Developing Movement as inclusive pedagogy

This article details the emergence of a training framework to support professional development in inclusive Movement teaching. This arose from a collaborative research project in spring 2008 (supported by the Training and Development Agency, UK), between two universities in England and Israel. Movement education is surprisingly underused globally, even in the early years, with some recent revival within special education. This is despite the long-recognised importance of interactive physical activity for underpinning children's development, and particularly for those with special educational needs, supported by findings from neuro-science. The training framework falls within a hermeneutic view of the teacher informed by humanistic psychology and reflective practice, with Movement seen as an empowering, creative and dialogic pedagogy.     

A ‘break with tradition’ in interwar teacher education

British teacher education in the interwar years was a contested field, dominated numerically by women but regulated by the Board of Education. The traditional perception of women’s residential training colleges was that they were autocratic and socially isolated. By focusing on Gipsy Hill Training College (GHTC), the first specialist training college for nursery school teachers, and its foundation principal, Lillian de Lissa, I challenge this perception. I explore the relationships between young women students’ social worlds, teacher educators’ understandings, teacher education curriculum and GHTC’s institutional culture. The main argument is that under de Lissa’s leadership GHTC was a socially and educationally progressive and democratic institution that focused on shaping students’ identities as women, teachers and citizens.     

What Islamic school teachers want: towards developing an Islamic teacher education programme

In the 70 year history of Islamic schools in North America, there is yet to be an accredited teacher education programme to train and professionally equip Islamic school teachers with an understanding of an Islamic pedagogy. Arguably, there has been an imbalance of energy placed on curriculum development projects over the considerations of teacher training. From my experience working as a teacher trainer/education consultant for Islamic schools for the past 10 years, it is evident that the underlying assumption for many school administrators is that a State/Ministry certified teacher who is Muslim will know how to teach ‘Islamically’. The aims of this paper are to first establish some semblance of what it means to teach Islamically or, more accurately, to teach through an Islamic pedagogy. From this framework, the crux of the paper is to present findings from a series of focus groups with Islamic school educators about their teacher training needs. The findings of this study establish the need for a formal teacher education programme in Islamic pedagogy within an established faculty of education. Such a programme would achieve three major ends in cultivating the stewardship of Islamic schools in North America: 1. Define and establish Islamic education as a valid and relevant pedagogical model that can contribute to the broader discourse of alternative, faith-based education;

2. Standardise the pedagogy and curriculum of Islamic schools based on the principles of education in Islam and to make both contextually relevant;

3. Contribute to raising the standards of Islamic schools through a teacher education programme at credible faculties of education where ongoing research and development will also be supported.

     

综合化:中等特师向高等特教学院转型的必由之路--论高等特教学院的办学定位和发展模式

中师升格为高校是历史发展的必然趋势 ,但是 ,升格后的学校继续办清一色的师范教育 ,还是走多科性学院 (即综合化 )的发展道路 ?这是处在转型时期的中师迫切需要回答的一个战略性问题。本文在对特师所面临的社会环境及人才需求作出分析之后认为 ,综合化是特师走向高等教育的必由之路 ,并进一步对多科性特教学院的办学定位和发展模式提出自己的观点。     

新形势下外教职业道德风险防范——以某校高级口语课程外教为例

近年来,民族复兴与社会转型使各种关注挑战扑向中国,而"棱镜门"事件的爆发导致国际国内安全形势更为复杂;同时,外籍教师的需求因国际交流的增多而不断增加。在此形势下,外教职业道德风险日益凸显,职业道德不良的外教虽属少数,但大学生对外教有较高的关注度,因此易诱发恶劣影响,带来深刻教训。故高校需谨防外教利用课堂对我国大学生进行不良渗透。据外教职业道德风险的三大层次,防范外教职业道德风险应在劳动合同中明确外教职业道德规范;提供外教系统的职业道德岗前培训和社会支持;坚持跨文化交际培训;建立外教职业道德调控监管机制,将外教职业道德纳入学生评价内容,进一步体现在教师的评聘考核体系中。     

Comparative and international education in initial teacher education: an Irish case study

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, Comparative and International Education (CIE) has almost disappeared from the curricula of teacher education colleges in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Yet, CIE is experiencing a revival at postgraduate level. This article will explore the reasons for this dichotomy and the decline of CIE in initial teacher education. It will use findings from a research study in an Irish teacher education college to inform this exploration. The author initiated, developed, and offered a CIE course to final year BEd (n=24) students in 2003 and again in 2005. This article will use data gathered during the latter course to explore CIE for undergraduate trainee teachers, considering students’ motivation for choosing to study CIE, their perceptions of CIE, and their beliefs about how it may enhance their professional practice in classrooms. It will explore, in particular, a significant finding that emerged from the study – the potential of CIE in developing student teachers’ capacities to teach in multicultural classrooms.     

Gipsy Hill Training College graduates: once,always and everywhere a modern woman teacher in the interwar years

This article examines the ways in which Gipsy Hill Training College’s (GHTC) graduates represented their lives and work in the college magazine, the Gipsy Trail. The so-called ‘Wraggle Taggle News’ featured snippets from married and single women teachers at every stage of their lives and work in Britain and overseas by the late 1930s. It will be shown that graduates integrated discourses of the modern woman and Gipsy Hill’s modernist ideals of individual autonomy, and educational and social progressivism into their paid work and domestic situations, leisure and propaganda work across their life course. Indeed, it was a case of ‘once a teacher, always a teacher’ and everywhere a modern woman teacher in the interwar years.     

民办院校跨学科实践教学平台建设与探索

实践教学是应用型复合人才培养模式中具有重要地位的核心环节。从高校现状出发,分别从高校实验室建设与管理、多学科交叉与综合方式、学生组织形式与教师梯队建设等多方面对跨学科实践平台建设的可行性进行了分析。南京理工大学紫金学院机械工程系从实验室教改经验出发,总结跨学科实践平台建设方案、确定师资培养策略及实践教学模式,并在以学生为主体的系大学生科技活动中心的引导下,通过多学科实践平台使学生综合实践能力得到充分的锻炼。     

“It enables me to realise my fantasies regarding the practicum”: A preliminary study of an academia–school partnership in Israel

Models of collaboration between teacher training institutions and Professional Development Schools have become commonplace in general teacher education. These partnerships are less well documented when it comes to special education teacher training, and are particularly scarce with regard to models of collaboration with special education schools. This article presents an exploratory study of a 10-year-old partnership between a special education department at a Teacher Training College in Israel and a special school for children with developmental disabilities. The partnership is analysed utilising criteria that characterise successful Professional Development Schools. Strengths and weaknesses of the model are discussed and recommendations for future directions and research are presented.     

Educator versus subject matter teacher: the conflict between two sub-identities in becoming a teacher

Research literature often addresses the problems entailed in the integration of beginning teachers within the education system. Most studies emphasize the conflicts these teachers experience, especially between the personal and professional aspects of their profession. We conducted qualitative research among participants and graduates of the Program for Excellence in Teaching at a teachers’ college in Jerusalem, Israel, revealing another conflict. In determining their professional identity, beginning teachers face a dilemma between two sub-identities: the teacher as a subject matter and didactic expert and the teacher as a homeroom educator. We characterize these two sub-identities and analyze their implications for teacher training programs.     

The bi-polar professional self of aspiring teachers: Mission and power

The aim of this article is to map and organize the expectations of aspiring teachers in the final stage of training into a coherent conceptual framework. A theoretical model, termed The teacher's bi-polar professional self (TBPS) model, was developed and data assembled to provide corroborating empirical evidence. The research design was based on Facet theory, to define observations and analyze the results. A questionnaire was administered to 156 students from a national teacher training college in Israel. It was found that teaching trainees’ expectations could be mapped schematically as two opposing poles with an intermediate zone: one pole is termed the “altruistic aspirations” pole, pertaining to expectations regarding the realization of values such as relating to students as individuals and providing them with one-on-one instruction, help and friendly support. The opposing pole is the “narcissistic needs” (or self-serving altruism) pole, which relates to hopes of getting respect and power, and of significantly effecting the students’ future. Between the poles lies an intermediate zone, which harbors the teacher's hopes of acquiring and possessing the necessary educational and teaching knowledge and skills that will facilitate the fulfillment of the expectations encapsulated by the two poles.     

‘The sky is the limit’: higher education,gender and empowerment in the Bedouin community in the Negev in Israel

This article addresses the meaning that female Bedouin from the Negev in Israel give to higher education. I shall focus the discussion on the processes in which personal and social contexts merge into one another. Although there has been an increase in the number of investigations of the ways in which Bedouin women in the Negev in Israel participate in the public sphere, a survey of the literature reveals that no investigations have been conducted on the meaning educated women attribute to higher education during the course of their lives. Through an analysis of ten in‐depth interviews carried out between 1998 and 2001, this article examines issues such as gender, empowerment and social mobility amongst young Bedouin women in Israel.     

大学生体育课项目选择及其影响因素研究

对河南省大学生体育课项目选择和影响因素进行了调查研究 ,发现大学生的体育学习和体育课项目选择有不同特点 .文章分析了形成目前状况的原因 ,这对我们安排教学内容 ,培养授课教师 ,提高大学生上体育课的兴趣 ,形成他们良好的锻炼习惯 ,增强体质都有重要的作用 .     

Rhetoric and practice in pre-service teacher education: the case of Teach For America

Teach For America (TFA), an organization that places college graduates in urban and rural classrooms for two-year terms of service, is lauded by reformers who see its five-week summer training institute as evidence that teachers have little to learn before entering classrooms. Yet, while boosters see TFA as a radical alternative to traditional teacher education, a look at the evolution of their increasingly robust summer training model hardly affirms that perception. In fact, much of what is done in the summer institute parallels the work of traditional teacher education programs in the USA – a surprising state of affairs given the rhetoric of so many TFA supporters. This project traces the evolution of TFA’s summer training institute across two decades, highlighting the growing divide between TFA’s outward-facing image and its actual work. Framing TFA’s summer institute as a case study for examining the relationship between rhetoric and practice in education, the article raises broader questions about how the policy-making context affects the construction and perception of reality.     

Training Student Leaders in Reporting Sexual Misconduct Incidents at a 2-year College

ABSTRACT

Sexual misconduct is a major psychological, emotional, and public health crisis that manifests itself in social and academic arenas including community college campuses. Problems of sexual misconduct that emerge for women and men are not based solely on a difference in gender, but in silence once an incident occurs. The strife that emerges for students can be devastating and pervasive. College counselors, who provide counseling services and training programs, can offset the potentially negative consequences. This article highlights a training program for student leaders that underscores the significance of reporting sexual misconduct incidents at a 2-year college. This article provides percentage data to reflect the perceptions participants had following such training. The training discussed will further the understanding of how to take a proactive approach in reporting incidents of sexual misconduct. Prompting research along this line of training will provide important information to college-student personnel who are vested in creating a transformation to decrease incidents of sexual misconduct on 2-year college campuses.     

高职教师培训评估体系构建

构建高职院校教师培训评估体系,可以有效提高教师培训效果,是高职院校师资队伍建设的一个重大课题。建立在柯氏模型(Kirkpatrick)之上的高职院校教师培训评估体系由3个阶段7项指标24个主要观测点构成,采用这个评估体系可以对高职教师培训效果进行定性和定量分析,以期对高职教师培训进行准确评价。     

From curriculum to practicum: Arab and Jewish trainees’ perceptions of college preparation for teaching

The current pilot study aimed to evaluate the perceptions of Arab and Jewish teacher trainees regarding the impact of variables on preparation for teaching. This study included 314 participating teacher trainees from two colleges in Israel. One hundred forty-eight (47.1%) of them studied in a Hebrew-speaking college and 166 (52.9%) students studied in an Arabic-speaking college. The questionnaire employed 66 items divided in ten variables: curriculum, lecturer quality, learning strategies, pedagogical instructor and mentor teacher, learning and social climate, ICT integration, college selection considerations, facilities, and practicum. Path Analysis findings indicated a direct impact of curriculum on practicum, while all mediating variables were influenced by curriculum, but did not influence practicum. Teacher trainees from both colleges perceived the pedagogical instructor and mentor teacher as the most significant factor connecting curriculum and practicum. In conclusion, findings may suggest the existence of a separation between curriculum and practicum, resulting in a large number of components of teacher education which do not advance teacher trainees in the field.     

The response of clinical practice curriculum in teacher education to the Covid-19 breakout: A case study from Israel

PROSPECTS - This case study explores how teacher education curriculum in a college in Israel responded to the Covid-19 outbreak. The article focuses on the clinical component of the preservice...     

British Women Education Officers and progressive education for an independent Nigeria

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the work of three British Women Education Officers (WEOs) in Nigeria as the colony was preparing for independence. Well-qualified and progressive women teachers, Kathleen Player, Evelyn Clark (née Hyde), and Mary Hargrave (née Robinson), were appointed as WEOs in 1945, 1949, and 1950 respectively. I argue that the three WEOs endeavoured to reconcile their British cultural values, progressive education, English language instruction, and the intricacies of Nigerian cultures in order to prepare students for life and work in an independent Nigeria. Their roles were diverse, encompassing administration and teaching, teacher education, and leadership of girls’ boarding schools and residential training colleges where English was the language of instruction. Following an outline of the WEOs’ prior experiences, I compare and contrast their approaches to progressive education, beginning with Clark’s endeavours to make girls’ education “a graft that would grow onto and into their own way of life” at the Women’s Training College, Sokoto, in far Northern Nigeria. Then I discuss Robinson’s work in a men’s elementary training college at Bauchi where she dispensed a “down-to-earth practical” progressive education to prospective primary school teachers. Finally, Player gave girls “as complete an education as possible for life as a worker, wife and mother” at Queen Elizabeth School, the first government secondary school for girls in Northern Nigeria. Each situation illustrates the complex social relations involved in realising WEOs’ commitments to progressive education as an emancipatory project.