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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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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   

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 styles of learning and motivation     

Noel Entwistle  Béla Kozéki  Alistair Pollitt 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1987,2(2):183-203

The theoretical basis, the development and the use of an inventory designed to measure styles of learning and motivation are described. On the basis of previous research, items within the inventory were located on 20 sub-scales. The ten motivation sub-scales were derived from a theory of school motivation which was based on extensive interview and inventory work carried out in Hungary with children, their parents and teachers. The ten scales describing styles of learning were derived from concepts describing learning approaches and styles which emerged from interviews and experimental research with students in British and Swedish higher education. Versions were prepared in both English and Hungarian and given to samples of 614 British and 579 Hungarian pupils aged between 13 and 17 years. A remarkably similar factor structure was obtained in each sample. An analysis of mean scores indicated distinctive differences both between boys and girls, and between British and Hungarian pupils. Cluster analysis was used to investigate the possible existence of styles which combined both approaches to learning and aspects of school motivation. The potentiality of the inventory for use in conjunction with study skills courses is discussed.  相似文献   

Teaching with the Flow: Fixity and fluidity in education   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Alastair Pennycook Faculty of Education 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2005,25(1):29-43

In this paper I suggest that as educators we need to understand that the spaces and cultures our students inhabit are to be found not so much in predefinitions of cultural background or in studies of classrooms as cultural spaces as in the transcultural flows with which our students engage. Thus, my argument is not only that, as Singh and Doherty (2004 Singh, P and Doherty, C. 2004. Global cultural flows and pedagogic dilemmas: Teaching in the global university contact zone. TESOL Quarterly, 38(1): 9–42.  ) suggest, the flow of “international” students turns many classrooms into “global education contact zones” (p. 11), but also that the global flows of English and popular culture turn classrooms in many parts of the world into spaces of transcultural contact. Students can no longer be understood as located in a bounded time and space in and around their classrooms but rather are participants in a much broader set of transcultural practices. Taking the global culture of hip-hop as an example, with a particular focus on hip-hop in parts of East and Southeast Asia, I argue that with English increasingly becoming the medium of global transcultural exchange, we need to understand the relations between English, popular culture, education and identity, or the ways in which global Englishes become a shifting means of transcultural identity formation. What I want to suggest here, then, is that in order to be attentive to the politics of location in the global context, we need a pedagogy of flow.  相似文献   

Resilience in Context: A Brief and Culturally Grounded Measure for Syrian Refugee and Jordanian Host‐Community Adolescents          下载免费PDF全文

Catherine Panter‐Brick  Kristin Hadfield  Rana Dajani  Mark Eggerman  Alastair Ager  Michael Ungar 《Child development》2018,89(5):1803-1820

Validated measures are needed for assessing resilience in conflict settings. An Arabic version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) was developed and tested in Jordan. Following qualitative work, surveys were implemented with male/female, refugee/nonrefugee samples (N = 603, 11–18 years). Confirmatory factor analyses tested three‐factor structures for 28‐ and 12‐item CYRMs and measurement equivalence across groups. CYRM‐12 showed measurement reliability and face, content, construct (comparative fit index = .92–.98), and convergent validity. Gender‐differentiated item loadings reflected resource access and social responsibilities. Resilience scores were inversely associated with mental health symptoms, and for Syrian refugees were unrelated to lifetime trauma exposure. In assessing individual, family, and community‐level dimensions of resilience, the CYRM is a useful measure for research and practice with refugee and host‐community youth.  相似文献