‘Certified to make a difference’: the motivation and perceptions of newly qualified early years teachers in England     

Amanda Henshall  Louise Atkins  Rebecca Bolan  Heather Munn 《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2018,70(3):417-434

The last 20 years have brought numerous workforce reforms to the early years sector, enacted in the name of professionalisation, including the recent introduction of a new postgraduate qualification, the Early Years Teacher Status. This article features data from interviews with 22 participants who had just completed this award and situates their views in the relevant policy context and alongside a discussion of what it means to professionalise the early years sector and create a graduate led workforce. The data support findings from similar studies of Early Years Professionals, namely that the interviewees are passionate about working with young children. They view the sector as in need of change, and themselves as potential leaders and agents of change. The participants endorse the view that up-skilling the workforce is essential to the professionalisation of the sector and improving the quality of early years education.  相似文献   

Reflections on the value of autistic participation in a tri‐national teacher‐training project through discourses of acceptance,othering and power          下载免费PDF全文

Rebecca Wood  Damian Milton 《British Journal of Special Education》2018,45(2):157-171

The Transform Autism Education (TAE) project is a tri‐national teacher training scheme involving Greece, Italy and the UK, whose purpose is to set up training projects to facilitate the educational inclusion of autistic children. Running over three years from 2014 to 2017, the involvement of autistic participants has been the source of some discussion. Here, TAE team members Wood and Milton reflect on narratives of participation, acceptance and struggle which emerged during a workshop they ran in Greece. Derived from 11 non‐autistic and two autistic participants, and analysed via discourse analysis, these stories suggest a high value placed on autistic participation by non‐autistic TAE team members, but an unwitting tendency to ‘other’ autistic people and a lack of awareness of the power differential. Meanwhile, as the autistic team members describe how educational and social participation can be achieved, the implications for autism education researchers and practitioners are discussed.  相似文献   

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and practice: Balancing expectations of the ‘old’ academy with the future model of universities as ‘problem solvers’     

Dena Fam  Elizabeth Clarke  Rebecca Freeth  Pim Derwort  Kathleen Klaniecki  Lydia Kater‐Wettstdt  Sadhbh Juarez‐Bourke  Stefan Hilser  Daniela Peukert  Esther Meyer  Andra‐Ioana Horcea‐Milcu 《Higher Education Quarterly》2020,74(1):19-34

Academics are increasingly required to balance the expectations of the ‘old’ academy with a future model of universities as interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ‘problem solvers’. This paper highlights changing expectations of academics in producing alternative research outcomes in collaborative, practice‐based research. Through a series of workshops with 20 researchers, preferred research outcomes and tensions in achieving these outcomes were identified. The tensions identified are presented as three dichotomies comprising the tension between: (a) ‘I versus We’ ‐ individual versus team expectations & outcomes. (b) Disciplinary outcomes versus inter‐/transdisciplinary outcomes. (c) Learning versus research objectives for the students and academics involved. These tensions reflect the authors' experiences of working in three international sustainability projects, drawing on lessons learned from these projects, with recommendations for universities seeking to implement interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary doctoral and postdoctoral programmes. Recommendations include the need for formal and informal leadership models, strong communication skills, empathy and willingness to learn from each other. A need for more systemic changes within university administration to better reward and value the breadth and depth of collaborative work, while facilitating open learning cultures and practice‐oriented learning opportunities and curricula across faculties was also identified.  相似文献   

Validation of the Early Childhood Teacher Experiences Scale in Head Start     

Roxanne C. Lawrence  Rebecca J. Bulotsky-Shearer  Krystal Bichay-Awadalla  Jenna N. Futterer  Jhonelle Bailey 《Psychology in the schools》2020,57(7):1132-1154

To address gaps in the availability of validated measures that assess early childhood teachers' workplace experiences, the current study examined the validity of the Early Childhood Teacher Experiences Scale (ECTES) for use in a diverse Head Start program. Mean differences in the ECTES dimensions of self-efficacy, job stress, and school support were examined across teachers' demographic characteristics and observed teacher–child interaction quality. Multilevel models examined associations between ECTES dimension scores and children's social-emotional and academic skills (N = 161 preschool teachers and N = 3,152 children). Findings support the reliability and validity of the three-factor structure of the ECTES in the diverse Head Start teacher sample. Higher teacher-reported self-efficacy and school support were associated with higher observed classroom emotional support, instructional support, and classroom organization. Higher teacher-reported self-efficacy was associated with fewer years of teaching experience. With respect to child outcomes, higher teacher self-efficacy and school support were associated with lower behavior problems and higher social-emotional skills but were not associated with academic skills. Implications of the findings, limitations, and future directions are discussed.  相似文献   

Musings on Two Worlds: Local Self-Determination in the Shadow of NeoLiberal “Opportunities” in Jamaica and Detroit     

Rebecca A. Martusewicz 《Educational Studies A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association》2013,49(5):415-418

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A Framework for Naming the Scope and Nature of Teacher Candidate Supervision in Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation: Tasks,High-Leverage Practices,and Pedagogical Routines of Practice     

Rebecca West Burns  Jennifer Jacobs  Diane Yendol-Hoppey 《The Teacher Educator》2020,55(2):214-238

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This study introduces the scope and nature of teacher candidate (TC) supervision in an era of clinically-based teacher preparation. The findings emerged from a qualitative meta-analysis of 82 articles related to TC supervision published between 2001 and 2017. The study recognizes core supervision concepts drawn from decades of empirical literature yet moves the field substantially forward by identifying a framework that includes: (1) tasks, (2) high-leverage practices, and (3) pedagogical routines of supervisory practice. This framework defines a new understanding of how supervisors support TC learning throughout their clinical experiences. By naming the scope and nature of TC supervision, the framework of tasks, high-leverage practices, and pedagogical routines of supervisory practice can help supervisors become more conscious and more skilled about their practice to develop their professional vision of supervision. The framework can also guide the evaluation and re-design of TC supervision within clinically based teacher preparation.  相似文献   

Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services: Introduction     

Rebecca L. Mugridge 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2017,55(7-8):435-437

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Emilia Currás, Ontologies, Taxonomies and Thesauri in Systems Science and Systematics , Chandos Publishing, Oxford (2010) 133 p. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-84334-6128.     

Rebecca L. Mugridge   《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2011,37(3):282-283

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G.G. Chowdhury, Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval (3rd ed.), Facet Publishing, London (2010)508 pp. £44.95 soft cover ISBN 9781856046947.     

Rebecca L. Mugridge 《Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services》2011,35(4):136-137

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The Nature of the Arguments for Creationism,Intelligent Design,and Evolution     

Ralph M. Barnes  Rebecca A. Church  Samuel Draznin-Nagy 《Science & Education》2017,26(1-2):27-47

Seventy-two Internet documents promoting creationism, intelligent design (I.D.), or evolution were selected for analysis. The primary goal of each of the 72 documents was to present arguments for creationism, I.D., or evolution. We first identified all arguments in these documents. Each argument was then coded in terms of both argument type (appeal to authority, appeal to empirical evidence, appeal to reason, etc.) and argument topic (age of earth, mechanism of descent with modification, etc.). We then provided a quantitative summary of each argument type and topic for each of the three positions. Three clear patterns were revealed by the data. First, websites promoting evolution were characterized by a narrow focus on appeals to empirical evidence, whereas websites promoting creationism and I.D. were quite heterogeneous in regards to argument type. Second, websites promoting evolution relied primarily on a small number of empirical examples (e.g., fossils, biogeography, homology, etc.), while websites promoting creationism and I.D. used a far greater range of arguments. Finally, websites promoting evolution were narrowly focused on the topic of descent with modification. In contrast, websites promoting creationism tackled a broad range of topics, while websites promoting I.D. were narrowly focused on the issue of the existence of God. The current study provides a quantitative summary of a systematic content analysis of argument type and topic across a large number of frequently accessed websites dealing with origins. The analysis we have used may prove fruitful in identifying and understanding argumentation trends in scientific writing and pseudo-scientific writing.  相似文献