Relations of Children's Effortful Control and Teacher-Child Relationship Quality to School Attitudes in a Low-Income Sample

RESEARCH FINDINGS: The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of children's effortful control and quality of relationships with teachers to school attitudes longitudinally in an ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged sample. Data were collected as part of a larger intervention project during mid-fall, winter, and late spring (ns = 823, 722, and 758, respectively) for 2 cohorts of 3- to 5-year-olds (collected during 2 different school years). Children's effortful control was assessed in the fall with parents' and teachers' reports and 2 behavioral measures. Teacher-child relationship quality was assessed mid-year with teachers' reports of closeness and conflict. Attitudes toward school were assessed in late spring using teachers' and students' reports of school avoidance and liking. Effortful control, in general, was positively correlated with teacher-child closeness and school liking and negatively correlated with conflict and school avoidance. Using structural equation modeling and controlling for sex and ethnicity, we found that effortful control was positively related to teacher-child relationship quality, which in turn was positively related to school attitudes. Furthermore, the relation of effortful control to school attitudes was mediated by teacher-child relationship quality. PRACTICE OR POLICY: Results provide evidence for the importance of relational processes that take place within the classroom context and have implications for teachers and clinicians working to increase school success in ethnic minority and low-income children.     

Emergent Supervisors: Comparing Counseling Center and Non‐Counseling‐Center Interns' Supervisory Training Experiences

Predoctoral interns' responses to an internship supervision training questionnaire indicated that counseling center interns supervised more trainees, received more supervision in their supervisory roles, reported more supervision training activities, and yielded higher supervisor development scores than did non‐counseling‐center interns. A qualitative analysis of participants' responses showed that non‐counseling‐center interns desired more supervision training and opportunities to provide supervision during their internship year than did counseling center interns.     

广告英语的特点

广告是以最简单的语言表达最复杂的意义，语言的魅力在广告语言中得以最充分的展示。本文从词汇，句法及修辞方面阐述了广告英语的特点。     

Metaphors we’re colonised by? The case of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil

ABSTRACT

This article discusses issues concerning the spread of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil. Here, as elsewhere, educational technology continues to be promoted optimistically as the bearer of a panacea for historically-rooted social problems. Whilst some of these technologies have indeed contributed to important widening-participation programmes in the last two decades, widespread advocacy of technological ‘solutionism’, reflected in gradually stronger policy demands for efficiencies to be improved through ‘innovation’, has supported a relentless marketisation of the country’s educational systems. As transnational corporations position themselves to take control of key areas of these systems, threatening to restructure the whole sector, data-driven educational technologies provide the latest example in a series of ‘new’ ideas offered in an ever-expanding market. Based on the notion of ‘conceptual metaphors’, which encapsulate specific ways of perceiving, thinking and relating with the world, this article examines key metaphors underpinning discourses surrounding data-driven educational technologies in Brazil. In particular, the article analyses ways in which these specific metaphors may be promoting perspectives that ignore difference and obscure broader questions concerning education, thus contributing to the reproduction of previously existing problems and supporting new forms of colonisation.     

加入世界贸易组织对中国经济的影响

文章简介中国与世贸组织前身———关税及贸易总协定的关系。中国为复关入世作了认真的努力 ,由于美欧等国要价太高 ,中国入世一波三折。中美、中欧现已达成协议 ,中国近期即将入世。入世给中国经济发展带来良好机遇 ,也带来巨大挑战。从近期、中长期来看 ,入世对中国社会经济的发展是利大于弊。     

Compatibility and Complementarity of Classroom Ecology and Didactique Research Perspectives in Physical Education

ABSTRACT

A large diversity of theoretical frameworks exists in the physical education literature. This article focuses on two of those frameworks to examine their compatibility and their complementarity. The classroom ecology paradigm concentrates on the balance between three task systems, two vectors, and programs of actions proposed by the physical education teacher and negotiated by students. The didactique research program studies the teaching and learning processes using the concepts of didactic contract and didactic milieu that focus on how the knowledge content emerges within teacher and students’ joint action. The article underlines the complementarity and the compatibility of the two frameworks when analyzing teaching and learning in physical education. It argues that the gray areas left by the classroom ecology paradigm could be filled with the insights of the didactique research program. A concise example of how the two frameworks have already been utilized is presented.     

棒喝:虚火正旺危机四伏的大学英语教育

现今的大学英语教育,虚火正旺隐患多多,对专业学习冲击最大,直接导致本科教育质量的下滑。目标过高,导向偏差是其主要成因。从长计议,必须将英语考级社会化,坚决取消英语考级证书与毕业证、学位证相挂钩;按学校不同情况,分等论级区别对待。确定不同的英语教学目标要求;同时应引导社会舆论,淡化用人单位对英语考证的不适当要求;把英语教育的主要精力投放到外语学院及专门人才培养上,以“少而精”取代“全民性”。     

论穆勒五法的方法论特征与价值

“穆勒五法”不仅是古典归纳逻辑的最高成就之一,而且具有鲜明的方法率特征与不低估的方法论价值。穆勒所论述的五种方法是以消除非相干因素为基础,以演绎思想为补充的求因果归纳方法;它们可作为实验探索的方法论准则,在科学假说的构建与确证中起着重大作用。     

叙事谋略与元代戏曲的人文情怀

元代戏曲的叙事谋略表现于典型冲突模式的构建与解决。具体来看涉及情礼、理法、伦理、人性四种模式和现实、浪漫两种冲突解决方式。这种叙事谋略背后潜隐着剧作家们的独特思想理念和审美价值趋向,体现了他们的人文情怀,即对普通民众生存状态的关注、对正常人欲美好人性的肯定颂扬以及对人道正义的坚守。     

中小学音乐教育发展与高师音乐教育改革现状

本通过对我国中小学音乐教育发展与高师音乐教育专业教育教学改革现状的分析，从中总结出我国高师音乐教育发展之得失，以作为新时期高师音乐教育改革的依据和参考。