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Rural Teachers' Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending of Teachers' and Students' Perspectives
(2008)
This paper extracts and elaborates rural secondary teachers' most effective reported motivating strategies. From the data generated by two years of mixed method research in rural secondary schools, these strategies emerged ...
Conversational correlates of children's acquisition of mental verbs and a theory of mind
(First Language, 2008-11-01)
The purpose of this study was to conduct a detailed examination of the ways mothers use mental verbs in conversations with three- and four-year-old children, and to link these usages to the children's developing understanding ...
Inorganic Chemistry of Defensive Peroxidases in the Human Oral Cavity
(Journal of Dental Research, 2008-10-01)
The innate host response system is comprised of various mechanisms for orchestrating host response to microbial infection of the oral cavity. The heterogeneity of the oral cavity and the associated microenvironments that ...
Enlightened or Delusional?: Differentiating Religious, Spiritual, and Transpersonal Experiences from Psychopathology
(Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2008-10-01)
Psychological diagnosis faces unique challenges when used to differentiate nonpsychopathological religious/spiritual/transpersonal (R/S/T) experiences from those that might evidence psychopathology, particularly considering ...
Science in the everyday world - Why perspectives from the history of science matter
(2008-07)
The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and ...