Graphicacy in biology textbooks: analysis of activities with images / Alfabetización gráfica en libros de texto de biología: análisis de las actividades con imágenes     

Yolanda Postigo  Asunción López-Manjón 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2015,38(3):509-541

The aim of this study is to analyse how graphicacy is promoted through activities with images of the human body in third to sixth year primary school textbooks from three different publishers. The analysis was based on categories related to type of image, type of task, procedures, cognitive processing level required and whether there are explicit instructions on how to use the image. The results show that illustrations and visual diagrams are the most frequent images. The main task is image interpretation, whereas production tasks are scarce. Moreover, the tasks are not evenly distributed among the different procedures. The processing level required is low and requires superficial processing of the images, resulting in a learning process based on copy and repetition. There is some evidence of activities being sequenced according to educational level. We conclude that the kind of graphicacy found in the textbook activities is insufficient for acquiring competence in the use of images.  相似文献   

What and how teacher educators prefer to learn     

Jurriën Dengerink  Mieke Lunenberg  Quinta Kools 《师资教育杂志》2015,41(1):78-96

In which areas and domains do individual teacher educators prefer to work on their professional development? What kind of learning activities do they want to take on and with whom? Are there significant differences in these preferences between teacher educators? This article reports on a recent survey (N = 268) about the professional development of teacher educators and differences in learning preferences between less and more experienced teacher educators and between university-based and school-based teacher educators. Findings show, for example, that while most university-based teacher educators were mainly interested in improving their teaching, less experienced school-based teacher educators were more focussed on aspects such as coaching skills. In this study, ‘learning profiles’ have been developed for four categories of teacher educators. These profiles may help to create more meaningful arrangements for teacher educators’ initial education and further professional development in a context where teacher education is required to have a more school-based as well as a more research-based orientation.  相似文献   

Research on teaching practicum – a systematic review     

Tony Lawson  Melek Çakmak  Müge Gündüz  Hugh Busher 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2015,38(3):392-407

The aim of the present study is to conduct a systematic review research which focuses on research studies into the school practicum. In order to identify the main issues and also to provide a contemporary picture of practicum, 114 studies published on the topic are reviewed and analysed in terms of: (i) aims, (ii) main participants, (iii) methodology used and (iv) the main outcomes emerging. Many of the reviewed studies take pre-service teachers as their main participants. The review also shows that many practicum studies are relatively small-scale studies since they are mainly qualitative focused and findings derived from a relatively small sample. This suggests that more large-scale studies are needed in the field in order to provide greater insight into teaching practicum. Finally, this systematic review provides some food for thought in the area of practicum research and promotes further studies in this complex field.  相似文献   

Instrument adaptation in cross-cultural studies of students’ mathematics-related beliefs: learning from healthcare research     

Paul Andrews  Jose Diego-Mantecón 《Compare》2015,45(4):545-567

Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14–15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.  相似文献   

High school boys’ and girls’ writing conceptions and writing self-efficacy beliefs: what is their role in writing performance?     

Ruth Villalón  Mar Mateos  Isabel Cuevas 《教育心理学》2015,35(6):653-674

This study investigated the conceptions about writing and writing self-efficacy beliefs held by high school students in relation to the students’ gender as well as their associations with writing achievement. The results show that female students have more sophisticated writing conceptions than their male counterparts but no gender differences were found in writing self-efficacy beliefs. In addition, results reveal that writing self-efficacy beliefs and gender play an important role in predicting writing performance and that writing performance is moderated by students’ writing conceptions. Educational implications and further research are discussed.  相似文献   

The world of work between the personal and the collective: a demand for social justice and guidance for Latin America     

Julio Gonzalez Bello  Omaira Chacón 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2015,15(3):237-246

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苏轼“杞菊”义解     

刘清泉 《乐山师范学院学报》2015,(7)

从诗文例句搜罗、词语构造分析和修辞方式考察的视角来诠释苏轼诗文中的“杞菊”一词,从而进一步明确“杞菊”的意义。  相似文献   

论苏童笔下的“颂莲”式女性     

周茜  王艳芳 《乐山师范学院学报》2015,(7)

苏童是少数几个尤其擅长写女性的男性作家。他对女性的心理描写和细节把握都处理得恰到好处,非常自然。他笔下的女性一改过往的温柔善良、知书达理,相反的,大多都阴暗猥琐、粗俗野蛮、善于妒忌,非常具有特色,成为中国当代女性小说的独有景观。苏童的几个从女性视角描写的女主人公具有很多的共同特征,他将这些女性称为“颂莲”式女性。  相似文献   

英语写作中语块使用的实证研究     

陈丹 《乐山师范学院学报》2015,(7)

提高英语写作技能是英语教学的目标之一,但怎样提高写作水平是英语教学亟待解决的难题。将语块理论引入写作教学,为其提供了新的视角。采用SPSS17．0对140名学习者在写作中使用语块的数据分析,发现其特征如下：从语块使用频度上看,语块使用较少,仅占全文的1/3;从语块使用重复率上看,其重复率较高,接近语块总数的1/3,这表明学习者语块使用不够多样化,种类不丰富;从语块类型上看,短语语块使用较多,句子语块使用较少;从学习者水平上看,高分组限制语块使用较多,低分组固定语块使用较多。  相似文献   

西周园林：从娱神到娱人的美育思想     

崔青青  李丹 《乐山师范学院学报》2015,(7)

西周园林反映了我国先秦美学思想从娱神到娱人的转变,即从崇拜神到肯定人的主体性,这种转变深深地影响了此后中国人的精神气质。一方面中国人极其重视个人的德行修养,另一方面又将这种自我修养与入世精神相结合,既富有深情,又执着,但又不至于走向自我否定的极端境地;既有一种“天下”情怀,以天下事为己事,又有一种“悲天悯人”的情怀,始终不曾远离底层。这些都是先秦美育思想在这一时期转变的结果。  相似文献