Challenging Thoughts,Changing Minds: Preservice Teachers' Reflections on Their Experience Working in an Alternative School Setting     

Brooke Blevins  Brandon Moore  Cameron Dexter Torti 《The Teacher Educator》2017,52(4):326-345

This study was designed to use critical reflective journaling practices to explore the experiences of preservice teachers working in a juvenile justice education program called the Reach Academy. Using a qualitative case study design, the researchers explored how 48 preservice teachers utilized critical reflective journaling to examine their own identities in relation to working in this unique school setting. Three major themes emerged from the reflective journal and interview data: (a) participants preconceived notions were challenged based on their positive interactions with Reach students, (b) preservice participants engaged in critical observation of the Reach Academy teachers and their interactions with students, and (c) participants' focus shifted from themselves to their students' needs. Findings suggest that preservice teachers reflective journaling process facilitated their ability to examine and reconsider their preconceived notions about working with students at the Reach Academy and in other diverse schooling settings.  相似文献   

Leading and managing learning and teaching in higher education     

Stephen J. Marshall  Alison Cameron  Agnes Bosanquet  Sue Thomas 《高等教育研究与发展》2011,30(2):87-103

This paper outlines the findings of a study that examined the conceptions of academics regarding the nature of ‘leading’ and ‘managing’ learning and teaching in six Australian universities. These data were considered in the light of institutional systems and documentation regarding the leadership and management of learning and teaching and the contemporary literature on leadership and management, particularly in higher education. The research found that there was congruence between academic conceptions of the roles of leaders and managers in HE and those found in other contexts. In contrast, there was considerable variance and significant gaps between these conceptions and HR and professional development practices. The paper reports findings that have significant implications for more systematic and explicit professional development for University leaders and managers of teaching and learning. In addition, it argues that changes are required to the prevailing approaches in the current HR systems and policies in order to effectively develop, support and recognize effective leadership and management practices as they relate to learning and teaching.  相似文献   

Relationship between leg stiffness and lower body injuries in professional Australian football   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Pruyn EC  Watsford ML  Murphy AJ  Pine MJ  Spurrs RW  Cameron ML  Johnston RJ 《Journal of sports sciences》2012,30(1):71-78

Leg stiffness is a modifiable mechanical property that may be related to soft tissue injury risk. The purpose of this study was to examine mean leg stiffness and bilateral differences in leg stiffness across an entire professional Australian Football League (AFL) season, and determine whether this parameter was related to the incidence of lower body soft tissue injury. The stiffness of the left and right legs of 39 professional AFL players (age 24.4 ± 4.4 years, body mass 87.4 ± 8.1 kg, stature 1.87 ± 0.07 m) was measured using a unilateral hopping test at least once per month throughout the season. Injury data were obtained directly from the head medical officer at the football club. Mean leg stiffness and bilateral differences in leg stiffness were compared between the injured and non-injured players. There was no difference between the season mean leg stiffness values for the injured (219.3 ± 16.1 N x m(-1) x kg(-1)) and non-injured (217.4 ± 14.9 N x m(-1) x kg(-1); P = 0.721) groups. The injured group (7.5 ± 3.0%) recorded a significantly higher season mean bilateral difference in leg stiffness than the non-injured group (5.5 ± 1.3%; P = 0.05). A relatively high bilateral difference in leg stiffness appears to be related to the incidence of soft tissue injury in Australian football players. This information is of particular importance to medical and conditioning staff across a variety of sports.  相似文献   

Improved method of bleaching palm oil     

Charles Cameron 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1844,37(3):210-211

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Acculturation, well-being and classroom behaviour among white British and British Asian primary-school children in the south–east of England: Validating a child-friendly measure of acculturation attitudes     

Dennis Nigbur  Rupert Brown  Lindsey Cameron  Rosa Hossain  Anick Landau  Dominique Le Touze  Adam Rutland  Charles Watters 《Int J Intercult Relat》2008,32(6):493-504

Using a sample of white British and British Asian primary-school children (N = 386, aged 5–11 years), we measured acculturation attitudes (own and perceived outgroup), correlated constructs (ingroup and outgroup affect and identification) and relevant outcomes (self-esteem, classroom demeanour) in a structured interview to validate a customised, child-friendly measure of acculturation attitudes based on Berry's framework. Scale items measuring desire for culture maintenance and intergroup contact loaded onto the predicted factors, were internally reliable and showed concurrent validity with affect and identification. The predictive utility of measures was demonstrated in associations between children's acculturation attitudes (or perceived discrepancies with those of the outgroup) and outcomes such as self-esteem and teacher ratings of emotional symptoms.  相似文献   

The effectiveness of simulation in a hybrid and online networking course     

Brian Cameron 《TechTrends》2003,47(5):18-21

Conclusion The results reported here suggest that Web-based courses on computer networking can utilize simulations very effectively.  相似文献   

Is there an institution in institutional research?     

Cameron Fincher 《Research in higher education》1981,14(2):179-182

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Why PPBS wouldn't work     

Cameron Fincher 《Research in higher education》1978,9(3):277-280

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Book reviews     

John B. Haney  Cameron Fincher  Karen K. Tyler  Arthur C. Pariente 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1977,25(2):195-210

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TELEVISION IN TEACHER TRAINING     

M. Cameron Jones  R.J. McCann 《Learning, Media and Technology》1977,3(1):20-22

In recent years the uses of educational television in the training of teachers have achieved widespread, sometimes quite spectacular, currency and applause. Probably the best known and most widely used of these is in microtraining, where the trainee either in teaching (Brown, 1975; Wragg, 1974) or in medicine (Morrison and Cameron‐Jones, 1972) may be shown videotapes of ‘expert’ models displaying a particular professional skill to be mastered by the trainee, and may then go on to see videotape of his own use of the skill in a specially scaled‐down training situation. However, although microtraining seems set almost to become the norm, even the cliche, of the professional training world, other uses of educational television have received much less attention. These other uses include the training of student teachers in the observation and analysis of classroom behaviour, discussed with examples in the following paper  相似文献