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Ethics and the early childhood educator : using the NAEYC code
Do you need support and guidance to help you to navigate tough issues in your work? The NAEYC code of ethical conduct is every early childhood educator's foundation for moral preactice, and the third edition of Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator shows how to use the Code to guide your actions and responses to challenging situations in the workplace. Here, you'll find real cases from early childhood programs that illustrate the process of identitying and addressing ethical issues by applying the NAEYC Code. Reflection questions encourage you to think deeply about how your own experiences relate to the examples. Ethical conduct is critical, and the Code and this book are resources you can turn to againand again as you seek to make the right decisions for young children and their families.--Book cover.
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Immersed In Pellet Technology: Motivation Paths of Innovative DIYers
What drives and moves an individual towards certain goals and activities is a familiar question for scholars dealing with motivation in the context of schooling or (techno-scientific) work practices. However, non-school contexts such as Internet-enabled volunteer-based technical DIY communities are also important to understand since a growing part of everyday social life is spent on the Internet. This article offers the analytical concept of 'motivation path' for understanding changing and dilemmatic motives in innovative pellet DIY development. It also introduces the concept of 'innovative DIY' to show the blurring of the boundaries between profession/hobby and and past work life/retirement of technically competent, innovative people. The findings indicate that Internet-enabled making can be an important medium for continued personal growth, competence development, and (self) reflection. The findings could also help us understand how motivations may be carried over from professional work to private DIY work.
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Effective Communication and Campground Recycling: Lessons Learned from Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Denali National Parks
Outdoor recreation continues to be persistently high in national parks across the United States, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased use. In popular frontcountry destinations such as national park campgrounds managers are challenged with new issues more familiar to urban settings. One of these challenges is waste management. The largest source of visitor-generated waste in national parks is campgrounds. This research uses a mixed-methods approach to develop and test strategic communications designed to increase recycling and minimize trash to the landfill by altering campground visitor behaviors. Intercept surveys were used to create theory-based messages, and a quasi-experimental approach was used to evaluate message effectiveness. Our results show that messages emphasizing ease concepts were two times more effective at changing campground visitor waste disposal behaviors than control conditions. The results help inform the management of visitors as national parks strive to meet sustainability goals.
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Visual-based social norms, distance-related human-wildlife interactions, and viewing devices in parks and protected areas
Distance-related human-wildlife conflict presents a serious challenge in parks and protected areas across the world. Finding ways to alleviate distance-related humanwildlife conflict is hampered by both the difficulty of studying human-wildlife interactions in the field as well as the dearth of existing methodological tools. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors of group size, distance from bison (Bison bison), and use of wildlife viewing equipment on visitor proximity preferences in Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, USA). Researchers collected data via intercept-surveys during summer 2015. The data were analyzed with repeated measures ANOVA to explore how these factors influenced acceptability ratings of distances between people and bison. Results indicate that people who always used a smartphone camera felt it was more acceptable to stand closer to bison than people who never used a smartphone camera. The discussion offers several practical applications for reducing human-bison conflicts as well as directions for future research.
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Reenvisioning the university education needs of wildlife conservation professionals in the United States
The future viability of wildlife conservation in the United States hinges on the field's ability to adapt to changing social–ecological conditions including shifting societal values and mounting pressures to engage a greater diversity of voices in decision‐making. As wildlife agencies respond to calls to broaden their relevance amid such changes, there is a need to consider the role of university education programs in preparing future wildlife professionals to meet the challenges of this new era. We identify four core areas of competency (technical, leadership, administrative, and adaptive) for universities to consider integrating into new or existing programs to support the emergent needs of the wildlife profession. We focus on undergraduate degree programs as a critical foundation for wildlife‐related careers but also recommend consideration of these skill sets in other areas of professional development including graduate education. Our approach acknowledges the importance of building on traditional areas of expertise such as biology and expanding them to include more interdisciplinary training in areas such as systems approaches, the social sciences, and organizational change. We conclude with recommendations for implementation, highlighting several successful examples, for universities to contemplate as they explore programmatic changes to help build greater capacity for wildlife conservation in the 21st century. We identify core areas of competency for universities to consider integrating into new or existing programs to support the emergent needs of the wildlife profession in the United States. By doing so, these programs will be better equipped to prepare the next generation of leaders, and ultimately the organizations that employ them, to address contemporary wildlife conservation challenges including societal change.
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Creating a sustainable brain health navigator model to improve the diagnostic journey for Alzheimer's disease: the experience of one health care system in Kentucky
Background The Norton Healthcare (NHC) not‐for‐profit system includes five adult hospitals and one children's hospital in Louisville, KY and three hospitals in southern Indiana. We are the largest healthcare system in the region with around than 22,000 employees and over 2,100 employed medical providers. Norton provides care at more than 400 locations including primary, pediatric, and specialty care practices. Though we have a strong memory disorder clinic and one of the busiest anti‐amyloid programs in the country, our clinic sees a relatively small fraction of the total number of NHC patients who are likely to have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Participating in the US BHN Program will enable us to develop better protocols for detecting patients at risk and those with mild memory impairment as early as possible and to efficiently and effectively navigate them from primary to specialty care for evaluation and, ultimately, treatment. Method The proposed pilot site of care is the Norton Community Medical Associates—Preston primary care practice, one of 40 primary care clinics in our system. NCMAPreston is located on the borders of Metro City Council Districts 13 and 24. District 13 has a higher proportion of people living in poverty and low‐income households than the city as a whole. It is critically important to test the DAC‐SP BHN Model in a diverse setting with lower social determinants of health. NHC community medical directors offer direct community outreach and also participate in neighborhood educational health programs that address health and racial inequalities in underserved communities. Result We anticipate that group development of the brain health navigator role and processes will yield a more thoroughly considered protocol that is adaptable to the diverse practices across our system. Better navigation will also enable improved coordination of care and utilization of our NNI Resource Center to connect families with needed resources. Conclusion The Brain Health Navigator Model and other resources of DAC‐SP support the implementation of boundary spanning roles across primary and specialty care, designed for a sustainable and scalable timely and accurate diagnostic journey across Norton Healthcare and similar health systems.
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The Norton Healthcare (NHC) not-for-profit system includes five adult hospitals and one children's hospital in Louisville, KY and three hospitals in southern Indiana. We are the largest healthcare system in the region with around than 22,000 employees and over 2,100 employed medical providers. Norton provides care at more than 400 locations including primary, pediatric, and specialty care practices. Though we have a strong memory disorder clinic and one of the busiest anti-amyloid programs in the country, our clinic sees a relatively small fraction of the total number of NHC patients who are likely to have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Participating in the US BHN Program will enable us to develop better protocols for detecting patients at risk and those with mild memory impairment as early as possible and to efficiently and effectively navigate them from primary to specialty care for evaluation and, ultimately, treatment.
The proposed pilot site of care is the Norton Community Medical Associates-Preston primary care practice, one of 40 primary care clinics in our system. NCMAPreston is located on the borders of Metro City Council Districts 13 and 24. District 13 has a higher proportion of people living in poverty and low-income households than the city as a whole. It is critically important to test the DAC-SP BHN Model in a diverse setting with lower social determinants of health. NHC community medical directors offer direct community outreach and also participate in neighborhood educational health programs that address health and racial inequalities in underserved communities.
We anticipate that group development of the brain health navigator role and processes will yield a more thoroughly considered protocol that is adaptable to the diverse practices across our system. Better navigation will also enable improved coordination of care and utilization of our NNI Resource Center to connect families with needed resources.
The Brain Health Navigator Model and other resources of DAC-SP support the implementation of boundary spanning roles across primary and specialty care, designed for a sustainable and scalable timely and accurate diagnostic journey across Norton Healthcare and similar health systems.
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Social Participation and Navigation with Adolescent and Young Adult Brain Tumor Survivors: Usability and Potential Benefits
Background: This study examined the usability and potential benefits of Social Participation and Navigation (SPAN), a virtual coaching goal planning intervention, which was modified for adolescent and young adult (AYA) brain tumor survivors who often experience social participation challenges. Methods: Four AYA brain tumor survivors participated in a brief trial of the modified SPAN consisting of four weekly coaching sessions with trained supervised occupational therapy graduate students and use of a website and web application to assist with goal planning and achievement. The participants rated their social participation and SPAN-specific skills pre/post program. The participants and parents completed 1-week and 1-month usability surveys post program. Effect sizes were computed to examine pre/post score changes. Descriptive statistics and content analyses were used to examine quantitative and qualitative usability data. Results: SPAN was well-received by the AYAs, parents, and coaches with high satisfaction ratings for coaching. All participants achieved at least one goal. The participants had increased post-intervention scores in social participation (overall, school, community) and SPAN skills (goal planning, self-regulation, reciprocal communication). Suggestions for improvement primarily focused on the SPAN web application. Conclusion: The results demonstrated the usability and potential benefits of SPAN for AYA brain tumor survivors and have informed a larger implementation trial. Comments The authors declare that they have no competing financial, professional, or personal interest that might have influenced the performance or presentation of the work described in this manuscript. Keywords brain injury, coaching, social participation, youth
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User freedom or user control?
Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the often complex and contradictory argumentation of a spectrum of different Finnish public sector actors interviewed on the topical issue of Free/Libre Open Source (FLOSS) adoption. Design/methodology/approach : The science and technology-inspired critical discourse-analytical approach combines insights from Billig et al. and Fairclough, with a special focus on dilemmatic aspects of socially embedded discourses. The vocabularies used to justify FLOSS implementation highlight power struggles on the level of speech. Findings : The identified dilemmatic discourses express the continuing tension between the freedom to choose, use and develop one's desktop in the spirit of FLOSS on the one hand, and the striving for better desktop control and maintenance by it staff and user advocates on the other. Research limitations/implications : The research acts as an opening for reframing common and axiomatic knowledge on FLOSS tools. Practical implications : The asymmetry between the layperson (the ordinary user) and the expert (IT staff) manifests itself in discourse in a way that calls for critical re-evaluation of the language used in information communication technology (ICT) implementation and support. It also questions the role of pilots in ICT implementation. Originality/value : The paper critically examines the often taken-for-granted ideals of open source software and elaborates a methodological tool for spotting power struggles on the level of speech.
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The Steeple of Light: From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Proposal to Dale Eldred and Roberta Lord’s Light Sculpture
This study offers a historiography of the Steeple of Light which rises more than a mile into the night sky, constituting one of Kansas City’s most iconic landmarks. Powerful Xenon lamps installed on the roof of the Community Christian Church create four light lines that converge in the distance to render a breathtaking spire of light. The Steeple of Light’s development from concept to final implementation took several decades and entailed significant obstacles. In 1940, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design a new church at 46th Street and Main Street, which he named a “church of the future.” His plan featured a low-lying building with light projections beaming from its rooftop. However, due to wartime shortages and insufficient technology, the steeple made of searchlights was not built at that time. It was not until fifty years later, in 1990, that sculptor Dale Eldred was hired to fulfill the vision for the Steeple of Light. A significant agent in the completion of the project was also Roberta Lord, Eldred’s wife and collaborator on many projects. This collaborative effort between Eldred and Lord did much more than fulfill Wright’s vision. I argue that although the name remained same, through Eldred and Lord’s artistic and technical expertise, the project substantially changed in both form and meaning. By changing the orientation of the lights from shining out in all directions as Wright initially designed, to shining straight up and converging in the distance, Eldred and Lord introduced a different focality to the Steeple of Light, one with far greater spatial and temporal scale. I draw on contextual evidence derived from biographical and historical information as well as concepts of space, place and time to trace diversions of meaning between the plans of the key players who contributed to the development of the Steeple of Light. Using a semiotic approach, I explore the ways in which historical narrative, church discourse, and shifting social contexts have influenced the interpretation and embodied experience of the Steeple. This thesis examines the multilayered meaning of the Steeple of Light by investigating the differences and points of intersection between these two distinct visions for the Steeple, first as Wright’s architectural concept and then as Eldred and Lord’s phenomenal light sculpture, to elucidate its affective role in the church community and in the broader Kansas City community.
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