An emerging community in online mathematics teacher professional development: an interactional perspective

Online collaborative and content-focused professional development (PD) is becoming an increasingly important setting for supporting mathematics teachers’ professional learning. The purpose of this study was to better understand the process by which a community emerges in such a PD setting by examining how the cohesiveness of 21 mathematics teachers’ social network evolves and associated shifts in the quality of mathematics teachers’ mathematical discourse. We employed social network analysis (SNA) to examine the evolving cohesiveness of mathematics teachers’ social network and coding procedures to examine teachers’ mathematical discourse. A key finding was the documentation of an emergent divide between participation in the core and periphery during initial weeks of the PD and then a reduced divide and emergence of a social network that resembles a community. We argue that the instructor’s pattern of participation that included distributing their interactions across the subgroups while sending a common message regarding expectations for mathematical discourse in the PD may have contributed to the community formation process. We propose the Interaction Assessment Model, which outlines an approach for PD facilitators to use SNA as a feedback mechanism to differentiate facilitation of online collaborative and content-focused PD and build online communities.

     

互动社会语言学视角下文化定势的突破

本文中笔者试图在Gumperz互动社会语言学的理论框架下,运用Ron Scollon的语篇系统分析法,将跨文化研究重新定位在跨语篇交际上,力求在某种程度上有效避免由于文化定势引起的种种误解。     

High school students presenting science: An interactional sociolinguistic analysis

Presenting science is an authentic activity of practicing scientists. Thus, effective communication of science is an important skill to nurture in high school students who are learning science. This study examines strategies employed by high school students as they make science presentations; it assesses students' conceptual understandings of particular science topics through their presentations and investigates gender differences. Data are derived from science presentation given by eight high school students, three females and five males who attended a summer science program. Data sources included videotaped presentations, ethnographic fieldnotes, interviews with presenters and members of the audience, and presenter notes and overheads. Presentations were transcribed and submitted to discourse analysis from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective. This article focuses on the methodology employed and how it helps inform the above research questions. The author argues that use of this methodology leads to findings that inform important social-communicative issues in the learning of science. Practical advice for teaching students to present science, implications for use of presentations to assess conceptual learning, and indications of some possible gender differences are discussed.     

校园文化视角下的创新教育新思考

校园创新氛围是一种特色校园文化,具有教化、导向和激励功能,是实施创新教育、培养创新人才的重要途径。高校可从完善文化设施、更新教育观念和搭建活动平台等三方面来营造浓厚的校园创新氛围。     

新媒体视阈下高校校园文化建设研究

高校校园文化是高校精神、办学理念、管理水平的集中表现,加强高校校园文化建设是每个学校的重点任务。随着信息化社会的到来,新媒体在影响大学校园文化形成与发展中扮演着重要角色。笔者紧密结合新媒体的特点,分析其对高校校园文化建设带来的机遇与挑战并提出了相应的对策。     

The electronic campus: Getting smart with smart cards on campus

Imagine a time when students will carry one small card that they can use to access reference materials, buy football tickets, and receive financial aid through an ATM. Fantasy? No, says Glen McCandless, this reality is just around the corner.     

Pragmatic radicalism: An autoethnographic perspective on pre-service teaching

How might a pre-service teacher ‘teach against the grain’ and challenge their pre-existing assumptions about the profession? By deconstructing and reconstructing my schooling experiences and the social and cultural discourses and practices that have shaped and defined me, I hope to interrupt my conditioning and avoid revisiting my unhappy school experiences upon future students [Miller, A. (2006). The teaching urge: and seeking amnesia. English in Australia, 41(1), 18–24., p. 18]. I am trying to break the cycle of social reproduction and domination and become the type of teacher who liberates rather than domesticates. In this article I use ‘autoethnography’ and ‘mystoriography’ to analyse my professional development and to imagine and enact a teaching identity based on Garth Boomer's ‘pragmatic–radical’ educator. Pragmatic radicalism provides a strategic means of surviving and undermining hegemonic school systems while revolutionising the politics of the classroom. Pre-service teachers can challenge the socialisation process and build teaching identities that break the traditional ‘authoritarian–transmission’ model. Critical reflection on identity construction and past school experiences is essential to this endeavour.     

生活化校园的彰显--回归生活的学校德育

学校德育呼唤生活的回归,是我们当前德育的共识。学校是进行系统道德教育的重要阵地,只有将生活引入到校园之中,建构生活化校园,使学生的校园生活保持完整性、丰富性和实践性,才能真正促成学生完整的道德品性的养成。     

An empirical investigation of campus portal usage

This study has determined the determinants of the perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness and their influence on campus portal usage. A quantitative approach was employed, using a five-point Likert scale questionnaire, adapted from previous studies. Data were gathered through a survey conducted with 341 staff working in the University of Malaya and were analysed using the partial least squares technique. The results indicate that the ease of finding and ease of understanding have a positive impact on the perceived ease of use of the campus portal. Furthermore, this study also reported a significant positive effect of service quality, information, and process on perceived usefulness of the campus portal. Our study suggests that the perceived ease of use and usefulness are vital towards enhancing the usage frequency and volume of the campus portal. This study broadens the knowledge concerning factors that increase campus portal usage which will enable academic institutions to refine the campus portal thus enhancing the portal usage.     

校园文化视角下高校图书馆的功能与责任分析

物质文化、精神文化和制度文化共同构成了校园文化,校园文化建设的核心是"育人"。高校文献信息的中心是图书馆,其在校园文化的建设中具有精神熏陶、教育升华和价值导向的作用,故应拓展图书馆的功能。本文论述了校园文化建设,分析了高校图书馆的功能与责任,提出了高校图书馆实现校园文化建设的途径。     

校园商业活动述评

随着教育后勤服务社会化发展,校园内的商业活动或商业广告随处可见,并且形成一股校园商业浪潮,影响着广大师生的学习生活.学校管理者必须从学校教育资源实际出发,积极建构科学的管理机制,规避校园商业行为的风险,实现校园商业活动的经济效益与社会效益的双赢.     

An interactional analysis of one-to-one pastoral care delivery within a primary school

Despite an interactional analysis being able to offer valuable insight into the institutional workings of pastoral care practice, pastoral care delivery remains largely unstudied. This paper will contribute new knowledge to the field of counselling and education by offering an interactional analysis of one-to-one pastoral care provision within a primary school. Much pastoral care practice is informed by theory, often accompanied by guidelines about how to deliver pastoral care activities effectively. The pastoral carer needs to convert these guidelines into talk in order to deliver the intervention as an interactional encounter. However useful these guidelines are, they cannot show what the actual delivery of those pastoral care activities might look like in real life. Using conversation analysis, we examine video recordings of pastoral care delivery to reveal the ways in which a pastoral carer supports a child’s behaviour, social and emotional well-being. The significance of the findings is that those who provide pastoral care can see in close detail what delivery might look like as a real-life encounter, imparting valuable knowledge that can then be applied alongside theory and guidelines to enhance professional practice. Of further significance is that the findings can also show how an interactional analysis of pastoral care work can be used to demonstrate social and emotional learning and that the work being done effectively supports children.     

Researching feedback dialogue: an interactional analysis approach

A variety of understandings of feedback exist in the literature, which can broadly be categorised as cognitivist information transmission and socio-constructivist. Understanding feedback as information transmission or ‘telling’ has until recently been dominant. However, a socio-constructivist perspective of feedback posits that feedback should be dialogic and help to develop students’ ability to monitor, evaluate and regulate their learning. This paper is positioned as part of the shift away from seeing feedback as input, to exploring feedback as a dialogical process focusing on effects, through presenting an innovative methodological approach to analysing feedback dialogues in situ. Interactional analysis adopts the premise that artefacts and technologies set up a social field, where understanding human–human and human–material activities and interactions is important. The paper suggests that this systematic approach to analysing dialogic feedback can enable insight into previously undocumented aspects of feedback, such as the interactional features that promote and sustain feedback dialogue. The paper discusses methodological issues in such analyses and implications for research on feedback.     

核心价值视域下高校校园文化话语权建设研究

近年来,随着我国教育制度的不断改革,加强高校校园文化建设变得越来越重要,尤其要加强高校校园文化话语权建设。而对于高校大学生来说,也有这种权利。本文主要在明确核心价值视域下高校校园文化话语权价值与话语权建设内容的基础上,探索相应有效的建设路径。