University‐community engagement: exploring service‐learning options within the practicum     

Margaret Vickers  Catherine Harris  Florence McCarthy 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2004,32(2):129-141

Since 1999, pre‐service teachers undertaking the Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary) Program at the University of Western Sydney have participated in an alternate practicum called Professional Experience 3 (PE3). This practicum encourages students to engage in broader educational settings within local communities. Increasingly, a number of service‐learning opportunities have been developed, most notably, senior student tutoring programs and the involvement of students in the Plan‐It Youth project in conjunction with the Department of Education and Training (DET) and the South‐western Sydney Institute of TAFE. A focus of these programs has been to address the issues related to students at risk of leaving school early within the local South‐western Sydney community.

In this paper we discuss the benefits of these programs to the university, pre‐service‐teachers, school students and school communities, and the broader local community. Specifically, we examine service learning as a conduit for the development and maintenance of meaningful symbiotic relationships between the university and the educational community, and pre‐service teachers and the local community. Finally, we look towards the future and highlight the challenges and opportunities for service‐learning programs within the practicum.  相似文献   

Learning outdoors and living well? Conceptual prospects for enhancing curriculum planning and pedagogical practices     

Malcolm Thorburn  Peter Allison 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2017,47(1):103-115

In aiming to support school-based outdoor learning opportunities, this paper critiques the extent to which Deweyan and neo-Aristotelian theorising is helpful in highlighting how personal growth and practical wisdom gains can be realised. Such critique is necessary, as there are signs of an implementation gap between practice and policy, which is made worse by a lack of conceptual clarity about how educational aspirations can be dependably achieved. Dewey’s habit-forming social constructivist emphasis on learning and problem-solving is reviewed and the prospects of a neo-Aristotelian conception of human flourishing, which recognises that virtues are nurtured as moral sensitivities, are then considered. Concerns that Dewey’s writings are often vague on how ideas can be operationalised and criticisms that Aristotle’s educational thoughts rather over-privilege cognition relative to emotions are also addressed. The article concludes by teasing out suggestions on how Deweyan and neo-Aristotelian ideas on learning might coherently inform curriculum planning and pedagogical practices.  相似文献   

Bleak Houses and Secret Cities: Alternative Communities in Young Adult Fiction     

Marla Harris 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2002,33(1):63-76

This essay examines novels in which children or teens in an urban environment, left on their own for a variety of reasons (such as poverty, war, plague, nuclear disaster, or technological breakdown), join together to form a community that explores alternative versions of home and family. The urban survival novel, to distinguish it from the more popular wilderness survival story, encompasses a wide variety of genres, including fantasy, satire, science fiction, social realism, and historical fiction. These novels involve dramatic shifts of perspective—inside/outside, above/below, before/after—which challenge protagonists (and readers) to see the world around them differently and to confront other points of view. The 1970s ushered in a wave of urban survival fiction that has continued to the present; I speculate on why these survival scenarios have proved so compelling for young adult readers.  相似文献   

PREPARING THE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIST     

F. A. Harris 《Learning, Media and Technology》1978,4(1):8-9

The author describes the course for the Diploma in Applied Educational Technology at the University of York. with particular reference to the programme of practical attachments and visits.  相似文献   

VIII. Discussion     

Harris Cooper  Kelly Charlton  Jeffrey C. Valentine  & Laura Muhlenbruck 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2000,65(1):89-109

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General experiences + race + racism = Work lives of Black faculty in postsecondary science education     

Eileen R. C. Parsons  Domonique L. Bulls  Tonjua B. Freeman  Malcolm B. Butler  Mary M. Atwater 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2018,13(2):371-394

Existent research indicates that postsecondary Black faculty members, who are sorely underrepresented in the academy especially in STEM fields, assume essential roles; chief among these roles is diversifying higher education. Their recruitment and retention become more challenging in light of research findings on work life for postsecondary faculty. Research has shown that postsecondary faculty members in general have become increasingly stressed and job satisfaction has declined with dissatisfaction with endeavors and work overload cited as major stressors. In addition to the stresses managed by higher education faculty at large, Black faculty must navigate diversity-related challenges. Illuminating and understanding their experiences can be instrumental in lessening stress and job dissatisfaction, outcomes that facilitate recruitment and retention. This study featured the experiences and perceptions of Black faculty in science education. This study, framed by critical race theory, examines two questions: What characterizes the work life of some Black faculty members who teach, research, and serve in science education? How are race and racism present in the experiences of these postsecondary Black faculty members? A phenomenological approach to the study situates the experiences of the Black participants as valid phenomena worthy of investigation, illuminates their experiences, and seeks to retain the authenticity of their voices.  相似文献   

Bridging the Divide: A comparative analysis of articles in higher education journals published inside and outside North America   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Malcolm Tight 《Higher Education》2007,53(2):235-253

Articles published in three leading North American higher education journals during the year 2000 are compared with those published in three leading, English language, non-North American higher education journals (and with a larger sample of fourteen such journals). The comparison focuses on the location of their authors, the themes researched, the levels at which the analyses are pitched, the methods and methodologies employed, and the explicitness of both methodological and theoretical engagement. Compared to the non-North American sample, the North American articles evidence a dominance of North American-based authors, a greater focus on the student experience, and on institutional and national level studies, and a much stronger emphasis on multivariate analysis as a method. Articles in the North American sample were also more likely to be both methodologically and theoretically explicit. Possible reasons for the divergent patterns observed are identified and discussed.  相似文献   

“It's a Difficult Matter”1: Historical perspectives on the enduring problem of the practicum in teacher preparation     

Malcolm Vick 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2006,34(2):181-198

Current reviews of teacher education pay considerable attention to problems associated with the practicum, and often claim to propose major changes in order to improve the quality of new graduates. Many of the problems they address concerning the practicum and its relation to the ‘theoretical’ component of programs are longstanding, and have been the focus of sustained critique and consequent ongoing modification. Between 1900 and 1950 teacher educators and administrators in England and Australia sought to develop programs that balanced and integrated theory and practice, supported by a range of teaching and administrative procedures. They identified a range of problems in staffing, curriculum and pedagogy, school placements and supervision, and explored a wide range of possible solutions to those problems from minor adjustments to substantial reconceptualisations of whole programs. However, many such solutions generated further problems of their own. The analysis of the history of the practicum in teacher preparation indicates how firmly contemporary proposals are embedded within the framework of assumptions and approaches that have shaped teacher education for over a century.  相似文献   

Education and the Changing Economic and Industrial Order: An International Perspective     

Malcolm Skilbeck 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》1988,9(1):1-8

The nature of the indigenous development movement in education is considered and a case made for using regional strengths in the developing world as a foundation for a new internationalism incorporating the best of the East and West. It is further argued that a well resourced education system is the best instrument for coping with the vast changes to the economic industrial and social order. However, the new demands will have to be met not by further narrow vocationalism but by an emphasis on universal education and providing opportunities for mature age students. Educators are called upon to maintain their commitment to the full personal development of all people.  相似文献   

Strengthening ‘the foundations’ of the primary school curriculum     

Rebecca Duncombe  Lorraine Cale  Jo Harris 《Education 3-13》2018,46(1):76-88

The low status of the foundation subjects (e.g. Music and Physical Education (PE)) in English primary schools is well documented. Using PE as an illustrative example, a thematic analysis of 51 PE trainee students’ assignments, based on their perceptions of a two-week experience in a primary school, highlighted a number of areas of concern (e.g. limited/inadequate preparation; insufficient teacher knowledge/confidence; variable/limited subject leadership and non-qualified teachers delivering the curriculum). The possibility of teachers, coaches and other external specialists learning collaboratively with and from each other within a community of practice/learning is proposed as one way of strengthening the foundation subjects within the primary school curriculum.  相似文献