scholarly journals An Ecocultural Perspective on Learning Disability: Evaluation of Familial and Cultural Factors and Presentation of an Integrated Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzan Cen-Yagiz ◽  
Berna Aytac
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Ecocultural Theory ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Ecocultural theory defines culture as a broad context that includes the tasks, goals, beliefs, values, and resources of society. According to ecocultural theory, culture shapes families’ resources, routines, goals, and parenting practices. In turn, these characteristics of family ecology and parenting determine child development. Ecocultural theory is one of the modern approaches that examine the adaptation of children with disabilities and their families. This chapter aims to outline the relationship between cultural values and families’ support resources, and their influence on adaptation of the families and their children with learning disability (LD) within the framework of ecocultural theory. Previous studies supported that cultural values determine public knowledge, awareness, beliefs, and attitudes about LD. This chapter outlines both the detrimental and positive effects of the public knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes on families’ support resources. Also, families’ diversified support resources are detailed, and their differential influences on family and child development are elaborated. In the chapter, an integrated model is presented based on findings of previous empirical studies and ecocultural perspective. The model might enhance a culturally sensitive understanding of the experience of families and children. This chapter can also guide researchers in developing more comprehensive and effective intervention programs for the target group.

Culture in Conflict With Childhood Training and Religious Leadership in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Sylvester Dan Udofia
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Nigerian Children ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
The Face ◽  
Home Training ◽  
African Families ◽  
Developmental Expectations

It is becoming generally accepted that child development is culturally constructed. Cultural values and attitudes regulate child rearing values, developmental expectations, and emotional orientations. Employing descriptive methods in studying this problem, the chapter observes that leadership style in many societies have been plagued with greed, violence, indiscipline, and corruption. This study places blame on poor home foundation as it reasons with the Hebrew sage that nothing serious can be built on a faulty foundation (Ps. 11:3). Consequent upon this, the study upholds that if children who are Nigeria's future leaders are groomed in families that have religion and morality as the bedrock of their education, then God fearing leaders would be produced. To achieve this, the chapter further suggests that adapting and combining lessons from traditional African families and those of ancient Israel in the home training of Nigerian children would result in producing leaders like the biblical Daniel who remained incorruptible even in the face of serious challenges.

Nevil Shute and the Decline of the Imperial Idea' In Literature

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Lammers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Charles Kingsley ◽  
World War ◽  
Literary Response ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Second World ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

After John Buchan, Nevil Shute. In the long progression of popular British writers who have woven stories around the social facts and cultural values of empire, a progression which extends from Charles Kingsley and G. A. Henty through Paul Scott and, arguably, Ian Fleming, Nevil Shute occupies a distinguishable and important place. Both in his own right and as a representative figure he deserves analysis on account of his part in the literary re-statement of what has fairly been called the ‘imperial idea,’ that matrix of assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes which had sustained and rationalized the endeavors of several generations of politicians, publicists, and civil servants, but whose relevance to Great Britain's circumstances after the Second World War was increasingly open to doubt. This essay offers the elements of such an analysis and suggests some lines along which further inquiry might proceed.For at least a decade before his death in January 1960, Nevil Shute had been the best selling of English novelists. Altogether, his nearly two dozen works of light fiction have sold over 14 million copies. When he died his books were earning him an income of about $175,000 a year. Such extended popularity can hardly have been fortuitous. Without venturing too far into the psychology of literary response, it seems reasonable to conclude that Shute must have gauged accurately the issues and situations which, imaginatively presented, would interest his readers, and further, that he must have expressed in his work a pattern of values which conformed generally to their moral predispositions (or at least did not offend them.) Hence it should prove worthwhile to take a close and comprehensive look at his themes and ideas on the premise that they can tell us something useful about his audience.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Nursing Care Model Based on Culture to Improve the Care of Malnourished Madurese Children in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1220-1225
Author(s):  
Abdul Aziz Alimul Hidayat ◽  
Musrifatul Uliyah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Quasi Experimental

AIM: The purpose of this study is to analyse the usage of nursing care model based on culture to improve parenting practices related to malnutrition among Madurese children. METHODS: This study uses a quasi-experimental design and a purposive sample of 102 respondents from families with toddlers who suffered from nutritional deficiency. The sample consisted of an intervention group (n = 51) and a control group (n = 51). Data were collected using a questionnaire and weight measurement. RESULTS: A t-test found a difference between all of the variables of care, including health technology utilization, when comparing the following variables between the intervention group and the control group (t = 14.12, p < 0.001), beliefs and philosophy (t = 10.20, p < 0.001), cultural values and lifestyle (t = 13.63, p < 0.001), economic reasons (t = 0.20, p = 0.837), nursing action response based on culture (t = 11.28, p < 0.001), and care behaviors for children (t = 16.43, p < 0.001). The Wilcoxon signed-rank test found a difference between pre-intervention nursing care model based on culture and post-intervention nursing care model based on culture regarding the variable malnutrition status (t = 16.43, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: This study found that the application of nursing care model based on culture affects care practices. Nursing care model based on culture can be applied to families with toddlers who are malnourished because of the lack of a culture of care.

Relative Effects of Parenting Practices on Child Development in the Context of Family Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerf W.K. Yeung ◽  
Hui-Fang Chen ◽  
Herman H.M. Lo ◽  
Anna W.M. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Family Processes

Enhancing SLD Diagnoses Through the Identification of Psychological Processing Deficits

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton J. Dehn
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Specific Learning Disability ◽  
Specific Learning Disabilities ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Processing Deficits ◽  
Psychological Processing ◽  
Specific Learning ◽  
Identification Procedures

After defining psychological processing and providing descriptions of 10 interrelated neuropsychological processes, the author proposes an integrated model for identifying an individual's pattern of psychological processing strengths, weaknesses, and deficits when conducting a specific learning disability (SLD) assessment. The model incorporates approaches from other pattern of strengths and weaknesses (PSW) models, while adding three requirements designed to reduce psychometric concerns about the identification procedures. Details for analysing cross-battery data and recommendations for applying processing deficits to SLD determination are included. In support of the model, the article reviews research that links psychological processing deficits with specific learning disabilities. The article concludes with a brief overview of evidence-based interventions for psychological processing deficits.

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