From Network Learning to Classroom Teaching     

Ann Lieberman  Diane R. Wood 《Journal of Educational Change》2002,3(3-4):315-337

In this period of designing controls to producegreater teacher accountability, the NationalWriting Project (NWP) stands as an importantcontrast, teaching us what it means to developthe capacity of teachers. We undertook atwo-year study of the NWP by looking intenselyat two sites, an urban and a rural site. Wesought to understand and document what teacherslearned from their induction to the WritingProject, what they took back to their classroomand how they stayed involved in various localnetwork activities. By looking at the five weeksummer invitational seminar held on thecampuses of their respective sites, we foundcore activities as well as other ancillary onesthat helped teachers gain a set of principlesand ways of working that they took back totheir classrooms. We also found a welldeveloped set of activities run in networkfashion that gave teachers numerousopportunities to stay connected, to leadprofessional development in their localcontexts, to explore special interest groups,and to become members of a powerful learningcommunity. We highlight two of six teachersthat we studied who provide an example of hownetwork learning is linked to classroomteaching. The success of the NWP as aprofessional development network rooted inteachers' work with teachers teaching teachersas a core element, suggests that networks suchas these may be well suited to the rapid changein our society as well as to the growingcomplexity of teachers' work.  相似文献   

Fear of death and physical illness: a personal construct approach     

Robinson PJ  Wood K 《Death education》1983,7(2-3):213-228

The Threat Index, Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale were administered to 100 respondents in an attempt to assess their personal orientation toward death. Each respondent was a member of one of the following groups: people with no known illness; people attending their family physician for a checkup; rheumatoid arthritics; diabetics; or people recently treated for cancer. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that older respondents were significantly less death anxious, less fearful of their own death, and more integrated (that is, showed less self-death discrepancy) than younger respondents. Further analyses revealed no differences between any of the groups on fear of death or death anxiety, indicating that the current state of an individual's health was not related to his or her death orientation. Instead, correlational and regression analyses suggested that anxiety and fear were much more likely to be influenced by a respondent's level of actualization and, to a lesser extent, level of integration. The expected additive effects of actualization and integration did not emerge, a finding that was at variance with previous research.  相似文献   

Understanding Mathematics Teaching: Where We Began and Where We are Going     

Terry Wood 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2005,8(3):193-195

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Bookreviews     

Gilbert de Landsheere  Marten Groen  John Biggs  John F. Willatt  David Thomas  Clare Burstall  Robin Russell  J. R. Barr  Gerhard Pause  Donald E. Super  John B. Biggs  Alan C. Purves  Klaus Schleicher  Herbert A. Thelen  Neville Postlethwaite  Börje Holmberg  Kenneth Austwick  Sven Hilding  A Group of Scottish Physics Teachers 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1967,13(1):90-123

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Dialogue in organizations,developing relational leadership     

Clare Rigg 《Action Learning: Research and Practice》2016,13(2):192-193

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Resource reallocation in higher education in Britain     

B. M. Craven  B. Dick  B. Wood 《Higher Education》1983,12(5):579-589

During recent years the Higher Education (HE) sector in Britain has come under government pressure to reduce the scale of its operations and change the nature of its product. Much of the justification for this change has been provided by new right economists [1] who have concluded, on economic grounds, firstly that state supply of HE should be limited to investment in human capital and secondly that additional state finance is justified only to the extent of the value of the external benefits bestowed upon society.It is the purpose of this article to review the conventional economic assessment of HE and examine the policy implications of the economists' analysis. In particular it is suggested that resource redirection within HE is difficult because of the bureaucratic properties of educational institutions. The article concludes that what is required is a methodology to evaluate quality of output and a uniform method of calculating course costs within and between institutions.We are grateful to Professor C. K. Rowley, Dr. R. S. Thompson and P. Lee for helpful comments on an earlier draft. The usual disclaimer applies.  相似文献   

The Commercialisation of University Research in Australia: issues and problems     

Fiona Q. Wood 《比较教育学》1992,28(3):293-313

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How do tutors use data to support their students?     

Steve Walker  Tom Olney  Carlton Wood  Anactoria Clarke  Moira Dunworth 《Open Learning》2019,34(1):118-133

ABSTRACT

Despite widespread enthusiasm, evidence of the effectiveness of learning analytics remains mixed. One possible explanation for this is that insufficient attention has been paid to the contexts in which it is introduced. We report here on a small-scale study into the prior use of data and communications technologies by tutors, who comprise a key user group in The Open University’s tuition model. Tutors interviewed reported using a complex set of data sources and information tools, and creating local/personal tools and methods for keeping track of students and their interactions with them.  相似文献   

SYMPOSIUM: THE SUPREME COURT''S MICHIGAN DECISIONS     

Abigail Thernstrom  Nathan Glazer  Thomas E. Wood  George R. La Noue  Michael I. Krauss 《Academic Questions》2003,16(3):8-35

On 23 June 2003, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two rulings on the constitutionality of race preferences in university admissions. The cases in question both involved the University of Michigan and were designated Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. Academic Questions' editors subsequently invited five scholars to address the meaning and significance of those decisions.  相似文献   

Early Islam in British Higher Education     

Philip Wood 《British Journal of Religious Education》2019,41(4):402-411

Abstract

In an educational environment where interest in Arabic and Islam is growing, I ask the place of revisionist/critical approaches to early Islam in Higher Education. This paper uses 15 semi-structured interviews with Lecturers in early Islam to investigate how they treat controversial subject matter in the classroom. The paper examines how the different approaches taken by lecturers are linked to different kinds of academic training, and asks what kinds of approach are suited to different student demographics. It concludes by suggesting how critical ways of teaching this subject are linked to new approaches in interfaith engagement, which acknowledge the political context for the development of Scriptures.  相似文献