Voices from South and North in dialogue: on diversity and education for the future     

Karin Sporre 《British Journal of Religious Education》2012,34(1):87-100

In this article texts by scholars from South Africa, Sweden and Great Britain are analysed. They contributed as invited speakers to a conference in Sweden in 2009 on changing societies, values, religions and education. Here a South–North dialogue on diversity and the future of education is constructed through the way their conference contributions are presented and analysed. Democracy and gender also appear as crucial themes. Out of the original 12 keynote contributions to the conference a selection is made, meaning that seven of them are focused on. What can be observed is (a) that the contributors from South Africa connect diversity and social justice; (b) that the gender researchers critically discuss the risks of the North imposing its theoretical framework on the South and search for ways out of that and (c) a preoccupation with a renewal of education recognising diversity but also looking for what could come beyond such an emphasis and form a common ground. The article constitutes an example of shared knowledge production where South and North meet. Conditions for that are critically reflected upon methodologically.  相似文献   

Conflict between work and family among New Zealand teachers with dependent children     

Melanie Palmer  Dennis RoseMatthew Sanders  Fiona Randle 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2012

Changes in family and employment patterns have lead to an increasing need for families to balance work and family roles. Little research has examined work and family conflict among teachers. In the present study, 69 New Zealand teachers completed a survey examining occupational-related demands, family-related demands, work and family conflict, and perceptions of parenting programmes. Occupational task overload, their children's behaviour problems, hours of employment, and work experience increased conflict between work and family. A programme addressing inter-role conflict and managing children's misbehaviour would be of benefit to teachers. Teachers believed organisations should play a role in delivering such programmes.  相似文献   

Language in science performance: do good readers perform better?     

Cruz Neri  Nadine  Guill  Karin  Retelsdorf  Jan 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2021,36(1):45-61

European Journal of Psychology of Education - Science performance is highly affected by students’ reading comprehension. Recently, there has been a growing attention to the role of linguistic...  相似文献   

Naming speed in dyslexia and dyscalculia     

Edith Willburger  Barbara Fussenegger  Kristina Moll  Guilherme Wood  Karin Landerl 《Learning and individual differences》2008,18(2):224-236

In four carefully selected samples of 8- to 10-year old children with dyslexia (but age adequate arithmetic skills), dyscalculia (but age adequate reading skills), dyslexia/dyscalculia and controls a domain-general deficit in rapid automatized naming (RAN) was found for both dyslexia groups. Dyscalculic children exhibited a domain-specific deficit in rapid naming of quantities. This finding is in line with recent assumptions that dyscalculia is associated with a neurobiological deficit in the processing of numerosities. In the dyslexia/dyscalculia group, RAN deficits were additive, that is, the dyslexia/dyscalculia group exhibited the sum of the deficits found in the dyslexia only and dyscalculia only groups. This finding suggests that the cognitive bases of dyslexia and dyscalculia are independent from each other. Within the naming speed paradigm no differential impact of special demands on the executive functions inhibition and shifting was found for any of the four groups.  相似文献   

Images of industrial life and vocational training: Scouting as a liminal space for educating a workers’ elite in 1920s Luxembourg     

Frederik Herman  Karin Priem 《History of education》2020,49(4):553-570

ABSTRACT

This paper looks at a specific set of corporate images, namely photographs of apprentices of the Luxembourg steel conglomerate ARBED, and analyses how young workers are depicted in these images. The paper draws on a collection of 2251 glass-plate negatives (re)presenting ARBED’s industrial cosmos, including its vocational school the Institut Emile Metz. The roughly 160 images of apprentices contained in the collection put on display the apprentices’ bodies and a variety of activities in different contexts. The images’ contents testify to the institute’s programmatic hybridity and the constant (re-)mix of formal and semi-formal learning activities intended to educate natural, urban, mobile and communal men and future workers. Our focus is on Boy Scouts’ activities in a variety of different environments, which have functioned as a liminal space for educating a workers’ elite, mitigating the risks of industrialisation and fostering social harmony and cultural belonging.  相似文献   

Training reading fluency among poor readers of German: many ways to the goal     

Huemer S  Landerl K  Aro M  Lyytinen H 《Annals of dyslexia》2008,58(2):115-137

Outcomes of two training programs aimed at improving reading speed for 39 German-speaking poor readers in grades 2 and 4 were evaluated. During a 6-week training period, a specific target for children in a computer group was to improve reading of word-initial consonant clusters by practice in associating an orthographic unit with a corresponding phonological unit. Children in a paired reading group read books with an adult tutor. The results showed that, in reading words in which the computer-trained sublexical items were included, both groups exhibited similar improvement. A post hoc analysis suggested that computer training was associated with better reading skills with respect to the trained sublexical items; however, this improvement did not show large generalization effects to the words with the sublexical items. The paired reading group showed a more rapid gain in global word reading fluency than the computer group. Neither of the groups improved their pseudoword reading.

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Development of morphological priming effects in reading aloud in the biscriptal Bosnian orthography     

Duranovic  Mirela  Gangl  Melanie  Finke  Sabrina  Smajlagic  Senka  Landerl  Karin 《Reading and writing》2020,33(8):2073-2095

Reading and Writing - A substantial body of research has noted morphological priming effects in visual word recognition in deep orthographies, but it is still unclear whether similar effects exist...  相似文献   

Leadership,partnerships, and organizational development: exploring components of effectiveness in three full-service community schools     

Mavis Sanders 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2016,27(2):157-177

Full-service community schools are viewed as an approach to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for underserved student populations. The realization of these goals, however, is not guaranteed. According to Richardson’s (2009) research-based model of highly effective community schools (HECS), the effectiveness of full-service community schools depends on 3 interrelated components: leadership, partnerships, and organizational development. This qualitative case study uses the HECS model to examine different levels of effectiveness among 3 full-service community schools in an urban district in the eastern United States. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of Richardson’s model for practice and research.  相似文献   

Behavioral profiles of children with epilepsy: Parent and teacher reports of emotional,behavioral, and educational concerns on the BASC‐2     

Jeffrey B. Titus  Rebecca Kanive  Sarah J. Sanders  Lynn Bennett Blackburn 《Psychology in the schools》2008,45(9):893-904

The Behavior Assessment Scale for Children – Second Edition (BASC‐2) was administered to 108 parents and 37 teachers of children with epilepsy (mean age of 10.6 years; 51% female, 49% male). Results demonstrated high mean scores on the Atypicality, Attention Problems, Withdrawal, and Adaptive Skills scales and a high percentage of At‐Risk or Clinically Significant scores on the majority of scales. Ratings were correlated with level of functioning, age of onset, and number of antiepileptic medications. In addition, children with poor seizure control had higher ratings on the Depression, Somatization, and Withdrawal scales, and children with temporal lobe seizures had higher scores on the Depression scale. These results confirm a high rate of behavioral concerns in children with epilepsy. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

The Development and Evaluation of a Job Aid to Support Mobile Subscriber Radio–Telephone Terminal (MSRT)     

Kecia H. Plummer  Philip D. Gillis  Peter J. Legree  Michael G. Sanders 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1992,5(1):90-105

This research examines the effectiveness of a job aid for the Mobile Subscriber Radio–Telephone Terminal (MSRT), a complicated piece of Army communications equipment. Three groups of subjects, untrained in communications, operated the MSRT. One group had a short demonstration and the job aid. One group had only the job aid. A third group had a standard Army Technical Manual and a short demonstration. No differences in error rates were found between groups. However, use of the job aid accelerated performance significantly. The demonstration enhanced this effect.  相似文献