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Describing students of the African Diaspora: Understanding micro and meso level science learning as gateways to standards based discourse 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Ed Lehner 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(2):441-473
In much of the educational literature, researchers make little distinction between African-American students and students
of the African Diaspora who immigrated to the United States. Failing to describe these salient student differences serves
to perpetuate an inaccurate view of African-American school life. In today’s large cities, students of the African Diaspora
are frequently learning science in settings that are devoid of the resources and tools to fully support their success. While
much of the scholarship unites these disparate groups, this article details the distinctive learning culture created when
students from several groups of the African Diaspora learn biology together in a Brooklyn Suspension Center. Specifically
this work explains how one student, Gabriel, functions in a biology class. A self-described black-Panamanian, Gabriel had
tacitly resigned to not learning science, which then, in effect, precluded him from any further associated courses of study
in science, and may have excluded him from the possibility of a science related career. This ethnography follows Gabriel’s
science learning as he engaged in cogenerative dialogue with teachers to create aligned learning and teaching practices. During
the 5 months of this research, Gabriel drew upon his unique lifeworld and the depth of his hybridized cultural identity to
produce limited, but nonetheless important demonstrations of science. Coexistent with his involvement in cogenerative dialogue,
Gabriel helped to construct many classroom practices that supported a dynamic learning environment which produced small yet
concrete examples of standards based biology. This study supports further investigation by the science education community
to consider ways that students’ lifeworld experiences can serve to structure and transform the urban science classroom.
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| Ed LehnerEmail: |
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Maria S. Rivera Maulucci 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):17-42
This study reports a subset of findings from a larger, ongoing study aimed at exploring interactions between teacher identity,
learning, and classroom practices in a social justice teacher education program at a selective liberal arts college in New
York. This case-study explores the journey of Elena, as an immigrant, a student, and a pre-service teacher candidate towards
becoming a social justice educator. Elena reflects upon her school language experiences as an immigrant youth, her learning
in a social justice teacher education program, and her field experiences in an international high school. The analysis spans
macro-, meso-, and microlevels to explore the ways globalization, particularly immigration, as well as schooling policies
for English language learners interact with aspects of Elena’s core identity, particularly in school settings. The findings
show some of the ways language and literacy verified and/or denied aspects of Elena’s core identity; specific instances where
second language proficiency was cast as power and privilege versus disadvantage according to ethnic, language, and class categorizations;
and the struggles Elena, and other immigrant youth may face given the focus on English language acquisition and high stakes
accountability in schools, at the expense of students’ primary language proficiency and affirmation of core identity markers.
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| Maria S. Rivera MaulucciEmail: |
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Student teaching (guided teaching by a prospective teacher under the supervision of an experienced “cooperating” teacher)
provides an important opportunity for prospective teachers to increase their understanding of mathematics in and for teaching.
The interactions between a student teacher and cooperating teacher provide an obvious mechanism for such learning to occur.
We report here on data that is part of a larger study of eight student teacher/cooperating teacher pairs, and the core themes
that emerged from their conversations. We focus on two pairs for whom the core conversational themes represent disparate approaches
to mathematics in and for teaching. One pair, Blake and Mr. B., focused on controlling student behavior and rarely talked
about mathematics for teaching. The other pair, Tara and Mr. T., focused on having students actively participating in the
lesson and on mathematics from the students’ point of view. These contrasting experiences suggest that student teaching can
have a profound effect on prospective teachers’ understanding of mathematics in and for teaching.
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| Steven R. WilliamsEmail: |
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Increasing numbers of Spanish-speaking preschool children require attention to improve the likelihood of success in school.
This study, part of a larger 2-year ethnographic study of a Head Start classroom, elaborates the role of teachers’ interactions
with students who were learning English. Using an interactional ethnography approach, the authors focus on the social nature
of these interactions. The study illuminates the kinds of teacher interactions with students that support and hinder the students’
language learning. It reinforces the importance of student engagement in social interactions with teachers and with English
other than codes of obedience and authority. Finally, it recommends actions teachers can take to provide optimal circumstances
for English learning interactions for students.
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| Lesley A. RexEmail: URL: http://www.umich.edu/~rex/ |
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David Tall 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,68(2):185-193
Jim Kaput lived a full life in mathematics education and we have many reasons to be grateful to him, not only for his vision
of the use of technology in mathematics, but also for his fundamental humanity. This paper considers the origins of his ‘big
ideas’ as he lived through the most amazing innovations in technology that have changed our lives more in a generation than
in many centuries before. His vision continues as is exemplified by the collected papers in this tribute to his life and work.
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| David TallEmail: |
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Katherine Schultz 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(1):37-51
This article analyzes new modes of listening to teach developed out of work in Banda Aceh, Indonesia just after the tsunami
of December 2004. I analyze how a framework for understanding pedagogy as integrally connected to listening led to strategies
for working with teachers in Aceh. Finally, I raise questions about how and whether the concept of teaching as based on listening
has meaning across cultural and linguistic borders. This work has implications for the work of U.S. educators traveling to
developing countries and for rethinking teaching and teacher education in the United States. The work suggests the significance
of learning to listen through hope, even immediately after a time of disaster.
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| Katherine SchultzEmail: |
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Faculty have long incorporated students into interdisciplinary research projects to meet increasingly common demands for collaborative
research by federal funding agencies. Despite the critical role of experiential learning in building student research skills
and capacity, few have explored social interaction mechanisms used to facilitate student experiential learning in an interdisciplinary
research team. Drawing upon the New Rural Economy project as a case study, interviews with 13 students from eight Canadian
universities were conducted to explore these social interaction mechanisms. While findings revealed an array of social interaction
mechanisms used to develop student learning networks, the quality of these mechanisms were mixed; thereby influencing the
utilization of these networks for guidance and feedback. As faculty organize social interaction mechanisms, they should consider
factors such as previous experience, student and faculty relationships, finances, language, gender, ethnicity, and other issues,
that will have an impact on student engagement with experiential learning.
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| Deborah ThienEmail: |
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D. Michael Malone 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(1):47-56
The purpose of this paper is to present data demonstrating the potential efficacy of Personal Learning Plans (PLPs) as an
instructional tool in early childhood teacher preparation. One hundred and thirty-nine undergraduate students enrolled in
an introductory course offered within a unified early childhood education program over a period of four years completed preliminary
and final surveys including items on student background, efficacy of course methods, and student learning style and outcomes.
Data related to the PLP and other, more didactic, methods used in the target course are presented. A general conclusion that
can be drawn from these data is that students believed the PLP method to be no less effective than other methods relative
to some indicators and significantly more effective than other methods relative to other indicators. Results are discussed
in terms of self-efficacy theory.
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| D. Michael MaloneEmail: |
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Okhee Lee Karen Adamson Jaime Maerten-Rivera Scott Lewis Constance Thornton Kathryn LeRoy 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2008,19(1):41-67
Our 5-year professional development intervention is designed to promote elementary teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices
in teaching science, along with English language and mathematics for English Language Learning (ELL) students in urban schools.
In this study, we used an end-of-year questionnaire as a primary data source to seek teachers’ perspectives on our intervention
during the first year of implementation. Teachers believed that the intervention, including curriculum materials and teacher
workshops, effectively promoted students’ science learning, along with English language development and mathematics learning.
Teachers highlighted strengths and areas needing improvement in the intervention. Teachers’ perspectives have been incorporated
into our on-going intervention efforts and offer insights into features of effective professional development initiatives
in improving science achievement for all students.
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| Scott LewisEmail: |
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Powerful knowledge and quality talk: maximising learning of genetics during collaborative group work
Grady Venville 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(1):201-209
This commentary brings additional theoretical perspectives to bear on data and findings presented by Anniken Furberg and Hans
Christian Arnseth in their paper on students’ meaning making in genetics in collaborative learning activities. The theoretical
perspectives converge on the importance of maximizing students’ learning in genetics. The perspectives include the notion
of powerful knowledge which raises the issue of whether the curriculum being delivered is a means by which students can acquire
powerful knowledge that will provide them with more reliable explanations and new ways of thinking about the world. The role
of the teacher in fostering social interactions that result in conceptually focused discussions within small group work also
is considered. Finally, the issue of whether students can be taught how to improve the quality of their talk within small
groups is explored.
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| Grady VenvilleEmail: |
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Ethan Campbell 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):307-310
Ideological differences in a writing class evoke the passion of political sensitivities. A graduate student tells of “coming
out” as a pro-life advocate in an essay before his feminist classmates and professor. The exchange created instant and irreconcilable
enemies, but he also found some unexpected support from a hesitant voice within that classroom.
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| Ethan CampbellEmail: |
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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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Francis L. Huang Tonya R. Moon 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2009,21(3):209-234
The study investigated several teacher characteristics, with a focus on two measures of teaching experience, and their association
with second grade student achievement gains in low performing, high poverty schools in a Mid-Atlantic state. Value-added models
using three-level hierarchical linear modeling were used to analyze the data from 1,544 students, 154 teachers, and 53 schools.
Results indicated that traditional teacher qualification characteristics such as licensing status and educational attainment
were not statistically significant in producing student achievement gains. Total years of teaching experience was also not
a significant predictor but a more specific measure, years of teaching experience at a particular grade level, was significantly
associated with increased student reading achievement. We caution researchers and policymakers when interpreting results from
studies that have used only a general measure of teacher experience as effects are possibly underestimated. Policy implications
are discussed.
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| Tonya R. MoonEmail: |
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Joan L. Whipp R. A. Lorentz 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2009,57(2):169-192
While literature suggests that college students may be less reluctant to seek help in online rather than traditional courses,
little is known about how online instructors give help in ways that lead to increased student help seeking and academic success.
In this study, we used theories and research on learning assistance and scaffolding, teacher immediacy, social presence, and
academic help seeking to explore through a cross-case study design how three online instructors differed in their use of cognitive
and social supports and how those differences related to student perceptions of support, help seeking, and performance. Primary
data sources included all course postings by the instructors, interviews with the instructors, observational field notes on
course discussions, student interviews, and final student grades. Archived course documents and student discussion postings
were secondary data sources. Data analysis revealed that while all instructors provided cognitive and social support, they
varied in their level of questioning, use of direct instruction, support for task structuring, and attention to group dynamics.
This variation in teaching presence related to differences across the courses in student perceptions of support, student help
seeking in course discussions, and final course grades. Implications for online teaching and suggestions for further research
are offered.
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| Joan L. WhippEmail: |
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Representatives from more than 20 institutions making up a research and teaching network met to discuss and investigate a
web application designed to promote knowledge sharing and understanding. The web application, called Fieldtrip, enables students,
professors and researchers to virtually share their experiences and findings from real field trips. This study investigates
how professors from the network conceived Fieldtrip and their approach to designing and teaching student learning experiences
using it. Results show that the professors had divergent understandings of the potential of the web application, and that
qualitatively better ways of conceiving Fieldtrip were related to more robust approaches to design for learning and teaching.
The implications of this study as an exploration into professor experiences of web applications are important if universities
wish to make the best use of technologies in learning for their students and professors.
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| Brendan F. D. BarrettEmail: |
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Bringing a greater number of students into science is one of, if not the most fundamental goals of science education for all, especially for heretofore-neglected groups of society such as women and Aboriginal students. Providing students with opportunities
to experience how science really is enacted—i.e., authentic science—has been advocated as an important means to allow students to know and learn about science. The purpose of this paper is
to problematize how “authentic” science experiences may mediate students’ orientations towards science and scientific career
choices. Based on a larger ethnographic study, we present the case of an Aboriginal student who engaged in a scientific internship
program. We draw on cultural–historical activity theory to understand the intersection between science as practice and the
mundane practices in which students participate as part of their daily lives. Following Brad, we articulate our understanding
of the ways in which he hybridized the various mundane and scientific practices that intersected in and through his participation
and by which he realized his cultural identity as an Aboriginal. Mediated by this hybridization, we observe changes in his
orientation towards science and his career choices. We use this case study to revisit methodological implications for understanding
the role of “authentic science experiences” in science education.
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| Michiel van EijckEmail: |
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Who is the expert? Construct and criteria validity of student and teacher ratings of instruction 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2
In this article, we examine the construct and criteria validity of student and teacher ratings as indicators of instructional
features. As parsimonious measures, student and teacher reports are frequently used to assess aspects of the learning environment.
From a methodological perspective, however, both approaches have been questioned. Whereas student ratings are occasionally
criticised as being undifferentiated and easily influenced by personal preferences, teacher reports are sometimes considered
to be biased by self-serving strategies or teaching ideals. Instead of pitting one method against the other, our study aimed
at establishing the specific value of each approach. The analyses draw on data from a German extension to the 2003 PISA assessment, in which 288 mathematics
teachers and their students completed questionnaires using identical items to tap various aspects of instruction. Mean student
ratings were computed for each class. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed specific conceptual structures
for student and teacher ratings, with teachers elaborating on the use of tasks and methods, and students focusing on their
teacher’s support in personal and learning matters. Three shared dimensions were also established: occurrence of classroom
management problems, degree of cognitive autonomy during lessons, and tempo of interaction. Teacher/student agreement on these
dimensions varied across constructs, with considerable agreement on classroom management, low agreement on cognitive autonomy,
and no significant agreement on whether or not the interaction tempo was appropriate. Accordingly, correlations with external
criteria (student motivation, teacher motivation, mathematical achievement scores, and characteristics of the tasks set in
class) also varied across constructs. We conclude that student and teacher ratings are best suited to tapping different aspects
of the learning environment, and recommend that care be taken in choosing a data source appropriate for the construct to be
measured.
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| Jürgen BaumertEmail: |