Exploring the Actual and Potential Rhetoric-reality Gaps in Environmental Education and their Implications for Pre-service Teacher Training     

Marcus Grace  John Sharp 《Environmental Education Research》2000,6(4):331-345

The mismatch between the advocated views of theorists and the teaching realities in school environmental education is widely recognised. There is relatively little research examining the advocated practices of teachers themselves, other than already environmentally active teachers, to indicate the nature of the 'potential' rhetoric-reality gap that might exist if all constraints were removed, and teachers had a completely free choice in designing their own environmental education programmes. This article identifies such gaps by exploring current practices and teachers' views on selected components of environmental education, across a complete teacher training partnership. This information has been used to help prioritise the content and approaches used by pre-service teachers when conducting school-based environmental activities. The investigation reveals that although most schools lack a written policy on environmental education, most have a positive attitude towards the large majority of selected components and these are usually addressed in school. Teachers are not generally compelled to deliver aspects of environmental education that they deem inappropriate. Of the 10 components not currently addressed by most of these schools, the findings suggest that five would be added if constraining factors were removed, but a further five would remain absent. The overall potential rhetoric-reality differences in this case study are thus smaller than the actual existing differences, but still fall short of some theorists' goals. Within the pre-service training programme, efforts have been concentrated on components that are: (i) currently practised in most schools; and (ii) receive a positive response from most teachers, and this has resulted in markedly improved feedback from schools and trainees alike.  相似文献   

Now,discover your strengths: The revolutionary program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths—and those of the people you manage     

Marcus Buckingham  Donald O. Clifton  Bobbie Allaire  Jean Strosinski 《Performance Improvement》2003,42(6):43-46

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Women sport fans: identification,participation, representation     

Carrie Dunn 《Soccer & Society》2019,20(1):193-195

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Self-efficacy and the stages of exercise behavior change.   总被引：32，自引：0，他引：32  

B H Marcus  V C Selby  R S Niaura  J S Rossi 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》1992,63(1):60-66

This study examined the application of constructs concerning stage of readiness to change and self-efficacy to exercise. We developed two scales to measure stages of change for exercise behavior. Prevalence information on a sample of 1,063 government employees and 429 hospital employees was then obtained. Next, the ability of a questionnaire measuring exercise self-efficacy to differentiate employees according to stage of readiness to change was tested. Results from both stages-of-change scales revealed that 34-39% of employees were regularly participating in physical activity. Scores on efficacy items significantly differentiated employees at most stages. Results indicated employees who had not yet begun to exercise, in contrast with those who exercised regularly, had little confidence in their ability to exercise. Continued work at understanding the stages of exercise behavior and exercise self-efficacy could yield important information for enhancing exercise adoption and adherence.  相似文献   

Young children with orthopedic handicaps: self-knowledge about their disability     

N L Dunn  K W McCartan  R W Fuqua 《Exceptional children》1988,55(3):249-252

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Playing Neoliberal Politics: Post-Racial and Post-Racist Strategies in “Same Love”     

Thomas R. Dunn 《传播与批判/文化研究》2016,13(3):269-286

This essay argues that marriage equality discourses have successfully been used not only to advance GLBTQ rights but as a vehicle for re-securing neoliberalism after the 2008 Great Recession. Specifically, this essay analyzes how Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's “Same Love” (featuring Mary Lambert) supports neoliberalism by forwarding antiblackness and circumscribed political subjectivities while urging support for marriage equality. Through appeals to minimization, multiracialism, and inverting oppression, “Same Love” demonstrates how avowedly progressive texts can simultaneously impede the freer and fairer world the text supposedly promotes.  相似文献   

Elite footballers as role models: promoting young women’s football participation     

Carrie Dunn 《Soccer & Society》2016,17(6):843-855

Sportspeople are constantly urged to maintain the highest levels of conduct because of their position as ‘role models’ to children. This article reports from a study in progress which explores the experiences of elite female athletes in Britain, and focuses on qualitative interview responses of elite female footballers, all of whom were currently playing at top-flight domestic and international levels and took part in the 2012 Olympics. It explores what they perceive the position as ‘role model’ to mean, how it impinges on their sport performance, and how they work with gifted young footballers to promote sporting excellence as well as community cohesion through grass-roots outreach work. It discusses their thoughts on how role models are currently and can best be used to encourage young women’s football participation from elite down to grass-roots levels, and highlights the amount of responsibility they feel to do this.  相似文献   

An Islamic and Middle East Institute for Secondary Teachers: Report of a Successful Project     

Dr. Joe P. Dunn 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(7):287-289

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<Emphasis Type="Bold">Counting on the Common Good</Emphasis>     

Marcus L. Sheffield 《Academic Questions》2018,31(1):106-110

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AECT 2012: Louisville Convention Reflections     

Marcus D. Childress 《TechTrends》2013,57(2):3-3

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