A Distinctive of Christian Higher Education: Educating for Vocation     

Bram de Muynck  Pieter Vos  Jan Hoogland  Jan Van der Stoep 《Christian Higher Education》2017,16(1-2):3-10

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Sharing Our Library Facility: Prescott Valley Arizona Public Library     

Ted Johnson  Casey Van Haren  Michele Hjorting 《Public Library Quarterly》2017,36(2):154-166

The present Prescott Valley Public Library facility was created in 2009 as a space that was meant to be shared. The building was designed to be aesthetically unique and people friendly. Key elements include an auditorium for Town Council, a multifunctional meeting room with a kitchen and multimedia projection capabilities, a roof top terrace, outside patios, PC lab, Digital Media Lab, and a variety of smaller gathering spaces. Additionally, we share our facility with a satellite campus of Northern Arizona University, which affords frequent opportunities to collaborate in novel ways to connect with our community. Sharing is a value we learn early in life and it is the hallmark of professional librarianship. It is challenging, sometimes frustrating work. But the rewards far outweigh the risks. Those rewards extend to every citizen in our shared, county network—Yavapai Library Network. Throughout this article, we present a variety of practical aspects related to our experience, which may guide and inspire others to share their library space within their community.  相似文献   

Validating the Digital Games Motivation Scale for Comparative Research Between Countries     

Frederik De Grove  Johannes Breuer  Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen  Thorsten Quandt  Rabindra Ratan  Jan Van Looy 《Communication Research Reports》2017,34(1):37-47

Researchers interested in motives for playing digital games can draw on a variety of measurement instruments. When the aim is to compare between groups, however, instruments need to show certain psychometric properties. Specifically, an instrument needs to be invariant. Without such properties, comparisons between groups run the danger of yielding invalid results. The current study investigates to what extent the Digital Games Motivation Scale (DGMS) can be used to compare motivations between cultures by testing it in four different countries. Results indicate configural, metric, and partial scalar invariance for the cross-cultural comparisons. In conclusion, this study presents a psychometrically sound measurement instrument that can be used in cross-cultural settings.  相似文献   

Exploring Constitutive Meanings of Educational Transformation in South Africa     

Berte Van Wyk 《Interchange》2006,37(3):181-199

Over the last decade South Africa has undergone a unique process of transformation – a process which has still not been completed. In this paper I explore the concept of transformation within the context of higher education. I attempt to analyse the concept philosophically with the aim of showing how it can manifest in higher education. I construct four possible constitutive meanings of educational transformation (equity and redress, critical inquiry, communicative praxis, and citizenship) and attempt to demonstrate how each may contribute to transformation.  相似文献   

Emerging patterns of abstraction in environmental education: A review of materials,methods and professional development perspectives     

Rob O'Donoghue  Vladimir Russo 《Environmental Education Research》2004,10(3):331-351

The epistemic unconscious is the history of the field. And it is clear that, to secure some chance of really knowing what one is doing, one has to unfold what is inscribed in the various relations of implication in which the thinker and his thoughts are caught up, that is, the presuppositions he engages and the inclusions and exclusions he unwittingly performs. (Bourdieu, 2000, p. 99)  相似文献   

The Need for Support in Secondary Schools in the Netherlands in the Implementation of Environmental Education     

Marinus Brijker  Rob de Jong  Mieke Swaan 《Environmental Education Research》1995,1(1):99-107

In 1993 a new comprehensive curriculum for secondary education was introduced in the Netherlands. In that curriculum learning objectives related to environmental education are formulated. This paper describes: (1) the present situation regarding EE in schools in the northern part of the Netherlands on the subject level, as regards the relative importance attributed by teachers to the different objectives of environmental education. (2) the constraints and the need for support when teachers want to pay more attention to the various objectives of environmental education. Teachers pay most attention to the objectives of EE that are aimed at improving the knowledge of the relationship between man and the environment and the environmental problems and their causes. They seem to underestimate the objectives aimed at skills and attitudes. Teachers show only a slight tendency to change their current practice towards more environmental education. The main reasons are described. A considerable number of teachers are willing to use support to implement environmental education if that is offered, but more than half have made no decision yet. The kind of support wanted by teachers differs with different objectives. The paper concludes with a discussion of the prerequisites of a supporting programme for the implementation of environmental education.  相似文献   

Between Silence and Salience: A Multimethod Model to Study Frame Building From a Journalistic Perspective     

Jan Boesman  Leen d’Haenens  Baldwin Van Gorp 《Communication methods and measures》2016,10(4):233-247

Research into frame building, which aims to investigate the development of news framing in the journalistic realm, is on the rise. While most frame-building studies focus on the relative contribution of journalists or sources to news frames, this article presents and evaluates an integrated methodological model. The model is based on constructionist premises with the purpose of examining how frames are created as part of the interaction among reporters, editors, and sources. Based on a review of the methodologies used in earlier frame-building studies, we propose an ethnographic four-phase model in which multiple methods are interwoven: newsroom observations, reconstruction interviews, and frame analyses of news products (which illustrate what is made salient) as well as production documents (which also reveal what is silenced). The model is illustrated with two multisited studies in newspaper newsrooms: an interview-based study of the news reports of preselected journalists and an observation-based study for which the news reports to be analyzed were selected based on their salience in newsroom meetings. Through this multimethod model, this paper offers some guidelines for the study of frame building from a journalistic perspective.  相似文献   

The impact of school culture on schools’ pupil well-being policy-making capacities     

Roos Van Gasse  Jan Vanhoof  Peter Van Petegem 《Educational studies》2016,42(4):340-356

Pupil well-being has been an important topic in educational research for some time. Differences between schools in their influence on the well-being of their pupils are attributed to the policy-making capacities of the school. Little is known about schools’ policy-making capacities with regard to pupil well-being, and the impact of school culture on these policy-making capacities. This study addresses these questions using a quantitative research approach. The results show that teachers rate the policy-making capacities of their school, with regard to pupil well-being, in largely positive terms and that these policy-making capacities are mainly affected by flexible perspectives of effectiveness within the culture of schools.  相似文献   

Making sense of ‘teaching’, ‘support’ and ‘differentiation’: the educational experiences of pupils with Education,Health and Care Plans and Statements in mainstream secondary schools     

Rob Webster  Peter Blatchford 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2019,34(1):98-113

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Special Issue: Designing Learning Environments for Equitable Disciplinary Identification     

Philip Bell  Katie Van Horne  Britte Haugan Cheng 《学习科学杂志》2017,26(3):367-375

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