Understanding ‘religious understanding’ in religious education     

Karen Walshe  Geoff Teece 《British Journal of Religious Education》2013,35(3):313-325

This paper takes as its starting point, one of the explicit aims of religious education in England, namely, the development of students’ religious understanding. It shows how curriculum documentation, whilst stating that religious understanding is an aim of religious education fails to clearly outline what is meant by it. This paper draws upon long-standing and ongoing debates in the field and suggests that religious understanding may be best conceived as a spectrum of understanding. Approached in this way, religious understanding becomes not an all or nothing affair, but a lens through which the student of religion may regard the beliefs and practices before them. Finally, the paper proposes an interpretation of religious understanding, which focuses on the soteriological dimension of religion, thus providing the student with a particularly religious lens to understand religious traditions in religious education and concludes by outlining what such an approach might look like in practice.  相似文献   

Killing God? Secular and spiritual elements in some recent literature for children     

Geoff Robson 《British Journal of Religious Education》2013,35(1):87-97

What beliefs and values are upheld, implicitly or explicitly, by recent writers of fiction for older children? The first of Philip Pullman’s trilogy, Northern lights, was published in 1995 and the first of the 10-year sequence of Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling came out in 1997. This paper begins by considering Pullman and Rowling’s fantasies. It briefly appraises recent books by four leading authors, set either in secular Britain or a historical context in which Christian churches had a significant role. (In the order in which they are considered these are: Kevin Brooks, Meg Rosoff, Siobhan Dowd and Theresa Breslin.) It concludes with the work of another Carnegie Medal winner, David Almond, which seems to bring earth and heaven into meaningful contact with each other.  相似文献   

Developmental processes and motivations for linkages in cross-sectoral sport clusters     

Anna Gerke  Kathy Babiak  Geoff Dickson  Michel Desbordes 《Sport Management Review》2018,21(2):133-146

Interorganisational linkages are a widely studied topic in sport management. However, most researchers focus on public or non-profit organisations and analyse one focal organisation rather than a network of interrelated organisations. The purpose of this study was to address both of these shortcomings by investigating interorganisational linkages in sport clusters, a type of cross-sectoral network. The authors address three main questions: (a) what is the nature of interorganisational linkages in sport clusters; (b) how do linkages in sport clusters develop; and (c) what are the organisational motivations for creating or joining linkages in sport clusters? A multiple case study approach explores two sailing clusters in France and New Zealand. Results show that interorganisational relationships tend to be formalised, while interorganisational networks tend to be informal. A circular development process from formal relationships to formal networks via informal relationships and networks was detected. Reciprocity is the most prevalent motive for the development of all types of interorganisational linkages. This research contributes to sport management practice by showcasing the potential multitude and variety of interorganisational linkages in a cross-sectoral sport context which are foundations for cooperation and collaboration. The theoretical contribution lies in the conceptualising of the IOR development process and different motivational patterns as antecedents.  相似文献   

Information management in law enforcement: The case of police intelligence strategy implementation     

Peter Bell  Geoff Dean  Petter Gottschalk 《International Journal of Information Management》2010

Strategy implementation is important because failure to carry out strategy can cause lost opportunities and leave police officers reluctant to do strategic planning. Lack of implementation creates problems in maintaining priorities and reaching organizational goals. The strategy execution task is commonly the most complicated and time-consuming part of strategic, management. Yet, strategy implementation suffers from a general lack of academic attention. This research paper makes a contribution to police strategy implementation literature by developing a, research model to study the extent of intelligence strategy implementation.  相似文献   

Fishing with the net fur research data     

Geoff Foster 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》1994,25(2):91-97

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The Rise of the New Professionals? The restructuring of primary teachers’ work and professionalism     

Geoff Troman 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》1996,17(4):473-487

This article explores teachers’ reactions to changing management cultures and argues for a complex reading of their responses. Data from an ethnographic study of a primary school are used to illustrate the restructuring of the teachers’ work since the mid‐1980s. Different teacher strategies were developed in response to changes in the managerial control of their work and dominant management constructions of professionalism. Whereas teachers in an occupational culture, the ‘old professionals’, largely resisted the changes but subsequently left the school or left teaching, the ‘new professionals’ complied with some of management's changed expectations of them, but resisted others. In the new managerialist culture the teachers experienced new forms of control and their roles increasingly included managerial tasks. The article concludes by suggesting that measures for policing teachers’ work, such as inspection and school self‐management may limit the spaces in which teachers can use strategies of resistance within accommodation.  相似文献   

为“民主的专业主义”而辩护     

杰夫·惠蒂  许立新 《教育学报》2006,2(5):42-52

译者说明在当今世界的大多数国家,专业的性质已日益由国家来决定。于是,在英国教育中便相继产生了“自由市场和强力政府”、中央控制下的分权过程和“远程操纵”的明显悖论。教师教育新近政策的变化,使教师之间产生了“新企业家”和“老集体主义者”的专业分裂;当下的教师专业主义使得全国教师工会具有一定的专业防御性质便不再让人觉得难以理解。然而,从社会学的角度来看,为替代专业主义的传统模式和新工党政府试图削弱教师自主权的“管理式的专业主义”,当前需要对于教师专业主义进行重新认识和重新建构,在这一方面,“民主的专业主义”充满着希望,即教师必须积极地与包括学生、家长、社区和政府等利益相关者一同工作,主动把握和创造由国家政策的变革所提供的专业进步之机会。  相似文献   

Editorial invité:Problèmes de l’évaluation du niveau de base     

Sheila Wolfendale  Geoff Lindsay 《Journal of Research in Reading》1999,22(1):8-13

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Lessons from team work: towards a systematic scheme for course development     

Geoff Foster 《Higher Education》1992,24(2):193-211

Differences in practice and culture between distance and face to face universities are examined in the light of course design and production. This paper then proposes that a team approach which has been developed and refined for the production of distance teaching courses, and more particularly for the management of the production process, be used as a starting point for the development of a systematic scheme capable of being used in a conventional university setting not only by teams but also by individuals. Examples of ways in which this scheme might be used are given, and the benefits pointed out; these include improvements in the efficacy of course production and in the integration and cohesiveness of the resulting courses. There are also indirect gains to be made, in educational development and in increased professionalism, as well as in the enrichment of academic life.  相似文献   

The Development of Reasoning about Causal and Noncausal Influences on Levers     

Eric Amsel  Geoff Goodman  Dallas Savoie  Megan Clark 《Child development》1996,67(4):1624-1646

2 studies examined 5–12-year-olds' judgments regarding the behavior of balance scales and other levers whose arms varied in a causal (the number of equally weighted objects or their distances from the fulcrum) or a noncausal (the color, position, or orientation of objects) variable. There were age-related increases in correct judgments for each causal and noncausal variable, with children tending to make correct judgments about the influence of physical features of objects (their number and color) at an earlier age than they did about spatial relations between objects (their distance, orientation, and position). Children's patterns of errors judging the influence of causal (particularly distance) and noncausal (particularly position and orientation) variables were different, and there was no relation between children's correct judgments regarding causal and noncausal variables The results suggest that there are separate processes underlying children's ability to identify causal and dismiss noncausal influences on levers which are dependent on the kinds of features (physical or both physical and spatial) which children conceive of as potentially influencing the behavior of levers.  相似文献