Understanding and enhancing pupils’ learning progress in schools in deprived communities

ABSTRACT

This paper draws on data from the ‘Raising Pupil Attainment in Key Stage 1 in Stoke-on-Trent’ research project. The particular focus is on how teachers, head teachers and teaching assistants (n?=?59) articulate pupils’ learning success in five highly achieving schools in deprived communities. Six key themes are highlighted which are identified by participants as influencing successful pupil learning and progress. These are analysed in relation to Biesta's theory on the parameters of ‘Good Education’ [Biesta, G. J. J. 2010. Good Education in an Age of Measurement. Boulder, CO: Paradigm] and within Bourdieu's understanding of ‘distinction’ [Bourdieu, P. 1998. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Oxford: Polity Press]. The research reveals that issues related to socialisation and subjectivity are presented as critical and foundational for the more formal measures of success in pupil learning.     

高校图书馆与大学生信息素养教育

信息素养教育注重对大学生信息意识教育、信息道德教育及信息能力的提高,高校图书馆历来具有良好的用户教育传统和教育优势。高校图书馆不仅是信息提供中心,也是信息教育中心。本文就大学生信息素养教育目前存在的问题及针对该问题高校图书馆应采取的对策进行了探讨。通过图书馆多种途径的信息素养教育,帮助大学生成为具备良好信息素养的人才,使他们将来能在信息社会中扮演重要角色。     

高等教育质量链初探

高等院校历来是为国家和社会培养人才的摇篮和输送人才的基地,提高学生的质量合格率,提高学校声誉和人才市场的认可程度,对提高高校的生源素质起到了促进作用。以高等教育质量链的理论及分析为指导,从增强质量意识,增进素质教育入手,提出了高等院校教学应注意把握的问题。     

1949年以前的中国媒介素养教育萌芽——媒介素养教育的本土化考察

自上世纪末,国内学界对媒介素养教育问题的探讨不断深化,但较多关注媒介素养教育现状,缺乏对中国媒介素养教育历史的梳理与研究。本文大体以中国大众传媒的发展历程为线索,从大众媒介意识的初步培养——正式开始——发展形式及民国时期学界关于“媒介素养”及“媒介素养教育”的探讨等方面,对我国1949年以前的媒介素养教育萌芽进行初步的考察,以此来探索媒介素养教育研究的本土化道路。     

浅谈学生人文素养的培养

分析了人文素养的涵义,指出人文素养在人的成长中居于基础地位。结合工作实际,对电大开放教育中如何培养学生的人文素养进行了阐述,对教师和学生分别提出了要求和建议。     

The under-attainment of ethnic minority students in UK higher education: what we know and what we don’t know

In UK higher education, ethnic differences in academic attainment are ubiquitous and have persisted for many years. They are only partly explained by ethnic differences in entry qualifications. They vary from one institution to another and from one subject area to another. This suggests that they result in part from teaching and assessment practices in different institutions and subjects. We do not really know whether ethnic differences in attainment are reflected in variations in the student experience. We do not know what factors are responsible for the ethnic differences in attainment that remain when differences in entry qualifications have been taken into account. Finally, we do not know what aspects of teaching and assessment practices are responsible for variations in the attainment gap.     

Educators’ perceptions of bringing students to environmental consciousness through engaging outdoor experiences

This paper explores the premise that environmental education involves raising environmental consciousness rather than simply knowing about the environment in a technical-rational manner and acting for it in mechanistic prescribed ways. The paper draws on educational theory and data from a phenomenological case study of educators working together at an outdoor education centre in urban Canada, whose practice of environmental education we believe can best be described as environmental consciousness raising. Based on our study’s findings, we suggest that raising environmental consciousness involves connecting people to their environment, fostering care for the environment, and building agency for the environment. Educating for environmental consciousness also requires providing people with deeply engaging experiences that afford authenticity, multidimensionality and serendipity. Our study shows how these features can work to raise environmental consciousness, by creating epiphanies or moments when sudden expansions of the self, realization and empowerment become possible.     

新“标准”下户外运动课程资源的价值

为了促进大学生的全面发展,适应社会对高校公共体育课程要求,文章探讨高校公共体育课程结合户外运动的项目特点,就户外运动特点和户外运动课程概念入手,分析户外运动课程特点以及户外运动课程的价值。建议大学体育选修课引入户外体验式培训的教学方式,结合高校所在地区自然与社会有效资源合理选择户外运动项目加入到体育课程中以适应社会的发展和时代的需求。     

高等学校信息技术教育学科研究

信息技术教育对我国新时期人才培养有着不可替代的作用 ,高等学校信息技术教育尤其重要。增进其学科性研究 ,不断地拓展该领域的知识 ;提高高校学生信息素养 ,增强驾驭信息的能力应成为现代教育的重要内容     

小学信息技术教育课程的现状及思考

本文通过调查研究,分析了小学信息技术教育课程的现状,从教学硬件设施、教学内容、师资力量、社会支持环境等方面提出了改进措施.     

Walk-rally support system using two-dimensional codes and mobile phones

‘Walk Rally’ (WR), an orienteering-like recreation game, is common, especially in Japan. Numerous trials to combine WR with educational activities are being carried out by some educators. However, participants are always at the risk of straying and subjected to various accidents during the WR. We developed a WR support system based on mobile phones enabled with a two-dimensional (2D) code reader. Our system can be adapted to the following two cases: (1) WR participants read 2D codes placed at each check point (CP) with their mobile phones. (2) Human checkers having a mobile phone at each CP read a 2D code printed on each WR participant's identification (ID) tag. The WR organizer's anxiety over straying participants will be eased because our system can continuously show the last check points at which each participant has checked in. In addition, our system can incorporate e-learning (m-learning) essences into the WR. We tested our system with three events, which included 100?600 participants. During these events, our system worked successfully. These results indicate that our system has enough potential to be used as a new type of outdoor edutainment (education + entertainment) tool with a better safety of participants.     

An evaluation of an outdoor education programme for students with emotional and behavioural difficulties

Abstract

A case study examined the value of outdoor education for two groups of pupils from Year 9 and 10 with severe behavioural difficulties placed in an independent residential school. The methods included systematic observations of their behaviour and recording of their academic performance over the duration of the programme; participant observation field notes kept by the researcher; and interviewing of all participating pupils and staff to elicit their perceptions of the utility of the programme. The analysis suggested that the programme was successful in promoting positive behaviour and academic gains for most pupils, and that by the end both pupils and staff held a positive perception of outdoor education. Although outdoor education may not form a solution to dealing with 'problematic' behaviour, it represents a powerful, albeit underused, tool for reducing disaffection, promoting inclusive practice and decreasing the risk of permanent exclusion for this vulnerable group of pupils.