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A new study is showing that the way parents feed their children now may later lead them to be an “emotional eater” later in life.
According to Medical Xpress, a new study is showing that how parents feed their children is linked to emotional eating. This study was done by researchers from the University of Oregon and it can be read in full here.
Since the pandemic started, people of all ages have gained weight. At the same time, the rate at which youth and young adults are seeking treatment for eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa and binge eating disorder, has increased.
While the reasons for these changes are complex, pandemic-related stress and weight bias – the belief that a thin body is good and healthy, while a large body is bad and unhealthy – are prominent contributors.
The article is co-authored by COE faculty members Elizabeth Budd, Nichole Kelly, and Nicole Giuliani.
University of Kentucky College of Education researcher Collin Shepley has received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to develop an asynchronous online training for preschool teachers in inclusive classrooms that serve children with and without disabilities.
Associate Professor Emerita Jane Squires is a consultant on the study.
Loneliness, a precursor to more serious mental health issues, is on the rise among teens and young adults. This troubling trend begs the question for colleges rolling out their reopening plans and COVID-19 protocols: As most campuses return in person, will a reprieve from social distancing translate to social thriving?
University of Oregon professor Mark Van Ryzin’s research has shown how designing small-group peer learning with various forms of “interdependence” can incentivize students to collaborate — and to form relationships.
Since 2008, high school students in Oregon have had to meet a basic skills requirement in order to graduate.
That changed this summer, when Governor Kate Brown quietly signed a bill that scraps the requirement, for now.
David Conley, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon is featured.
Most people are familiar with using food as a way to get through a trying time.
Known as emotional eating, for some it can be a perfectly appropriate strategy for managing hard feelings, but for others it also can become a problematic way to cope.
A team from the UO College of Education looked at the interplay between the way parents feed their children and emotional eating by parents and children, as well as the influence the parent’s gender has on that association. Their goal was to better understand how child emotional eating develops and inform interventions that aim to prevent such behaviors from becoming unhealthy.
I like special education so much,” says Spencer Coleman, who has worked for three years as a behavioral assistant in the Bethel Community Transition Network (BCTN), a Bethel School District program that provides life-skills training beyond high school until age 21 to students with intellectual disabilities. “It involves learning about individual students more than pushing a particular curriculum. I like being there for the students.” Coleman is entering a masters of special education program at the University of Oregon this fall.
Bacone College is pleased to announce the appointment of Matt Wilson to the position of Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives.
Wilson, who grew up in Muskogee, is part of the Kiowa and Choctaw tribes of Oklahoma. He formerly worked as the Dean of Students for the Shoshone-Bannock High School in Fort Hall, Idaho.
“Despite childhood adversity, I obtained my bachelor of science in elementary education from Haskell Indian Nations University in 2009 and my master of science in curriculum and teacher education with emphasis in decolonized approach to curriculum from the University of Oregon in 2011,” said Wilson.
The College of Educations’ Spanish Specialization is designed to enhance preexisting linguistic and multicultural competencies, and increase cultural understanding of US Spanish-speaking populations.
Students learn to critically assess the unique social, historical, political, and cultural contexts that shape the experiences of Latinos in the United States.
The College of Education is launching a new institute to equip educators and school leaders with scientific evidence about what works best in classrooms and schools.
The HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice will assess the body of available research evidence on the most pressing issues in education and provide school leaders with guidance about the most effective policies, programs and practices to enable the success and well-being of students.