The purpose of the present investigation was to examine young diplomats’ socialization to the professional expert culture
of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland over a six-month on-job training period, as part of their preparation for service
in the diplomatic corps. Using social network analysis, we analyzed departments’ internal social structures, prevailing social
relations, and the young diplomats’ role and position in the networks of knowledge acquisition, practical know-how, and professional
collaboration. Data collected by contextual event sampling and theme interviews and analyzed by qualitative content analysis
were used to characterize the young diplomats’ personal social support networks, resources obtained, as well as associated
reflections regarding their functioning in and socialization to the departmental workplace community. The results indicated
that across the six-month training period, the young diplomats became involved to the workplace communities’ networked expertise
and were socialized to its expert culture, even if their achieved networking positions differed. The results revealed differences
between levels of collective operational practices in the workplace communities as well as the nature of assignments in which
the young diplomats participated and for which they were responsible. It was proposed that these differences mirrored distinction
between expansive natures of young diplomats’ workplace communities as learning environments. 相似文献
Instructional videos are widely used to study teachers’ professional vision. A new technological development in video research is mobile eye-tracking (MET). It has the potential to provide fine-grained insights into teachers’ professional vision in action, but has yet been scarcely employed. We addressed this research gap by using MET video feedback to examine how expert and novice teachers differed in their noticing and weighing of alternative teaching strategies. Expert and novice teachers’ lessons were recorded with MET devices. Then, they commented on what they observe while watching their own teaching videos. Using a mixed methods approach, we found that expert and novice teachers did not differ in the number of classroom events they noticed and alternative teaching strategies they mentioned. However, novice teachers were more critical of their own teaching than expert teachers, particularly when they considered alternative teaching strategies. Practical implications for the field of teacher education are discussed.
Scientific competencies, as defined in the German competency framework, describe the ability to think independently and act scientifically which is a central component of medical education. This report describes integration of scientific competencies into anatomical teaching. Based on findings seen in two consecutive years of dissection courses, students worked on either a case report (n = 70) or an original research study (n = 6) in the format of a scientific poster while learning to use primary literature. Posters were evaluated by juror teams using standardized evaluation criteria. Student perception of the project was assessed by quantitative and qualitative data obtained from the faculty's course evaluation and an online-survey. Overall, students worked collaboratively and invested extra-time (median 3.0 hours) in poster creation. Primary literature was integrated in 90.8% of the posters. Overall poster quality was satisfactory (46.3 ± 8.5 [mean ± standard deviation] out of 72 points), but several insufficiencies were identified. Students integrated information gained from the donor's death certificate, post-mortem full-body computed tomography (CT) scan (22.4%), and histopathological workup (31.6%) in their case reports. Students responded positively about learning new scientific skills (median 4.0 on a six-point Likert scale), but free-text answers revealed that some students experienced the project as an extra burden in a demanding gross anatomy course. In summary, it was feasible to introduce students to scientific skills during the dissection course and to increase interest in science in approximately a third of the survey respondents. Further adjustments to ensure the posters' scientific quality might be necessary for the future. 相似文献