共查询到20条相似文献，搜索用时 484 毫秒
1.
AYO GARUBA 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(2):191-203
The relevance of the teacher to the success of any education innovation is not open to contention. Equally incontentious is the relevance of education and training to the success of the teacher in the attainment of his/her professional goals. It is against this background that this paper examines the continuing education imperatives in the present basic education crusade in Nigeria. Here continuing education is conceptualized as a process for developing teacher's skill for coping with changing demands of the job through regular exposure to professional renewal programmes. The paper contends that inasmuch as the teacher will continue to play a pivotal role in the execution of educational innovations, then further education and training as it affects him/her must receive priority attention in the conceptualization and implementation of such innovations. To this end, the paper advocates: teacher exchange programmes between Nigeria and other countries of the world; establishment of functional libraries in primary schools; and provision of opportunities to participate in workshops and conferences with such participation made a significant part of the criteria for teacher promotion and advancement. 相似文献
2.
Developing nations including Bangladesh are significantly lagging behind the millennium development target due to the lack of science, technology and engineering education. Bangladesh as a least developing country has only 44 engineers per million people. Its technological education and gross domestic product growth are not collinear. Although limited progress was made in humanities, basic sciences, agriculture and medical sciences, a vast gap is left in technical and engineering education. This paper describes the present condition of engineering education in the country and explores ways to improve engineering education in order to meet the national as well as global skills demand. 相似文献
3.
Klara Bolander Laksov Tanja Tomson 《International Journal of Leadership in Education》2017,20(4):506-516
Research on educational leadership emphasizes the importance of having institutional leaders heavily involved with advanced instructional programming. Best practices for developing educational leadership in higher education health care and medical faculties have to be better understood. Within the framework of a seminar series, researchers and practitioners were involved in a dialogical process of inquiry, coupled with an explicit activity-oriented approach emphasizing empowerment among educational leaders. In a reflective paper, 10 participants of the seminar series elaborated on what it meant to develop and to ‘take’ leadership in your professional role and which factors that were identified as adding value to the development of professional leadership expertise. Qualitative content analysis was conducted resulting in thirteen categories reported in relation to Wenger’s theory of communities of practice. The findings show that educational leadership involves processes on the levels of students, teachers as community and at the organizational level. The individuals created a place for backstage conversations at which they got opportunity to develop their thinking and inspiration to break new ideas into their own educational communities. In addition, a systemic approach is essential for the effective implementation of educational leadership to reach all levels via interaction and communication across an organization. 相似文献
4.
Kathleen Clayton Heidi Smith Janet Dyment 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2014,42(2):167-185
Understanding theory–practice relationships in pre-service teacher education is an enduring concern for many teacher educators. Drawing on data from an investigation into the theory–practice nexus in an outdoor education teacher education programme, this article examines pedagogical approaches to exploring theory and practice with pre-service teachers. The investigation, a qualitative case study, examined the views of the programme’s teacher educators (authors) using an analytical lens informed by two similar theoretical models.
The article focuses on elements that were found to be central to pedagogical approaches within the programme: self-awareness, experience, reflexivity, and a “community of learners.” While the approaches represent a departure from “theory application” and “theory–practice integration” approaches, and a move towards praxis development, the study highlighted challenges and issues including the need for teacher educators to scrutinise theory–practice relationships in their own teaching and discourse. Implications and possibilities for future practice are considered. 相似文献
5.
6.
An experiential approach employing game design and play was tried in a graduate adult education class. This article describes a follow-up study which attempted to capture class members' perceptions on value of game design/play; group interactions in game development; effectiveness of game design/play as a learning stimulant; appropriateness of the grading criteria; likelihood to use a similar strategy in their own teaching; and, identification of helpful resources in gaming. Game design/play appears to offer an effective adult teaching strategy which produces a variety of learning outcomes.Jessica Somers earned her BBA and MBA degrees at West Georgia College. She is currently a doctoral student in instructional technology at the University of Georgia and is a self-employed computer contractor.Margaret E. Holt is associate professor of adult education at the University of Georgia and is an associate with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Her most recent publication is a book co-edited with Dr. George Lopos for Jossey-Bass Publishers entitled,Perspectives on Educational Certificate Programs (Winter 1991). She is also a former editor ofInnovative Higher Education. 相似文献
7.
This article examines the significance of the concept of participation for teacher meaning-making processes in education for sustainable development and health education. In Scandinavian public schools, education for sustainable development and health education focus on a wide palette of societal problems rather than on narrow curricula. Drawing on selected reviews of research literature on education for sustainable development and health education, Lacanian psychoanalysis provides inspiration for our analysis of the concept of participation, and how it is positioned and enacted in these fields of practice. Essentially, we argue that the concept of participation has a dual nature: it serves both as an educational ideal and as a teaching strategy. We also explore how the failure to achieve the ideal of ‘true’ participation may serve a positive purpose for the teacher; the acknowledgement that participation is not always as genuine as desired establishes a pedagogical situation where ideals of engaging pupils through true participation can continue to exist side by side with clear signs of a less consequential participation. 相似文献
8.
In the USA, universities have recently developed policies and programmes on sexual consent education. But waiting until students enroll in higher education may be too late to begin this work. To examine the extent that K–12 health education standards promote sexual consent education, we conducted a pilot study and found that only two of eighteen states explicitly mentioned sexual consent in their health education standards. Using a small sample (n = 4 states), we then identified four themes as making implicit reference to sexual consent: communication skills, decision making, personal space and interpersonal relationships. Finally, in a robust sample (n = 18 states), we conducted a content analysis of published standards regarding these themes related to sexual consent. Our analysis suggests that sexual consent is likely not discussed in sex education at K–12 schools. We recommend the more explicit inclusion of sexual consent in health education curricula via the identified themes that already exist in most or all standards, emphasising the importance of teaching young people about the nuances of sexual consent and its communication before they become sexually active. 相似文献
9.
Action research is suggested as a way to engage teachers in curriculum development and the betterment of teaching practices in schools based on educational research activities. As in other educational domains, action research in science education is employed with both aims to better understand and develop teaching practices and to contribute to teacher continuous professional development. A variety of methodological approaches using action research in science education exists, from more technical toward more emancipatory interpretations. The range of educational settings and goals for which action research is performed is also quite broad. The purpose of this analytical review of the international available literature is to provide an overview of the main aspects in applying action research in science education. 相似文献
10.
Paul Windolf 《Higher Education》1992,23(1):3-19
This article analyses the expansion of higher education between 1870 and 1985 in five countries (Germany, Italy, France, US, Japan). Two hypotheses are tested to explain the expansion: human capital theories and the theory of individual status competition (Collins). The analysis concentrates on the interaction between the educational and the economic system, particularly during times of an economic crisis. Spectral analysis is used to explore the cyclical character of the expansion and the relationship between economic growth and the increasing enrollment rates in higher education. For most countries the data confirm the theory of status competition (perverse effects): universities expand particularly fast during times of an economic recession (e.g., Great Depression, 1890–1900; World Economic Crisis, 1929–1935). The human capital theory is not confirmed by this longitudinal analysis. The article demonstrates that spectral analysis is a powerful instrument to analyse the causal relationship between two or more social systems over a long period of time.
Zusammenfassung In diesem Aufsatz wird die Bildungsexpansion an den Universitäten zwischen 1870 und 1985 in fünf Ländern analysiert (Deutschland, Italien, Frankreich, USA und Japan). Zwei Hypothesen, die das Wachstum erklären, werden getestet: die Humankapital-Theorie und die Theorie der individuellen Statuskonkurrenz (Collins). Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf die Interaktion zwischen dem Bildungssystem und dem Wirtschaftssystem, insbesondere während einer ökonomischen Krise. Die Spektralanalyse wird als statistisches Verfahren benutzt, um den zyklischen Charakter der Expansion und die Beziehung zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum und Bildungsexpansion zuntersuchen. Für die meisten Länder wird die Theorie der Statuskonkurrenz bestätigt: die Universitäten wachsen besonders schnell während einer ökonomischen Krise (z.B. Groe Depression, 1890–1900; Weltwirtschaftskrise, 1929–1935). Die Humankapital-Theorie wird durch die Längsschnitt-Untersuchung nicht bestätigt. Der Aufsatz zeigt, da die Spektralanalyse ein nützliches Instrument ist, um die kausale Beziehung zwischen zwei oder mehreren sozialen Systemen im Zeitablauf zu untersuchen.相似文献
11.
Engineering education has been well implemented in the majority of developed countries such as the USA, Germany, and the United
Kingdom so that the gap between engineering science and engineering practice is greatly bridged. However, in China, the gap
still exists, and some attempts by Chinese government, even though having made obvious progress, are not very satisfactory
yet. Thus, the research on feasible engineering education strategy has drawn our pressing concerns. Based on the analyses
of participants’ motivation and value chain, an evolutionary model of institute–industry interoperation is proposed, which
includes isolated stage, orienting stage, interacting stage, interoperating stage, and convergence stage. The case of one
school of software in China is analyzed to support and clarify this model. This institute–industry interoperation model is
showing considerable vitality in the development of engineering education, and it can present reference value not only to
China but to other countries as well. 相似文献
12.
13.
Diluting education? An ethnographic study of change in an Australian Ministry of Education 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Sarah Robinson 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2011,32(5):797-807
This ethnographic study captures the processes that led to change in an Australian public education system. The changes were driven by strong neo-liberal discourses which resulted in a shift from a shared understanding about leading educational change in schools by knowledge transfer to managing educational change as a process, in other words, allowing the schools to decide how to change. Inside an Australian state education bureaucracy at a time when the organisation was restructured and services decentralised, this study helps show some of the disturbing trends resulting from the further entrenchment of neo-liberal strategies. Although control was re-centralised by legitimising performance mechanisms, in the form of national testing, there are indications that the focus on national tests may have alarming consequences for the content and context of education. I argue that the complexities of learning and fundamental pedagogies are being lost in preference for an over-reliance on data systems that are based on a shallow and narrow set of standardised measures. 相似文献
14.
Palle Rasmussen Anne Larson Pia Cort 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(3):254-267
ABSTRACTDenmark has a strong and versatile tradition of adult education. Over a long historical period, adult education for public enlightenment and leisure, for continuing study and for vocational and professional competence have been developed, been made part of state policy and been used by citizens. But in recent years the public and political presence of Danish adult education has changed. While education policy issues generally abound in public and political debates, adult education is given much less attention than earlier. In this article, we trace the causes of this and conclude that it reflects a turn towards focusing on vocational types of adult education and a relocation of adult education policy to networks linking the state and the social partners. Drawing on theories of policy streams, policy networks and the competition state, we provide a historical analysis of Danish adult education reforms during the past two decades and document how the vocational turn has manifested itself. 相似文献
15.
N. Chitera 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2011,14(3):231-246
Most countries in Africa have introduced the use of local languages as the language of learning and teaching for the first
few years of schooling. Meaning that for the first few years of learning, learners learn mathematics in their local languages.
In response to this, most research has focused on the challenges of using local languages in multilingual mathematics classrooms
in schools. Not much research focuses on how the teacher educators prepare the prospective teachers to teach mathematics in
multilingual classrooms. To further knowledge in the area of multilingualism in mathematics education, I, in this paper, present
an analysis of the literature on multilingual teacher education in Africa. Specifically, I look at what it is that governments
in interested countries are doing in teacher education programs in response to the introduction of local languages in schools.
From the literature examined, I found that although there is awareness in a number of countries of the need for multilingual
teacher education, not much has been done in order to train mathematics teachers on how to use local languages in the classroom.
I therefore recommend that, for those countries that have implemented or planning to introduce the use of local languages
in schools, some reforms should also take place in teacher education programs in terms of training the prospective teachers
how to teach in local languages. 相似文献
16.
Li-Ching Ho 《课程研究杂志》2017,49(4):476-496
This paper uses the concept of stories of peoplehood to examine how the Singapore government has constructed a story of harmony and to consider how this story has influenced two important school subjects focused on civic education: Social Studies and Character and Citizenship Education. Stories of peoplehood, including constitutive, economic and political power stories, play a central role in the political project of people-making which involves defining the nature of membership in a political community and promoting a collective political identity. This study provides an alternative way of conceptualizing the goals and curriculum content of civic education and it also offers an example of how a nation state with a strong Confucian tradition has chosen to address the educational goal of living together through the promotion of values such as social cohesion and community relationships within a story of harmony. The study also shows how Singapore political leaders construct a narrow and limited discourse of harmony within the curricula and use it to legitimize policies that privilege particular groups, limit political freedoms, marginalize groups with less power or status, and circumscribe the kinds of actions a citizen can legitimately take. 相似文献
17.
Junjun Muhamad Ramdani 《师资教育杂志》2019,45(3):348-352
Although peer assessment (PA) has been explored and implemented in higher education, little is known about how it is carried out through such a virtual platform as Facebook in an initial teacher education (ITE) context. To fill this practical void, this article showcases the brief portrait of Facebook-assisted PA in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. This in-practice article shows how Facebook as an online platform serves as virtual engagement in PA among English student teachers in the EFL speaking classroom. This virtual engagement not only created an interactive virtual speaking classroom, but also it encouraged students to become critical reflective language learners. 相似文献
18.
Mairéad Hourigan Aisling M. Leavy Claire Carroll 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2016,58(3):319-346
Background: The relationship between attitudes and behaviour has led to a focus on the role played by attitudes in the teaching and learning of mathematics.Purpose: This paper reports on an investigation into student teachers’ self-reported attitudes towards mathematics in the context of a mathematics education programme. The programme had been developed by the authors in response to a new, reformed four-year undergraduate initial teacher education (ITE) for primary teachers in Ireland. The authors aimed to use the feedback to evaluate and develop the course further.Sample: We report on the attitudes of 345 pre-service primary teachers enrolled in a four-year undergraduate ITE programme. 281 of these participants had matched survey data before and after participating in the mathematics education programme.Method and Design: Four evaluation criteria were used as a conceptual framework for the evaluation of the mathematics education programme. A multi-method approach was taken in investigating the students’ attitudes to mathematics by using a scale as a quantitative measure of attitude alongside open-ended survey items that provided qualitative insights into changes in attitudes.Results and conclusions: Results from the survey data suggested overall that the participants’ attitudes towards mathematics were more positive after they had experienced the mathematics education programme. Overall, the written responses suggested that according to self-reportage, participants perceived that participation in the mathematics education programme had affected their attitudes towards mathematics positively. Comments indicated that the ‘small group’ tutorial structure was particularly well received and was associated with opportunities to actively engage, explore, interact and reflect. Suggestions offered by the participants will be used to inform planning and development of the mathematics programme. 相似文献
19.
Adult education in political ecology entails critically and constructively observing the interactions among the actors involved in socioecological conflicts at global and local scales. This definition invites transcending environmental education and education for sustainability’s frontiers, examining the ontology, or the ‘place’, from where actors co-construct these conflicts. If actors don’t question the reified and divided assumptions of the ‘self’ and ‘reality’ at the base of these conflicts, the creative and transformative potential of becoming together cannot unfold. The transformational learning approach is a coherent way of addressing this challenge, as it promotes an ontological change in actors and their worldview. The training experience offered by the University of Santiago provides insights into how transformational education’s perspective can contribute to education in political ecology, inciting an acknowledgment of the self and the world as a complex and dynamic entanglement of actors. 相似文献
20.
Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren Tara Fenwick Nick Hopwood 《Teaching in Higher Education》2016,21(6):613-627
Despite the widespread interest in using and researching simulation in higher education, little discussion has yet to address a key pedagogical concern: difficulty. A ‘sociomaterial’ view of learning, explained in this paper, goes beyond cognitive considerations to highlight dimensions of material, situational, representational and relational difficulty confronted by students in experiential learning activities such as simulation. In this paper we explore these dimensions of difficulty through three contrasting scenarios of simulation education. The scenarios are drawn from studies conducted in three international contexts: Australia, Sweden and the UK, which illustrate diverse approaches to simulation and associated differences in the forms of difficulty being produced. For educators using simulation, the key implications are the importance of noting and understanding (1) the effects on students of interaction among multiple forms of difficulty; (2) the emergent and unpredictable nature of difficulty; and (3) the need to teach students strategies for managing emergent difficulty. 相似文献