Where is higher education in Francophone West Africa heading?     

João Batista Araujo e Oliveira 《Prospects》1987,17(4):503-527

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Performance,Citizenship and the Knowledge Society: A new mandate for European education policy     

António Magalhães  Stephen Stoer 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2003,1(1):41-66

In this paper we map out the debate concerning a new mandate for European education policy based on recent socio-economic, political and educational developments, seen from the perspective of educational researchers located on the European (semi)periphery. The first part of the paper looks at the category 'preparation for the labour market', while the second part concerns itself with the category 'citizenship'. With regard to the former, it is argued that a new mandate for European education policy finds itself inextricably linked to the new education mandate of the new middle class, in a setting of globalisation and, closer to home, European construction. The latter attempts to conceptualise the emergence of new forms of citizenship at a time when the modern social contract suffers a process of transformation (or, what we term, reconfiguration). Based on the distinction between 'attributed citizenship' and 'demanded citizenship', we analyse changes taking place in state regulation as well as explore some of their implications for schooling.  相似文献   

Introduction to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum     

Klaus Weltner  Antonio Sergio C. Esperidião  Paulo Miranda 《Science & Education》2004,13(7-8):611-629

We show that the treatment of pendulum movement, other than the linear approximation,may be an instructive experimentally based introduction to the physics of non-lineareffects. Firstly the natural frequency of a gravitational pendulum is measured as functionof its amplitude. Secondly forced oscillations of a gravitational pendulum are investigatedexperimentally without limiting amplitudes. By this arrangement new phenomena, thebistability and the jump-effect, can be observed. In the case of bistability the drivengravitational pendulum can oscillate in two different stable modes. Either it oscillateswith a small amplitude and approximately in phase with the exciting torque or it oscillateswith a larger amplitude and approximately anti-phase. The jump effect is the spontaneoustransition from one mode of oscillation to the other. Both effects can be demonstrated andexplained.  相似文献   

Evaluating student allocation in the Portuguese public higher education system     

Miguel Portela  Nelson Areal  Carla Sá  Fernando Alexandre  João Cerejeira  Ana Carvalho  Artur Rodrigues 《Higher Education》2008,56(2):185-203

This paper characterizes and evaluates the student allocation in the Portuguese public higher education system. It describes the supply and demand sides of the system by looking at the numerus clausus across areas of study and institutions, institutions’ degree of diversity, and performance and adjustment indicators based on students’ revealed preferences. Performance indicators quantify the adequacy between demand and supply, across institutions and fields of study, and gauge the performance of public higher education institutions in the competition for candidates. Adjustment indicators allow us to predict the potential impact of changes in higher education regulations on student allocation and its stability. According to these indicators, such changes could result in an expansion for some institutions and fields of study, whereas other institutions might face a reduction.

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Customer’s role in knowledge management and in the innovation process: effects on innovation capacity and marketing results     

Pilar?FidelEmail author  Amparo?Cervera  Walesska?Schlesinger 《知识管理研究与实践》2016,14(2):195-203

Scholars have acknowledged customer knowledge management (CKM) as a key strategic resource for improving innovation and supporting long-term customer relationship management. This study provides a deeper understanding of the internal antecedents of business innovation capacity overcoming previous approaches. A model that had not previously been tested was used to analyse the role of customer collaboration and CKM – measured as a second-order construct – in innovation processes and marketing results. To test the model, structural equation modelling (partial least squares) was applied to a random sample of 210 Spanish companies. Results confirm that CKM and customer collaboration are antecedents of innovation capacity and marketing results. Furthermore, the effect of CKM is greater than the effect of customer collaboration. This paper provides a basis for managers to encourage innovation in their companies and explains how managers can improve marketing results.  相似文献   

The initial development of spelling in Spanish: From global to analytical     

Sylvia?DefiorEmail author  Francisca?Serrano 《Reading and writing》2005,18(1):81-98

During a school year, samples of words written by three groups of children of successive ages were collected. Two groups of children were in first and second year of Kindergarten (4 and 5 years of age), when alphabetic rules were not taught in a systematic way. The third group was in first year of Primary School (6 years of age), and was being taught to read and spell in a systematic way. After classifying the words written by the children, seven categories of spelling were obtained, which may represent different stages in their learning process. Their analysis showed that they are related to different types of knowledge and processes, mainly phonological ones. The results show that the development of spelling in Spanish does not qualitatively differ from that of children who learn to spell in opaque writing systems. The differences mainly involve the time it takes to learn, and the rate of acquisition.  相似文献   

The (non)effect of Joint Construction in a genre-based approach to teaching writing     

Carina Hermansson  Bert Jonsson  Maria Levlin  Anna Lindhé  Berit Lundgren  Annika Norlund Shaswar 《The Journal of educational research》2019,112(4):483-494

This quasi-experimental intervention study examines the effect of genre-based instructional practices on 90 primary students’ narrative writing achievements and is a result of six teachers’ action to meet the educational goals of the Swedish national curriculum. Specifically, the authors examine the effects of Joint Construction, the phase in the genre pedagogical model of the Sydney School known as the Teaching and Learning Cycle, in which teachers and students work together to co-construct texts. Joint Construction has been put forward as the most powerful part of the Teaching and Learning Cycle. The authors challenge this argument, presenting findings that are inconsistent with this widely held belief. Using a pretest-posttest control group design, the study shows that the Joint Construction stage did not significantly improve the quality of students’ narrative writing or increase the text length of their writings.  相似文献   

Effect of Dental Course Cycle on Anatomical Knowledge and Dental Carving Ability of Dental Students     

Ademar Fonseca  Victoria B. da S. Guimarães  Sinval A. Rodrigues-Junior  Alisson A.R. Fonseca  Renato A. de Azevedo  Marcos B. Corrêa  Rafael G. Lund 《Anatomical sciences education》2022,15(2):352-359

This study assessed the effect of the course cycle on theoretical knowledge of dental morphology and the dental carving ability of dental students. Thirty-two dental students from the third semester (initial cycle) and 30 students from the eighth and tenth semesters of the dental course (end cycle) had their theoretical knowledge on dental morphology assessed using a questionnaire with ten closed questions. Their dental carving ability was also assessed using wax carvings in macro models of plaster (for the third [S3] and eight [S8] semesters) and natural-sized artificial teeth (for the tenth [S10] semester). The teeth chosen for the dental carving activity were #16 and #47. The scores were statistically analyzed using the t-test, Kruskal–Wallis test, and Mann–Whitney test (α = 0.05). Students from the initial cycle presented better theoretical knowledge than the other groups did (P < 0.007). No significant differences in carving score were found between the initial and end cycles (P > 0.05), although S10 students obtained a higher score for teeth #16 and #47 (P < 0.05). Natural-sized artificial teeth received a higher evaluation score in dental carvings than the macro models (P < 0.001). Within the limits of this study, it was possible to conclude that students from the initial cycle (S3) presented higher theoretical knowledge, whereas no difference in carving ability was observed between the initial and end cycles. The tenth semester (S10) students performed dental carvings with better quality. Furthermore, carvings in natural-sized artificial teeth presented better quality compared with the macro models.  相似文献   

Across Textual Landscapes: The Role of Affect During Digital Reading Encounters     

Hermansson  Carina  Olin-Scheller  Christina 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2022,53(3):327-342

Children's Literature in Education - This article addresses questions related to how the change in the textual landscape, from paper-based books to electronic books, has an effect on the...  相似文献   

Trust and Mistrust in Sources of Scientific Information on Climate Change and Vaccines     

Rowland  Jussara  Estevens  João  Krzewińska  Aneta  Warwas  Izabela  Delicado  Ana 《Science & Education》2022,31(5):1399-1424

Science & Education - Public trust in science and expertise remains a contentious issue. When public trust is analysed, it often simplifies a complex process of information retrieval and...  相似文献