Education in prison: A basic right and an essential tool     

Rangel Torrijo  Hugo  De Maeyer  Marc 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2019,65(5):671-685

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Faculty-exchange programs promoting change: motivations,experiences, and influence of participants in the Carnegie Mellon University-Portugal Faculty Exchange Program     

Patrício  Maria Teresa  Santos  Patrícia  Loureiro  Paulo Maia  Horta  Hugo 《Tertiary Education and Management》2018,24(1):1-18

The international mobility of faculty is increasing worldwide. Although studies have considered the experiences of academics abroad, less is known about faculty-exchange programs with policy objectives. This study helps to fill this gap by analyzing a nationwide structured faculty exchange program established by Carnegie Mellon University and Portuguese universities to bring change to Portuguese higher education. The findings are based on interviews with Portuguese program participants, whose motivation to participate and experiences with the program, in addition to the influence of their experience abroad on their home institution, were explored. We find that, although the alignment of individual motivations with institutional interests is important to such programs, the complex transposition of individual experiences to the institutional level may be impeded by cultural resistance as well as resource and organizational constraints. Our exploration of the features that determine the success or failure of these experiences provides insights for policymakers seeking to implement faculty-mobility programs in the future.  相似文献   

Contentious dialogue: University presidential response and the 2016 U.S. presidential election     

Jon McNaughtan  Hugo Garcia  Ian Lértora  Sarah Louis  Xinyang Li  Alexis L. Croffie 《Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management》2018,40(6):533-549

ABSTRACT

In recent years, technology has made it possible, and at times critical, for college and university presidents to increase their campus-wide public communication. However, there is little research that analyses these frequent and timely presidential communications. Using grounded theory, this study took steps to fill this gap by analysing the unprecedented response campuses had to the 2016 United States presidential election of Donald Trump. The analysis focused on the responses of presidents from the fifty state flagship universities and found emergent themes of unity, contentious election, negative event, university values, civil dialogue, services offered, and emotional rhetoric, while also finding significance in whether the letters were sent proactively or reactively.  相似文献   

Cooperation and education in prison: A policy against the tide in the Latin American penitentiary crisis     

Rangel Torrijo  Hugo 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2019,65(5):785-809

International Review of Education - Prison education is a fundamental human right and contributes to democratisation processes in Latin American countries. However, due to the current penitentiary...  相似文献   

Psychometric Properties of the ECERS-R Among an Epidemiological Sample of Preschools     

Marília Mariano  Sheila C. Caetano  Anderson Ribeiro da Silva  Pamela J. Surkan  Silvia S. Martins  Hugo Cogo-Moreira 《Early education and development》2019,30(4):511-521

Research Findings: The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale–Revised (ECERS-R) is widely used to evaluate the quality of early childhood education and its association with child development. However, the psychometric properties of the ECERS-R are not well established. Consequently, in this study we tested 3 different factor solutions of the ECERS-R using models sourced from the existing literature (featuring 1-, 2-, and 3-correlated-factor solutions) and applying confirmatory factor analysis to data from the epidemiological sample of the Embu Pre-school Mental Health Study (n = 1,292 children). Alternative measures of child education quality (such as teacher-to-child ratio) were also analyzed. The confirmatory factor analysis returned good fit indices for both the unidimensional and 3-correlated-factor solution models. Practice or Policy: This study showcases different applications of the ECERS-R, both the full and shortened versions. These findings are particularly important for improving ECERS-R guidelines for researchers, professionals, and policymakers.  相似文献   

Opportunities for a democratic pedagogy: a comparative study of South African and Swedish teachers' attitudes to inclusive education     

Rolf Helldin  Örjan Bäckman  Helen Dwyer  Anders Skarlind  Anna J. Hugo  Norma Nel  Helene Müller 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2011,11(2):107-119

This paper is based upon the collaboration between two research groups from Stockholm University and the University of South Africa. The main objective is to compare attitudes between South African (SA) and Swedish teachers regarding inclusive education (IE). IE in this paper is examined as a distinct part of the Swedish welfare system. The method used can be characterised as a combined, quantitative and qualitative research design with a purposive sampling. A similar adapted questionnaire was distributed in the two countries. The Swedish teachers in our data are more pro‐inclusion and more hesitating to accommodate learners with barriers in special schools. However, both the Swedish and the SA teachers in the study are hesitating towards the feasibility to implement IE practically. A team approach is concluded to be an adequate pedagogy for supporting IE both in South Africa and Sweden.  相似文献   

Using matrix norms to estimate the direction of arrival of planar waves on an ULA     

Rodrigo P. Lemos  Jonas A. Kunzler  Diego F. Burgos B.  Mário J. de Souza  Hugo V. L. e Silva  Yroá R. Ferreira  Edna L. Flôres  Oliver Sander 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2019,356(6):3781-3796

SEAD method estimates the direction-of-arrival angles on an uniformly linear array based on the difference between the two largest singular values, what is called differential spectrum. Although it presented an outstanding performance, the ability to indicate the source positions was not elucidated yet. Inspired by the differential spectrum formulation we derived a total differential spectrum and found out that the matrix norm induced by the vector 2-norm of a modified spatial covariance matrix can be used to estimate the direction-of-arrival of multiple plane waves. Indeed we show that matrix norms are estimators and we propose their use instead of the singular value decomposition in SEAD-based methods. We present a general mathematical expression in order to explicit the operating principles of the proposed methods. Consequently, we were able to explain how the relation between the arriving and the search angles produces the larger peaks on the differential spectrum. To evaluate the important role played by matrix norms, a thousand experiments were carried out. They showed that the proposed approach proved to be as accurate as the previous SEAD-based methods, while providing a significant reduction on runtime. It also outperformed well-established methods like MODEX regarding the estimation error.  相似文献   

Towards the use of multidimensional performance indicators in football small-sided games: the effects of pitch orientation     

Hugo Folgado  Jorge Bravo  Paulo Pereira  Jaime Sampaio 《Journal of sports sciences》2019,37(9):1064-1071

This study aimed to compare youth football players’ performance during two small-sided games with different pitch orientation: i) 40x30m and ii) 30x40m formats. Twenty under-15 players (age = 14.1 ± 0.5 years) participated in nine GK+4vs4+GK situations in each format, with the duration of six minutes each. Positional data were collected using individual GPS units, and computed for tactical and physical performance indicators. The SSG were video recorded, using notational analysis for collecting technical indicators. A novel method that incorporates time dependent notational information with spatiotemporal data was used to compute multidimensional parameters. Standardised effect sizes and non-clinical magnitude-based inferences were used to compare formats. Results showed that players covered more distance at higher intensities, presented more passes and dribbles and were more synchronised in the longitudinal axis while playing in the 40x30m pitch. In the 30x40m pitch, results showed a lower distance between team centroids, higher number of shots, more lateral passes and a wider team positioning. Multidimensional indicators, as players position and distance to the closest defender while shooting, revealed a more constant distance between attacker and defender in the 40x30m pitch. These results highlight the importance of integrating information from different indicators for a contextually valid information.  相似文献   

Is strength-training frequency a key factor to develop performance adaptations in young elite soccer players?     

Carlos Otero-Esquina  Óliver Gonzalo-Skok  Sergio Domínguez-Cobo  Hugo Sánchez 《European Journal of Sport Science》2017,17(10):1241-1251

The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of a combined strength-training programme (full-back squat, YoYo^TM leg curl, plyometrics and sled towing exercises) on performance in elite young soccer players and to examine the effects when this training programme was performed one or two days per week. Thirty-six male soccer players (U-17 to U-19) were recruited and assigned to experimental groups (EXP1: 1?s?w^?1; EXP2: 2?s?w^?1) or a control group (CON). Performance was assessed through a countermovement jump (CMJ) test (relative peak power [CMJ_PP] and CMJ height [CMJ_H]), a 20-m linear sprint test with split-times at 10-m, and a change of direction test (V-cut test) 1 week before starting the training programme and also 1 week after performing such training programme. Within-group analysis showed substantial improvements in CMJ variables (ES: 0.39–0.81) and COD (ES: 0.70 and 0.76) in EXP1 and EXP2, while EXP2 also showed substantial enhancements in all linear sprinting tests (ES: 0.43–0.52). Between-group analysis showed substantially greater improvements in CMJ variables (ES: 0.39–0.68) in experimental groups in comparison to CON. Furthermore, EXP2 achieved a substantial better performance in 20-m (ES: 0.48–0.64) than EXP1 and CON. Finally, EXP2 also showed greater enhancements in 10-m (ES: 0.50) and V-cut test (ES: 0.52) than EXP1. In conclusion, the combined strength-training programme improved jumping ability, independently of training frequency, though the achievement of two sessions per week also enhanced sprinting abilities (linear and COD) in young soccer players.  相似文献   

Broken gears: the value added of higher education on teachers’ academic achievement     

Carlos Felipe Balcázar  Hugo Ñopo 《Higher Education》2016,72(3):341-361

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