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Julio Gimenez 《Higher Education》2012,63(4):401-419
Generic attributes such as ‘holding a critical stance’, ‘using evidence to support claims’, and ‘projecting an impersonal
voice’ are central to disciplinary academic writing in higher education. These attributes, also referred to as ‘skills’, have
for a long time been conceptualised as transferable in that once learnt students are able to use them in a variety of contexts
and for a range of needs. Over the past few years, however, the conceptualisation of these attributes as transferable has
come under close scrutiny as they have been identified to be highly context-sensitive rather than context-flexible as they
were once thought to be. Drawing on data from a 2-year study on undergraduate academic writing in nursing and midwifery at
a university in the UK, this paper critically examines the role of disciplinary epistemologies in the conceptualisation of
these attributes in the two disciplines, and demonstrates how these beliefs help to shape academic writing at undergraduate
level, thus contributing to debates on generic skills and attributes and specificity in disciplinary discourses. The paper
concludes by highlighting the importance for writers to examine how knowledge is displayed, constructed and communicated in
their disciplines, and the significance of analysing the relationship between disciplinary epistemologies, generic attributes
and academic writing as a way of gaining access to and producing central discourses in their professional community. 相似文献
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Taking Teachers Out of the Equation: Constructions of Teachers in Education Policy Documents Over a Ten-year Period 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Sue Thomas 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2005,32(3):45-62
Education policy documents recently have placed great emphasis on teacher quality in the belief that ‘education of the highest
quality requires teachers of the highest quality’ (Department of Employment Education Training and Youth Affairs 2000). This
paper traces the discourses on teachers constructed in policy documents in order to establish what is meant by ‘teachers of
the highest quality’. It employs Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the discursive construction of teachers’ professional
identities in three policy documents released over the last decade. This analysis finds that, despite recognition being given
to the importance of teachers in all three documents, teachers’ professional autonomy is effectively curtailed as they are
increasingly being ‘taken out of the equation’ in education policy decision-making. The paper concludes with suggestions for
ways in which teachers may challenge these constructions and work to reconstruct teachers as active voices in the policy-making
process. 相似文献
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Michael Fullan in 1991 made the comment that little was known about how students viewed educational change, as no one had
thought to ask them. There is a small but growing literature seeking the views of students on a range of issues associated
with schooling. This paper reports the findings of a study of students’ perceptions of top–down educational change, involving
school amalgamations, closures and creation of middle schools. The policy process was purportedly to involve consultation
with students. The study interviewed students to explore the nature and extent of their participation in the policy enactment
and their views about the changes. Several meta level themes emerged from the students’ ‘voices,’ including issues associated
with disempowerment, and competing social justice and economic discourses. The findings foreground the often messy and contradictory
tensions evident in policy processes. The study found that despite the policy intent to include students, they continued to
be the ‘objects’ of policy initiatives, submerged in what Freire labelled a ‘culture of silence.’ It was the macro level policy
elite who exerted the most influence, using their power, privilege and status to propagate particular versions of schooling.
The paper concludes that students are deeply impacted by educational change and they want to participate in restructuring
agendas. Therefore policy makers at all levels need to make spaces for the active engagement of students in policy processes. 相似文献
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Todd Campbell Shaing Kwei Wang Hui-Yin Hsu Aaron M. Duffy Paul G. Wolf 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):505-511
This position paper proposes the enhancement of teacher and student learning in science classrooms by tapping the enormous
potential of information communication and technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools for engaging students in scientific inquiry.
This paper serves to challenge teacher-held assumptions about students learning science ‘from technology’ with a framework
and examples of students learning science ‘with technology’. Whereas a high percentage of students are finding their way in
using ICTs outside of school, for the most part they currently are not doing so inside of school in ways that they find meaningful
and relevant to their lives. Instead, the pedagogical approaches that are most often experienced are out-of-step with how
students use ICTs outside of schools and are not supportive of learning framed by constructivism. Here we describe a theoretical
and pedagogical foundation for better connecting the two worlds of students’ lives: life in school and life outside of school.
This position paper is in response to the changing landscape of students’ lives. The position is transformative in nature
because it proposes the use of cyber-enabled resources for cultivating and leveraging students new literacy skills by learning
‘with technology’ to enhance science learning. 相似文献
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Miriam E. David 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):25-42
This paper is about changing concepts of equity in UK higher education. In particular, it charts the moves from concepts about
gender equality as about women’s education as a key issue in twentieth century higher education to questions of men’s education
in the twenty-first century. These changing concepts of equity are linked to wider social and economic transformations, the
expansion of higher education and the growth in the knowledge economy, or what has been called ‘academic capitalism’. Feminist
theorists and activists, often called second wave feminists, developed concepts of gender equality in education, including
higher education in the twentieth century, and these have been incorporated into higher education and policies with the expansions
of higher education, especially around notions of widening participation. Notions of widening participation in policy and
practice arenas focus on equity as about social class, socio-economic disadvantage, ethnicity and race, rather than specifically
on gender questions. Equity is now twinned with diversity and where gender is now invoked it is largely about young and working
class men’s disadvantage in relation to higher education. In this paper, I will also provide research evidence from the UK’s
Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) which has been the UK’s biggest ever initiative in education research about
equity and diversity as currently conceived in UK higher education. I will show how gender has been incorporated with diversity
questions and has lost its critical and feminist edge. I conclude with addressing questions about the future of higher education
policies and practices to address questions of equity and diversity, attempting to counter the systemic inequalities in current
forms of UK higher education. There are opportunities for developing new, critical and feminist pedagogies. More inclusive
or ‘connectionist’ approaches, rather than ‘teaching to the test’, would engage socially diverse men and women students in
a range of higher education subjects and settings. 相似文献
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Joan Abbott-Chapman 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):57-71
Research studies of post-school education and training conducted in Australia and internationally have revealed a mosaic of students’ education and employment experiences, with a multiplicity of nonlinear pathways. These tend to be more fragmentary
for disadvantaged students, especially those of low socio-economic background, rural students, and mature aged students seeking
a ‘second chance’ education. Challenges faced by students in their transitions to higher education are made more complex because
of the intersection of vertical stratification created by institutional and sectoral status hierarchies and segmentation,
especially relating to ‘academic’ and ‘vocational’ education and training, and the horizontal stratification of regional,
rural and remote locations in which students live. If we are to achieve the equity goals set by the Bradley Review (Bradley
et al., Review of Australian Higher Education Final Report, 2008) we need to acknowledge and work with the complex realities of disadvantaged students’ situations, starting at the school
level. Interrelated factors at the individual, community and institutional level which continue to inhibit student take-up
of higher education places are discussed in the context of discursive constructions of ‘disadvantage’ and ‘choice’ in late
modernity. Research highlights the need to facilitate students’ post-school transitions by developing student resilience,
institutional responsiveness and policy reflexivity through transformative education. 相似文献
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Kim Beswick 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(2):367-390
The professional literature in mathematics education is replete with calls to use tasks that are ‘authentic’, ‘relevant’ and
related to ‘real life’ and the ‘real world’. Such activities are frequently advocated for their potential to motivate and
engage students, but evidence of their ability to do so is rarely presented. This paper examines evidence in relation to the
effectiveness of context problems in achieving their intended purposes and thereby contributing to enhanced student participation,
engagement and achievement in mathematics education. It is argued that context problems are not a panacea and that categorising
problems as contextualised or de-contextualised is less helpful than the consideration of more salient aspects of tasks that
impact on their effectiveness. Such aspects also relate to the purposes for and affordances and limitations of particular
tasks in relation to the purposes they are intended to serve, along with attention to the contexts in which students learn
mathematics. Examples of theoretical and empirical programs built on these considerations are reviewed in terms of their potential
to enhance participation, engagement and achievement in school mathematics. 相似文献
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In an era of rapid global economic and social change, educational institutions like schools and universities are struggling
to keep their curricula and programs relevant. Singapore’s schools are no exception, especially when education is viewed as
the essential element for maintaining the nation’s global competitiveness in ways that are totally disproportionate to its
size. The current shift from an ‘efficiency-’ to an ‘ability-’ driven paradigm in education, however, is increasing uncertainty
and raising the stakes in an already pressurized system where schools, educators and students constantly compete for top academic
awards and rewards. The concept of “partnership” in Singapore education is a significant, relatively new, trend that has caught
on among local schools only since the late-1990s, with the focus on creating better “total” learning environments for students.
This paper analyses the challenges of matching rhetoric with professional practice with regard to school–home partnerships
in Singapore, and concludes that the key to authentic collaboration lies in the mutual appreciation and valuing of diversity
as well as a deep sense of shared responsibility by all parties concerned. 相似文献
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P. M. Alexander M. Holmner H. H. Lotriet M. C. Matthee H. V. Pieterse S. Naidoo H. Twinomurinzi D. Jordaan 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(3):300-315
The number of student enrolments in computer-related courses remains a serious concern worldwide with far reaching consequences.
This paper reports on an extensive survey about career choice and associated motivational factors amongst new students, only
some of whom intend to major in computer-related courses, at two South African universities. The data were analyzed using
some components of Social Cognitive Career Theory, namely external influences, self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations.
The research suggests the need for new strategies for marketing computer-related courses and the avenues through which they
are marketed. This can to some extent be achieved by studying strategies used by other (non-computer) university courses,
and their professional bodies. However, there are also distinct differences, related to self-efficacy and career outcomes,
between the computer majors and the ‘other’ group and these need to be explored further in order to find strategies that work
well for this group. It is not entirely clear what the underlying reasons are for these differences but it is noteworthy that
the perceived importance of “Interest in the career field” when choosing a career remains very high for both groups of students. 相似文献
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Towards a research training curriculum: What, Why, How, Who? 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Our purpose in this paper is to investigate the ways in which the work of research higher degree supervision is being reshaped from within and outside universities. Our interest is in the means by which new ‘content’ and ‘process’ knowledge — and thus a new set of pedagogical tasks and relationships — are being configured in the field of higher degree research. The outcomes of research training have traditionally been products of a one-on-one supervisory relationship, that is, academic apprentice-to-disciplinary mentor. This is especially the case in the fields of arts/humanities. Any ‘curriculum’ necessary to such a model has been both implicit and at the discretion of the disciplinary ‘master’. 相似文献
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Perry den Brok Sibel Telli Jale Cakiroglu Ruurd Taconis Ceren Tekkaya 《Learning Environments Research》2010,13(3):187-204
The purposes of this study were to examine how Turkish students perceived their biology classroom environment, how their perceptions
compared to those of students in other countries, and what classroom learning environment profiles could be discerned in Turkish
high school biology classrooms. Data were gathered from 1,474 high school students in four inner city schools, in Bursa, Turkey.
A total of 11 biology teachers participated in the study with 52 of their classes. Data on students’ perceptions of their
learning environment were collected with the What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire. Results indicated that
Turkish classrooms were perceived as being low in terms of Teacher Support and high in terms of Task Orientation. Six distinct
classroom learning environment profiles were found: the ‘self-directed learning classroom’, ‘task-oriented cooperative learning
classroom’, ‘mainstream classroom’, ‘task-oriented individualised classroom’, ‘low-effective learning classroom’ and ‘high-effective
learning classroom’. The most common profile was the ‘mainstream classroom’ for which all WIHIC scales had medium–high scores. 相似文献
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Andrew Marks 《Higher Education》2005,50(4):613-630
This paper argues that the conceptions of ‘space’ (and increasingly ‘time’) in the discussion of ‘the university’ (in its
most transcendent sense) have gone through four distinct phases in the UK. Using a Heideggerian conception of ‘space’ where
usefulness is more important than proximity, the ‘ancient’ universities were ‘useful’ to the gentry and thus were ‘closer’
to them than to the excluded ‘local’ poor in the institutions’ vicinities. The ‘civic’ universities on the other hand stressed
‘localism’ as part of their mandate – to educate the people of their locality (but only those of the new industrial middle
class). The ‘Robbins’ universities were a partial return to the ‘ancient’ notion of learning as a ‘lived’ activity, providing
scenic landscapes on green-belt campuses where students could ‘retreat’ from the ‘real world’ for the duration of their studies.
The ‘spatial’ quality of these places was thus part of a conception of higher education as ‘lifestyle choice’ where young
people moved away from their locality to study. As such ‘proximity’ was an issue only insofar as the greater the distance
from one’s point of origin the better for successful immersion in the growing student ‘culture’. The ‘new/post-1992’ universities
partially retained their polytechnic mandate to educate local people, but embraced a colonialist impulse regarding local space
usage. ‘
‘The discussion can be further refined to argue that these four stages are merely two phases which have repeated themselves:
from ancient ‘exclusivity’ to civic ‘localism’ and back to Robbins era ‘exclusivity’ and thence to post-1992 ‘localism’ once
more’. The opening up of higher education via the Internet in the late 20th and early 21st centuries provides for the possibility
of the growth of entirely non-spatial and asynchronous learning experiences, and as such we may well be on the verge of the
fifth stage of university development. 相似文献
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Knowing a world in common: The role of workplace educators in the global production of working knowledge 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Lesley Farrell 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2003,30(1):3-18
In this paper I am concerned with the challenge workplace learners and educators face, as they engage with global economies,
to create ‘a world in common as … known in common’ (Smith 1999). I focus first on why global companies need their geographically
dispersed workers to engage with a world ‘in common’, and how they go about constructing such a world. I pay particular attention
to the role of written texts in connecting individual local sites with global discourses of knowledge production. Next, I
explore the roles that workplace educators play in producing and interpreting the written texts of contemporary workplaces
to produce ‘working knowledge’. I develop the argument that a critical dimension of the work of many workplace educators is
the standardisation of language practice across institutions on a global scale, mediating local and global discourses to produce
and use working knowledge. Finally, I discuss the political implications of the textual work that workplace educators undertake. 相似文献
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Lori Beckett 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):109-124
This paper reports on the work of a small group of Education academics to build a professional learning community in a regional
university in the north of England. Their efforts form part of a ‘Leading Learning’ school–university partnership serving
schools in disadvantaged communities in inner city Leeds. This is designed to support teachers’ professional learning and
development and reclaim their sense of collaborative professionalism in a new era of austerity Britain. The account given
here is about the new partnerships being created between and among academic colleagues, who are learning to work effectively
with each other and their schooling colleagues on their collective professional learning and to build their collaborative
sense of professionalism. The complexities of this task—of working in a professional learning community within Faculty in
order to model and support a city-wide professional learning community with teacher partners, school communities, and civil
servants in the local Authority—are framed in terms of knowledge-building for the improvement of educational provision for
disadvantaged students in local schools and the university. 相似文献
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In this paper, we discuss methodological issues that emerged as we worked through a small empirical research project, ‘Engaging Aboriginal students in education through community empowerment’. Recent national policy statements (see, for example, MCEETYA 2000, NBEET 1995) argue the importance of education/research that keeps the locus of control within the Aboriginal community as a means to further the goal of self-determination and improve educational outcomes. In keeping with these recommendations, our project aimed to challenge assimilationist frameworks and sought to ‘empower’ members of the local Aboriginal community through participation in the project. 相似文献
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Variation in Students’ Experiences of the ‘Oxford Tutorial’ 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
This paper examines Oxford University students’ conceptions of the role of the tutorial in their learning. An analysis of
interviews with 28 students constituted four qualitatively different conceptions of the ‘Oxford Tutorial’. These ranged from
the tutorial involving the tutor explaining to the student what the student did not know, to the tutorial involving the tutor
and the student in exchanging different points of view and both coming to a new understanding of the topic under discussion.
These different conceptions also appeared to be related to variations in students’ views of the role of the work done in preparation
for the tutorial, their view of the student’s and tutor’s roles in the tutorial, and the conception of knowledge that students
adopted in relation to the tutorial. The implications of this study are discussed in terms of the relations between students’
conceptions of tutorials and their anticipated learning outcomes and its implications for contexts outside of Oxford in terms
of students’ conceptions of academic tasks. 相似文献
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Concept maps consist of nodes that represent concepts and links that represent relationships between concepts. Various studies
have shown that concept mapping fosters meaningful learning. However, little is known about the specific cognitive processes
that are responsible for such mapping effects. In a thinking-aloud study, we analyzed the relations between cognitive processes
during concept mapping as well as the characteristics of the concept maps that the learners produced and learning outcomes
(38 university students). To test whether differences in learning outcome are due to differences in general abilities, verbal
and spatial abilities were also assessed. In a cluster-analysis two types of ineffective learners were identified: ‘non-labeling
mappers’ and ‘non-planning mappers’. Effective learners, in contrast, showed much effort in planning their mapping process
and constructing a coherent concept map. These strategies were more evident in students with prior concept-mapping experience
(‘advanced beginners’) than in those who had not used this learning strategy before (‘successful beginners’). Based on the
present findings, suggestions for a direct training approach (i.e., strategy training with worked-out examples) and an indirect
training approach (i.e., supporting the learners with strategy prompts) were developed. 相似文献
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This paper is part of a larger study that aims at highlighting students’ interpretations of the idea of the ‘Balance of Nature’,
as well as its use in their reasoning about the future of an ecosystem, in order to subsequently develop a learning environment
that might promote a reconsideration of its validity and usefulness. Our focus here is particularly set on whether and how
non biology-major students use this idea when making predictions about (a) the future of an ecosystem that is supposed to
have suffered a human-driven disturbance, and (b) the future of an ecosystem that is supposed to be protected against such
disturbances. Administering a questionnaire of 12 items - 4 of which concern us here - to 61 1st-year educational sciences
students at the University of Patras, we traced - among others - their reasoning about (a) the future of three ecosystems
(forest, sea, lake), supposed to have suffered different human-driven disturbances (fire, oil spill, new population introduction),
and (b) the future of a protected forest ecosystem of a national park. According to our findings, most of the students found
it very likely for a disturbed ecosystem to fully recover its initial state - mainly due to a ‘recovery process’ or inherent ‘recovery mechanisms’ - showing a strong belief in an extremely resilient ‘Balance of Nature’. Moreover, most of them appeared to believe that
if human-protected, an ecosystem will be in a continuous ‘balance’, while very few were skeptical enough to claim a non-predictable
future for it. 相似文献
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Laura Black Julian Williams Paul Hernandez-Martinez Pauline Davis Maria Pampaka Geoff Wake 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2010,73(1):55-72
The construct of identity has been used widely in mathematics education in order to understand how students (and teachers)
relate to and engage with the subject (Kaasila, 2007; Sfard & Prusak, 2005; Boaler, 2002). Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), this paper adopts Leont’ev’s notion of leading activity in order to explore the key ‘significant’ activities that are implicated in the development of students’ reflexive understanding
of self and how this may offer differing relations with mathematics. According to Leont’ev (1981), leading activities are those which are significant to the development of the individual’s psyche through the emergence
of new motives for engagement. We suggest that alongside new motives for engagement comes a new understanding of self—a leading identity—which reflects a hierarchy of our motives. Narrative analysis of interviews with two students (aged 16–17 years old) in post-compulsory
education, Mary and Lee, are presented. Mary holds a stable ‘vocational’ leading identity throughout her narrative and, thus,
her motive for studying mathematics is defined by its ‘use value’ in terms of pursuing this vocation. In contrast, Lee develops
a leading identity which is focused on the activity of studying and becoming a university student. As such, his motive for
study is framed in terms of the exchange value of the qualifications he hopes to obtain. We argue that this empirical grounding
of leading activity and leading identity offers new insights into students’ identity development. 相似文献