The challenge of more light,the complexity of culture: lessons learned in exploring the cultural positioning of literacy teachers     

Mary B. McVee 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2014,35(1):1-15

This conceptual article, based on data collected and analyzed within a larger study, considers perspectives on cultural diversity and research in the context of the current politicized educational environment within the United States. Drawing from previous research conducted in a graduate course exploring language, literacy and culture, the author articulates three practices that teacher educators and researchers can attend to in order to maintain complex explorations of culture with preservice and inservice teachers. These practices are (1) fostering a discursive view of culture, (2) attending to localized knowledge and (3) acknowledging and developing empathic stances. While examples are drawn from a US context, educational and multicultural concerns addressed are global in implication.  相似文献   

Do American and Korean education systems converge? Tracking school reform policies and outcomes in Korea and the USA     

Jaekyung Lee  Daekwon Park 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2014,15(3):391-399

This study examines key school reform policies and outcomes of the USA and Korea over the past three decades from comparative perspectives. Since the two nations’ unique educational problems brought divergent educational reform paths—standardization versus differentiation, high-stakes testing versus individualized assessment, and centralization versus decentralization—the study tracks international policy benchmarking efforts and potential impact on educational convergence. The study employs mixed methods, including the content analysis of research and media documents and the trend analysis of TIMSS and PISA datasets. The results indicate that, despite significant changes in policy discourse, the gaps between Korea and the USA in student math achievement and school climates did not narrow. The policy lessons from these cases and the issues of international education benchmarking are discussed.  相似文献   

TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE: HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS OF THE NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY     

Noemi Waight 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2014,12(5):1143-1168

In-depth interviews guided by video elicitations examined 30 high school science teachers’ conceptions of technology and by extension how these conceptions reflected dimensions of nature of technology. Altogether, 64 % of the teachers characterized their schools and departments as aggressive–moderate adopters with generous access and support for technological tools. In comparison, 30 % noted that their school lagged behind due to funding and lack of infrastructure. Definitions of technology revealed emphasis on technology as artifact, overwhelming optimism on the purpose and function of technology to improve and make life easier and as representation of advancement in civilization. In tandem, teachers were most drawn to two video scenarios—medical and everyday tool videos because it reflected notions of progression and expectations of future changes; heightened awareness of the multitude of available technologies; and perceived relevance with classroom content. Perhaps most telling in these findings was that few teachers were drawn to the classroom video scenario, and only three teachers highlighted the technology–science–school science connection. These findings have implications for holistic understandings of technologies, which may inform how science teachers perceive and enact technologies in their science classrooms.  相似文献   

Negotiating White science in rural Black America: A case for navigating the landscape of teacher knowledge domains     

Randy Yerrick  Joseph Johnson 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(4):915-939

The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of requisite teacher knowledge for teaching lower-track science students. Using video accounts, student focus groups, and teacher reflections researchers documented missteps, dead-ends, and unfruitful trajectories informed by the teacher’s incoming knowledge and compared these instances to necessary modifications informed by students’ voices and cultural artifacts. Our study revealed the shifting nature of sociocultural and pedagogical content knowledge of the teacher immersed in a context unlike that he experienced as a student. Results showed that teachers of majority backgrounds could learn to teach diverse students with at least moderate success from the perspective of their students. Implications for research and teacher education in diverse settings are discussed.  相似文献   

Using multimedia cases for educating the primary school mathematics teacher educator: a design study     

《International Journal of Educational Research》2002,37(2):161-178

The overarching goal of this chapter is to better understand how multimedia video case studies can support the professionalization of primary-school-mathematics teacher educators. We investigate the use of multimedia cases to support teacher educators in learning to mathematize and didactize and to learn how to use multimedia cases with their student teachers. The research study has an exploratory character; we will present a framework for the use of multimedia cases as a tentative answer, grounded in the researchers’ experiments and design activities.  相似文献   

Librarian views of the ACRL Framework and the impact of covid-19 on information literacy instruction in community colleges     

《Library & information science research》2022,44(2):101151

Community colleges offer a unique context in higher education and yet specific guidance on implementing the ACRL Framework in community colleges is lacking. Semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians who had instruction duties explored the state of the implementation of the Framework in community colleges and the effect of the recent pandemic on information literacy instruction (ILI). The Framework is most lauded for its effect on the design and delivery of instruction, but its components mainly underpin ILI rather than being explicitly taught. The pandemic limited one-shot information literacy instruction but opened up opportunities for embedding librarianship in online courses. The value of this study lies in the potential for identifying opportunities for improving ILI in community colleges, based on a better understanding of librarians' attitudes and experiences of their instructional roles. Community college librarians with responsibility for ILI can be more fully supported when their instructional challenges are better understood.  相似文献   

Introduction: Information and Communication Technology in Early Childhood Education     

X. Christine Wang  James L. Hoot 《Early education and development》2006,17(3):317-322

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Risk,affect, and policy support: public perception of air pollution in China     

Jialing Huang 《亚洲交流杂志》2018,28(3):281-297

Air pollution is a critical environmental problem that has spurred great public concern in China. This study examines how issue salience, environmental value, risk perception, and affective response influence information seeking, objective knowledge, and policy support related to this issue. The recent release of a controversial environmental documentary on Chinese social media, Under the Dome, also prompted us to explore the impact of exposure to this documentary on Chinese social media users’ information seeking and policy support related to air pollution. Results showed that risk perception and negative affect influenced information seeking and policy support both directly and indirectly. Also, exposure to the documentary moderated the effects of key variables on information seeking and policy support. However, contrary to our expectations, no significant relationship was found between information seeking and objective knowledge. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings were discussed.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Susan Sayer  Susan Sayar  P. G. Altbach  John D. Turner  D. G. Mulcahy  Erich Leitner  Nancy M. Reid  John Powell 《Higher Education》1982,11(3):345-352

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Book reviews     

Steven B. Sample  Sue Tatum  Gordon A. Inkster  James Calderhead  John S. Andrews 《Higher Education》1987,16(5):647-657

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