Comparison of Quebec and British teachers' beliefs about,training in and experience with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder     

Caroline Couture  Egide Royer  Franc¸ois A. Dupuis  Pierre Potvin 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(4):284-302

Abstract

This study compares belief patterns of teachers from Quebec and Britain about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It also compares teacher training in ADHD in both countries, as well as their experience with students who have this disorder. The results indicate that: (1) teacher belief patterns about ADHD in Quebec and Britain are different, although teachers from both countries have predominant beliefs about ADHD that are of an allopathic medical nature; (2) British teachers have received less information on ADHD in their initial training than Quebec teachers; and (3) British teachers are contacted more often than Quebec teachers by doctors when they have a youngster using medication to treat ADHD in their classroom. Results are discussed from a sociological and an educational perspective.  相似文献   

A study of the difficulties of care and support in new university teachers’ work     

Caroline Walker  Alan Gleaves  John Grey 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(3):347-363

This paper discusses some findings from a small‐scale qualitative study involving ‘new’ teachers in a medium sized, regional English university. Using Grounded Theory methods to inform and guide the research, the study explores participants’ views on working as both teachers and researchers whilst also managing considerable amounts of ‘caring work’ with a diverse body of students who often need academic and pastoral support in excess of that assumed within the university academic timetables or support networks. The voices of these teachers suggest that care is an overlooked aspect of university teachers’ work, yet it plays an important part in maintaining their and their students’ sense of scholarly endeavour. Further, our findings suggest that within the university at large there is a ‘discourse of difference’ in the way that many academics conceptualize and represent the student body and students’ needs to be supported. This discourse impacts on the development of new teachers’ identities and aspirations. Some implications of these findings for implementing strategies for supporting teachers to develop both academic and pastoral roles within universities are discussed.  相似文献   

Imagining a different life in school: educating student teachers about ‘looked after’ children and young people     

Alan Walker‐Gleaves  Caroline Walker 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(5-6):465-479

The research described in this paper concerns the acquaintance of student teachers with the educational and wider pastoral experiences of children and young people who are or have been ‘looked after’ and who they may well teach at some point, together with the familiarisation of student teachers with the ‘looked after’ system in the UK. We discuss an exploratory awareness‐raising curriculum project within a Teacher Education Department at a University in the UK that utilises digital multimedia to develop a ‘community of awareness’ of young people and student teachers. As a result of this work, the student teachers were able to reflect on their pedagogical knowledge and practices related to teaching and wider pupil pastoral care. Further, those involved in the project therefore not only learned how to use technology, but to apply it in meaningful, productive ways, which were potentially transforming in terms of appreciation and knowledge of diversity. Benefits for the participants – the young people involved and the student teachers, as well as implications for both student teachers’ understanding of diversity and limitations of the technology – are discussed.  相似文献   

Defining ‘science-based targets’     

Inger Andersen  Naoko Ishii  Thomas Brooks  Cynthia Cummis  Gustavo Fonseca  Astrid Hillers  Nicholas Macfarlane  Nebojsa Nakicenovic  Kevin Moss  Johan Rockstrm  Andrew Steer  Dominic Waughray  Caroline Zimm 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2021,8(7)

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Learning,teaching, ‘searching’, and ‘healing’: conceptual and practical challenges for education     

Caroline Sarojini Hart 《International Studies in Sociology of Education》2019,28(2):87-89

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A capability approach to children's well-being,agency and participatory rights in education     

Caroline Sarojini Hart  Nicolás Brando 《European Journal of Education》2018,53(3):293-309

This article applies a capability approach to examine how children's agency, well-being and participation rights can be developed and supported in educational settings. We introduce Amartya Sen's concepts of agency and well-being freedoms and achievements to highlight the tensions and trade-offs between risks to children's agency and well-being in and through educational processes. We draw upon selected empirical examples to illustrate this relationship further. By positioning the development of children's agency as an explicit and important goal of education, alongside well-being achievement, we aim to broaden the evaluative space for assessing what constitutes quality in children's education. We conclude with some reflections on implications for policy and practice going forward.  相似文献   

Adding a Feature: Can a Pop-Up Chat Box Enhance Virtual Reference Services?     

Suhua Caroline Fan  Rick L. Fought  Paul C. Gahn 《Medical reference services quarterly》2017,36(3):220-228

Online users seek help from virtual reference services via email, phone, texting, and live chat. Technologies have enabled new features in library websites to help make this service more accessible and effective. This article is an evaluation of an experimental pop-up live chat box on the website of a health sciences library to see whether the feature would enhance virtual reference services.  相似文献   

Reading Foreign Languages in the First Phase of Secondary Education: why,what and how?     

Caroline Schouten‐van Parreren 《欧洲师范教育杂志》1989,12(2):131-140

In this article it is argued that reading skills in the teaching of a foreign language are much neglected in the first phase of secondary education. In order to show (I) why reading is of great importance for language acquisition in general and (2) how to utilise reading in the initial stages of language learning, the following questions are dealt with: (1) What is the status of reading in the different approaches to foreign language learning? (2) Why not focus on listening in terms of the receptive skills? (3) Which different types of texts (books) can be used? (4) How should these texts be used in order to maximise the contribution to language acquisition?  相似文献   

Measuring the quality of e‐learning     

David B. Hay  Caroline Kehoe  Marc E. Miquel  Stylianos Hatzipanagos  Ian M. Kinchin  Steve F. Keevil  Simon Lygo‐Baker 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2008,39(6):1037-1056

This paper shows how concept mapping can be used to measure the quality of e‐learning. Six volunteers (all of them 3rd‐year medical students) took part in a programme of e‐learning designed to teach the principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Their understanding of MRI was measured before and after the course by the use of concept mapping. The quality of change in individuals' maps was assessed using criteria developed to distinguish between meaningful and rote‐learning outcomes. Student maps were also scored for evidence of conceptual richness and understanding. Finally, each map was compared directly with the content of the electronic teaching material. The results show that many of the student misconceptions were put right in the course of their learning but that many of the key concepts introduced in the teaching were ignored (or sometimes learnt by rote) by the students. This was because the teaching material locked these new ideas in structures and terminology that precluded meaning‐making among non‐experts. Our data suggest that students' prior knowledge is a key determinant of meaningful learning. We suggest that this must be acknowledged if the design and use of electronic teaching material is also to be meaningful. Ultimately, measures of student learning are the only authentic indicators of the quality of teaching through technology.  相似文献   

The links between pedagogical competence,instructional quality,and mathematics achievement in the lower secondary classroom     

König  Johannes  Blömeke  Sigrid  Jentsch  Armin  Schlesinger  Lena  née Nehls  Caroline Felske  Musekamp  Frank  Kaiser  Gabriele 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2021,107(1):189-212

Educational Studies in Mathematics - It is widely assumed that teachers play a key role in providing high-quality learning opportunities to students and fostering students’ learning. Yet it...  相似文献