Donna Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Minnesota State University at Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2552-4524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tree Stories: Assessment Making as Relationally Respecting, Dynamically Listening with Care, and Inviting Celebratory Journeying
Through my recent Master of Education journey, I am becoming increasingly awake to the ways in which I value “place” when thinking of my autobiographical beginnings, teaching, learning, and assessment making alongside children. As a forest and nature kindergarten teacher in a K–6 elementary school, who is facing increasing class sizes, classroom complexity, parental anxieties, and children’s wide-awakeness to all these influences, I worry about e…
Native American Colorism: From Historical Manifestations to the Current Era
Following conquest by European settlers Native Americans internalized Euro-American traditions and ideals. Salient among such ideals was the internalization of a bias as pertains to skin color defined as colorism. Colorism is a quasi-manifestation of racism carried out by victim-group populations. Subsequently, light skin was idealized and dark skin denigrated. Initially the idealization of light skin was dramatically displayed in the school sett…
Open Adoptions in Child Welfare: Social Worker and Foster/Adoptive Parent Attitudes
This exploratory study assessed caseworkers' and foster parents' experience, training, and attitudes related to youth's post-adoption contact with birth family members. The Open Adoption Scale, a validated instrument, was used to measure the attitudes of 122 caseworkers and 127 foster parents toward post-adoption contact. Only 7.4% of caseworkers and 26.8% of foster parents received “thorough” training in post-adoption contact. Caseworkers were m…
Initial Validation of the Open Adoption Scale: Measuring the Influence of Adoption Myths on Attitudes Toward Open Adoption
All adoptions, including those facilitated by public agencies, should be evaluated for openness. Although there are no national figures related to openness in public welfare, there are indications that it is not considered in all cases. Adoption myths may be one of the reasons that adoption workers do not always assess a family's ability to maintain a more open adoption arrangement. The following study is the initial validation of a multidimensio…
Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
State Response to Federal Policy: Children, EPSDT, and the Medicaid Muddle
The implementation in Connecticut of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT), a program of comprehensive medical care for needy children, illustrates the complexities engendered by federally mandated state-administered health programs. The EPSDT amendments to Title V and Title XIX (Medicaid) were ambiguous on four major issues: administrative responsibility, costs, eligibility, and scope of services. The problems experienced…
Initial Validation of the Open Adoption Scale: Measuring the Influence of Adoption Myths on Attitudes Toward Open Adoption
All adoptions, including those facilitated by public agencies, should be evaluated for openness. Although there are no national figures related to openness in public welfare, there are indications that it is not considered in all cases. Adoption myths may be one of the reasons that adoption workers do not always assess a family's ability to maintain a more open adoption arrangement. The following study is the initial validation of a multidimensio…
Native American Colorism: From Historical Manifestations to the Current Era
Following conquest by European settlers Native Americans internalized Euro-American traditions and ideals. Salient among such ideals was the internalization of a bias as pertains to skin color defined as colorism. Colorism is a quasi-manifestation of racism carried out by victim-group populations. Subsequently, light skin was idealized and dark skin denigrated. Initially the idealization of light skin was dramatically displayed in the school sett…
State Response to Federal Policy: Children, EPSDT, and the Medicaid Muddle
The implementation in Connecticut of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT), a program of comprehensive medical care for needy children, illustrates the complexities engendered by federally mandated state-administered health programs. The EPSDT amendments to Title V and Title XIX (Medicaid) were ambiguous on four major issues: administrative responsibility, costs, eligibility, and scope of services. The problems experienced…
Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
Initial Validation of the Open Adoption Scale: Measuring the Influence of Adoption Myths on Attitudes Toward Open Adoption
All adoptions, including those facilitated by public agencies, should be evaluated for openness. Although there are no national figures related to openness in public welfare, there are indications that it is not considered in all cases. Adoption myths may be one of the reasons that adoption workers do not always assess a family's ability to maintain a more open adoption arrangement. The following study is the initial validation of a multidimensio…
Open Adoptions in Child Welfare: Social Worker and Foster/Adoptive Parent Attitudes
This exploratory study assessed caseworkers' and foster parents' experience, training, and attitudes related to youth's post-adoption contact with birth family members. The Open Adoption Scale, a validated instrument, was used to measure the attitudes of 122 caseworkers and 127 foster parents toward post-adoption contact. Only 7.4% of caseworkers and 26.8% of foster parents received “thorough” training in post-adoption contact. Caseworkers were m…
Native American Colorism: From Historical Manifestations to the Current Era
Following conquest by European settlers Native Americans internalized Euro-American traditions and ideals. Salient among such ideals was the internalization of a bias as pertains to skin color defined as colorism. Colorism is a quasi-manifestation of racism carried out by victim-group populations. Subsequently, light skin was idealized and dark skin denigrated. Initially the idealization of light skin was dramatically displayed in the school sett…
Tree Stories: Assessment Making as Relationally Respecting, Dynamically Listening with Care, and Inviting Celebratory Journeying
Through my recent Master of Education journey, I am becoming increasingly awake to the ways in which I value “place” when thinking of my autobiographical beginnings, teaching, learning, and assessment making alongside children. As a forest and nature kindergarten teacher in a K–6 elementary school, who is facing increasing class sizes, classroom complexity, parental anxieties, and children’s wide-awakeness to all these influences, I worry about e…
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (2 works) · Scale (ratio (2 works)