Prospective Teachers’ Difficulties in Interpreting Elementary Phenomena of Electrostatic Interactions: Indicators of the status of their intuitive ideas     

Ana María Criado  Antonio García‐Carmona 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(6):769-805

Student teachers were tested before and after a teaching unit on electrostatic interactions in an attempt to consider their intuitive ideas and concept development. A study was made of students’ explanations of basic interactions: those between two charged bodies, and those between a charged body and a neutral body. Two indicators of the cognitive status of the explanations were investigated: “context dependence” and “certainty or confidence index”. This allowed cognitive comparisons to be established between the explanations of different electrostatic interactions, and between the degrees of difficulty they represent for satisfactory conceptual evolution. The greatest difficulties were found with explanations of the phenomena of electrostatic induction. The sample consisted of 52 students in primary school teacher education who participated in a teaching unit designed to overcome these obstacles.  相似文献   

The transformative power of Chicana/o Studies: social justice and education     

Aída Hurtado 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(2):185-197

This essay responds to Professor Aguirre’s article in this issue that explores through personal narrative the trials and tribulations of being a faculty member with an expertise in Chicana/o Studies. The author joins his exploration by introducing the structural disadvantages that Chicana/o Studies suffers as a field. She then expounds on what we have gained by developing a new field with an explicitly political focus that includes putting student interests at the center of its development while fighting for economic and social justice as an integral part of its intellectual agenda. Her conclusion explores the challenges that the field of Chicana/o Studies faces as we confront changing demographic and societal conditions.  相似文献   

Mexican parents’ and teachers’ literacy perspectives and practices: construction of cultural capital     

Leslie Reese  Rebeca Mejía Arauz  Antonio Ray Bazán 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(8):983-1003

This article examines the relationships among the literacy practices engaged in by first-grade children and parents at home and the ways in which these practices are communicated, shaped, and fostered by teachers and administrators in two different sociocultural environments in urban Mexico. The differences observed between the home literacy experiences of children in a working-class and a middle-class community included transgenerational communication of assumptions regarding literacy and schooling, as well as attitudes associated with the parents’ own school experiences. Class-based expectations on the part of teachers not only shaped interactions with parents, but were also reflected in the way the national curriculum was delivered, with a greater emphasis on rote skills and traditional reading instruction in the working-class community. The authors argue that the school plays a role in the co-production of cultural capital in the home through its shaping of some of the literacy practices that children and families undertake.  相似文献   

Language curriculum transformation and motivation through action research     

Darío Luis Banegas 《Curriculum Journal》2013,24(4):422-440

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The Scheme Game: How DACA Recipients Navigate Barriers to Higher Education     

Luis Fernando Macías 《Educational Studies A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association》2013,49(6):609-628

College-bound recipients of DACA—a 2012?US administrative policy officially titled Consideration for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—face a series of administrative and financial barriers in pursuing postsecondary education. These barriers often include a complicated process for in-state tuition consideration, as well as exclusion from the majority of educational subsidies. This research sheds new light on DACA students’ own understanding of their financial exclusions and the often ingenious methods they use to finance higher education. The research employs critical race theory/LatCrit frameworks to examine the structural systems of exclusion within educational policies and the corresponding measures taken by DACA recipient students in Ohio to overcome them. Participants’ testimonios highlight their own resilience in the face of multiple obstacles, dispel notions of meritocracy in higher education, and educate institutional agents about funding inequities in an effort to rectify them. This work finds, in response to the barriers they face, many DACA recipients in Ohio find a variety of unconventional ways to navigate a complex admissions process and secure a means of paying entirely out of pocket for their tuition. Participants in this longitudinal, qualitative research refer to these navigational strategies as participating in “the scheme game.” The scheme game consists of 3 overlapping practices: “grindin’,” “hustlin’,” and “schemin’.” Rooted in hip-hop, these terms originally refer to the ways Black, Brown, and immigrant communities navigate the barriers of a formal economy and participate in an informal economy to financially sustain themselves. Additionally, the research introduces the scheme game as a new epistemological perspective from which to understand the measures some DACA students take to afford a higher education.  相似文献   

An analytical framework for analyzing student teachers’ verbal interaction in learning situations     

Victoria Sánchez  Mercedes García  Isabel Escudero 《Instructional Science》2013,41(2):247-269

This paper focuses on the study of student teachers’ verbal interaction in learning situations generated in a classroom corresponding to a mathematics methods course. In our work, we incorporate two ‘ways of seeing’ a group: as an entity or as a set composed of individualities. We present an analytical framework that considers two dimensions connected with these ways of seeing the group and four variables corresponding to these dimensions, through which the verbal interaction between student teachers in a group can be considered. As regards the first dimension, the variables included are specific language, cognitive processing, social processing; the second dimension considers the relational variable. We describe each of the different variables that form the framework, and how this framework allows us to analyse the verbal interaction in three groups of student teachers. We believe that building analytic frameworks that allow the study of verbal interaction in detail is worthwhile in the educational field due to their important role in the analysis of learning-teaching processes.  相似文献   

The Influence of Teachers in the Operation of Basic Schools in Iceland1     

Amalía Björnsdóttir  Ólafur H. Jóhannsson 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2013,57(5):513-526

The governance of basic schools (grades 1–10) in Iceland was transferred from state control to municipal control in 1995 with a new Basic School Act. This transfer was in line with the emphasis on school‐based management that was stressed in the Act. This policy was criticised by many, including teachers and their union representatives. Research indicates that basic principals are very pleased with their new working environment, but showed indication of dissatisfaction amongst teachers. Accordingly, it was of interest to investigate how this policy has influenced the working environment of basic school teachers: Has it facilitated increased autonomy of schools? Has it enhanced participative decision‐making and co‐operation amongst teachers? What kind of pressures and expectations has it generated from parents and municipal educational authorities? A questionnaire was sent to a sample of 750 teachers during the spring of 2005. The findings indicate that there seems to be a gap emerging between the perceived professional independence of schools and the professional independence of teachers. This study also indicates that the general teacher wants to be more involved in decision‐making in his/her school in areas such as development projects, in‐service planning and distribution of financial resources. The study also shows that external demands and pressures on teachers have increased considerably, particularly in urban areas.  相似文献   

La crisis de la noción de estructura lógica: análisis experimental del estadio de las operaciones concretas     

María José Rodrigo 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(17):115-126

RESUMEN

La investigación descrita en este artículo se centra en las críticas al enfoque estructural piagetiano y su postulado logicista. En su lugar, se aboga por un enfoque procedural encaminado al descubrimiento de estrategias y procesos cognitivos involucrados en la realización de tareas. Los sujetos fueron 240 niños que asistían a clases de tercero y octavo de EGB. La discusión de los resultados se realiza en términos de procesamiento de la información, esbozándose además un modelo teórico-evolutivo para ese estadio, así como una argumentación crítica en torno al logicismo.  相似文献   

Puntos de convergencia en la psicología histórico-cultural de lengua española: Una reflexión sobre los contenidos de esta monografía     

Pablo del Río  Amelia Alvarez 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(51-52):15-40

Resumen

Se revisan en este artículo los avances en la conceptualización teórica, verificación empírica, en los problemas metodológicos y en el nivel de intervención y diseño, que se perfilan en las aportaciones españolas a la psicología histórico-cultural recogidas en esta monografía. Especialmente se resaltan: la redefinición del contexto externo de la representación y la comunicación; el sincretismo y los diversos procesos de mediación en la ZDP; las evidencias empíricas a favor del desarrollo cultural de las funciones superiores; los problemas metodológicos de aplicación de la ZDP para el diagnóstico y el diseño; y el diseño educativo desde una perspectiva de integración en sistemas culturales de actividad.  相似文献   

Creatividad infantil y educación     

Gerardo Martínez 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(16):51-69

Resumen

Este articulo plantea algunas cuestiones sobre qué se puede considerar creativo y con qué criterios, tratando separadamente las particularidades de la creatividad infantil. Se aborda también la influencia del adulto en el desarrollo de la capacidad creadora y en particular de aquellos adultos—padres y maestro—que están en contacto directo y permanente con el niño, asi como la importancia de los condicionamientos sociales a que se hallan sometidos y su repercusión en la planificación del ambiente que rodea al niño.

La escuela es, evidentemente, un lugar importante para estimular la creatividad. Los métodos comunes no parecen adecuarse suficientemente a esta labor por lo que se proponen nuevas formas de actuación a partir de trabajos recientes en psicopedagogia.  相似文献