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This paper is about the interaction between policy and practice, and about how competing policies contributed to a paradoxical
tension within that interaction in one school. Within a paradigm of educational renewal, the Singapore Ministry of Education
(MOE) has initiated a number of policies designed to give schools autonomy in designing and implementing programmes to achieve
optimal educational outcomes for its students. Among these are READ! Singapore, Teach Less, Learn More and the School Excellence
Model. In this context, we review an MOE initiated Extensive Reading (ER) programme in one school. Despite such innovative
policies, Dewey Secondary School’s [The names of the school and individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.] pedagogical
and literacy practices continue to be largely influenced by other dominant features of Singapore’s and the school’s own educational
culture—an exam-oriented focus that prioritises outcome and skill-based pedagogy and the school’s historical practice of restricting
literacies. Competing policies as interpreted by the school and diverse stakeholders result in a morphed ER programme—an adaptation
of a reading programme that reflects the programme intent overtly but one that collides at other times, and as a result, is
pulled in different directions. The story is, thus, one of ‘policies of promise and practices of limit’. 相似文献
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Heidi B. Carlone Sue Kimmel Christina Tschida 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2010,5(2):447-476
This is an ethnographic study of a newly created math, science, and technology elementary magnet school in a rural community
fiercely committed to cultural preservation while facing unprecedented economic instability brought on by massive loss of
manufacturing jobs. Our goal was to understand global- and community-level contexts that influenced the school’s science curriculum,
the ways the school promoted itself to the community, and the implicit meanings of science held by school staff, parents and
community members. Main sources of data were the county’s newspaper articles from 2003 to 2006, the school’s, town’s, and
business leaders’ promotional materials, and interviews with school staff, parents, and community members. A key finding was
the school’s dual promotion of science education and character education. We make sense of this “science with character” curriculum
by unpacking the school and community’s entanglements with historical (cultural preservation), political (conservative politics,
concerns for youth depravity), and economic (globalization) networks. We describe the ways those entanglements enabled certain
reproductive meanings of school science (as add-on, suspect, and elitist) and other novel meanings of science (empathetic,
nurturing, place-based). This study highlights the school as a site of struggle, entangled in multiple networks of practice
that influence in positive, negative, and unpredictable ways, the enacted science curriculum. 相似文献
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Pat Drake 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(1):67-82
This article derives from a case study of 10 secondary school teaching assistants (TAs) who did not have conventional pre-qualifications
in mathematics but who undertook an honours degree in mathematics education studies at a Higher Education Institution in England
whilst continuing to work as TAs in school. Work-based learning was thus undertaken in parallel with advancement through the
hierarchical undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Lave and Wenger’s work on communities of practice is used as a framework
to explore the TAs’ learning of mathematics alongside their professional work in schools. This case illustrates how and where
institution-based undergraduate teaching relates to work in school, and where it does not, thus signalling the importance
of the TAs’ informal learning strategies in bringing together these experiences. 相似文献
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Jennifer L. Lindsay 《The Urban Review》2007,39(4):425-453
This post-structural discourse analysis examines how whiteness is discursively and materially maintained and reproduced through
an anti-bias discourse. It attempts to surface ways in which counter discourses are mediated within a dominant discourse such
as whiteness. Understanding one school’s determined efforts to “combat oppression” and the difficulties inherent in this charge
may allow for expanded notions of how schools might challenge taken for granted norms on which many visions of reform rest.
Finally, taking into consideration the ways in which dominant discourses of normalization may act as a barrier to producing
transformational environments for teaching and learning in K-12 schools, may make more evident the need for schools to have
mechanisms that challenge normative structures, social practices, as well as create space for counter discourses to be generated. 相似文献
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The central purpose of this study is to examine approaches for dealing with the problem of bullying (wangtta in Korean) in schools from the Christian educational perspective. There has been much development in both research and practice
in the 1990s and 2000s relating to bullying in Korean schools. Most Korean research on bullying, however, has almost exclusively
focussed on verification of the facts that bullying or peer rejection is a widespread phenomenon in schools. This study, however,
is mainly concerned with how to tackle effectively the bullying problem on the basis of Christian educational philosophy.
To do this, this paper suggests a four stage approach to dealing with bullying: namely, clarifying the Christian school ethos,
leading to determine the school’s bullying policy. With the bullying policy, school anti-bullying programs could be developed
in order to create a bullyingfree school environment. 相似文献
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Allan B. de Guzman Sr. Maria Lirio Tan Lagrimas Guillermo 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2007,8(2):216-223
Meaning-making is vital in the realm of principalship. It serves as the fulcrum of one’s practice which eventually leads to
seeing the light and appreciating the serendipity of principalship. While explicit knowledge abounds in the literature and
is communicated in professional development programs, the role of the principals’ tacit knowledge derived from their experiences,
day-to-day dealings with the school’s stakeholders, observations, insights, and reflections are vital inputs in understanding
the dynamics of school principalship. This narrative inquiry is an attempt to capture the tacit knowledge of a Filipino secondary
school principal whose experiences were limited by the absence of a formal academic preparation in school management but illumined
by herleadership reflective space (LRS) which enabled her to surface the serendipitous language of principalship. 相似文献
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Marjaana Kangas 《Learning Environments Research》2010,13(3):205-223
This grounded-theory study involved how Finnish children describe their ideal school and learning environment and considers
how their notions should be valued in the development of schools to better respond to the challenges of the future. The school
children, aged 10–12 years, participated in the study by writing a story about a school in which they would be happy to study.
Ninety-three children’s stories were coded and analysed, and a model of the ideal school and learning environment based on
their ideas was developed. This model school, called a Broadening and Empowering Learning Environment, is designed to contribute
to children’s physical, educational, cultural and socio-emotional well-being, offers opportunities for fantasy and innovation,
and employs creative and sports-based learning methods, among others, in both formal and informal settings. The study showed
that children, as educational stakeholders, are well aware of the potential of modern schools and of the different aspects
that would enhance their ability to learn and their satisfaction with schooling. 相似文献
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Shantia Kerr 《TechTrends》2011,55(1):28-31
The growing availability of online learning in K-12 education requires understanding of the tools and pedagogy necessary for
effective teaching and learning. This paper provides recommendations to advance teaching and meaningful learning in online
high school courses. Additionally, it provides principles of practice for teachers, students, and school and district level
administrators. It concludes with a list of “best practices” for online, high school teachers. All recommendations are based
on the findings from the author’s research in three secondary online learning settings. 相似文献
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Raquel Farmer-Hinton 《The Urban Review》2011,43(5):567-596
This article reports findings from a four-year case study of an urban college preparatory charter high school. Through analyses
of teacher and staff interviews, the author highlights how the school approached the idea of “college for all” under the archetypal
influence of “college preparatory.” The interview data show how the charter school staff engaged in important educational
questions about what defines college preparation even though those questions became more complex as the school matured. These
findings are presented in three themes: (1) building a school, which reflects staff members’ views on the school’s start-up period of building renovation and growth, (2) building a curriculum, which reflects staff members’ views on teachers’ instructional practices, and (3) building a college culture, which reflects staff members’ efforts to provide students with supplemental academic and social supports for college planning
and preparation. 相似文献
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Bev Rogers 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2003,30(2):65-87
Educational research has been criticised by governments and practitioners. For some politicians and policy makers, there is
a tendency to look for direct links between research and successful, effective and efficient practice. Research is needed
to inform their evidence-based practice as policy makers, and to provide the kind of research teachers need to base their
practice on the best available evidence for doing ‘x rather than y’ (Hargreaves 1996) or predicting the ‘size of the effect
of A on B’ (Blunkett 2000). There is no doubt that both teachers and policy makers do make decisions on a daily basis based
on some form of evidence. This paper explores Hargreaves’ notion of evidence-based practice, providing a range of criticisms.
It also examines Carr’s historical account of ‘praxis’ and ‘poiesis’ to suggest a notion of evidence-based praxis based partly
on the historical notion of ‘phronesis’ — practical wisdom. The basis for this is the argument that wise and practical ethical
and moral judgements are central to an understanding of teachers’ daily work. What to do in a specific educational situation
cannot be determined solely by theoretical beliefs or by ‘techne’. However the ethical dimension is not the only consideration.
The paper suggests that evidence-based praxis use Stenhouse’s notion of ‘actionable evidence’, which includes the ethical
dimension, but also Thomson’s concept of ‘thisness’, which describes the unique contextual characteristics of a school. If
disadvantaged schools can make some sort of difference to learning opportunities for students, it is argued that teachers
might engage in evidence-based praxis which involves them in reflecting on, and theorising what is happening in classrooms,
schools and neighbourhoods. This ‘praxis’ also involves them in modifying their theories, critically analysing ‘what works’,
questioning how they know and developing ideas about how things might be done differently. There will be an element of developing
knowledge about teaching and learning strategies (Hargreaves’ ‘body of knowledge’), but it will be in the context of the ethical
and moral dilemmas associated with education. It will take up the question of local differences as well as a realistic approach
to what constitutes actual school improvement. Evidence-based praxis is also essentially a collective activity not an individual
approach. Future development of the notion of evidence-based praxis might also include involving students in a more reciprocal
and open learning process like that highlighted by researchers who focus on student participation linked to school reform. 相似文献
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Effective processes, practices, and infrastructure are essential components of successful online teaching and learning efforts;
and they lead to a sense of faculty ownership of online teaching as well as enhanced support from an institution’s administration.
The institution’s recognition of faculty members’ efforts to teach online in relation to the traditional concepts of scholarship,
tenure, and promotion is an important motivational factor for sustaining effectiveness in the online learning environment.
This study examined institutional efforts to alleviate or overcome challenges faced by faculty members in creating and teaching
online courses, and we investigated faculty members’ perceptions regarding these institutional efforts. 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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This study investigated students’ perceptions of the generalist learning environment of the primary school compared to their
perceptions of the specialist science learning environment of secondary school. The role of student gender and change in school
size as influencing factors on changes in students’ perceptions across primary to secondary transition were especially considered.
The same students’ perceptions of the learning environment were collected in the final stages of primary school and again
after their initial term in secondary school. Insights were gained into how students’ perceptions of learning environment
changed during their first exposure to specialised science learning environments and teachers, and how these changes in perceptions
during transition depended upon school size and student gender. Both school size and student gender were found to be influencing
factors for changes in some learning environment dimension perceptions. 相似文献
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Ahmad Mohammad Qablan Amjad Abuloum Jamal Abu Al-Ruz 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2009,18(3):291-300
A series of interviews and classroom observations were conducted with a group of in-service science teachers, students, school
principal, and computer lab supervisors, from a “Discovery” female school in Jordan to assess their utilization of information
and communication technology (ICT) in teaching science. The study also intended to determine how these participants were using
ICT and if they had any internal and external impediments in the way of the effective integration of ICT in the teaching of
science. Results showed that some participants were using ICT creatively in their science teaching. However, despite considerable
political pressure to increase ICT use in the classroom, most expressed frustration at the lack of ICT tools, support from
the school, from the Ministry of Education, and from the surrounding community. The article proposes possible resolutions
to help these participants overcome their impediments. Some of the suggested resolutions for the internal impediments include
involving teachers in preparing the school’s time-table, equipping the school with more ICT tools and offering more training
courses for teachers. However, the suggested resolutions for the external impediments involve (1) The Ministry of Education
to rethink the administration of board examinations, (2) The school to sacrifice scoring higher in board examinations for
preparing more creative and more versatile students’ perspectives. 相似文献
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Documentary websites known as “snapshots of practice” provide vivid examples of teachers’ inquiries into issues they have formulated in the context of their own teaching practices and students’ learning. Designed with assistance from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, snapshots of practice can be accessed in the K–12 section of the Gallery of Teaching and Learning (). Analysis of prospective teachers’ reflections on science-related snapshots of practice indicate that this use of technology enhanced their understanding of inquiry-based approaches to instruction. The paper also illustrates how prospective teachers used an electronic toolkit, , to construct their own snapshots of practice in order to represent what they had learned in a course on methods of teaching science in elementary school. 相似文献
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This paper shows how the patterns of variation created in the teaching were critical in helping a class of Primary 3 students
in Hong Kong to learn about the colour of light, so that the students attained conceptual rather than procedural knowledge.
A ‘Learning Study’ approach was adopted, which is a Lesson Study grounded in a particular learning theory to improve teaching
and learning. This study, based on the learning theory of Variation advanced by Marton and Booth, was premised on three types
of variation: variation in students’ ways of experiencing what is to be taught/learnt (V1), variation in teachers’ ways of
dealing with the ‘object of learning’ (V2), and the use of ‘pattern of variation’ as a guiding principle of pedagogical design
to enhance students’ learning (V3). In planning the lesson, a conscious effort was made to create relevant patterns of variation,
i.e. varying certain critical aspect(s) while keeping other aspects of the object of learning invariant in order to help students
to discern those aspects. Comparison between the results of the pre- and post-test shows that there was significant gain in
the students’ learning outcomes with respect to the intended object of learning. The findings contribute knowledge to how
the Theory of Variation can be used in practice. It also illustrates how teachers can make use of this theoretical framework
to analyze their own teaching and thereby, develop an analytical awareness of teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Bhaskar Upadhyay 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):569-586
This study draws upon a qualitative case study to investigate the impact of the high-stakes test environment on an elementary
teacher’s identities and the influence of identity maintenance on science teaching. Drawing from social identity theory, I
argue that we can gain deep insight into how and why urban elementary science teachers engage in defining and negotiating
their identities in practice. In addition, we can further understand how and why science teachers of poor urban students engage
in teaching decisions that accommodate school demands and students’ needs to succeed in high-stakes tests. This paper presents
in-depth experiences of one elementary teacher as she negotiates her identities and teaching science in school settings that
emphasize high-stakes testing. I found that a teacher’s identities generate tensions while teaching science when: (a) schools
prioritize high-stakes tests as the benchmark of teacher success and student success; (b) activity-based and participatory
science teaching is deemphasized; (c) science teacher of minority students identity is threatened or questioned; and (d) a
teacher perceives a threat to one’s identities in the context of high stakes testing. Further, the results suggest that stronger
links to identities generate more positive values in teachers, and greater possibilities for positive actions in science classrooms
that support minority students’ success in science.
Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献