Professional experience: learning from the past to build the future

The title of the 2014 Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) conference was Teacher Education, An Audit: Building a platform for future engagement. One of the conference themes was Professional Experience: What works? Why? I seized upon this theme and the title of the conference as it afforded me an opportunity to do an audit of my research in professional experience over the last 25 years. This article presents this evidence base and the messages I have taken from this evidence. I have done this in the hope that, by collating some of the insights gained from the past and the present, it will help to “build a platform for future engagement” in professional experience. In preparing this article I was asked by the Editors to reflect also on how I developed my distinctive line of inquiry and expertise in relation to the practicum across an extended period. These reflections are included. I hope they will support university-based teacher educators in enhancing their satisfaction and achievements from working in this stimulating and provocative field of study.     

A review of educational technology research in Taiwan

Conclusion Beginning in 1989, the Ministry of Education and the National Science Council of Taiwan have sponsored an international biennial conference organized by different local universities. The purpose of this conference, the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), is to report educational technology research. After the 1993 conference, it became a regional biennial conference held by different countries in the Asia-Pacific region. ICCE 95 was held in Singapore and ICCE 97 will be in Malaysia. After 1997, ICCE will again become an annual conference to reflect the growing research impetus in the region.In Taiwan, after exporting ICCE to the region, the funding agents continue to support an annual conference with a different name, International Conference on Computer Assisted Instruction (ICCAI). This locally organized conference has been held annually since 1994. As a natural result of these activities and consistent support by funding agents, a growing number of international publications are reporting on the more mature results of educational technology research at international conferences and in journals.Contributors included Jon-Chao Hong, Professor of Industrial Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan; Jihn-Chang Jehng, Associate Professor, Human Resources Management, National Central University, Taiwan; Yu-Fen Shih, Associate Professor, Media and Library Science, Tamkang University, Taiwan; and Gary Chon-Wen Shyi, Associate Professor, Psychology, National Chung- Cheng University, Taiwan.Tak-Wai Chan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Central University. He is also the President of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education and is an Associate Editor of theInternational Journal of Educational Telecommunications.     

Glossary of Scandinavian Terms (D - Danish; N - Norwegian; S - Swedish; lit.: literally; approx.: approximately)

Resolution No. 1 of the Permanent Conference of European Ministers of Education, adopted during its sixth session held at Strasbourg between June 20 and June 28, 1977, encharged the committee of top-ranking officials to prepare a report for the eleventh session in which it would evaluate the follow-up to the resolution adopted at this conference on the education of migrants and to the resolution adopted at the preceding conference, i.e., resolution No. 2 of the conference held at Stockholm in 1975.     

Understanding practices in mathematics education: structure and text

The practices of mathematics education can be investigated at a wide variety of levels: from the actions of individual students or teachers through classroom interactions, school structures, curriculum specifications and materials, teacher development programmes and local, national or international systems of instruction and assessment. These levels are, however, inter-related. The study of a national curriculum gains significance as we see how it impacts upon and is interpreted by teachers and students. The study of an individual’s actions makes more sense when these are interpreted in light of the broader context within which the individual is situated. This article is a version of a plenary lecture presented at the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference in 2009, addressing the conference theme “In Search for Theories in Mathematics Education”. In it, I trace the development of my own search for theories to address my wish to understand practices in the field and suggest some tools from linguistics, critical discourse analysis and social theory that can help to make such connections between the various levels of investigation, illustrating with a range of examples.     

Aims and Objectives of German Vocational and Professional Education in the Present European Context

This article is the unrevised text of a speech delivered by Professor Jochimsen at a conference on ‘Education and Working Life’ arranged by the Goethe Institute of London in cooperation with other educational and social research institutes, held at the Institute of Education, University of London, from 20 to 22 April, 1978.     

Presidential Address: Advocating for Meaningful Linkages to Our Global Future

Reproduced here is the presidential address delivered at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) luncheon at the American Counseling Association's annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 30, 1998. Life is a journey. Its direction is more important than its destination. Whether you try surfing at 30 or 80, the fact that you reached out to experience it is the key. I'm always leery when I think “I have arrived,” for then the creative process in me erupts to jolt me to the realization that the journey is never-ending and the essence of being human. … I can choose. It is my lot as a human being to choose growth. (Thomas, 1992, xiii)     

Language Study in Secondary Education

This paper is based on a lecture given to a conference of Heads of English Departments organised by the Derbyshire Education Committee and held at the Conference Centre in Buxton on 1 March 1979.     

To “uplift the Aborigine” or to “uphold” Aboriginal dignity and pride? Indigenous educational debates in 1960s Australia

Abstract

The 1960s in Australia was a politically turbulent time with assimilation policies being questioned by moves in various spheres, including education, to address inequality. The late 1960s also saw the emergence of activist responses to racism as well as the groundbreaking 1967 Referendum, which called for the alteration of two clauses within the Australian Constitution that discriminated against the Indigenous population. A few months after the Referendum was held, a conference called Aborigines and Education was convened at Monash University. Education was seen to be vital in addressing what was described as “profound educational disadvantage” experienced by Indigenous people. The debates that ensued show how education was imagined to be able to solve the problems Indigenous students were encountering. In this article I confine my interest to a selection of papers and examine the features of two distinctive discourses that emerge: that of “uplifting the Aborigine” and that of “upholding” Aboriginal dignity and pride. In doing this, I demonstrate how particular “race logics” were employed and contested in these debates. I argue that the insights garnered through analysis of these discourses offer opportunities for education research and practices that are in solidarity with the emancipatory goals of marginalised communities.     

A Comparative Study of Further Education Staff Attitudes to Multi-cultural and Racist Reforms in Art and Design Education

My initial interest in multi-cultural art education coupled with a wish to promote more cultural equality was inspired by my two years teaching experience in Kenya, Africa. The contrast of cultures gave me an objective view of my own culture on my return home and I found that I had not only changed as a person as a result, but wanted to continue that change, which gave me the motivation to become a research student, whilst lecturing. As a lecturer in and around the Bristol area it came to my notice through informal conversations with my colleagues at work that they held quite racist views. This I felt was a very insular way of viewing the world when global communications were very efficient and wide spread. In view of this, I chose to investigate to what extent Further Education staff in art and design were racist, and to consider how that might affect students' performance in terms of self-esteem, achievement and assessment. I took a psychodynamic approach to the interview schedule which was based on my experience and training as an art therapist, as well as an artist-sculptor and lecturer, and used Race Awareness Training (RAT), and specific criteria to base and analyse the data collected during the research. An interpretative paradigm was used in the final analysis and evaluation of this small scale study. The qualitative methodology used was felt to be more applicable to a personal approach because it gained clearer and more honest information in this sensitive field.     

Henan Grasps the Opportunity to Accelerate the Pace of Popularizing Nine Years of Compulsory Education

At the on-site conference convened at Ruyang on July 11, which was held on the subject of implementing the "Project for Promoting Compulsory Education in Impoverished Regions" and the World Bank Loan for the "Third Basic Education Project" for impoverished regions in Henan Province (hereafter, referred to as the "Two Projects"), the reporters who attended the conference were excited about the achievements that Henan Province has attained in the implementing of these "Two Projects," and, after the conference concluded, were moved to go down to the countryside, in spite of the harsh wilting heat of the summertime, to visit the places where the achievements had been made and to "get the story out."     

Educational research for innovation and quality in education: a report of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) conference 2008

This is a report of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) 2008 conference, held at the National Institute of Education, Singapore (NIE), from 26 to 28 November 2008.     

服务教育改革,应对数字出版:教育理论刊物的责任——中国教育学会教育理论刊物分会2010年会综述

中国教育学会教育理论刊物分会2010年会于2010年12月在广东省广州市召开.会议围绕教育理论刊物如何宣传贯彻<国家中长期教育改革和规划纲要(2010-2020年)>、如何应对数字出版两个主题展开.会议认为教育理论刊物要主动面对各种挑战,必须勇于承担使命,担当责任,引领和促进教育改革的健康发展,进而提升教育理论刊物的社会知名度.     

Primary and Secondary Education Should be Geared to the Needs of All Students

It has been thirteen days since the National Forum on Ideological and Political Education in Primary and Secondary Schools convened on April 23. It will come to a close the day after tomorrow. The first conference of its kind held since the smashing of the "Gang of Four," the forum means to manifest the spirit of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's talk given at the March 30 meeting held to discuss the guidelines for the Party's theoretical work and to impel primary and secondary schools to strengthen their ideological and political work among the students so as to further elevate the quality of education and meet the need to shift the focus of the Party's work as a whole. Now I want to offer the following opinions: First, education must be geared to the needs of all students.     

The "Updating" of Teachers

The Committee on General and Technical Education of the Council of Europe has organized a number of conferences on teacher in-service training in the past few years. One of these was the meeting held at Frascati in December 1969, which is the topic of the following article. The author, Clotilde Pontecorvo, gives a critical account of the conference and intersperses references to national developments based on the questionnaire data gathered in preparation for the conference. Understandably, the Italian situation is given particular (and critical) attention.     

Reform must begin with K-12

This essay was originally presented as part of the panel “Can Higher Education Be Mass Education?” at “What Should a University Be?” the fourth national conference of the National Association of Scholars, held in San Francisco, 16–18 April 1993.     

Mind,Brain and Education: A Decade of Evolution

This article examines the evolution of Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE), the field, alongside that of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES). The reflections stem mostly from my observations while serving as vice president, president‐elect, and president of IMBES during the past 10 years. The article highlights the evolution during that time about the meaning of MBE and some of the representations that help illustrate the problems and challenges in arriving at a consensus about what MBE means and how IMBES can best serve its members. I explore how IMBES, incorporated in 2004, experimented with a number of different conference models to provide frameworks for thinking about MBE, as well as a structure for supporting collaboration between the disciplines represented in Mind, Brain, and Education. Those models help highlight what IMBES has accomplished in scaffolding the complex conversation unfolding in the field, as well as offering a strategy for a collaborative enterprise that informs practice and new research agendas in the future.     

Latina Professor Revitalizing Historical Memory: Resistance Politics and Transformation within Teacher Education

This study focuses on how a Chicana/Latina professor contributed to the development of social consciousness with Spanish bilingual credential candidates in a Teacher Education Multiple Subject Credential Program, in California, USA. As a teacher educator, my goals were to look deeply at my teaching approach and to evaluate what the students and I were learning from the structure and contents of this course that emphasized issues on Latinos in the USA. The aims for evaluating my teaching both on theoretical and practice levels were to provide insights into the potential tensions in teaching a highly political course within Teacher Education, to explore implications for faculty in Teacher Education, and to investigate how bilingual Teacher Education programs can prepare future teachers to question and challenge inequities in school settings.     

Parochial Schools for Jewish Children—An Adverse View

In the over fifty years of my involvement in Jewish Education, I had my share of undeserved frustration and sleepless nights, which I prefer to relegate to oblivion. Instead, let me recall some of the more pleasant aspects of my work since that marked most of my career in Jewish Education.     

启发·引领·创新——“首届北京大学教育信息化圆桌论坛”述评

2013年11月23日,北京大学教育学院发起举办了“首届北京大学教育信息化圆桌论坛”。该论坛以“启发·引领·创新”为主题,主要通过特邀专家报告和主题论坛的形式进行学术交流,为教育信息化领域的专家学者、决策者和实践者搭建了一个相互启发、彼此借鉴的高端平台。通过对此次论坛的总结和感悟．希望能对推动我国教育信息化的创新发展起到一定作用。     

推进教师教育改革,提升教师专业化水平——第六届中日教师教育研讨会综述

主题为"教师教育改革与提升教师专业化水平"的第六届中日教师教育研讨会,2004年7月17-19日在香港大学教育学院召开。此次会议分别以大会主题报告、大会发言和小组发言等形式,就中日两国教师教育改革与发展的现状、问题,特别是教师专业化的理论与实践探索,展开了深入的研讨与交流。