International Children's Centre Research Articles

Вожатская практика как фактор конкурентоспособности студентов вузов психолого-педагогического профиля (на примере МДЦ “Артек”).

Introduction: the problem investigated in this article is important for the higher education system. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to study and compare the characteristics of future psychologists and pedagogues’ competitiveness, who had the practice at the International Children's Center “Artek”. The research object is students’ competitiveness undergoing counselor practice. Subject: Differences in competitiveness among students undergoing camp counseling practice and ones without that experience. In accordance with the goal, the following tasks are set: 1. To analyze the scientific and methodological literature on the problem of competi-tiveness of students of psychological and pedagogical profile. 2. To study the theoretical aspects of professional self-determination of students. 3. To identify and compare professionally important qualities of students of psychologi-cal and pedagogical profile, having and not having a camp counselor practice, which af-fects competitiveness. 4. Determine the differences in competitiveness between students undergoing and not undergoing a camp counseling practice. 5. To develop recommendations for students of psychological and pedagogical profile, in order to increase their competitiveness. The hypothesis is that students who have experience as a camp counselor practice are more competitive in their future profession than students who do not practice in the camp. They possess the following skills: communication and organizational skills, a high level of professional identity and attractiveness of the future profession Materials and methods: to achieve the goal, theoretical research methods were used: analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the competitiveness problem. Research methods are the following: one of studying the attractiveness factors of a profession (proposed by V.A. Yadov, modified by N.V. Kuzmina, A.A. Rean); ones of studying the status of professional identity (A.A. Azbel, A.G. Gretsov); communicative and organizational inclinations (V.V. Sinyavsky, V.A. Fedoroshin). Mathematical methods of data processing were used: U-test of independent samples of Mann-Whitney data and Spearman's rank correlation method using the STATISTICA 6.0 software. Results: As a result of the analysis of scientific and methodological literature on the problem of competitiveness of students of psychological and pedagogical profile, it was determined that competitiveness is expressed in the successful implementation of pro-fessional activity, the ability to organizational creativity, the manifestation of initiative, and willingness to take risks in the conditions of market relations. A competitive person has a high level of professional and personal qualities with the aim of further realizing oneself in the profession. In the framework of the study, professional self-determination is considered as an independence of choice, an area of daily skillful management of mental development processes. In order for the student to become aware of himself/herself as an activity subject, a number of mental processes take place, the totality of which is defined as professional self-determination, self-awareness and self-esteem. The result of realizing oneself as an activity subject provides professionalism of a specialist who has professionally important and personal qualities. The organization of a practice-oriented direction of students by educational institutions makes it possible to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in real conditions. In the conditions of the children's camp, students of a psychological and pedagogical profile have the opportunity to start their professional activities and develop not only profes-sionally important qualities, but also qualities that allow them to overcome fears and complexes. Having experience as a camp counselor, students get the opportunity not only to establish themselves as a future professional specialist, but to find a new circle of friends as well. To compare two independent samples: group A (camp counselors), group B – students without camp counselor practice, the Mann-Whitney U test was used. Significant differ-ences were obtained for the following indicators: communicative (Uemp = 51) and or-ganizational (Uemp = 49.5) capabilities, as well as according to the criterion "Formed identity" (Uemp = 71) at (Ucr = 56-72). One negative correlation was revealed between the components of competitiveness among students of Psychology and Education Faculty: the uncertainty of professional identity and organizational capabilities of students (at r = -0.4). This relationship shows that students develop organizational skills under the condition of a formed professional identity. Discussion and Conclusions: higher educational institutions are interested in a high level of competitiveness of their students; therefore, in order to develop the necessary skills, they send students of a psychological and pedagogical profile to practice in camps for mastering camp counselor activities. Having considered the results on the example of the International Children's Center “Artek”, it is possible to recommend the compulsory practice of students of humanitarian and pedagogical directions, since this activity contributes to the formation of all the necessary qualities of a competitive specialist, and also allows to develop both professionally important qualities, and the necessary “soft skills”, which become the basis for future labor activity.

Keeping Vaccination Simple: Building French Immunization Schedules, 1959–1999

This article explores the history of the immunization schedule-a table that orders mandatory and recommended vaccines and their boosters through time. My study focuses on France, from the late 1950s to the 1990s. A couple of conferences at the turn of the 1960s set the parameters for immunization schedules, providing insights into their expected disciplinary functions. In the wake of these conferences, a long series of clinical trials aimed to simplify and rationalize the schedules. These trials were carried out by the International Children's Center (ICC), an institution whose aim transitioned in the mid-1960s from the standardization of the sole vaccine against tuberculosis to the simplification of the expanding immunization device for children. I draw from the ICC's experimental work on schedules to define "simplification" with regard to the notion of standardization.

Use of intuitive tools to enhance student learning and user experience

Most user interfaces today present system functions by use of verbal or iconic symbols on static 2D menu pages organized in a hierarchical system [1]. This is unnatural to all human beings and must be learned, thus being a barrier between the full use and understanding of computer systems. With this problem in mind we set out to build a website and collaborative application for International Children's Center (ICC) which could be used not only across languages but across ages as well. This effort was tested on a daily basis by a multinational team consisting of students from the United States and Turkey as well as children from the respective countries. This attention to usability will not only lead to an intuitive tool for the client but also teach the students in the course how to build intuitive user interfaces.

A survey of paediatric teaching in the undergraduate medical schools of the United Kingdom.

Medical EducationVolume 1, Issue 1 p. 25-39 A Survey of Paediatric Teaching in the Undergraduate Medical Schools of the United Kingdom* A D M JACKSON, A D M JACKSON The London Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, LondonSearch for more papers by this author A D M JACKSON, A D M JACKSON The London Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1966 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1966.tb02064.xCitations: 9 * This inquiry was conducted for the Association for the Study of Medical Education by Dr. A. D. M. Jackson. It was planned by Sir Alan Moncrieff, Dr. W. D. Wall, and Dr. J. R. Ellis, and was financed by the International Children's Centre, Paris. The Association wishes to express its gratitude to the Centre for this generous assistance. Appendix 2 provides a glossary of terms used in the British hospital service which overseas readers may find useful. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume1, Issue1December 1966Pages 25-39 RelatedInformation

Tackling the causes of ill health in Rio's slums

An open sewer runs through the centre of Nova Marilia a small community on the edge of the megaurban sprawl of Rio de Janeiro. It is summer in the southern hemisphere and the open-air waste attracts rats and is a breeding ground for pestilence and disease. When it rains the sewage overflows making its way into people’s homes. This is one of the poorest municipalities in the state of Rio and nearly every person in the community is without a job. In one sense the residents of Nova Marilia are lucky: the village has not yet been taken over by the drug gangs that during the past 15 years have spread like a plague through Brazil’s poor communities. Still drugs and violence are already making themselves felt. A few weeks ago two teenagers were gunned down on one of the village’s main roads which like the others in town is unpaved. (excerpt)

International Children's Center for Disaster Medicine: A Proposal

AbstractThe International Children's Center for Disaster Medicine is conceived as a non-governmental, non-profit institution. Its goal is to provide medical help to children during environmental and military disasters and their resulting circumstances, vnthout regard for their nationality, religion, or the political views of their parents.The idea for an international children's center for disaster medicine grew out of the experiences of pediatricians active in disaster medicine, who were able to see at first-hand, the potential for assistance in such situations, but who also saw either overlapping services provided by well-intentioned organizations, or severe deficiencies in services because of a lack of communication and coordination between these organizations. Among the goals of this international children's center will be to provide volunteer medical help to children by the best specialists in pediatric care, including surgeons, pediatricians, traumatologists, orthopedists, neurosurgeons, intensive care and critical care specialists, experts in rehabilitation, and psychologists. A special training program will create a system of regional and inter-regional specialists, who can offer qualified help to children in catastrophic situations. This educational program will stress the preparation of local medical assets and simultaneously provide international support. The center will conduct scientific research devoted to the specific problems of assistance to children during catastrophic circumstances. A special surgical hospital will be built to care for children after catastrophes. Branches of this international center will be created to serve large regions of the world, allowing a reduction in mortality and morbidity of children, and leading to an improvement in the results of medical care.

The International Children's Centre: An Experience in Teaching Social Pediatrics

The principal objective of preventive and social pediatrics is to seek solutions to the health problems of infants, children, and youth through programs that encompass and coordinate all aspects of child health and welfare. (The wording "preventive and social pediatrics" is unsatisfactory. It could lead to the misunderstanding that one is dealing with still another pediatric subspecialty. It is used in this article for the sake of convenience and should be understood in the sense of the preventive and social aspects of pediatrics as a whole.) Since pediatricians are increasingly involved in problems that exist prior to pregnancy and during the prenatal and birth periods (genetic counseling, monitoring of fetal growth in coordination with obstetricians) and, much later, in the physical and psychosocial problems of adolescents, the teaching range of the social aspects of pediatrics must be broadened. To be more precise, preventive pediatrics is concerned with the prevention of diseases and disabilities and with the preservation and supervision of the health of children, whereas social pediatrics deals mainly with children, both healthy and ill, in relation to their families, the community, the school, and the total environment. As far as these milieux are concerned, it is possible to identify the micromilieu: the child, dependent on the play of forces between inborn and acquired influences, in close contact with its restricted nuclear family; the mesomilieu: interrelationships between the child and the extended family, other children, crèches, preschool facilities, and schools; the macromilieu: the complex network of state and national policies, regulations, and legislation concerned with the health and development of children; the megamilieu: global problems such as poverty, overpopulation, malnutrition, pollution, violence, and wars, which primarily affect children.

Child Health Across Boundaries

It is indeed a great privilege to have been invited to give this Memorial Lecture. I was not fortunate enough to know Dr. Kenneth D. Blackfan personally. When he died in 1939 I had just started my training in pediatrics and it was to be another decade until I first visited Boston. But from what I have read and heard, I know that Dr. Blackfan was a very remarkable person, a pioneer in his field who played a decisive role in building up during the 1920's and 1930's what is today the great Children's Hospital Medical Center. He thus left a permanent legacy to the development of pediatrics, not only in Boston, but also throughout the world. It is fortunate for a Center like this one to have continuity in leadership of great excellence. The whole program today is a testimony to what Professor Charles A. Janeway has meant in this respect. For many of us it is a mystery how one person has been able, over such a long period of time, to shoulder both the responsibilities of being professor of pediatrics and physician-in-chief of the Children's Hospital Medical Center and at the same time being involved in so many other extremely important national and international tasks, including engagement in Third World problems. For a good many years Professor Janeway was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Pediatric Association and he remains one of the Board members of the International Children's Center in Paris. It is especially in these two latter capacities that I have learned to know, admire and, indeed, like so many, acquire great affection for this truly remarkable person.

CURRENT CONCEPTS CONCERNING THE HEPATITIS VIRUSES

While the discovery of Australia antigen and its relationship to hepatitis B has provided both the stimulus and the mechanism for much productive research, further work with both of these agents is essential before the diseases they produce are thoroughly understood and eventually eliminated. More detailed descriptions of recent developments in hepatitis research are available in three recent journal issues entirely devoted to the subject. The American Journal of Diseases of Children in April 1972 (vol 123) published the papers given at the International Children's Centre Seminar on Viral Hepatitis and the British Medical Bulletin for May 1972 (vol 28) published a number of papers designed to give a survey of current knowledge in this field. A special issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (vol. 106, February 26, 1972) includes the proceedings of the 1971 International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis which was held in Toronto, Canada.

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BOOK REVIEW

Journal Article BOOK REVIEW Get access Living Conditions of The Child in Rural Environment in Africa. Edited by M-J. Bonnal and I. Paul-Pont, published by International Children's Centre, Paris, 1968. 344 pp. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 1968, Page 196, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.tropej.a057298 Published: 01 September 1968

THE HANDICAPPED CHILD

A SEMINAR on Motor Handicapped Children was convened at the International Children's Center in Paris on December 7, 8, 9, 1964. and was notable for the deep concern displayed by the many representative nations for the disabled child. There appeared to be a universal expansion of the concept of the handicapped child to include many conditions beyond those of an orthopedic nature. The Children's Bureau of the United States now concerns itself with many problems including disorders of any one of the senses, epilepsy, congenital heart disease, and other congenital defects. One of the broadest definitions was that provided by Andersen of the Danish National Institute of Social Research wherein was included all individuals with a disease or defect of such degree that the afflicted person, if unskilled and without support from his surroundings "would have difficulty coping with daily life on an equal footing with others."

THE FUTURE OF MEASLES VACCINATION.

Acta PaediatricaVolume 53, Issue 6 p. 591-597 The Future of Measles Vaccination1 ARVID WALLGREN, ARVID WALLGREN Department of Pediatrics Karolinska Sjukhuset Stockholm 60 SwedenSearch for more papers by this author ARVID WALLGREN, ARVID WALLGREN Department of Pediatrics Karolinska Sjukhuset Stockholm 60 SwedenSearch for more papers by this author First published: November 1964 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1964.tb07272.xCitations: 2 1 Paper read at the International Children's Center's seminar on Vaccination against Measles under the chairmanship of John F. Enders, Paris, June 17, 1964. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume53, Issue6November 1964Pages 591-597 RelatedInformation

Hospitalization of Children

The Commentary on Hospitalization which appeared in the July issue of Pediatrics reported many cogent points made during the Paris International Children's Center meeting. In general, one can only applaud the fundamental thesis that hospitalization, both in terms of admission and duration of stay, should be based on medical reasons rather than extraneous considerations. A number of practical ways to achieve this are cited in the Commentary and it is refreshing to see the forward-looking approach of those in attendance in seeking solutions to the economic problems posed by increasing costs of hospitalization.

Modern Problems in Pediatrics, The Growth of the Normal Child during the First Three Years of Life

This volume is devoted to the proceedings of an international seminar in Zurich organized by the International Children's Centre, and attended by about 112 experts from 26 countries. The seminar was devoted to the growth of the normal child in his first three years. The subjects discussed include the assessment of physical growth, including the growth of fat, body density, muscle, and bone; the assessment of skeletal maturation; the chemistry of growth and development; the early diagnosis of mental deficiency, and the value of developmental tests; and psychological development. It is almost invidious to pick out a few contributions as being of especial value; they would include the papers on "the influence of environment on growth" by Marcel Graffar of Belgium, "nutritional growth" by Dean of Kampala, "the accurate prediction of growth and adult height" by Nancy Bavley of Bethesda, "the growth of fat tissue" by Harold Stuart and co-workers, and "the biochemistry of the child during the first three years" by Tanner of London.

Countries in the process of development and health education in African rural areas

The “Courrier” of the International Children's Centre, has recently published a work on a very topical subject, which is of special concern to Red Cross workers in various countries : an effective health education involves a conscientious awareness of their fundamental problems by those whom one wishes to help. How can this be achieved?

Rheumatic Fever, Epidemiology and Prevention: The Proceedings of a Seminar Held at the International Children's Centre, Paris, 25‐27 September, 1950

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 10 p. 379-379 Review Rheumatic Fever, Epidemiology and Prevention: The Proceedings of a Seminar Held at the International Children's Centre, Paris, 25-27 September, 1950 First published: 01 September 1960 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1960.tb68503.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume2, Issue10September 1960Pages 379-379 RelatedInformation

Activities of the International Children's Center.

Activities of the International Children's Center Etienne Berthet CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.48.4.458 Published Online: August 29, 2011

International Children's Centre Yearbook, 1955.

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News of the International Children's Centre

News of the International Children's Centre