梦之阴翳     

Alex Haley 《海外英语》2003,(11):24-26

不少年轻人跟我说他想当作家。我总是鼓励这样的人。但我同时指出“当作家”与写作之间有很大区别。这些人中,大多数都是在梦想着  相似文献   

Increasing student participation in the learning process     

Alex Kelvin 《Higher Education》1993,26(4):449-470

This paper is about increasing student participation in the teaching and learning process. It describes a methodology designed and implemented by the author for an Industrial Analysis unit in 1990–91 and emphasises the underlying educational philosophy. Industrial Analysis is a second year subject within the course Industrial and Business Systems, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering in De Montfort University (former Leicester Polytechnic).The test of educational quality is assumed to be — What students are able to do on their own after exams. The programme aimed to train second year engineering undergraduates for industrial placement in the third year and, more generally, to bridge the gap between Institutes of Technology and industries.The subject — Industrial Analysis — is compared to the rest of the course — Industrial and Business Systems. The purpose is to assess how second year students perceive learning. With such knowledge a teaching approach could be devised to improve learning outcomes.The student-centred teaching approach is based on three pillars: explanation of theory, instruction on research methods, industrial applications. A total of 111 students form 25 teams and research 18 industries. The focus is on Research capability and Group interaction.Helpful guidelines emerge from student performance — how to avoid common pitfalls in research, such as unclear objectives, wide scope, vague approach, excessive data, superfluous technicalities and digressions. Advantages of early focusing are illustrated. Factor analysis is applied in order to find out how concepts are integrated by students.Sharing of experiences and team-working routines in class is used to bring down psychological barriers to learning. Individual and team levels of learning are examined through successive exposures and cycles.  相似文献   

Strategic interactions: Games of the Ju|’hoan     

Alex de Voogt 《Learning & behavior》2017,45(4):406-413

Three strategic games played by the Ju|’hoan—a board, a card, and a gesture game—complicate the rhetorics that suggest an evolutionary or psychological significance of play. They are mostly played by adults, although every individual adult does not necessarily engage in each game. The Ju|’hoan card and board game practices were transmitted through contact across large parts of Botswana and Namibia, while the gesture game n!àì has been known in other San communities. It suggests that the significance of strategic games is more likely found in its potential for social interaction (i.e., allowing to overcome cultural divides) than in evolution and psychology. Within the anthropological literature, strategy games were thought to be absent in egalitarian societies, such as that of the Ju|’hoan. Here, the roles of power, competition, and winning were thought to be disruptive and unwanted. A closer examination of the details behind the Ju|’hoan games shows that not only were strategy games adopted and adapted from neighboring societies but that the game of n!àì was developed by the Ju|’hoan into a competitive one. The evolutionary or psychological significance of play is informed by studies on individual play, children’s play, and games with informal rules. When considering strategic games throughout history, it is their role of facilitator rather than the playing practice itself that makes games relevant across languages, cultural divides, and sociopolitical boundaries.  相似文献   

Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies     

Mohammad Hosseini  Julien Colomb  Alex O. Holcombe  Barbara Kern  Nicole A. Vasilevsky  Kristi L. Holmes 《Learned Publishing》2023,36(2):275-284

Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies (CROTs) are standard vocabularies to describe individual contributions to a scholarly project or research output. Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) is one of the most widely used CROTs, and has been adopted by numerous journals to describe author's contributions, and recently formalized as a ANSI/NISO standard. Despite these developments, there is still much work left to be done to improve how CROTs are used across different research domains, research output types, and scholarly workflows. In this paper, we describe how CROTs could be extended to include roles from various disciplines in an ethical and inclusive manner. We explore potential approaches to apply CROTs to diverse research objects and various disciplines; as well as envision their integration into various scholarly workflows, such as promotion and tenure in academic institutions. Lastly, we discuss potential mechanisms for wide adoption and use. While acknowledging that improving current systems of attribution is a slow and iterative process, we believe that engaging the community in the evolution of CROTs will ultimately enhance the ethical attribution of credit and responsibilities in scholarly publications.  相似文献   

Examining the Internationalization of Counseling Psychology Scholarship: A Content Analysis of Two US Journals     

Pieterse  Alex  Fang  Ke  Evans  Sarah 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2011,33(4):280-292

This content analysis examined internationally focused scholarship published from 1997 to 2009 in two counseling journals published in the United States (US), namely The Counseling Psychologist (TCP) and the Journal of Counseling Psychology (JCP). Both demographic and content criteria, including author affiliation, participant location, topic area, cultural relevancy of construct examined, method of collaboration and research design, were examined. A positive trend for the publication of non-US-based scholarship was observed; however, a 10% representation of internationally-oriented scholarship in the past 13 years suggests the potential for further international initiatives and integration in the field. Questions and implications for future development of internationalization within US-based counseling psychology are discussed.  相似文献   

汇流博物馆之所见     

IBM  Alex Xin 《收藏》2015,(2):48-49

位于法国里昂罗恩河畔的汇流博物馆将所有学科都汇集在一起,正如爱米尔吉美说,"有学者喜欢与世隔绝,远离一切。他们选择自我,信赖自我,他们退回到自我的空间然后拉上身后的门帘。而我则喜欢在门帘上戳个洞,因为我想看到外面的一切并且希望每个人都能看到"。2014年正式竣工的博物馆之所以取名为"汇流",是为了体现各个知识领域之间的交汇和融合,同时也为了构建一个分享和开放的空间。博物馆  相似文献   

Free primary education policy and pupil school mobility in urban Kenya     

Moses Oketch  Maurice Mutisya  Moses Ngware  Alex C. Ezeh  Charles Epari 《International Journal of Educational Research》2010,49(6):173-183

This paper examines pupil school mobility in urban Kenya using African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) household survey data which contain information on pupil transfers between schools. The aim is to identify which school characteristics attract the greatest demand for incoming transfers. The analysis reveals that there are frequent transfers in the slums than in the non-slum settlements; that transfer are in favour of private schools; and that quality is the main motivation for the transfers. Quality schools are perceived to have good discipline and better teacher performance. Given these results, should the Kenya government recognise the ‘low cost’ schools found in the slums which serve nearly half of the pupils and devise mechanisms of funding them?  相似文献   

The Move Towards Managerialism: Perceptions of staff in “traditional” and “new” UK universities     

Kok  Seng-Kiat  Douglas  Alex  McClelland  Bob  Bryde  David 《Tertiary Education and Management》2010,16(2):99-113

Tertiary Education and Management - The raison d’être of higher education institutions is to educate individuals, undertake research, and disseminate knowledge into the public domain....  相似文献   

Maintaining an Open Door in an Increasingly Closed Society: Effective Solutions for Academic Libraries in the Age of CALEA     

Patricia J. West  Alex R. Hodges  Michael A. Matos 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2009,35(6):509-513

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Researching adult transformation as autobiography     

Alex Nelson 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(5):389-403

Literature on adult learning research generally underplays imagination in its explanations of how meaning perspectives and life‐worlds are transformed. The use of autobiographical accounts, telling the story of stability and change, is proposed here as a promising source for research into adult learning. As literary texts, they make the investigation of imaginative forms such as metaphor, image and symbol both possible and warranted. This article raises the question about appropriate methods for this autobiographical approach to the study of adult transformation. An interpretive approach to the texts of research conversations in a co‐operative inquiry is appropriate for researching both their content as literature and the processes by which the narrators construct meaningful accounts of their adult transformation. Some proposals about research into autobiographical learning are presented on the basis of this writer's work in progress.  相似文献