Team cohesion and ethnic–cultural identity in adolescent migrant athletes     

Eleftheria Morela  Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis  Olga Kouli  Anne-Marie Elbe  Xavier Sanchez 《Int J Intercult Relat》2013

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of sport participation in the social integration of adolescents with non-dominant ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In particular, this study investigated the relationship between team cohesion and ethnic–cultural identity. Participants were 83 young migrant athletes (mean age 15.60 years). Participants completed the Ethnic/Cultural Identity Salience Questionnaire and the Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire. Regression analyses showed that cohesion negatively predicted feelings of fringe and lack of interaction. Our findings suggest that sport participation, particularly in cohesive teams, can facilitate the development of adaptive identity toward the goal of social integration in migrant adolescents.  相似文献   

Pedagogical Content Knowledge Development and Pre-Service Physics Teacher Education: A Case Study     

R. M. Sperandeo-Mineo  C. Fazio  G. Tarantino 《Research in Science Education》2006,36(3):235-268

This paper addresses the question of how to develop prospective teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in science teacher education. The main focus is on the knowledge transformation process and on the cognitive strategies used to shift prospective teachers' explanations within the domain of modelling thermal physical phenomena. This study investigates the development of PCK within a group of 28 pre-service physics teachers during the first semester of their two-year post-graduate teacher education program. It focuses on the central issue of the relationships between observable phenomena, like macroscopic thermal properties of matter and their interpretation and/or explanation in terms of corpuscular characteristics and/or thermodynamics theory. The strategy is based on the consideration that knowledge transformation is not a one-way process from subject matter knowledge to pedagogical content knowledge, as literature suggests, but a bidirectional process involving deepening of subject matter knowledge and increasing awareness of pedagogical issues.  相似文献   

Indigenous languages and intercultural bilingual education in Bolivia     

Xavier Albó  Lucía d'Emilio 《Prospects》1990,20(3):321-329

Cofounder of the Centre for Research into and Promotion of the Peasantry (CIPCA). Author of, among other works, Los mil rostros del quechuaand Lengua y sociedad boliviana,and editor of Raíces de América: el mundo Aymara and Para comprender las culturas rurales en Bolivia.  相似文献   

Effects of intensive use of computers in secondary school on gender differences in attitudes towards ICT: A systematic review     

Roser Cussó-Calabuig  Xavier Carrera Farran  Xavier Bosch-Capblanch 《Education and Information Technologies》2018,23(5):2111-2139

There is a wealth of interventions focusing on the intensive use of computers in secondary schools, largely aiming at improving students’ performance. However, global evidence on the effects of the use of computers on attitudinal outcomes has not been synthesised so far. Taking into account that the differences in the attitudes of boys and girls regarding the use of computers are one of the factors described as causes of the low number of girls following ICT studies, the aim of this article is to review the evidence on the effects of intensive use of computers in schools on gender differences in attitudes outcomes: anxiety, enjoyment, self-confidence and self-efficacy. Searches generated a total of 740 citations of which 59 were identified as relevant and nine were finally included. The methodological quality of included studies was poor to moderate. The results suggest that despite the intensive use of computers, boys are favoured in computer anxiety, self-confidence and self-efficacy; and suggest no differences in computer enjoyment. There is no evidence that intensive use of computers reduce gender differences in these outcomes. Further policy recommendations should be rooted on robust evaluations, which take into account implementations parameters, as well.  相似文献   

Children,stress, and context: integrating basic,clinical, and experimental prevention research     

Brotman LM  Gouley KK  Klein RG  Castellanos FX  Pine DS 《Child development》2003,74(4):1053-1057

Findings from the Watamura, Donzella, Alwin, and Gunnar (this issue) study support the growing recognition of the importance of context on physiology and affective and behavioral regulation early in human development. This discussion focuses on the role of context and development on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis regulation in young children. Discussed in this article are the Watamura et al. findings with regard to relevant animal studies, extension of these observations to samples of children at elevated risk for psychopathology, and experimental prevention studies with young children. It is contended that environmental factors operating at key points in development may shape affective and behavioral regulation as well as HPA axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA axis regulation in animals.  相似文献   

Professional learning in higher education and communities: towards a new vision for action research     

Teresa De Fazio 《高等教育研究与发展》2016,35(6):1316-1318

  相似文献   

How do teachers coordinate their work? A framing approach     

Xavier Dumay 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(1):88-109

Since the 1970s, schools have been characterized as loosely coupled systems, meaning that the teachers’ work is weakly coordinated at the local level. Nonetheless, few studies have focused on the local variations of coordination modes, their sources and their nature. In this article, the process of local coordination of the teachers’ work is analyzed, using a sociocognitive approach. A longitudinal study of the framing process conducted during two years in one school is presented, in order to capture the parallel evolution of the teachers’ cognitive structures and the school’s social structures. The results show that: (1) the framing process is at the heart of political games, meaning that the local definition of teaching and its conditions represent an important issue for the teachers; and that (2) the cognitive structures that emerge from the framing process appear to some extent to be decoupled from the teachers’ actual practices, contributing only partially to the local process of the teachers’ work coordination.  相似文献   

Preservice Science Teachers' Perceptions of Their Practicum Classrooms     

Xavier Fazio  Louis Volante 《The Teacher Educator》2013,48(2):126-144

Practicum experiences in schools are highly valued in science teacher education programs. Yet, there are few studies examining secondary preservice science teachers' practicum classrooms. This mixed-methods study explored secondary preservice science teachers' perceptions of their practicum classroom learning environments, interpreted from an open-ended survey questionnaire, as well as from an adapted version of the Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES; Taylor, Fraser, & Fisher, 1997). Twenty-two preservice teachers within secondary science methods courses volunteered to complete the survey. Qualitative survey findings were corroborated by quantitative results from the CLES survey. Overall, the preservice teachers perceived their practicum classrooms to incorporate some constructivist learning environment factors, but the critical constructivist perspective underpinning the survey was not found. Additionally, innovative practices cogent with these practices were not supported by most of their co-operating teachers. Implications of how preservice education programs can better support prospective science teachers' views and practices during practicum are discussed.  相似文献   

Children's creative potential: An empirical study of measurement issues     

Todd Lubart  Chantal Pacteau  Anne-Yvonne Jacquet  Xavier Caroff 《Learning and individual differences》2010,20(4):388-392

Relations between measures of creative potential and different scoring methods were examined in 154 French schoolchildren. The Test for Creative Thinking — Drawing Production (TCT-DP), parallel lines task from the Torrance Test for Creative Thinking, and an object-based creative drawing task were used. Factor analysis of TCT-DP subscores showed an originality factor and an appropriateness factor. The relations between these factors, judge's creativity ratings of the same drawings, and statistical originality scores based on the frequency of elements in the drawings were tested by means of a LISREL model. Moreover, TCT-DP scores correlated positively but weakly with performance in the parallel lines task and the object-based drawing task.  相似文献   

Modelling Mechanical Wave Propagation: Guidelines and experimentation of a teaching–learning sequence     

Claudio Fazio  Ivan Guastella  Giovanni Tarantino 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(11):1491-1530

  相似文献