Establishing a Competence Profile for the Role of Student-centred Teachers in Higher Education in Belgium   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Annelies Gilis  Mieke Clement  Lies Laga  Paul Pauwels 《Research in higher education》2008,49(6):531-554

The increasing importance of constructivism in higher education has brought about a shift in pedagogy from a focus on the teacher to a focus on the student. This has important implications for teaching and assessment. A student-centred pedagogy implies a different role for the teacher. What exactly does student-centred teaching require from teachers’ actual teaching practice? What is expected from them in order to teach in a student-centred way? It is in order to respond to these questions that this research project has been carried out establishing a core competence profile of student-centred teachers in higher education. Qualitative data were collected by means of semi-structured in-depth interviews with teachers from different institutions for higher education in Belgium, known for their student-centred way of teaching. This research method is innovative compared to the methods used for existing competence lists in the literature, which were usually developed on the basis of conversations with pedagogical experts. By exploring practice and having teachers participate in the development of a competence list, the acceptance of a competence profile is much higher. The result of the project is a validated competence profile which takes into account the critiques on existing competence lists. The competence profile provides a further insight in the functioning of teachers within a student-centred pedagogy and can be used as a starting point for the educational development of teachers within this pedagogy.  相似文献   

Gender Disparity in STEM Disciplines: A Study of Faculty Attrition and Turnover Intentions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Yonghong Jade Xu 《Research in higher education》2008,49(7):607-624

This study examines the underrepresentation of women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by comparing the intentions of attrition and turnover between genders in Research and Doctoral universities. It is found that the two genders did not differ in their intentions to depart from academia, but women faculty had a significantly higher likelihood to change positions within academia. The indications are that women and men are equally committed to their academic careers in STEM; nonetheless, women’s stronger turnover intentions are highly correlated with dissatisfaction with research support, advancement opportunities, and free expression of ideas. The findings suggest that the underrepresentation of women is more convincingly explained by an academic culture that provides women fewer opportunities, limited support, and inequity in leadership, rather than by gender-based differences such as roles in family responsibilities. Changes in academic STEM culture are needed in order to attract more women scientists and narrow the current gender gap.  相似文献   

Rights-Based Education for South Asian Sponsored Wives in International Arranged Marriages     

Noorfarah Merali 《Interchange》2008,39(2):205-220

The Family Class Category of Canada’s Immigration Policy exists with the key objective of family unification. Among Canada’s second largest immigrant group, the South Asians, the cultural practice of arranged marriage is applied across international borders, leading to spousal sponsorship. Existing research on South Asian sponsored wives suggests that they tend to misunderstand their rights as sponsored persons, as well as the rights and limitations of their sponsors. Misunderstandings may lead women to passively respond to sponsor-imposed barriers to integration. This paper builds a case for educating South Asian women about their sponsorship rights to assist them in recognizing and responding to rights violations. The paper presents an educational framework that would respond to their unique needs and vulnerabilities.  相似文献   

Narrative,Ethics, Science,Mathematics, and Diversity     

Ian Winchester 《Interchange》2008,39(4):389-390

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Introduction: Educating for Human Rights and Social Justice     

Ali A. Abdi  Lee Ellis 《Interchange》2008,39(2):147-149

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From Music to Physics: The Undervalued Legacy of Pythagoras     

Imelda Caleon  Subramaniam Ramanathan 《Science & Education》2008,17(4):449-456

This paper presents the early investigations about the nature of sound of the Pythagoreans, and how they started a tradition that remains valid up to present times—the use of numbers in representing natural reality. It will touch on the Pythagorean notion of musical harmony, which was extended to the notion of universal harmony. How the Pythagorean ideas have inspired many great works in physics, such as those of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, will also be presented. In exploring the legacy of Pythagoras to physics and the study of the universe, some valuable insights on the nature of science that can inspire budding physicists are extracted.  相似文献   

First-Year College Students’ Conflict with Religion and Science   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Lisa Michelle Martin-Hansen 《Science & Education》2008,17(4):317-357

This study took place during a First Year Seminar course where 20 incoming college freshmen studied the central topic of the nature of science within the context of biological evolution. The instructor researched students’ understandings in the nature of science as they progressed through the course by examining a variety of qualitative and quantitative data including class writings, pre- and post-test selected items from the VOSTS (Views on Science-Technology-Society), and interviews. The intended outcomes of the course were to reduce the number of student misconceptions in the nature of science and to ease student apprehension when learning about evolution. Data were analyzed to determine whether students were moving toward a more generally accepted idea of the nature of science or toward another type of misconception.  相似文献   

No Service to Learning: “Service-Learning” Reappraised     

John B. Egger 《Academic Questions》2008,21(2):183-194

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The New Frontier: Envisioning an America beyond Racial Preferences and Color-Coded Public Policy     

Joe R. Hicks 《Academic Questions》2008,21(3):324-331

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Multicultural Visions of Globalization: Constructing Educational Perspectives From the East and the West     

Stephen R. White 《Interchange》2008,39(1):95-117

The thesis of this essay is that globalization is a phenomenon that humankind must be educated for understanding as a process of global evolution. The new world evolving is being defined as requiring a new sense of collective cooperation amongst the peoples of the Earth, if we are to continue to exist on the planet. Educators are in the midst of and have an important role to play in this social and conscious evolution. One of our challenges is to explore the theoretical foundations for framing a new global education agenda. The assertion is that the theories of global, social, and conscious evolution of 20^th century intellectuals and visionaries such as India’s Sri Ghose Aurobindo (1872-1950) and France’s Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) provide the foundation from which to construct a new global educational perspective.  相似文献