Mary Leakey's Poem

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Autophagy: research topic, painting, poem, dance

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

Mary Ainsworth

Saul McLeod John Bowlby (1969) believed that attachment was an all or nothing process. However, research has shown that there are individual differences in attachment quality. Indeed, one of the primary paradigms in attachment theory is that of the security of an individual’s attachment (Ainsworth & Bell, 1970). Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of attachment differ among inf...

Mary Miller

This article summarizes a study of classroom television use. It describes the study methodology as "eclectic, drawing on traditions of action research ... ethnography ... history ... and constructivism..." (Ellipses in quote represent omitted citations.) The article is not particularly well organized. The author quotes extensively from the findings of earlier research studies, but does not alwa...