Children's Dreams Research Articles

A Mother for All Seasons

A Mother for All Seasons

Planned pregnancy, planned parenting: enabling choice for adults with a learning disability

Accessible summary Most adults, including many with a learning disability, want to be parents. Parents with a learning disability can care for their children well. To do this, they may need support from their family or friends and a range of services. Researchers interviewed parents with a learning disability about their pregnancy and the help that they were given after their baby was born. They were interested to find out how the parent made choices about parenting and what information they had when they made their choices. From the stories of four parents, this article discusses: The findings from this research can be used to help people with a learning disability make good decisions about becoming a parent.SummaryFor adults with learning disabilities, becoming a parent can fulfil childhood dreams to take their place in society through a highly valued social role. Recent research aimed at describing the experience of parents with a learning disability suggests that there are barriers to successful planning for both pregnancy and parenthood. However, with the right support, these parents can provide a secure and loving environment for their child. Enabling informed decisions about becoming a parent could increase the number of parents who successfully raise their own child. In this article, stories that highlight the experiences of six parents are used to illustrate issues relevant to informed decision‐making, including knowledge of contraception, the development of parenting skills and the importance of social support. Through their contrasting stories, a combination of family support and appropriately responsive services was identified as critical to the development of a positive parenting context. This finding highlights the need for professionals and support people who work with young people with a learning disability to ensure that they educate and support them to make informed decisions about contraception, pregnancy and parenting.

Parallels in the Beliefs and Works of Margaret Fuller and Carl Jung

Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century feminist and Transcendentalist, has been compared with Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. The life and theories of Carl Jung, the 20th-century psychiatrist, have been compared with the works of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Jean Piaget, and Sabina Spielrein among others. However, no comparisons have been published concerning the beliefs and works of Fuller and Jung. The purpose of this research was to compare and contrast the beliefs and written works of Margaret Fuller and Carl Jung. Similarities and differences were reported among their ideologies. Similarities in their childhood and adult dreams, literary references, spiritual beliefs, and explorations of gender were described. Differences were reported, which included the focus of their writings and their ideas about who is to blame when things go wrong, and how to deal with the individual daemon in each person was also explored. Special consideration was given to how closely their writings intersect. Specifically, the authors questioned whether Jung was inspired by the ideas and writings of Fuller. To answer this question, five possibilities were identified.

D5 創価大学CubeSat「Negai☆"」 : 高信頼性衛星、寿命30日(フライト結果)

A Soka University pico-satellite "Negai" measures mere 10cm cube and weights just one kilogram. Its orbit is 300km with inclination of 30 degrees. In 30 days or so after launch it will be dragged by the air and it is burnt out to become a manmade shooting star when reentering to the atmosphere. People believe wishing upon a shooting star makes their dreams come true. The main mission is to carry children's dreams recruited from the public microfilmed to be loaded on the satellite. Hence it is called "Negai" or "Wish." The technical mission is to space prove the high functional information system with inside triple-redundant fault-tolerant soft-core CPU embedded in an FPGA and reliable picture transmission system. This paper emphasized on the technical mission as well as how we operated so short mission life operation with 30 degrees inclination.

Johan Turi: First Author of the Sámi

ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AGO in the year 1910, Johan Turi's book Muitalus samiid birra (An Account of the Sami) first appeared. It was the first time that a Sami had written a book regarding the Sami situation in Sami. The book's genesis has its own particular history. Now, a century after the work's appearance, a new edition has been prepared based on Turi's original handwritten manuscript (Muitalus Samiid Birra). The present collection of essays examines Turi's masterpiece from a variety of different angles. The translations used in the essays below come from a new English version of Muitalus based upon the re-edited text of 2010 (An Account of the Sami). Because the Sami and English editions are meant to be used in conjunction with each other, they share the same format and pagination. Thus, in the essays that follow, cited page references apply to both the Sami and the English editions. Johan Turi was born on March 12, 1854, in Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Norway. He moved with his family to Sweden and moved to the Talma sameby in the parish of Jukkasjarvi during the 1880s. Turi's family members were reindeer herders, but Johan seems to have been more interested in hunting and fishing. He had long considered writing a book about Sami relations when at last in 1904 he happened to meet a Danish artist and ethnographer, Emilie Demant on board a train carrying ore between Tornetrask and the Swedish-Norwegian border. This encounter has been examined in depth by Kristin Kuutma both in a book (Kuutma) and in her contribution below; the meeting proved decisive for Turi's career as an author as well as for Emilie Demant's childhood dream of spending an entire year as part of a reindeer-herding family. Turi and Demant could not understand each other's speech, as Turi spoke Sami and Finnish, as well as some broken Swedish, and Demant spoke only Danish. It happened, however, that there was a person on the train who could speak both Swedish and Finnish and thus could act as an interpreter. The result of their meeting was that Turi promised to arrange for Demant to spend a year with a reindeer-herding family, and she in turn promised to help Turi write his book. In an essay written many years after the fact, Emilie Demant Hatt (as she became known after her marriage) reminisced about her initial meeting with Turi and the events that led to their important collaboration (Demant Hatt). Her account provides us with concrete details of the process that led to the first book written in Sami. When Demant returned to Denmark, she began to study Sami with a Professor Vilhelm Thomsson of the University of Copenhagen, for she knew that only by learning the language could she truly come to know the Sami and their culture. It was, incidentally, the first and last time a course in Sami had ever been offered at the university. Turi kept his word and arranged for Demant to live with his brother, Aslak Turi, and his family over the course of a year. Demant returned in the spring of 1907 and accompanied Aslak's family for a year, participating in all activities related to herding, including the marking of calves, the round-up and separation of herds, and, of course, the migration. She experienced all that related to the nomadic life of reindeer-herding Sami: the course of migration, daily and seasonal activities, the ups and downs of life in a goahti. And she became practically a member of the family, dressing in the same manner as everyone else--an important decision, in that it ensured her protection from the winter cold. During the year she learned more Sami, gaining active competence in the spoken language as well. She had brought with her a large Sami-Norwegian dictionary as a study aid, which her Sami hosts teased her weighed as much as half a full burden for a reindeer to carry (i.e., 15-20 kg). Demant's year spent with Aslak's family made it possible for her to keep her word to Johan Turi and help him write a book about the Sami. …

The Shelter Imbroglio: The Rise and Fall of an Indian Family Business

Innovative practices in start-ups and family business is widely recognised. This case study attempts to demonstrate how dreams can inspire youngsters and at the same time lust for additional wealth can destroy a family business. The case traverses the rise and fall of Shelter Pvt limited (SPL).It is the hard work, opportunity orientation and recognition that assist in establishing a profitable enterprise. Dreams become the driving force. Nadeem, in his childhood dream imagined to run a successful enterprise, after he was influenced by his favourite Indian movies that the family watched over television. He belonged to a middle class that had a support from the only earning member, his father a service man in a Government organisation. There was no experience within the family to set up a family business.The family was regularly visited by a family friend Saurabh, who was working in a private firm. And that was all the experience Nadeem could nurture during discussions over tea, while they watched television over week ends. Nadeem fascinated and inspired by a movie decided to set up his own business over the next few years once some experience and seed capital was earned. Soon he took up a job with Life Insurance Company (LIC) as an agent and during the course picked up decent incentives and also began social networking.As time passed his earning doubled! The hard work started paying dividends. In an interesting move, Pankaj his boss and an inspiration, from LIC moved to HDFC bank and offered him a job based on commission, which he did and this added additionally to his incentive. It was clear that Nadeem was closed to incubating his dream. In a surprise move Pankaj moved to ICICI Bank limited and subsequently offered Nadeem a franchisee of Home loans.The firm brought in some stake from the family friend Saurabh and set up Shelter Pvt Limited (SPL), Nadeem became the Chairman Managing Director (CMD).It was a smooth discovery of business as opportunities were very large, since private lenders were limited operating in the market. Nadeem was driven by the quick money he generated and started developing lust, a factor that became detrimental to the firms’ existence. Lesser educated staff was recruited and each time the manger of the firm gave in ideas for expansion, Nadeem would refuse. Conflict of interest crept in the budding business too soon. Meanwhile, as the firm progressed due to the rich networking, the family friend desired that his son be brought into the board. Nadeem did this willingly, but realising late that altruism had also crept in the family business. Saurabh’s son recruited many known family members in SPL without the knowledge of Nadeem.The managers go their way without listening to Nadeem and centres of politics have been created! Nadeem himself, Saurabh and rest of Saurabh’s close mates who have inadvertently been taken on the firms’ payroll have formed pockets. It seems no one goes by the MD’s way of working and it is free for all. The reality today is that the wealth that Nadeem had created based on his dreams and inspiration is receding fast due to laundering of funds into private interest as a result the founders have got into the habit of harming themselves.Nadeem’s SPL is in Imbroglio! What to do to save the firm from being extinct?

Career Tips from Top Women Leaders on Campus

Career Tips from Top Women Leaders on Campus

Creativity and Inspiration: An Interview with Stephen Martin

I am speaking with Dr. Stephen Martin on the phone, as he is in the Philadelphia area and I am in Santa Monica. He is sitting in his library at home, a room filled with the evidence of his many interests: shelves stacked with books about the decorative arts of the twentieth century; examples of that work in silver and enamel; paintings commissioned from artist friends; and a collection of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and volumes all inscribed or signed by C. G. Jung. Dr. Martin is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst. A graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, he completed his training in 1980 when he was quite young. He is the editor of the definitive monograph on Archibald Knox, one of the most important British decorative artists of the twentieth century, as well as the former editor-in-chief of Quadrant, our sister publication. He co-hosted, with Aryeh Maidenbaum, the groundbreaking conference in the late 1980s on Jung and anti-Semitism and coedited with him the sourcebook on that subject, Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism, which has recently been reissued. He is co-founder and President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. With the recent publication of The Red Book and the extensive coverage of this event by the New York Times and news media around the world, the Philemon Foundation, which funded much of The Red Book's editorial preparation and all of its translation, has been a very visible institution indeed. As president, Dr. Martin sought and secured the funds needed for the editorial preparation of The Red Book as well as for other publications funded by the Philemon Foundation, including the Jung–White Letters, published by Routledge, and Jung's Seminar on Children's Dreams, published by Princeton University Press. Since its publication in October 2009 by W. W. Norton, The Red Book has become a sensation in the book world, with its initial print run of 5,000 copies selling out almost before its publication date. Subsequent printings have been selling briskly. The enormous popularity of The Red Book was no surprise to Steve Martin, given that it was his inner certainty of its vital importance to the world that brought him to establish the Philemon Foundation in the first place.

The Twenty-Four hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in our Emotional LivesRosalind D.Cartwright, editor. Oxford University Press: New York. 2010. 208. $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-19-538683-7.

The Twenty-Four hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in our Emotional LivesRosalind D.Cartwright, editor. Oxford University Press: New York. 2010. 208. $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-19-538683-7.

C.G. Jung et le problème du religieux

C.G.Jung's work is crossed from start to finish by religious issues. From childhood's dreams to maturity's writings, everyone will encounter that basic question. This text is a reflection about Jung's thoughts on religious experience. Thanks to his biography we will emphasize how he personally experiences religious issues and develops an original look on this crucial question for our time. Jung will be empirical all along his life and will always refuse a philosophical as well as a theological position. Actually, he experiences that religious attitude is a fundamental component of the human soul and there is no human reality without this point of view. It's the experience of the Self, the central archetype of the unconscious, which will be active in everyone of us, that creates religious experience. “Religiosity” is a deferential attention to the “numen” (defined in 1917 by Rudolf Otto) that is stimulated by the Self. The Self-archetype has a quaternary structure. Through his reflection about the Holy Trinity symbol and his “Answer to Job”, Jung emphasizes how this major, ternary symbol of Christianity will be enlarged to a quaternary structure that includes evil and femininity. We suppose that the Mary Magdalena symbol will be a collective, unconscious and vital enlargement of our major Christian symbol that joins two aspects of femininity, the mother and the wife.

Leaping for leptin: the 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award goes to Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey M. Friedman

Douglas Coleman never intended to study diabetes or obesity. Jeffrey M. Friedman had childhood dreams of being a veterinarian. But together, the two scientists have opened the field of obesity research to molecular exploration. On September 21, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that they will award Coleman and Friedman (Figure ​(Figure1)1) with the 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in recognition of their contributions toward the discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and body weight. This hormone provides a key means by which changes in nutritional state are sensed and in turn modulate the function of many other physiologic processes. The story of the discovery of the first molecular target of obesity is one of tenacity and determination. Figure 1 Douglas Coleman (left) and Jeffrey M. Friedman (right) share the 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for the discovery of leptin, a breakthrough that opened obesity research to molecular exploration.

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The Kore: My Experiences with the Maiden Archetype

An exploration of the living reality of the psyche, this article shows how the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone is unconsciously incarnated in the 20th-century life of the author as a young woman. Beginning with a numinous childhood dream, she describes her experiences of being possessed by the autonomous archetype of the Kore, how the possession guided her psychological development and influenced her early career as a dancer. Following in the footsteps of the myth, she considers the positive impact of Hades’ rape of the Kore, especially as it impacts the development of the animus in a woman. The struggle to establish a healing relationship with Demeter in the face of a deeply negative personal mother complex leads her back to the dance studio for active imagination in movement that releases the transcendent function within her body and in synchronous events in her world.

Deconstructing Sport: When Philosophy and Education Meet in Derrida's Thought

Deconstructing Sport: When Philosophy and Education Meet in Derrida's ThoughtJacques Derrida (1930-2004), master of the deconstructionist method and recognized as one of the greatest thinkers of our time, was in his youth, before beginning his career as a philosopher, a footballer who played this game with the Italian prisoners in Algiers, his birthplace, during World War II. In a 1991 interview, when he was 60, Derrida narrated in detail his childhood dream of becoming a professional football player, confiding that all of his philosophy and thought had been inspired by sport and the game of football. Starting from this biographical note, the aim of my study is to demonstrate, first of all, how Derrida's whole philosophy and technique of deconstruction really has its roots in the concept of sport. The French-Algerian philosopher understood sport as a cultural structure based on the concepts of play, game, body, rules, and all of the oppositional pairs deriving from différance and from the tensions it generates. Secondly, the study tries to show how sport is for Derrida a metaphor of life and its meaning, suspended between being and nothingness; a place and a field in which human beings act, learn and educate themselves, deconstructing, as in a text, the values and prejudices of their lives and understanding, through sport itself, their roles and responsibility toward themselves and the community in which they live.

Taking Charge of Our Educational Journey

In this interview Julie Payette discusses the role education has had in her life and in achieving her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her experience of attending the United World College of the Atlantic as a teenager and her discovery of the value of learning languages. Julie speaks on the importance of parental support in encouraging children to pursue higher education and expresses some thoughts on teacher preparation. She also comments on how stereotypes and stigmas can still prevent girls from choosing to become scientists. Finally, Julie gives us a glimpse of what it feels like to contemplate planet earth from the window of a space shuttle.

Forgotten women in an extinct saurian (man's) world

Abstract Despite dinosaurs becoming significant ‘icons’ in our culture, few women have made major contributions to the study of fossil vertebrates, especially reptilian taxonomy, by specializing in the dinosaurs and related ‘saurians’. Most who were involved over the first 150 years were not professional palaeontologists but instead wives, daughters and pure (and usually unpaid) amateurs. Here we salute some 40 of them, showing how some kept alive childhood dreams and others fell into the subject involuntarily. As usual nineteenth-century female practitioners are virtually unknown in this area except for one icon, Dorset girl Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, who significantly contributed to the palaeontology. Only in the early twentieth century did women such as Tilly Edinger conduct research with an evolutionary agenda. Before the modern post-1960s era, beginning with Mignon Talbot, few were scientists or conducting research; others such as Mary Ann Woodhouse, Arabella Buckley, the Woodward sisters, Nelda Wright were artists, photographers and/or writers, scientifically illustrating and/or popularizing dinosaurs. Like many other women, they often battled to get from first base to job, appear fleetingly in the literature then disappear; or exist as anonymous presences behind eminent men. In contrast, the modern era offers better prospects for those wanting to pursue dinosaurs and their relatives, even if it means volunteering for a dino dig, watching a live ‘Time team’-type dinosaur dig on TV or entering the Big Virtual Saurian World now on the Internet. This paper considers the problems and highlights the achievements of the oft-forgotten women. Supplementary material: Additional references and list of books and publications by or about deceased women related to ‘saurians’, including these mentioned in the text, are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18419 .

Balancing Biography and Institutional History: Eric Worrell’s Australian Reptile Park

When a young naturalist opened his new wildlife park at Wyoming on the NSW Central Coast in the late 1950s, he gave it his own name: Eric Worrell’s Australian Reptile Park. Through the park, Worrell made a significant contribution to environmental education, the development of knowledge of captive animal care and display and the provision of antivenoms for the bites of a range of dangerous creatures. More than this, it was the geographic and emotional centre of Worrell’s world: the fulfilment of a childhood dream, a home for his family and a site for forming new personal and professional relationships. In preparation for the jubilee of the park, its history is being written by two academics from the University of Newcastle. An attractive means of creating the necessary narrative structure and human interest to ensure the wide appeal of this history is to follow Worrell’s lead and place his life at the centre of this institutional history. This is the direction suggested by the written sources on the park and it is accentuated by many of our oral informants who organise their memories of the park around Worrell. To what extent can an institutional history be a biography of the person at the heart of that institution? Is it possible to disentangle the life from the institution? This article offers some preliminary answers to these questions through a case study of the writing of a history of Eric Worrell’s Australian Reptile Park.

Reflections on Teaching: North Central Sociological Association 2009 John F. Schnabel Lecture: I Teach

Randy Pausch has made it hard for keynote speakers. Not only was his lecture well received, but it has been made into a national bestselling book. Pausch, as many of you know, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. His last lecture, given at Carnegie Mellon, was scheduled after he received his diagnosis. In his lecture, he talked about achieving his childhood dreams and the legacy he wanted to leave fot his children. I am not standing here in front of you with a dire medical announcement. AU the same, I have spent time during this past year thinking, what is it that I want to tell you, my esteemed colleagues, about my journey as a teacher? What advice can I impart to my younger colleagues? I am humbled by the number of faces in the audience who have been recognized in previous years for outstanding teaching contributions, and I am beginning to question my ability to add anything new to the conversation. But what I learned from reading Pausch's book is that every story, no matter how ordinary, is someone's story. And today I stand before you as if this is my one and only chance to tell you mine. And what I want to say is simple: Value your students. During my year of thinking about this presentation, thinking about what I wanted to say, I started by trying to better understand my students. And I began that search as I was taught to do in graduate school by looking in the literature on today's youth and the influences they've experienced. In the book Mind the Gap! by Codrington and Grant- Marshall (2007), there is a generational quiz. The quiz is designed to help you better understand the historical and cultural influences of your life. And it tries to attribute personality patterns to generations based on these historical differences. There is a quiz for the GI Generation born between 1900 and 1920; the Silent Genetation, born in the 1920s through 1940s; the Boomer Generation born in the 1940s tiirough 1960s; and Generation X, born in the 1960s through 1980s. Many of you in the authence are Boomers - talkative, bossy, competitive workaholics - but some of you are also members of Generation X - pragmatic, risktaking challenge lovers. The most recent generation is sometimes called the Millennial Generation - and some of you are in the authence too! These are people born between 1980 and 2000, and they occupy the seats of our college classrooms. According to the generational quiz in Mind the Gap! (Codrington and GrantMatshall 2007:64), membeis of the Millennial Genetation are characterized by the following beliefs and encounters. They * Think Michael Jackson has always been white; * Have never owned a record player; * Have always had an answering machine; * Don't know there was a cold war; * Don't remember the space shuttle Challenger blowing up; * Think the Vietnam War is as ancient a war as World War I and World War II; * Have never thought of Jaws while swimming in the sea; * Have known only a world with AIDS; * Can understand c u b4 2nite. Though more anecdotal than research-based, the Codrington and Grant-Marshall volume is a highly suggestive book. As I was paging through it, I found myself thinking about how their images of typical Millennial respondents compared with my students. For example, it says that while babies and kids were an irritant to workaholic Boomer moms and dad, in the 1990s babies suddenly became status symbols (Codrington and Grant-Marshall 2007:57). Baby Boomer parents spawned Millennial babies! Think about it: forty-something celebrities pushing baby strollers; models clutching babies at photo shoots; sports stars holding a trophy in one hand and a baby in the other. Part of this new fascination with babies may be in response to the benign neglect the Xers endured as kids from their workaholic Boomer parents. Or it may be a response to a real decline in population growth, making babies more culturally valuable. …

Inextricably Linked: An International Human Rights Perspective on Child Health and Education

Millions of children around the world wish most of all for the chance at an education. Their thirst for education is so great that when barriers such as school fees have been removed in some countries, school populations surge almost overnight. Unfortunately, tens of millions of children face considerable obstacles in attempting to realize their right to education. Economic, social, and geographic barriers are, in some respects, readily identifiable. However, another obstacle to children's dreams of pursuing an education - health status - often goes unnoticed. This article focuses on the links between health and education in children's development. While connections flow in both directions, the article's primary aim is to highlight specifically the impact of health on education prospects. The dramatic consequences of health status on children's educational opportunities suggest that educators have a role to play in the health sector. The article discusses the importance of international human rights law in advancing the health and educational opportunities for children and suggests that human rights law can be an important tool for educators seeking to promote progress in health and education and further assist children in developing to their fullest potential.

Comfort Living Private Limited (CLPL) - An Indian Case Study on Family Business

The family business started on 15th October 1990 with the founder Managing Director, Om Prakash engaging into construction and subsequently adding financial services. He further diversified by adding a paper mill business. The first business in construction was conceived as result of childhood dream, a result of three brothers joining together and initiating after pooling in seed money in equal proportions along with a friend. Since, the focus was more into site management as a construction agency, little technical expertise was desired. Meanwhile, the youngest brother took up service in a housing finance firm (HFF). The day time was used for the assignment with HFF, while evenings and holidays were engaged at the construction sites. An unprecedented split between the non family partner and the three brothers came in as a surprise, as the next generation demanded higher share of business based upon the contribution by each partner, which was unfortunately skewed un-proportionately. Each business partner started loosing the bonds of brother hood and family friendship. Each intended to push their next generation to heir ship, as a result of altruism. Meanwhile, the connection with HFF came in for a surprise. Om Prakash was given a franchisee for the new business in the financial services by HFF. While it progressed, the lust of money transformed the founder MD to start siphoning the additional funds into private accounts that were primarily meant for the welfare of the business. As a result of bad governance, the firm, ruptured its entire books and is now in the process of being liquidated. The family business is undergoing downfall as a result of opportunism, altruism, bounded rationality, moral hazard, adverse selection and goal dissonance.