Education for Sustainable Development in Ethnic Autonomous Areas of China: A Comparison of Two Curriculum Initiatives and Their Educational Implications

This paper examines the educational implications of two curriculum initiatives in China that have produced curricular materials promoting education for sustainable development (ESD) in minority-populated ethnic autonomous areas in China. The two curriculum projects present distinctive discourses, conceptions, models, frameworks and scopes of ESD in the country. Nonetheless, there is a likelihood that the actual implementation of the curriculum initiatives, especially the enactment of the curriculum materials produced, might be thwarted due to structural and systemic educational constraints, an anthropocentric approach to sustainable development, poor teacher support and teacher training, omissions of the affective learning components in curricular contents, as well as loopholes and weaknesses in the development of the curriculum materials themselves.     

Interaktive Visualisierung und Simulation zur Planung chirurgischer Eingriffe

Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt aktuelle Ans?tze zur Visualisierung und weiteren Bearbeitung medizinischer Volumendaten. Die Methodik verfolgt das Ziel, die pr?operative Planung chirurgischer Eingriffe zu unterstützen, in dem Volumendaten interaktiv visualisiert und Gewebe wie auch funktionelle Einheiten simuliert werden. Eingebettet in ein Radiologiesystem kann der Benutzer mit den Visualisierungen im dreidimensionalen Raum interagieren. Ein hybrider Ansatz erlaubt die Integration von oberfl?chen- und volumenorientierten Objektmodellen. Die Client/Server Architektur erlaubt die Nutzung zentraler, leistungsf?higer Ressourcen zur Berechnung der Volumenvisualisierung und Methoden der Bildverarbeitung.     

Interaktive Visualisierung und Simulation zur Planung chirurgischer Eingriffe

Zusammenfassung. Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt aktuelle Ans?tze zur Visualisierung und weiteren Bearbeitung medizinischer Volumendaten. Die Methodik verfolgt das Ziel, die pr?operative Planung chirurgischer Eingriffe zu unterstützen, in dem Volumendaten interaktiv visualisiert und Gewebe wie auch funktionelle Einheiten simuliert werden. Eingebettet in ein Radiologiesystem kann der Benutzer mit den Visualisierungen im dreidimensionalen Raum interagieren. Ein hybrider Ansatz erlaubt die Integration von oberfl?chen- und volumenorientierten Objektmodellen. Die Client/Server Architektur erlaubt die Nutzung zentraler, leistungsf?higer Ressourcen zur Berechnung der Volumenvisualisierung und Methoden der Bildverarbeitung. Eingegangen am 11. Juli 1998 / Angenommen am 7. Januar 1999     

Developing Curriculum Leadership in Schools: Hong Kong perspectives

This study is designed to investigate the impact of school‐based curriculum development teams on teacher development within the tradition of school‐based curriculum development in a primary school in Hong Kong. Teacher interviews were used to evaluate the extent that teacher engagement in curriculum decision‐making processes within two school‐based curriculum development teams has led to teacher professional development which were triangulated with the videotaped meetings and tryout lessons. Qualitative evidence has revealed positively that participating teachers have developed themselves professionally through the process of planning, experimenting and reflecting (PER model) upon curriculum practice and innovation under certain conditions. However, the complexity of the structures and processes that were established for involving teachers in curriculum decision‐making processes needs further empirical and theoretical work. This paper only looks at data relating to teacher development in curriculum leadership collected in the second action cycle of the project from January to June 2005.     

Patriotism and National Education: Perceptions of trainee teachers in Singapore

The effective teaching of national education requires from the teacher a sense of commitment and personal conviction. The teacher has to demonstrate confidence in what is said and taught in class and, more importantly, through his or her personal values and convictions. In other words, the teacher is required to be patriotic. This paper examines the different types of patriotism among trainee teachers in Singapore, and how these types of patriotism influence their perceptions of citizenship values, the importance of national education, and the extent to which national education is viewed as government propaganda. The results revealed four homogenous clusters that differed significantly in terms of their perceptions.     

A school-based professional development programme for teachers of mathematical modelling in Singapore

A school-based professional development programme (SBPD) aimed at developing secondary school mathematics teachers’ competencies to teach mathematical modelling in Singapore is presented and evaluated in this article. The SBPD is characterized by two key features—content elements to develop teachers’ knowledge and skills, and transformative learning cycles for teachers to elicit, enact and reorganize their orientations in a mathematical modelling classroom. Goal-based decision-making analysis of teachers’ practice suggests that this SBPD positively influences teachers’ knowledge and resources, goals and orientations in planning, designing and enacting modelling learning experiences.     

Dynamique socio-économique et crise familiale et éducative en c?te-d'ivoire de 1960 a 1990

This article reflects on the crisis affecting the sphere of the family and education in Côte d'Ivoire between 1960 and 1990. The country's family structure has been shaken by the market economy, by the conventional school system and by the modern legal code. This has in turn engendered a crisis of parental authority and a variety of problems connected with the instability of marriages in Côte d'Ivoire. How, then, is it possible to redress the situation and establish a partnership between the family, the educational system and society? The author advances a series of propositions for creating a better coordination between the family and the educational sphere and for reinforcing the educative capacity of the family and of society as a whole.     

Good and Poor Sources of Educational Aid: A Five-Nation Study

Good and Poor Sources of Educational Aid: A Five-Nation Study College students in five nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, the U.S.) were asked their opinions about which nation would be the best and which the poorest source of aid for 10 hypothetical educational-development projects in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. For the 10 projects as a whole, the majority of respondents in each of the five countries chose an industrialized, formerly colonialist nation as the best source of aid in preference to the two developing nations, Indonesia and Malaysia. Of the three industrialized nations, the United States was selected considerably more often than the second choice, Japan; and Australia was a distant third.     

高校图书馆文化精准扶贫创新服务研究

在高校图书馆社会化服务功能的范畴下,利用移动终端的新媒体提供优秀传统文化和精品文化的资源推送,以期为文化创业创新孵化空间提供"创客空间"模式的服务支撑来实现文化精准扶贫的服务创新.     

Accountability through access,authenticity and advocacy when researching with young children

ABSTRACT

Research with children involving their use of digital and mobile technologies either as a methodological tool or in relation to their learning foregrounds emerging ethical issues and practices. This paper explores some of the ethical and practical challenges we faced in studies involving the recruitment of young children as research participants, and where the integrity of these research collaborations was critical. We propose an ethical framework to foreground these challenges that is shaped by a view of children as social actors and experts on their own lives, information and communication technologies as ubiquitous in children’s lives, and ethics as a situated and multifaceted responsibility. This framework has three aspects: access, authenticity and advocacy. We draw on examples from different research projects and use ethically important moments to illustrate how notions of access, authenticity and advocacy can foreground the ethical challenges in teaching–learning research contexts to better consider and offer children greater agency in research collaborations.