Linkages between cognitive and social dialogue patterns during collaborative small-group discussions     

《Learning and Instruction》2023

BackgroundCollaborative small-group discussions have the potential to promote reading comprehension, critical thinking, and argumentation. However, few studies have gone beyond cognitive processes to understand the social characteristics of dialogue and their potential contributions to students’ cognitive processing in turn-by-turn dialogic exchanges.AimsThis study closely examined dialogues between speakers and addressees regarding their levels of cognitive processing (i.e., cognitive dialogue patterns) and social processes reflecting social cohesion (i.e., social dialogue patterns). The aims were to understand, first, the relations between students' cognitive dialogue patterns and their social dialogue patterns, and second, the relations between students' cognitive dialogue patterns and peers’ social dialogue patterns.SampleThis study included 4070 speaking turns generated by 120 fifth-graders in 60 small-group discussions.MethodsStudents participated in small-group discussions, called Collaborative Social Reasoning. Dialogue between pairs of group members formed social networks, based on which Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) were specified.ResultsFindings showed that speakers' social dialogue patterns were associated with their cognitive dialogue patterns. However, receiving social dialogue patterns from peers did not always predict students’ advanced types of cognitive dialogue patterns.ConclusionsThis study demonstrated that cognitive and social aspects of small-group discussions are intricately linked, and that encouraging social cohesion does not guarantee that students will engage in collaborative and critical discussions.  相似文献   

Agonistic democracy and passionate professional development in teacher-leaders     

L. Hammersley-Fletcher  M. Clarke  V. McManus 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2018,48(5):591-606

Politicians and policy-makers in education routinely proclaim the centrality of schools and teachers in sustaining and consolidating democracy and democratic society. This article offers an account of teachers engaged in research in their schools and classrooms, with peers and students, so as to highlight the democratic potential of this engagement. In order to do so, it draws on an agonistic account of democracy that is distinct from more familiar liberal or procedural versions. Such an account is characterised by an emphasis on the values of constitutive pluralism, robust contestation and enduring tragedy, where the latter entails recognition of the ineliminable nature of (political) conflict and the inevitability of loss in human life. The teachers involved in this research demonstrated capacities which, it is argued, reflect an agonistic democratic ethos, including: developing the confidence to assume intellectual leadership by asking questions and eliciting and engaging plural perspectives in relation to these questions; engagement in the cut and thrust of research without the expectation of finding any final or perfect solutions; and an acceptance of difference and disagreement as constitutive and constructive elements in rethinking areas of policy and practice. Developing and encouraging these capacities, it is argued, is important in an increasingly authoritarian policy context that threatens the vital links between democracy and education highlighted by Dewey a century ago.  相似文献   

Enhancing the practice of social work     

Ruth King 《Action Learning: Research and Practice》2016,13(2):168-175

This account of practice focuses on my learning and development as a new Action Learning Facilitator. It reflects on my thoughts and feelings as I began to facilitate my own sets a year or so ago. It will discuss and reflect on topics such as communication, feedback, expectations (both mine, the set members and the organisations), values, ethics, power and confidentiality. It opens with a personal reflection on my experience of becoming a set facilitator and then explores other aspects of my learning. It draws out, in particular, the links between Action Learning and social work and the ways in which the principles that underpin each of these are complementary and mutually enhancing.  相似文献   

What future teachers believe about democracy and why it is important     

David Zyngier 《Teachers and Teaching》2016,22(7):782-804

This paper analyses pre-service education student perceptions and perspectives related to education for democracy in Australia. Using a critical pedagogical framework datum from an online survey, it presents both quantitative and qualitative responses of contrasting understandings of democracy. It begins by outlining the concepts of thick and thin democracy and why this is important in relation to contemporary debates about the state of civics and citizenship education, and then explains the conceptual framework of critical pedagogy and methodology. The datum analysed is discussed in relation to neoliberalism and indicates that the pre-service teachers in this study view democracy in a narrow or thin way that may impact on their classroom practice where they would be teaching about but not for democracy. A more critical and thicker understanding of democracy is suggested as essential if we desire our students to become active and transformative citizens.  相似文献   

我国社会稳定研究综述   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

吴春生  李小晖 《安康学院学报》2006,18(1):28-31

本文从社会稳定的内涵、形态、特征、影响社会稳定的新因素和实现社会稳定的对策等方面,比较全面、系统地梳理和归纳了近年来我国理论界关于社会稳定研究的最新成果.  相似文献   

What successful black South African students consider as factors of their success     

Pentecost M. Nkhoma 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2002,50(1):103-113

Black South African students have a poor success rate in school leaving mathematics examinations. Attempts have been made to shift teachers' practices from teacher-centredness to learner-centredness, in Black schools, in order to improve the situation. So far, the attempts failed to yield the desired results. This paper reports on the findings of a study that aimed at learning from students and teachers in Black schools, as to what classroom practices lead to success in school mathematics, in their impoverished context.This revised version was published online in October 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

乡村民主政治建设的机制创新——农村基层民主与基层政权良性互动     

刘章烈  邱家海 《赣南师范学院学报》2003,(1):126-129

改革开放以来我国乡村民主政治建设成绩斐然 ,尤其是实行村民自治十余年来更是举世瞩目。受现阶段物质、体制、社会文化、农村基层干部和农民素质等因素制约 ,乡村民主政治发展仍面临诸多障碍。进一步推进乡村民主政治发展 ,亟待创新机制 ,实现农村基层民主与基层政权建设良性互动。当前主要应抓好三个环节。一是依法整合乡村关系 ,调整乡村权力结构 ;二是完善村民自治制度 ,改善乡村治理格局 ;三是扩大村民政治参与 ,构建乡镇回应机制  相似文献   

20世纪80年代中期中苏民主法制改革比较     

朱少华 《河南师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2002,29(6):26-28

20世纪80年代中期，中苏两国进行的社会主义民主法制建设值得比较研究。两国的改革有许多相似之处；两国都缺乏丰富的民主法制环境；两国改革都面对诸如不清晰的党政关系，高度集权下伴生的个人崇拜，以政治运动而非法律不规范国家事务的坏习惯等众多痼疾；两国改革的内容很相似，两国的改革又极大不同；苏联面对的环境比中国更不利，中国在处理社会主义民主，法制改革与社会主义其他方面改革的系统关系上，比苏联要成功得多，两国的改革进程的得失成败对各国的改革都产生了相互影响，两国在经验方面是互相借鉴的；苏联改革的失败则也延缓了中国改革的进程。  相似文献   

关于高校干部工作中扩大民主的思考     

赵春丹 《扬州大学学报(高教研究版)》2003,7(1):59-61

在高校干部工作中扩大民主 ,是高校干部人事制度改革的必然要求。扩大干部工作中的民主 ,需要强化民主的观念 ,创新扩大民主的方法 ,建立相应的制度保障。同时 ,扩大民主 ,应坚持校党委的领导 ,正确处理好高校干部工作民主化进程中的几对关系 ,把扩大民主落到实处。  相似文献   

Assessing collaborative learning: big data,analytics and university futures     

Peter Williams 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2017,42(6):978-989

Assessment in higher education has focused on the performance of individual students. This focus has been a practical as well as an epistemic one: methods of assessment are constrained by the technology of the day, and in the past they required the completion by individuals under controlled conditions of set-piece academic exercises. Recent advances in learning analytics, drawing upon vast sets of digitally stored student activity data, open new practical and epistemic possibilities for assessment, and carry the potential to transform higher education. It is becoming practicable to assess the individual and collective performance of team members working on complex projects that closely simulate the professional contexts that graduates will encounter. In addition to academic knowledge, this authentic assessment can include a diverse range of personal qualities and dispositions that are key to the computer-supported cooperative working of professionals in the knowledge economy. This paper explores the implications of such opportunities for the purpose and practices of assessment in higher education, as universities adapt their institutional missions to address twenty-first century needs. The paper concludes with a strong recommendation for university leaders to deploy analytics to support and evaluate the collaborative learning of students working in realistic contexts.  相似文献