The influence of teacher education on mentor teachers’ role perception in professional development schools     

Aviva Klieger  Anat Oster-Levinz 《师资教育杂志》2015,41(2):115-127

Apprenticeship and professional development schools (PDSs) are two models for teacher education. The mentors that are the focus for this research completed their initial teacher training through one of these models and now mentor in PDSs. The paper reports on how the way in which they were trained as student teachers influenced their role perceptions. The findings suggest that mentor teachers who were trained via the PDSs model have a broader conceptual understanding of their role perception.  相似文献   

Using one’s own professional activities to promote research and publishing     

David Coniam 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2015,38(3):408-427

This paper explores issues related to teacher educators publishing in journals. They do so for obvious reasons such as tenure, career advancement, personal satisfaction and university prestige. In order to offer an extra means of helping teacher educators achieve these publishing goals, the paper explores how using one’s own professional experiences in a number of spheres may offer substantial opportunities for publishing. Using a Grounded Theory analysis, the author presents an analysis of his own publications. These are laid out in five categories in which his professional pursuits with teacher trainees have led to a considerable number of publications, 34 of which have appeared in international journals, 25 of them in international Grade A and B journals. The author calls for academics to examine their own practices, suggesting that there is much in one’s own professional experiences that can be of worth to the international community.  相似文献   

Instrument adaptation in cross-cultural studies of students’ mathematics-related beliefs: learning from healthcare research     

Paul Andrews  Jose Diego-Mantecón 《Compare》2015,45(4):545-567

Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14–15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.  相似文献   

孙中山和平思想解析     

史艺军  徐旭 《辽宁师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2015,(3):410-414

孙中山的和平思想包含在他的政治思想中。解读孙中山的和平思想有利于全面认识孙中山的政治主张和革命经历。孙中山和平思想的产生,其一源于他青少年时期接受的基督教博爱思想的教育;其二源于中国传统道德仁爱思想的浸润。孙中山开始从事政治活动时,首先把和平改良作为斗争的手段,尽管国内严峻的政治形势迫使他不得不转而主要采取武装斗争的形式进行革命,但是当条件适宜和有益于民族大义的情况下,他还会采用和平的方式。例如南京临时政府成立后,孙中山平和辞职,通过选举程序让总统位于袁世凯。孙中山的和平思想不仅体现在和平手段上,也体现在和平建国的政治目标上。在孙中山看来,只有实践三民主义才能实现和平国家,和平国家的政体设计为五权宪法。因此,三民主义成为和平思想的根基,五权宪法成为实现和平国家的制度建构。谨以此文纪念孙中山逝世90周年。  相似文献   

中国共产党从严治党的历史经验及现实路径     

李双金 《辽宁师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2015,(4)

党要管党、从严治党是中国共产党的一贯方针。在回顾建党90多年来从严治党历史的基础上,总结出了从严治党必须加强思想建设、严格管理领导干部、保持党同人民群众的密切联系、严肃党的纪律、完善党的制度等历史经验。对新形势下贯彻从严治党要求的现实路径进行了深入思考,提出了如下观点：从严治党要落实管党治党责任,坚定理想信念,坚持从严管干部,密切党同群众的血肉联系,加强党的制度建设和保持反腐高压态势。  相似文献   

Learning in Retirement and Old Age: an agenda for the 21st century     

David Istance 《European Journal of Education》2015,50(2):225-238

This article is about education and learning for the ‘retired’. In using this term, it is recognised that any such definitions and given age bands cover a wide range of situations and learning needs. Such diversity should closely inform the educational agenda for older adults, and as it is a life phase defined by challenge and change ‘learning to be’ encapsulates much that is essential to that agenda. The international evidence shows how rapidly our societies are ageing, and how much longer is spent in retirement: so rapid is that change and so large the numbers of seniors and the elderly that the active nature of learning represents a critical aspect of response to this major phenomenon. Contrary to a popular image of declining skills and capacities, the evidence reveals a much more nuanced picture of capability among the retired. Comparisons are drawn with the early childhood sector, which had parallel characteristics but which has since moved rapidly upwards among policy priorities. In conclusion, the article argues that ‘active ageing’ rather than ‘lifelong learning’ represents a more promising embracing framework through which to develop learning in retirement and old age.  相似文献   

The development of student teachers’ research knowledge,beliefs and attitude     

Wietse van der Linden  Anouke Bakx  Anje Ros  Douwe Beijaard  Linda van den Bergh 《师资教育杂志》2015,41(1):4-18

This study reports on the development of second-year student teachers’ knowledge of research, and the changes in their beliefs and attitude regarding research during an introductory course at an institute for primary teacher education. Questionnaires and concept maps were administered before and after the course. The results showed that student teachers’ knowledge about research grew during the introductory course and that their positive beliefs about research became more positive, while their negative beliefs about research decreased. A positive change was found concerning the attractiveness of research to student teachers. Furthermore, student teachers’ self-efficacy regarding research appeared related to their beliefs and attitude: the more the student teachers were convinced of their abilities to conduct and use the results of research after the course, the more positive their beliefs and their attitude regarding research were. This study provides guidelines for institutes for teacher education on integrating research activities into their curricula, so that their student teachers develop research knowledge and positive beliefs and attitudes towards research.  相似文献   

Gender structure and women’s agency: toward greater theoretical understanding of education for transformation     

Nelly P. Stromquist 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2015,34(1):59-75

Under the research radar, and yet highly influential in transformation of practices concerning the social understanding and enactment of gender, are women-led non-governmental organizations (WNGOs). Their continued efforts to reconfigure gender identities and their impact on public policy formation have expanded notions of citizenship and democracy as well as moved social justice to greater levels of concreteness. This article seeks to contribute to the literature by probing the role of WNGOs as educational institutions that both create and disseminate knowledge about gender inequalities and gender justice and, in so doing, foster the formation of assertive individual and collective identities that subsequently influence the public arena through their advocacy of measures to reduce inequalities between women and men. The work by these WNGOs confirms the theoretical premise that to effect social change, new knowledge must be created by the very groups that seek to alter the disadvantageous conditions that confront them.  相似文献   

The Australian Curriculum: History – the challenges of a thin curriculum?     

Geraldine Ditchburn 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2015,36(1):27-41

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Gender differences in adolescents’ choice of heroes and admired adults in five countries     

Juan Diego Estrada  Cristina García-Ael  José Luis Martorell 《Gender and education》2015,27(1):69-87

Seven hundred and sixty-eight adolescents from five countries and regions (USA, Spain, Hong Kong, Qatar, and Malaysia), aged 13–19 (M?=?15.78; SD?=?1.28) years, responded to a questionnaire designed to determine who was their most admired famous adult or hero. Male heroes clearly outnumbered admired females (73.3% vs. 26.7%). There was a pattern of same-sex choices, but it was more likely for girls to choose male heroes than for boys to choose females. Over half of the admired adults were athletes, and movie, television, and music stars. Regarding the personally known adults, there was a more balanced choice of males and females, with parents as the most frequent choice. Results suggest that society continues to fail in providing an adequate supply of female role models.  相似文献