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Mathematics teaching in Burkina Faso is faced with major challenges (high illiteracy rates, students’ difficulties, and high
failure rates in mathematics, which is a central topic in the curriculum). As evidenced in many of these studies, mathematics
is reputed to be tough, inaccessible, and far from what students live daily. Students here look as though they are living
in two seemingly distant worlds, school and everyday life. In order to better understand these difficulties and to contribute
in the long run to a more adapted teaching of mathematics, we tried to document and elicit the “mathematical resources” mobilized
in various daily life social practices. In this paper, we focus on one of them, the counting and selling of mangoes by unschooled
peasants. An ethnographic approach draws on the observation of the situated activity of counting and selling mangoes (during
harvesting) and on “eliciting interviews” of the involved actors. The analysis of results highlights a richness of structuring
resources mobilized and distributed through this practice, related to what Lave (1988) call “the experienced lived-in-world” and “constitutive order.” The mathematical resources take the form of “knowledge in
action” and “theorems in action” (Vergnaud, Rech Didact Math 10(23):133–170, 1990), embedded in the social, economic, and even cultural structures of actors. 相似文献
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Burden of Acting Neither White Nor Black: Asian American Identities and Achievement in Urban Schools
Jamie Lew 《The Urban Review》2006,38(5):335-352
Ogbu’s theory of “burden of acting white” has been one of the most frequently cited studies to explain black and white achievement
gap. However, emerging studies have argued that Ogbu’s theory may be limited when examining variability of school achievement
among black and white students. Research shows that in addition to culture, other social forces, such as class, peer networks,
and school context may play a significant role when accounting for minority students’ academic aspirations and achievement.
In the midst of this on-going debate, however, there is a limited understanding of how, if at all, theory of “acting white”
plays a role for racial groups other than black and white students. By extending the discussion beyond a black-and-white discourse,
this research examines how Asian American students in two different social and economic contexts, negotiate their race and
ethnic identities. Framed by a prevalent model minority stereotype that conflates Asian Americans with whiteness, the findings
show that portrayal of Asian “success” much like black “failure” cannot be explained solely on their cultural orientation.
By comparing experiences of two groups of Korean American students—both high- and low-achieving—in different economic and
school contexts, this study illustrates how the two groups of Korean American students adopt different racial strategies depending
on their socioeconomic backgrounds, peer networks, and school contexts. Using Korean American students in urban schools as
a case study, this research complicates and challenges our understanding of the role of culture in school achievement and
illustrates how culture intersects with class, race, and schools.
Jamie Lew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Education, Rutgers University-Newark, 110 Warren Street, Newark,
NY, 07102-1814, USA 相似文献
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Dr. James E. Bruno 《The Urban Review》1995,27(2):101-120
“Doing time” is an expression that is generally associated with prisoners who are disconnected from society and find themselves
counting the days and minutes until their release from prison. In many respects, at-risk students attending our nation's large,
urban, inner-city middle and high schools also consider themselves as not being connected to school or society and to be “doing
time” in the classroom. Qualitative and subjective impressions of doing time at school have become the theme of many movies,
books, and research articles. This study extends this qualitative type of research by quantitatively framing time allocation
preferences and temporal dominance characteristics for a large sample of teacher-perceived “at-risk” students at several large
urban high school sites. A sample of normal attaining students at the same school site served as a comparison group. The findings
of this research effort generally support other more qualitative studies and indicate that there are strong preferences in
at-risk students toward nondirected time-consuming activities (i.e., hanging out, video games, watching TV, etc.) with low-directed
to nondirected time preference ratios. Normal attaining students had the reverse pattern, i.e., higher-directed to nondirected
time preference ratios and higher preferences toward directed time-consuming activities that might be associated with investments
in the schooling process (homework, studying, personal development, etc.). Interpretation of the circles test, a projective
psychological procedure for establishing temporal dominance for at-risk students, revealed a general lack of recognition and
connectiveness between past, present, and future events in their life and weak temporal dominance or orientation toward the
future. 相似文献
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In this paper, we analyze and compare two didactical designs for introducing primary school pupils to proportional reasoning
in the context of plane polygons. One of them is well-documented in the literature; the other one is based on our own data
and is accordingly presented and discussed in more detail in this paper. The two designs come from different cultural and
intellectual environments: lesson study in Japan (implicitly based on the “open approach method”) and “didactical engineering”
in France (based on the theory of didactical situations). The general aim of our paper is to compare these two environments
and their approaches to didactical design, basing our discussion on the concrete designs mentioned above. Clear differences
among them are presented, while we also identify links which hold potential for integrating research and practice. 相似文献
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Monisha Bajaj 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2009,75(1):483-502
This article explores an attempt to disrupt gender inequality in a unique, low-cost private school in Ndola, Zambia. It examines
deliberate school policies aimed at “undoing gender” or fostering greater gender equity. These include efforts to maintain
gender parity at all levels of the school and the requirement that both young men and women carry out cleaning tasks generally
viewed as “women’s work”. Observations, interviews, student diaries and surveys from this school and from government schools
provide the basis for a comparison, indicating how the former strives to interrupt the transmission of gender inequalities
as well as how students respond to these practices. The findings suggest that the pedagogical practices deployed by this school
have generally succeeded in destabilising norms of gender subordination and gender-based violence, though the replicability
of these practices is interrogated given broader questions about the country’s public resources and political will. 相似文献
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David J. Walbert Ph.D.degree in History 《TechTrends》2000,44(2):15-17
The vastness of the World Wide Web is both its attraction and its challenge. For people with a high-speed connection, plenty of time, and experience with technology, the Web can be a wonderful resource. Unfortunately, most teachers needing instructional resources for their classrooms do not have these assets. LEARN NC was created with this mainstream of teachers in mind, and to a great extent we have made the Web more accessible to them. Although we cannot give them more or faster Internet connections, we can help them make more efficient use of the time they have by making resources easy to use and providing training. We have been most successful when we have been able to “boil down” the content of the World Wide Web into a more manageable form. This requires a difficult balancing act: in order to provide as much good educational content as possible, we are constantly expanding our resources, but this growing content must be kept manageable and easy to access, or teachers will not be willing or able to use it. As a result, we must continually refine our existing resources. With these refinements, we believe—and our participating teachers concur—that our “one-stop-shopping” approach to educational technology is a helpful one for teachers and can provide a useful model for educators elsewhere 相似文献
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Guilaine Menotti Graciela Ricco 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(4):477-495
Wishing to explore the complexity of the conceptual, didactic and institutional aspects of learning a scientifically defined
object of knowledge, we chose to study the link between the personal relation to numeration developed by six-year-old pupils
in first grade (“cours préparatoire” the first level of primary school in France), and more particularly, the relationship
between the construction of pupils’ relation to the concept of “tens” and the didactic practice of their teachers during the
lessons.
Our study shows that both teachers establish “strong” didactic contracts, leaving it up to the pupils to develop on their
own the capacity of making mathematical decisions and destabilizing the procedure of counting one by one. There is a difference
between classes in the articulation of knowledge and know-how. In the ZEP class learning is centered on know-how; in the other
class knowledge and know-how are simply juxtaposed, their relationship is never made explicit. The result is that only 4 children
out of 42 (the two classes taken together) can work with both. All four belong to the categories of “good” or “very good”
students. 相似文献
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Kyle L. Peck 《TechTrends》1998,43(2):47-53
Conclusion I applaud ISTE, AASL, AECT, and the other organizations involved for tackling the “messy work” of developing standards for
the use of technology and information resources in schools. And, at the same time, I call for a “second generation” of standards
that define realistic expectations for teachers based on the subjects and levels they are called upon to teach. I propose
that professional organizations from each subject work with ISTE and AECT to complete this huge task, and I propose that we
consider as a “next step” the creation of a set of on-line learning experiences through which teachers can gain the identified
skills and knowledge by using the very technologies we’re hoping they’ll embrace in their own teaching.
There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do.” As far as educational technologies are concerned,
this is also true. For many, the goal seems to have been simply to “get more computers into the schools,” without much thought
about purpose. To return to Phil Schlechty’s metaphor, It’s generally been a brief and misguided “Ready” stage (occupied with
questions like “How many do we need?” “What type?” “Where?” and “How shall we connect them?”), followed by “Fire!” (the acquisition
and installation of equipment). What we need is: “Ready” (the creation of appropriate teams of people who will combine their
insights to plan for the district)... “Aim” (a series of discussions about what technologies can accomplish for schools and
the students they serve)... “Fire” (acquisition, installation, and professional development according to plan)... “Aim” (an
assessment of how well the technologies and related programs met the intended goals, and a new planning effort designed to
close the gap)... “Fire” (acquisition and implementation designed to eliminate the gap)... “Aim” (another gap assessment)...
“Fire” (another attempt to close gaps)..., And so on. 相似文献
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Maike Philipsen 《The Urban Review》1994,26(4):257-272
This article describes the cultural consequences of the local school closing in a predominantly black community (Centerville)
as a result of desegregation policies. Based on oral accounts of community members, the author unearths the diverse functions
the former all-black school used to have in the community. Furthermore, the possible reasons for the nostalgia with which
the community remembers its “own” school are analyzed. It is shown why the predominantly white schools to which today's students
are bused cannot possibly “pass the test” of comparison with the former community school. And finally, the article reminds
us of two promises ofBrown, only one of which has been fulfilled in the case of Centerville. While racial segregation of schooling was indeed abolished
in Centerville, the second promise ofBrown—providing equal educational opportunities for all children irrespective of race—remains elusive at best. And the very institution
that would be central to fulfilling the second promise ofBrown—a school for which the town feels a sense of ownership—was closed for the sake of desegregation.
Parts of this article have been the basis for an oral presentation at the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society meeting,
Richmond, VA, October 1993, and are published in the SAPES Proceedings, 1993, pp. 109–114. 相似文献
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In this article we analyze the dialogic learning of one pair of students in order to investigate how these students cope with a collaborative learning situation in the classroom. Our aim is to substantiate the claims that not only are young students (8 year olds) capable of solving mathematical problems collaboratively, but that they also take an active role in regulating their collaborative learning activities. More specifically, our claim is that children appear to apply constructs of “mathematical level raising”, “social interaction” and “division of time” to steer their own collaborative learning and that they are rather successful in balancing these three aspects. The analysis is exploratory, but this new perspective on collaborative learning is relevant theoretically and consequential for classroom practice. 相似文献
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This study analyses why and how academic inbreeding as a recruitment practice continues to prevail in Japan, a country with
a mature higher education system, where high rates of academic inbreeding endure in most of the research-oriented universities
in spite of several higher education reforms. Based on a qualitative analysis, we disclose three characteristics that lead
academics to become inbred at Japanese universities. One characteristic—the adoption of “open recruitment processes” in detriment
of “closed recruitment processes”—changed over time, limiting academic inbreeding practices, but two other characteristics
remained unchanged over time: the “one university learning experience” and the “concentration of doctoral supervisors at the
same university”. These latter characteristics represent difficult challenges to be tackled as they are also traditional characteristics
of the Japanese higher education system. The research also shows that academic inbreeding practices are a means to assure
organizational stability and institutional identity, features perceived as important by Japanese universities. A central challenge
for the Japanese universities is then to guarantee these features without needing to rely on academic inbreeding practices
to obtain them. However, devising policies to meet this challenge calls for institutional will to change, proactive strategies
and time. 相似文献
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Professor Wolff-Michael Roth Campbell J. McRobbie Keith B. Lucas 《Research in Science Education》1998,28(1):107-118
We analyse and explore, in the form of dialogues and metalogues questions about the dialogic nature of beliefs and students
belief talk about the nature of science and scientific knowledge. Following recent advances in discursive psychology, this
study focuses not on students' claims but on the discursive resources and dialogical practices that support the particular
claims they make. We argue that students' discourse is better understood as a textual bricolage that is sensitive to conversational
context, common sense, interpretive repertoires, and textual resources available in the conversational situation. Our text
is reflexive as it embodies the discursive construction of knowledge and undercuts any claims to authoritative knowledge.
The very conception of “belief” is itself an expression or construction from within the mundane idiom.... We learn to use
“belief” in conditions when the “objective facts” are unknown or problematic and we want to indicate the tenuous character
of our claim.... The notion of “real world” or “objective reality” is embedded in an extensive, pervasive language game which
includes as an intelligible move or possibility the use of the very concept of “belief” itself. (Pollner, 1987, p. 21) 相似文献
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This paper presents a curriculum, textbook and test result analysis for the new (to California) elementary school “Key Standard”
mathematics curriculum, transplanted in 1998 from it's foreign roots in Asia and Europe, locations with far different cultural
and economic backgrounds. Based on topic analysis methods developed by Michigan State University, this curriculum is a “quality”
curriculum, since it is closely aligned with the curriculum of the six leading TIMSS math countries. Five-year test results
are presented for two cohorts totaling over 13,000 students, all from four “early adoption” urban districts where 68% of the
students were economically disadvantaged. Included are two cohorts of English learning immigrants totaling over 4,400 students.
Performance was found to be statistically superior to similar (control) districts which continued with the old 1991 curriculum
and textbooks (0.003 < p < 0.015). The focus of this paper is on the transition from far-below to above average learning performance of these students
over the 1998–2002 period. 相似文献
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钟晨音 《Frontiers of Education in China》2008,3(4):594-606
As the teacher education in China gradually evolves from the closed one into an open one, and with the greater pressure from
the competition among universities, the transformation of normal universities is an inevitable choice. The problems that normal
universities need to face up to are the proper goal orientation and the setting of appropriate development goals. Through
the comparison and interpretation of the development goals of current normal universities in China, this paper finds similar
tendency in the development types and the choices of features. Goal orientation is vital to the development of normal universities.
Therefore, when setting and implementing development goals, a sound understanding about expressions like “the features of
operating schools” and “comprehensive universities” should be improved, and a rational thinking about the fundamental questions
should be engaged in as well.
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Translated from Gaodeng Jiaoyu Yanjiu 高等教育研究 (Journal of Higher Education), 2008, 29(2): 29–34 相似文献
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Duck-Joo Kwak 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(2):127-135
The contemporary educational discourse on critical thinking, as one of the primary aims of education. has been divided into
the spheres of modernist defense and post-modernist criticism. Critical of both positions, this paper attempts to find a new
way of employing critical thinking, especially for the purposes of moral education, by drawing on Bernard William’s concept
of “ethical reflection.” It will be shown that employing critical thinking for the fostering of ethical reflection in our
young students can lead them into an “understanding” of ethical, rather than “ethical knowledge,” which enables them to properly
deal with moral relativism in a culturally pluralistic society. This paper then explores the educational possibilities presented
by Socrates’ teaching method as an example of this employment, though not without consideration of the attendant educational
limitations and dangers. 相似文献
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Marie Huet-Gueye Myriam de Léonardis 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2009,8(Z1):367-391
PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN SENEGAL: ANALYSING THE REASONS FOR (NON) ENROLMENT – This study focuses on Senegal, where the education
system is split between traditional Koranic schools and purportedly “modern” public schools, which have been compulsory since
1990 but which are currently attended by only two-thirds of children eligible to enrol. The article argues that a number of
psychosocial factors need to be studied in order to understand this issue fully. By analysing responses gathered from 20 parent-child
units, the authors reveal: (a) how parental identity strategies affect how they choose to school their children, and (b) how
children’s attitudes are shaped in different ways depending on whether they attend “traditional” or “modern” schools. 相似文献
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Courtney A. Bell 《The Urban Review》2007,39(4):375-404
Prior research documents the almost universal preference for schools that are “convenient”. Drawing on longitudinal interview
data gathered from 36 urban parents, I argue parents’ preference for “convenient” schools is more complex than previously
understood. Conceptions of geography used by policy makers do not adequately capture the ways in which parents think about
geography. Instead of thinking about school as solely a location one must travel to, parents’ preferences for schools are
informed by space and place-based notions of geography. Parents’ geographic preferences connect to larger, more deeply held
ideas about parenting, family life, identity, child development, and one’s place in the larger stratified society. Further,
these preferences do not exist in a vacuum. Parents’ geographic preferences have implications for the resources parents’ must
activate in order to make certain schools possible. Geographic preferences also compete with other school preferences. This
paper shows how notions of space and place shape the schools parents choose as well as the schools they are willing to consider.
The study describes a fuller, more accurate portrayal of parents’ thinking. It also draws attention to the ways in which existing
historical and social contexts influence parents’ understandings of choice policy. 相似文献
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Metaphors in mathematics classrooms: analyzing the dynamic process of teaching and learning of graph functions 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
This article presents an analysis of a phenomenon that was observed within the dynamic processes of teaching and learning
to read and elaborate Cartesian graphs for functions at high-school level. Two questions were considered during this investigation:
What types of metaphors does the teacher use to explain the graphic representation of functions at high-school level? Is the
teacher aware of the use he/she has made of metaphors in his/her speech, and to what extent does he/she monitor them? The
theoretical framework was based on embodied cognition theory. Our findings include teachers’ expressions that suggest, among
other ideas: (1) orientation metaphors, such as “the abscissa axis is horizontal”; (2) fictive motion, such as “the graph
of a function can be considered as the trace of a point that moves over the graph”; (3) ontological metaphors; and (4) interaction
of metaphors. We also show that teachers were not aware of using metaphors. 相似文献