Frame analysis was used to examine how competing stakeholders framed a sixth grade curriculum controversy over whether the WWII internment of Japanese Americans should be categorized as a controversial issue. Teachers and administrators in a northwestern U.S. school claimed that the internment was clearly wrong and not controversial, but these…

Children with mental retardation have pronounced difficulties in using cognitive strategies and comprehending abstract concepts--among them, the concept of sequential time (Van-Handel, Swaab, De-Vries, & Jongmans, 2007). The perception of sequential time is generally tested by using scenarios presenting a continuum of actions. The goal of this…

In this paper, we extend our social-cultural developmental model of autobiographical memory development (Nelson & Fivush, 2004) to discuss children's developing understanding of self and other as temporally extended in time. Parent-guided reminiscing about past events that includes discussion, comparison, and negotiation of internal states of self…

A project at the Midnorthern Centre in Sudbury examined children's time concepts and the children's use of time. (JA)

An experiment was conducted comparing the abilities of normal and retarded third-, fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade readers to report the temporal and spatial order of presentation of letters. The presentations were accomplished by using animated techniques on motion picture film. It was found that while the retarded readers were inferior to the…

The activities and interests of library science are placed in four categories: institutional (the library), professional (librarianship), functional (information exchange), and library-related (associated fields). Library science dissertations are classified into the four areas by year of publication, and changes in subject perspective over time…

Explains how the "futur anterieur" is often used to indicate past time in French grammar. Using authentic evidence from a news magazine, some hypotheses on the conditions of use of the "futur anterieur" are suggested. Criteria for distinguishing past tense functions from modal functions are also presented. (TR)

American Sign Language verbs have several ways to indicate time: 1)reference to a specific time; 2) extension at wrist, elbow, or shoulder to indicate future time; 3) flexion at wrist, elbow, or shoulder to indicate past tense. (Author/LMO)

Age differences between spouses over time are investigated using census data from 1900, 1960, and 1980. Results indicated a shift has occurred from marriages being characterized by age heterogamy in 1900 to age homogamy in 1960 and 1980. Husband-younger and/or husband-older marriages tended to be characterized by lower socioeconomic attributes.…

Explored relationship between elderly women's (N=145) death anxiety, purposefulness, and personal experience of time. Results indicated high death anxiety was associated with less purposefulness, sense of harrassment and pressure by time, discontinuity and lack of direction in lives, inclination to procrastinate, and disposition towards being…

Results of this study indicated that comparison subjects endorse statements reflecting a significantly greater future actual temporal orientation than do outpatients. Outpatients also expressed greater dissatisfaction with their actual temporal orientation, desiring it to be more future oriented. The measured ideal temporal orientations were the…

The stylistic effects which may be achieved by a judicious use of the tenses" are seen to be the following: vividness, point of view, prominence, variety, and euphony. (FB)