Core or periphery? The past and present of the history of education

A history of western educational ideas D. Lawton & P. Gordon, 2002 A century of education R. Aldrich (Ed.), 2002 Scottish education in the twentieth century L. Paterson, 2003 Education in Britain: 1944 to the present K. Jones, 2003     

Making the case for the BRAT (British Regiment Attached Traveller)

Military brats and other global nomads (Book 1) M. G. Ender (Ed.), 2002 The military family (Book 2) J. A. Martin, L. N. Rosen & L. R. Sparacino (Eds), 2000 The military child—mobility and education (Book 3) M. M. Keller & G. T. Decoteau, 2000     

Mandated curriculum change and a science department: A superficial language convergence?

This article investigates the introduction of a systemic curriculum change, the Essential Learnings curriculum framework, in the Australian state of Tasmania. Using Gee's [(2003). Language in the science classroom: Academic social languages as the heart of school-based literacy. In: R. Yerrick, & W.-M. Roth (Eds.), Establishing scientific classroom discourse communities: Multiple voices of teaching and learning research (pp. 19–37). Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates] six claims regarding the importance of language in science education, the responses of the science teachers within a secondary school to the curriculum reform were investigated. This research utilised a narrative methodology to elucidate the processes by which science teachers attempted to negotiate a sense of meaning for the reforms within their work context. Three particular challenges are highlighted for curriculum reformers. These challenges involve the potential for a linguistic distance between teachers and reformers, understanding the importance of the work context in teacher learning and the dangers of a superficial application of reform language to teacher practices. The article concludes by emphasising that the negotiation of a situated language can provide both teachers and reformers with both coherence and a common ownership of a reform, thus strengthening the potential for its implementation and institutionalisation.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: Research studies in early childhood education C. Nutbrown (Ed.) A student's guide to methodology P. Clough & C. Nutbrown The moral foundations of educational research: knowledge, inquiry and values P. Sikes, J. Nixon & W. Carr (Eds) Ethnography and schools Y. Zou & E. Trueba (Eds) Non‐traditional entrants to higher education M. Bowl The Continuum guide to successful teaching in higher education M. Martinez‐Pons Discourse in educational and social research M. MacLure Cultural history and education T. S. Popkewitz, B. M. Franklin & M. A. Pereyra (Eds)     

On the Identit(ies) of Mathematics Education

This critical notice reviews sections of three recently published Handbooks of relevance to the community of educational psychology, cognitive science, and mathematics education researchers. In particular it examines (a) the overlap between the historic foundations of cognition, mathematics education, and educational psychology; (b) the shared problem of identity; (c) areas of consonance and dissonance, particularly the need to bring in socio-political issues; and (d) the complexity of understanding and modeling human cognition. A critical notice of: • Alexander, P.A. & Winne, P.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology (2^nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. (2006), 1055 pp. $89.95. • Lester, F.K. (Ed.), Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Part I – Foundations. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics & Information Age Publishing. (2007), 1324 pp. $350.00. • Campbell, J.I.D. (Ed.), Handbook of Mathematical Cognition, New York, NY: Psychology Press, An Imprint of Taylor and Francis. (2004), 508 pp. $125.00.     

Fulfilment of the basic psychological needs of student teachers during their first teaching experiences

This study focuses on an under-researched area, namely the fulfilment of basic psychological needs of student teachers during their first teaching experiences. Based on the Self-determination Theory of Ryan and Deci [(2002). Overview of self-determination theory: An organismic dialectical perspective. In E.L. Deci, R.M. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of self-determination research (pp. 3–33). Rochester: The University of Rochester Press] and the work of Epstein [(1998a). Cognitive-experiential self-theory: A dual-process personality theory with implications for diagnosis and psychotherapy. In R.F. Bornstein, J.M. Masling (Eds.), Empirical perspectives on the psychoanalytic unconscious (pp. 99–140). Washington, DC: APA; (1998b). Constructive thinking: The key to emotional intelligence. Westport: Praeger], it could be demonstrated that need fulfilment has a strong influence on student teachers’ teaching experiences, especially in a non-rational way, for instance through feelings and images. Thwarting of the needs appears to be correlated with images showing fight, flight, and freeze tendencies, whereas need fulfilment concurs with flow tendencies. The fulfilment of the need for competence, relatedness, and autonomy in student teachers is considerably less than in experienced teachers. We discuss the consequences for research in this field, and recommendations for teacher education.     

Book reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: Learning without limits S. Hart, A. Dixon, M. J. Drummond, D. McIntyre et al. Improving learning: professional practice in secondary schools D. Glover & S. Law Enhancing primary mathematics teaching I. Thompson (Ed.) We want our say R. Klein Early years play and learning: developing social skills and cooperation P. Broadhead Experiences of special education: re‐evaluating policy and practice through life stories D. Armstrong Challenging orthodoxy in special education: dissenting voices D. J. Gallagher, with L. Heshusius, R. P. Iano & T. M. Skrtic Ethnography for education C. Pole & M. Morrison     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Education policy and realist social theory: primary teachers, child‐centred philosophy and the new managerialism R. Willmott Making sense of education policy G. Whitty Higher education in England and France since the 1980s C. M. A. Deer Girls and exclusion A. Osler & K. Vincent Researching your own practice: the discipline of noticing J. Mason Effective teaching: evidence and practice D. Muijs & D. Reynolds The impact of school size and single‐sex education on performance T. Spielhofer, L. O'Donnell, T. Benton, S. Schagen & I. Schagen Gender and physical education D. Penney (Ed.)     

Oral corrective feedback in the foreign language classroom: how it affects interaction in analytic foreign language teaching

The discussion on the role of corrective feedback is part of a larger discussion on the role of ‘focusing on form’ in foreign language teaching (Focus on form in classroom second language acquisition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998). Studies conducted in communicative and content-based foreign language teaching (FLT) settings have shown that some focus on form seems to be required for learners to ‘notice the gap’ (in: R. Day (Ed.), Talking to Learn, Newbury House, Rowley, MA, pp. 237–326) between their erroneous utterances and the target language.This article discusses the role of different types of oral corrective feedback in analytic FLT. Stern (in: B. Harley, P. Allen, J. Cummins, M. Swain (Eds.), The Development of Second Language Proficiency, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 93–109; Issues and options in language teaching, Oxford University Press, Oxford) refers to FLT as analytic when the focus of instruction is on the form of the foreign language as opposed to more content-based approaches where the focus is on meaning and content. Typical for analytic FLT are discrete point presentation along with feedback on formal error. This type of FLT is still common practice in Belgian secondary schools.The study explores the role of different kinds of corrective feedback in an analytic setting (German as a foreign language in Flanders, Belgium). The frequency and distribution of several corrective feedback types together with the frequency and distribution of different types of learner uptake following each feedback type (see Stud. Second Language Acquisit. 19 (1997) 37) are discussed. The question then is which strategy is to be preferred in terms of noticing the feedback.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: School Improvement in an Era of Change David Hopkins , Mel Ainscow & Mel West Schools of Reconciliation. Issues in joint Roman Catholic-Anglican education Priscilla Chadwick Children's Understanding of Disability A. Lewis Juggling for a Degree-mature students' experience of university life Hilary Arksey , Ian Marchant & Cheryl Simmill (Eds) Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity: work and education in a multicultural age Walter Feinberg A Significant Social Revolution: cross-cultural aspects of the evolution of compulsory education J. A. Mangan (Ed.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: So what's a boy? W. Martino & M. Pallotta‐Chiarolli Women teaching boys M. Ashley & J. Lee Investigating gender: contemporary perspectives in education B. Francis & C. Skelton (Eds) Women as headteachers‐striking the balance M. Coleman Supply teachers' survival guide G. Segall Education denied K. Tomasevski Economic geography of higher education. Knowledge infrastructure and learning regions R. Rutten, F. Boekema & E. Kuijpers (Eds) Democratic education: ethnographic challenges D. Beach, T. Gordon & E. Lahelma     

Classroom research or w(h)ither development: gender,complexity and diversity in the UK,the USA and Australia

Starting school—young children learning cultures L. Brooker Embracing identities in early childhood education: diversity and possibilities S. Grieshaber & G. Cannella, G. (Eds) Caring classrooms/intelligent schools: the social emotional education of young children J. Cohen (Ed.)     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Boys, Literacies and Schooling: the dangerous territories of gender‐based literacy reform L. Rowan, M. Knobel, C. Bigum & C. Lankshear Boys and Literacy: exploring the issues T. Maynard Gender, Policy and Educational Change Jane Salisbury & Sheila Riddell (Eds) Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder Strategies for Success C. Missiuna (Ed.) Effective Teaching of Science: a review of research Wynne Harlen The Governance of Science Steve Fuller. Researching Your Own Practice: the discipline of noticing John Mason Changing the Subject: the impact of national policy on school geography 1980‐2000 Eleanor M. Rawling Higher Education and Social Class L. Archer, M. Hutching & A. Ross     

BOOK REVIEWS

Principles and practices in arithmetic teaching: innovative approaches to the primary classroom J. Anghileri (Ed.) Improving school effectiveness J. Macbeath & P. Mortimore (Eds) Debates and developments in ethnographic methodology G. Walford (Ed.) Mentoring for social inclusion H. Colley Managing the curriculum D. Middlewood & N. Burton (Eds)     

REVIEWS

Satow, F. and Gatherer, B. (Eds), Literacy Without Frontiers (1992) Schlenther, Elizabeth (Ed.), Reading Therapy for Children: A Bibliography for Hospital and Home (1992) Wolf, Shelby Anne and Heath, Shirley Brice, The Braid of Literature: Children's Worlds of Reading (1992) Anderson, Jonathan, Technology and Adult Literacy (1991)     

Book Reviews

Key themes in qualitative research: continuities and change : P. Atkinson, A. Coffey & S. Delamont Gypsy traveller students in secondary school : C. Derrington & S. Kendall Race, masculinity and schooling: Muslim boys and education : L. Archer Faith‐based schools and the state. Catholics in America, France and England : H. Judge The creative school. A framework for success, quality and effectiveness : B. Jeffrey & P. Woods Reclaiming universities from a runaway world : M. Walker & J. Nixon (Eds) The TUC and education reform 1926–1970 : C. Griggs Physical education teachers on physical education : K. Green Models of learning—tools for teaching : B. Joyce, E. Calhoun & D. Hopkins     

语法翻译法的历史演变及其在现代外语教学中的作用

本文分析了语法翻译法从产生到发展,从兴盛到衰落,再到回归与复兴的历程。通过理论基础、现实应用、优点与缺点等角度,同时通过结合相关理论研究的最新成果,本文着重探讨了语法翻译法在我国现代外语教学,尤其是高校外语教学中的作用。最终得出结论,语法翻译法虽然有自身的弊端,但它的现实性、系统性、意识性及它的适应性,使它凭借强大的生命力在一波又一波语言学与语言教学改革的浪潮中挺了过来,并绽放出新的光彩。     

教师在"3L"教学模式中的角色定位

上海电视大学在现代远程开放教育的实践中,不断总结经验,逐步形成了"运用现代信息技术,以学习者自主学习为中心、教育者引导学习为前提、多种媒体教学资源和手段支助学习为基础的‘导学-自学-助学'三维互动教学模式",简称为"3L"教学模式.本文在"3L"教学模式的实践中,提出教师在远程教学中应遵循一定的原则发挥导学作用,结合现代远程教育的特点,联系教学方法,精心设计教学内容,提高自己的综合素质,对自己的角色及职能作出相应的调整.     

Reviews

Edwards, V., The Power of Babel Bearne, E. (Ed), Use of Language across the Primary School Littledyke, M. and Huxford, L. (Eds), Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning     

Harming not helping: The impact of a Canadian standardized writing assessment on curriculum and pedagogy

Test-based accountability programs are designed to promote improved standards of teaching and learning within the systems of education that they are connected to. Brenan [Brenan, A. L. (2006). Perspectives on the evolution and future of educational measurement. In: Robert (Ed.), Educational measurement (4th ed., pp. 1–16). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers], however, suggests that little evidence exists to support the claim that these standardized assessment programs are achieving this goal. This study examines a Canadian high-stakes writing assessment's effect on the teaching of writing in three grade 12 academic English classrooms. Analysis across cases revealed that factors shaping the exam's impact on teachers’ pedagogical choices include their attitude toward the exam, the pressure they felt from their school communities and their years of experience. The study also found that the exam caused teachers to narrow their teaching of writing in relation to processes taught, assignment design, and evaluation criteria utilized. The study concludes that in the cases observed, the exam is having a negative impact on the teaching of writing.