Analysing the experiences of casual relief teachers in Australian primary schools using practice architecture theory     

Minami Uchida  Michael Cavanagh  Rod Lane 《British Educational Research Journal》2020,46(6):1406-1422

This study examines the professional experiences of casual relief teachers (CRTs) and some of the challenges they face through the lens of practice architecture theory. Practice architecture theory considers human activity through the multi-layered lens of sayings, doings and relatings. A survey was used to collect responses from 104 CRTs who are teaching or have previously taught in Australian primary schools. The responses were examined using thematic content analysis to gain insights into their experiences of professional practice. In addition, the demographic information from the survey identified three main categories of CRTs which contributed to better understanding of distinct needs and experiences of each type of CRT. Results indicate that many participants saw casual teaching as a negative and alienating experience due to lack of access to school information, lack of support for accreditation and feelings of exclusion from school communities. The need for greater access to information about professional learning was also highlighted. However, others enjoyed the flexibility and sense of belonging they experienced as CRTs. The present study contributes to CRT research by identifying similarities and differences across the three CRT groups and applying practice architectures as a new theoretical lens through which to analyse their professional experiences.  相似文献   

Curriculum,standards and professionalisation: The policy discourse on teacher professionalism in Singapore     

《Teaching and Teacher Education》2020

In this article the author explores the policy discourse on teacher professionalism (TP) in Singapore. Various types of relevant policy texts are collected and analysed, considering the three different perspectives of TP discussed in the existing literature – the managerial view, the professional view and the transformative view. The author argues that the current discourse presents a hybrid notion of TP that integrates managerial and professional views to serve policymakers’ intentions, but this is a constrained view that may de-professionalise the teaching profession by narrowing TP to faithful alignment and effective implementation of the national curriculum.  相似文献   

Arts councils,policy-making and “the local”     

Victoria Durrer  Abigail Gilmore 《Cultural Trends》2019,28(4):317-331

ABSTRACT

In the British Isles, national policies for the arts are primarily viewed as the responsibility of arts councils with statutory duties to distribute state funding that meet the requirements of both “arms-length” principles and national strategic frameworks. This paper explores the tensions between policy making for the nation-state and for “the local” through comparative research on the arts councils (and equivalent bodies) in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with senior representatives from these organisations, it explores their notions of, responsibilities to and affiliations with “the local”. Findings suggest that despite their different models and relationships to the nation-state, and the disparities in the scale of investment, these national policy bodies commonly rely on networked governance to facilitate their relationship to “the local” which risks reproducing national interests, limiting the localised agency of place-based approaches and contributing to a culture of competition within cultural policy.  相似文献   

我国体育产业政策实施执行的分析研究     

王家宏  蔡朋龙  刘广飞 《武汉体育学院学报》2019,53(9):1-14

基于有效促进我国体育产业政策落实、科学调整体育产业政策发展轨道，采用文献资料、实地调研、归纳分析等方法，从国家体育产业政策制定、政策目标、实施主体、政策措施、实施成效等层面，对我国体育产业政策实施执行情况进行分析。据此，审视当前地方在落实执行国家体育产业政策中存在的问题。由此提出，紧扣"五大发展理念"，优化体育产业发展顶层设计；围绕"供给侧改革"、"经济体制改革"、"突出重点战略"3大着力点，提升地方体育产业政策执行效力；通过"营造理性体育产业政策环境，实现考评机制再造"、"完善体育产业政策评估手段，调控政策执行效果"、"完善相关立法，提升政策执行能力"、"发挥企业能动作用，实现政策需求与供给的效接"等措施提升国家体育产业政策落实效果。  相似文献   

科技人力资本视角下杰青科学家资助年龄对资助效果的影响——以杰青基金地球科学项目为例     

田人合  郑军卫  张志强  于洁  杨芳娟 《图书情报工作》2019,63(22):91-105

[目的/意义] 杰青基金实施25年来，资助者年龄呈大龄化趋势发展，深入分析该现象对完成杰青基金的影响，对未来杰青基金管理具有重要意义。[方法/过程] 研究以1994-2018年杰青基金地球科学项目为研究对象，构建科研论文产出效率、创新能力和学术影响力三个评价指标，提出"科技人力资本投入-科研产出"理论模型及假设，采用DID模型克服样本选择性偏误所导致的内生性问题，验证理论假设，实现对杰青基金资助年龄异质性的研究。[结果/结论] 实证结果表明：杰青科学家大龄化趋势日趋严重，存在明显的45岁现象；杰青基金实施20年中，支持"资助年龄越大，资助效应越好"假设的比例较低；三个评价指标维度，资助效应最大且资助年龄在39-42岁之间的年份在杰青基金实施20年中所占比例最大。因此，无论从杰青基金设立宗旨、还是从评估结果来看，都应该避免杰青科学家大龄化趋势，扩大对中低龄优秀青年人才的资助。  相似文献   

我国校园足球政策的三维协同研究     

部义峰  来鲁振 《武汉体育学院学报》2020,54(3):92-100

采用内容分析法,构建集“政策工具-政策制定主体-时间数量”一体化的校园足球三维分析框架,对2009—2018年国务院以及各部委发布的校园足球相关政策进行计量分析,并构建了我国校园足球政策的协同模型。研究表明,校园足球政策制定主体以单一部门为主,联合部门发文量较少,政策制定主体协同度仍需提升。在政策工具的使用上存在较大差异,政府偏向于环境型政策的使用,供给型政策比例有待提高,需求型政策相对匮乏。随着校园足球的深入发展,应该进一步提高政策制定主体的协同性,适当调整环境型政策工具,增加税收金融类;合理匹配供给型政策工具,加强校园足球的推动力;增加需求型政策工具,提高校园足球的拉动力。  相似文献   

The effect of number of siblings and birth order on educational attainment: Empirical Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey     

《International Journal of Educational Development》2020

Data from China demonstrate that the effect of the number of siblings on education is restricted by many factors, such as children’s gender, urban or rural household registration, whether there is only one child, the birth order of children within the family, and parents’ status. Chinese families have significant preferences for the eldest son and the youngest son. Moreover, research based on the natural experiment and instrumental variable approach suggests that market-oriented reform of education has increased the cost of family education expenditures since China’s reform and opening up, which further aggravates the negative impact on education of having many siblings in an urban setting.  相似文献   

Do public subsidies and facility coverage matter for voluntary sports clubs?     

《Sport Management Review》2020,23(2):315-329

In many countries, voluntary sports clubs are the main recipients of public subsidies regarding the provision of recreational sport, and the economically most important level of government is usually the local government (i.e. the municipalities). The purpose of this article is to examine whether and how municipal framework conditions matter for sports clubs. Inspired by previous studies, we examine the role of direct and indirect public subsidies as well as facility coverage. The authors conduct analyses on a general level (for all sports) and specifically for five sports (badminton, football, gymnastics, handball and swimming). The differentiation between sports allows us to examine how municipal framework conditions might be associated differently with density and participation across sports. In the statistical analyses, the authors apply data collected among all 98 Danish municipalities. The results show that the municipal levels of direct and indirect subsidies are weakly correlated with both the density of and participation in sports clubs, while stronger correlations can be identified with regard to facility coverage. The analyses for the five sports reveal that the supply of relevant facility types is – with few exceptions – positively correlated with sports club density and participation levels within each sport. Thus, facility coverage seems to play a more important role for sports clubs than the levels of indirect and particularly direct subsidies.  相似文献   

我国体育产业政策变迁:进程、逻辑及演变趋势     

徐成立  张宝雷  张月蕾  田静  陈元欣  周祖宝 《武汉体育学院学报》2020,54(3):45-53

根据政策分析研究的理论范式,通过共词分析法、聚类分析法等研究方法,分析1978—2018年国家层面的172份体育产业政策变迁的历史进程、逻辑和未来发展趋势。研究认为,我国体育产业政策历经改革开放期(1978—1992年)、积极探索期(1993—2001年)、相对停滞期(2002—2009年)、战略发展期(2010—2018年)四个阶段,并呈现阶段性特点。进而总结出我国体育产业政策变迁的历史逻辑(1)政策理念从“政府管理”到“协同治理”理念的转变;(2)政策主体从政府的“一元主体”到“多元主体”的转变;(3)政策过程从“事前控制”到“全过程”的监管;(4)政策工具从“单一运用”到“综合运用”的转变。在此基础上,提出我国体育产业政策的演变趋势(1)继续深化多元协同治理理念;(2)进一步完善政策主体多元协同机制;(3)重点强调政策过程的全过程监管;(4)提高政策工具的合理运用。  相似文献   

Average vs. distributional effects: Evidence from an experiment in Rwanda     

《International Journal of Educational Development》2020

Programs and policies in education overwhelmingly focus on improving the average academic achievement for students. However, educational interventions focused on literacy improvement can impact readers at different levels of the reading score distribution differently, and the distributional differences may be more pronounced by sex. In this paper, I explore data from a field experiment in a district in Rwanda that was intended to make classroom reading pedagogy more effective and engage students, families, and communities in reading activities outside of school to improve students’ reading outcomes.I study the distributional effects of the intervention on students on two higher-order reading outcomes – Kinyarwanda fluency and Kinyarwanda text comprehension, measured for students who met a basic literacy threshold. I find that a) the set of interventions had a positive and significant, albeit modest effect on students at or above the 25th percentile of the reading distributions b) the program had positive and significant effects on reading outcomes for girls only, and these effects differed along the reading achievement distribution. This work underscores the importance of tailoring programs and policies to the needs of different types of learners.  相似文献