Challenging Performative Fabrication: Seeking authenticity in academic development practice     

Heather MacKenzie  Kim McShane 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(1):45-54

While extensive discussion has been devoted to internationalising the curriculum in a response to the presence of international students, little is known about how academic staff members perceive the presence of this student cohort. Using data collected through semi‐structured interviews with 80 academic staff from four different faculties in one higher education institution, this study investigates staff understanding regarding international students, with particular attention given to how disciplinary differences shape their responses. Findings indicate that staff from ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ disciplines hold different instructional beliefs, which then affect their teaching and learning practice. Discussions are provided on how these differing conceptions of teaching fit into the context of academic development with respect to international education.  相似文献   

James Moffett’s Mistake: Ignoring the Rational Capacities of the Other     

Kim Donehower 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2013,20(3):266-276

Using Alasdair MacIntyre’s theory of tradition-bound rationalities, this essay analyses James Moffett’s depiction of the censors who opposed his Interactions textbook series in the Kanawha County, West Virginia, schools. Many reviewers have found Moffett’s analysis of the censors in Storm in the Mountains even-handed and respectful. Such lauding of Moffett’s work obscures the ways in which his understanding of the censors and their motivations inadequately considers the cultural history of the Appalachian region, its relationship to literacy, and the rationality underlying the censors’ stance. A critical look at Moffett’s representation of the censors permits a reconsideration of his theory of literacy, and moves us closer to understanding how to realize pluralistic education in resistant locales.  相似文献   

Connecting theory and practice in mentor preparation: mentoring for the improvement of teaching and learning     

Kim Rickard 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(3):383-401

As a group, entrepreneurs and small business managers require training which is specific to their skills gaps, and takes into account that they are geographically dispersed with limited time available for such activities. They also require training which is integrated with their business activities and sufficiently flexible to incorporate into their busy and changing schedules. Email potentially provides a means of delivering a training intervention which suits the particular training and learning needs of this growing group. In spite of the growth of development and delivery of e‐mentoring programs, there is limited academic research around structured e‐mentoring generally and, in particular, around the evaluation of online programs for professionals in the micro‐business and small to medium enterprise sector. Given this lag in the academic literature, this article aims to explore how e‐mentoring programs for this target group might be usefully evaluated by drawing on pedagogical discourse. Specifically, this article proposes an adaptation to a model for evaluating computer‐based education programs and applies this intepretative framework to an e‐mentoring scheme called Mentors Online with reference to other programs aimed at similar target groups. The adaptation provides a possible framework for grounding the evaluation of e‐mentoring programs and making explicit the theoretical and pedagogical basis of much of the literature to date. The Mentors Online program was developed and delivered in 2002 by an Australian employee association with a membership of around 25,000 professionals. The Mentors Online website is available at www.apesma.asn.au/mentorsonline  相似文献   

Multigrade teaching in Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam: an overview   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

E. Hargreaves  C. Montero  N. Chau  M. Sibli  T. Thanh 《International Journal of Educational Development》2001,21(6)

This paper comprises reviews of multigrade teaching in three countries: Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. For each country, we describe the context for multigrade teaching, the country's education system, the place of multigrade teaching within the system, problems associated with multigrade teaching and current strategies for multigrade teaching. We conclude by noting some common experiences for multigrade schools across the countries, including those of isolation and dispersion, lack of physical facilities, poor teacher backgrounds and conditions, limited classroom teaching and learning strategies and pupils' deprived backgrounds. Also common across the three countries is a national commitment to improving the situation for multigrade classrooms.  相似文献   

Constitution     

Kim Witte  Gary Meyer  Helen Bidol  Mary K. Casey  Jenifer Kopfman  Karen Maduschke 《Communication Studies》2013,64(3):229-232

An ecological theory of health communication is offered that addresses how communications about health interdependently work together to influence health and/or health‐related behaviors. To explain how a multitude of variables work together in a synergistic manner, the present work borrows heavily from chaos theory. The use of chaos theory concepts represents a significant paradigm shift from previous, more reductionist, health communication perspectives. The present work (a) provides a definition of health communication, (b) offers an overall health communication framework, (c) introduces relevant chaos theory concepts into the health communication literature, and (d) illustrates how chaos theory concepts can be applied to the field of health communication in order to explain health‐related behavior. Specific operationalization procedures are suggested to test the theoretical ideas outlined.  相似文献   

Novel method of generating water-in-oil(W�MO) droplets in a microchannel with grooved walls     

Jihoon Kim  Doyoung Byun    Jongin Hong 《Biomicrofluidics》2011,5(1)

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An electroactive microwell array for trapping and lysing single-bacterial cells   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kim SH  Yamamoto T  Fourmy D  Fujii T 《Biomicrofluidics》2011,5(2):24114

Interest in single-cell analysis has increased because it allows to understand cell metabolism and characterize disease states, cellular adaptation to environmental changes, cell cycles, etc. Here, the authors propose a device to electrically trap and lyse single-bacterial cells in an array format for high-throughput single-cell analysis. The applied electric field is highly deformed and concentrated toward the inside of the microwell structures patterned on the planar electrode. This configuration effectively generates dielectrophoretic force to attract a single cell per well. The microwell has a comparable size to the target bacterial cell making it possible to trap single cells by physically excluding additional cells. Inducing highly concentrated electric potential on the cell membrane can also effectively lyse the trapped single-bacterial cells. The feasibility of the authors' approach was demonstrated by trapping and lysing Escherichia coli cells at the single-cell level. The present microwell array can be used as a basic tool for individual bacterial cell analysis.  相似文献   

Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low-income families     

Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan  Jingyi Wang  Junyeong Yang  Minjung Kim  Yiran Zhang  Susan H. Yoon 《Child development》2023,94(4):874-888

This study identified coparenting patterns using data collected across 2007–2010 from low-income couples (N = 2915; 26.90% non-Hispanic White; 9.41% non-Hispanic Black; 34.24% Hispanic, 29.27% other or mixed race) with young children (M = 3.65 years; SD = 1.31 years; 48% girls) and examined relations with children's social–emotional adjustment. Latent profile analysis revealed four coparenting patterns: mutual high-quality (43.4%), moderate-quality, mothers less positive (31.8%), moderate-quality, fathers less positive (15.9%), and low-quality, mothers less positive (8.9%). When parents' perspectives on coparenting were positive and congruent, children fared best. Children also fared well when coparenting quality was moderate, and mothers were less positive than fathers. When coparenting quality was moderate and fathers were less positive than mothers, children showed the poorest adjustment.  相似文献   

A model for principals' STEM leadership capability     

Vince Geiger  Kim Beswick  Sharon Fraser  Ben Holland-Twining 《British Educational Research Journal》2023,49(5):900-924

In this paper we develop a model for the capabilities required by principals for effective Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) leadership. The model underpinned a large national cross-sectional research and development project across Australian states in both primary and secondary schools. This model is developed via synthesis of research literature across leadership and STEM education. The model consists of five dimensions of principals' STEM capability: (1) STEM discipline-specific and integrated knowledge and practices; (2) contexts; (3) dispositions; (4) tools; and (5) critical orientation. These dimensions represent distinct, but interrelated, capacities required by principals to establish and maintain positive STEM learning cultures within schools. Elaborations have been provided, in the form of capabilities, for each of these dimensions. The model has the potential for shaping principals' STEM leadership development trajectories and structuring targeted professional learning programmes for principals, teachers and other members of the school community.  相似文献   

Correction to: Neglected Elements of a High-Quality Early Childhood Workforce: Whole Teacher Well-Being and Working Conditions     

Kwon  Kyong-Ah  Ford  Timothy G.  Salvatore  Alicia L.  Randall  Ken  Jeon  Lieny  Malek-Lasater  Adrien  Ellis  Natalie  Kile  Mia S.  Horm  Diane M.  Kim  Sun Geun  Han  Minkyung 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2022,50(1):169-171

Early Childhood Education Journal - The original version of this article unfortunately contains some typo in Table 1.  相似文献