Assessing primary school student-teachers’ pedagogic implementations in child sexual abuse protection education

Teacher-educators need ways of assessing the adequacy of university curriculum and the extent to which student-teachers meet learning objectives. One potentially useful tool is Anderson and Krathwohl’s (Addison Wesley Longman, New York, 2001) theoretical framework, which can be applied to assess student-teachers’ knowledge types and their cognitive processes in critical pre-service curriculum areas such as child sexual abuse and personal safety. This study aims to illustrate the use of Anderson and Krathwohl’s framework in assessing student-teachers’ learning of pedagogies in relation to child sexual abuse and personal safety. Participants were a final year cohort of 122 Bachelor of Education (Primary School) students at an Australian university. Student-teachers’ essays regarding the pedagogical practices that they would implement in teaching about child sexual abuse and personal safety were content analysed using Anderson and Krathwohl’s framework. Pedagogies identified by the student-teachers were unevenly distributed across the cells within the theoretical framework. Well-represented pedagogies tended to reflect mid-level cognitive processes (those of understand, apply, and analyse), and low to mid-level knowledge types (those of factual, conceptual, and procedural). Under-represented were pedagogies reflecting higher-level cognition such as creating (in all four knowledge types) and evaluation (of factual and conceptual knowledge). The findings provide a basis for assessing the adequacy of current university teacher-education curriculum structures. Student-teachers’ understandings of under-used theoretical and pedagogical strategies can be identified as a guide to enhance their cognitive processes and knowledge dimensions. This study illustrates a method that has applicability as a diagnostic and assessment tool across a wide range of pre-service teacher education curriculum areas.     

A strategy for forming learning motivation

Professor, doctor of Psychology, in charge of the Faculty of Psychology of the All-Union Institute of Retraining and Further Training for Pedagogical and Managerial Staff in National Education attached to the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Specialist in educational and age-related psychology. Author of:The Teaching and Mastery of Language (New York, 1979),Formirovanie motivacii v kol'nom vozraste (Moscow, 1983),Psihologija podrostka (Moscow, 1975), and also of numerous articles translated into several languages.     

Reviews

Reviews in this articles: Flexible Learning? Flexible Learning in Higher Education, Winnie Wade, Keith Hodgkinson, Alison Smith and John Arfield (eds.) Merging for Growth Merging Colleges for Mutual Growth. A New Strategy for Academic Managers James Martin, James E. Samels & Associates Facing Forward Ronald Barnett, Improving Higher Education: total quality care Robin Middlehurst, Leading Academics     

Learning approaches and lecture attendance of medical students

There are arguably many factors that affect the way a student learns. A recent report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) on student academic experience in the UK states that class size is an important factor in the quality of the student experience and that smaller class sizes provide greater educational benefit than the delivery of lectures. This article assesses research related to lectures, lecture attendance of medical students and their learning approaches in higher education outside the clinical setting. A questionnaire and focus groups were employed to gather quantitative and qualitative data. The results show that students value lectures in the curriculum alongside other teaching and learning methods.     

Out of Place: Economic imperialisms in early childhood education

New Zealand has received world-wide accolades for its Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum, Te Whāriki. This paper explores the tension between economic imperialism, and a curriculum acknowledged as visionary. The foundational ideas of Te Whāriki emanate from sociocultural and anti-racist pedagogies. However, its implementation is hampered by the overarching policy discourse of Human Capital Theory (HCT), with its instrumental emphasis on economic outcomes. While Te Whāriki offers local cultural and educational possibilities, HCT is presented by those espousing economic disciplines, as having universal application. These tensions, largely unacknowledged and unexplored, place ECE teachers in positions of difficulty. While trying to meet aspirational curriculum goals in their daily practices, teachers’ attempts are constrained by supranational economic discourses. I ask how Edward Said’s (1999, Out of place: A memoir, New York, Knopf) concept of contrapuntal readings can offer spaces for resistance to the dominance of economics.     

LANGUAGE

The Schools That Fear Built by David Nevin and Robert E. Bills. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., 1976. 186pp. $10.00.

Ideology and Education by Richard Pratte. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1977.305 pp.

Helping Students Help Themselves: How You Can Put Behavior Analysis Into Action in Your Classroom by Dwight L. Goodwin and Thomas J. Coates. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976. 205 pp.

The Politics of Higher Education: Lawmakers and the Academy in Illinois by James Dunlap Nowian. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. 109 pp. $2.95.

Education for Human Development: Understanding Montessori by Mario M. Montessori, Jr. New York: Schocken Books, 1977. 119pp. $7.95.

Gaming: The Future's Language by Richard D. Duke. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Halsted Press Division, 1974. 223 pp. $11.50.

Teacher Expectations and Pupil Learning by Roy Nash. Boston: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1976. 89 pp. $7.75.     

Making a difference—inclusive learning and teaching in higher education through open educational resources

Recently there has been growing concern about the ways in which professional values such as “acknowledging diversity and promoting equality of opportunity” (Higher Education Academy (HEA), 2006 Higher Education Academy (HEA). (2006). UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in higher education. York: Author. Retrieved from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/rewardandrecog/ProfessionalStandardsFramework.pdf  [Google Scholar], p. 4) have been understood and evidenced in higher education. In this article, we outline how the Learning to Teach Inclusively open educational resource (OER) is addressing this concern by facilitating understanding of the concepts and principles underpinning these professional values. We outline a set of principles for inclusive practice and show how they underpin not only the content of this resource, but also its design, development, and embedding. We argue that while these principles were derived from research in face-to-face teaching, they are just as relevant and applicable to learning, teaching, and curriculum design in distance learning and virtual contexts. Finally, we outline three models for embedding the OER and propose a model for embedding inclusive practice through OER across HE.     

Fun and games in higher education: an analysis of UK student perspectives

ABSTRACT

In an increasingly neoliberal Higher Education sector, there is increased pressure on institutions to enhance learner engagement and student satisfaction. Many academics believe that students expect their university learning experiences to be enjoyable, and discourses of game-based learning reflect this, with a dominant narrative highlighting the fun of educational games. Whether students expect learning to be fun or see a relationship between fun and games is under-explored. To address this, we investigated student perceptions of fun in Higher Education using a thematic network analysis based on data from 37 in-depth interviews with undergraduate students. Here, we highlight five themes that encapsulate what students perceive to be a fun learning experience: stimulating pedagogy; lecturer engagement; a safe learning space; shared experience; and a low-stress environment. These aspects are not unique to games, and we conclude by considering the relationship between educational games and fun, and alternative playful approaches.     

Pedagogies of Survival: Cultural Resources to Foster Resilience Among Mexican-American Community College Students

This in-depth case shows how five Mexican-American community college students use their pedagogies of survival to build resistance and navigate through the barriers of community colleges. Pedagogies of survival emanate from social, cultural, economic, and historical struggles of the students, their families, and their communities which engender orgullo (pride) and sabiduría (wisdom) and fosters their resilience. This resilience evolves from a long history of inequitable treatment and is maintained from birth to the present.     

Pursuit of Understanding by Esther Cloudman Dunn. The Macmillan Company. 229 pp. $2.50

When Parochial Schools Close by Martin A. Larson. Washington, D.C.: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1972. 313 pp. $7.50.

Professional Education: Some New Directions by Edgar H. Schein. A Sponsored Research Study of the Carnegie Commision on Higher Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. 163 pp. $5.95.

The Political Economy of Education by John Vaizey, Keith Norris, John Sheehan, Patrick Lynch, and Manuela Ferreira Leite. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1972. 275 pp.

The Home of Science; The Role of the University by Dael Wolfe. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. 202 pp. $6.95.

Teaching and Training: A Handbook for Instructors, Second Edition, by H. R. Mills. New York: Halsted Press, 1972. Second Edition, N.D. 264 pp. $10.95.

American Education: The Colonial Experience 1607-1783 by Lawrence A. Cremin. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. 688 pp. $15.00.

Accountability: Systems Planning in Education edited by Creta D. Sabine. Homewood, Illinois: ETC Publications, 1973. 242 pp. $8.95.

The Colleges and the Courts by M. M. Chambers. Danville, Illinois: Interstate Company, Inc., 1972. 316 pp. $8.75.

Guidance and Counseling in the Elementary School by Richard C. Nelson. New York: Holt, Rinehart, &; Winston, Inc., 1972. 408 pp. $7.00.

Education: A Conceptual and Empirical Approach by Mary Alice White and Jan Duker. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 371 pp.

Introduction to Research in Education by Donald Ary, Lucy Chester Jacobs, and Asghar Razavieh. New York: Holt, Rinehart &; Winston, Inc., 1972. 378 pp. $9.50.     

Climatology for guidance

African Education: An Introductory Survey of Education in Commonwealth Countries. Donald G. Burns. (London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 215. $2.40.)

Education Through English: The Use of English in African Schools. Eva Engholm. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. 182. $4.50.)

Techniques of Teaching. A. D. C. Peterson, editor. (New York: Pergamon Press, Inc., 1965. 3 volumes. $2.95 each volume.) (Vol. 1, Primary Education; vol. 2, Secondary Education; vol. 3, Tertiary Education.)

Education and the Development of Nations. John W. Hanson and Cole S. Brembeck, editors. (New York: Holt, Reinehart and Winston, Inc., 1966. Pp. 529. $4.95, paper.)

The Experience of Higher Education. Peter Marris. (New York: Humanities Press, 1964. Pp. 220. $5.00.)

Psychology and Education of the Gifted: Selected Readings. Walter B. Barbe, editor. (New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1965. Pp. 534. $4.50, paper.)

The Public Schools and Religion, the Legal Context. Sam Duker. (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1965. Pp. 238. $2.75.)

Society Schools and Progress in the U.S.A. Edmund J. King. (New York: Pergamon Press, Inc., 1965. Pp. 241. $4.50.)

Teaching Gifted Students: A Book of Readings. James J. Gallagher, editor. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1965. $6.00, paper.)     

The rhetoric and reality of technology-enhanced learning developments in UK higher education: reflections on recent UCISA research findings (2012–2016)

This article reviews the investment that UK higher education institutions have made in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) services in recent years, and considers the impact this has had on academic practice. Drawing on UCISA survey and case study research, our analysis shows that whilst the range of centrally supported TEL tools and services in support of teaching and learning has increased across the sector, evidence of transformational change in pedagogic practice through their use has been harder to discern. We observe an increasing number of TEL systems that instructors are being encouraged to engage with as part of their academic practice; however, there have been limited changes in the mode of course delivery, with content-focused and supplementary uses of the web still very much in vogue. The evidence suggests a gap between the institutional rhetoric on TEL developments and the reality of academic practice across the sector. Using Barnett’s “conditions of flexibility” as a frame of reference [Barnett, R. (2014). Conditions of flexibility: Securing a more responsive higher education system. York: The Higher Education Academy. Retrieved from https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/conditions_of_flexibility_securing_a_more_responsive_higher_education_system.pdf], the article discusses the factors behind this mismatch, exploring how a balanced institutional focus on service development and academic support may be needed to foster transformative and sustainable changes in the way that TEL tools are employed in course design and delivery.     

Speaking personally—with Janet K. Poley

Online Education: Perspectives on a New Environment. Edited by Linda Harasim (New York: Praeger, 1990, 279 pp., $41.95)

Expanding Access to Knowledge: Continuing Higher Education ‐ NVCEA 1915–1990. Edited by R.W. Rohfeld (Washington, D.C.: National University Continuing Education Association, 1987, 265 pp., hard cover, $29.95; paper, $16.95)     

高职行业英语教学中学生动机缺失因素分析

在高职院校的行业英语教学中,学生动机缺失是一个普遍存在的问题。本研究以定性和定量相结合的方式对高职行业英语教学中引起学生学习动机缺失的因素以及这些因素对学习动机强弱不同的学生的影响进行了初步探索,发现了8类引起高职学生行业英语学习动机缺失的因素,包括学习者自制力、教学内容、学习者英语学能、学习环境、学习者主观态度、社会因素、课程设置与评价、教师因素;而且这8类因素对动机弱的学习者的影响均大于对动机强的学习者的影响,英语学能和课程设置与评价这两个因素更容易引起动机弱的学习者的动机缺失。     

Exploring mobile learning in the Third Space

Mobile learning is enabling educators and students to learn in ways not previously possible. The ways that portable, multi-functional mobile devices can untether the learner from formal institutional learning give scope for learning to be conceptualised in an expanded variety of places, times and ways. In this conceptual article the authors articulate this notion by using the metaphor of the Third Space to envision what can be achieved with mobile learning. They outline their use of the metaphor, consider how it extends notions of twenty-first century learning and use a previously established Mobile Pedagogical Framework to provide a context for the discussion. They conclude with implications of learning in the Third Space for teachers and students. These implications suggest that roles of teachers and students and structure of the curriculum need to change to ensure we leverage the potential of mobile learning.     

Leaders: Latent danger for democracy even in education

The Art of Technical Writing: A Manual for Scientists, Engineers, and Students. Eugene Ehrlich and Daniel Murphy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Apollo Edition, 1969. 182 pp. $1.95 paper.

A Primer on Food, Agriculture, and Public Policy. Earl O. Heady. New York: Random House, Inc., 1967. 169 pp. $4.95.

Professional Education for Ministry. Edward E. Thornton. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970. 301 pp. $7.50.

Psychology and the Superior Athlete, Bryant J. Cratty and Miroslav Vanek. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. 212 pp. $6.95 cloth.

The Slow Learner, edited by Joseph S. Roucek. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1969. vi &; 373 pp. $10.00.

Storytelling and Creative Drama. Dewey W. Chambers. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, Publishers 1970. 92 pp.

Turmoil and Transition: Higher Education and Student Politics in India. Philip G. Altbach, editor. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1968. 277 pp. $7.50 cloth.     

Faculty Evaluation as a Liberal Persuasion

Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher, Seventh Edition: By Wilbert J. McKeachie: D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1978. Reviewed by Margaret O'Brien, SP.

Staff Development in Higher Education. An International Review and Bibliography, 1979: By David C. B. Teather: Nichols Publishing Company, P. O. Box 96, New York, New York 10024. $30.00. Reviewed by Gary W. Peterson.     

自主语言学习中心建设现状分析

教育部颁发的大学英语《课程要求》,提出大学英语要分层次教学并提倡学生的个性化、自主式学习,应大量使用先进的信息技术,推进基于计算机和网络的英语教学。为此,近年来,众多高校纷纷建立自主语言学习中心。由于各校指导思想和自身条件以及所面向学生对象的差异,这些学习中心在建设目标、建设内容、运行模式、学习效果等方面有所不同。本文从组织结构、师生管理、网络资源、评估体系等方面,探讨我国内地自主语言学习中心建设中存在的问题,以便更好地推动外语教学的发展。     

1976‐1980 RESEARCH PLAN OF THE HUNGARIAN PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

The information below is based on the recently published survey of the research projects of the Pedagogical Research Centre for Higher Education in Budapest, for the period 1976‐1980.

This institute is one of the four central educational research institutions in Hungary, the other three being the National Institute of Education, the Educational Research Institute at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Popular Education.     

Novice online educator conceptual frameworks: a mental model exploration of mindful learning design

This research study explores the relationship between the socio-cognitive concept of mindfulness and university educators’ learning design conceptualisations. The multi-method research strategy utilises a concept-mapping exercise to reveal learning designer mental models for comparison with Langer Mindfulness Scale scores and critical event interviews to further illuminate the conceptualisations and factors that impact educators’ thinking when designing online units. Research participants were asked to create a concept map of their learning design and to be mindful of concepts incorporated into a Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Education. The analysis highlights some congruence between educators’ mindfulness dimensions and their learning design conceptual frameworks. The mindfulness scores appear to indicate a propensity to be more mindful in designing curriculum, as indicated by participant concept maps, yet not necessarily towards the adaptive use of technology or learner/activity-based pedagogies. The authors suggest metacognitive strategies to encourage learning design reconceptualisation.