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Ethnography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos = folk/people and γράφω grapho = to write) is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group.[1][2][3]
  • communication studies
  • should be reflexive, make a substantial contribution toward the understanding of the social life of humans, have an aesthetic impact on the reader, and express a credible reality
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  • Data collection methods are meant to capture the "social meanings and ordinary activities" [8] of people (informants) in "naturally occurring settings"
  • from the point of view of the subject (not the participant ethnographer)
  • records all observed behavior and describes all symbol-meaning relations using concepts that avoid casual explanations.
  • Multiple methods of data collection may be employed to facilitate a relationship that allows for a more personal and in-depth portrait of the informants and their community.
  • collect data in such a way that the researcher imposes a minimal amount of their own bias on the data.
  • participant observation, field notes, interviews, and surveys.
  • Interviews are often taped and later transcribed, allowing the interview to proceed unimpaired of note-taking,
  • Secondary research and document analysis are also employed to provide insight into the research topic.
  • Reflexivity refers to the researcher's aim "to explore the ways in which [the] researcher's involvement with a particular study influences, acts upon and informs such research"
  • the ethnographer focuses attention on a community, selecting knowledgeable informants who know the activities of the community well.
  • Ethnography relies greatly on up-close, personal experience. Participation, rather than just observation, is one of the keys to this process
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    What if we used the approach of Ethnographer to guide us in our understanding of preschool "culture"
David McGavock

Dr. Allan N. Schore: Home - 0 views

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  • Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focuses on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self.
David McGavock

Using video to investigate preschool classroom interaction: education research assumpti... - 0 views

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    "This article reports on the use of video to collect dynamic visual data in education research and proposes that using visual technologies to collect data can give new insights into classroom interaction. Video data unveil how young children use the full range of material and bodily resources available to them to make and express meaning, forcing a reconsideration of Vygotskian accounts of the relationship between thought and language by producing grounded evidence for a pluralistic interpretation of the construction and negotiation of meaning. In addition to challenging language-biased approaches to classroom interaction, using video to collect data also forces a reexamination of established methodological practices. Drawing on data from ESRC-funded ethnographic video case studies of 3-year-old children communicating at home and in a preschool playgroup, this article discusses methodological and ethical dilemmas encountered in the collection and transcription, or representation, of dynamic visual data, arguing that visual data gives insights into aspects of communicative behaviour pre"
David McGavock

Videatives | Video Clips for Early Childhood & Child Development - 0 views

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    "What is a Videative? The word videative [vid´-é-ã-tive]   refers to the combination of text and video segments to create an integrated viewing experience (video + narrative = videative). The text explains the video and the video exemplifies the text. Our videatives help you see what children know™ and thereby help you better support their learning."
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About Us | Communication Across Barriers - 0 views

  • We assist organizations and communities who want to improve outcomes for people living in poverty.
  • Conferences for youth and adults living in poverty and the Navigator/Neighbor program for matching trained citizens who are not in poverty with citizens who are in poverty), Poverty Competency assessments, customized action planning tools, books, articles, research, informative free newsletter, a resource focused website, and other educational materials for making a difference
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    If we intend to support children we need to understand the roots of poverty so we can support families. Donna Beegle can help us understand what it means and how to help families. Dr. Beegle was named a 2013 Woman of Influence by the Portland Business Journal! The annual Orchid Awards honor women who are compelling, affect change and represent their positions with strength, wisdom and grace. "Our Mission: Communication Across Barriers is dedicated to broadening and improving opportunities for people who live in the war zone of poverty Our far reaching goals: Assist communities and organizations to "fight poverty, not the people who live in it." We illuminate real and structural causes of poverty and provide life changing information that shatters common myths and stereotypes about people who live in poverty Offer research-based strategies and insider perspectives for improving relationships, communication, and opportunities across poverty barriers Develop an army of speakers and trainers who can educate and assist communities in breaking poverty barriers Provide models and programs that increase a connected, collaborative, community-wide approach to fighting poverty Educate and engage people not in poverty with tools and avenues for making a difference in their own communities"
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How The Memory Works In Learning - 1 views

  • Teachers are the caretakers of the development of students’ highest brain during the years of its most extensive changes. As such, they have the privilege and opportunity to influence the quality and quantity of neuronal and connective pathways so all children leave school with their brains optimized for future success.
  • We now know that through neuroplasticity, interneuron connections (dendrites, synapses, and myelin coating) continue to be pruned or constructed in response to learning and experiences throughout our lives.
  • The prefrontal cortex
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  • the CEO that can manage and control our emotions.
  • undergoing maturation throughout the school years.
  • the emotion sensitive limbic system is a switching-station that determines which part of the brain will receive input and determine response output.
  • ew information cannot pass through the amygdala (part of the limbic system) to enter the frontal lobe if the amygdala is in the state of high metabolism or overactivity provoked by anxiety. It is important for teachers to know that when stress cuts off flow to and from the PFC, behavior is involuntary.
  • it is possible to decrease the stressors of frustration from work perceived as too difficult or boredom from repeated instruction after mastery is achieved
  • research reveals other causes of the high stress state in school and suggests interventions to reduce the stress blocking response in the amygdala.
  • most successful construction of working (short-term) memory takes place when there has been activation of the brain’s related prior knowledge before new information is taught.
  • help students increase working memory efficiency
  • with opportunities to make predictions, receive timely feedback, and reflect on those experiences.
  • Memory is Sustained by Use
  • needs to be activated multiple times and ideally in response to a variety of prompts for neuroplasticity to increase its durability
  • Retention is further promoted when new memories are connected to other stored memories based on commonalities, such as similarities/differences, especially when students use graphic organizers and derive their own connections.
  • Multisensory instruction, practice, and review promote memory storage in multiple regions of the cortex,
  • requires opportunities for students to transfer learning beyond the contexts in which it is learned and practiced
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