Training and learning by using the Microwave Office program for designing high frequency and microwave circuits

This paper presents a detailed planning for a high frequency or microwaves laboratory based on microstrip techniques and also on the use of a CAE commercial software. In the second part of the article we justify the use of the so-called Microwave Office software because of its easy handling and learning, which make it, in the authors' opinion, a good tool for correct learning of the circuits with microstrip techniques and, therefore, of the proposed educational programme.     

The Assessment of Pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties

Jim McNicholas, educational consultant, provides an overview of a detailed research enquiry into the practices of teacher assessment of pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) set against a background of curriculum theory and curriculum change. The overview approach (with its 'instant practical application') to a major study has not previously been reported in BJSE and the Editor would be grateful for your comments on its relevance to other studies.     

足球教练：玩儿的就是心跳

如果有机会看着20年前的足球比赛录像,会发现和现在的大不一样。比赛规则没变,只是现场好像漏掉了什么。仔细看看,漏掉的是教练。90分钟的录像中,没有一个教练的镜头。电视导演和摄像把全副精力集中在奔跑的球员身上,哪管在场下的教练是不是着急地咆哮,也不关心踢输了教练可能会卷铺盖走人。     

Religious Upbringing: a Rejoinder and Responses

In this symposium Michael Hand presents a rejoinder to criticisms of his ‘Religious Upbringing Reconsidered’ (Journal of Philosophy of Education, 36.4) by Jim Mackenzie, Peter Gardner and Charlene Tan. Defending the idea of the logical possibility of non‐indoctrinatory religious upbringing, he attempts to show that none of their various objections is successful. Mackenzie, Gardner and Tan each offer a response.     

Student-teachers’ perspectives on the purposes and characteristics of faith-based schools: an Australian view

At a time when the faith-based identity of schools is facing serious challenges, the researchers undertook a longitudinal study of the relevant opinions, beliefs and values of student-teachers at a Catholic university campus in Australia. The focus of the current paper is on the responses of first-year students to a survey regarding their choice of secondary school, the purposes of schooling and the characteristics of Catholic schools. Relevant context are addressed including global education trends, the values and characteristics of Catholic education and relevant aspects of Australian schooling and youth culture. Regardless of religious affiliation, self-reported religiosity or type of school attended, providing a ‘safe and caring school environment’ emerged as the most important purpose of schooling and as a key reason for choice of school, while faith-based purposes and reasons received particularly low ratings. ‘Caring community’ was regarded as by far the most important characteristic of the Catholic school, followed by engagement in social justice programmes. The findings are briefly compared with parallel findings for teachers in Queensland Catholic schools.     

Teacher classroom management styles with beginning high school students

Initial encounters are uncertain, problematic and exploratory in character compared to routine encounters when the rules have been stabilised. More needs to be known about the strategic resources brought into play by teachers and puplis as they mould the social and academic, topography of different kinds of classrooms (Beynon, 1985, p. 4).