EUROPEAN DISSERTATION SUMMARIES     

Mijung Kim  Aik‐Ling Tan 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(4):465-472

To alleviate teachers’ reluctance toward practical work, there has been much discussion on teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, teaching materials, and failsafe strategies for practical work. Despite these efforts, practical work is still regarded as a challenging task for many elementary science teachers. To understand the complexity of teachers’ conflicts in practical work, this study examines teachers’ ideas about teaching and learning that influence teachers’ decision‐making and action on teaching practical work. More important than knowing technical–rational aspects of practical work is to understand the internal contradictions that teachers have to resolve within themselves regarding their capabilities and beliefs about science teaching and practical work. Using stories and experiences of 38 third‐year university students in a science method course in Korea, we seek to understand the conflicts and negotiations that they experience as they make decisions regarding practical work throughout their course. Reflective writings and group discussions on their lived experiences and concerns were used to probe participants’ ideas on teaching using practical work. From written and verbal data, themes were saturated in terms of the aspects which could (dis)encourage their practice. Results suggest that there are multifactorial challenges in pre‐service teachers’ understandings and concerns in practical work. Besides time, materials, and curriculum, pedagogical assumptions and values also compositely challenge the minds of teachers. As the pre‐service elementary teachers negotiated within themselves the importance of science in classroom and social levels, the question is raised about their identities as pre‐service elementary teachers to appreciate the balance between science teaching and practical work.  相似文献   

To Unclog the Arcane with the Technical     

《资料收集管理》2013,38(4):23-31

No abstract available for this article.  相似文献   

Assessment in special schools: national early assessment procedures and pupils attending special schools in England     

Ann Lewis  Geoff Lindsay  Emma Phillips 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2013,28(2):141-153

An implicit assumption that fostering inclusion means having shared systems encompassing the needs of all children is evident in many aspects of policy development over the past decade. Reflecting this, the implementation of ‘baseline assessment’ schemes (i.e. testing at around age 5 years) is a statutory requirement on all state-maintained special and mainstream schools in England since 1998. Our argument is that the enthusiasm for commonality has obscured the need to question the value and validity of baseline assessment schemes for children with special educational needs (and possibly some others such as children having English as an additional language). We illustrate this position with reference to data from our recent study on baseline assessment in England. The study encompassed survey data from a national sample of 982 schools, of which 107 were special schools. Between them, these special schools used 42 different baseline assessment schemes. Comparisons between our mainstream and special school respondents indicated that there were similarities in the nature and perceived value of the schemes used. However, special schools were less satisfied with their schemes. We suggest that a reappraisal of the nature and purpose of baseline assessment for pupils with special educational needs warrants greater critical debate. Without this, there is a danger that a stress on commonality, veiling an inclusion orthodoxy, will ultimately be counterproductive.  相似文献   

Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen: faculty identity and commitment in a Hispanic‐serving institution     

Catherine Marshall 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(6):699-704

This study examines our experiences as female junior scholars with multicultural backgrounds teaching at the same Hispanic‐serving institution. As education scholars with mixed‐heritage families, we identify with the commitment to serving Latinos and the number of mixed‐heritage people in the USA. The election of Barack Obama, whose racial background is both black and white, to the US presidency signifies the emergence of mixed‐heritage people as a demographic presence in this country. Our research suggests that more understanding is needed about the experiences of mixed‐heritage faculty in academia, as well as the ways in which faculty from any background may develop multiple affiliations with cultural communities and pursue professional agendas related to communities that they do not neatly fit into. Despite this variation in backgrounds and research agendas, we share our efforts in advancing Latin@ educational attainment.  相似文献   

关于高职院校教师下企业锻炼的几点思考     

詹立平  赵鑫 《辽宁高职学报》2012,14(11):92-94

高职院校教师下企业锻炼有利于教师业务素质的提升和校企合作的开展。针对高职院校教师下企业锻炼实施过程中存在的问题,剖析了问题产生的原因并提出了解决问题的对策：学校、教师、企业三方共同努力,健全制度、积极配合,构建长效机制,推动高职院校教师下企业锻炼活动的深入开展。  相似文献   

教育平等与英国教育发展     

吴华清  曾守锤 《浙江教育学院学报》2003,(1):89-93

若从教育平等的角度考察英国的教育发展，英国教育发展则可明显地存在以下几个阶段：根据阶级、特权决定教育；依据考试成绩和智力测验决定教育；以综合中学为特征的形式上平等的教育；传授共同化和开设共同课程的教育。  相似文献   

社会资本与文化资本视野下的现代学校制度变革   总被引：11，自引：0，他引：11  

盛冰 《教育研究》2006,(1)

社会阶层与教育获得之间存在着密切的联系。由于社会分层、社会流动以及家庭结构的变迁,导致人们之间社会资本与文化资本的差别日益扩大,从而使教育不平等问题愈加凸显。在某种程度上,一个好的学校制度能够降低出身的不平等或者降低家庭背景的重要性,因此,当今学校制度改革的一个重要方面就是弥补人们之间社会资本与文化资本方面的差异,即通过建立“公平教室”、创建“功能共同体”、改革考试制度等,以促进教育平等。  相似文献   

跨境电商发展背景下国际经济与贸易专业教育模式的思考     

任玙  甘奇慧  杨晓胜 《连云港职业技术学院学报》2019,(2):69-72

随着"互联网+"时代的到来,跨境电商这种新贸易模式得以快速发展。现阶段国际经济与贸易专业教育体系和人才培养仍有许多不足亟待完善,国际经济与贸易专业应适应新模式的需要,加快"双师型"教师队伍建设、加大实践教学力度和深化校企合作是解决国际经济与贸易专业发展瓶颈的良好对策。  相似文献   

论教育承诺对中国高等教育的影响     

周琼英 《阿坝师范高等专科学校学报》2002,(2):66-69

中国加入世贸组织后,高等教育只有树立全球观念,规范教育行政,加大教育投入,引进教育资源,深化专业改造,提高教育质量,面向世界培养人才,才能融入世界教育大潮。  相似文献   

论信息不对称理论与国家助学贷款工作     

雷霞  陈静 《连云港职业技术学院学报》2006,19(1):69-71

信息不对称理论是当代信息经济学的核心内容,应用范围非常广泛。文章运用信息不对称理论分析国家助学贷款工作存在的问题,并以此理论为基础从高校管理和社会管理的角度提出相应的对策。  相似文献