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Pat Drake 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(1):67-82
This article derives from a case study of 10 secondary school teaching assistants (TAs) who did not have conventional pre-qualifications
in mathematics but who undertook an honours degree in mathematics education studies at a Higher Education Institution in England
whilst continuing to work as TAs in school. Work-based learning was thus undertaken in parallel with advancement through the
hierarchical undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Lave and Wenger’s work on communities of practice is used as a framework
to explore the TAs’ learning of mathematics alongside their professional work in schools. This case illustrates how and where
institution-based undergraduate teaching relates to work in school, and where it does not, thus signalling the importance
of the TAs’ informal learning strategies in bringing together these experiences. 相似文献
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Lori Beckett 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):109-124
This paper reports on the work of a small group of Education academics to build a professional learning community in a regional
university in the north of England. Their efforts form part of a ‘Leading Learning’ school–university partnership serving
schools in disadvantaged communities in inner city Leeds. This is designed to support teachers’ professional learning and
development and reclaim their sense of collaborative professionalism in a new era of austerity Britain. The account given
here is about the new partnerships being created between and among academic colleagues, who are learning to work effectively
with each other and their schooling colleagues on their collective professional learning and to build their collaborative
sense of professionalism. The complexities of this task—of working in a professional learning community within Faculty in
order to model and support a city-wide professional learning community with teacher partners, school communities, and civil
servants in the local Authority—are framed in terms of knowledge-building for the improvement of educational provision for
disadvantaged students in local schools and the university. 相似文献
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Todd Campbell Shaing Kwei Wang Hui-Yin Hsu Aaron M. Duffy Paul G. Wolf 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):505-511
This position paper proposes the enhancement of teacher and student learning in science classrooms by tapping the enormous
potential of information communication and technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools for engaging students in scientific inquiry.
This paper serves to challenge teacher-held assumptions about students learning science ‘from technology’ with a framework
and examples of students learning science ‘with technology’. Whereas a high percentage of students are finding their way in
using ICTs outside of school, for the most part they currently are not doing so inside of school in ways that they find meaningful
and relevant to their lives. Instead, the pedagogical approaches that are most often experienced are out-of-step with how
students use ICTs outside of schools and are not supportive of learning framed by constructivism. Here we describe a theoretical
and pedagogical foundation for better connecting the two worlds of students’ lives: life in school and life outside of school.
This position paper is in response to the changing landscape of students’ lives. The position is transformative in nature
because it proposes the use of cyber-enabled resources for cultivating and leveraging students new literacy skills by learning
‘with technology’ to enhance science learning. 相似文献
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Teachers’ perceptions of school climate in 59 elementary schools were assessed using a modified version of the School-Level Environment Questionnaire (SLEQ). Using structural equation modelling, a statistically significant, positive relationship was found between school mean teachers’ perceptions of school climate and school mean student achievement. A second model showed that school and community context variables mediated that relationship. In schools in high socioeconomic status (SES) communities, the influence of school climate on student achievement was stronger than it was for schools in lower SES communities. Recommendations for further examination of the relationships are also made. 相似文献
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Derek Bland 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2012,39(1):75-89
For marginalised secondary school students, mainstream education may no longer appear to be an inviting place. While proposed
solutions to problems of disengagement and marginalisation appear to concentrate on finding ways to coerce students back to
mainstream education through, for example, ‘learning or earning’ legislation, this article suggests that more effective solutions
may be found by engaging with the students in the margins that they occupy. Following discussion of key influences on student
disengagement and a theory of imaginations, a ‘students-as-researchers’ (SaR) model of working with young people is discussed
to demonstrate that, through the scaffolded application of active imagination, it is possible for such students to identify
and create their own connections to the mainstream. The SaR model is illustrated through reference to groups of disaffected
high school students who participated in an action research project to investigate apparent low aspiration for tertiary education
among their peers at schools serving low-income communities in Queensland, Australia. 相似文献
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Courtney E. Kimmel R. Bruce Hull Max O. Stephenson David P. Robertson Kimberly H. Cowgill 《Higher Education》2012,64(2):223-235
In the struggle to remain true to their technical assistance and civic engagement missions in an era of shrinking budgets and increasingly complex accountability claims, land grant universities have developed different engagement strategies to contribute to the development of surrounding communities. Drawing on Flora and Flora’s (in Ann Am Acad Polit Soc Sci, 48, 1993) assertion that a strong and “entrepreneurial” social infrastructure is critical for facilitating lasting change and development in communities (particularly rural communities), this article presents a case study of a land grant university’s engagement with a community landcare group from the perspective of building social capacity in surrounding communities. This case explores Virginia Tech’s involvement in facilitating and supporting Catawba Landcare using three theoretical frames—Ronald Heifetz’s concept of “holding environments” as a safe and facilitated space where social learning can occur; ecological and social entrepreneurship and the roles and functions required to support these forms of entrepreneurship; and the concept of learning action networks in which otherwise disparate partners are linked under common goals and collectively learn how to manage the situation at hand. Using these three theoretical frames, this paper posits landcare as a model of engagement for land grant universities thus contributing to the construction of social infrastructure. 相似文献
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Components of Conceptual Ecologies 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Hyun Ju Park 《Research in Science Education》2007,37(2):217-237
The theory of conceptual change is criticized because it focuses only on supposed underlying logical structures and rational
process processes, and lacks attention to affective aspects as well as motivational constructs in students’ learning science.
This is a vast underestimation of the complexity and diversity of one’s change of conceptions. The notion of conceptual ecology
provides a context for understanding individuals’ conceptual change learning, as it is the environment through which all information
is interpreted. This research investigated how high school students’ statements, made in answering questions, reflect selected
components of their conceptual ecologies. Data for this study was collected from six interviews in which seven students took
part. The data also include the science teacher’s profiles of each student, the students’ personal journals, their assignments,
and their examinations and answers in class. The analysis presented will here include only those components that were represented
in the discourse of the seven high school students who were interviewed. When students were asked questions, there was evidence
of the engagement of the various components of conceptual ecologies. These components include: epistemological commitments,
metaphysical beliefs, the affective domain and emotional aspects, the nature of knowledge, the nature of learning, the nature
of conceptions, and past experience. Evidence from this study suggests that these components might function as constraints
to learning. This study contributes to the field by expanding our knowledge of the components of high school students’ conceptual
ecologies through its definition of the categories and themes associated with those components. In examining across the range
of components, the study illustrates the variety and sources of science conceptions within high school students’ conceptual
ecologies. 相似文献
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Jocelyn L. N. Wong 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2010,11(2):131-139
The concept of “professional learning community” (PLC) has been suggested as a tool to improve teachers’ professional competency
and students’ learning outcomes since the mid-1990s. In such a community, teachers can share their individual practices with
the aim of searching for “good practice” based on the outcome of collective inquiry. Such a learning process will result in
a reculturing of the school community by reshaping the existing values and cultures and resolving problems such as teacher
isolation and individualism. China already has a long tradition of teachers working and learning collaboratively, so investigating
collaborative efforts in this context may provide a view of how to contextualize professional development of teachers in schools.
This study attempts to access teachers’ lenses in order to explore their views on the effects of subject-based professional
learning activities. This also helps to explain how teachers work and openly share their practices aiming at improving their
professional competency and student learning outcomes within their communities. Also, factors influencing the sustainability
of a professional learning community will be discussed. 相似文献
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This study investigated students’ perceptions of the generalist learning environment of the primary school compared to their
perceptions of the specialist science learning environment of secondary school. The role of student gender and change in school
size as influencing factors on changes in students’ perceptions across primary to secondary transition were especially considered.
The same students’ perceptions of the learning environment were collected in the final stages of primary school and again
after their initial term in secondary school. Insights were gained into how students’ perceptions of learning environment
changed during their first exposure to specialised science learning environments and teachers, and how these changes in perceptions
during transition depended upon school size and student gender. Both school size and student gender were found to be influencing
factors for changes in some learning environment dimension perceptions. 相似文献
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Learning no longer takes place as effectively as it did before in most current Korean classrooms. Many teachers have voiced
concerns about a notably reduced level of students’ interest in and enthusiasm for learning school materials, lack of students’
attention to their lectures, and lack of students’ involvement in classroom activities. This negative change, which has been
observed since around 1997, is often referred to as “school collapse” in Korea, meaning classroom breakdown. The paper investigates
the factors that have lead to the phenomenon of the school collapse, introduces the 7th National Curriculum as one of the new reform approaches of the Korean government, and makes some suggestions to ensure more
autonomy and diversity in classrooms to promote effective teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Positive approaches to learning are considered essential for young children’s school readiness and early school success. Researchers
have reported that positive learning approaches, such as attentiveness and goal orientation, are associated with higher levels
of early school achievement in math and reading. The present study extends this research by examining children’s learning
approaches in the context of classroom activities from a range of curricular areas. Ninety-two children from pre-kindergarten
and kindergarten classrooms took part in the study. Four approaches to learning were rated during children’s participation
in seven classroom learning activities. Results showed that positive learning approaches were a significant contributor to
children’s performance, but they were not equally effective in all activities. The effectiveness of a learning approach depends,
in part, on the characteristics of the activity in which the child is engaged. We discuss the implications of these results
for understanding the study of learning approaches, and for classroom practices designed to promote their development. 相似文献
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Anna Chronaki 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2005,20(1):61-74
The present study explores the experience of two young Gypsy girls in solving school arithmetic tasks in interaction with
an adult who supports their participation. Along with learning the use of arithmetic tools, a basic element concerning the
experience of the two girls as they try to gain entry into the school practice is learning about developing relevant ‘learning
identities’. Analysis of the girls’ interaction with an adult identifies that the type of ‘learning identities’ required involve
at least two dimensions: (a) learning to value the use of formal arithmetic tools, and (b) learning about relevant ways of
behaving in the school mathematics practice. 相似文献
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Neil Gislason 《Learning Environments Research》2010,13(2):127-145
This article develops a theoretical framework for studying how instructional space, teaching and learning are related in practice.
It is argued that a school’s physical design can contribute to the quality of the learning environment, but several non-architectural
factors also determine how well a given facility serves as a setting for teaching and learning. Supporting evidence for this
argument is drawn from research on school climate and organisation, as well as from the author’s study of three open-plan
high schools. Facilities design, educational practice, school culture, and student learning are found to be interrelated aspects
of a school’s total learning environment. 相似文献
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Shantia Kerr 《TechTrends》2011,55(1):28-31
The growing availability of online learning in K-12 education requires understanding of the tools and pedagogy necessary for
effective teaching and learning. This paper provides recommendations to advance teaching and meaningful learning in online
high school courses. Additionally, it provides principles of practice for teachers, students, and school and district level
administrators. It concludes with a list of “best practices” for online, high school teachers. All recommendations are based
on the findings from the author’s research in three secondary online learning settings. 相似文献
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Vanithamani Saravanan 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2005,4(2-3):97-113
‘Thinking schools’ will be sites of learning for everyone declared the Singapore Prime Minister, Goh Chok and Minister of
Education Teo Chee Hean’s in 1997 also spoke on the model of’ ‘thinking schools, learning nation’. Gardner’s model was used
for the thinking school model in Singapore, in order to develop critical and creative thinking in students. This was to be
done with the use of instructional technology as an enabling tool using a diversity of approaches including integrated project
work. This paper reports on how one school went about changing approaches to teaching and learning by implementing integrated
project work as a way of integrating the content areas of the curriculum, mathematics and science through English language,
supported by the tools of instructional technology. 相似文献
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Birgitte Holm S?rensen Oluf Danielsen Janni Nielsen 《Education and Information Technologies》2007,12(1):17-27
This paper builds on a key finding of a 5-year Danish research project con-cerning children in the 7 to 15 age group: children’s
principal use of computers and the internet takes place in their spare time, and it is during their spare time that the majority
of children really learn how to use interactive media. The project shows that in children’s spare-time use of ICT they employ
informal forms of learning based to a large extent on their social interaction both in physical and virtual spaces. These
informal learning forms can be identified as learning hierarchies, learning communities and learning networks; they are important
contributions to the school of the knowledge society. The ICT in New Learning Environments project based on anthropologically inspired methods and social learning theories shows that students bring their informal
forms of learning into the school context. This happens particularly when the school has undergone physical alterations and
when its organisation of learning and teaching are also restructured, with project-based learning becoming an important part
of the school work and with the media available in the learning environment. Using organisation theory, the school working
with ICT and project-based learning is shown to simultaneously constitute a mixed mode between the school of the industrial
and the knowledge society. The research shows that it is possible to tip the balance in the direction of the school of the
knowledge society, and thus of the future, by comprehensively using ICT and project work in the day-to-day activities of the
school, alongside and integrated with the traditional forms of learning, and not least by employing the informal learning
processes children develop outside school. For teachers this will mean an extension of their function: no longer merely communicators
of knowledge, they will have to become knowledge managers and overall leaders of projects, and this entails much more dialogue
with the pupils.
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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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Min Liu Lucas Horton Justin Olmanson Paul Toprac 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2011,59(2):249-265
This study examines middle school students’ learning and motivation as they engaged in a new media enriched problem-based
learning (PBL) environment for middle school science. Using a mixed-method design with both quantitative and qualitative data,
we investigated the effect of a new media environment on sixth graders’ science learning, their motivation, and the relationship
between students’ motivation and their science learning. The analysis of the results showed that: Students significantly increased
their science knowledge from pretest to posttest after using the PBL program, they were motivated and enjoyed the experience,
and a significant positive relationship was found between students’ motivation scores and their science knowledge posttest
scores. Findings were discussed within the research framework. 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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Literature review focuses on what theory and research primarily from political science and sociology of education have to
say about families and communities working for change in education. Questions: (1) Do low-income minority families have the
power to create positive and lasting change in school and/or district organization and policy? (2) Is such change possible
and can it serve as a foundation for state and national education policy change? The families and communities in question
are ‘the truly disadvantaged’ or ‘underclass’ in America’s urban centers. Largely black and Latino, the communities share
the characteristics of developing nations: low economic development, high infant mortality rates, short life spans, and low
levels of educational attainment. Social capital, collective action/social movement, and democracy theory are used. A typology
of the policymaking process as described in the research is described. Local successes are treated laying the groundwork for
answering the question about whether local successes can lead to state and federal reforms. Theories, typology, and stories
of success are put into the context of school organization because the way that schools are organized may dictate what kinds
of collective action are likely to succeed.
Adriane Williams (M.Ed., The George Washington University) is affiliated with Department of Educational Policy Studies, University
Of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Adriane Williams is a Ph.D. candidate studying how school organization facilitates or impedes
the involvement of non-college graduate parents in educational decision making for their children. 相似文献