Art for the Jewish School Teacher

Introduction

This past year one of my fourth grade students in my Hebrew Day School died unexpectedly late Sunday night. On Monday morning, two of her friends, upon entering the classroom, told me that something had happened to Leah and that she would not be in class ever again.     

美国早期特殊教育师资培养体系反思及启示

早期特殊教育不仅在促进每个障碍儿童的发展和提高其家庭生活质量方面起着至关重要的作用,而且有着巨大的社会效益和经济效益,是和谐社会的重要组成部分。美国法律规定0—21岁的所有障碍儿童有权获得免费和适当的教育,由具有专业化水平的相关人员为这些儿童提供服务和支持。本文从政策层面到实践层面对美国的早期特殊教育师资培养体系进行了系统、全面地分析,了解其现状和存在的挑战,以及未来发展的趋势,以期为促进我国早期特殊教育师资培养体系的发展提供一些理论和实践上的参考。     

DEVELOPING A DIGITAL REPOSITORY FOR A HUMANITIES RESEARCH NETWORK: THE PIONEER PROJECT

The Australian Research Council's Network for Early European Research (NEER) is a recent initiative aimed at broadening and deepening research in the field of medieval and early modern European studies. An integral part of the Network is its Digital Services Programme, which integrates a range of digital strategies designed to advance the Network's goals. Among these strategies is a project to develop a national discipline-based digital repository known as PioNEER. This paper looks at the issues that have arisen in the course of this project.     

美国早期特殊教育立法与实践新进展

美国政府颁布的<障碍者教育法案(2004)>是当前与美国早期特殊教育关系最密切的法案,对美国早期特殊教育的发展产生了重大影响.该法案的最新修订文本中增加佑了可以获得早期特殊教育服务的障碍类型,对早期特殊教育教师提出了更高的资质要求,进一步强调了家长的权利和义务.也对早期特殊教育服务两个阶段问的衔接作出了新的规定.美国早期特殊教育立法注重科学性和发展性,注重提高教师专业素质,强调多学科协作和家长参与,这些经验值得我们借鉴.     

Destabilising equilibriums: harnessing the power of disruption in participatory action research

ABSTRACT

This article draws on insights gained from three projects described as participatory action research (PAR) undertaken in the UK. What binds them together is that each project coordinator raised the issue of the under-representation of opportunities for disruption in the possible trajectory to knowledge democracy.

PAR places a relational process at the centre of the research practice. It brings together people with varied knowledges, perspectives and experiences and aspires to be a non-hierarchical, relational, collaborative endeavour. This challenges the traditional hierarchical hegemony of the external expert in research situations. Bringing people together does not, however, equate to shared agency, authentic participation and knowledge democracy. For different knowledges to be created previous knowledges need to be disrupted.The argument raised in this paper is that a neglected element of PAR has been the deliberate intent to nurture disruption within communicative spaces in relationally based engagements. It is posited that the disruption of beliefs and assumptions that underpin local actions, is an important enabler of other voices and knowledges being recognised and acted upon. The three projects described reveal how and why the harnessing of power through disruption contributes to creating a functional knowledge democracy for more radical change.