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Vasilios Grammatikopoulos Nikolaos Tsigilis Athanasios Koustelios Yannis Theodorakis 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2005,40(5):427-438
The aim of this study was to develop an instrument for evaluating how an education program has been implemented. Such evaluation
can provide insight into the effectiveness of a program. Examined here was the Olympic Education Program used in Greek schools
since 2000. In it, students learn the history of the Olympic games and the importance of exercise for health along with the
principles and values of sports and volunteerism. The evaluation instrument underlying this study addressed the following
six factors: ‘facilities’, ‘administration’, ‘educational material’, ‘student–teacher relationships’, ‘educational procedures’,
and ‘training’. Results indicate that the instrument, while adequate for assessing effectiveness, should be combined with
advanced statistical methods. 相似文献
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Solvejg Jobst 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2005,6(4):385-402
EUROPEAN CONSCIOUSNESS: TOWARDS DEFINING A COMPLEX CONCEPT AND ITS EDUCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE – The present study aims at a
definition of ‘European consciousness’. In particular, it draws on Henri Tajfel’s theory of social identity as well as Roland
Wakenhut’s and Jutta Gallenmüller’s moral determination of national consciousness. European consciousness is then defined
as a sense of belonging which, depending on certain identification structures and social perspectives, can take such distinct
forms of moral consciousness as ‘Eurocentrism’, ‘European patriotism’, or ‘reflective European consciousness’. Making reference
to Wolfgang Klafki’s notion of general education, it is finally argued that the emancipatory contribution of schooling to
greater European integration consists in mediating precisely this last way of thinking. 相似文献
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Elizabeth Warren 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2006,62(2):169-189
This paper examines the change in young children’s understanding of ‘equal’, ‘more’, ‘less’, and ‘between’, words commonly
used in equivalent and non-equivalent situations, over a 3-year period. Seventy-six children participated in the longitudinal
study. Each year they were asked to share their understanding of these four words. Past research has indicated that many children
have limited understanding of ‘equal’ as quantitative sameness. The results of this research suggested that many children
also have limited understanding of ‘more’ and ‘less’ and that these understandings did not significantly change over the 3-year
period. 相似文献
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Brian L. Jones 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):161-170
The term ‘concept’ is used in different ways within educational literature and has at least two different, although related,
referents in relation to science knowledge, namely, public knowledge and private understandings. A taxonomic structure for
‘science concepts’ (public knowledge) has been developed to provide a rationale for the choice of phenomena to be used in
the investigation of students’ ‘concepts’ and also to act as a frame of reference for generating insights about the data to
be collected. Furthermore, it may be a useful heuristic to predict other science concepts likely to be highly problematic
in school teaching situations and thus worthy of detailed research. The taxonomy, called a ‘Scale of Empirical Distance’ (SED),
enables science concepts to be mapped according to their degree of closeness to concrete realities. The scale shows a recognition
of the empirical basis of science concepts and the role of human senses in the perception of the material world even though
“absolute objectivity of observation is not a possible ideal of science” as Harre (1972) has noted. The scale uses two binary
variables, namely, ‘visual’ and ‘tactile’, to generate four categories of science concepts ranging on a continuum from concrete
to abstract. Some concepts related to ‘matter’ will be classified and discussed.
Specializations: science teacher education, primary science curriculum and methods, students’ personal meanings of phenomena. 相似文献
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Selahattin G?nen 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2008,17(1):70-81
The aims of this study were considered under three headings. The first was to elicit misconception that science and physics
student teachers (pre-service teachers) had about the terms, ‘‘inertial mass’’, ‘‘gravitational mass’’, ‘‘gravity’’, ‘‘gravitational
force’’ and “weight”. The second was to understand how prior learning affected their misconceptions, and whether teachers’
misconceptions affected their students’ learning. The third was to determine the differences between science and physics student
teachers’ understanding levels related to mass and gravity, and between their logical thinking ability levels and their attitudes
toward physics lessons. A total of 267 science and physics student teachers participated in the study. Data collection instruments
included the physics concept test, the logical thinking ability test and physics attitude scale. All instruments were administered
to the participants at the end of the 3rd semester of their university years. The physics test consisting of paper and pencil
test involving 16 questions was designed, but only four questions were related to mass and gravity; the second test consisted
of 10 questions with two stages. The third test however, consisted of 15 likert type items. As a result of the analysis undertaken,
it was found that student teachers had serious misconceptions about inertia, gravity, gravitational acceleration, gravitational
force and weight concepts. The results also revealed that student teachers generally had positive attitudes toward physics
lessons, and their logical thinking level was fairly good. 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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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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Mattias Lundin 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(5):369-377
This article sets out to examine how school science activities can encourage students’ participation while supporting a specific
science content. One ordinary class with 12-year-old students was chosen and their regular classroom work was studied without
intervention and with a minimum of interference. Lessons were video filmed, transcribed and analyzed focussing on the participants’
speech acts. It was found that students’ initiatives and experiences were important parts of their participation. The results
show how students’ participation was orchestrated with a science content by means of four different kinds of activities. The
activities are called ‘individual inventory of experiences’, ‘building a common platform of experiences’, ‘sharing new experiences’
and ‘concluding a common platform’. The activities form a foundation for participation in human biology topics. For example,
to ‘build a common platform of experiences’ seems to level out students’ different prerequisites for participating in subsequent
tasks. Furthermore, to ‘conclude a common platform’ implied a checkpoint of the shared new experiences. The activities support
students’ tentative use of scientific words as well as their learning of what counts as knowledge in the school science setting.
However, it can be questioned if the time spent on each separate activity is necessary or if similar achievements could be
made even if some activities were integrated. The question is open for further research.
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Molecular modeling has become a valuable and essential tool to medicinal chemists in the drug design process. Molecular modeling
describes the generation, manipulation or representation of three-dimensional structures of molecules and associated physico-chemical
properties. It involves a range of computerized techniques based on theoretical chemistry methods and experimental data to
predict molecular and biological properties. Depending on the context and the rigor, the subject is often referred to as ‘molecular
graphics’, ‘molecular visualizations’, ‘computational chemistry’, or ‘computational quantum chemistry’. The molecular modeling
techniques are derived from the concepts of molecular orbitals of Hückel, Mullikan and ‘classical mechanical programs’ of
Westheimer, Wiberg and Boyd. 相似文献
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This study focuses on the policy issues generated by the reintroduction of Liberal Studies and evaluates the predicted effectiveness
of the proposed curriculum in Hong Kong (HK) secondary schools. Theorised by Ball (1992) ‘policy cycle’, approximately 200
newspaper articles and 30 government documents were collected to identify the issues in the process of policy-making. The
documentary inquiry shows that ‘Public Recognition’, ‘Learning Objectives’ and ‘Curriculum Structure’ were the three major
issues surrounding the reintroduction. Little evidence of any ‘explicit’ political influence related to the government of
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is demonstrated. The interviews conducted later in this study illustrate that there were
diversified opinions of the Liberal Studies curriculum. Whilst scholars and teachers disapproved of it, parents showed appreciation.
It seems that the stakeholders working in the education field were uncertain, divided and displeased with the process of policy-making.
A follow-up questionnaire-based survey clearly uncovered a sharp contrast between the beliefs of the teachers and the expectations
of the students with regard to Liberal Studies. In other words, the gap formed between the two showed considerable differences
in the level of satisfaction with the proposed curriculum. 相似文献
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Charles L. Thompson Victoria Christofi 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2006,28(1):21-39
The goal of the present study was to describe the structure of the experience of young Cypriot students who have returned home after studying abroad. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with participants who responded to the statement: ‘`Please describe your experiences of returning home after your study abroad’’. Interviews were audio-taped, transcribed, and analyzed within the context of a research group. The emerging bipolar themes of ‘Shock/Adjustment’, ‘Freedom/Restriction’, and ‘Changing/Static’ were grounded in the theme of cultural comparison. Implications for counselling are examined. 相似文献
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Marida Ergazaki Konstantina Saltapida Vassiliki Zogza 《Research in Science Education》2010,40(5):699-715
This paper is concerned with highlighting young children’s ideas about the nature, location and appearance of germs, as well
as their reasoning strands about germs’ ontological category and biological functions. Moreover, it is concerned with exploring
how all these could be taken into account for shaping a potentially fruitful learning environment. Conducting individual,
semi-structured interviews with 35 preschoolers (age 4.5–5.5) of public kindergartens in the broader area of Patras, we attempted
to trace their ideas about what germs are, where they may be found, whether they are good or bad and living or non-living
and how they might look like in a drawing. Moreover, children were required to attribute a series of biological functions
to dogs, chairs and germs, and finally to create a story with germs holding a key-role. The analysis of our qualitative data
within the “NVivo” software showed that the informants make a strong association of germs with health and hygiene issues,
locate germs mostly in our body and the external environment, are not familiar with the ‘good germs’-idea, and draw germs
as ‘human-like’, ‘animal-like’ or ‘abstract’ entities. Moreover, they have significant difficulties not only in employing
biological functions as criteria for classifying germs in the category of ‘living’, but also in just attributing such functions
to germs using a warrant. Finally, the shift from our findings to a 3-part learning environment aiming at supporting preschoolers
in refining their initial conceptualization of germs is thoroughly discussed in the paper. 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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Faculties of education and institutional strategies for knowledge mobilization: an exploratory study
The goal to enhance the impacts of academic research in the ‘real world’ resonates with progressive visions of the role of
universities in society, and finds support among policy makers who have sought to enhance the ‘transfer’, ‘translation’, ‘uptake’,
or ‘valorization’ of research knowledge in several areas of public services. This paper reports on an exploratory study of
the strategies used by selected Canadian and international faculties of education to mobilize research knowledge. Drawing
on data from semi-structured interviews with senior administrators of 13 faculties of education, the analysis reveals several
themes. Academic leaders recognize knowledge mobilization as a desirable institutional mission, but they identify a number
of barriers to greater efforts in this area. Although a number of strategies are employed, changes across multiple organizational
dimensions to encourage and support knowledge mobilization were reported at only two institutions. These results are relevant
to faculty administrators, scholars, and policy-makers interested in understanding the role of academic institutions in the
mobilization of research knowledge to the broader education community. 相似文献
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Lucia Kohlhauf Ulrike Rutke Birgit Neuhaus 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(5):667-678
Many epoch-making biological discoveries (e.g. Darwinian Theory) were based upon observations. Nevertheless, observation is
often regarded as ‘just looking’ rather than a basic scientific skill. As observation is one of the main research methods
in biological sciences, it must be considered as an independent research method and systematic practice of this method is
necessary. Because observation skills form the basis of further scientific methods (e.g. experiments or comparisons) and children
from the age of 4 years are able to independently generate questions and hypotheses, it seems possible to foster observation
competency at a preschool level. To be able to provide development-adequate individual fostering of this competency, it is
first necessary to assess each child’s competency. Therefore, drawing on the recent literature, we developed in this study
a competency model that was empirically evaluated within learners (N = 110) from different age groups, from kindergarten to university. In addition, we collected data on language skills, domain-specific
interest and previous knowledge to analyse coherence between these skills and observation competency. The study showed as
expected that previous knowledge had a high impact on observation competency, whereas the influence of domain-specific interest
was nonexistent. Language skills were shown to have a weak influence. By utilising the empirically validated model consisting
of three dimensions (‘Describing’, ‘Scientific reasoning’ and ‘Interpreting’) and three skill levels, it was possible to assess
each child’s competency level and to develop and evaluate guided play activities to individually foster a child’s observation
competency. 相似文献
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MS Ruth Coulson 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):101-105
The attitude towards science of first year early childhood education students was explored using an instrument developed for
the purpose. The instrument comprises four Likert-type scales, biographical items and two open-ended attitude items. The four
scales, characterised as ‘confidence’, ‘enjoyment’, ‘usefulness’ and ‘appropriateness of science for young children’, were
supported by varimax factor analysis and had reliabilities from 0.83 to 0.88. Use of the combined scales as a general ‘attitude
towards science’ scale was supported by principal components analysis; reliability for the combined scale was 0.94. Comments
made in response to the open-ended items supported the validity of the scales. For the student group as a whole, mean scores
on all scales were slightly to moderately positive, with the highest mean being for the ‘science for young children’ scale.
Students who had studied at least one science subject at Year 12 level had significantly higher scores on all scales than
students who had not studied science at senior level.
Australia.Specializations: early childhood science education, biological aspects of child development, conservation biology of gulls. 相似文献
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Labour perspectives on the new politics of skill and competency formation: International reflections
Peter Sawchuk 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(1):50-62
Skill/competency approaches to workplace-based policy seek to assess and train for discrete individual competencies with the
goal of increasing employability and productivity. These approaches have become increasingly prominent across a range of advanced
capitalist countries. A substantial critique has emerged over this same period regarding issues of instrumentality and social
control, as well as the failure of skill/compentancy approaches to articulate a meaningful understanding of human learning
capacities. In this article, these critical perspectives are clarified further by a review of contributions to understanding
the skill/competence question emerging from sociology of work literature. Building from these critiques, this article outlines
recent experiences with and perspectives on skill/competency frameworks amongst different national labour movements. Included
in this outline is a more detailed, comparative analysis of Norway and Canada; here we see the lofty ‘new’, ‘knowledge economy’
rhetoric — in two countries where one might expect to see it blossom in application — brought down to earth by the realities
of industrial relations, employer intransigence and intra-labour movement differences. ‘Skill/competence’ proves to be a floating
signifier that, amongst both employers and labour, stands as a proxy for ‘power/control’ struggles. Degenerating in this way,
from a labour perspective, the new politics of skill/competency formation is seen to have spiraled toward irrelevance in Norway
and Canada; awaiting, in both countries, a re-invigoration through attention to changes in the participatory structure of
the labour process itself. 相似文献
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Emphasis on improving higher level biology education continues. A new two-step approach to the experimental phases within
an outreach gene technology lab, derived from cognitive load theory, is presented. We compared our approach using a quasi-experimental
design with the conventional one-step mode. The difference consisted of additional focused discussions combined with students
writing down their ideas (step one) prior to starting any experimental procedure (step two). We monitored students’ activities
during the experimental phases by continuously videotaping 20 work groups within each approach (N = 131). Subsequent classification of students’ activities yielded 10 categories (with well-fitting intra- and inter-observer
scores with respect to reliability). Based on the students’ individual time budgets, we evaluated students’ roles during experimentation
from their prevalent activities (by independently using two cluster analysis methods). Independently of the approach, two
common clusters emerged, which we labeled as ‘all-rounders’ and as ‘passive students’, and two clusters specific to each approach:
‘observers’ as well as ‘high-experimenters’ were identified only within the one-step approach whereas under the two-step conditions
‘managers’ and ‘scribes’ were identified. Potential changes in group-leadership style during experimentation are discussed,
and conclusions for optimizing science teaching are drawn. 相似文献
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Sung-Sang Yoo 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(3):355-366
Comparing popular education in the Philippines and South Korea, it is clear that a number of similarities and differences
exist regarding the characteristics, methods, and main fields in which popular education has operated. ‘Church-related practices,’
‘uniting with CO movements,’ ‘an eliteled tendency,’ and ‘a disregard for the Left’ have all occurred in similar ways in both
countries. While introducing the socio-political situation during 1970s and 1980s of these two countries, this paper discusses
the theories and practices of popular education. Our findings indicate how popular education in both countries has played
a significant role in raising the levels consciousness in the powerless and transforming societies and enabled them to establish
a better community. Moreover, each country developed different concepts, initiatives and methods in relation to popular education.
In addition, popular educators have been asked to play different roles in each popular education field while most methods
were in fact heavily dependent upon eliteled practices. 相似文献