Choice Of Books Research Articles

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Costas Markides notes there are different types of innovation — product innovation, technological innovation and business model innovation. Here are his choices of books that lie at the intersection of strategy and innovation which changed his own views on the topic.

My Favourite Book! Young Aboriginal Children's Book Choices

THIS STUDY INTO THE READING patterns and choices of three- to six-year old Aboriginal children revealed that children chose books that promoted social interactions between family members and wider social networks. Books selected most often promoted child agency and problem solving with a cause-effect narrative structure, rather than books of lists and descriptive captions. The children's fathers were actively involved in contributing to their family's literacy development and often read aloud to multi-age groups of children in the home. The study revealed that most families had few children's books in the home and that access to children's books was limited, while also demonstrating the appeal of good-quality children's literature in generating numerous re-readings of favourite books.

Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550-1700 (review)

IMAGINING CHINA: THE VIEW FROM EUROPE, 1550-1700. Exhibition curation by Timothy Billings with Jim Kuhn and video curation by Alexander Huang. 18 September 2009-9 January 2010. This exhibit at the Folger Library (2009) was a testament to how views of China changed and developed during the 150 years concerned, as Europe learned about the country, as well as how balances are shifting in the United States today. It included information on how performance has developed in Chinese film and theatre, especially since 1986, via video examples selected by Alexander Huang that were available in a well-developed media kiosk. Though the artifacts in the exhibit reflected Elizabethan and Jacobean views of China, as a viewer I left thinking how presenting China has complexified in contemporary American museum display and how China--the bamboo curtained other of my childhood--has shifted from periphery of American consciousness toward China's historically self-conceived place, the center of things, culturally, economically, politically. The Folger library sits at the head of the national mall close to the Supreme Court, US legislative buildings, and Library of Congress. Henry Folger of Standard Oil established the library in the 1930s to plant firmly in the head of the American nation. His dream is alive and well in today's Washington: for example, the NEA's in American Communities program (http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org), established in 2003 under the Bush administration, continues, sending teachers free DVDs featuring American teens of all ethnicities enraptured as they play and funding groups to crisscross the nation with performances. Paul Collins's lecture at the Folger, which greeted my arrival in Washington, included readings from his The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World (Collins 2009) detailing his pilgrimages to the first folios in Japan. So I went to the Folger with visions of a literary-industrial complex dancing in my head. Was this a celebration of appropriating China, and did not the current debt economics have something to do with China being featured here? (Contemporary politics indeed made this exhibit very easy to fund, as one staff member volunteered when we chatted during a break at a conference associated with the exhibit.) But the display was not a case of finding new sites for Shakespeare (to borrow John Russell Brown's (1999) enthusiastic phrase regarding his Asian theatre adventures). Rather, the display showed Timothy Billings's careful choices of books, images, and historical figures to clarify sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European perceptions of and encounters with China. Huang's video choices likewise convince us that, while there is definite West to East influence going (especially British to Asia) in film or theatre, it would also be productive to spend time researching inter-Asian influences (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore were all included here) and seeing how different Chinese Shakespeares reflect the variety of Chinese relationships to (and of course other areas of Asia, notably Japan), historically and at present. This review will briefly consider the exhibit and then discuss Huang's video kiosk, inset near the entrance to the display. Billings selected a number of themes, and I will only hit on a few. The exhibit started with Jesuit-inflected images and writings on China, including those of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) and Athanasius Kircher (1622-1680). It continued with early maps and images and then explored oddities that struck the European imagination--cormorants, medicines (including rhubarb and musk, as well as moxa), sail coaches (cany wagons light mentioned by John Milton in 1667, small vehicles which used wind power to move over flat beaches in the windswept south)--and showed an undelivered letter from Elizabeth I to the Emperour of Cathaye. …

The Hollis-Collections in Switzerland: An Attempt to Disseminate Political and Religious Freedom through Books in the 18th Century

Thomas Hollis (1720–1774) was not only one of the most important donors of the Harvard College Library, but donated also books to a number of institutions throughout Europe, among them the main libraries in Basle, Berne, Geneva and Zurich. This article shows the motivations behind Hollis’s choice of books and recipients to spread the philosophy of political and religious liberty and demonstrates for the first time the full extent of Hollis’s campaign to influence protestant scholars in Switzerland.

Women from Ghana: Their Urban Challenges in Ama Ata Aidoo's Novel Changes: A Love Story

Women from GhanaTheir Urban Challenges in Ama Ata Aidoo's Novel Changes: A Love Story Ginette Curry (bio) I called the book Changes, because I see primarily a character like Esi the protagonist as being a part of those who are trying to define, or even redefine woman as a lover, as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, even as a granddaughter…. That's why I called the book Changes. In the meantime, it was fascinating to note that, for instance, my Dutch publishers titled the Dutch version of the book Choices. So, they saw her as somebody who had to deal with the issue of choices. "Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo," by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo Introduction Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo stands out among today's many talented and prominent African women writers for her widely acclaimed novels depicting the role of African women in a changing world. Like many people of her generation Aidoo witnessed Ghana's 1957 transition from British colony to independent state, as well as the conflicting interests and competing power bases that emerged in its post-independence years. Specifically, in the 1980s Ghana went through changes of governments, military coups, and economic downturns that affected not only the rural but also the urban populations. In an era of growing globalization and a new world order such turmoil brought about a new set of changes. This paper analyzes the various social, economic, and cultural conflicts and challenges Ama Ata Aidoo's female characters experience in her 1991 novel Changes: A Love Story, which takes place mainly in urban environments in West Africa and Europe in the 1980s. It has been praised by many literary critics for its thought-provoking portrayal of African women's redefined roles in their post-independence urban environment, and in 1993 it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Africa region. [End Page 179] The story line is about three Ghanaian professional women, Esi, Opokuya, and Fusena, who deal differently with family issues and make attempts to juggle their many obligations toward their husbands, children, and careers in the 1980s. Nevertheless, their husbands are impervious to their feminist thinking and remain unsympathetic. Esi chooses to divorce, prioritizing her career and willingly entering a polygamous marriage—which ultimately becomes an exchange of one set of challenges for another. On the other hand, Opokuya stays in her monogamous marriage despite her many overwhelming wifely duties. Finally, like her counterparts Fusena feels trapped in a marriage that stifles her career aspirations. Ultimately, she ends up sharing her husband with Esi. Through the portrayal of her three major female characters Ama Ata Aidoo conveys an intimate and gender-focused perspective on the themes of love and female celibacy, African women's marriage, sexuality within marriage, and motherhood in urban Ghana during the 1980s. Interestingly, although there are many similarities in the dilemmas the three women face, their individual choices are totally different. Being Single in Accra, The Capital of Ghana In "Sugar Daddies and Gold Diggers" (1983) Carmel Dinan analyzes the plight of educated and middle-class women in Accra, Ghana. She explains that "even when women attain economic independence and self-sufficiency, they are still expected to have husbands."1 Furthermore, a study entitled "Pleas for Domestic Relief: Akan Women and Family Courts" (1997) reveals that African urbanization changed the fabric of Ghanaian society. Some women are heads of households and therefore subvert traditional situations, where conjugal and lineage ties prevail.2 In Changes: A Love Story Aidoo's literary representation of urban Ghanaian women shows Esi living as a single woman for a few weeks before she becomes Ali's wife. Keenly aware of the societal changes affecting Ghanaian women in the 1980s and 1990s and the new dilemmas they faced, Aidoo creates female characters such as Esi, who claims that in the cultural, ideological, and social context of post-independence Africa, there is no place for single women: OPOKUYA: "It is even more frightening to think that our societies do not admit that single women exist. Yet …" ESI: "Yet what?" OPOKUYA: "Single women have always existed here too," she said with some wonder. ESI: "Oh yes. And all over...

A Response to “The Climate Change Debates”

Philip Kitcher, a philosophy professor at Columbia University, has written a book review, entitled “The Climate Change Debates” (Science, vol 328, 4 June, 2010, pp. 1230-34). His recipe for an “open discussion and debate” about climate change seems to be a one-sided coverage by an elitist, self-chosen group. “Genuine democratic participation” is out, in favor of “reliance on expert opinion.” And who might these ‘experts’ be? No surprise there; Kitcher knows – and shapes his review accordingly. Making his point, Kitcher then juxtaposes “aging” scientists to “serious” scientists. It’s all downhill from there. To emphasize his recommendation to deny a platform to “deniers” (his term), consider his choice of books for review. All eight books are basically polemics for anthropogenic global warming (AGW), with precious little science in them. Assuming a rough balance of such books on both sides of the AGW debate, the probability of such a choice by pure chance is about 0.39 percent. So much for balance. To make matters even worse, he plugs the very worst of the eight books selected – Merchants of Doubt, written by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway.1 It attempts to smear mainly four scientists, all physicists with long records of publications, public service, and honors. In defense of three of these (recently deceased), who were founders of the George C. Marshall Institute, the GMI has published a reply to this attack on the integrity of the Institute and its founders. The reply is available at http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/894.pdf and is worth quoting from: “Replete with half-truths and mischaracterizations, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s book besmirches the reputations of three great American scientists to silence dissent within the ranks of scientists and stifle debate among policy makers about how to respond to global warming. Their message is both antiscience and anti-democratic. Whether the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is desirable or not is irrelevant, the merits of their scholarship and its implications are clear. Predictably, they create a tobacco strawman and knock it

The Practice, Purpose, and Perils of List-Making

In spring 2009 issue of International Journal, John Kirton published his of important books on Canadian foreign He framed his as a response to what he believes to be one remaining unanswered question about field: Is Canadian foreign policy really a self-contained field with an intellectually coherent, progressive research tradition, defined by seminal books of creative inspiration and continuing relevance at its core?1 Although Kirton suggests that good reasons to doubt that (554), exercise of producing such a convinces him that there is, at long last, a single field of Canadian foreign policy, reflective of rich diversity that subject itself contains (564). In putting forward his list, Kirton invites others to offer their own suggestions and amendments, presenting as the beginning of a debate about what field is, on what its best books are(556), rather than as definitive statement ofthe best books in field. Despite this, Kirton does go on to argue that virtuaUy all scholars should accept of his selections as clear choices or credible candidates, and where readers' personal favourites have been omitted, these scholars should be able to mount a considered case to explain why personal favourite that has been omitted is better than one or more of Kirton's own personal favourites (555).In responding to Kirton's article, we talcing up invitation to interrogate what constitutes academic field of Canadian foreign policy. In doing so, is neither our intent nor our desire to produce an alternative of books in response to Kirton's top 10. Rather, we want to raise questions about entire enterprise of production, whether those lists of important books, of books, or of scholars.2 The act of defining a field based on what its best books are is an exercise that is inherently political, and not only for reason that Kirton identifies - that it is unlikely that aU scholars currently teaching and researching in [Canadian foreign policy] wul agree with every book on list (555). Whue we may (and wul) query selection of books that Kirton has included on his list, is not choice of individual books that causes us greatest consternation. Rather, our concern is with fact of producing such a in first instance, particularly when objective of effort is to demonstrate supposed self-contained and research existing in field. In this inherently political exercise, Kirton is tracing boundaries of field as he sees it, and in so doing, defining its important theoretical questions and traditions, thereby effectively marginalizing or dismissing other questions and traditions as less significant, perhaps irrelevant, and certainly not consistent with coherent research tradition that he believes now defines field. As such, practice, purpose, and perils ofthe list-making enterprise merit serious discussion, which we propose to undertake by looking both at Kirton's list, and at implicit messages behind list-making.THE PRACTICE OF LIST-MAKINGKirton begins his article by situating his own list-making effort within context of other lists. In particular, he looks at 2009 TRIP survey of top international relations /Canadian foreign policy scholars in order to establish a of scholars of Canadian foreign policy. He supplements this most influential with a of io books appearing on 25 undergraduate Canadian foreign policy 200809 syllabi available to him on web, which he deems most used textbook list. He then presents us with his of 10 important books on Canadian foreign policy. His criteria for selection of 10 important books, aside from being personal favourites, seem to include innovative ideas [that] stand at or near centre of field today (556). …

Análise da abordagem do tema paleontologia nos livros didáticos de biologia

The textbook is currently one of the main instruments in the process of education and learning. Analyses of the Biology content in these books are essential in order to show problems contained in these publications and allow a more informed choice of books for the teaching of specific contents. In this work, an analysis of the Paleontology content in Biology textbooks was carried out, aiming to evaluate the reability of the presentation of paleontological topics in secondary school books and to provide crucial information for the choice of better texts for use in biology classes regarding the subject of Paleontology. Five Biology textbooks currently adopted in Brazilian secondary schools were chosen for the analysis. Among the textbooks analyzed, four presented a satisfactory approach to paleontological themes, including detailed descriptions of the main topics and reasonable presentations of key concepts. However, pervasive conceptual errors were found. Moreover, we found that new concepts and approaches currently adopted by the scientific community have been scarcely incorporated in these publications. Therefore, we highlight the need to update the books analyzed based on more recent paleontological textbooks, as well as a better articulation between paleontological and correlated biological concepts. In addition, we suggest an improvement in the explanations of complex issues, such as "fossil dating" and "fossilization processes".

This Mattered to Me

Reading Comes Naturally: A Mother and Her Blind Child's Experiences, by Diane D. Miller, published in the January 1985 issue of the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Volume 79, pp, 1-4, Nearly 25 years have passed since I first read Diane Miller's article entitled, Reading Comes Naturally: A Mother and Her Blind Child's Experiences in the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB). At the time, I had been teaching for nine years and was in my third year working with beginning braille readers in a resource room setting. I had subscribed to JVIB when I was in graduate school and regularly read articles related to children. However, rarely had an article enticed me as much as this one. The personal narrative format was appealing, and, as a teacher of reading, I looked forward to learning from the author's experiences in the area of emergent literacy. In this article, Diane Miller describes her efforts to provide her preschool-aged daughter Jamaica, who was born blind, with the same early literacy experiences as her two sighted siblings. Ms. Miller brought to this challenge her background as a graphic designer, training as a teacher of visually impaired students (when Jamaica was three years old), and a commitment to the whole-language reading philosophy. This approach, which became widespread in the 1980s, advocated a focus on meaning before the introduction of isolated skills; teachers matched instructional activities to individual learners' interests, experiences, and skill levels, while using high-quality, authentic reading materials (Swenson, 1999). The author's first sentences made an impact on me with their message of equal expectations for children who are blind and sighted: I use the word reading in exactly the same sense as when a sighted child picks up a favorite book and thumbs through retelling the story in his or her own words. The child is obviously aware of the meaning and wholeness of that book. Embedded in this introduction are important emergent reading behaviors: independent choice of preferred books; development of book-handling skills, such as locating the front cover and turning pages; the ability to retell a story; the understanding that print or braille contains an important message; and, finally, the sense of pleasure books can bring when the content is motivating. The author notes that families and teachers should encourage children's early approximations of these reading behaviors, as they are important steps along the road to formal literacy. She continues her description of the literary environment she creates for Jamaica with many practical suggestions for assembling homemade books, recording auditory experience albums, and adapting commercial books for young children who are blind. Diane Miller's successful inclusion of Jamaica in her family's literacy activities is a testament to the power of family members as their children's first and most important teachers. …

Effects of pre-service teachers’ receptive vocabulary knowledge on their interactive read-alouds with elementary school students

There are individual differences in the amount and type of vocabulary that adults produce to young children in the home environment before the children enter school. How many words a mother knows is a significant predictor of a child’s vocabulary. The current study addressed the question of whether there were individual differences in the amount and type of vocabulary that pre-service teachers produced in their first read-aloud lessons to first and second grade students. Specifically, would pre-service teachers with higher vocabulary scores differ from those with lower vocabulary scores in their choice of books to read and in the language they used to discuss the books? Results indicated that pre-service teachers with more advanced vocabulary scores chose books with more vocabulary diversity and sophistication. When they chose narrative texts, they also chose books that were more difficult in terms of their semantic cohesion. Both the receptive vocabulary of pre-service teachers and the language in the books that they chose had an effect on the “teacher talk” that they used in the lesson surrounding the book reading. Just as parents show individual differences in the richness of the language input provided to their children before they enter school, pre-service teachers own knowledge of language varies, and this influences the linguistic input that they provide to their students.

"The Choice of Books": Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the Ideology of Reading, and Literary Collections at the Library of Congress in the 1870s

Ainsworth Rand Spofford was no fan of what he called the grassy incubations of Walt Whitman. As a thirty-five-year-old newspaper editor in Cincinnati in 1860, Spofford criticized Whitman's poetry on various grounds, including incoherence and indecency: What we complain of in Walt Whitman, aside from that gross and obtrusive animalism which disgusts all intellectual men, is his utter contempt for expression, and the formless and apparently aimless character of his productions.1 With these comments in mind, it is surprising to find Librarian of Congress Spofford writing to Whitman sixteen years later, asking him to confirm that the six editions of Leaves of Grass held by the Library of Congress were indeed all of the authorized editions.2 Though Whitman's reputa tion steadily rose through the late nineteenth century, Spofford had not changed his opinion of the poet's work: he pointedly left Whit man's name out of some original verses celebrating American literary authors in 1900.3 The narrative that emerges from these events would tend to valorize Spofford as a visionary librarian who put aside his per sonal taste in the interest of establishing the Library of Congress as a national library with comprehensive collections. The centerpiece of his collection-building efforts, of course, was the copyright deposit law of 1870, which secured for the Library all publications of the American press submitted for copyright protection. My intention in this essay is not to challenge this narrative but to complicate it. Spofford deserves immense credit for the copyright deposit law as well as for his long campaign for a building whose gran deur would be commensurate with the institution's status as a de facto

REKLAMOS POVEIKIS KNYGŲ RINKOJE: VARTOTOJO PATIRTIES KONTEKSTAS

The increasing competition in the book market provides the basis for the relevance of research in the field of book advertising: advertising affects the customer’s perception and attitude, provokes interest in an advertised book or induces to buy it; on the other hand, employment of advertising in smaller sectors of business is related to a greater risk. The object of the study was the influence of advertising on customer in the book market. The scientific-practical problem was the ways of systematising and evaluating the influence of advertising on book business. The polysemantic, wide and unspecified environment of influence, interdisciplinary character, and abundance of evaluation criteria complicate the solution of this problem.The modes of influence of advertising on the book market are distinguished and the factors determining this influence are discussed to analyse the way an individual is influenced by advertising and what differences are crucial among several ways of experiencing the same phenomenon. Analysis of different modes of advertising and experiencing advertising incapacitates a better understanding of the potential of the influence of book advertising. Several phenomenographic techniques were employed to analyse data collected via unstructured interview. The unstructured interview method was used to identify the ways advertising affects the customer; the method was employed to analyse the experience, views, attitudes of customers, related to the choice of books, estimation and reading, the role advertising plays in choosing a book, the factors that shape the attitude of a reader towards a book and incite buying it. The differences in and the circumstances of the influence of advertising, as well as the factors differentiating the influence were clarified in the course of study.The research could be useful for book publishing and saling enterprises as well as for marketing specialists of the mentioned area in planning and implementing book advertising campaigns and in seeking to manage more efficiently the flows of information and communication. The research gives an insight into the potential of book advertising in the market framework, helps in making a right choice and controlling the mode of influence.

Just Here for Littering

Just Here for Littering Erin Wisti (bio) I wanted to say no. I hated Starbucks. The entire place smelled like it was wrapped in plastic, sealing the customers inside a shell of coffee beans and artificial flavoring. It was free of any conversation that didn't involve the ordering of frappuccinos or mocha lattes. Everyone was plugged into iPods or laptops as they roasted in the far too bright overhead lighting, clattering away on their keyboards and iPhones. Plus, you couldn't use the bathroom without buying something. This always seemed unfriendly. Generally, I tried to avoid the place, but on that day I could not have said no. My mother taught me sick people should always get whatever they want. I had no choice but to take him. He sat across from me at our table, reading a copy of Watchmen. The glossy, yellow and black cover reflected the fluorescent lighting onto his glasses. I called them his "Henry Kissinger glasses" because large frames and thick rims resting on a wrinkled, fifty-one year old nose are always reminiscent of Kissinger. My father's face, square-like with a pronounced nose and untraceable jaw line, also reminded me of Nixon's ancient secretary of state. I studied his face as he read. My choice of book for the day—Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café—had proved uninspiring and it was clear no conversation was going to take place on our outing. A small beam of white light trickled down the golden frames and swept across the lenses as he turned the book's page. We were at a Barnes and Noble that housed a Starbucks in its center, a common feature of bookstores in the Midwest. We were away in Rochester, Minnesota, the land of romantic imagery. Bright green trees filled with fresh purple lilacs lined the Zumbro River, where slender black and tan Canadian geese floated alongside canoes. These canoes were driven by happy suburban families who looked like they were posing for ads in Eddie Bauer or JC [End Page 68] Penney's, donning new spring clothing in coordinated shades of pastels. I walked down the asphalt path by this river many times that week, puttering behind my father. In his light gray sweat pants which sagged at his crotch, he marched in front of me, taking long, sweeping strides while periodically checking his heart rate. He wore expensive, Nike-brand running shoes, one of the many new toys we bought for him when we found out he was sick. He was quite pleased with how they improved his pace. I, however, wore cheap plastic flip-flops from CVS and waddled behind him and took pictures. I photographed the lilacs and the geese and the suburbanites, the whole time wondering if taking pictures was morbid considering the nature of my visit. I was visiting because he was sick and because he was sick, I had to take him to Starbucks. His phone rang. It had been ringing all morning, even before we left Hope Lodge to get coffee. I wasn't following the conversation closely. It was lawyer talk, a phenomenon I had been familiar with since childhood. He would waltz through the hallway at night in his tattered red robe, barking legal terms into our cordless phone while making his way through a pack of Marlboros. He was always talking to Sammy, his brother and business partner. Sammy relied on my father's help with his cases, which I knew never to ask questions about. I knew most of them were illegal to answer. That day, it was something about a bowling alley, something his brother couldn't handle alone and so, even though he was sick, he took the calls from Sammy's clients. "I gotta go, Chuck," he said, "No. I really gotta go. I'm with my daughter." He sputtered a few rushed goodbyes and then snapped his phone shut and slipped it into the large, floppy pockets of his sweatpants. "Jesus," he muttered. "What?" I asked. "Listen," he said, "Don't ever be a lawyer. Being a lawyer means people expect you to solve all their problems all the...

Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?

The true crime genre, which consists of nonfiction books based on gruesome topics such as rape and murder, has amassed an extensive audience. Many people might assume that men, being the more aggressive sex, would be most likely to find such gory topics interesting. But a perusal of published reader reviews suggests that women enjoy these kinds of books more so than do men. The purpose of this research was to shed light on this apparent paradox. In Studies 1 and 2, the authors conducted a study of reader reviews and a study of book choices that demonstrated that, in fact, women are more drawn to true crime stories whereas men are more attracted to other violent genres. In Studies 3 to 5, the authors manipulated various characteristics of true crime stories to determine which features women find appealing. The authors discuss the findings in light of contemporary evolutionary perspectives on aggression and murder.

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Mug shot exposure effects: Does size matter?

This research tested whether mug book size moderates mug shot exposure effects. Witnesses to a simulated theft searched either a small, a large, or no mug book, followed by a perpetrator-absent lineup containing a critical foil from the mug book. Contrary to predictions of a transference effect, critical foil lineup identifications did not differ across conditions. To test for a commitment effect, only participants who selected the critical foil in the mug book were considered; there was evidence of a commitment effect in the large mug book condition. Finally, there were more lineup-correct rejections in the large mug book condition; this was explained in terms of the criterion for making mug book choices carrying over to lineup choices.

Making Science Trade Book Choices for Elementary Classrooms

Teachers often use science trade books in the classroom for a number of reasons: to enhance science instruction, to augment an adopted science textbook, or to integrate literacy with subject‐area content. Using Patricia Hunsader's mathematics trade book evaluation rubric published in the April 2004 issue of Reading Teacher as a model, the authors present a rubric useful in assessing both the science and literacy value of science trade books. After using the instrument to evaluate 28 science trade books suggested by a science textbook publisher, the authors determined that the quality of science trade books varies greatly. Based on initial pilot testing, the rubric developed in this study served as an effective tool for beginning teachers as they selected science trade books for elementary classroom use.كثيراً من الأحيان يستخدم المعلمون كتباً تجارية علمية في الصف لأسباب عدة منها تحسين التعليم العلمي وتكميل الكتاب العلمي المختار في صف ما وإدماج معرفة القراءة والكتابة في مجال المحتوى. إذ يقدم المؤلفون جدول تقييم ينفع في تقييم قيمة معرفة القراءة والكتابة وكذلك قيمة العلم في الكتب التجارية العلمية مستخدمين جدول تقييم باتريشا هوسادر الموجود في كتابها التجاري للرياضيات الذي صدر في مجلة معلم القراءة عددها نيسان 2004 كنموذج. وبعد استخدام الجدول كي يقيم 28 كتاباً تجارياً علمياً اقترحته دار ناشر للكتب العلمية ووجد المؤلفون أن جودة الكتب التجارية العلمية تتراوح حق التراوح. ووجدوا أيضاً بناء على نتائج الاختبارات الأولى لجدول التقييم المطور في هذه الدراسة أنه أداة فعالة لمعلمين في بداية مشوارهم التعليمي لأنهم اختاروا كتباً تجارية علمية لاستخدامها في صفوفهم الابتدائية.教师常在课堂上使用普及版科学图书，其原因很多，例如为了增强科学科的教学，为了在现行教科书上加添教材，或为了把读写能力教学与学科知识教学结合起来。本文作者利用在《阅读教师》2004年4月号刊出的帕特丽夏．亨萨德儿的数学图书评核准则作为模型，发展出一个用来评定普及版科学科图书在读写能力教学与科学知识教学上的价值的评核工具。本文作者更利用此工具评核了一个教科书出版商所提议的28本普及版科学科图书，结果发现这批图书的素质差异甚大。根据初步试验，这研究发展出来的评核准则可为新教师提供一个有效的评核工具，以帮助他们选择在小学课堂上使用的普及版科学图书。Les enseignants utilisent souvent en classe des livres de sciences du commerce pour différentes raisons: pour développer l'enseignement des sciences, pour ajouter un manuel de sciences reconnu, ou pour intégrer la littératie avec un contenu disciplinaire. En utilisant la rubrique évaluation du livre du commerce de mathématiques de Patricia Hunsader publiée comme modèle dans le numéro d'avril 2004 de Reading Teacher, les auteurs présentent une rubrique qui permet d'évaluer à la fois la valeur en sciences et en littératie des livres de sciences du commerce. Après avoir utilisé cet instrument pour évaluer 28 livres de sciences du commerce suggérés par un éditeur de manuels de sciences, les auteurs ont constaté que la qualité des livres de sciences du commerce est très variable. Partant de ce test pilote initial, la rubrique développée dans cet article s'est avérée être un outil efficace pour des professeurs débutants ayant à choisir des livres de sciences du commerce destinés à une classe élémentaire.Используя на уроке неспециализированные научные издания, учителя преследуя различные цели: разнообразить обучение, дополнить информацию в учебнике, интегрировать общую и предметную грамотность. На основе рубрикатора, предложенного П. Хансейдер в апреле 2004 года в этом журнале для оценивания неспециализированных изданий по математике, авторы разработали свой рубрикатор, который будет полезен для оценивания изданий по естественным наукам – и в плане самих наук, и с точки зрения развития с их помощью предметной грамотности. Пропустив через рубрикатор 28 неспециализированных научных изданий, отобранных издателем учебников по естественным наукам, авторы заключили, что качество подобных изданий весьма различно. После пилотного тестирования предложенный здесь рубрикатор послужил эффективным инструментом при выборе дополнительной научной литературы для уроков в начальной школе.A menudo, los maestros usan libros de ciencia comerciales en el salón de clase por varias razones: para enriquecer la enseñanza de las ciencias, para suplementar un texto adoptado, o para integrar la habilidad de comprensión de lectura con el contenido de una materia. Usando como modelo las directrices para la evaluación de libros de matemáticas comerciales de Patricia Hunsader publicado en el número de Abril 2004 de Reading Teacher, los autores presentan unas normas útiles para el asesoramiento del valor de tanto la ciencia como de la lectura de libros de ciencia comerciales. Después de usar este instrumento para evaluar los 28 libros de ciencia comerciales que fueron sugeridos por una compañía que publica tales libros,. los autores determinaron que la calidad de estos libros varía mucho. Basado en un examen piloto, las normas desarrolladas en este estudio sirvieron como un instrumento efectivo para maestros principiantes que tenían que escoger libros de ciencia comerciales para sus clases de primaria.

Influential psychotherapy figures, authors, and books: An Internet survey of over 2,000 psychotherapists.

In a partial replication and extension of a survey conducted 25 years ago (Smith, 1982), over 2,400 North American psychotherapists completed a Web-based survey in which they identified prominent figures in the psychotherapy field who have most influenced their practice and the best psychotherapy books they had read in the past 3 years. There is a continued prominence to leaders of the field from 25 years ago but who are now deceased, notably the top-ranked Carl Rogers. Three books on the top-10 list represent empirically supported therapies (ESTs); two are treatment manuals for an EST, and one is a self-help book derived from an EST that has itself been shown to be efficacious bibliotherapy. Differences between psychologist and nonpsychologist therapists in the choice of influential figures, authors, and books are negligible. Implications are discussed in terms of the contemporary context into which therapeutic innovations are disseminated, as well as the conditions that may be necessary for successful dissemination. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Relationships between sixth-graders’ reading comprehension and two different measures of print exposure

This study examined sixth-graders’ reading comprehension and component reading abilities in relation to two measures of print exposure: an author recognition test (ART) involving fiction authors and a reading habits questionnaire (RHQ) about children’s voluntary reading for enjoyment across various genres. The ART correlated only with children’s fiction book reading habits, not with other habits such as nonfiction book or magazine reading, and had a stronger relationship to all tested reading abilities than did the RHQ. Strong comprehenders in reading outperformed weak comprehenders on all component reading measures, ART score, and fiction habits; however, weak comprehenders scored higher than did strong comprehenders on the indicator of nonfiction reading habits. The two groups of comprehenders did not differ significantly on other reported reading habits. The results are discussed in relation to children’s specific book choices and demonstrate the relevance of genre to evaluations of children’s print exposure.

Intrinsic reading motivation of Chinese preschoolers and its relationships with home literacy

The relationship between intrinsic motivation and home literacy of preschoolers was explored. One hundred and seventy-seven preschool children (3.8 to 6.6 years old) in Mainland China and one of the parents who primarily took care of each child participated in the study. Six indicators were considered as a measure of home literacy. Results showed that after controlling for parents' education level and children's age, three home literacy indicators-parental model of reading behaviour, number of books, and years of character teaching-could explain children's intrinsic reading motivation. Contrary to previous Western studies, Chinese children's freedom of book choice was not related to their intrinsic reading motivation. Results are discussed in the context of culture differences.