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Carla C. Johnson 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(4):629-661
The experiences of middle school science teachers at two schools in the southeastern US who participated in collaborative,
sustained, whole-school professional development and their implementation of standards-based instructional practices are the
focus of this study. Participants were involved in their second year of the professional development experience. The research
question that was explored was “How are science teachers implementing standards-based instruction while participating in effective
professional development experiences?” Data collected in the form of teacher interviews and classroom observations using an
observation protocol. Findings indicate that even with effective professional development, teachers implement standards-based
instructional practices at varying levels. The reasons for these differences are discussed and the role of teacher beliefs
and the impact of beliefs, experience and support from administrators on professional development efforts are discussed. Implications
for future science education reform stakeholders and professional development efforts are revealed. 相似文献
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This study analyses why and how academic inbreeding as a recruitment practice continues to prevail in Japan, a country with
a mature higher education system, where high rates of academic inbreeding endure in most of the research-oriented universities
in spite of several higher education reforms. Based on a qualitative analysis, we disclose three characteristics that lead
academics to become inbred at Japanese universities. One characteristic—the adoption of “open recruitment processes” in detriment
of “closed recruitment processes”—changed over time, limiting academic inbreeding practices, but two other characteristics
remained unchanged over time: the “one university learning experience” and the “concentration of doctoral supervisors at the
same university”. These latter characteristics represent difficult challenges to be tackled as they are also traditional characteristics
of the Japanese higher education system. The research also shows that academic inbreeding practices are a means to assure
organizational stability and institutional identity, features perceived as important by Japanese universities. A central challenge
for the Japanese universities is then to guarantee these features without needing to rely on academic inbreeding practices
to obtain them. However, devising policies to meet this challenge calls for institutional will to change, proactive strategies
and time. 相似文献
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Leanne Drennan 《TechTrends》2000,44(5):20-25
The most effective part of the communication plan for “Selling IBM Global Services” was to send copies to executives and managers. It generated curiosity and got people talking across organizations about how the program could be used. We also got excellent response from demonstrations of the program, substantiating our theory that if people see it in action they will use it. For our next project or this type, we will include a segment called “If you only have 5 minutes” within the program to motivate people to try it. The program is now in use in China, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Europe. A Webbased version of “Ask the Experts” is now available to IBM employees around the world. 相似文献
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Bradley E. Cox Kadian L. McIntosh Robert D. Reason Patrick T. Terenzini 《Research in higher education》2011,52(8):808-829
In an effort to identify policies that foster an institutional “culture of teaching,” or encourage use of effective pedagogies,
this study uses data from 5,612 faculty members at 45 institutions to examine connections between institutional policies and
faculty members’ perceptions and practices related to teaching and learning. A series of multi-level models suggests that
academic policy variables have small and generally insignificant relationships to such faculty perceptions or practices. Instead,
conventional institutional characteristics, such as selectivity and Carnegie classification, appear to be more influential
factors. 相似文献
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Gilbert C. Park 《The Urban Review》2011,43(5):620-635
While the “model minority” stereotype of Asian Americans and its negative effects has been documented elsewhere, relatively
little attention has been paid to how recent Asian immigrant students begin to embrace the stereotype while in schools. This
study explores the identity formation process for a group of recent Korean immigrant students as “model minority” in an urban
high school to empirically document the process. Through interviews and observations, I learned that the immigrants acquired
an unauthentic American identity as a racial minority, constructed their status as “model minority” in response, and enacted
the stereotype as they sanctioned those who couldn’t live up to the stereotype. The aim is to add to the body of knowledge
on the school experiences of recent Asian immigrants. 相似文献
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We discuss Konstantinos Alexakos, Jayson Jones and Victor Rodriguez’s hermeneutic study of formation and function of kinship-like
relationships among inner city male students of color in a college physics classroom. From our Critical Complexity Science
framework we first discuss the reading erlebnisse of students laughing at and with each other as something that immediately captured our attention in being transformative
of the classroom. We continue by exploring their classroom and research experience as an emergent structure modifying their
collective as well as their individual experiences. As we analyze both the classroom and the research space as a complex system,
we reflect on the instructor/students interactions characterized by an asymmetrical “power” relationship. From our analysis
we propose to consider the zone of proximal development as the constantly emerging and transforming person experience (erlebnisse and
erfahrung). 相似文献
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A sense of place 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Ruth Wilson 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1997,24(3):191-194
Conclusion Places shape the stories of our lives. These stories become ongoing “ecological conversations”—i.e., expressions of the dialogue
between ourselves and the environment (Lutts, 1985). When this conversation ends, so will our future.
The development of healthy environmental awareness and concern starts with a feeling response to nature. Such a response comes
primarily by way of firsthand positive experiences in the out-of-doors, especially in environments fostering a “sense of place”
experience. Attention to creating a sense of place for young children can thus prove helpful in fostering a lifelong commitment
to the natural environment. In designing “sense of place” play and learning spaces for young children, we are, indeed, designing
the future as well. 相似文献
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A science teacher and her mentor reflect on their participation in the Learning Research Cycle, a professional learning model
that bridges research and practice in both university and public school contexts. Teachers do scientific research in scientists’
laboratories, then bridge their scientific experiences with the design of new classroom learning environments and teacher-driven
educational research projects. Science students do scientific research via their teachers’ lessons that bridge laboratory
research with classroom learning. Scientists and educational researchers bridge their research interests to create new questions
centered on teaching and learning in authentic science learning environments. The authors engaged in this qualitative inquiry
present their perspectives on “what goes on,” “what we have learned,” and “what it means to the larger community.” 相似文献
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The purpose of this mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to identify factors contributing to students’ persistence
in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Distributed Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in Higher Education by obtaining
quantitative results from surveying 278 current and former students and then following up with four purposefully selected
typical respondents to explore those results in more depth. In the first, quantitative, phase, five external and internal
to the program factors were found to be predictors to students’ persistence in the program: “program”, “online learning environment”,
“student support services”, “faculty”, and “self-motivation”. In the qualitative follow up multiple case study analysis four
major themes emerged: (1) quality of academic experiences; (2) online learning environment; (3) support and assistance; and
(4) student self-motivation. The quantitative and qualitative findings from the two phases of the study are discussed with
reference to prior research. Implications and recommendations for policy makers are provided. 相似文献
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This article sheds light on views held by actors who enjoy a certain degree of institutional legitimacy for “talking about
science,” either as practitioners in the field of science or as guidance counsellors working with youths interested in having
a science-related career. One hundred and seven scientists and technologists who worked either in a university or industrial
research centre and 182 guidance counsellors working in high school settings participated in our survey; the main instrument
for data collection was a questionnaire developed using the bank of items from “VOSTS.” Excepting a few aspects of the production
of scientific knowledge, the predominant tendency suggests that both professional groups share a relatively similar discursive
outlook on science—an outlook which presents a “family resemblance” with the usual school rhetoric on the exceptional status
of science. 相似文献
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Kay Harman 《Higher Education》2002,44(3-4):469-492
This paper reports on the research trainingexperiences of Australian doctoral studentsworking in or funded by Cooperative ResearchCentres (CRCs), notes how their levels ofsatisfaction compare with those of theircounterparts in regular university science andtechnology disciplines and assesses to whatextent the CRC program is achieving its hopeswith respect to PhD training. Findings arebased on data from a survey of all enrolled PhDstudents in two research-intensive universitiesin Australia, together with supplementary datafrom student and supervisor interviews. Findings indicate that in the main, CRC-relatedPhD students fare well compared with theircounterparts in regular university departmentsand that on a number of indicators CRC-relatedstudents recorded higher levels of satisfactionwith their course experience. This situationsuggests that CRCs are playing a significantand worthwhile role in research training inAustralia. 相似文献
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Daniel Teodorescu 《Tertiary Education and Management》2006,12(1):75-88
Using concepts from Davenport and Prusak’s “Working Knowledge” and other recent research on knowledge management, this article
discusses the processes through which institutional knowledge is created, managed and transferred throughout the university
and ways in which institutional researchers can improve these processes. A special emphasis is placed on the need to strengthen
the “knowledge brokerage” function – an essential role that institutional researchers are expected to play in large universities.
Important principles of knowledge management are illustrated with examples from the author’s university. 相似文献
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Professor Wolff-Michael Roth Campbell J. McRobbie Keith B. Lucas 《Research in Science Education》1998,28(1):107-118
We analyse and explore, in the form of dialogues and metalogues questions about the dialogic nature of beliefs and students
belief talk about the nature of science and scientific knowledge. Following recent advances in discursive psychology, this
study focuses not on students' claims but on the discursive resources and dialogical practices that support the particular
claims they make. We argue that students' discourse is better understood as a textual bricolage that is sensitive to conversational
context, common sense, interpretive repertoires, and textual resources available in the conversational situation. Our text
is reflexive as it embodies the discursive construction of knowledge and undercuts any claims to authoritative knowledge.
The very conception of “belief” is itself an expression or construction from within the mundane idiom.... We learn to use
“belief” in conditions when the “objective facts” are unknown or problematic and we want to indicate the tenuous character
of our claim.... The notion of “real world” or “objective reality” is embedded in an extensive, pervasive language game which
includes as an intelligible move or possibility the use of the very concept of “belief” itself. (Pollner, 1987, p. 21) 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the advantages of an approach to instruction using current problems and issues
as curriculum organizers and illustrating how teaching must change to accomplish real learning. The study sample consisted
of 41 preservice science teachers (13 males and 28 females) in a model science teacher education program. Both qualitative
and quantitative research methods were used to determine success with science discipline-specific “Societal and Educational
Applications” courses as one part of a total science teacher education program at a large Midwestern university. Students
were involved with idea generation, consideration of multiple points of views, collaborative inquiries, and problem solving.
All of these factors promoted grounded instruction using constructivist perspectives that situated science with actual experiences
in the lives of students. 相似文献
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This paper reports a qualitative case study of four preservice student teachers’ professional learning experiences in an international
field experience programme situated in the language and cultural immersion component of a PGDE(Primary) Programme in Hong
Kong. Two of the student teachers undertook the international field experience in Australia and Canada. The other two had
their “non-local” field experience in mainland China1. The findings reveal student teachers' development in personal and intercultural
competence in cross-cultural experiences. Their professional learning experiences in the action context, socio-professional
context, and supervisory context of the cross-cultural school settings, and their reflection upon these experiences constituted
the development of their professional competence. Suggestions for improvement of the international field experience programme
and implications for future research are discussed. 相似文献
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Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education: Issues of Trust, Control, Professional Autonomy and Accountability 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Andreas Hoecht 《Higher Education》2006,51(4):541-563
This article explores the issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability in higher education quality assurance
in the UK. The main part of this article is conceptual, but it includes results from semi-structured interviews with academic
staff that were conducted at two “new university” business schools. Both institutions are broadly similar in their key characteristics
and have experienced a transformation to university status in the early 1990s. The article argues that there has been a change
from informal “light-touch” quality control systems based on local practices and a significant amount of trust and professional
autonomy in the early 1990s to a highly prescribed process of audit-based quality control today. The article argues that accountability
and transparency are important principles that academics should wholeheartedly embrace, but that the audit format adopted
in the UK introduces a one-way accountability and provides “rituals of verification” (Power 1997) instead of fostering trust,
has high opportunity costs and may well be detrimental to innovative teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Summary The WKAR-TV Program Analyzer,an electric rating summaration device,was used to test a inescope of a composite television program
for farm men and homemakers entitledTown and Country. Additional phases of the experiment involved interviews with each group tested on the Analyzer and completion of a questionaire
by each subject. The subjects consisted of 20 farm men, 20 rural homemakers and 20 urban homemakers. The WKAR-TV Program Analyzer
tests included 10 subjects in each group.
Testing the hypothesis that “like-dislike” ratings of a TV kinescope shown as a film correlate negatively with “I am learning”
ratings, the author showed that the “liking” scale measured different attributes of the program than did the “learning” scale.
Irving R. Merrill is Director of Research at TV Station WKAR-TV, Michigan State University. 相似文献
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Barbara Spector Ruth S. Burkett Cyndy Leard 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(2):185-208
This is the report of a qualitative emergent-design study of 2 different Web-enhanced science methods courses for preservice
elementary teachers in which an experiential learning strategy, labeled “using yourself as a learning laboratory,” was implemented.
Emergent grounded theory indicated this strategy, when embedded in a course organized as an inquiry with specified action
foci, contributed to mitigating participants’ resistance to learning and teaching through inquiry. Enroute to embracing inquiry,
learners experienced stages resembling the stages of grief one experiences after a major loss. Data sources included participant
observation, electronic artifacts in WebCT, and interviews. Findings are reported in 3 major sections: “Action Foci Common
to Both Courses,” “Participants’ Growth and Change,” and “Challenges and Tradeoffs.” 相似文献
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Peter J. Fensham 《Research in Science Education》1979,9(1):43-52
Summary For each of the four distinctive aspects of a paradigm, case study research does now seem to stand sharply apart from traditional
research. It seems then, that it is appropriate to speak of “competing paradigms” and that we in science educational research
would do well to examine our own practices as researchers and see on which side we wish to stand. 相似文献