How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice     

Christopher Day 《British Educational Research Journal》2020,46(1):247-264

This article reports a 3-year case study of a primary school in England, in which a recently appointed principal attempted to build ‘collegial professional autonomy’ (Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2 , 2015, 20) within a push to improve students’ progress and attainment. The research examined the tensions between staff who embraced the principal's agenda for collegially agreed change, and whose students’ academic progress and performance improved over a 3-year consecutive period when measured in terms of students’ entry-level attainment and socio-economic factors, and staff who asserted their right to ‘individual professional autonomy’ and whose students’ academic progress and attainment declined. The research: (i) challenges claims that reform necessarily results in school cultures of compliancy, de-professionalisation and the technicisation of teaching; (ii) raises issues concerning the pedagogical leadership of principals in a devolved, ‘self-governing’ school system; and (iii) questions teachers’ entitlements to individual professional autonomy where this is associated with students’ continuing academic underperformance.  相似文献   

A Bioethos for Bodies: Respecting a Priceless Resource     

Thomas H. Champney 《Anatomical sciences education》2019,12(4):432-434

The value that willed body donors provide to medical education is priceless. Their precious gift helps to teach anatomy, spatial relationships between morphological structures, anatomical variation, and professionalism to medical students in a way that plastic models, podcasts, and lectures cannot. They are also an important resource for medical research and a wide variety of postgraduate training opportunities. While many body donation programs throughout the world are nonprofit organizations, there are body donation companies in the United States that sell donors for-profit. These “body brokers” have accumulated large profits from this business. It is incongruous that others would profit from such a priceless, freely donated gift. To prevent this incongruity, it is proposed that the international anatomical community develop a normative culture (a bioethos) for body donation programs. This would involve the conscious and systematic development of ethical principles for the day-to-day policies and practices of institutions that collect and use human bodies. With the development of this bioethos, a cultural shift in how donors are treated would occur and, over time, this would become the normal practice. These principles would become fundamental and foundational for the procurement and use of priceless human tissues.  相似文献   

中美竞技篮球对篮球产业影响的比较研究     

李少兰 《广州体育学院学报》2019,(3):38-40

中美在篮球产业发展水平上存在着巨大差距，而竞技篮球发展水平对篮球产业的影响作用是造成这种差距的主要原因之一。NBA是美国篮球产业的赚钱机器，同时也是宣传机器和造势机器，NBA对美国篮球产业产品乃至深层次的篮球文化、篮球娱乐精神都具有广泛的影响力，这种影响力几乎覆盖全球。中国篮球职业化改革已走过28个年头，竞技篮球对篮球产业也产生了积极的影响，然而对照美国职业篮球发展路径，还存有很多不足和缺陷。今后需要在政府管理、企业自主经营、市场化发展等方面花大力气。  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   

美国教师资格证书制度分析及其启示     

牛风蕊 《天津电大学报》2011,15(3):53-55

提高教师素质、促进教师专业发展,是教师教育发展的重要目标。教师资格证书制度是教师教育体系的重要组成部分,反映出一个国家对教师职业的基本要求。美国的教师教育体系较为健全,教师资格证书制度比较完善,其成功经验值得我们学习和借鉴。  相似文献   

论中职教师的专业性     

查吉德 《职业技术教育》2011,32(1)

教师职业活动的独特性决定了教师专业的内生性.中职教师与普通高中教师因职业活动的差异,决定了他们专业性的差异.根据中等职业教育的培养目标、教育对象与教师的职业活动,中职教师的专业性是实践型的,实践性是中职教师的专业特质.  相似文献   

关于我国残疾人中等职业学校教师队伍现状的调查     

陈蓓琴  连福鑫  王辉 《中国特殊教育》2011,(11):60-65

加强教师队伍建设是提升残疾人中等职业学校办学质量的重要保证.本研究对全国11所残疾人中等职业学校教师的结构、专业素养和职后培训进行调查分析,结果显示:(1)残疾人中等职业学校教师总体结构合理,但总量偏少;(2)主要管理人员与教师专业素养较好,但特殊教育背景知识缺乏,所学专业与教授课程匹配性不高;(3)职后培训特殊教育与...  相似文献   

A contested profession: employability,performativity and professionalism in Irish further education     

Bernie Grummell  Michael J. Murray 《Journal of educational administration and history》2015,47(4):432-450

Further education typically represents the vocational, technical and practice-based forms of education, but this is now being repositioned in a neo-liberal era that is driving a performance-based and market-orientated vision of education in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere. The implacable drive of neo-liberal economics in everyday practice is evident in the current economic and training discourses of further education, which aim to upgrade the employability of low-skilled and marginalised sectors of the population. The article provides an overview of shifts in educational policy and practices that align Irish further education with what has occurred in the UK and elsewhere through processes of professionalisation and performativity. Analysis of the potential impact on notions of professional identity in the sector helps to articulate the principles, pedagogies and philosophies that will be vital when contesting the performance cultures of New Managerialism that seem likely to ensue. We explore the implications in terms of the policy discourses, organisational structure and professional practices of further education. We contend that changes in these areas have profound impacts on the learning and knowledge base of further education, constraining its social justice and transformative capacity for the learners at the heart of further education.  相似文献   

‘Real Pictures of Current Events’     

Christoph Raetzsch 《Media History》2015,21(3):294-312

Objectivity has been regarded as a central ideal of American journalism in the early twentieth century. The concurrent emergence of photography in the press is rarely associated with this development. The article explores the photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity by discussing a crucial phase in the development of reproduction media for images, the transition from wood engravings to halftones. The former was the dominant mode of ‘illustrated journalism’, the latter became the dominant mode of reproducing photojournalism in print in the twentieth century. The halftone process introduced an equivalence between photographs and their reproductions, obliterating the mediation that had taken place in a code of reproduction that was almost imperceptible. In the contested adoption of the halftone process, it is argued, a shifting valuation of photographs can be observed that prefigures the formulation of objectivity as a transparent code of mediation in journalism.  相似文献   

“I Was Doing a Good Deed”: Exploring the Motivations of Photo Story Subjects in Granting Photojournalists Access*     

Brian P. McDermott  Tara M. Mortensen  Khadija Ejaz  Daniel D. Haun 《Journalism Practice》2019,13(8):916-921

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