Becoming a Stickup Kid

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Give the kid a chance.

A vision becoming reality.

Non-animal science in toxicology and health research has been progressing for decades, but only now is it being seen widely as advanced science. The emergence of novel human biology-based tools and models, combined with legislative and regulatory change, a 21st century concept for toxicology, continuing failures in the drug pipeline, and systematic critiques of animal models, have created a piv...

Becoming a Mother

Dr. Montagna has made many contributions to our knowledge of the microscopic anatomy of the skin and its appendages. In this book he has tried to close the gap which so often separates structure and function. And he has succeeded in this endeavor. The book is directed to persons interested in the biology of skin. It is divided into the following eight sections: The general anatomy of skin, the ...

Becoming a face expert.

Young children do not form representations of newly encountered faces as efficiently as do adults. A first step in explaining this difference, like any age-related change, is locating its source. A major source of the improvement is acquisition of knowledge of faces per se, as opposed to age-related changes in general pattern encoding or memorial skills. Two consequences of expertise at individ...