Health and body tensions and expectations for pre-service physical education teachers in Spain     

Gustavo González-Calvo  Valeria Varea  Lucio Martínez-Álvarez 《Sport, Education and Society》2019,24(2):158-167

The importance of the Physical Education (PE) teacher’s body, particularly for teaching PE, has been highlighted in literature. PE teachers are expected to be clear role models to students through their acts, behaviours and bodies. However, their strong embodied subjectivities, particularly those related to their teaching practices, may be problematised. This paper explores the ways in which a group of 15 pre-service PE teachers from a Spanish university constructed perspectives about the body and health in relation to their professional practices. Body journals were used to collect data, which were analysed using a Deleuze-Guattarian approach. The findings reveal the significant emphasis participants placed on their own bodies while teaching PE and the pressure they felt to conform to certain expectations of their professional roles. In response, we propose critical reflection on the content of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programmes and incorporation of alternative pedagogical approaches to alleviate the heavy reliance on pre-service teachers’ bodies.  相似文献   

Independent and joint associations of physical activity and fitness with fibromyalgia symptoms and severity: The al-Ándalus project     

Víctor Segura-Jiménez  Alberto Soriano-Maldonado  Fernando Estévez-López  Inmaculada C. Álvarez-Gallardo  Manuel Delgado-Fernández  Jonatan R. Ruiz 《Journal of sports sciences》2017,35(15):1565-1574

We examined independent and joint associations of objectively measured physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) with pain, fatigue and the overall impact of fibromyalgia in 386 fibromyalgia women aged 51.2 ± 7.6 years. Levels of PA (light, moderate and vigorous) and PF were measured with triaxial accelerometry and the Senior Fitness Test, respectively. We used the Short-Form health survey-36 pain sub-scale and the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory to assess pain and multiple dimensions of fatigue, respectively. The impact of fibromyalgia was studied with the Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR). Both, total PA and global PF were independently associated with pain pressure threshold, SF-36 pain, reduced activity, reduced motivation and FIQR total score (all, P ≤ 0.027). The associations between total PA and symptoms were weaker than those observed between global PF and symptoms. Overall, unfit patients with low PA showed a worse profile that fit patients with high PA (all, P ≤ 0.001). In summary, PA and PF are independently associated with pain, fatigue and the overall impact of fibromyalgia in women. Although PF presented greater associations with symptoms, the results suggest that both being physically active and keep adequate fitness levels might be convenient for fibromyalgia women.  相似文献   

A Qualitative Study on Book Clubs and Dialogic Literary Gatherings in Spain and Brazil     

Carmen Álvarez- Álvarez 《Public Library Quarterly》2019,38(1):72-84

Some organizations in Spain that seek to foster innovation in reading are keen to establish book clubs or dialogical literary gatherings. However, there are notable differences between these two practices that are not always clear. This paper presents the results of an observational study based on participant observation and interviews with key informants that tackle their similarities and differences in school and social settings. The results show that their differences lie in origin, purpose, methodology, and coordination, among others. The conclusions show different paradigms behind these practices, and organizations should opt for one or the other.  相似文献   

The mathematics skills of school children: how does England compare to the high-performing East Asian jurisdictions?     

John Jerrim  Álvaro Choi 《教育政策杂志》2014,29(3):349-376

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in Mathematics and Science Study are two highly respected studies of school pupils’ academic achievement. English policy-makers have been disappointed with school children’s performance on these tests, particularly in comparison to the strong results of young people from East Asia. In this paper, we provide new insight into the England–East Asia gap in school children’s mathematics skills. We do so by considering how cross-national differences in math test scores change between ages 10 and 16. Our results suggest that, although average math test scores are higher in East Asian countries, this achievement gap does not increase between ages 10 and 16. We thus conclude that reforming the secondary school system may not be the most effective way for England to ‘catch up’ with the East Asian nations in the PISA math rankings. Rather, earlier intervention, during pre-school and primary school, may be needed instead.  相似文献   

The Use of BISAC in Libraries as New Cases of Reader-Interest Classifications     

Daniel Martínez-Ávila  Rosa San Segundo  Hope A. Olson 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2014,52(2):137-155

In the recent years, several libraries in the United States have been experimenting with Book Industry Standards and Communications (BISAC), the classification system of the book industry, as an alternative to the Dewey Decimal Classification. Although rarely discussed, these cases of implementation of BISAC arguably resemble other past cases of replacement of traditional classifications that received the name of reader-interest classifications. In this article, a comparison of the BISAC cases to the previous cases of reader-interest classifications is taken in order to determine if the current application of BISAC to libraries is susceptible to the same problems, dangers, and ends as occurred in the past.  相似文献   

Undergraduates’ conceptions of mathematics teaching and learning: an empirical study     

Rodr&#;guez-Mu&#;iz  Luis J.  Aguilar-Gonz&#;lez  &#;lvaro  Lindorff  Ariel  Mu&#;iz-Rodr&#;guez  Laura 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2022,109(3):523-547

Educational Studies in Mathematics - Previous research in mathematics education has explored teachers’ conceptions of mathematics and its teaching and learning, and how their instructional...  相似文献   

‘Different’ at school: Discrimination and a monitoring system to forestall it     

Ángeles Sagastizabal 《Prospects》2000,30(4):487-495

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Education with ICT in South Korea and Chile     

Jaime Sánchez  Álvaro Salinas  Jordan Harris 《International Journal of Educational Development》2011

This article presents a linear-analytical case study on the development of ICT within the educational systems of Chile and South Korea. Through a comprehensive meta-data analysis and bibliographic review, we collected information on both educational systems and their ICT adoption policies. Key differences necessary to understand how both countries have developed their educational systems by integrating ICT were analyzed, including the educational system structure, the organization of state entities responsible for educational ICT, cultural characteristics, the creation of policies regarding ICT in education, and the effectiveness of such policies for the expansion of infrastructure and the ICT curriculum integration. We analyze these key differences in order to understand two cases of ICT integration initiatives on a national level, so that we might better understand the primary factors that influence successful ICT integration, as well as those that may hinder progress in this area.  相似文献   

Teachers' interest in a computer EFL university entrance examination     

Miguel Fernández Álvarez  Jesús García Laborda 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2011,42(6):E136-E140

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Teaching machine learning in robotics interactively: the case of reinforcement learning with Lego® Mindstorms     

Ángel Martínez-Tenor  Juan-Antonio Fernández-Madrigal 《Interactive Learning Environments》2019,27(3):293-306

Preparing students for dealing with a world more and more densely populated with physical machines that possess learning capabilities, e.g. intelligent robots, is of the utmost importance in engineering. In this paper, we describe and analyse a design of interactive sessions devoted to the application of some machine learning (ML) methods within a master degree subject named “Cognitive Robotics”, in particular, reinforcement learning (RL), a technique that allows the machine to autonomously learn decision-making in a physical environment. The paper contains a complete depiction of the interactive teaching sessions, implemented with reasonable cost and resources thanks to a suitable mixture of the constructivist and instructivist paradigms. It also gathers the experiences of students and teachers through both qualitative and quantitatively indicators.  相似文献