The essay illustrates Quaini’s inputs to the construction and theoretical/operational development of territorialist school and, later on, Territorialist Society, which he was one major founders guarantors. In his explication concepts like place, territory, landscape, place awareness, Quaini anticipates need for a multidisciplinary lexicon. Taking from Herodote Italia focus on fundamental integr...

Innovation Education (IE) is a new subject area in Icelandic schools. The aim of the subject is to train students to identify needs and problems in their environment and to develop solutions: a process of ideation. This activity has been classroom based but now a Virtual Reality Learning Environment technology (VRLE) has been designed to support ideation. This technology supports online communi...

INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION APPROACHES ON THE PRACTICE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN KENYA SECONDARY SCHOOLS ONDIEKI, MORARA GEORGE and MATONDA, NYABIAGE EMMAH Graduate students University of Nairobi P.O. Box 902 Kisii40200 Abstract This study sought to establish whether quality assurance as currently practiced in learning institutions in Kenya is a form of participatory moni...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of childhood obesity more than doubled in the period from 1961 to 2001. We replicated a 1961 study of stigma in childhood obesity to see what effect this increased prevalence has had on this stigma. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Participants included 458 5th- and 6th-grade children attending upper-middle and lower-middle income U.S. public schools. Children ranked s...

Children living in households affected by HIV face numerous challenges as they take on significant household-sustaining and caregiving roles, often in conditions of poverty. To respond to their hardships, we must identify and understand the support systems they are already part of. For this reason, and to emphasise the agentic capabilities of children, this article explores how vulnerable child...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether combinations of characteristics, abstracted from drawings of elders made by middle school students, grouped together to form cohesive perceptions, or stereotypes, of human aging. METHODS We abstracted 49 characteristics from drawings of elders made by 1,944 students at two middle schools in San Antonio, Texas, at the beginning of th...

As teachers seek to reflect children’s diverse experience in the subject matter they present and in the questions they explore, they must also embrace children’s multifaceted ways of knowing. Their major pedagogical challenge is to help children transform what they know into modes of representation that allow for a full range of human experience. In their lives outside of school, children ‘natu...

744 When asked what they remember of their biology class in school, most biology teachers will recall hours of tedious dictation, poring over thick tomes and intricate drawings of dissected, half-putrefied animals lingering in formaldehyde. Few will reminisce about memorable experiments, in contrast to chemistry or physics. Given this background, it is not surprising that many teachers find it ...

Specialized software in structural analysis and design are now commercially available and may be adopted in schools to teach students on the use of state-of-the-art software. However, learning to use the software should not be the main objective when these software are integrated in the classroom. Methods on how these software be used to generate “new knowledge” and deepen the understanding on ...