Beyond the Professional Athlete: Introducing Middle School Students to Sports Related Occupations

Even though the odds are astronomically high against it ever happening, many middle school students harbor hopes of some day playing professional sports. What students frequently fail to realize is that there are numerous sports-related occupations in addition to that of the professional athlete. The classroom career awareness activities presented here are designed to help students discover that there is more to sports than being an athlete.     

Understanding a high stakes teacher performance assessment in mathematics through elementary prospective teachers’ lived experiences

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education - Within a global context of more standardization of teacher preparation, programs in the USA are increasingly using standardized teacher performance...     

‘A guided walk in the woods’: boundary crossing in a collaborative action research project

This article discusses the ideal and practice of collaboration in a collaborative action research project in which university researchers work together with staff from the field of primary education. A qualitative case study was conducted using the theory of boundary crossing to make sense of the ways collaboration took place within the project team. The main theme, also a major dilemma in the project, referred to the transition from a democratic towards a more directive approach within the project design after the first year. The members of the project team took shifting and ambivalent positions within the project as they were trying to cross boundaries between the different goals of the project. Also, boundary objects on different levels contributed to the collaboration. We conclude that clear boundaries between groups or a strong shared identity, as proposed by an insider–outsider model of action research and the notion of first-order democracy, are not helpful in complex collaborative action research projects. Instead, we need the development of second-order democracy means in order to cross boundaries and sustain a critical dialogue about differences.     

一个关于工作场所学习的建议性概念框架:对人力资源开发理论建设与研究的启示

人力资源开发领域的学者和实践者都非常关注工作场所学习。关于正式培训和非正式学习,一直以来形成了大量的研究和讨论。本文从人力资源开发角度,结合已有的大量文献,提出了一个工作场所学习的概念性框架,框架包括三个互相作用的变量:学习的场所、在发展和传授学习经验时所制定的计划的程度和学习过程中培训者、推动者和其他人的角色。本文还讨论了这一框架对人力资源开发领域中理论建设和研究的启示。     

Bridging campus and field settings through professional development schools

Abstract

An assessment of the hopes, ambitions, and quality of life for millions of our young people leaves us with one inescapable fact—America is losing sight of many of its children and youth. There is grim and persistent evidence that our concern for the emotional and psychological well‐being of young people continues to wane—a fact that could have grave consequences for the future of our nation. This article advances a cause to which the next generation of professional teacher educators might productively dedicate themselves—a call for a renewal of spirit and a commitment to nourishing the conscience of our profession.     

The homogenizing and diversifying effects of migration policy in the internationalization of higher education

Higher Education - Amid internationalizing shifts in higher education, universities around the world are simultaneously becoming more integrated and more disparate. This paper examines the role of...     

The role of the printed answer in programmed instruction

Using a variety of programmed materials, this series of studies showed that students observed available answers in the program far less than 100% of the time. Answer observing was found to be correlated with student error on the related frame. The view that the printed answer in a program is always a reinforcer for the preceding response(s) is severely questioned.