Implementing multifunctionality on the farm: a case presentation     

Colin Newsham 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(2):107-112

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The relationship between technology adoption and farmers’ socio-economic characteristics can never be over emphasized. This study tests the determinants of technology adoption by women farmers. The result from the Logit analysis of data from Unguwan-Madaki showed that the socio-economic characteristics of women farmers significantly affect their technology adoption decisions.  相似文献   

The Challenge to be the Best: Reckless curiosity and mischievous motivation     

Christopher Day 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(3):421-434

In recent years, 'being the best' as a teacher has become less of a moral imperative based on a sense of integrity and trust, and more of a dictat from governments intent on imposing their performativity agendas on teachers in the name of raising standards. One consequence of the rise of the so-called school reform agenda is that there has been a demise of teacher renewal. Each of the papers in the present issue has addressed this paradox in one way or another. The present paper suggests that the models of teacher development adopted by policy-makers do not adequately address teachers' learning needs over a career or contribute to enhancing motivation and commitment essential to raising standards in the classroom. It concludes by suggesting that universities themselves have a moral commitment to develop further new kinds of sustained knowledge, creating roles with schools and teachers through which teachers' active professionalism will be enriched.  相似文献   

Spatial localization in infancy: position constancy in a square and circular room with and without a landmark     

M B Keating  B E McKenzie  R H Day 《Child development》1986,57(1):115-124

The ability of 8-month-old infants to localize an event from a new direction of facing was tested in a square and a circular room with and without a landmark. Subjects were trained to anticipate the site from 2 directions of facing and then tested in a new direction of facing. The number of trials to a criterion of learning, the number of subjects looking first at the event site after reorientation, and the time spent in doing so were recorded. Taken together, the results show that at 8 months ability to identify the site of an event after reorientation is based on the spatial relationship between the event and environmental features. The latter include features associated with room shape as well as a landmark at the site of the event.  相似文献   

Do Infants Use Their Own Images to Locate Objects Reflected in a Mirror?     

J. A. Robinson  S. Connell  B. E. McKenzie  R. H. Day 《Child development》1990,61(5):1558-1568

The ability of infants to locate a toy from a mirror reflection was investigated in 3 experiments. In the first, it was found that a minority of 22-month-old infants turned to locate the toy that was the source of the reflection, and that localization of the toy occurred regardless of whether the infants' own image was visible in the mirror. The results of 2 further experiments indicated that younger infants aged 14 and 18 months rarely use mirror information to locate a toy. When they do so, they also turn whether or not images of themselves are visible. It is concluded that tasks involving the localization of objects or events from mirror images are not direct indices of self-recognition. Rather, they indicate the skill of infants in using the mirror as a perceptual tool.  相似文献   

Pendulums in the Physics Education Literature: A Bibliography     

Colin Gauld 《Science & Education》2004,13(7-8):811-832

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Regression Models with Errors in the Predictor Variable     

Simon J. Day 《Teaching Statistics》1989,11(2):50-51

In this article Simon Day describes a computer simulation exploring one of the fundamental assumptions of regression analysis which causes students difficulties.  相似文献   

Gene counsellors say what's 'best     

Day M 《New scientist (1971)》1997,153(2068):7

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The tortoise and the hare enigma in e-transformation in Japanese and Korean higher education     

Colin Latchem  Insung Jung  Kumiko Aoki  Ali Ekrem Ozkul 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2008,39(4):610-630

Japan and Korea have highly developed information and communications technology infrastructures and have recently reformed their higher education systems and encouraged e-transformation. However, Japanese universities have not embraced e-learning as wholeheartedly as their Korean counterparts. The paper concludes that this is due to governmental and institutional failure to develop a cogent vision and strategic plan for e-learning, to recognise the need for fundamental shifts in organisational cultures and structures and pedagogy and to provide training, funding, recognition and reward for such development. It attributes this to differences in the cultural perspectives, values and customs of the two countries' policy makers, managers and faculty members. The findings are seen to hold important lessons for other countries embarking on e-transformation.  相似文献   

The concepts and practices of lifelong learning – By Morgan-Klein, Brenda & Osborne, Michael     

Colin Latchem 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2008,39(4):755-757

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多层混合法研究设计:挑战与优势     

戴杰思  谢萍 《教育研究》2021,42(2):140-150

与目前运用单一方法的研究相比,多层混合法研究作为一种重要的研究范式,其研究结果可能因更严谨可靠而对政策和实践产生更大的影响。运用多层混合法不仅需要提升研究者的技术能力,还需要转变他们的思维方式。对大多数研究者来说,这可能是一个极大的挑战。当然,这并不是说所有的研究都应该寻求对他人的直接影响;相反,研究的目的各有不同。尽管如此,不同研究领域的研究者一致认为,教师课堂内外赖以生存的社会环境的生态具有不可预测性。对一项在英格兰实施的研究项目进行剖析,探讨多层混合法在教育研究中的应用,发现与单视角的量化研究、元分析或者纯质性研究相比,多层混合法可能提供更微妙的、更细颗粒度的、更严谨可信的、基于循证的领导力研究,从而更为全面地揭示校长如何通过领导力角色、领导行为实现并且保持学校的可持续发展。  相似文献