The American Community College Story,Take Two: An Unfinished Essay

The author observes that community college administrators perform their duties on ambiguous and uncertain intellectual and environmental landscapes, so they continually search for meaning and purpose in organizational life. This article proposes a straightforward approach to answering several questions related to the quest for meaning and purpose, and relates the discussion to the origination of the junior college movement at the turn of the 20th century. The article concludes with implications for practice by analyzing how community college administrators pursue meaning and purpose by reflecting creatively on theory and practice of the past, present, and future.     

Evaluating the Influence of an Urban High School Reform Effort on College Readiness and Access Outcomes: A Quasiexperimental Cohort Study

It is widely accepted that postsecondary education has become a necessity for US youth. College access, however, has been found not to be equal for all. As a result, federally funded college-readiness programs, such as Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP), have been established to increase the numbers of economically disadvantaged students with access to college. This quasiexperimental case study compared academic and nonacademic college-readiness indicators between cohorts of GEAR UP students and nonparticipants in 1 urban high school. Overall, cohorts of GEAR UP students outperformed their non-GEAR UP peers on all measures (grade-point average, attendance rate, behavior, graduation rate, and college enrollment) despite a dramatic demographic shift that led to greater proportions of educationally disadvantaged students in the GEAR UP cohorts.     

The CoVis Project: Building a Large-Scale Science Education Testbed*

This paper describes the construction and research program of the Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project, a testbed for exploring science education reform with telecommunications technology. The CoVis testbed is contrasted with other forms of educational research in an “ecology of paradigms,” which argues that testbeds are in fact a new setting for research with different requirements and challenges for the researcher. Two extended examples of telecommunications research are provided as examples of the kind of research that testbeds are well suited to explore. The first example is the evolution of videoconferencing in the CoVis testbed. The second example is the design and development of a networked groupware application called the Collaboratory Notebook.     

Utilising mobile game based learning methods effectively to support education

Educational technology research and development - This paper is a response concerning the implications of scholarship of the article entitled "A critical review of 13 years of mobile...     

夏之眠(英文)

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.In summer,quite the other way,I have to go to bed by     

Cuba: Au Dela De L'education Rurale Integree

Résumé Se basant sur des expériences d'éducation rurale intégrée faites par certains pays en voie de développement, l'auteur examine l'objet d'une telle éducation et ses chances de succès. Un exemple positif est donné par Cuba où tout l'ancien système d'éducation, essentiellement centré sur l'activité urbaine a été transformé et axé sur la terre pour répondre avant tout aux besoins de la population rurale. Le plan d'apprentissage prévu pour les ouvriers et les paysans a été unifié dans son contenu et dans ses structures afin que l'éducation en zone rurale et destinée à des personnes qui auront une activité rurale, ne présente pas ce caractère de bouche-trou qu'elle a dans d'autres pays. La solution aux problèmes pratiques est rangée au premier plan; on le constate dans l'éducation secondaire et universitaire où la réforme n'a pas seulement introduit des stages (agricoles) mais a aussi changé l'orientation du système tout entier afin d'offrir à la population rurale une occasion d'améliorer ses conditions de vie.

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On the basis of experiences made by some developing countries with integrated rural education, the goal of such education and its chances of success are discussed. A succesful example is the land-centred education in Cuba, where the entire—previously urban—centred educational system has been transformed into one serving primarily the needs of the rural population. Learning provision for workers and for peasants has been largely unified in content and organisation. Thus education in rural areas and for rural occupations does not have the stopgap character it has in some other countries. Emphasis is on the solution of practical problems. This is illustrated by the example of university and secondary education. The goal has been not merely to introduce practical (agricultural) training but to change the orientation of the entire system so as to offer the rural population a chance of improving their living conditions.

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Zusammenfassung Ausgehend von den Erfahrungen mit einer integrierten ruralen Erziehung in einigen Entwicklungsländern, wird das Ziel und die Erfolgschancen dieser Erziehung diskutiert. Als positives Beispiel wird die land-zentrierte Bildung in Kuba vorgestellt, wo das gesamte Bildungswesen bewusst auf die Bedürfnisse der Landbevölkerung ausgerichtet wurde. Das Bildungswesen wurde vereinheitlicht, wobei Bildungsweg und Bildungsinhalte nicht mehr nach dem alten Typ des stadtzentrierten Unterrichts organisiert sind. Das Bildungsangebot ist für Arbeiter und Bauern weitgehend vereinheitlicht. Dadurch bekam die Bildung auf und für das Land nicht den Lückenbüssercharakter wie in manchen anderen Ländern. Bei dieser mehr auf ländliche Gebiete hin orientierten Bildung steht die Lösung praktischer Probleme im Vordergrund, wie dies am Beispiel der universitären- und der Sekundarbildung erläutert wird. Es geht nicht darum, nur (landwirtschaftliche) Praktika einzuführen, sondern die gesamte Orientierung zu verändern, um insbesondere der Landbevölkerung die Perspektive besserer Lebensverhältnisse auf dem Lande zu vermitteln.

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Les opinions exprimées dans cet article ne reflètent pas nécessairement celles de l'UNESCO.     

Temperamental Shyness,Frontal EEG Theta/Beta Ratio,and Social Anxiety in Children

The authors examined how children’s frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) theta/beta ratio—an index of neurocognitive control—changed from baseline to a social stressor, and whether these EEG changes moderated the relation between temperament and anxiety. Children (N = 152; M_age = 7.82 years, 52% male, 81% White) had their EEG recorded during a baseline and speech anticipation condition. Children’s frontal theta/beta ratio decreased from baseline to speech anticipation, and this baseline-to-task change moderated the relation between temperamental shyness and social anxiety. Temperamental shyness was related to higher state and trait social anxiety only among children with large baseline-to-task decreases in theta/beta ratio. Findings are consistent with theoretical models hypothesizing that temperamentally shy children with heightened neurocognitive control may be at greater risk for anxiety.