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Conceptions of,and approaches to,teaching online: a study of lecturers teaching postgraduate distance courses 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Carlos Gonzalez 《Higher Education》2009,57(3):299-314
This paper presents the outcomes of a study into online teaching. It builds upon previous research and conceptual frameworks
produced by Kember and Kwan (Instr Sci 28(5):469–490, 2000) and Roberts (Instr Sci 31(1–2):127–150, 2003). It advances research
on conceptions of, and approaches to, teaching by examining teaching in a novel context: distance-taught courses at the postgraduate
level. Lecturers were interviewed from a Faculty of Health Sciences in a research-intensive Australian University. Relationships
between conceptions and approaches found in previous research were confirmed in this study. However, it was found that the
conceptions of online teaching proposed by Roberts (Instr Sci 31(1–2):127–150, 2003) did not adequately distinguish between
the conceptions held by the lecturers interviewed in this study. Three modified conceptions of online teaching are proposed:
‘for individual access to learning materials and information; and for individual assessment’; ‘for learning related communication
(asynchronous and/or synchronous)’; and ‘as a medium for networked learning’. Some of the dimensions developed by Roberts
to describe approaches to online teaching were not applicable in this study setting and needed further modification. Two broad
approaches emerged: ‘informative/individual learning focused’ and ‘communicative/networked learning focused’. Contextual influences
on teaching reported by Kember and Kwan (Instr Sci 28(5):469–490, 2000)—that is, institutional influence, nature of students
and subject and curriculum—were revealed in this study to have different levels of influence over approaches to online teaching:
the first two being the more relevant ones. 相似文献
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David Guile 《Vocations and Learning》2011,4(2):93-111
The paper analyses a form of interprofessional working and learning (IPWL)—the fleeting spatial and temporal constitution
of project teams with little prior history of working together—that is an increasing feature of work in the global economy.
The paper argues firstly: (i) this form of working and learning is relatively under-researched in professional, vocational
and workplace learning (PVWL); and, (ii) the research traditions—Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Cultural Anthropology/Symbolic
Interactionist (CA/SI)—that some researchers in PVWL have drawn on to investigate IPWL do not allow them to capture the cognitive
and symbolic complexity of this activity. Secondly, it is possible to reveal the nature of this complexity when the concepts
and methods associated with CHAT and CA-SI-based approaches are supplemented with the concepts of ‘inference’, ‘space of reasons’,
‘restructuring and ‘recontextualisation’ (Guile, 2010). The paper demonstrates this claim by reinterpreting a classic study of the aforementioned form of working and learning
undertaken by Hall, Stevens and Torolba that drew on concepts and methods from CA and SI (2002). 相似文献
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Labour perspectives on the new politics of skill and competency formation: International reflections
Peter Sawchuk 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(1):50-62
Skill/competency approaches to workplace-based policy seek to assess and train for discrete individual competencies with the
goal of increasing employability and productivity. These approaches have become increasingly prominent across a range of advanced
capitalist countries. A substantial critique has emerged over this same period regarding issues of instrumentality and social
control, as well as the failure of skill/compentancy approaches to articulate a meaningful understanding of human learning
capacities. In this article, these critical perspectives are clarified further by a review of contributions to understanding
the skill/competence question emerging from sociology of work literature. Building from these critiques, this article outlines
recent experiences with and perspectives on skill/competency frameworks amongst different national labour movements. Included
in this outline is a more detailed, comparative analysis of Norway and Canada; here we see the lofty ‘new’, ‘knowledge economy’
rhetoric — in two countries where one might expect to see it blossom in application — brought down to earth by the realities
of industrial relations, employer intransigence and intra-labour movement differences. ‘Skill/competence’ proves to be a floating
signifier that, amongst both employers and labour, stands as a proxy for ‘power/control’ struggles. Degenerating in this way,
from a labour perspective, the new politics of skill/competency formation is seen to have spiraled toward irrelevance in Norway
and Canada; awaiting, in both countries, a re-invigoration through attention to changes in the participatory structure of
the labour process itself. 相似文献
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Keith Turvey 《Education and Information Technologies》2008,13(4):317-327
This paper argues that student teachers’ developing pedagogical approaches achieve expression within the virtual classroom
in much the same way as they would in the ‘real’ classroom; that is to say through language as the primary tool of mediation.
Whilst the advent of new communications technologies affords new arenas in which learning can take place—Virtual Learning
Environments (VLEs), online communities, Managed Learning Environments—the importance of human agency and the significance
of language remains pivotal to the effective use of such technologies. As such it is argued that student teachers need opportunities
to engage in authentic online dialogue with children as they endeavour to find their online pedagogical voice. The key findings
emerge from a case study carried out with a group of Year 3 ICT specialists on an undergraduate initial teacher education
(ITE) degree course in the UK, leading to qualified teacher status (QTS) in the primary and lower secondary phases of education.
Funding from the University of Brighton, Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP), was used to design and resource
a module, which facilitated opportunities for student teachers to engage in online learning dialogues with children from a
local primary school, having initially met with the children face-to-face. Fourteen student teachers participated in the study.
Interviews were carried out and their online dialogues with the children were analysed to establish both the issues and potential
advantages of such a situated approach to learning about the educational use of new communications technologies with children. 相似文献
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The purpose of this paper is to gain more insight into the relationship between teachers’ approaches to teaching on the one
hand, and the characteristics of context and teacher demographics on the other. Data were collected from 50 teaching staff
at the University of Antwerp and from three sources: a Dutch translation of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory (ATI), information
given by the participants, and information obtained through the personnel department of the university. Only the conceptual
change/student-focused scale of the ATI had good reliability and was used for further analysis. Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
showed no relationship between teachers’ approaches to teaching and the context variables of expert level of students, teaching
discipline and the number of students in the classroom. Neither was a relationship found between the teachers’ conceptual
change/student-focused approach and the teacher characteristics of gender, academic status, teaching experience, age and intention
to participate in teacher training. Several interpretations of these data and perspectives for further research are discussed. 相似文献
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This study contributes to research that characterises the affective learning that is evoked and taken on by students in response
to their perceptions of their contextual learning environments. Interview-discussions were held with lecturers of both introductory
and higher-level physics courses (n = 3) concerning how they formulated their patterns of teaching in terms of a particular conceptual framing that they considered
to best optimize making learning possible. Subsequently their students (n = 212) were asked with written questions, and some select follow-up interview-discussions, to describe what they expected
from ‘a good physics lecturer’. The relationships between these two things—the lecturer’s crafting of practice and the students’
expectations of quality teaching—were investigated. Results show that students’ expectations tend to match their lecturers’
practice, indicating that students are strongly influenced by a contextually based appreciation of ‘good’ teaching. 相似文献
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Cathy Burnett 《Education and Information Technologies》2011,16(3):245-258
In maximising opportunities to nurture rich and productive learning communities, there is a need to know more about the cultures
and sub-cultures that surround virtual learning environments (VLEs). Drawing from a small-scale interview study of students’
digital practices, this paper explores how different discourses may have patterned a group of students’ experiences of VLEs.
Unlike studies which have focused upon evaluations of specific projects or interventions, this study investigated their experience
across their course. It explores the student identities they associated with digital environments and the power relationships
which seemed to pattern how they positioned themselves (or felt positioned) as learners. Whilst none were intimidated by technical
aspects, the student identities available to them seemed to vary, as did their perceptions of the student identities associated
with university-sponsored digital environments. The analysis considers three aspects of their experience: how they related
to the VLE itself, how they related to others through this, and the alternative communities they created to attempt to manage
their engagement with the VLE. The paper concludes by arguing for further research which focuses on the broader student experience
across courses in order to explore how university-based digital environments intersect with students’ identities as learners. 相似文献
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Schools in England have been required to adopt and adapt an ongoing series of policy initiatives: some however are offered
on an ‘opt-in’ basis. This paper examines one such ‘offer,’ that of Creative Partnerships, a programme which provides schools
in designated deprived areas the opportunity to work with creative practitioners in order to change both classroom practice
and whole schools. We report here on the snapshot phase of a national study, using a corpus of multi-method qualitative data
from 40 schools. We suggest that headteachers saw different opportunities in the CP offer but what actually happened in the
school related to three interwoven strands: the situatedness of the school, the headteacher’s stance towards change, and the
architecture of change management. Our analysis, which highlights the ways in which many of the schools were unable to ‘spread
and embed’ the pedagogical changes supported through CP, suggests that the majority of heads could benefit from involvement
in explicit discussion about ‘unofficial’—and more democratic—approaches to leading and managing change. 相似文献
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Bev Rogers 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2003,30(2):65-87
Educational research has been criticised by governments and practitioners. For some politicians and policy makers, there is
a tendency to look for direct links between research and successful, effective and efficient practice. Research is needed
to inform their evidence-based practice as policy makers, and to provide the kind of research teachers need to base their
practice on the best available evidence for doing ‘x rather than y’ (Hargreaves 1996) or predicting the ‘size of the effect
of A on B’ (Blunkett 2000). There is no doubt that both teachers and policy makers do make decisions on a daily basis based
on some form of evidence. This paper explores Hargreaves’ notion of evidence-based practice, providing a range of criticisms.
It also examines Carr’s historical account of ‘praxis’ and ‘poiesis’ to suggest a notion of evidence-based praxis based partly
on the historical notion of ‘phronesis’ — practical wisdom. The basis for this is the argument that wise and practical ethical
and moral judgements are central to an understanding of teachers’ daily work. What to do in a specific educational situation
cannot be determined solely by theoretical beliefs or by ‘techne’. However the ethical dimension is not the only consideration.
The paper suggests that evidence-based praxis use Stenhouse’s notion of ‘actionable evidence’, which includes the ethical
dimension, but also Thomson’s concept of ‘thisness’, which describes the unique contextual characteristics of a school. If
disadvantaged schools can make some sort of difference to learning opportunities for students, it is argued that teachers
might engage in evidence-based praxis which involves them in reflecting on, and theorising what is happening in classrooms,
schools and neighbourhoods. This ‘praxis’ also involves them in modifying their theories, critically analysing ‘what works’,
questioning how they know and developing ideas about how things might be done differently. There will be an element of developing
knowledge about teaching and learning strategies (Hargreaves’ ‘body of knowledge’), but it will be in the context of the ethical
and moral dilemmas associated with education. It will take up the question of local differences as well as a realistic approach
to what constitutes actual school improvement. Evidence-based praxis is also essentially a collective activity not an individual
approach. Future development of the notion of evidence-based praxis might also include involving students in a more reciprocal
and open learning process like that highlighted by researchers who focus on student participation linked to school reform. 相似文献
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The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate about how to tackle the issue of ‘the teacher in the teaching/learning
process’, and to propose a methodology for analysing the teacher’s activity in the classroom, based on concepts used in the
fields of the didactics of mathematics as well as in cognitive ergonomics. This methodology studies the mathematical activity
the teacher organises for students during classroom sessions and the way he manages1 the relationship between students and mathematical tasks in two approaches: a didactical one [Robert, A., Recherches en Didactique
des Mathématiques 21(1/2), 2001, 7–56] and a psychological one [Rogalski, J., Recherches en Didactique des Mathématiques 23(3),
2003, 343–388]. Articulating the two perspectives permits a twofold analysis of the classroom session dynamics: the “cognitive
route” students are engaged in—through teacher’s decisions—and the mediation of the teacher for controlling students’ involvement
in the process of acquiring the mathematical concepts being taught. The authors present an example of this cross-analysis
of mathematics teachers’ activity, based on the observation of a lesson composed of exercises given to 10th grade students
in a French ‘ordinary’ classroom. Each author made an analysis from her viewpoint, the results are confronted and two types
of inferences are made: one on potential students’ learning and another on the freedom of action the teacher may have to modify
his activity. The paper also places this study in the context of previous contributions made by others in the same field. 相似文献
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Creativity is viewed in different ways in different disciplines: in education it is called ‘innovation’, in business it is
‘entrepreneurship’, in mathematics it is often equated with ‘problem solving’, and in music it is ‘performance’ or ‘composition’.
A creative product in different domains is measured against the norms of that domain, with its own rules, approaches and conceptions
of creativity. 相似文献
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Towards a research training curriculum: What, Why, How, Who? 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Our purpose in this paper is to investigate the ways in which the work of research higher degree supervision is being reshaped from within and outside universities. Our interest is in the means by which new ‘content’ and ‘process’ knowledge — and thus a new set of pedagogical tasks and relationships — are being configured in the field of higher degree research. The outcomes of research training have traditionally been products of a one-on-one supervisory relationship, that is, academic apprentice-to-disciplinary mentor. This is especially the case in the fields of arts/humanities. Any ‘curriculum’ necessary to such a model has been both implicit and at the discretion of the disciplinary ‘master’. 相似文献
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Barbara Jaworski 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,9(2):187-211
In this paper I address the challenge of developing theory in relation to the practices of mathematics teaching and its development.
I do this by exploring a notion of ‘teaching as learning in practice’ through overt use of ‘inquiry’ in mathematics learning,
mathematics teaching and the development of practices of teaching in communities involving teachers and educators. The roles
and goals of mathematics teachers and educators in such communities are both distinct and deeply intertwined. I see an aim
of inquiry in teaching to be the ‘critical alignment’ (Wenger, 1998) of teaching within the communities in which teaching
takes place. Inquiry ‘as a tool’ and inquiry ‘as a way of being’ are important concepts in reflexive developmental processes
in which inquiry practice leads to better understandings and development of theory. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Educational Research》2005,43(6):370-386
This paper discusses the impact of the introduction of a virtual learning environment (VLE) on teaching practices within a new university in the UK, and explores the factors that have encouraged or, conversely, discouraged, the adoption of the VLE by teaching staff, from the latter's perspective. It is based on findings from the analysis of qualitative interviews with 23 members of academic staff from across four subject areas at Kingston University (KU), conducted as part of a broader research project on the use of VLEs in teaching and learning at KU (2002–2005). It reports on the areas of teaching that have been most affected by the VLE; details the specific ways in which practice has been transformed by the VLE and describes the nature of the adjustments that staff have had to make; and specifies the factors that have encouraged the adoption of a technology such as a VLE as part of teaching on undergraduate courses. 相似文献
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R. Nityananda 《Resonance》2001,6(9):8-18
In many real life situations, we have to draw conclusions from data which are not complete and have been affected by measurement
errors. Such problems have been addressed from the time of Bayes and Laplace (late 1700’s) using concepts which parallel Boltzmann’s
use of entropy in thermal physics. The idea is to assign probabilities to different possible conclusions from a given set
of data. A critical — and sometimes controversial — input is a ‘prior probability’, which represents our knowledge before
any data are given or taken! This body of ideas is introduced in this article with simple examples. 相似文献
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This paper presents a contingency theory of approaches to teaching in Higher Education adopted by university academics who
teach heterogeneous student cohorts within a changing university context. The study is located within the substantive context
of academics within Australian universities who teach within the broad field of management studies. Orthodox grounded theory
is employed to generate a contingency typology comprised of four separate teaching approaches: Distancing, Adapting, Clarifying,
and Relating. The model demonstrates how academics utilise a variety of teaching approaches to address their ‘main concern’,
namely maintaining their professional competence within the context of a rapidly changing university landscape and significantly
heterogeneous groups of students. We have labelled this process ‘Maintaining Competence’. This model stresses the importance
of the twin forces of structure and individual agency in determining teaching approaches. It emphasises the value of analysing
what academics actually do in the classroom situation, rather than concentrating on normative assumptions of what they should do in terms of best practice. 相似文献
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Leanne Dalley-Trim 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2012,39(2):193-205
This paper investigates the ways in which young women come to view gender as being an influence upon their future lives—their
aspirations and expectations for the future. In doing so, it draws upon 327 surveys completed by year 12 female students,
typically 17 years of age, in a range of schools across the State of Queensland, Australia. The paper details key features
of the young women’s survey responses—the dominant storylines evident in the data—as a means of illustrating how they have
come to dismiss gender as an influence. Further, the paper illuminates the power and pervasiveness of neoliberal discourse
in ‘New Times’, the ways in which the young women surveyed embrace neoliberalism and its imperative of individualisation and
do so in ways that locate gender as irrelevant in their imagining and enacting of their life biographies. Finally, the paper
explores the implications of such research findings for these—and other—young women. 相似文献
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This study investigated the relations between teachers’ emotions in teaching and their approaches to teaching in individual
courses. It is derived from two fields of study that have hitherto been largely unconnected in higher education. While the
research literature shows (a) a range of variables are related to the teaching approaches that teachers adopt and that these
approaches are related to the quality of their students’ learning, and (b) that the emotional experience of teachers is an
important factor in teaching, no studies have been reported on the connections between emotions and approaches in teaching
in higher education. Two self-report questionnaires: the Approach to Teaching Inventory-Revised and the Emotions in Teaching
Inventory, were completed by a sample of 175 Australian higher education teachers. The results suggest that there are significant
relations between the ways teachers emotionally experience the context of teaching and the ways they approach their teaching,
with positive emotions being associated with student-focused teaching approaches and negative emotions with transmission approaches.
The relations help explain why new teaching strategies may not be successful or not even adopted. 相似文献