Gender and access in the African school     

Milton N. Adams  Susan E. Kruppenbach 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1987,33(4):437-453

The educational system in major parts of Africa, where post-primary enrolment rates are the lowest in the world, is treated in this article. In particular, female access patterns to formal education in Botswana, Liberia, Niger and Somalia are compared. One primary conclusion reached by the authors is that enrolment levels are linked with general economic development. Factors leading to the comparatively high rate of females having gained access to a primary level of education on the one hand, and a very low rate of post-primary enrolment on the other, are discussed and the following issues are touched on: the marginal link between school expansion policies and actual female enrolment, and their predominance in the urban sector.

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Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel wird das Erziehungssystem in großen Teilen Afrikas besprochen, wo die postprimare Einschulungsraten die niedrigsten der Welt sind. Insbesondere wird der Anteil von Mädchen und Frauen in formalen Bildungsstätten in Botswana, Liberia, Niger und Somalia verglichen. Die Zwischenbilanz der Verfasser zeigt, daß die Einschulungsraten an die allgemeine wirtschaftliche Entwicklung gekoppelt sind. Die Faktoren, die zu einer vergleichsweise hohen Anzahl von Mädchen und Frauen auf der Primarstufe der Bildungsstätte auf der einen Seite und einem sehr niedrigen Anteil im postprimaren Bereich auf der anderen Seite führen, werden diskutiert. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die folgenden Fragen gestreift: Die marginale Verbindung von der Expansionspolitik der Schulen und dem derzeitigen Anteil von Mädchen und Frauen in Bildungsstätten sowie deren Überwiegen im urbanen Bereich.

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Résumé Dans le cadre d'une analyse empirique des structures d'accès des femmes à l'éducation formelle en Afrique, on compare les développements et les tendances dans différents pays tels le Botswana, le Liberia, le Niger et la Somalie. Les auteurs soulignent, en guise de conclusion essentielle, que les effectifs sont liés au développement économique général. L'accès des femmes à l'éducation dépend également de l'expansion du système d'éducation dans son ensemble. On analyse les facteurs permettant un taux relativement élevé de femmes ayant eu accès à l'enseignement primaire d'une part, et le taux très bas des effectifs post-primaires d'autre part. Les problèmes suivants sont soulevés: le lien marginal entre les politiques d'expansion scolaire et les effectifs actuels des femmes, et leur prédominance dans le secteur urbain.

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Teachers as metacognitive role models     

Kate Wall  Elaine Hall 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2016,39(4):403-418

This paper draws on data collected during a longitudinal collaborative project with teachers in England from schools and further education colleges. The project investigated ‘Learning to Learn’ in partnership with teacher–researchers with a focus on how metacognitive awareness can be improved by enquiring into creative combinations of pedagogy, environment and learners’ dispositions. The paper is an attempt to make clear the theoretical underpinnings of our belief that the project teachers were enacting something different, something metacognitive. We present a pragmatic model of metacognition development based on ideas collaboratively produced across the project. The five cycles of development are exemplified from the pedagogic and the professional learning perspective with quotes, vignettes and case study excerpts. We show a catalytic relationship between the pedagogies used by the teachers to develop their students’ metacognition and the teachers’ own learning and metacognitive knowledge and skilfulness.  相似文献   

Quality and Equity in Australian Universities: Contradictions and Challenges     

Janice Reid  Jane Barker  Kate Murphy 《高等教育研究与发展》1995,14(2):233-243

There is no apparent relationshipd bettwen the outcome of 1993 CQAHE quality ratings and universities’ standing on several measures of equity performance. Further, there is no relationship between the overall quality ratings and the content of universities’ submissions referring to equity issues.  相似文献   

Formatively assessing prospective teachers’ skills in leading mathematics discussions     

Shaughnessy  Meghan  Garcia  Nicole M.  O’Neill  Michaela Krug  Selling  Sarah Kate  Willis  Amber T.  Wilkes  Charles E.  Salazar  Sabrina Bobsin  Ball  Deborah Loewenberg 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2021,108(3):451-472

Educational Studies in Mathematics - Mathematics discussions are important for helping students to develop conceptual understanding and to learn disciplinary norms and practices. In recent years,...  相似文献   

The Embase UK filter: validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Embase     

Lynda Ayiku  Paul Levay  Thomas Hudson  Jenny Craven  Amy Finnegan  Rachel Adams  Elizabeth Barrett 《Health information and libraries journal》2019,36(2):121-133

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Psyche and Society in Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen     

Rebecca V. L. Adams  Eric S. Rabkin 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(4):233-241

While Where the Wild Things Are may be Maurice Sendak’s most popular book, In the Night Kitchen is arguably the greater work. Though his journey in Wild Things shares many of the elements of Mickey’s adventure in Night Kitchen—swinging between the protagonist’s initiatory verbal assertions and silent, completely pictorial spreads that indicate his eventual dominance over his environment—Max’s story is ultimately only a narrative of the self. Where the Wild Things Are is a beautiful exploration of how Max (the maximum boy) is able to use an imaginative journey to create an individual personality that fills the world around him. But Mickey must confront something more than merely a projection of his own desires. Mickey, unlike Max, is diminutive in his fantasy world, and his adventure is a true dream shaped willy-nilly by his lived experience, not a daydream tailored to defend the ego. The story told as Mickey learns to navigate the Night Kitchen is essentially a social narrative—more realistic, more challenging, and with greater overall dividends than Max’s adventure. We can see this in the ways In the Night Kitchen combines four sorts of ingredients—Sendak’s own life, the psychology of dreaming, popular culture, and the immigrant experience—into a subtle, captivating tale of the self and society.

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The murder of children by fathers in the context of child abuse   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Cavanagh K  Dobash RE  Dobash RP 《Child abuse & neglect》2007,31(7):731-746

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the backgrounds of fathers who fatally abuse their children and the contexts within which these homicides occur. The type of relationship between victim, perpetrator, and the victim's mother was a particular interest. METHODS: Data were gathered from 26 cases of fatal child abuse perpetrated by fathers derived from the wider Murder in Britain study. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from extensive prison case files of men serving life sentences for child murder. RESULTS: This was a group of undereducated, underemployed men with significant criminal histories. All except one victim had been subjected to previous violence by the offender, almost three-quarter of whom had also perpetrated violence against their intimate partners (the child's birth mother). Many men had unreasonable expectations and low tolerance levels of normal childhood behaviors, and many appeared jealous and resentful of these young children. All 26 victims were under 4 years of age. Sixty-two percent of the offenders were stepfathers and in only four cases was the perpetrator a birth father married to the birth mother. Stepfathers had more disrupted and disadvantaged backgrounds and experiences than birth fathers. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that fathers who perpetrate fatal child abuse have a propensity to use violence against children in their care and intimate partners, raising questions about the gender dynamics and generational boundaries operating in these families. The nature and type of intimate relationship (whether married or cohabiting) and fathering relationship (whether birth or de facto) were important differentiating factors in these homicides as well as characteristics of the offender. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Professionals working in child protection strive to provide effective services to children and families, ever vigilant to the possibility of the death of a child as a consequence of an assault. By and large, fathers (either biological or de facto) as the perpetrators of such assaults have received minimal attention in both policy and practice. Findings from this study suggest that practitioners need to be cognizant of men's attitudes towards and expectations of fathering (particularly stepfathering) which may present increased levels of risk to both children and intimate partners.  相似文献   

RLG and PCC: An Interview with Karen Smith-Yoshimura*     

Karen Smith-Yoshimura  Kate Harcourt 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2020,58(3-4):217-220

Abstract

It is important to remember that there were two bibliographic networks, OCLC and the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), which together with the Library of Congress enabled the sharing of bibliographic and authority records amongst PCC members. Karen Smith-Yoshimura was active in the early years of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) representing RLIN. In this interview with Smith-Yoshimura in the summer of 2019, Joan Schuitema poses five questions which provide an opportunity for Smith-Yoshimura to share her memories about her participation in PCC prior to RLG’s merger with OCLC.  相似文献   

Nesta Pain     

Kate Terkanian  Hugh Chignell 《Media History》2020,26(1):20-33

The ‘cultural translator’ is an individual who expresses the essence of entanglement in their career choices, moving between genres, media, or nations. This article suggests that the BBC producer and writer, Nesta Pain, was such an individual. Over the course of her career, Pain not only wrote and produced radio features and radio dramas but was also a successful journalist and author. She translated her experience in radio production onto the stage and on television by exploiting the different possibilities offered by these visual media—all evidence of her transmedial cultural translation. Further adding to the transgressive nature of her career, was her place as a woman in male-dominated radio production arenas.  相似文献   

Fostering Peer Dialogic Engagement in Science Classrooms with an Educational Videogame     

Zuiker  Steven J.  Anderson  Kate T. 《Research in Science Education》2019,51(2):865-889

This study examines the design and enactment of a secondary physics unit on electromagnetism. The unit used an educational videogame to support peer dialogic engagement in a Singapore secondary school by engaging learners with qualitative physics phenomena. As an example of game-based learning, the unit includes activities and resources that organize a recurring progression of playing and interacting around science that we term play-centered cycles. We incorporate two complementary, qualitative analyses to consider how a recurring progression of playing with and talking about science-mediated peer dialogic engagement across two separate classes. Findings demonstrate that peer dialogic engagement occurred within each play-centered cycle for both classes but that the nature of such engagement varied across cycles and student teams. Additionally, comparative case analyses of focal teams’ peer dialogic engagement illuminate how the design of play-centered cycles productively supported play and learning while also highlighting emerging tensions for sustaining dialogic engagement. Findings underscore the plausibility of this approach to fostering science learning by articulating two principles for designing science learning environments that can guide ongoing efforts to enlist videogames and play in the service of talking about and learning science.

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