Inclusion of Mobility‐Impaired Children in the One‐to‐One Computing Era: A Case Study

In recent times many developing countries have adopted a one‐to‐one model for distributing computers in classrooms. Among the various effects that such an approach could imply, it surely increases the availability of computer‐related Assistive Technology at school and provides higher resources for empowering disabled children in their learning and communicating abilities. New environments are created in which technology is no more a specific solution, but a matter of fact. This article describes three case studies involving children from Uruguayan special schools undergoing integration projects in mainstream schools. The children could count on a computer technology which did not mark them as “those who need some different tools,” but as special users of the same tools as the rest of the students.     

Preliminary analysis to build an integrative conceptual network for biological education at university level

Existing university education in the natural sciences comes up against many difficulties. Therefore, it is of importance to look for the reasons for such difficulties as felt by teachers and students, in order to develop a basis for a new approach to education. As an important step in this direction, a working group of teachers and didactics specialists at the University Pierre et Marie Curie has attempted to analyse the content of biological knowledge in order to develop an integrative conceptual network for biological education at university level. The results of this analysis are outlined here.     

利用场馆资源开展馆校合作教学中英比较研究——基于武汉与格拉斯哥的实证调查

馆校合作作为一种重要的教学组织形式正在被越来越多的人认可.较之英国成熟、系统的馆校合作教学,我国场馆的教育价值未被充分开发.本研究采用问卷法与深度访谈法,分别对武汉4所学校和格拉斯哥6所学校,以及武汉5个场馆和格拉斯哥3个场馆开展了实证调查.研究发现,双方在频度与范围、行动方式、结构进程和课程关联四个方面存在较大差距.在此基础上,研究从三个方面反思并总结我国当前馆校合作教学存在的问题,包括馆校合作教学中主体身份不明确、馆校合作教学方案设计缺失、馆校合作教学活动编排随意性很大等.     

Regenerative Capacities: New Materialisms,Inheritance, and Biopolitical Technologies in Education Policy

Inheritance and social reproduction have been widely theorized and studied concepts in the social sciences. In theories of social reproduction a focus on social position and identity is assumed; a focus on moving from one position to another at the cost of overlooking the rich, and arguably more important, movement, process, and flow in between. Turning toward new materialisms for theoretical insight, this article points toward an alternative post-humanist perspective. Leaning on Massumi (2002) and Puar (2007), the author asserts that expanding the analytical focus to include the movement and process of biopolitical capacity will further sharpen the (new) materialist analysis of force and power relations, what Puar refers to as regenerative capacities. It is through the employment and performative force of biopolitical technologies in education policy, the author concludes, that enables the surveilling, managing, and demarcating of regenerative capacities that constrain the movement, process, and potentialities for, and of, social change.