This paper seeks to elucidate a specific type of charter school. While much has been written about school choice and the expanding charter school segment, a growing and important number of charter schools do not fit in to the common understanding of these schools. Distinct from many of their counterparts, prestige charter schools have the following two features: elements which foster a reputation similar to that of elite private schools and a student population demographically distinct from local public district schools – whereby the prestige charters serve a disproportionate number of advantaged families. The prestige elements include: founding by advantaged community members; parental involvement; wait lists; popularity with advantaged professionals; high test scores; and niche themes. The authors will show through two in-depth case studies that prestige charter schools work hand-in-hand with gentrification in urban neighborhoods, and result in racial and class segregation and inequality. This paper examines how these charter schools struggle when a rise in prestige coincides with a decline in access for low-income students. The authors recommend that given the current system of school choice, prestige charter schools must use tools and mechanisms to maintain demographic diversity and educational equity which is in the best interest of all children. 相似文献
Purpose: Understand the emergence of new potential career trajectories in the liberalised Irish dairy farming sector through analysis of the narratives of students of a Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management
Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights that entry to a working life in agriculture has been characterised by protracted farm succession processes; a strong association between being a farmer and owning land in the family name; lingering male identities esteeming manual labour; and a pragmatic need at farm level for manual work. The abolition of milk quota in 2015 was predicted to catalyse expansion of production on dairy farms with an increase in milk production; accompanied by a demand for qualified personnel. The BNIM method was employed.
Findings: Results confirm that agricultural education is perceived and experienced as offering new pathways for young farmers to enter the occupational category of ‘farmer’, helping to manoeuvre around the constraints of non-inheritance. The students’ narratives evidenced managerial identities, being strongly influenced by encountering management approaches through their agricultural education. All students desired to eventually own a farm someday and to be to employed as a professional dairy farm manager was a perceived as an intermediary goal.
Practical implication: Discontinuation of the traditional family farming model based on family farm/land ownership is not imminent even among a cohort qualified to become employed dairy farm managers.
Theoretical implication: This paper contributes to theoretical framework which highlights the shift in farmer masculine identity and the career trajectory of graduates of specialised agricultural education programmes. 相似文献
ABSTRACTThe paper presents a theorisation of pedagogic knowledge formation, as a continuous attempt to understand the positions in discourse we occupy. The paper documents some participatory practitioner research by teacher educators centred on a course development initiative for student teachers of English, at an English university. Students researched their experiences of becoming a teacher within a course that was largely school-based, whilst their tutors researched their own involvement in the process (the main focus of this paper). Drawing on Lacanian theory, tutors are depicted as learning subjects having more or less certainty or doubt about the knowledge they possess. In attempting to understand this interplay of certainty and doubt, tutors arrive at stronger conceptualisations of learning. Through this approach, the paper provides a theoretically informed conception of professional knowledge, as involving a process of renewing ideas about learning, in meeting or resisting external demands. 相似文献
Research indicates that affective attitudes such as liking of a subject and confidence in one’s ability within a subject predict
academic performance. Generally, immigrant minority students have positive attitudes and often have low academic performance.
This study examines the self-efficacy and liking of subjects of New Zealand students and analyses the relationship of those
attitudes towards academic performance in mathematics, writing, and reading by self-reported ethnicity. Data were obtained
from the norming samples from the Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning project in New Zealand. Of special interest are
the relationships between attitude and performance for Pasifika and Tongan students in New Zealand. Tongan and Pasifika students
had positive attitudes, but their mean scores were not significantly different to other ethnic groups except in writing for
Tongan students. Tongan and Pasifika students did have lower academic performance than majority and Asian immigrant students
in all three subjects. The correlation between liking and self-efficacy was fundamentally zero for Tongan and Pasifika students,
while it was weakly positive for majority and Asian immigrant students. Together these results question the power of self-efficacy
and liking attitudes to predict academic performance for immigrant students from agrarian or traditional societies. Further,
the data suggest that ‘school effects’ are most likely explanations for this relationship, rather than lack of attachment,
opposition, or deficiency theories. 相似文献
Parent or guardian perceptions play a specialized role in the evaluation of school teachers. Parents are important stakeholders
in teacher success, they are in some instances partners in the teachers' work, parents have unique personal information about
student learning, and they can report on the teacher duties to inform parents about the classroom and child progress. This
study analyzed the responses of parents to 12 survey items concerning teacher performance in 201 classrooms. The surveys were
used as part of an innovative teacher evaluation program in which teachers elected to include parent feedback as one objective
data source for annual review. In this study three factors emerged as important concerns for parents: humane treatment of
students, support for pupil learning, and effective communication and collaboration with parents. Recommendations for use
of specific survey items can be based on the empirical results of this sampling. The data gathered by parent surveys define
one dimension of quality which may vary in importance from one teacher to another. 相似文献
In two experiments, participants inspected and drank a series of drinks, half of which contained sugar and half unpalatable
Tween20 (tween). Each sugar and tween drink had a particular flavor and color. Following this training, the flavors of the
sugar drinks were assigned higher hedonic evaluations than were those of the tween drinks, even though the participants did
not reliably report which flavors had been present in the sugar and tween drinks during training. Moreover, the evaluative
conditioning of the flavors was unaffected by whether or not the colors alone had been pretrained to predict the presence
of sugar or tween in the drinks. In accord with Baeyens, Eelen, van den Bergh, and Crombez (1990), we conclude that flavor-evaluative
conditioning is not mediated by contingency learning. 相似文献