Investigating agentive urban learning: an assembly of situated experiences for sustainable futures     

Andrew Morrison  Ola Erstad  Gunnar Liestøl  Nicholas Pinfold  Bruce Snaddon  Peter Hemmersam 《牛津教育评论》2019,45(2):204-223

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In this article we explore the dynamic between the pedagogical and the urban, attending to ‘agentive urban learning’. By this we mean processes by which young people build agency in the urban context, in using the resources of the city to develop their own agency, and of developing agency to act within the city. By agency, we refer to the capacity to imagine and act to create individual and collective futures. Our interest is how young people develop such agentive urban learning themselves and how it might be enhanced pedagogically at school and university. Three case studies explore different facets—the first how young people themselves develop this agency in situated settings and the tools that they use to reflect upon the future; the second how digital tools might be used to enhance students’ understanding of the city as a site of change, in this instance, climate change; and the third how such agency might be developed collectively in partnership with other city dwellers. We conclude that a diversity of students’ engagement in urban contexts of learning offers ways from which to further investigate how identity, setting, and stakeholder relationships matter as part of potentially sustainable agentive learning futures.  相似文献   

Early literacy and comprehension skills in children learning English as an additional language and monolingual children with language weaknesses     

Claudine Bowyer-Crane  Silke Fricke  Blanca Schaefer  Arne Lervåg  Charles Hulme 《Reading and writing》2017,30(4):771-790

Many children learning English as an additional language (EAL) show reading comprehension difficulties despite adequate decoding. However, the relationship between early language and reading comprehension in this group is not fully understood. The language and literacy skills of 80 children learning English from diverse language backgrounds and 80 monolingual English-speaking peers with language weaknesses were assessed at school entry (mean age = 4 years, 7 months) and after 2 years of schooling in the UK (mean age = 6 years, 3 months). The EAL group showed weaker language skills and stronger word reading than the monolingual group but no difference in reading comprehension. Individual differences in reading comprehension were predicted by variations in decoding and language comprehension in both groups to a similar degree.  相似文献   

Unpicking the Developmental Relationship Between Oral Language Skills and Reading Comprehension: It's Simple,But Complex          下载免费PDF全文

Arne Lervåg  Charles Hulme  Monica Melby‐Lervåg 《Child development》2018,89(5):1821-1838

Listening comprehension and word decoding are the two major determinants of the development of reading comprehension. The relative importance of different language skills for the development of listening and reading comprehension remains unclear. In this 5‐year longitudinal study, starting at age 7.5 years (n = 198), it was found that the shared variance between vocabulary, grammar, verbal working memory, and inference skills was a powerful longitudinal predictor of variations in both listening and reading comprehension. In line with the simple view of reading, listening comprehension, and word decoding, together with their interaction and curvilinear effects, explains almost all (96%) variation in early reading comprehension skills. Additionally, listening comprehension was a predictor of both the early and later growth of reading comprehension skills.  相似文献   

Public Service Broadcasters Will Survive Without Expensive Sports Programs: A Response to Tjernström and Tjernström     

Harry Arne Solberg 《Journal of Media Economics》2013,26(4):264-269

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Social Support and Socioeconomic Status Predict Secondary Students' Grades and Educational Plans Indifferently Across Immigrant Group and Gender     

Robin Ulriksen  Åse Sagatun  Henrik Daae Zachrisson  Trine Waaktaar  Arne Ola Lervåg 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2013,57(3):357-376

Social support and socioeconomic status (SES) have received considerable attention in explaining academic achievement and the achievement gap between students with ethic majority and immigrant background, and between boys and girls. Using a Structural Equation Modeling approach we examine (1) if there exist a gap in school achievements between these groups, (2) whether social support and SES is associated with achievements across these groups, (3) whether social support is associated with achievements after controlling for SES, and (4) whether achievement gaps are explained by group differences in social support and SES. Self-reported cross-sectional survey and register data from 8,574 10th graders in Norway was employed. Although we found group differences in achievements, and direct associations with social support and SES, we found no group differences in these associations. Controlling for SES and other sources of social support, teachers' support remained a significant positive influence on students' school outcomes.  相似文献   

JAMFÖRELSE MELLAN TVÅ METODER VID ORDFÖRRÄDSPROV     

Arne Larsson 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2013,57(1):67-75

In the article we examine the growth of special education, the expansion of the field and the categories used to classify special education students. Special education began to grow rapidly at the end of the 1960s with the advent of the comprehensive school system. This growth has occurred in both traditional classroom‐type teaching and part‐time, clinic‐type special education characteristic of the modern school model. The catetories used as the basis for transfer to special education have changed very little during the present century. Transfer to schools for the educationally subnormal has been due to lack of mental capacities, while transfer to classes for the socially maladjusted has been based on inability to adapt socially.  相似文献   

The effect of individualised sprint training in elite female team sport athletes: A pilot study     

Elvir Rakovic  Gøran Paulsen  Christian Helland  Ola Eriksrud 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(24):2802-2808

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to evaluate whether an individualised sprint-training program was more effective in improving sprint performance in elite team-sport players compared to a generalised sprint-training program. Seventeen elite female handball players (23 ± 3 y, 177 ± 7 cm, 73 ± 6 kg) performed two weekly sprint training sessions over eight weeks in addition to their regular handball practice. An individualised training group (ITG, n = 9) performed a targeted sprint-training program based on their horizontal force-velocity profile from the pre-training test. Within ITG, players displaying the lowest, highest and mid-level force-velocity slope values relative to body mass were assigned to a resisted, an assisted or a mixed sprint-training program (resisted sprinting in the first half and assisted sprinting in the second half of the intervention period), respectively. A control group (CG, n = 8) performed a generalised sprint-training program. Both groups improved 30-m sprint performance by ~1% (small effect) and maximal velocity sprinting by ~2% (moderate effect). Trivial or small effect magnitudes were observed for mechanical outputs related to horizontal force- or power production. All between-group differences were trivial. In conclusion, individualised sprint-training was no more effective in improving sprint performance than a generalised sprint-training program.  相似文献   

Exploring ‘learning lives’: community,identity, literacy and meaning     

Ola Erstad  Øystein Gilje  Julian Sefton‐Green  Kristin Vasbø 《Literacy》2009,43(2):100-106

This article explores the term ‘learning lives’ by reporting on three research projects conducted by members of the Oslo‐based research group TransActions. By stressing the term ‘learning lives’ within a range of social ‘educational’ contexts, the article aims to look at learning within and across different learning sites exploring the positioning and repositioning of learner identity across these different ‘locations’. We emphasise how the individual learner relates to other people and objects, drawing on deeper trajectories or narratives of the self as it exists within and outside the immediate learning contexts. We pay attention to processes occurring between people which we find significant for the individual's identity, literacy and learning. By doing so we hope to make explicit the mobilisation of resources within and across specific contexts, in the ‘learning lives’ of Norwegian youngsters.  相似文献   

The Open Access Association? EAHIL’s new model for sustainability     

Tony McSean  Arne Jakobsson 《Health information and libraries journal》2009,26(4):316-321

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Validity of the Differential Aptitude Test for the Assessment of Immigrant Children     

Jan Te Nijenhuis  Arne Evers  Jakko P Mur 《教育心理学》2000,20(1):99-115

This paper addresses the construct as well as the criterion validity of the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) for the assessment of secondary school minority group students ( N = 111) as compared to majority group students ( N = 318) in The Netherlands. Comparison of the test dimensions with the structural equation modelling program EQS showed that construct validity was good for both groups. With one exception, the subtests of the DAT measured the cognitive abilities of minority and majority group students equally well. The estimate of g as computed with the DAT showed strong predictive validity with little bias for various school subjects and achievement tests for mathematics and Dutch. Although some criteria revealed prediction bias to the disadvantage of the minority group, these differences concerned very small changes in R 2 . Conversely, the predictive value decreased substantially when an estimate of g was used excluding subtests that measure aspects of crystallised intelligence. Spearman's hypothesis tested with DAT subtest scores and criterion scores showed that g explained most of the group differences. Professional test users can safely draw conclusions from the DAT regardless of the students' ethnicity.  相似文献