Book Reviews     

John Peters  Kimberly M. Beckwith  Alastair Dryburgh 《Learned Publishing》2004,17(1):76-78

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Schools in the city: the effects of increasing urbanisation on education in Victoria,British Columbia, 1920‐1929     

Alastair Glegg 《Journal of educational administration and history》2002,34(1):63-76

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Demystifying the multiverse     

Alastair Wilson 《Metascience》2013,22(3):583-586

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Discourses of the good parent in attributing school success     

Sue Thomas  Jayne Keogh  Steve Hay 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2015,36(3):452-463

Recent education policy places a heavy emphasis on parents in relation to students' success at school. This paper explores how parents and teachers account for school success. Using membership categorisation analysis, it interrogates data collected in different interview situations across sites over a period of 20 years. The analysis shows how parents and teachers use talk as moral work to conversationally constitute particular agreed versions of the category ‘parent’. This category is interactively assembled through the use of category-bound attributes that construct deficit discourses of parents that explain student achievement. The analysis demonstrates that parents are complicit with teachers in producing versions of being a good parent wherein they are held responsible for their children's school success and that minimises the responsibility of the school. These findings raise questions both about who is responsible for schooling and about current contradictory policy emphases on parent and teacher responsibility for school success.  相似文献   

ASSESSING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING USING COMPARATIVE JUDGEMENT     

Ian Jones  Malcolm Swan  Alastair Pollitt 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2015,13(1):151-177

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Developing a template for National Child Protection Index Reports     

Ager A  Stark L  Chu E  Dewan S  Boothby N 《Child abuse & neglect》2011,35(12):1002-1008

Objectives

What impact does the strengthening of child rights have on the experience and circumstances of children? CRC General Comment 13 emphasizes that defining measurable targets for improvements in child protection is a key element of efforts to strengthen child rights and well-being across the world. This paper describes an attempt to identify key domains relevant to such mapping of child protection indicators, and the feasibility of collecting data—from existing data sources or otherwise—to complete a “National Child Protection Index Report” summarizing achievements and concerns at a national level.

Methods

A process of inter-agency consultation was facilitated by the CPC Learning Network to establish a template for the Index Report. The template was modeled on that used for the “Countdown to 2015” maternal, neonatal and child health initiative, aiming to capture indices not only of key protection risks but also implementation and coverage of key protection measures. The work drew on indicator development and policy initiatives by a number of international child protection agencies. The template developed was used as a basis to pilot national data collection in Indonesia and, at a sub-national level, in northern Uganda.

Findings

The template provides a concise summary of protection issues of relevance to a broad range of constituencies, global and national. However, in the pilot settings, existing routine data collection was inadequate to effectively populate a large proportion of indicators. Mechanisms of collating findings from discrete assessments—another potential source of data for completion of the index report—were also generally underdeveloped.

Practice implications

In settings where state infrastructure allows the collection and analysis of routine data in such domains as health and economic activity, such efforts should be extended to the child protection sector. Discrete assessments by governmental or non-governmental agencies also provide significant potential for more effective sharing and collation of information. National Child Protection sub-clusters or equivalent structures can play an important role in facilitating both of these processes.  相似文献   

寻找最具创新能力的组织——全球最受推崇企业的启示     

Hay 《现代企业教育》2006,(15):24-27

我们的发现表明:创新始于企业高管,领导者提供创新的方向,并建立有利于创新的组织文化和气氛.观点是创新的动力,无论是新的观点或是已有观点,他们都在新的方法中起到杠杆作用.为了促进创新观点的产生,创新型的领导鼓励个人的高度的主动性、推行有效的多功能的团队协作和融合,以确保最佳操作在公司中的扩散和充分运用.……  相似文献   

Salad Days without the Dressing? What British Higher and Further Education Institutions Can Do for Their Overseas Students     

Alastair Niven 《Higher Education Quarterly》1987,41(2):144-161

This article summarises the present status of overseas students in Britain. It then considers the responsibilities of the institutions towards them at various stages of the relationship: the quality of pre-arrival and orientation information; guidance about immigration; accommodation needs; dealing with the most common problems - loneliness and homesickness, finance, academic progress. It is suggested that overseas students should be seen as an asset and even a resource in the local community. Too often they are perceived as a passive entity but they are quickly waking up to their significance in the financial struture of higher education. Institutions which fail to recognise that they have considerable continuing obligations to the students they recruit from abroad will in the long run do no good to themselves or to the reputation of British higher education .  相似文献   

世界文化遗产地——黄山、西递、宏村国际旅游实证分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

章尚正  杨琪  阿拉斯泰尔·莫里森  严澄 《黄山学院学报》2008,10(6)

我国拥有35个世界遗产,但面向世界的文化遗产旅游发展明显失衡,主要原因之一是世界遗产地对外国旅游者缺乏研究,旅游开发与市场营销就难免效率不高。对外国旅游者基本特征、信息传播渠道,以及他们的旅游动机、在目的地参与的活动体验、对文化遗产景点与活动的评价等方面的调查。意在加深对外国旅游者心理需求与行为特征的认识．提高入境市场开拓的针对性与有效性。  相似文献   

Measuring the quality of e‐learning     

David B. Hay  Caroline Kehoe  Marc E. Miquel  Stylianos Hatzipanagos  Ian M. Kinchin  Steve F. Keevil  Simon Lygo‐Baker 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2008,39(6):1037-1056

This paper shows how concept mapping can be used to measure the quality of e‐learning. Six volunteers (all of them 3rd‐year medical students) took part in a programme of e‐learning designed to teach the principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Their understanding of MRI was measured before and after the course by the use of concept mapping. The quality of change in individuals' maps was assessed using criteria developed to distinguish between meaningful and rote‐learning outcomes. Student maps were also scored for evidence of conceptual richness and understanding. Finally, each map was compared directly with the content of the electronic teaching material. The results show that many of the student misconceptions were put right in the course of their learning but that many of the key concepts introduced in the teaching were ignored (or sometimes learnt by rote) by the students. This was because the teaching material locked these new ideas in structures and terminology that precluded meaning‐making among non‐experts. Our data suggest that students' prior knowledge is a key determinant of meaningful learning. We suggest that this must be acknowledged if the design and use of electronic teaching material is also to be meaningful. Ultimately, measures of student learning are the only authentic indicators of the quality of teaching through technology.  相似文献