How young people respond to learning spaces outside school: A sociocultural perspective     

Alan?PeacockEmail author  Nick?Pratt 《Learning Environments Research》2011,14(1):11-24

This article focuses on educational enterprises outside the formal sector, such as museums, botanical gardens and interactive science centres. International research is drawn on to illuminate how design, culture, educational strategies and settings combine to affect the way in which young people respond to experiences on offer, leading to analysis of the impact of such settings in promoting learning, and the likely implications for those who staff such venues. Aikenhead’s concept of the educator as ‘culture broker’ is developed to suggest ways in which learning might be best supported. It envisages a shift from ‘delivery’ strategies targeted at large groups towards approaches which focus on what learners choose to know about using dialogue between children and ‘known and trusted people’. Analysis of observed responses in various settings is undertaken from a sociocultural perspective using the notion of communities of practice. Implications for the roles of education managers and their staff in further research are developed.  相似文献   

弗里德曼:使社会倒退的"自由市场"设计师     

尼克·比姆斯  李春兰 《高校理论战线》2007,(4):28-31

2006年11月21日,澳大利亚http://www.wsws.org网站刊登了尼克·比姆斯题为《弗里德曼:使社会倒退的"自由市场"设计师》的文章,认为弗里德曼的理论受到重视不是因为其科学性,而是因为他为垄断资本的全球扩张提供了一个意识形态外衣,他的理论在科学上是一种倒退,而且实际上也导致社会倒退.文章主要内容如下.  相似文献   

Student Finance and Widening Participation in the British Isles: Common Problems, Different Solutions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Nick Adnett 《Higher Education Quarterly》2006,60(4):296-311

Across the British Isles there are common forces encouraging an expansion of higher education (HE) while constraining the ability and willingness of governments to finance it. We examine the nature of these forces and conclude that together they are likely to lead over time to the general taxpayer funding a declining share of HE costs. While there are some potential efficiency and social equity benefits from reforms of student finance motivated by switching more of the costs towards students and their parents, the likely impact of these reforms on widening participation is unclear. We examine the current student finance systems in the British Isles and assess whether or not a system based upon income‐contingent student loans, means‐tested grants and targeted bursaries can deliver both the desired expansion and widening access.  相似文献   

From unbundling to market making: reimagining,reassembling and reinventing the public university     

Nick Lewis 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2019,17(1):11-27

ABSTRACT

In Britain and New Zealand the neoliberal assault on universities has shifted from new public management and funding models to the special status of the public university. The project aims to complete neoliberal business initiated 25 years ago by more fully marketising and financialising universities, starting with ‘unbundling’ and outsourcing and culminating in new forms of privatisation, rent-extraction and rebundling. This paper analyses two documents commissioned beyond government to create political momentum for this project: Avalanche is Coming and The University of the Future. These both capture the zeitgeist of reform while simultaneously creating the university futures that they portend. We examine the market-making work they perform in reimagining and reinventing universities ahead of policy reform. We argue that claims made to support fundamental restructuring of public universities lack substance or evidence. Rather, each is underpinned by different configurations of ideology and self-interest that together envelope universities in new agendas of marketisation, financialisation and privatisation. We suggest that in this latest restructuring of public universities critics should pay more attention to the work of consultancies and think tanks alongside the micro-details of market making. By doing so, they too might reimagine public universities, but for a different political project.  相似文献   

The 1912 Stockholm Olympics: essays on the competitions,the people,the city     

Nick Piercey 《Sport in History》2017,37(2):237-239

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Supporting Secondary Schools to Manage Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties – An Account of Work in Progress     

Nick Leggett 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(2):18-24

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Adolescents With Disabilities: The Need for Occupational Social Skills Training     

Nick Elksnin  Linda K. Elksnin 《Exceptionality》2013,21(1-2):91-105

In this article, occupational social skills are defined and their importance is highlighted. The lack of occupational social skills has been estimated to be responsible for almost 90% of job loss. Although a number of commercial social skills instructional programs are available, none address social skills as they relate to specific occupations. We offer 4 different ways to develop appropriate occupational social skills training.  相似文献   

Autism and multidisciplinary teamwork through the SCERTS Model     

Paola Molteni  Karen Guldberg  Nick Logan 《British Journal of Special Education》2013,40(3):137-145

This research investigates multidisciplinary teamwork in an English special school located in the West Midlands region of the UK. The research was carried out by Paola Molteni, a PhD student at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Karen Guldberg of the Autism Centre for Education and Research Director at the University of Birmingham School of Education, and Nick Logan, head of the Psychology and Therapists Department at Sunfield Children's Home, Clent. The school uses the innovative SCERTS (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, Transactional Support) model. The methodology was a collaborative and participatory case study focused on the point of view of professionals and on understanding the teamwork process through analysis of three teams working together to implement SCERTS. Methods included focus groups, semi‐structured interviews, direct observations and questionnaires; the data were analysed using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method. The research provides an example of good practice and enables practitioners to reflect on the issues involved in implementing a multidisciplinary process using the SCERTS approach. The findings show that the SCERTS Model can support the educational team in promoting and exchanging good daily practice and planning educational work together. The article draws out implications for further studies that aim to analyse teamwork in other settings and over a longer period.  相似文献   

The quality of research     

Nick Rushby  John Cowan 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2006,37(5):659-663

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A comparison of self-focus versus attentional explanations of choking     

Wilson M  Chattington M  Marple-Horvat DE  Smith NC 《运动与训练心理学杂志》2007,29(4):439-456

This study examined attentional processes underlying skilled motor performance in threatening situations. Twenty-four trained participants performed a simulated rally driving task under conditions designed either to direct the focus of attention toward the explicit monitoring of driving or a distracting secondary task. Performance (lap time) was compared with a "driving only" control condition. Each condition was completed under nonevaluative and evaluative instructional sets designed to manipulate anxiety. Mental effort was indexed by self-report and dual-task performance measures. The results showed little change in performance in the high-threat explicit monitoring task condition, compared with either the low-threat or the high-threat distraction conditions. Mental effort increased, however, in all high- as opposed to low-threat conditions. Performance effectiveness was therefore maintained under threat although this was at the expense of reduced processing efficiency. The results provide stronger support for the predictions of processing efficiency theory than self-focus theories of choking.  相似文献