Empowerment Through Collaboration in a State University System

Historically, social workers have been aware of the power of group resources and the importance of networking for their clients and for themselves as professionals. This article is the outgrowth of a collaboration paper presented by the authors at the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors Annual Conference on September 22, 1986 in San Antonio, Texas. Four separate social work education programs within a state university system formed an informal collaborative association to address common concerns, develop strategies to enhance resources and to foster mutual support. The context, developmental process, barriers, activities, issues, outcomes and benefits of the collaborative association are described.     

Exploring a Queueing Problem Through Human Simulation

A classroom activity where the students actively simulate different queueing systems is described. Analysis of the waiting times gives insight into the structure of queueing systems and the issues to be considered in comparing them.     

Change Through Empowerment Processes: Women's stories from South Asia and Latin America

Using two case studies, one of a woman in South Asia, the other, a Latin American woman now living in the USA, the paper identifies both obstacles and facilitators that have shaped their lives and their paths to empowerment. The authors present a model for understanding the processes of empowerment and change, especially change facilitating gender equity. This model recognises a dialectic process involving people's subjective perspectives and the ideologies, policies, structures and institutions in their public environments. It extends and problematises discussion of empowerment and change that can create more gender equity. Data for the two case studies were gathered through qualitative strategies, informed by critical feminist theory, as part of two broader research projects.     

Exploring Knowing/Being Through Discordant Professional Practice

Despite an increasing array of ‘quality indicators’ and substantial investments in educating professionals, there continues to be clear evidence of discordant, or even negligent, practice by accredited professionals. We refer to discordant professional practice as being ‘out of tune’ with what is accepted as good practice. In a conceptual/theoretical analysis, we use discordant practice as a backdrop to exploring ways of being professionals. Our analysis is grounded in Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world. We explore how being-in-the-world can be uncanny and discordant, while at the same time, dwelling in the world implies familiarity and a sense of being ‘at home’. We also draw upon Merleau-Ponty’s arguments that know-how is performed, settling in the body to become habitual, while also incorporating others and things in the accomplishment of practice. We argue that conceiving know-how as knowing/being provides insights into what is entailed in learning to be professionals.     

透过"形合"与"意合"观探析英语教学的新切入点

随着全球交流的日益深入以及世界科技的迅猛发展,英语学习环境对于中国学习者来说也正在发生明显的变化,先进的科技手段带来的是以往难以想象的交流机会和极大丰富的学习资料.然而面对这一切,感觉学习英语困难的人数并未显著减少,其中最为主要的原因之一在于学习者对英、汉语言的内在盖异缺乏认识.日常英语教学的过程中如能适当突出语言的"...     

Empowerment as a purpose of education

Within the field of alternative higher education is a growing movement which distinguishes itself through its orientation to individual and social change. Its proponents contend that conventional (and many alternative) higher education programs are oriented primarily to the conservation and maintenance of the dominant societal systems. Furthermore, they contend that those systems hinder us, individually and collectively, in achieving greater social, political and economic justice and a higher quality of life for all. This sector operates with the conviction that alternative education can have a liberating or empowering impact for individuals and communities by contributing to their appropriate development.Dr. Mark Rosenman, Guest Editor of this section, is president of Beacon College (formerly Campus-Free College), headquartered in Washington, D. C.     

A Review of Innovation Systems Framework as a Tool for Gendering Agricultural Innovations: Exploring Gender Learning and System Empowerment

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To reflect on the opportunities that a systems understanding of innovation provides for addressing gender issues relevant to women, and to provide some insight on how these might be tackled.     

Exploring Parental Mediation of Internet Use Through Young Children's Perspective

Education and Information Technologies - The purpose of this study was to investigate the parental mediation of children’s internet use from middle school students’ point of view. In...     

校地互动创新人才培养模式的探究——以天津滨海新区为例

“推进天津滨海新区等条件较好地区的开发开放,带动区域经济发展”是党的十六届五中全会审议通过“十一五”规划中提出的.它将带来滨海新区发展的历史性机遇,对提升地方高校的人才培养模式、强化高校教育为经济社会服务的能力具有十分重要的意义.本文分析了校地合作的两种模式,并对校地互动创新人才培养模式的举措进行了探讨.     

Forms of Voice: Exploring the Empowerment of Youth at the Intersection of Art and Action

The authors utilize Photovoice methodology to engage in an examination of the possibilities of counternarrative through the photographs, oral accounts and drawings of three inner-city youths. In the process, this article seeks to expand upon and challenge prior uses of Photovoice methodologies and Critical Youth Engagement. The authors posit the existence of an Adult-Child Imaginary which speaks to the distinction between researchers’ aims for community engagement in a given project and children’s desires for relationality. In the process the article suggests ways of thinking about how research listens and responds to voices of youth in creating transformative community projects.     

Towards a Collaborative Approach to Teacher Empowerment

This paper outlines a project based on an approach to teacher empowerment through collaborative action research. Using accounts from teachers involved in the project, the conditions necessary for the development of collegiality on in-service courses are explored. The nature and significance of agenda setting and ways of introducing tools for empowerment are described. The use of collaborative autobiography (CA), interpersonal process recall (1PR) and a general supervisory framework (GSF) are analysed in detail. The paper concludes with comment on the extent to which teachers are empowered by these tools to reconstruct the complex relationships between power, knowledge, ideology and schooling which dominate much of their working lives.     

Exploring Reading Instructional Decisions Through a Reflective Activity: A First Step in the Change Process

This article describes a reflective activity that may be used by teacher educators and educational consultants to help teachers identify factors that influence their reading instructional decisions as a first step to educational change. The reflective activity consists of two parts: developing individual concept webs and writing narrative details that explain the webs. Seventy-five elementary school teachers completed the activity. Through the use of a modified constant comparative method, four core categories of factors were found to influence reading instructional decisions: professional controls, significant others, teacher uniqueness, and professional development. Excerpts from teacher narratives illustrate the four categories. Implications for using the reflective activity to facilitate educational change are presented.     

通过挖掘关联规则探索代码修改和错误修复之间的关系

本文通过分析各种不同的软件项目中产生的源代码修改记录,探索代码修改和错误修复之间的关系来更好地理解代码修改之间的关联并挖掘它们之间的关联规则,从而得到代码修改和错误修复之间的因果关系,找出修复错误的方法以更好地降低代码修改所引起的错误。     

教与学方式转变下的课堂教学模式新探索

教与学方式的转变实质是教师与学生在教学中的地位变化。外国教育史上出现过“教师中心”、忽视学生地位和“学生中心”、使教师沦为观察者和帮助者地位的思想。两种思想产生了完全不同的社会影响。我国20世纪80年代的教学论关于师生地位形成了一致的辩证观点,但教学实践没有真正落实。新一轮课程改革不得不强调教与学方式的转变,并要求构建相应的教学模式。教学模式在我国的研究起步较晚,早期中小学实践往往把它当作教学方法。深圳在教与学方式转交下的教学模式新探索颇具特色。     

Exploring Pre-Service Teacher Development Through Daily Journal Reflections: A Case Study

This article explores the findings of a qualitative case study of journal entries by 10 finalyear English pre-service teachers during their five-week practicum in disadvantaged schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province. The study sought to investigate the nature and depth of reflection as well as student teachers’ perceptions regarding the writing of daily journal entries. It drew on socio-constructivist theory, which emphasises learning as a dialogic engagement with the source of knowledge and participants involved. Data was collected from the student teachers’ daily reflections, as evidenced by their teaching journals, and interview responses at the end of their teaching practice. Findings revealed that most of the reflections were on contextual issues and that, contrary to expectations, journal entries lacked in-depth exploration of classroom practice. The study is part of continuous course evaluation and contributes to the ongoing initiatives for improving the quality of teacher education in open distance learning (ODL).     

Empowerment: In Search of a Viable Paradigm

The word “empowerment” is associated with several different and fundamentally inadequate paradigms. This paper presents an alternative, empowering view of empowerment. The essence of empowerment is increasing the behavior potential of persons, individually and in groups and organizations. Behavior potential is not some abstract concept of “what a person might do if” Instead, it is the totality of behaviors that are actually available to a given person in a given environment. These behaviors do not occur in a vacuum; behavior potential is the intersection of the person's behavioral productions with the organization's expectations and permissions. An individual is empowered to the extent that he or she possesses a rich repertoire of behaviors and is expected and permitted to make full use of this repertoire by the organization.     

儿童亲历标准科学工具产生历程的价值探寻与实践研究

教科版小学科学教材中有"标准科学工具"的内容,本文尝试从让儿童亲历标准科学工具产生历程的角度开展教学,并从科学知识、科学方法、情感、社会技术这四个方面来探寻其中蕴含的教育价值。     

Exploring the Promises and Perils of Integrated STEM Through Disciplinary Practices and Epistemologies

Growing interest in integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (iSTEM) education has been promoted as one way to increase innovation capacity, support future employment, and enhance learning outcomes in K-12 education throughout the USA. Existing efforts to construct iSTEM curricula have largely focused on finding points of integration among commonly shared disciplinary practices, but these efforts have not explicitly accounted for the distinct epistemologies of the disciplines. In this study, we critically examined the concept of iSTEM by conducting a thematic analysis of K-12 STEM learning standards documents to identify cross-cutting themes among the practices of the various disciplines. We then analyzed these themes using disciplinary epistemologies in order to highlight some promises and perils of an integrated approach to STEM education. We identified eight cross-cutting themes: communicating, investigating, modeling, using tools, working with data, making sense of problems or phenomena, solving problems, and evaluating ideas or solutions. Through our analysis of practices and epistemologies, we discuss the promises of iSTEM, including fewer learning standards, enhanced epistemic fluency, increased diversity and inclusion in STEM, and opportunities to challenge settled and siloed disciplinary knowledge. We also discuss potential perils, which consist of conflation and/or exclusion of various STEM practices and epistemologies. We urge continued examination of iSTEM with an eye toward the epistemic implications.