Books,Teachers, and Committees‐‐a Comparative Essay on Authority in Science Education     

Peter J. Fensham 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(3):245-252

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In this essay, Professor Peter Fensham examines the respective roles of books, teachers and committees as source and authority of scientific information in the context of school science education. In his comparative analysis of recent curriculum development trends in the USA, England and Australia, he detects significant differences in what is accepted in the different countries as ‘authority about science knowledge’ and argues that these differences emerge from the different historical, political and economic development of the three apparently similar countries.  相似文献   

Higher Education Policy and Legitimacy Building: the Making of a New Academic Credential in Ontario     

Peter Hurley  Creso M. Sá 《Higher Education Quarterly》2013,67(2):157-179

Canada's province of Ontario introduced a new policy in 2000 allowing community colleges to offer a new type of undergraduate degree. This decision was a significant policy change for the government considering the nature of Ontario's binary system, where a rigid separation has historically prevailed between the university and college sectors. Drawing on multiple sources of data, this study indicates that the decision to create a new type of applied bachelor's degree generated a series of uncertainties and challenges for higher education institutions, students and government agencies. The paper highlights the need for policy makers to consider the socio‐cultural aspects of higher education systems in policy design, particularly the role of legitimacy.  相似文献   

Aboriginalizing methodology: Considering the canoe     

Peter Cole 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(4):447-459

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Signature concepts of key researchers in North American higher education teaching and learning     

Peter Kandlbinder 《Higher Education》2015,69(2):243-255

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Corrigendum     

Andrew J. Howes  Peter Grimes  M. Mahruf C. Shohel 《Compare》2012,42(1)

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The Importance of Being Colorful and Able to Fly: Interpretation and implications of children's statements on selected insects and other invertebrates     

Gabriele B. Breuer  Peter Kauf  Reto Rupf 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(16):2664-2687

Children have served as research subjects in several surveys on attitudes to insects and invertebrates. Most of the studies have used quantitative scoring methods to draw conclusions. This paper takes a different approach as it analyzes children's free-text comments to gain an understanding of their viewpoints. A total of 246 children aged 9–13 completed a standard questionnaire regarding their attitudes toward 18 invertebrates indigenous to Switzerland. Fourteen insect species and four other invertebrates were individually presented in a color photograph without any further background information. The children were given the opportunity to provide comments on each animal to explain the attitude score they had awarded. Nearly 5,000 comments were coded and categorized into 7 positive and 9 negative categories. A significant correlation between fear and disgust was not detected. Based on a hierarchical cluster analysis, we concluded that flying in the air versus crawling on the ground was a major differentiator for attitude and underlying reasons, only being trumped by the fear of getting stung. The visualization of our findings in a cluster heat map provided further insights into shared statement categories by species. Our analysis establishes that fear and disgust are separate emotions with regard to insects and other invertebrates. Based on our findings, we believe that prejudice-based fear and culturally evolved revulsion can be overcome. We suggest promoting environmental education programs, especially if they allow for personal experience, provide information in emotion-activating formats, and include content that resolves existing misinformation and myths.  相似文献   

Non‐executive Leadership in a Secondary School [1]     

Peter James 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(3):313-319

This enquiry sought to identify, in one secondary school, the day‐to‐day work that teachers below senior management level identified as being leadership tasks. Such approaches to non‐executive leadership are becoming more prevalent as schools move towards more open styles of management. This is accepted by practitioners, as well as being evident in the literature. In identifying these tasks it became possible to offer the teachers involved in the enquiry support and training in the skills necessary to perform these tasks.

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Asia in the 50th Venice Biennale of Art 2003     

Peter Schoppert 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2013,14(1):136-140

The 50th Venice Biennale of Art 2003 took the theme of ‘Dreams and Conflicts: the Dictatorship of the Viewer’, a theme that was said to reflect the difficulties of presenting art to diverse global audiences, with their own very different points‐of‐view. As an event, the Biennale has two tracks, one features works specially curated for the event, without necessarily any reference to place of residence of artists; the second track is specifically state‐based, where state art establishments present the work of ‘their’ artists in dedicated spaces, or even specially‐built permanent pavilions. This essay is structured as an art review, a statement of relative success or failure of aesthetic projects, mixing journalist convention, some light exegesis and purely subjective personal comment. Such review essays are relatively uncritical of the very frame of viewing and judging, and rarely make very clear the scale against which projects are measured. In this case, the main criteria for such ranking of the national pavilions was how they balanced the sort of self‐awareness that art in the early 21st century seems to require, against the implied aims of state promotion, and a sensitivity to styles or flavours of work prevailing in the world of the major Euro‐American arts institutions. This article goes on to consider several other artists and entries, and notes that few works were site‐specific to ‘Venice, Italy’, (as opposed to ‘place where important Biennale is held’). One exception was Fred Wilson’s work in the US pavilion. Work by practitioners based in Asia was reasonably well‐represented in the curated sections of Venice, particularly through the show orchestrated by Hou Hanru, a China‐educated curator who has made his career in Paris since 1990. While individual curators are able to move in circuits between Asia and Europe or North America, it is unclear how art circuits in various Asian territories will continue to interact with the larger Biennale circuit, and indeed the international commercial art market. Clearly the ‘national’ approach still has some momentum, and we can expect curators and state arts organizations to become more nuanced in their presentation.  相似文献   

Amid behavioural and behaviouristic objectives: reappraising appraisals of the Tyler Rationale   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Peter S. Hlebowitsh 《课程研究杂志》2013,45(6):533-547

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Exercise Heart Rate as a Predictor of Running Performance     

Peter A. Farrell  Jack H. Wilmore  Edward F. Coyle 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(2):417-421

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