Child Care Subsidies and the School Readiness of Children of Immigrants

This study is the first to test whether receipt of a federal child care subsidy is associated with children of immigrants' school readiness skills. Using nationally representative data (n ≈ 2,900), this study estimates the associations between subsidy receipt at age 4 and kindergarten cognitive and social outcomes, for children of immigrant versus native‐born parents. Among children of immigrants, subsidized center‐based care (vs. subsidized and unsubsidized home‐based care) was positively linked with reading. Among children of native‐born parents, those in subsidized center care displayed poorer math skills than those in unsubsidized centers, and more externalizing problems than those in unsubsidized home‐based care.     

The PISA mathematics regime: knowledge structures and practices of the self

Within mathematics education research, the responses to the Programme for International Student Assessment’s (PISA’s) international testing regime tend to accept its framework and results as necessary points of reference, even when offering a critical reinterpretation or challenging national policy discourses based on PISA. In this article, we offer a different approach to the critique of PISA, drawing on theoretical tools provided by Bernstein and Foucault, to ask what the PISA regime achieves. Our understanding of this achievement encompasses both the production of knowledge structures and the production of students, teachers and other agents as subjects. We propose that the theoretical approach we offer provides a methodological entry point into analysis of the texts comprising the PISA mathematics regime. Analysis of a single PISA item is used to illustrate the insights that may be gained from such a theoretical lens. Such insights into the logic of PISA have the potential to allow us better to understand and hence contest the role that PISA and other large-scale assessment regimes may play in global and local policy discourses.     

人本主义学习理论之中体现的孔子教育思想

人本主义的学习理论充分肯定人性的重要,从人性角度关注人类学习,其中有许多观点与儒家观点如出一辙,具有相关性。本文针对人本主义相关理论与孔子教育思想做深入分析。     

Piloting a dispersed and inter-professional Lesson Study using technology to link team members at a distance

This article presents an evaluation of distance technology used in a novel Lesson Study (LS) approach involving a dispersed LS team for inter-professional purposes. A typical LS model with only school teachers as team members was modified by including university-based lecturers with the school-based teachers, using video-conferencing and online video sharing. The aim was to examine the experiences of using video-conferencing and video transfer technology to support the use of LS procedures to connect team members between schools and university. The meetings from two LS teams (primary and secondary) were recorded and analysed using a discourse analysis framework, and team members were interviewed after the LS cycle. Despite some technical difficulties, the communication between the dispersed members of the teams was largely smooth and successful. Extending LS teams and practice to include non school teachers, using distance-linking technology, can more effectively support teachers, while reducing the practical constraints of bringing other professionals into the LS team.     

Developing theories of mathematics education research: the ESM story

In this paper we present ananalysis of the articles in EducationalStudies in Mathematics since 1990. It ispart of a larger project looking at theproduction and use of theories of teachingand learning mathematics. We outline thetheoretical framework of our tool ofanalysis and discuss briefly some of themethodological difficulties we face. Wethen present our findings from the analysisof the journal and we also give one exampleof how we `read' an article, illustratingthe rules whereby criteria are applied. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

缔约过失责任法律问题新论

缔约过失责任应产生于要约生效之时,在特殊情况下,在要约邀请之时也会发生缔约过失责任,其应止于合同生效之时,而不是合同成立之时。缔约过失责任的适用范围除了已被广泛认同的合同的不成立、无效和被撤销外,还应适用于部分合同有效的场合。缔约过失责任的损害赔偿范围应仅限于信赖利益,且不包括信赖利益中的消极损害,并且不能以履行利益为上限。     

Establishing the Initial Validity of the REDFLAGS Model: Implications for College Counselors

The aim of this study was to initially validate the REDFLAGS model, 8 cautionary warning signs of mental distress in college students. A test of internal consistency reliability and factor analysis supported the model's reliability and construct validity. Hierarchical logistic regression models endorsed the model's predictive validity; students’ recognition of the REDFLAGS model was significantly associated with increases in the odds of a peer‐to‐peer referral to the counseling center. Implications for college counselors are discussed.     

“Radiorrhea”: an examination of mid-century youth and radio culture in Belgian pedagogies of leisure, 1945–1965

Abstract

The article examines the various discourses, engaged in by social observers and experts alike, on the relationship between radio, music, and youth during the 1950s and 60s. Through articles, inquiries, and surveys led by Belgian pedagogues, psychologists, educators, social workers, and journalists, the author moves from the topic of radio to the larger subject of leisure, analysing the issues raised by these social actors regarding the way in which adolescents of the era listened to radio, music, and sound in general. By analysing these discussions, we see that several problems with the radio emerge: first, the issue of distracted listening; second, the issue with noise; and third, the issue with modern music. These concerns reveal that there existed, from an adult sociocultural perspective, a “good” way of listening to radio and “good” genres of music to appreciate. In conclusion, the author explains how the “pedagogy of leisure” was effectively a means for society to control and domesticate the cultural practices of the era’s youth.     

On the dual nature of mathematical conceptions: Reflections on processes and objects as different sides of the same coin

This paper presents a theoretical framework for investigating the role of algorithms in mathematical thinking. In the study, a combined ontological-psychological outlook is applied. An analysis of different mathematical definitions and representations brings us to the conclusion that abstract notions, such as number or function, can be conceived in two fundamentally different ways: structurally-as objects, and operationally-as processes. These two approaches, although ostensibly incompatible, are in fact complementary. It will be shown that the processes of learning and of problem-solving consist in an intricate interplay between operational and structural conceptions of the same notions.On the grounds of historical examples and in the light of cognitive schema theory we conjecture that the operational conception is, for most people, the first step in the acquisition of new mathematical notions. Thorough analysis of the stages in concept formation leads us to the conclusion that transition from computational operations to abstract objects is a long and inherently difficult process, accomplished in three steps: interiorization, condensation, and reification. In this paper, special attention is given to the complex phenomenon of reification, which seems inherently so difficult that at certain levels it may remain practically out of reach for certain students.