The heart of ESD: personally engaging learners with sustainability     

Paul Murray  Julie Goodhew  Sheran Murray 《Environmental Education Research》2014,20(5):718-734

Education for sustainable development aims to help learners engage with the concept of sustainability. This paper considers whether specific values-centred sustainability training techniques can promote personal engagement with sustainability when undertaken by higher education students on an extra-curricular voluntary basis. Conducted over an eight-month period, the study evaluates the impact of the training on 67 second year undergraduate design and engineering students at Plymouth University using pre- and post-training values and worldview scales measured against a control group. Four months after the training, one-to-one interviews were conducted with a subset of the sample. A quantitative analysis of the values and worldview surveys indicates that a degree of values clarification and mind-set shift resulted from the training, with design students appearing more receptive than those studying engineering. This finding was reinforced in the interview data, which illustrates where and how learners engaged with the training and provides examples of learners deep thought, reflection and mind-set changes.  相似文献   

Defining student diversity: categorizing and processes of marginalization in Swedish schools     

Eva Hjörne  Roger Säljö 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2014,19(3):251-265

The article presents an analysis of how diversity is defined and attended to in Swedish schools. The research reported has been carried out as a case study of categorizing practices that concern the uses of neuropsychiatric diagnoses, notably ADHD. The data were collected as part of a larger study. The interaction over a two-year period between the parents of a boy (William, aged 5.5 years) and representatives of the school (school psychologist, principal, teacher etc.) has been analysed. It is shown that parents and professionals provide different accounts of William’s difficulties. The parents, while not denying that their son causes problems in class, argue that the boy will mature and that the problems will disappear. The representatives of the school try to convince the parents that a neuropsychiatric examination of the boy will be beneficial to all parties. The long process of negotiation can be understood as a rhetorical drama, where the category ‘ADHD’ serves as the resolution of a complex institutional problem in the modern welfare state.  相似文献   

Investigating the social engagement of children with autism in mainstream schools for the purpose of identifying learning targets     

Carmel Conn 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2014,14(3):153-159

The social needs of children with autism are complex, and their inclusion in mainstream schools necessitates a consideration of the nature of a child's participation in peer culture and how it is received by others. The case study reported here sought to investigate the social engagement of a child with autism and his peers using naturalistic methods to provide contextualised and detailed information. A comparative approach was used to study different social contexts: the wider class group, the peer group which included the child with autism, and the individual participation of the child with autism compared with this smaller group. Findings indicate that the child with autism demonstrated a number of competencies in relation to his own social group and that social difficulties were not necessarily seen as a weakness within the peer culture. The importance of careful analysis of social processes and the use of reflective assessment to autism education is highlighted.  相似文献   

清华大学网络学堂学生使用情况统计与分析     

王晶 《现代教育技术》2014,(7):106-112

研究旨在探讨清华大学学生对网络学堂的使用状况。样本数据来源于网络学堂教学数据库。通过对于用户页面访问量、作业数和课件数等变量的统计分析,验证了教师教学投入与学生学习投入的关联关系。此外,研究揭示,网络学堂中的交互性、协作性功能是促使学生积极使用网络学堂的重要动力。并发现,对于网络学堂中各种功能的使用,理工科学生和文科学生有着不同的偏好。  相似文献   

Archiving the wild,the wild archivist: Bukit Brown Cemetery and Singapore’s emerging ‘docu-tivists’     

Natalie Pang  Liew Kai Khiun 《档案与原稿》2014,42(1):87-97

In recent years there has been growing interest in the discipline of computing in relation to cultural heritage, parallel with developments in greater user participation in archives and advances in documentation work. These trends are reflected in the case of a documentation project of an old Chinese cemetery in Singapore, Bukit Brown Cemetery. This case was characterised by tensions among the ‘wild’ array of emerging individual participants and archivists that took the momentum away from both more formal NGOs and government institutions in documenting, archiving and raising awareness of the heritage of the site when part of it was announced to be set aside for a new highway. The case presents a compelling need for participatory archives, facilitated by computing interventions encouraging public engagement and visits to the site. Being actively involved in the documentation process, the authors reflect on how conceptual frameworks of records may assist in designing new media innovations and informing the ways by which a cemetery may be documented. Through these reflections, the authors argue for the active participation of archivists and records professionals in documentation work, and demonstrate how, in the creation and keeping of records, they shape the collective imagination of the public and other stakeholders in heritage sites.  相似文献   

Knowledge and Dignity in the Era of “Big Data”     

Siva Vaidhyanathan  Chris Bulock 《期刊图书馆员》2014,66(1-4):49-64

Private companies and government agencies are now creating and tapping into vastly more data than ever before. These data flows include enormous amounts of personal information and raise questions about privacy and intellectual policy that could have profound impacts on our lives. While data collection and creation are nearly ubiquitous, the instruments of collection and analysis are often hidden in order to track more natural behavior. Recent revelations of massive governmental data collection offer the country, and librarians in particular, an opportunity to discuss and question the societal implications of “Big Data,” and the policies that govern them.  相似文献   

从“学生投入”析体育教学改革     

万茹  赵瑞娟 《湖北体育科技》2001,20(1):75-76

从“学生投入”的角度，对体育教学中普遍存在的学生外显的积极行为和内隐的消极心理这一矛盾进行深入分析，认为体育教学应该重视学生积极情感的投入，减少遵守规范式和消极情感式的情感投入；重视学生积极性的认知投入，减少表面性的认知投入；重视学生积极的行为投入，减少消极的行为投入。  相似文献   

小学生社会智力结构的研究     

刘在花  许燕 《民族教育研究》2006,17(4):41-46

本研究的目的是采用访谈法、问卷法、社会测量法与投射法探讨小学生社会智力的结构。结果表明：小学生社会智力结构包括社会洞察力、社会焦虑、移情、人际交往能力、人际问题解决能力。  相似文献   

探究体育新课程标准下的新型师生关系     

宋伦忠  王家京 《南京体育学院学报(社会科学版)》2006,20(4):118-121

从新课程标准下体育教学过程的学生、教师入手,采用对比的方法探究了体育新课程标准的实施必将使师生之间的关系,师生的教、学行为等发生变化。学生不应再是教学过程中的接收者、模仿者,而应该是劳动者、求索者、设计者;教师不应再是传授者、命令者,而应该是生产者、中介者、服务者。体育教学中的师生关系应该是一种平等、合作、互动的关系,教师不应再将自己凌驾于学生之上,只有这样,学生才能感受到运动的乐趣和学习环境的温馨,学习的积极性、主动性和创造性才能充分体现出来。  相似文献   

Truants on truancy – a badness or a valuable indicator of unmet special educational needs?     

Neil Southwell 《British Journal of Special Education》2006,33(2):91-97

Neil Southwell states that he was, himself, a persistent truant from school. He returned to education as a mature student via an access course and he now lectures in education studies at the University of Northampton. He is currently researching into truancy, its causes and its management and brings to his work an unusual but highly illuminating 'truantist perspective'.
In this article, Neil Southwell reviews the literature on truancy and reveals a complex and contradictory picture. Policy and practice to date have, however, tended to be united in locating responsibility for truancy with truants and their families. Drawing on his own experience and his research into the perspectives of truants, Neil Southwell makes a case for a radically different approach. He argues that truancy can be seen as a key indicator of unmet educational needs and that the issue of truancy will not be addressed effectively until policy makers, practitioners and researchers learn to listen to the voices of truants themselves.  相似文献