Managing teaching and learning in South African schools   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Tony Bush  Rika Joubert  Edith Kiggundu  Jean van Rooyen 《International Journal of Educational Development》2010

This paper examines the significance of leadership and management in enhancing classroom practice and improving learner outcomes in two provinces of South Africa. It is increasingly recognised, internationally and in South Africa, that managing teaching and learning is one of the most important activities for principals and other school leaders. Managing teaching and learning is one of the core modules in South Africa's new national qualification for school principals. Drawing on case studies of eight schools, mostly in disadvantaged contexts, the paper shows that managing teaching and learning are often inadequate, and largely fails to compensate for the social and educational problems facing learners and their communities.  相似文献   

Investigating the attitudes of head teachers of Cypriot primary schools towards inclusion     

Kika Hadjikakou  Marina Mnasonos 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2012,12(2):66-81

This paper reports the results of a study that has been carried out for the first time in Cyprus, with the aim of exploring the views of head teachers on inclusion. Data were collected by means of questionnaires and a focus group meeting; 185 head teachers participated in this study. The findings indicated that overall, head teachers held positive attitudes towards inclusion of children with disabilities. The relationship among the head teachers' background factors, such as sex, administration experience, contacts with people with disabilities, possession of postgraduate titles in special education and attitudes towards inclusion were reported. This study has brought out that head teachers held overall positive attitudes towards inclusion. The findings are meaningful to the understanding of the effects of inclusion and entail various implications to facilitate it.  相似文献   

Cultural capital and intellectual ability as predictors of scholastic achievement: a study of Slovenian secondary school students     

Sergej Flere  Marina Tavčar Krajnc  Rudi Klanjšek  Bojan Musil  Andrej Kirbiš 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2010,31(1):47-58

Cultural capital, originally a general sociological concept, has been transformed into a construct that is often applied in predicting scholastic attainment. Intellectual ability (IQ) has also been proven to be a strong, although basically psychological, predictor of educational attainment. However, these strands of research have hardly been contrasted in terms of their predictive power and in terms of their potential interaction. In the current study of Slovenian secondary school students, the results indicated that both constructs had statistically significant predictive power, both as to attainment and as to transition into type of secondary education. Results also indicated that: both constructs were fairly robust, as their predictive power remained statistically significant even after control variables were entered into the model; and they operated independently as results indicated no interaction between these constructs. The ‘return’ on cultural capital was greater for students whose parents had lower educational status.  相似文献   

The impact of instructional technology in Turkey   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Cengiz Hakan Aydin  Marina Stock McIsaac 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2004,52(1):105-112

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Materiality and immateriality in Lucio Fontana's environments: From documentary research to the reproduction of lost artworks     

Marina Pugliese  Barbara Ferriani  Iolanda Ratti 《文物保护研究》2016,61(3):188-192

In recent years, many international initiatives have sparked a debate on guidelines and criteria for documenting existing installations and environments. Nevertheless, a comparison between those environments, and lost or reproduced ones, still needs to be closely considered. This becomes even more interesting in the case of works that were made by artists no longer alive. Starting from the study on Italian artist Lucio Fontana's historical environments, we show how a historically accurate reconstruction, based on the analysis of various sources (original documents, letters, articles, interviews and videos, as well as critical essays) can be considered as a conservation strategy for works that were originally created as ‘ephemeral’, but later became fundamental within art history. The data and metadata can be used as a second step for the reconstruction of the environments, creating ‘replicas’ that closely mimic the artist's intent and that can then be documented and properly preserved. On one hand, the outcomes of the research presented is that of understanding to what extent it is possible to achieve a fair rendition of Fontana's environments and thus foster their proper appreciation. On a second and more practical level, we will present a study of the first exhibition centered on the reproduction of the artist's environments, which will be held in HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy, in 2017. A scientific and philological approach will allow us to fully respect the original artworks and the context in which they were produced. The reconstruction will also be the occasion to collect data regarding the materials that Fontana used extensively, and to gather information about the companies that produced them, as well as about the past and present quality of such materials, and the possibility of reproducing them today. This approach seeks to investigate the interplay between theory and reconstruction materiality through the double lens of historical research, on one hand, and contemporary conservation and museology debates on the other.  相似文献   

Evaluations of Conflicts Between Latino Values and Autonomy Desires Among Puerto Rican Adolescents          下载免费PDF全文

Myriam Villalobos Solís  Judith G. Smetana  Marina Tasopoulos‐Chan 《Child development》2017,88(5):1581-1597

Puerto Rican adolescents (N = 105; M_age = 15.97 years, SD = 1.40) evaluated hypothetical situations describing conflicts between Latino values (family obligations and respeto) and autonomy desires regarding personal, friendship, and dating activities. Adolescents judged that peers should prioritize Latino values over autonomy, which led to greater feelings of pride than happiness. However, they believed that teens would prioritize autonomy over Latino values, which led to greater feelings of happiness than pride. Adolescents reasoned about autonomy desires as personal issues, whereas reasoning about Latino values was multifaceted, including references to conventions and concerns for others. Furthermore, judgments and reasoning depended on the type of autonomy desire and Latino value and sometimes, by participants' age and sex.  相似文献   

Quality indicators: developing “MOOCs” in the European Higher Education Area     

Montserrat Yepes-Baldó  Marina Romeo  Carolina Martín  María Ángeles García  Gemma Monzó  Andrés Besolí 《Educational Media International》2016,53(3):184-197

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Data literacy training needs of biomedical researchers     

Lisa M. Federer  Ya-Ling Lu  Douglas J. Joubert 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2016,104(1):52-57

Objective

The research investigated topic priorities for data literacy training for biomedical researchers and staff.

Methods

An electronic survey was used to assess researchers'' level of knowledge related to data literacy skills and the relevance of these skills to their work.

Results

Most respondents did not have any formal training in data literacy. Respondents considered most tasks highly relevant to their work but rated their expertise in tasks lower.

Conclusion

Among this group, researchers have diverse data literacy training needs. Librarians'' expertise makes them well suited to provide such training.  相似文献   

Science and Art: New Paradigms in Education and Vocational Outcomes     

Joubert  Lindy 《Prospects》2002,32(4)

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Self-Regulation and Economic Stress in Children of Hispanic Immigrants and Their Peers: Better Regulation at a Cost?     

Lisa Schlueter McFadyen-Ketchum  Eliana Hurwich-Reiss  Allison A. Stiles  Marina M. Mendoza  Lisa S. Badanes  Julia Dmitrieva 《Early education and development》2016,27(7):914-931

Research Findings: Although there is a well-established relationship between economic stress and children’s self-regulation, few studies have examined this relationship in children of Hispanic immigrants (COHIs), a rapidly growing population. In a sample of preschool children (N = 165), we examined whether economic stress predicted teacher evaluations of children’s self-regulation, whether economic stress predicted children’s physiological reactivity (via cortisol levels), and whether economic stress had a similar effect on self-regulation and children’s cortisol for COHI versus nonimmigrant children. Greater economic stress was associated with poorer child self-regulation and heightened physiological reactivity across a challenging classroom task for the sample as a whole. However, when we examined children by group, greater economic stress was associated with poorer teacher-reported self-regulation for nonimmigrant children only. In contrast, greater economic stress was related to greater cortisol reactivity across a challenge task for COHIs but not for nonimmigrants. Practice or Policy: Results demonstrate the importance of considering physiological indices of self-regulation (heightened stress physiology), in addition to traditional external indices (teacher report), when assessing self-regulation or risk more generally among preschool samples that are diverse in terms of ethnicity, economic risk, and parents’ nativity.  相似文献