Inclusive Pedagogy in Light of Social Justice. Special Educational Rights and Inclusive Classrooms: on whose terms? A Field Study in Stockholm Suburbs

The question of inclusive education is not straightforward. Despite all its good intentions, inclusive education, in practice faces numerous challenges today. This study analyses these challenges in the Swedish special education context. The author explores special educators’ experiences, possibilities and challenges when applying inclusive education. Findings reveal positive attitudes to the concept of inclusive classrooms. Nevertheless, teachers face more than a few grey areas that need to be put in place in order to achieve socially and cognitively inclusive classrooms.     

对浙江省中学体操教学现状的调查与分析

运用问卷调查法和座谈法 ,对浙江省中学体操教学现状进行了调查与分析。结果表明 :目前浙江省中学对体操教学重视程度有明显下降趋势 ,存在着场地、器材、设施和体育经费严重不足 (除重点中学外 ) ,不能按照省编教学大纲和计划执行 ,体操教学内容得不到保证 ,体操教学中伤害事故较多等问题。针对当前的现状和体操教学的前景 ,提出了重视和加强体操教学的意见和建议 ,旨在引起有关职能部门和学校的重视。     

A method for personalising the blade size for competitors in flatwater kayaking

The intent of this project was to explore the feasibility of personalising the paddle blade size for individual flatwater kayakers based on their power output profiles. Twelve elite male kayakers performed on a kayak ergometer at the same intensity and resistance that they would normally experience while paddling at race pace for 500 m on the water. The kayak ergometer was instrumented so that power profiles could be determined from the instantaneous force and velocity of the representative centre point of the paddle blade. From the power profile information, the researchers calculated a personalised blade size that was expected to improve performance for those kayakers differing more than 5% from the calculated ‘ideal’ size. For the elite kayakers studied, it was recommended that seven of the paddlers should increase their blade size by approximately 5–10%. For the remaining five paddlers, the results indicated that their current blade sizes were within the expected measurement error of their predicted ideal value and should be retained. It is anticipated that this research will provide the theoretical rationale for elite kayakers to see the need to personalise their blade size based on their own muscle power profiles.     

Support teachers' beliefs about the academic achievement of students with special educational needs

José Castro Silva, lecturer in sciences of education, and José Morgado, assistant professor, both work at the Instituto Superior de Psicologica Aplicada in Lisboa, Portugal. In this article, they describe their study of support teachers' beliefs about the academic achievement of school students with special educational needs. The 'support teachers' who were the subject of this study work in mainstream schools where the majority of pupils with special educational needs are educated in mainstream classes run by 'general teachers'. The work of the support teachers is supervised and supported by 'special education team co-ordinators'. The study reported here set out to elicit the support teachers' beliefs about the factors that contribute to success at school for pupils with special educational needs. Results suggest that the support teachers consider that factors including 'school climate', 'curriculum design' and 'teaching approach' contribute significantly to achievements among these pupils. On the other hand, analysis reveals that the support teachers attribute difficulties and lack of achievement significantly to 'out-of-school' contextual variables. These findings are related to a detailed review of the literature and the authors discuss the implications for policy, practice and professional development.     

Changing classroom culture,curricula, and instruction for proof and proving: how amenable to scaling up,practicable for curricular integration,and capable of producing long-lasting effects are current interventions?

This paper is a commentary on the classroom interventions on the teaching and learning of proof reported in the seven empirical papers in this special issue. The seven papers show potential to enhance student learning in an area of mathematics that is not only notoriously difficult for students to learn and for teachers to teach, but also critically important to knowing and doing mathematics. Although the seven papers, and the intervention studies they report, vary in many ways—student population, content domain, goals and duration of the intervention, and theoretical perspectives, to name a few—they all provide valuable insight into ways in which classroom experiences might be designed to positively influence students’ learning to prove. In our commentary, we highlight the contributions and promise of the interventions in terms of whether and how they present capacity to change the classroom culture, the curriculum, or instruction. In doing so, we distinguish between works that aim to enhance students’ preparedness for, and competence in, proof and proving and works that explicitly foster appreciation for the need and importance of proof and proving. Finally, we also discuss briefly the interventions along three dimensions: how amenable to scaling up, how practicable for curricular integration, and how capable of producing long-lasting effects these interventions are.     

A praxeological perspective for the design and implementation of a digital role-play game

This paper draws on an empirical work dedicated to discussing a theoretical model for design-based research. The context of our study is a research project for the design, the implementation and the analysis of Insectophagia, a digital role-play game implemented in secondary schools. The model presented in this paper aims at conceptualizing researchers’ and practitioners’ relationships with the notion that knowledge development takes place at a meta-didactical level when the participants develop a shared practice and a shared discourse on practice (a common praxeology). This is done through collaboration and teacher-centered design of innovative learning settings. This model emerges from a double approach: (1) a literature review on collaborative research in education and, (2) an analysis of the verbal interactions of practitioners and researchers involved in the project. The study emphasizes the development of knowledge among participants. It also emphasizes the importance of knowledge brokering for filling the gap between research and practice and thus, for the adoption of digital technology by practitioners.     

2.4GHz MIMO 网状网络中一种固定信道分配方法（英文）

由于无线网路中链路质量的不稳定、信号的广播传输模式和节点之间存在的相互干扰，针对提高无线网状网络性能的信道分配和路由选择将更加复杂。采用多信道成为一种可选的提高网络容量的方法。本文提出了一种基于2.4GHz 802.11无线网状网络的一种固定信道分配方法，采用了多输入多输出技术使得网络中的数据流以流水线的方式进行传输。在这个场景下多条并行的流可以同时被激活，以此来提升UDP和TCP的传输性能。通过对802.11b网络中1、6和11三个相互不重叠的信道的分配，该信道分配算法在空间上实现邻居节点之间的干扰最小化，其中信道1和11被分配给网状网络的主干传输部分，信道6被分配给用户接入网络。文章最后通过NS2仿真实验，并对本文提出的算法进行了分析。实验结果证明网络的平均吞吐率有大幅度提升，且多跳传输的延迟也被降低。     

大数据背景下学术期刊评价标准研究

期刊评价标准的合理构建对学术期刊的健康成长具有重要意义,大数据时代的来临将给我国当前学术期刊评价带来巨大影响。在简要阐述我国当前主要学术评价系统、评价标准、基本特征及存在问题的基础上,对大数据给学术期刊评价标准带来的影响进行了细致分析,在此基础上提出大数据背景下学术期刊评价标准可能包含的具体指标及其计算公式。