Learning to play in a goal-directed practice     

Cecilia Wallerstedt  Niklas Pramling 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2012,32(1):5-15

This study concerns the relationship between learning and play. On the basis of sociocultural theory, some ideas are put forward about how this relationship can be conceptualised in the context of goal-directed practice. Empirical data from primary school with children 6–8 years old are used to illustrate and discuss this conceptualisation. It is suggested that learning and play need to be seen as intrinsically interwoven, and that children’s play is contingent on their learning, more particularly the cultural tools they have appropriated or are in the midst of appropriating.  相似文献   

Comparative medicine     

N. O. Nielsen 《Interchange》1986,17(3):62-64

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Disciplinary differences and implications for the development of generic skills: a study of engineering and business students’ perceptions of generic skills     

Cecilia K. Y. Chan  Emily T. Y. Fong 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2018,43(6):927-949

Although previous research has examined how generic skills and disciplinary contexts are related, such investigation has not been conducted from students’ perspectives. Implications of disciplinary differences for the design of a generic skills curriculum have also remained unexplored. In this study, a questionnaire was administered to 502 first-year engineering and business students from a Hong Kong university which explored their perceived importance and competence level of their generic skills, as well as their motivation towards developing these skills. The results of engineering and business students were compared which revealed some disciplinary differences. Substantial differences were found in the importance and competency ratings on IT skills and business students gave significantly higher importance ratings on most generic skills than engineering students. This study will help guide curriculum design that leverages the benefits of interdisciplinary programmes and incorporates generic skills as part of learning outcomes within disciplinary contexts.  相似文献   

Exploring students' learning challenges in environmental education   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mark Rickinson  Cecilia Lundholm 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2008,38(3):341-353

There is growing recognition of the significance of learning within debates about sustainable development. Within the field of environmental education research, however, there has been insufficient attention given to questions of learners and learning. In the light of this situation, this paper reports findings from two studies (one in England, the other in Sweden) that focused specifically on learners' experiences of and responses to environmental curricula in secondary school and higher education. Three kinds of learning challenges that can be experienced by students on environmental education courses are outlined and discussed. The main purpose of the paper is to highlight the complexity of the learning experience within environmental education and to draw attention to the need for improved research‐based understandings of environmental learning processes.  相似文献   

IT portfolio decision-making in local governments: Rationality,politics, intuition and coincidences     

Jeppe Agger Nielsen  Keld Pedersen 《Government Information Quarterly》2014

IT project portfolio management (IT PPM) has evolved into a significant area of research interest, but we know little about IT PPM practices in public sector organizations. Therefore this article investigates decision-making processes in the IT PPM practices of local governments, and discusses how these practices match the normative advice proposed by the IT PPM literature. We rely on decision-making theories together with case-studies of four Danish local governments. We find that politics, intuition and coincidence play a crucial role in IT PPM decision-making, while technical rationality (as proposed by the IT PPM literature) plays a minor role. Our account also reveals how the decision-making practices create IT portfolio problems and in some aspects is considered to have a negative impact on the outcome of e-government investments. Our analysis and previous research into decision-making allows us to argue that implementing textbook-IT PPM is difficult because it relies on decision-making ideals that are incompatible with organizational contexts and individual behavior in these organizations. Instead of radically changing decision-making styles, the organizations might be better off improving IT PPM practice within the boundaries of their existing decision-making styles, and the IT PPM literature might improve support for practitioners by incorporating other decision-making styles besides technical rationality.  相似文献   

Changing the face of reference: adapting biomedical and health information services for the classroom, clinic, and beyond     

Tennant MR  Auten B  Botero CE  Butson LC  Edwards ME  Garcia-Milian R  Lyon JA  Norton HF 《Medical reference services quarterly》2012,31(3):280-301

This article describes how the reference department at a large academic health sciences library evolved to address the clinical and research information needs of the parent organization without losing its close connections to the classroom and curriculum. Closing the reference desk, moving to on-call and house call models, designing positions such as clinical research librarian and basic biomedical sciences librarian, finding alternative funding to grow the department, providing technology and training to facilitate librarians' work, and developing programming for and taking advice from library clients facilitated efforts to create a relevant presence and solidify the library's place in the university community.  相似文献   

The role of the printed answer in programmed instruction     

George L. Geis  William Jacobs  Dwight Spencer  Susan Nielsen 《Performance Improvement》1970,9(6):8-18

Using a variety of programmed materials, this series of studies showed that students observed available answers in the program far less than 100% of the time. Answer observing was found to be correlated with student error on the related frame. The view that the printed answer in a program is always a reinforcer for the preceding response(s) is severely questioned.  相似文献   

Leading new,deeper forms of collaborative cultures: Questions and pathways     

Azorín  Cecilia  Fullan  Michael 《Journal of Educational Change》2022,23(1):131-143

Journal of Educational Change - The pandemic has made deeper problems more transparent and has stimulated many to realize that there may be an opportunity over the next period to pursue much needed...  相似文献