Objectives: Chinese medicine is growing in popularity and offers an important alternative or complement to biomedical care, but little known of who uses it why they purchase it. This article reports the first in-depth, large-scale (n = 575) survey United States acupuncture users. Design: An anonymous mixed quantitative-qualitative questionnaire assessed user demographics, modalities used, complaints, response other health-care satisfaction with care six general-service clinics five states....

Human rights education is a prominent concern of number international organisations and has been dominant on the United Nations’ agenda for past 20 years. The UN Decade Rights Education (1995–2004) followed by World Programme (2005–ongoing) recently adopted Declaration Training. This article shares findings from project that aimed to gauge knowledge human students undertaking initial teacher childhood practice programmes at one university in Scotland. Students were invited share their...

Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into the entangled and emergent aspect children as activists. We begin with historical conceptual review, noting importance mid‐20th century developments such May 1968 but tracing their roots to earlier community‐derived US civil rights movement—a long episode not normally included accounts children's involvement. consider...

Abstract There is little of which we can be certain, but the mantra in newspapers and on televisions as watch political unrest unfold before our eyes, climate change marches apace, that live uncertain times. This statement, times, something certain. Unpredictability lack control are unsettling for all, arguably more so children. article proposes uncertainty need not negative every instance. It suggests leads to cognitive growth through encountering dissonance assimilation accommodation new...

This article aims to outline key factors be considered in the development of communities enquiry an educational context and establish a conceptual theoretical framework within which much needed empirical work can carried out. The literature surveyed considers both different types community positions on how develop. Seven emerge. 1) A depends its members' opportunities engage dialogue other modes participation. 2) Participation is sustained through quality relationships. 3) Perspectives...

Grounded in children’s rights, this article advances understanding of the affordances and constraints implementing Article 12 United Nations Convention on Rights Child educational settings with young children – those under 7. It starts from premise that if we are to foster democratic skills people, need develop practices support earliest age. The presents outcomes a seminar series facilitating dialogue among international academics working field range early years practitioners. This...

Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence affords greater autonomy and flexibility to teachers schools through advocating curriculum integration experiential active learning with emphasis on the processes of rather than detailed outcomes. It is in this context that present article grounded. This explores children's participation Community Philosophical Inquiry (CoPI) a specific focus collaborative dialogue. Evidence drawn from pupils' philosophical dialogues classrooms range primary school...

This article explores the concept of community enquiry through an examination 3 case studies: (a) a school-based involving pupils, teachers, and researchers; (b) teachers from around 100 different schools in Scottish local authority, together with policy advisers (c) project team involved present study itself. The studies are considered relation to 7 factors identified previous research as significant considerations when attempting build enquiry, namely: dialogue participation;...

On November 8–9, 2007, the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) hosted an international conference to mark tenth anniversary of landmark NIH [National Institutes Health] Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture. More than 300 acupuncture researchers, practitioners, students, funding agency personnel, and health policy analysts from 20 countries attended SAR meeting held at University Maryland School Medicine, Baltimore, MD. This paper summarizes important invited lectures in area...

(2018). Philosophy with children, self-regulation and engaged participation for children emotional-behavioural social communication needs. Emotional Behavioural Difficulties: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 81-96.

While use of the term "dieting" is frequent in United States, little known about its relevance as a category for classifying foods — which are considered dieting foods, how often people eat and avoid such why categorized "dieting." A sample 374 undergraduate university students exhibited considerable consensus naming specific delineating they regularly consumed avoided because were foods. Vegetables, fruits salads most frequently named few differences by sex or experience with existed...

Several models of child exist, each maintaining as something other to adult. Stables asserts: “…how we think about [children] does affect how deal with them” (2008: 1). Seeing children becomings is a problem. Here, I would like consider the recommendations from most recent United Nations’ report card on implementation UNCRC in UK and place these against question society ‘deals with’ whether that more positive than ‘must do better’ likely take us beyond seeing different, other, becoming.

In advancing children’s rights, and human rights more broadly, this article supports the view that participation through deliberation by children is desirable. Practising Philosophy with Children, an approach such as Community of Philosophical Inquiry, proposed a powerful way forward rights-based means supporting to deliberate about matters affecting them in society. considering are educated about, for example philosophical dialogue provided illustrate deliberating on issues, how teachers...

Situated in the context of children’s rights, this article reports on a study involving children from 11 countries and 5 continents philosophical discussions about concepts child childhood. Here we focus seven those countries. In previous study, two authors explored what kind society would like to live. The present directly addresses one issues arising that study: investigate think childhood is their place society. raises around participation related conceptions

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