AGE GRADE AND AGE SET

differentiation of social role based on age, commonly found in small-scale societies of North America and East Africa. Age sets are a type of sodality (nonresidential groups that cut across kinship ties and thus promote broader social solidarity) of young men who usually cooperate in secret ritual or craft performances together; individuals generally remain closely associated with their age set throughout their life. They are initiated into maturity and pass through age grades, the more general term denoting recognized stages of maturation that entail distinct rights and duties. Age grades may be marked by changes in biological state, such as puberty, or by socially recognized status changes such as marriage and the birth of a child. Persons of junior grade may defer to those of more senior grade who in turn teach, test, or lead their juniors. The Masai have an age-graded society.

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books on: Age Grade and Age Set  - 2519 results

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Old Age in Preindustrial Society
Book by Peter N. Stearns; Holmes & Meier, 1982
Subjects: Aged--History, Old Age--History
...society, is the age-grade system.An age-grade is simply a...various age-grades together compromise...major age-grades: boyhood...warrior age-grade at the approximate...a new age-set of warriors...senior age-sets to move up one...
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Age Structuring in Comparative Perspective
Book by David I. Kertzer, K. Warner Schaie; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989
Subjects: Life Cycle, Human--Social Aspects--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses, Old Age--Social Aspects--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses, Retirement--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses, Social Role--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses
...consists of seven named age groups, each embracing...approximately a 15-year age span Sangree 1965...126-129 . Each set of men initiated into...through five distinctive age grades. Traditionally during...the juniormost age grade. These initiations...
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Murder in the New Age: A Novel
Book by D. J. H. Jones; University of New Mexico Press, 1997
Subjects: College Teachers--Fiction, Fiction, New Age Movement--Fiction, Santa Fe (N.M.)--Fiction, Women Detectives--Fiction
...declared. "They should have set it up at the ski slopes." Her...Ascendant Master of the fourth grade. Now she was setting up a "healing...exclusively vegetarian community. New Age industries swooped upon this set of claims like birds spotting...
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The Experience of Old Age: Stress, Coping, and Survival
Book by Morton A. Lieberman, Sheldon S. Tobin; Basic Books, 1988
Subjects: Adaptability (Psychology), Aged--United States--Psychology, Death--Psychological Aspects, Relocation (Housing)--United States, Stress In Old Age
...elderly. With the age of our respondents uppermost in our minds, we set out to develop a measure...requirement that respondents grade themselves on self...descriptive item from a set of two or more. We...on Learys scheme, a set of forty-eight statements...
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The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages - Vol. 2
Book by Henry Osborn Taylor; Macmillan, 1919
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, Middle Ages, Philosophy, Medieval
...Aristotelian manner, scholasticism, in the person of Thomas, set itself upon a basis of sense perception; through which it...the images -- the type from the particular. There are three grades of the cognizing faculty virtutis cognoscitivae . The lowest...sense perception is confined to the particular. The highest grade of the cognizing faculty is that which is independent of bodily...
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The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo Age-Grade Masquerades on the West Bank of the Niger?
Journal article by Jean M. Borgatti; African Arts, Vol. 36, 2003
Subjects: Edo (African people)--Social aspects, Masquerades--Analysis, Nigeria--Social aspects
...continuum of age-grade masking traditions...from the previous age group, and the dancers...clearly linked with age-set formation and...according to the age of the ghost represented...persons of these ages" (Henderson 1972...acquired by the age set fully inducted into...with warrior age sets among the northern...with its link to age grades, key images, and...
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When to Promote Students: What Would It Mean If Promotion Decisions Were Based on Whether Students Have Actually Learned What We Expect at Specific Grade Levels Rather Than on Their Age or Seat Time? Mr. DeBlois Draws Lessons from How One School Has Made This Shift
Journal article by Robert Deblois; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, 2005
Subjects: Academic achievement--Measurement, Promotion (School)--Evaluation, Promotion (School)--Standards, Student promotion--Evaluation, Student promotion--Standards
...Expect at Specific Grade Levels Rather Than on Their Age or Seat Time...catch up to their age-appropriate grade...according to a new set of rules. And...all students to grade levels according to their age, we will all remain...
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The Cross-age Mentoring Program: a Developmental Intervention for Promoting Students' Connectedness across Grade Levels
Journal article by Michael J. Karcher; Professional School Counseling, Vol. 12, 2008
Subjects: Behavior, Mentoring programs, Mentors, Secondary school students, Training
The Cross-age Mentoring Program...Connectedness across Grade Levels by Michael...typically seventh grade and under (see Karcher...interactions. An elaborate set of training materials...one that includes grades 4 through 8). Meetings...Not until seventh grade are most children...
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Teaching Information Skills in the Information Age: an Examination of Trends in the Middle Grades
Journal article by Marlene Asselin; School Libraries Worldwide, Vol. 11, 2005
Subjects: Canada, Critical thinking, Information literacy, Instructional design, Middle schools, Teaching methods, Trends
...literacies of the Information Age (Asselin Dreher, 2005...literacy instruction in grades 6 and 7 (ages 11-12) and the degree...curriculum. For example, in grades 2 and 3, students are...technology" (p. 165); in grade 6, students should be...literacies of the Information Age increase in core curriculum...
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The Measurement of Age, Age Structuring, and the Life Course
Journal article by Richard A. Settersten Jr., Karl Ulrich Mayer; Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 23, 1997
Subjects: Age--Measurement, Life change events--Analysis, Life cycle, Human--Analysis
...to biological and social ages, psychological age is a larger concept and includes...variables other than the mere ages of individuals." Subjective Age Identification Research on...the proportion who cite an age (or ages) within a short age span...
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magazine articles on: Age Grade and Age Set  - 3281 results

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Should Age Determine Grade Level?
Magazine article by Danny Forrest, Michael Mayo; NEA Today, Vol. 14, February 1996
Subjects: Age, Education policy, Schools, Students
...grouping. With multi-age grouping, theres...are assigned to a "grade," but only because...preexisting standards set by the district. We call our grades "teams," and each...kindergarten through "fifth grade." No team includes more than three "grades"--the majority...children of different ages in the same classroom...
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Transforming Education in the Primary Years: We Must Invest in Building a High-Quality Early Education System That Starts at Age Three and Extends through the Third Grade
Magazine article by Lisa Guernsey, Sara Mead; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 27, Fall 2010
Subjects: Early childhood education--Management, Education--Management, Education--Methods, Literacy--Management, Literacy--United States, Teaching methods--Management
...That Starts at Age Three and Extends through the Third Grade. by Lisa Guernsey...cannot read at grade level and barely...in the earliest grades of their schooling...the first few grades of elementary...agreement that sets forth the kind...graders cannot read grade-level texts...
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A Metal for All Ages
Magazine article by Steve Voynick; World and I, Vol. 13, November 1998
Subjects: Copper age--History, Copper--Usage, Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Economic aspects, Recycling--Economic aspects
A Metal for All Ages. by Steve Voynick...us from the Stone Age to the Information...Copper and Bronze Ages. Some view the much shorter Copper Age as an independent...todays Information Age, and copper has been...be a metal for all ages. Steve Voynick is...
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Multimedia Comes of Age
Magazine article by Rebecca Gold; MultiMedia Schools, Vol. 9, March 2002
Subjects: Education, Elementary school students, Lawrenceville New Jersey, Multimedia communications
Multimedia Comes of Age by Rebecca Gold The set is quiet, the team members take their...their way. Along with their third-grade counterparts, these students are entering the digital age as creators, not merely consumers...
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From Pencil and Paper to the Digital Age
Magazine article by Annette Heathman; Journal of Staff Development, Vol. 25, Summer 2004
...Paper to the Digital Age by Annette Heathman...old, Industrial Age approach to a fastapproaching...future in the Digital Age. Our district, the...teammates, and peers were set to become the coaches...learning. One 4th-grade teacher developed literature...
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Age-Grade Shake-Up for Welsh Rugby
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 7, 2004
Age-Grade Shake-Up for Welsh Rugby...HOWELL Western Mail Rugby at age-grade level in Wales will...16 to under-21 levels. Age-grade rugby in Wales is undergoing...attached to the U21 coaching set-up. Ian Jones, the director...
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Young Blues Save Best for Last to Retain Their Crown; AGE GRADE RUGBY
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), January 12, 2011
Subjects: Rugby football
Young Blues Save Best for Last to Retain Their Crown; AGE GRADE RUGBY. BLUES Under-18 head coach Dale McIntosh has hailed...this season, the aim nowfor all of us the Wales Under-18 set-up cant take anything for is to get into up, but we or...
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The 4th Grade Blues 3rd Grade Stars Often Slip during Critical Year as Age and Curriculum Hamper Learning
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 25, 2007
...more difficult ages to teach," said...believe it is the age and we believe...Rhee, a fourth-grade teacher at Arlington...children in all grades improve in lockstep...tests in third grade. By fourth grade...read less as they age, research shows...kids between the ages of 5 and 8 read...school teachers set aside a reading...
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LYNG A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS; Doubling Up: Though Lyng Won 28 Caps for Ireland at Under-Age Level (Left), He Failed to Make the Grade in Soccer but He Has Starred for Wexford (Right) in the Senior Football Championship
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 19, 2008
...28 Caps for Ireland at Under-Age Level (Left), He Failed to Make the Grade in Soccer but He Has Starred...capped 28 times at under-age level for Ireland, he was snapped...thing. Our youth team at Preston set a division record by winning...
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Can't Do Better; 95% of All Work Was above Average or Excellent, While the Pass Rate in National Curriculum Tests (Age 11) Was Double National Average; Percentage of Pupils Achieving the Top Grade in 11-Year-Olds' Science Exam Was 95% - Compared with 17% in Rest of BritainPupils' Punctuality Was Excellent and No Child Had Skipped a Lesson. There Were No Significant Shortcomings in Teaching of Any Subject
Newspaper article by Richard Garner Education; The Mirror (London, England), December 10, 1997
...Curriculum Tests (Age 11) Was Double National...Pupils Achieving the Top Grade in 11-Year-Olds...report which is normally set aside for an action...bedrock of what we set out to do. We have...reading test at the age of six, so teachers...
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encyclopedia articles on: Age Grade and Age Set  - 2 results

 
 
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Age Grade and Age Set
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGE GRADE AND AGE SET differentiation...East Africa. Age sets are a type of...with their age set throughout their...pass through age grades, the more general...and duties. Age grades may be marked...Persons of junior grade may defer to those...
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School
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...now common twelve-grade system whereby the...kindergarten at the age of five, goes to...elementary school for grades one through eight...although standards of age and length of the...inappropriate for the age group that attends...schools are sometimes set up to serve special...for children up to ages 11 or 12 and a secondary...


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