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Doug Knecht 《The Urban Review》2007,39(1):45-65
The following paper provides a case study of the resistance of the New York Performance Standards Consortium to the state’s
unitary high stakes testing policy from 1998 to 2006. After detailing the history of the grass roots actions undertaken by
the group of alternative high schools called ‘The Consortium’, the analysis seeks to apply sociological and philosophical
theory of, among others, John Rawls and Charles Willie to explain: (1) the success of the subdominant people of power in fighting
the implementation of the battery of high stakes graduation tests; and (2) the failures of the dominant state authority to
uniformly enforce its policy, with particular regard to the decisions of New York’s Commissioner of Education. Implications
of the case are then discussed to place this little known educational struggle in a broader social, political and historical
context.
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Matti E. Lindberg 《Higher Education》2009,58(3):339-358
This article addresses the question of how great are higher education students’ incentives to change study programs or institutions
to improve one’s personal employability in the course of the higher education-to-work transition process. The posed question
is addressed at a system level. Students’ mobility between programs and institutions is referred to as ‘student mobility’
and graduates’ mobility between jobs is referred to as ‘early career mobility.’ The relationship between these two separate
components of mobility is discussed in three different institutional frames: German/Finnish, Italian, and British. When depicting
the relationship between the two components of mobility, the article also considers parallel phenomena such as prolongation
of the degree-earning process and participation in work-life with student status. Indicator level analysis concerning graduates
of the year 2000 reveals important differences between the three institutional frames: in Germany and Finland, there is a
high level of student mobility at the basic degree level combined with a low level of career mobility after graduation; in
the UK the opposite transition logic than that of Germany and Finland occurs, and in Italy students demonstrate prolonged
transitions with little student mobility and early career mobility.
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| Matti E. LindbergEmail: |
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Kenneth Leithwood 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(1):71-75
Policy makers and leadership developers now admonish both aspiring and practicing educational leaders to base what they do
on evidence of “best practice”. Some argue, however, that today’s best practices stand a reasonably good chance of being unsuitable
for schools in the future. Unfortunately, effective leadership in future schools is empirically unknowable. This paper unpacks
the arguments about “best” and “next” practices concluding that there is an empirically defensible foundation for current
and future leaders.
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| Kenneth LeithwoodEmail: |
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This article aims to explore how democratic community is manifest in schools in Korea. It also tries to examine how leadership,
specifically transformational leadership, functions in shaping a democratic community within a school. Toward this aim, we
have conducted a case study of two religious high schools in Korea. Based on the findings from the schools, we have discussed
five aspects related to democratic community and transformational leadership. When school principals’ leadership has transformational
characteristics and consistency over the years, the leaders’ mission and vision become shared values among the school members.
The shared vision and cultural values make democratic systems work effectively. This article includes implications for educational
policy and practice.
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| Susan PrintyEmail: |
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Eyvind Elstad 《Learning Inquiry》2008,2(1):53-71
Volitional issues are important in today’s classrooms where autonomous students are expected to manage school demands on their
own. A new kind of challenge has appeared with the advent of free Internet access in the classroom. Motivational conflicts
may therefore arise between (1) immediate rewards of electronic chatting, surfing, and games and (2) the long-term rewards
of academic achievement. Paradoxes of our educational system are emerging in the technology-rich classroom, for example, the
basic need of student autonomy versus dealing with constraints to regulate one’s own behaviour. The main purposes of this
article are, first, to discuss volitional issues on a theoretical level. Second, a field study is used to identify how students
are using volitional (or self-discipline) strategies in technology-rich laissez-faire classrooms. Third, how schools may design
institutional arrangements which can scaffold the student’s use of self-discipline strategies are discussed. The strategies
which are enumerated may contribute to school programs that are to build self-discipline. Understanding how to design institutional
features to influence students’ choices in directions that improve their academic achievement is one of the major challenges
in education.
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| Eyvind ElstadEmail: |
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Susan Louise Stewart 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(2):95-105
The author analyzes two texts, Gloria Whelan’s Homeless Bird and Deborah Ellis’s Parvana’s Journey, in an attempt to explain some of the problems and difficulties associated with those texts. The author examines Whelan’s
representations of India and finds troubling binaries associated with that text. In comparison, the author finds Ellis’s depictions
of Afghanistan more nuanced and complex. The author also discusses student reception of both texts and offers ways to problematize
some of their reactions.
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| Susan Louise StewartEmail: |
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This study investigates pre-service teachers’ perceptions of urban schools. We asked 41 pre-service teachers, mostly white
and female, to report their perceptions of four aspects of urban schools (appearance and atmosphere, resources, students,
and teachers) and identify the sources of their perceptions. We analyze the data qualitatively to understand how they perceive
urban schools and quantitatively to determine group trends in their perceptions. Findings reveal that their perceptions of
urban schools are complex, with negative and positive impressions of selected aspects of urban schools. Implications of these
findings for teacher education, in particular, urban field placements and curriculum, are explored.
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| Jean Ann (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Mark G. Storz 《The Urban Review》2008,40(3):247-267
In interviews with over 250 urban young adolescents, many students make it clear that they are acutely aware of the educational
inequities that exist in their schools and that these inequities are having a negative impact on their education. Student
voice is used to highlight urban middle school students’ perspectives on the quality of their education particularly in terms
of curricular issues, teacher quality, and lack of resources.
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| Mark G. StorzEmail: |
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In June 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review two related cases originating from school districts in Louisville, Kentucky
and Seattle, Washington that involved voluntarily adopted racial integration plans. Concerned about the outcome of these cases,
553 social scientists submitted a social science statement to the Supreme Court summarizing the large body of social science
research supporting the school districts’ policies relevant to the Court’s determination. The statement, reprinted here, supports
three interrelated conclusions: (1) racially integrated schools provide significant benefits to students and communities;
(2) racially isolated schools have harmful educational implications for students; and (3) race-conscious policies are necessary
to maintain racial integration in schools. Because of the overwhelming amount of scholarly data, social scientists argued,
as the lower courts had found, that the schools boards have a compelling interest to promote racial integration and prevent
racial isolation through choice-based school assignment policies that consider race as a factor. On June 28, 2007, the U.S.
Supreme Court struck down the school assignment plans on the grounds that the plans were not narrowly tailored to the interests
that the school districts had asserted. In addition to affecting the ability of school districts to maintain racially diverse
schools, the decision has broad implications for researchers who seek to help school districts in these efforts.
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| Erica FrankenbergEmail: |
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Jennifer H. James 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(5):413-418
Written from the vantage point of both a mother and teacher educator, the author recounts the journey taken by Sarah, her
4-year old daughter, as she is introduced to and explores map making as a means of representing and making sense of familiar
and unfamiliar places. Offering Sarah’s experience as context, the author offers both a practical and theoretical discussion
of children’s emerging geographic literacy, its relationship to identity development and the importance of understanding children’s
experience and socio-emotional development to inform pedagogy.
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| Jennifer H. JamesEmail: |
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This paper describes the rationale, conceptualization and design of the Second International Information Technology in Education
Study (SITES). SITES is a survey of schools and teachers of their pedagogical practices, their use of ICT and their readiness
for changing their teaching–learning towards the demands of the 21st century. The study will take place under the auspices
of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the data collection is planned for
2006; therefore the project is called ‘SITES2006’.
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| T. PlompEmail: |
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We examine the inseparability of one’s environment with the elements of adaptation and identity. Specifically, we revisit
the Project H.O.M.E. learning environment as we suggest that the entities of adaption and environment are not only binding,
but also naturally in constant flux as they interact with each other. Contrary to nature, however, the social distance between
the instructors and learners is the result of a human construct that often hinders adaptation and identity development. We
address the factors that afforded participants overcoming social distance and ultimately cultivating a shift in the learning
structure of Project H.O.M.E.
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| Donna DeGennaroEmail: |
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Maria Inês Mafra Goulart Eduardo Sarquis Soares 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):587-594
Elementary science teaching has been considered by recent researchers as a process in which students should be engaged in
a variety of activities to develop science concepts, science process skills and scientific attitudes. From this perspective,
hands-on activities are prominent in this approach because it leads the students to both reflect on the natural and physical
world, and understand the social role of science in society. In Upadhyay’s article we follow an elementary teacher who struggles
to implement a participatory method of science teaching in an environment that prioritizes high-stakes tests as the benchmarks
for teachers’ and students’ success. In so doing, the teacher negotiates her identities in order to engage the students in
the process of learning science even though the environment requires a teaching methodology that is against her beliefs. In
our commentary on Upadhyay’s article we argue that (a) the tensions experienced by teachers create the core of the process
of fluidity identity; (b) the different forms of external control over the teaching are inherent in educational systems and
also a demand of parents and society; and (c) the possibility for social mobility of minority students is a complex process
that goes beyond the dichotomy identified in Upadhyay’s article, namely that either the students learn to think scientifically,
or the students learn tricks that enable them to succeed in the tests.
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| Eduardo Sarquis Soares (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Raimo Kaasila Markku S. Hannula Anu Laine Erkki Pehkonen 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,67(2):111-123
In this article we consider how elementary education students’ views of mathematics changed during their mathematics methods
course. We focus on four female students: two started the course with mainly positive views of mathematics and a task orientation,
two with negative views of the subject and an ego-defensive orientation. The biggest change observed was that the trainees’
views of teaching and learning mathematics became more positive. Moreover, what had been an ego-defensive orientation changed
towards a social-dependence orientation. The crucial facilitators of change seemed to be (1) handling of and reflection on
one’s experiences of learning and teaching mathematics, (2) exploring content with concrete materials, and (3) collaboration
with a partner or working as a tutor of mathematics.
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| Raimo KaasilaEmail: |
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This paper presents findings on a hybrid guidance curriculum in Hong Kong, a place where East meets West in education and
in many other spheres. A qualitative case study method is applied that uses questions for understanding the ‘self’ in guidance
but incorporates Confucian cardinal human relationships of parent–child, brother–sister, husband–wife, superior–subordinate,
teacher–pupil and friend–friend in understanding the ‘other’ relationships. The study of ‘self–other relationship’ is combined
with Lawton’s (Social change, educational theory and curriculum planning, Hodder, London, 1973) model of curriculum development in Western traditions. Data obtained from stakeholders in schools include traditional Chinese
ideas as well as modern Western ideas. Implications of this framework to the study of other societies with a mix of Western
and traditional cultures are discussed.
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| Pattie Yuk Yee Luk-FongEmail: |
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Louie F. Rodríguez 《The Urban Review》2008,40(5):436-453
In today’s reform context, much attention is placed on policies and outcomes and far less emphasis on understanding the social
and cultural processes in schools. Using case-study methodology, I examine relationships between low-income, urban high school
students of color, and the school adults with whom they interact. Using grounded theory, students’ experiences are analyzed
and interpreted through the lens of recognition. Recognition is used as both a theoretical and empirical concept to illuminate
students’ experiences and voices, especially since the construct is largely absent in the U.S. education discourse. Students
revealed that being known by adults, talking with adults, engaging with adults personally, and experiencing encouraging adults
were all critical elements of recognition. I suggest that student–adult relationships, via the practice of recognition in
urban schools, needs to be interrogated, deliberate, and political so that the transformative purpose of education can be
realized.
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| Louie F. RodríguezEmail: |
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Christopher Day 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(3):243-260
This paper is based upon a unique mixed methods 4-year research project which focused upon the variations in teachers’ work,
lives, and effectiveness of 300 elementary and secondary school teachers in a range of 100 schools across seven regions of
England. Its findings challenge linear conceptions of teacher development and expertise and provide new understandings of
the effects of personal, school and broader policy contexts upon professional life phase trajectories and teachers’ emotional
identities. It finds connections between these and teachers’ commitment, resilience, and effectiveness. This paper discusses
these in relation to the school standards and teacher retention agendas.
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| Christopher DayEmail: |
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This exploratory study examines the learning beliefs of high and low achieving, low-income Mexican-American students. Semi-structured
interviews were conducted with 11 ninth grade students. The qualitative analysis shows that students’ perceptions of their
teachers’ expectations of a “good” student or a “not so good” student did not differ along achievement lines. However, the
students’ perceptions about what it means to be a good student differentiated the low-achievers from the high-achievers. This
study’s findings may be used to inform educators about Mexican-American students’ orientation towards school and learning,
in hopes for creating more equitable educational settings where all students achieve to their fullest potential.
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| Soung BaeEmail: |
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The purpose of this study is to identify school factors that affect students’ achievements at the secondary and tertiary levels
of education. The analysis included data of 9,894 students who studied in Auckland regional secondary schools in 2004. The
results indicate that, although student demographic characteristics are associated with students’ pathways and achievements,
schools’ demographic composition did not affect student outcomes. It was found, however, that schools’ organisational factors
do have an effect. At the university level, none of the schools’ characteristics was related to students’ achievements at
the higher end of the achievement scale (GPA ≥ 4). However, students from private or state-integrated schools were found to
be more likely to achieve low GPA (<2) than students who came from state schools. In conclusion, it is suggested that interventions
targeting at-risk populations based on demographic factors should focus on individuals or groups rather than on institutions;
while school-based interventions should identify the schools by their structure and function rather than by their demographic
characteristics.
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| Boaz ShulrufEmail: Email: |