Activity-related typologies and longitudinal change in physical activity and sedentary time in children and adolescents: The UP&DOWN Study

Background: Children and adolescents can be distinguished by different typologies (clusters) of physical activity and sedentary behavior. How physical activity ...     

Necessary but not Sufficient: reconceptualizing primary teacher education

Initial primary teacher education should be designed to cater for the socially, culturally and linguistically diverse populations found in schools. They rarely are. As a result they tend to promote social reproduction rather than social transformation. Using vignettes drawn from our work on the New South Wales Ministerial Advisory Council for the Quality of Teaching we demonstrate the need to re‐explore the fundamental purposes and goals of preparing teachers to meet the needs of all children in our primary schools. We propose a reconceptualization of teacher education around a cultural studies perspective as a productive way forward which would allow integration rather than compartmentalization of knowledge and which encourages a search for truth in which tolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty feature such that knowledge is understood as relative and fallible.     

Oliver Wendell Holmes. Man of Medicine; Man of Letters

This biographical sketch portrays Oliver Wendell Holmes as a leading figure both in American medicine and in American literature. Particular attention is directed to his classic essay, "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever."     

The ‘Japan Prize’ Contest: encouraging excellence in educational television

The Japan Prize is probably the world's most prestigious international award for educational television programming. This article discusses how the contest is conducted, and reviews some of the criteria by which jurors determine prize winners, placing a particular emphasis upon the challenges involved in comparing productions from different cultures. The contest includes a number of professional activities for participants, including discussion sessions, seminars, visits to schools, and so on. Award‐winning programmes are distributed to a set of tape libraries located in different parts of the world, to serve as models for instructional television production. The Japan Prize serves to promote excellence in instructional television in a variety of ways.     

Review

The Attitudes of Chinese Academics to Foreign Scholarly Journals; Part 1 – Report, Part 2 – Appendices. Global Publishing Information (Publishers Association and the British Council) March 2005. Free to ALPSP and PA members; £249 to others.