Wednesday, 25 February 2009
School Uniforms and changing social policy
CAB changing social policy - school uniforms
Following the success of Lancashire's CAB campaign to ask for school uniform grants, other CAB's have jumped on the band wagon. Until now, council's have not provided money towards pupil's uniforms, but have instead insisted on specific school branded uniform bought from a particular firm, this made uniforms very costly for all but especially those on low income, benefits or families with a number of children. Many Primary and Secondary schools now offer an alternative. Where as pupils will still wear a uniform which unites and protects them, supermarkets now offer unbranded items at a fraction of the cost.
Following the success of Lancashire's CAB campaign to ask for school uniform grants, other CAB's have jumped on the band wagon. Until now, council's have not provided money towards pupil's uniforms, but have instead insisted on specific school branded uniform bought from a particular firm, this made uniforms very costly for all but especially those on low income, benefits or families with a number of children. Many Primary and Secondary schools now offer an alternative. Where as pupils will still wear a uniform which unites and protects them, supermarkets now offer unbranded items at a fraction of the cost.
Bringing up Baby
This program airing on Channel 4 early last year (2007), explores different methods of bringing up children, each popular in different decades during the 1900s.
Firstly the 1950s harsh routine, depriving the child of attention from the mother and visitors, the baby has to fit into the parent’s schedule, not the other way around. Secondly, the 1960s liberal method, where free love and affection was the mood of the time and baby could be held for as long as the parents felt like, there was no routine other than loving the baby as much as possible. Thirdly, a method originating to the native way of life, where the baby was carried everywhere with the mother in a sling ensuring constant mother baby contact and encouraging the baby to feed whenever it needed. This method believes to strengthen the bond between children and parents and became extremely popular in the 1970s.
The program has been heavily criticized for exploiting these babies at their most vulnerable, at the earliest stage of development. There is not enough evidence to show if these initial methods will affect them in later life. They are being televised merely for the amusement of watching adults, the Child's needs and welfare are neglected. Not only is this an important issue to the children in the series, but also future generations where parents have picked a method from television to bring up their child. Mothers will be easily influenced by any advice given.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Idioms and their origins
A phrase characteristic of a particular language, that cannot necessarily be fully understood from the separate meanings of the individual words - Wiktionary definiion
A little birdie told me - thought to refer to a biblical reference meaning, the message was passed on from a secret source.
"Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."
straight from the horses mouth - originates from getting the best advice on horse racing bets from people closest to the horse: trainers, stable hands. It has now come to mean that you have heard something from the person themselves.
Lock, Stock and Barrell - names all of the parts of a musket, has come to mean having everything.
A little birdie told me - thought to refer to a biblical reference meaning, the message was passed on from a secret source.
"Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."
straight from the horses mouth - originates from getting the best advice on horse racing bets from people closest to the horse: trainers, stable hands. It has now come to mean that you have heard something from the person themselves.
Lock, Stock and Barrell - names all of the parts of a musket, has come to mean having everything.
Piaget - Child as a scientist
Piaget's 4 main stages of cognitive development:
age 0 - 2 Sensori - motor
knowledge acquired through actions, egocentric, lack of object permanence (realizing that something is still there even when it cannot be seen)
age 2 - 7 Pre - operational
knowledge acquired through perception, egocentric ( find it difficult to take on board views other than their own), lack of conservation ( cannot comprehend that quantity is not changed merely by transforming how it looks, e.g pouring water from a tall thin glass into a short wide one; because of the height change of the liquids, pre - operational children would believe the volume was less) . Pre - operational children can group and classify objects, but only according to one feature e.g colour or shape but not both at the same time.
age 7 - 11 Concrete operational
adult logic in concrete situations, can logically think about objects and events, ability to conserve mass (7), weight (9) and number(6), now able to classify according to several features and order in series.
age 11+ formal operational
age 0 - 2 Sensori - motor
knowledge acquired through actions, egocentric, lack of object permanence (realizing that something is still there even when it cannot be seen)
age 2 - 7 Pre - operational
knowledge acquired through perception, egocentric ( find it difficult to take on board views other than their own), lack of conservation ( cannot comprehend that quantity is not changed merely by transforming how it looks, e.g pouring water from a tall thin glass into a short wide one; because of the height change of the liquids, pre - operational children would believe the volume was less) . Pre - operational children can group and classify objects, but only according to one feature e.g colour or shape but not both at the same time.
age 7 - 11 Concrete operational
adult logic in concrete situations, can logically think about objects and events, ability to conserve mass (7), weight (9) and number(6), now able to classify according to several features and order in series.
age 11+ formal operational
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