Who says we are not attracting the best and brightest? Teacher selection and the aspirations of Australian school students     

Jennifer Gore  Rosie Joy Barron  Kathryn Holmes  Maxwell Smith 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2016,43(5):527-549

Internationally, the quality of teachers is a growing focus of educational reform, with new policies attempting to ensure that only the ‘best and brightest’ are selected for the teaching profession. This article tests the assumption underpinning these developments that prospective teachers lack the desired academic and personal qualities. Drawing on data on the career aspirations of 6492 Australian school students in Years 3–12, we investigated who, among these students, expressed interest in teaching and their reasons for doing so. Using logistic regression, we found that interest in teaching was widespread and prior academic achievement was not a significant predictor. Thematic analysis of reasons expressed for interest in teaching indicated that working with children and/or in specific subject areas, altruism, and perceptions of personal suitability for the job dominated student responses. These data provide a counter-narrative to the primacy, in policies for teacher recruitment and selection, of needing to attract ‘better’ students. We argue that policies for improving teacher quality should also capitalise on the widespread interest in teaching among school students. Without such a discursive broadening, we caution that current attempts to attract the ‘best and brightest’ risk undermining the very goals espoused.  相似文献   

A framework for enabling graduate outcomes in undergraduate programmes     

C. H. Bond  A. McLean  N. Smith  S. Frielick  M. Jenkins 《高等教育研究与发展》2017,36(1):43-58

Our research aim was to determine what enables engagement with graduate outcomes in tertiary institutions in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We used a mixed methods approach comprising a survey sent to all tertiary institutions, follow-up interviews with 10 academic leaders and eight case studies of good practice of programmes engaged with graduate outcomes across four institutions. Using a general inductive approach, analysis of the academic leader interviews generated five categories of enablers: external drivers, structural/procedural, development, student achievement and contextual enablers. Combining these enablers led to an integrating framework for institutional engagement in the development of graduate outcomes. Drawing on wider datasets from the survey, interviews and cases studies, relevant strategies were identified that staff and students perceived influenced the development of graduate outcomes. The framework and the associated strategies adopt a ‘whole-of-institution’ approach, which is inclusive of programmes, staff and students and their individual histories, traditions, cultures and purposes thus allowing for each institution’s unique characteristics.  相似文献   

Stability of Observed Maternal Behavior Across Tasks,Time, and Siblings     

Sheri Madigan  Andre Plamondon  Dillon Browne  Jennifer Jenkins 《Parenting, science and practice》2016,16(2):108-124

Objective. To further understanding of the stability and variability in maternal behavior across tasks, time, and sibling pairs. Design. Mothers (a total of 451) were observed separately in interactions with two of their children across two tasks and three time points. Independent observers rated responsive and negative maternal behaviors. Results. Moderate to large correlations across tasks (responsivity = .51; negativity = .41), time points (responsivity = .40; negativity = .38), and siblings (responsivity = .56; negativity = .49) were found. Although these correlations indicate significant stability (i.e., consistency) of maternal behavior, they also indicate variability, with unexplained variance ranging from 69–84% for responsivity and 75–86% for negativity. Conclusions. Proportions of maternal behavior across tasks, time, and siblings can and cannot be accurately predicted given examination of maternal behavior in a comparable task, later time point, or sibling. The current study underscores the importance of considering both stability and variability as equally critical components for understanding maternal behavior.  相似文献   

Degree apprenticeships,the ‘joy of learning’ excellence framework,and the common good     

Joy Carter 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2019,43(1):127-137

Degree Apprenticeships are fairly recent in the landscape of UK Higher Education. As is often the case with initiatives that try to build bridges between the world of work and the world of university education, there is suspicion that in such relationships higher education becomes servant to the needs of business and industry. Alternatively, Degree Apprenticeships perhaps offer a way for Higher Education to add value to the students’ working life. In our paper we try to argue for ways in which the value of the University-side of the provision within Degree Apprenticeships might reflect something of the value of the common good, and of the value of the joy of learning. Leaning on the venerable history of the triangle in the Western philosophical canon, and in Plato in particular, we demonstrate ways in which Degree Apprenticeships and Plato’s famous example of education as the journey to and from the cave can be brought together. In passing, we are claiming that Higher Education in all its forms would do well not to lose sight of its responsibilities to education as a servant of the common good, and above all, to the joy of learning.  相似文献   

Exploring the Structure and Benefits of an Integrated Yearlong Dual Certification Student Teaching Internship     

Colby T. Kervick  Emma Jenkins  Kelly A. Swindlehurst 《The Teacher Educator》2020,55(2):165-189

Abstract

Many teacher preparation programs offering dual certification have engaged in program redesign to establish greater integration between general education and special education. This article presents findings from an exploratory case study that examined the perspectives of former preservice teacher candidates and school personnel regarding an integrated yearlong dual certification internship. Findings indicated research participants (a) placed value on the breadth and authenticity of the experience; (b) built deep relationships with students and staff that contributed to building confidence; and (c) felt the structure and impact of the model yielded positive outcomes for both the school and for preservice teacher candidates. Implications for practice include suggestions for how teacher preparation programs might move toward integrated models of dual certification teacher preparation and explore the importance of clinically rich partnerships that benefit both preservice teacher candidates and field sites.  相似文献   

Gaining a better understanding of your teaching through self-study     

Dwight Rogers  Joy Mermin  Mary Jenne 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1991,19(1):20-25

As the director of a small preschool, Mary struggled to come up with a meaningful form of staff development for her teachers. She encouraged her staff to enroll in local workshops, and together they attended weekend-long state and national early-childhood conferences. The staff always returned from these sessions a closer knit group, and the conferences often stimulated them with new ideas that they wished to incorporate into their teaching. Too often, though, by Monday, the demands of the real world of their classrooms had overwhelmed them, and the excitement and energy that had filled them on the weekend had faded away.Dwight Rogers is Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joy Mermin is a teacher at the Family Preschool, 632 Laurel Hill Road, Chapel Hill, NC. Mary Jenne is a teacher and Director of the Family Preschool, Chapel Hill, NC.  相似文献   

Chaos in Environmental Education     

Joy Hardy 《Environmental Education Research》1999,5(2):125-142

Random behaviour, perfectly controlled by deterministic laws, is the seemingly paradoxical definition of ‘chaos’. Hence, chaos theory reconciles order and disorder, and portrays an evolutionary universe based upon a delicate interplay of chance and necessity. These findings have raised fundamental questions regarding the nature of reality and humankind's dialogue with reality. In response, many theorists, both within and beyond the natural sciences, are heralding an emerging paradigm. In the context of education, the assumptions of the emerging paradigm posit learners in a creative process in which the evolution of knowledge and the participant's impact upon each other in a manner that remains ambiguous until the chance has been taken. Explorations of this vision of learning, and the philosophical assumptions, from which it is derived, have the capacity to promote and enrich the current contestation in environmental education. This article presents an example of such an exploration. Specifically, this exploration outlines the essence of chaos theory and the evolutionary capacity of chaotic systems, the philosophical implications of chaos theory both in general and for education, and compares the relations between Doll's (1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993) curriculum vision based on chaos theory and critical education for the environment as outlined by Tien (1993).  相似文献   

Marketing Theory and Practice On‐line: a Development Towards International Collaboration     

Francis Farrelly  Sally Joy  Sandra Luxton 《Higher Education in Europe》1999,24(2):287-294

The authors detail the development of an on‐line course, “Marketing Theory and Practice On‐line” (MTPO) as part of the charter‐mandated commitment of Monash University of Australia to deliver quality flexible education transnationally. The course, that is now offered to both on‐campus and distance education students, uses a full range of media and computer technologies, including the Internet, e‐mail, bulletin boards, on‐line library facilities, video animations, and hypertext. The guiding principles for the development of the course were that the methodology must enrich the learning experience; the communication shell must enrich a scholarly environment; and the subject development should encourage and facilitate new opportunities. The ultimate aim is to utilize MTPO as the basis for international collaboration and to use the collaboration in question to develop a stronger intellectual package with specialist marketing subjects at both the undergraduate and the postgraduate levels.  相似文献   

Seasonal variation in physical activity among preschool children in a northern Canadian city     

Carson V  Spence JC  Cutumisu N  Boule N  Edwards J 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2010,81(4):392-399

Little research has examined seasonal differences in physical activity (PA) levels among children. Proxy reports of PA were completed by 1,715 parents on their children in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Total PA (TPA) minutes were calculated, and each participant was classified as active, somewhat active, or inactive. Logistic regression models were conducted to examine associations between PA status and seasons. Significant seasonal differences were observed for TPA, weekday PA, weekend PA, and active play. Children were significantly more likely to be physically active in the summer and spring and somewhat physically active in the summer and fall, relative to winter Children living in cold climates are less likely to be physically active in the winter.  相似文献   

Categorising computer science education research     

Mike Joy  Jane Sinclair  Shanghua Sun  Jirarat Sitthiworachart  Javier López-González 《Education and Information Technologies》2009,14(2):105-126

The interdisciplinary nature of Computer Science Education as a field of study is a complicating factor when authors are choosing appropriate journals and conferences for publishing research results. This paper reports a survey of 42 such publications in order to identify the types of paper frequently accepted for publication in each. We review existing taxonomies developed for the general fields of Computer Science and Education, and from this starting point, we develop a novel faceted taxonomy, specifically aimed to help new researchers in the field understand what types of papers are published and where they appear. Our results confirm previous studies indicating the predominance of practice-based, technology-driven reports. We also observe certain differences in educational themes between those found in publications grounded in the Computer Science Education corpus and those emerging from more general Higher Education literature.  相似文献