our future research. This study is one in a series of field trials and controlled experiments aimed at understanding the human factors issues associated with video communication and the design of such systems.

The merger of Baltimore Hebrew University with Towson University: three leadership models converge

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 1595-1613
Author(s):  
Hana Bor ◽  
Rebecca Shargel
Keyword(s):  
Private University ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Public University ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
The Right

PurposeThe study aims to learn how a small private university dedicated to Judaic studies successfully merged with a large public university? Our study investigates how Baltimore Hebrew University (BHU) successfully integrated into the much larger Towson University (TU), while maintaining its unique Jewish identity.Design/methodology/approachHow did leadership facilitate a successful merging of a small private university with a large public university? Our case study investigates how BHU successfully integrated into the much larger TU. Given that past research has focused primarily on the financial aspects, the purpose of the present study is to analyze how leaders successfully navigated the complex processes of integrating the two institutions through envisioning, communicating and planning effectively. This research uniquely investigates the role of leadership as the driving force in moving the merger forward and facilitating the process. The authors analyzed the circumstances that facilitated the merger and discovered that leadership pushed this merger forward, particularly the confluence of three approaches—visionary, transformational and servant leadership. This research has implications for guiding future mergers of smaller colleges with larger universities. This case study is particularly timely, during this uncertain age of COVID-19, when many universities are considering creative solutions, including potential mergers with other institutions, in the face of increasing financial difficulties.FindingsImplications of this research can help illuminate future mergers of smaller colleges with larger universities in cases where the smaller institution desires to retain its strong cultural or historical identity. The authors found that the “right leadership on the ground” is a crucial component needed for a successful merger, particularly in a higher education setting.Research limitations/implicationsOur research provides a concrete example that can be used help campus administrators assess whether they have the leadership structure in place to successfully navigate a merger as a path forward.Originality/valueThis case study is particularly timely, during this uncertain age of COVID-19, when many universities are considering creative solutions, including potential mergers with other institutions, in the face of increasing financial difficulties.

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