Building a Professional Learning Community: Teachers’ Documentation of and Reflections on Preschoolers’ Work     

Victoria Damjanovic  Jolyn Blank 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2018,46(5):567-575

This study describes teachers’ experiences in a preschool professional learning community (PLC) in order to gain understanding of the role of documentation in group learning. A central underlying assumption of PLCs is that teacher learning involves talking with colleagues about teaching and grappling with the issues embodied in everyday classroom life. We utilized a qualitative case study design in order to emphasize the situated and contextual nature of teachers’ professional learning in context. Data sources included the following: observations of PLC sessions, interviews with participating teachers, and the classroom documentation teachers shared during the sessions. We found that the incorporation of documentation in the PLC made implicit assumptions about children visible in order to be scrutinized. In addition, the teachers’ reflections on the documentation highlighted conflicting notions about teaching as either technical practice or inquiry. In contrast to traditional delivery approaches to teacher learning, we argue that PLCs focused on documentation encourage teachers to problematize practice rather than simplify it. The process of reflecting on children’s work made shifts in thinking about the nature of teaching possible.  相似文献   

Book Review     

Brandi L. Bell 《Education and Information Technologies》2004,9(3):309-311

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Transforming what they read: helping eleven‐year‐olds engage with Internet information     

Alan Pritchard  Victoria Cartwright 《Literacy》2004,38(1):26-31

This article explores an issue of great current concern: how do we help primary aged children to engage with, and to benefit from, information from the Internet? The notion of ‘engagement’ is considered in the context of constructivist learning theory. A short case study based on a small‐scale research project in a primary school classroom in England is presented in order to illustrate the difficulties that arise when children undertake information handling work involving access to vast amounts of information. The end products from two groups of children are found to be far from what might have been expected from children of their ability, background and experience. Engagement with the ideas contained in non‐fiction texts is isolated as a crucial factor. Approaches, including the EXIT model, are presented and considered as ways in which engagement might be encouraged.  相似文献   

The corporatizing and privatizing of schooling: A call for grounded critical praxis     

Kathryn Bell McKenzie  James Joseph Scheurich 《Educational theory》2004,54(4):431-444

Our review of Henry Giroux's Stealing Innocence , Alex Molnar's Giving Kids the Business , and Kenneth Saltman's Collateral Damage describes how these authors assess the problems posed by contemporary corporate influences on public schools and considers the solutions they offer to counter those influences. We also examine Henry Levin's edited collection Privatizing Education , in which various authors address research on privatization in schooling. In our analysis of this book, we highlight the underlying themes of the wide-ranging chapters. Next, we critique all four books, focusing primarily on the books by Giroux, Molnar, and Saltman. We suggest that these three authors provide a somewhat totalized and ahistorical portrait of contemporary corporate influences on schooling and offer a solution that depends on teachers acting as democratic revolutionaries, though there is no realistic possibility that teachers today would take on this role. In contrast, we call for a critical theory and practice that is grounded both in a more complex understanding of the current historical context and also in a dialogical engagement with students, teachers, parents, and other community members.  相似文献   

Science curriculum development in New Zealand a historical account     

Beverly Bell 《Research in Science Education》1987,17(1):244-252

Summary Science education in New Zealand continues to have a strong research base and now development work has begun that is modelled on a view of how people learn and which is supported by the curriculum development of the wider Ministerial Review.  相似文献   

A review of photovoice applications in environment,sustainability, and conservation contexts: is the method maintaining its emancipatory intents?     

Victoria Derr 《Environmental Education Research》2020,26(3):359-380

Abstract

Photovoice, a Participatory Action Research method developed by Wang and Burris, has gained popularity as a pedagogical tool to engage youth with environmental, sustainability, and conservation issues. Influenced by Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy, feminist theory, and documentary photography, photovoice supports reflection about place, critical dialogue about community issues, and social change by reaching policymakers. Some scholars have modified the method and applied varying frameworks to increase relevance for diverse participants. However, adaptation also may lose the original tenets. Through a scoping review, this study examined methodological applications to science, conservation, and sustainability education and whether emerging approaches align with Wang and Burris’ original goals. The scoping review identified and analyzed four applications of photovoice: i) place as pedagogy, ii) conservation and sustainability, iii) STEM teaching; and iv) decolonizing education. Current scholarship shows promise for photovoice in environmental education applications to support participatory, diverse, and equitable educational settings, but some projects would benefit from more explicit attention to the original emancipatory intents of the method.  相似文献   

A Nontopical System of TV Program Categories     

William R. Hazard  J. David Moriaty  Victoria C. Timmons 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1964,12(2):146-163

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Exceptional Children and Youth: What Price Do They Pay For Our Sympathy?     

Steven Bell 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1984,31(3):237-239

Since the passage of PL 94‐142, nearly every professional in public education is required to enrol in a course of educating exceptional children and youth. This paper is addressed to three audiences: 1) the instructors of such courses; 2) individuals responsible for in‐service training; and 3) teachers and parents of exceptional children and youth. In this brief article, a sixty‐minute group exercise designed to demonstrate the deleterious effects of overprotection is described.  相似文献   

Editorial: the breadth of Open Learning     

Simon Bell  Douce Chris 《Open Learning》2016,31(3):189-193

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Contents Volume 16 (2003)     

Amanda C. Walley  Jamie L. Metsala  Victoria M. Garlock 《Reading and writing》2003,16(8):805-808

Volume Contents

Contents Volume 16 (2003)  相似文献