Search Constraints
« Previous |
51 - 58 of 58
|
Next »
Search Results
- Creator:
- Pitzer, Clytis Arlene.
- Description:
- It was the purpose of this investigation to study
the development of relational position concepts of four-year-
old disadvantaged children as influenced by opportunities
for block manipulation with verbal naming of the position by
an experimenter. It was hypothesised that the children
given the experimental treatment would demonstrate a higher
level of conceptualisation of relational positions than
children in a matched control group not given the block play
experience.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Osterberg, Margaret.
- Description:
- The purpose of this paper is to study selected
aspects of the use of educational television in early
childhood education. In order to understand the need and
purpose for such a study, it is necessary to have some
background information about early childhood education and
educational television. A brief statement about the current
interest in early childhood education, the use of educational
television in teacher education, and a description of the
television course used in this study will presented in
this section.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- McDowell, Karen Smith.
- Description:
- "Vocational education" is a term which has long been an
integral part of education's vocabulary. When mentioned, the words
frequently bring to mind such things as a "dumping ground" in the
school for those students who are less academically inclined, for those
students who are disciplinary problems, or for those students with
educational handicaps. Students who prefer vocational courses for
whatever personal reason are too often considered of lower scholastic
ability because they are not enrolled in all academic classes.''"
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Moerk, Claudia.
- Description:
- Since the main focus of this study is on parentchild relationships as portrayed in the folktales of East
and West Africa, Germany, Scandinavia, Turkey and Japan,
this introduction will be divided into three parts. The
first section will explore some cross cultural findings
on parent-child relationships in the five cultures
mentioned above. The second section will delve into the
background and history of the folktale. The third and
final section will explore the different methods of
analysis that could be applied to the folktale, namely,
the historic-geographic method, content analysis and
structural analysis.
There have, of course, been numerous cross cultural
studies undertaken on the question of parent-child
relationships. A few pertinent ones will be discussed
here .
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Meek, Evva Mae.
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of additional time allotment in a remedial reading class on a selected group of students in grades two through
five in Wasco, California. The study was designed to find the effect of the
additional time allotment in reading on the students in the program in four general areas . Those areas were:reading skills, verbal intelligence, general reading
ability, and attitude of child toward reading. Because there were so many below grade level readers in the Wasco Union Elementary School District, this study
was considered to be important and necessary. This study has helped in the search for solutions to the problem.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Hobbs, Howard.
- Description:
- In the history of American education, patterns of
pedagogy have always reflected the values and self-assessments
of the larger society which fostered and sustained them.
Though initially rooted and set in theocratic values, by the
end of the eighteenth century language skills, rather than
the promise of personal salvation, had become the predominant
objective of the public schools. For the duration of this
time, American education conveyed the ineffaceable impression
of being more democratic and fundamentally universal than its
European counterparts. This difference was not a superficial
one even though the objectives as well as the content of
American education remained a creation of the affluent members of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority. The
transition from an essentially religious content and style
of instruction of the 1600' s to emphasis on the "Three R's"
of the later 1800's was beneficiently unrelenting. Although
they had actually begun to develop in the late part of the
nineteenth century, the humanistic social sciences did not
really affect the school practice until the faintest dawning
of the twentieth century. The earliest influence of the
newer science of psychology within the school was due, in
part, to numerous profound changes being brought about in
content methods, and objectives of American elementary and
secondary education. In the resulting pedagogical revolution,
insights from a broad and developing learning theory eroded
traditional assumptions about the intrinsic value of education by rote. Emotionally cold and sterile practices began
to give ground before the movement toward views of instructional methodology in which philosophic consideration of
individual difference dominated the literature of education
and psychology for the next nine decades.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Gorden, Mary Amanda.
- Description:
- The city of Exeter is in a rural area of Tulare County near the
center of the San Joaquin Valley, California. The economy is
agriculturally oriented with an emphasis on citrus. Exeter Union High
School, located in the city of Exeter, is a single high school
district composed of four elementary feeder schools: Exeter, Sequoia,
Farmersville and Outside Creek Elementary Districts. The enrollment of
the school is approximately 378 of which 22.9 percent come from
low-income families who are of Anglo and Mexican-American descent.
Mexican-Americans constitute roughly 20 percent of the school
population.The reading program at Exeter Union High School is financed
under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The
program has been in existence since 1966 covering a grade span of
ninth through twelfth grade. During the Project year July 1, 1971, to
August 31, 1972, 136 students participated in the program. There are
two full-time reading instructors, two full-time adult aides, student
aides and a part-time Project Coordinator working at the Exeter High
School Campus.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Asadoorian, Richard.
- Description:
- The intent of this study was to investigate what kinds of
gains, if any, children made while participating in an aesthetically
oriented reading program. The hypothesis formulated for the study was
that students will show significant gains in reading achievement.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education