What supports 11- to 13-year-old Pasifika students in mathematics learning in New Zealand classrooms?     

Karen Nicholas 《Education 3-13》2017,45(1):68-82

The steepest decline in achievement in New Zealand primary schools occurs in Years 7 and 8, with the greatest decline in the subject area of mathematics. The cohort that achieves at the lowest level in New Zealand schools is Pasifika. This study considers the views of those stakeholders involved in the teaching of these children. It seeks to uncover the positive steps being taken to advantage this group and the difficulties principals, teachers and parents face to improve achievement. One-to-one interviews were used to elicit advice and information to provide evidence of best teaching practices for Pasifika students  相似文献   

Sports-based Text Sets: Fostering Critical Literacy at the Intersections of Sport and Society     

Luke Rodesiler 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2017,90(2):35-40

Sports culture is central to the lives of many students, whether they participate in athletic competitions or sports fandom. Unfortunately, sports culture also reflects many sociopolitical issues and inequities that impinge upon our greater society in the present day (e.g., domestic violence, racism). For those reasons, sports-based text sets—diverse collections of texts about figures, events, and happenings in sports culture—stand to support teachers in honoring students' knowledge of and interests in sports culture while also facilitating critical literacy practices through the investigation of inequities that ail both sport and society. This article introduces the notion of a sports-based text set, addresses the types of texts that might be featured in such a set, and presents ideas for exploring specific texts with students, using the issue of inequitable compensation for male and female athletes as an example.  相似文献   

Considerate,convivial and capacious? Finding a language to capture ethos in ‘creative’ schools     

Sara Bragg  Helen Manchester 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2017,38(6):864-879

Concepts of school ‘ethos’ or ‘culture’ have been widely debated in education since the 1980s. This is partly as a consequence of marketisation, partly because ethos has been identified as a low-cost route to school improvement. Corporate, authoritarian, and most recently ‘military’ models of ethos have been widely promulgated in the UK. Another significant strand of educational thinking, however, has emphasised ethos for and as learning: how schools might prefigure alternative, more socially just, worlds. This article argues that accounting for such divergent notions of ethos demands greater attention to the intellectual resources mobilised in interpreting educational processes. We discuss schools that used their work with the English creative learning programme, Creative Partnerships, to develop what we describe as ‘considerate, convivial and capacious’ school ethos. We aim thereby to value their achievements, provide tools to contest dominant discourses around ethos, and advocate more critical, reflexive approaches to researching school cultures.  相似文献   

Examining the moderating effect of individual-level cultural values on users’ acceptance of E-learning in developing countries: a structural equation modeling of an extended technology acceptance model     

Ali Tarhini  Kate Hone  Xiaohui Liu  Takwa Tarhini 《Interactive Learning Environments》2017,25(3):306-328

In this study, we examine the effects of individual-level culture on the adoption and acceptance of e-learning tools by students in Lebanon using a theoretical framework based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To overcome possible limitations of using TAM in developing countries, we extend TAM to include subjective norms (SN) and quality of work life constructs as additional constructs and a number of cultural variables as moderators. The four cultural dimensions of masculinity/femininity (MF), individualism/collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance were measured at the individual level to enable them to be integrated into the extended TAM as moderators and a research model was developed based on previous literature. To test the hypothesised model, data were collected from 569 undergraduate and postgraduate students using e-learning tools in Lebanon via questionnaire. The collected data were analysed using the structural equation modelling technique in conjunction with multi-group analysis. As hypothesised, the results of the study revealed perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), SN and quality of work life to be significant determinants of students’ behavioural intention (BI) towards e-learning. The empirical results also demonstrated that the relationship between SN and BI was particularly sensitive to differences in individual-cultural values, with significant moderating effects observed for all four of the cultural dimensions studied. Some moderating effects of culture were also found for both PU and PEOU, however, contrary to expectations the effect of quality of work life was not found to be moderated by MF as some previous authors have predicted. The implications of these results to both theory and practice are explored in the paper.  相似文献   

The influence of academic culture on quality management system ISO 9001 maintenance within Malaysian universities     

Siti Arni Basir  John Davies  Jacqueline Douglas  Alexander Douglas 《Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management》2017,39(3):320-340

This study investigates the influence of the elements of academic culture on quality management system ISO 9001 maintenance within Malaysian universities. There is a dearth of empirical studies on maintaining ISO 9001, particularly in the higher education context. From the literature review, academic culture was classified according to four elements – academic freedom, individualism, professionalism and collegiality. Two case studies were conducted within Malaysian universities that had been ISO 9001-certified for 5 years. At the time of this research, these two were the only universities that had certification for their entire organisation. (Most organisations gain certification for specific departments). The findings showed that academic freedom, individualism and collegiality had worked against ISO 9001 maintenance, while professionalism had influenced ISO 9001 maintenance both positively and negatively. The opposites of individualism (teamwork) and collegiality (managerialism) had supported ISO 9001 maintenance in one of the cases.  相似文献   

Designing and using an organisational culture inquiry tool to glimpse the relational nature of leadership and organisational culture within a South Australian primary school     

David Giles 《School Leadership & Management》2017,37(1-2):120-140

This case study research found that the relational leadership and organisational culture at a public primary school situated in a high poverty location in South Australia was built upon the strength of the inter-relationships between the teachers, teachers and leadership, and between teachers and students. Supported by what we called ‘dynamic inter-relationships’ and a ‘commitment to ongoing growth’ manifesting as key themes across the qualitative survey data generated by the school’s participants, we found the individual strengths of staff served the ‘on-going formation of organisational life’. Cognisant of these disclosed relational underpinnings, the research provided recommendations to the school’s leadership team about how they could best progress their educational reform agenda. The findings affirmed an Appreciative Inquiry inspired approach designed for the research was ‘fit for purpose’ as it generated extensive qualitative data from the teachers and leaders, offering opportunity for deep interpretive analysis using hermeneutic methodology of the school’s relational leadership and organisational culture. The research findings were subsequently confirmed by the teachers and leaders through a dialogic presentation of the research findings as an accurate representation of the culture of their school.  相似文献   

An Autoethnographical Study of Culture,Power, Identity and Art Education in Post‐Colonial South Korea          下载免费PDF全文

Ok‐Hee Jeong 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2017,36(1):9-20

This article reflects my experiences of learning art in the 1970s and 1980s and my teaching career in school art education in twenty‐first century South Korea. This autobiographical reflection shows how I have struggled with my identity as an art teacher in the post‐colonial context of Western influences on Korean society since World War II. There has been greater tension and a greater struggle for different values, practices and identities when new values and practices have been introduced into the particular socio‐cultural context of South Korea. My struggles with particular kinds of pedagogic identity valued within the rapidly changing political, economic and cultural context of Western influences on Korean art education demonstrate the hidden structural mechanism of the relationship between culture, power and identity in the post‐colonial world of globalisation. This study as an autoethnographical research provides critical insights into how identities are produced by pedagogic discourses and practices of art education that are constructed through the specific systems of practice and language which transmit and regulate such identities and values.  相似文献   

利用大众传媒促进社会主义新农村文化建设   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

邹华华 《郧阳师范高等专科学校学报》2006,26(5):87-90

“社会主义新农村建设”的内涵不仅是要发展农村经济．更要同步建设新农村文化，改变当前广大农民群众文化生活的匮乏现状，从而保证农村经济的持久发展和农村社会的和谐进步。在新农村文化建设中，相比较其他方式，大众传媒具有无可比拟的优势。然而，目前大众传媒对农村的信息传播严重不足．各级政府以及媒体应采取措施利用大众传媒促进新农村文化建设，加强政策引导，建设农村公益性媒体．综合各类型媒体构建农村复合型网状传播结构，对农传播的媒体内容和形式要切实贴近“三农”。  相似文献   

论民族院校独特的文化功能   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

杨胜才 《高等教育研究》2006,(10)

民族院校是党和国家为解决国内民族问题而建立的综合性普通高等院校,是培养少数民族高素质人才、研究我国民族理论和民族政策、传承和弘扬各民族优秀文化的重要基地,是展示我国民族政策和对外交往的重要窗口。民族院校作为一种特殊的教育形式,符合多元文化教育的世界发展趋势,依据文化的平等与繁荣这一中国社会主义民族关系的目标要求,促进一体多元中华文化的整合是民族院校的基本功能,并且具有其独特的优势;继承、弘扬和发展我国少数民族的优秀传统文化是民族院校的神圣使命。  相似文献   

建设有中国特色的企业文化的策略     

李强  万勇华  赵金华 《连云港职业技术学院学报》2002,15(3):33-36

我国企业化建设中存在问题的主要原因：市场经济不发达，企业缺乏自主权及管理水平低下；政企关系没有完全顺理；传统化中消极因素的沉淀。要建设有中国特色的企业化，可以采取以下策略：1．坚持以邓小平理论为指导；2．继续和弘扬中华民族优秀的传统的化；3．吸收和借鉴世界各国一切优秀化成果；4．坚持从企业实际出发；5．加强思想政治工作。  相似文献