scholarly journals The formation of new media preferences among pre-school children in the context of peer culture and home interaction: A pedagogical perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi Vinter
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
New Media ◽  
School Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Peer Culture ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Group Influence ◽  
School Group ◽  
Media Preferences ◽  
Main Growth

This study examines connections between two main growth environments – home and pre-school – in the formation of young children’s new media preferences in the context of the ecological techno-microsystem and peer culture. The study assembles the results of three focus group based sub-studies with pre-school teachers (N=24), parents (N=20) and children between the ages of 5 and 7 (N=61). Samples were formed in pre-school childcare institutions, which in Estonia is for children aged 1,5 to 7. Research shows that other members of the pre-school group influence children’s preferences in their use of new media. Parents consider the shaping of their children’s preferences to be less connected to the children’s relations with their peers. Teachers, on the other hand, ascribe the children’s preferences to different aspects of the influence that their peers, siblings and parents can have on them.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING LOW UPTAKE OF MASS TREATMENT FOR INTESTINAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN JINJA DISTRICT, UGANDA

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON MUHUMUZA ◽  
ANNETTE OLSEN ◽  
FRED NUWAHA ◽  
ANNE KATAHOIRE
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
Intestinal Schistosomiasis ◽  
Key Informant

SummaryDespite attempts to control intestinal schistosomiasis through school-based mass drug administration (MDA) with praziquantel using school teachers in Uganda, less than 30% of the school children take the treatment in some areas. The aim of the study was to understand why the uptake of praziquantel among school children is low and to suggest strategies for improved uptake. This was a cross-sectional qualitative study in which 24 focus group discussions and 15 key informant interviews were conducted 2 months after MDA. The focus group discussions were held with school children in twelve primary schools and the key informant interviews were held with school teachers, sub-county health assistants and the District Vector Control Officer. The study shows that the low uptake of praziquantel among school children is a result of a complex interplay between individual, interpersonal, institutional, community and public policy factors. The individual and interpersonal factors underpinning the low uptake include inadequate information about schistosomiasis prevention, beliefs and attitudes in the community about treatment of schistosomiasis and shared concerns among children and teachers about the side-effects of praziquantel, especially when the drug is taken on an empty stomach. The institutional, policy and community factors include inadequate preparation and facilitation of teachers and the school feeding policy, which requires parents to take responsibility for providing their children with food while at school, yet many parents cannot meet the cost of a daily meal due to the prevailing poverty in the area. It is concluded that strategies to improve uptake of praziquantel among school children need to be multi-pronged addressing not only the preparation and motivation of teachers and health education for children, but also the economic and political aspects of drug distribution, including the school feeding policy.

scholarly journals Odnos teksta i ilustracije - perspektiva ilustratora i učitelja

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-62
Author(s):  
Nataša Lalić-Vučetić ◽  
Nada Ševa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Common Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
The Relationship

Illustrations as an effective means of communication help children to understand what they have read, enriching at the same time their vocabulary and ultimately influencing children's motivation and achievement. The aim of this paper is to determine how teachers and illustrators perceive and understand the relationship between a text and an illustration in a primer. A qualitative research was conducted using a focus group with primary school teachers and an interview with an illustrator. The research results show that from the illustrator's and teachers' narratives one can single out, on one hand, the categories related to and explaining the relationship between a text and an illustration, and on the other hand, the categories describing the scope of the illustrator and the teachers in the process of text and illustration integration, as well as their motivation. A critical attitude of the illustrator and the teachers towards publishing, as well as the importance of illustration, was a common point in the narratives, where they emphasized that it is necessary to have a measure in order to establish the relationship between a text and an illustration in general. It was observed that the responsibility for the integration of texts and illustrations should be shared by all participants in creating the final textbook/primer, and that it is necessary to emphasize the need to connect the authors and illustrators during the creation of the relationship between a text and an illustration on one page of the primer/ textbook. It is additionally important to develop a further framework for teacher education in terms of emphasizing the importance of illustration in the learning process in teaching.

scholarly journals Preparing Teachers to Use New Media Visual Communications in Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Tatyana Yarkova ◽  
Irina Cherkasova ◽  
Albina Timofeeva ◽  
Vladimir Cherkasov ◽  
Vladimir Yarkov
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Visual Communications ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Media Technologies

In recent years new media visual communications have become predominant in the built environment of today's children. This study sought to examine the pedagogical potential of visual communications and to find out how the traditional technology in children's training and education contradict the influence of new media technologies on the educational process. The opinions and attitudes of school teachers (N=150) towards the problem as well as documents and teaching materials were analyzed. The research demanded use of direct and indirect observations, questionnaires, self-analysis, and observation of the results of activity. A monitoring protocol, profiles, and materials for meaningful evaluation of products for teaching were developed. The obtained results showed that there is a narrowness of understanding of visual communications by teachers; uniformity in visual presentation of educational materials; lack of a system in multimedia application; and repetition in the creation and use of visual content. The results suggest that it is necessary to change not only the content and methods of training prospective teachers, but also their thinking.

Preliminary Communication: 2: The Highlands Dependency Questionnaire (HDQ): An administered version for use with mothers of school children

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Berg ◽  
Ralph McGuire ◽  
Edward Whelan
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Preliminary Communication ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

SYNOPSISA questionnaire concerned with dependency, mainly in the mother–child relationship, and intended for use in child psychiatry, is described. It was administered to the mothers of 116 randomly selected junior and secondary school children in the general population, stratified into age, sex, social class, and school groupings. Two meaningful dimensions were revealed by principal component factor analyses: one concerned with reliance on mother and the other reflecting sociability. Reliability and validity were found to be satisfactory.

The Total Costs of Ultrasonography Summary

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-323
Author(s):  
CHUNG-PIN SHEIH ◽  
CHING-YUANG LIN
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Correct Diagnosis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Renal Ultrasonography ◽  
Benefit Ratio ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Renal Abnormalities

In Reply.— In our article, we reported on 645 renal abnormalities found in 132 686 school children screened through the use of renal ultrasonography. Of those with renal abnormalities, 50 patients had surgically correctable lesions. The other 595 cases have been examined fully to establish the correct diagnosis and the prevalence of renal abnormalities in school children. However, in this study, the cost to benefit ratio was determined by total expense to number of surgically treatable diseases.

scholarly journals Medieøkologien i SKAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Ruth Grüters ◽  
Knut Ove Eliassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

AbstractTo understand the success of SKAM, the series’ innovative use of “social media” must be taken into consideration. The article follows two lines of argument, one diachronic, the other synchronic. The concept of remediation allows for a historical perspective that places the series in a longer tradition of “real time”-fictions and media practices that span from the epistolary novels of the 18th century by way of radio theatre and television serials to the new media of the 21st century. Framing the series within the current media ecology (marked by the connectivity logic of “social media”), the authors analyze how the choice of the blog as the drama’s media platform has formed the ways the series succeeded in affecting and mobilizing its audience. Given the long tradition of strong pedagogical premises in the teenager serials of publicly financed Norwegian television, the authors note the absence of any explicit media critical perspectives or didacticism. Nevertheless, the claim is that the media-practices of the series, as well as the actions and discourses of its followers (blogposts, facebook-groups, etc.), generate new insights and knowledge with regards to the series’ form, content, and practices.

scholarly journals Pelatihan Pengolahan Jajanan Sehat Anak Sekolah kepada UMKM Makanan Jajanan Di Kecamatan Ubud Kabupaten Gianyar

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Agustini ◽  
A.A.N. Kusumajaya ◽  
I G.P. Sudita Puryana
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Community Service ◽  
School Children ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Canteen

Children are a group at high risk of contracting the disease through food or drink.Based on the results of the research by Agustini and Kusumayanti (2016) on the Development of Traditional Balinese Snacks to Healthy Snacks for School Children in Gianyar Regency stated that the results of the development of these snacks had a good acceptability (93.15%) in school children.Therefore to increase the availability of healthy snacks for school children, the results of this study were followed up in the form of community service, with the aim of improving the skills of processing healthy snacks through training.Participants in the training included: school children, school canteen managers, snacks sellers and school teachers as many as 16 people.The results of community service were able to increase knowledge from an average of 63.75 to 86.35.The participants' skills in making healthy snacks for school children are quite good, because snacks that are processed are modified traditional snacks, which are commonly done by the local community.The follow-up of this training is the application of skills in processing healthy snacks both at school canteens, snack processors, and monitoring school children snacks by school teachers.Keywords: training, processing, healthy snacks, school children

scholarly journals Examining Distance Learners in Hybrid Synchronous Instruction: Successes and Challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enilda Romero-Hall ◽  
Cristiane Rocha Vicentini
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Distance Learners ◽  
Electronic Journals ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Successes And Challenges

This paper reports on a case study investigating distance learners participating in graduate-level hybrid synchronous instruction. This research helps inform the design of hybrid synchronous instruction in which face-to-face and distance learners engage in class sessions. Data were collected using electronic journals, individual interviews, and a focus group. The results of the data analysis provide evidence that in this case, hybrid synchronous instruction improved the study habits of distance learners. On the other hand, the case study results also revealed that there are challenging pedogogical aspects which the distance learners had to overcome during hybrid synchronous instruction. Among such challenges were the interactions, relationships, and communication exchanges between distance learners, their face-to-face counterparts, and the instructor.

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