Opportunities for a democratic pedagogy: a comparative study of South African and Swedish teachers' attitudes to inclusive education     

Rolf Helldin  Örjan Bäckman  Helen Dwyer  Anders Skarlind  Anna J. Hugo  Norma Nel  Helene Müller 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2011,11(2):107-119

This paper is based upon the collaboration between two research groups from Stockholm University and the University of South Africa. The main objective is to compare attitudes between South African (SA) and Swedish teachers regarding inclusive education (IE). IE in this paper is examined as a distinct part of the Swedish welfare system. The method used can be characterised as a combined, quantitative and qualitative research design with a purposive sampling. A similar adapted questionnaire was distributed in the two countries. The Swedish teachers in our data are more pro‐inclusion and more hesitating to accommodate learners with barriers in special schools. However, both the Swedish and the SA teachers in the study are hesitating towards the feasibility to implement IE practically. A team approach is concluded to be an adequate pedagogy for supporting IE both in South Africa and Sweden.  相似文献   

Using matrix norms to estimate the direction of arrival of planar waves on an ULA     

Rodrigo P. Lemos  Jonas A. Kunzler  Diego F. Burgos B.  Mário J. de Souza  Hugo V. L. e Silva  Yroá R. Ferreira  Edna L. Flôres  Oliver Sander 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2019,356(6):3781-3796

SEAD method estimates the direction-of-arrival angles on an uniformly linear array based on the difference between the two largest singular values, what is called differential spectrum. Although it presented an outstanding performance, the ability to indicate the source positions was not elucidated yet. Inspired by the differential spectrum formulation we derived a total differential spectrum and found out that the matrix norm induced by the vector 2-norm of a modified spatial covariance matrix can be used to estimate the direction-of-arrival of multiple plane waves. Indeed we show that matrix norms are estimators and we propose their use instead of the singular value decomposition in SEAD-based methods. We present a general mathematical expression in order to explicit the operating principles of the proposed methods. Consequently, we were able to explain how the relation between the arriving and the search angles produces the larger peaks on the differential spectrum. To evaluate the important role played by matrix norms, a thousand experiments were carried out. They showed that the proposed approach proved to be as accurate as the previous SEAD-based methods, while providing a significant reduction on runtime. It also outperformed well-established methods like MODEX regarding the estimation error.  相似文献   

Broken gears: the value added of higher education on teachers’ academic achievement     

Carlos Felipe Balcázar  Hugo Ñopo 《Higher Education》2016,72(3):341-361

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Knowledge and utilization of the United States National Library of Medicine's biomedical information products and services among African health sciences librarians     

Kanyengo CW  Ajuwon GA  Kamau N  Horta C  Anne A 《Medical reference services quarterly》2011,30(3):257-268

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) has the largest collection of biomedical information products and services in the world. Little is known of the extent to which librarians in sub-Saharan Africa are aware of and use these resources. The study's aim was to assess knowledge and frequency of use of NLM's biomedical information products and services among African librarians. Forty-three of the 50 delegates at the 11th biannual Congress of the Association of Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) participated in the study. The findings showed that participants' knowledge of NLM information products and services was low and that there is a need for increased awareness and training in the use of NLM's information products and services in order for users on the African continent to effectively benefit from them.  相似文献   

Deepening our understanding of academic inbreeding effects on research information exchange and scientific output: new insights for academic based research     

Hugo Horta 《Higher Education》2013,65(4):487-510

This paper analyzes the impact of academic inbreeding in relation to academic research, and proposes a new conceptual framework for its analysis. We find that mobility (or lack of) at the early research career stage is decisive in influencing academic behaviors and scientific productivity. Less mobile academics have more inward oriented information exchange dynamics and lower scientific productivity. The analysis also indicates that the information exchange and scientific productivity of academics that changed institutions only once do not differ substantially from that of “mobile inbred academics”. This emphasizes the need for mobility throughout scientific and academic careers and calls for policies to curtail academic inbreeding.  相似文献   

Doing phenomenology in science education: a research review     

Edvin Østergaard  Bo Dahlin  Aksel Hugo 《Studies in Science Education》2013,49(2):93-121

This article is a review of applications of phenomenology, as a philosophy of knowledge and qualitative research approach, to the field of science education (SE). The purpose is to give an overview of work that has been done as well as to assess it and discuss its possibilities of future development. We ask: what attempts for connecting phenomenology and SE do we find in the research literature, and what possible effects could such connections have for teaching and learning? In approaching this field we distinguish between three sources of phenomenological SE: (1) Goethe’s phenomenology of nature; (2) philosophical phenomenology; and (3) anthropological phenomenology. Existing research based on phenomenological approaches is categorised as phenomenology of SE, phenomenology in SE, and phenomenology and SE integrated. Research examples from each category are critically evaluated and discussed. Finally we discuss the question of the relevance of phenomenology to science teaching. Our review indicates that phenomenology has considerable potential as a method for investigating science learning as a holistic process. It also seems that phenomenology and SE meet most fruitfully when phenomenology is done in the classroom, that is, when it is turned into actual efforts for promoting learning.  相似文献   

The Development and Application of Distance Learning Courses on the Internet     

Hugo Fuks  Marco Aurélio Gerosa  Carlos José Pereira de Lucena 《Open Learning》2013,28(1):23-38

This paper presents the methodology, results and difficulties encountered in the development and delivery of a course through the Internet. The course, which is about the application of information technology to education, is being delivered using the AulaNet environment, which is groupware for the creation, participation and maintenance of Web-based courses. A model for group work is provided. This paper also shows how this kind of environment can be used to provide support, and to facilitate and manage cooperative learning.  相似文献   

History of the Film (General)     

Robert M. Honderson  Martin Levin  Kalton C. Lahue  Sam Gill  Sheilah Graham  Hugo Munsterberg 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(4):3-5

Robert M. Honderson's D. W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $7.50)

Martin Levin's edited collection, Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines (Arbor House/ World, $10.00)

Kalton C. Lahue and Sam Gill's Clown Princes and Court Jesters (A.S. Barnes, $8.50)

Collecting Classic Films (Hastings House, $6.95)

Sheilah Graham's The Garden of Allah (Crown, $5.95)

Hugo Munsterberg's The Film: A Psychological Study (sub-titled The Silent Photoplay in 1916) (Dover Paperbacks, $2.00)

Sergei Eisenstein's Notes of a Film Director (Dover Paperbacks, $3.00)

Jay Leyda's Film Essays and a Lecture (Praeger Paperbacks, $2.95)

George P. Garrett, O.B. Hardison Jr., and Jane R. Gelfman, Film Scripts One (Appleton-Century-Crofts, price to be set)

Peter Noble's The Negro in Films (Port Washington, NY: Konnihat Press, $10.00)

Eileen Bowser's edited collection, Film Notes (Museum of Modern Art, $5.00)  相似文献   

Displacement and Supplemental Effects of the Mobile Internet on Fixed Internet Use     

Guido Ongena  Harry Bouwman  Hugo Gillebaard 《媒体管理杂志》2013,15(4):279-299

Mobile devices facilitate the use of mobile services that are similar to services used via fixed Internet connections. The objective of this article is to assess displacement effects between fixed and mobile Internet services, and to research the role of technical capabilities of mobile handsets and demographics as moderators. This study is based on a sample of 628 respondents who have access to fixed and mobile Internet services. The respondents' usage of services was analyzed. An online questionnaire was used to collect data on the use of information, communication, entertainment, and transaction services. Mobile Internet reinforces, rather than replaces, Internet usage. When people possess an iPhone^® or (mobile) laptop, this reinforcement effect is present for entertainment services. With respect to transaction services, the Blackberry^® makes a stronger case. With the exception of gender, demographic characteristics do not have a moderating effect. Women display a stronger reinforcement effect than men in relation to transaction services. To the best of our knowledge, no study to date has investigated the displacement effects of fixed Internet services by the mobile handset. This empirical study contributes to the literature regarding the displacement effects of mobile Internet services.  相似文献   

Designing distance learning programmes for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students in large urban areas: An application of perceptual mapping and conjoint analysis methods     

James E. Bruno  Hugo A. Pedroza 《Distance Education》1994,15(2):196-216

Providing low cost, high quality educational services to growing numbers of multilingual communities is perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing large urban school districts. In the Los Angeles urban area, adult students who wish to attend English as a Second Language (ESL) classes are presently constrained by the limitations of school resources, public transportation and growing levels of crime and street violence. Urban distance learning programmes may provide the best alternative to meet the educational needs of Limited English Proficient (LEP) adult students because it can service large numbers of students who are separated from their schools by geographical distance, safety, convenience, transportation, etc. Using perceptual mapping and conjoint analysis methodologies, this study analytically identifies and examines the design features or attribute characteristics of an ESL urban distance learning programme for LEP adults. Using focus groups as the basis to identify these attributes, perceptual mapping methods point to a market niche in developing technology‐driven, low‐cost distance learning programmes for these students. A conjoint analysis survey finds that LEP students generally favour distance learning programmes where ‘cost’, ‘effectiveness’ and ‘assessment’ are the primary attribute components.  相似文献