An ESD pathway to quality education in the Cyprus primary education context     

Chrysanthi Kadji-Beltran  Nicoletta Christodoulou  Aravella Zachariou  Petra Lindemann-Matthies  Susan Barker  Costas Kadis 《Environmental Education Research》2017,23(7):1015-1031

This research is based on the rationale that the well-defined framework of education for sustainable development (ESD), its connection with real life and its specific integration in the educational policies and curricula can help to enhance quality education (QE) in a meaningful and identifiable way. In a first step, the common ground of ESD and QE was explored in different areas: common dimensions, future-oriented objectives, commonly targeted skills, value orientation, teaching and learning approaches. In a second step, this information was taken as a base to investigate how well twelve lesson units for primary school reflect the common ground of ESD and QE. The units were specifically developed for this research, in which ESD experienced teachers (mentors) supported inexperienced ones (mentees). Results indicate that ESD can reinforce QE, but that teachers need support with regard to the political and cultural dimensions of SD issues, collaborations with local communities and assessments.  相似文献   

Re/Production of science process skills and a scientific ethos in an early childhood classroom     

Susan A. Kirch 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(4):785-845

Many educators and researchers are convinced that age limits what students can learn and achieve in science. Elementary school curricula focus on isolated process skills under the faulty assumption that young students are not capable of combining the process skills and content knowledge necessary for reasoning scientifically. In the present study, I demonstrate that many process skills are produced in conversations between second grade students and between these students and their teachers, including: questioning, hypothesis formation, experimental design, identifying relevant evidence, critical analysis of hypotheses and predictions, hypothesis reconstruction, and variable identification. Through conversation analysis I show that most classroom community members adopted the role of skeptic at some time, but there was a strong tendency to defer to authoritative sources when resolving debates. This latter observation led to further investigation of when and how authoritative sources were consulted and used, and when and how a skeptical stance was taken. I show that, as students used science process skills and interacted with each other and teacher-mediators, community practices, values, and mores were shaped and an ethos of science began to emerge. It is my contention that this ethos often emerges unconsciously as part of the community’s dynamic set of rules and schema. Teachers who are attuned to the tension between open-mindedness and skepticism, and how they and their students cope with this dialectic, however, can actively shape the scientific ethos of their classroom community.  相似文献   

An investigation into excellent tertiary teaching: Emphasising reflective practice     

Ruth Kane  Susan Sandretto  Chris Heath 《Higher Education》2004,47(3):283-310

This study is an attempt to understand betterthe complex nature of tertiary teaching byidentifying and investigating the attributes ofa group of excellent teachers in sciencedepartments of the University. In working withthis group of teachers we examined what theysay about their teaching and what theydo in their teaching practice. Ourfindings, as well as confirming much of theexisting literature at primary, secondary andtertiary levels, emphasise the strong linkbetween the teaching practice and researchcommitment of our excellent science teachers;as well as the key roles played byinterpersonal relationships and the `person' ofthe teacher. We propose that purposefulreflective practice integrates the manydimensions of teaching for this group ofexcellent science teachers. We present atheoretical model that can be used to assistnovice or less experienced university academicsin their development and understanding ofteaching excellence at the tertiary level.  相似文献   

Learning set-ups     

Susan McClanahan 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1974,1(4):28-34

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Global gender discourses in education: evidence from post-genocide Rwanda     

Susan Garnett Russell 《比较教育学》2016,52(4):492-515

This paper investigates global gender policy discourses within the education realm in post-genocide Rwanda. Drawing on interview data from students in seven secondary schools and Unterhalter’s gender framework (Unterhalter, Elaine. 2007. Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice. New York, NY: Routledge), I analyse the extent global discourses are integrated into national education documents and how students understand global discourses around ‘gender equality’. I find that in national education policies and texts, discourses around gender equality are framed as a means to development, as a human right, and in relation to the past conflict rather than for the transformation of patriarchal structures. Similarly, students draw on themes from global policy discourse around development and rights but at the same time ‘re-gender’ this for a local context, propagating a public/private divide and cultural and biological stereotypes. Consequently, gendered hierarchies and biases persist in student attitudes. Findings carry important implications for the limitations of global gender policy discourses and the challenges of changing gender norms in a post-conflict context.  相似文献   

The Activist Professional and the Reinstatement of Trust   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Susan Groundwater-Smith  Judyth Sachs 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2002,32(3):341-358

Public sector reform in the field of education has been ongoing and relentless. Whether in the UK, Europe, the USA or Australasia, there has been an expectation that the education 'industry' can be managed in the same way as any other commercial enterprise with an emphasis upon forms of accountability which require less and less professional judgment on the part of practitioners. In this article we examine the growth of the 'audit society' and its consequences for professional practice in education. We indicate that there are two responses to bureaucratic surveillance: to act as an entrepreneurial professional or as an activist professional. We argue that the latter is achievable when trust is reinstated through the community of professional practice itself. We illustrate our case using issues surrounding the establishment of professional standards for teachers and we develop strategies for activist professionalism in education.  相似文献   

Measurement Model for Linking Individual Learning to Processes and Knowledge: Application to Mathematical Reasoning     

Susan E. Embretson 《Journal of Educational Measurement》1995,32(3):277-294

Contemporary instructional theories increasingly emphasize the importance of linking an individual's learning to changes in cognitive processes and knowledge structures. In this article, an extension of the multidimensional Rasch model for learning and change (MRMLC) is presented so as to permit theories of processes and knowledge structures to be incorporated into the item response model. Like the MRMLC, this extension (MRMLC+) resolves some basic problems in measuring individual change and permits adaptive testing so that precise estimates of learning may be obtained. Additionally, MRMLC+ permits individual learning to be linked to substantive changes in processing and knowledge. An application to a study on the impact of short-term instruction on mathematical problem solving shows the potential of MRMLC + for interpretations. In this study, a theoretically plausible model of knowledge structures (Mayer, Larkin, & Kadane, 1984) provides the basis of individual learning interpretations.  相似文献   

Knowledge management: An imperative for schools of education   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Susan A. Santo Ph.D. 《TechTrends》2005,49(6):42-49

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The failure of a successful intervention: a case study     

Susan Walters  Katie Brown  Alfred Hirshoren 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1978,25(1):26-35

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Culturally Responsive Literacy Practices in an Early Childhood Community     

Susan V. Bennett  AnnMarie Alberton Gunn  Guda Gayle-Evans  Estanislado S. BarreraIV  Cynthia B. Leung 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2018,46(2):241-248

Early childhood educators continue to see an increase in their culturally diverse student population. As our country continues to grow as a multicultural nation, it is imperative that our early childhood classrooms embrace this rich diversity and provide experiences that affirm all students, families and communities. We (teacher educators) synthesized the current research into the following five frameworks that we believe embody the foundation of culturally responsive teaching (CRT) in an early childhood setting: (a) developing a culturally responsive classroom community, (b) family engagement, (c) critical literacy within a social justice framework, (d) multicultural literature, and (e) culturally responsive print rich environments. In this article we situate each framework within the larger context of research. Next we move beyond discussing CRT practices by offering ideas on how culturally responsive classrooms look and how to implement this pedagogy and in an early childhood setting with real classroom practices.  相似文献