Elliot R. Downing

Bio: Elliot R. Downing is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Science education & Curriculum mapping. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 18 publications receiving 50 citations.

Uprooting and Resettlement Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women

Abstract: The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to examine and understand the challenges faced by elderly women from India who immigrated to Canada. Ten women were interviewed about their experiences with immigration and resettlement. The analysis of interview data involved iterative process, through which four themes were identified. These themes were isolation and loneliness, family conflict, economic dependence, and setting in and coping. The participants experienced loss because of changes in traditional values and lack of social support. Because the participants could not manage resettlement on their own, personal independence was not very important. Interdependence for the attainment of emotional security and social rewards was more desirable. Health care professionals must take into account the nature of stress and impact of these experiences on health of older immigrant women.

Teaching of General Science

Abstract: THE rapid spread of the teaching of general science follows on the recognition of the educative value of the subject. Much of this is lost, so far as children are concerned, if the content is restricted to what may be useful for some of them in future training as specialists. “The preparatory values are incidental. The adjustment between general science and special science must be made by the latter building upon what foundation the former lays, rather than by any attempt to prescribe that certain materials shall be used for preparatory reasons.” This is the main idea underlying Prof. Eikenberry's book, in which he describes the history and practice of the teaching in America. He has gone to the root of the matter, dealing fully with the principles on which practice should rest; and the result is a book which no one who has the interests of science teaching at heart can afford to ignore.The Teaching of General Science.Prof.W. L.EikenberryBy. (University of Chicago Nature-Study Series.) Pp. xiii + 169. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1922.) 2 dollars.

Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War

Abstract: Introduction: relating science and democracy Part I. The Scientific Spirit: 1. Founding hopes 2. Internal divisions 3. Science and philosophy Part II. The Scientific Attitude: 4. Scientific citizenship 5. The biology of culture 6. The problem of cultural change 7. Making scientific citizens Part III. Science and Politics: 8. Science and its contexts 9. The problem of values 10. Two cultures 11. Accommodation Conclusion: science and democracy in a new century.

Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century

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