Between two Advisors: Interconnecting Academic and Workplace Settings in an Emerging Field

This article examines a new training design for continuing professional development that aims to support the learning of the novel knowledge and skills needed in emerging professional fields by interconnecting academic and workplace settings. The training design is based on using two advisors, one from working life and the other from an academic context. The article examined whether participants’ personal orientation to adaptive expertise predicts the success of a guidance process. The interconnection of workplace and academic contexts was expected to occur through guidance practices. In addition, the features underlying the most successful guidance relationships were analysed. Data were collected by conducting repeated semi-structured interviews with 18 course participants, eight academic advisors and eight workplace advisors in the context of a 1-year energy efficiency training programme. The results indicated that a trainee’s personal orientation towards adaptive expertise is a significant component in successful guidance processes. An interconnection of workplace and academic knowledge and practices was hardly found in the guidance provided by each participant’s academic and workplace advisors. The feature underlying the most successful guidance relationships are related at the personal, dyad and context levels. An excellent match between the expert profiles of the learner and the advisor appears to be especially critical for successful guidance and powerful knowledge exchange in emerging fields. However, finding matching advisors is often challenging. Many problems are presumably solved if these ‘right persons’ can be found and if the trainees are themselves oriented to utilise the novel resources provided to them by the advisors.     

Novice teachers’ learning and knowledge building during the induction programme

This paper explores the Estonian novice teachers’ learning and knowledge building (LKB) practices in the extended professional community during the induction programme using well-known knowledge conversion model. The assumption in this study is that a teachers’ participation in the extended professional community facilitates their professional development. The survey was conducted with 101 novices after their induction programme. The patterns of novices’ LKB practices in the professional learning community during the induction programme were explored. The analysis showed to what extent extended professional community may be formed during the induction year. LKB practice patterns among the novices were identified. We discovered that many novices felt that there was insufficient support from other teachers and from university experts. It appears that it is challenging to develop a coherent induction programme as the extended professional community of educators, where different partners collaborate and share professional knowledge is challenging.     

Visual illusions in the baboon (Papio anubis)

Two baboons were trained on oddity problems with sets of stimuli involving parallel lines. When stable discrimination performance had been established, occasional test trials were run with Zöllner illusion figures. Both animals appeared to have been deceived by the illusion.     

Structure and Agency in Adolescents’ Expectations of Pursuing Post-secondary Education

Research in Higher Education - Past studies have supported the view that parent background and family socioeconomic status determine the post-secondary educational expectations of adolescents. They...     

夫妻财产制若干疑难案例的法律思考

夫妻财产制在夫妻关系中占有重要地位，实践中的大量纠纷也因此而发生。夫妻财产制与民法的其它制度如共有制度、代理制度、无权处分制度有密切联系。现行法对夫妻财产制的规制有疏漏和模糊的地方，导致了司法实务中的不少困惑和两难。     

论高校电子学籍档案的归档与保护

电子档案的归档与保护是档案管理工作的新课题,文章主要阐述了高校电子学籍档案的归档途径,着重分析了从法规制度的健全、信息保护以及环境保护三个方面加强电子学籍档案的保护工作。     

简论民国初年教育宗旨的嬗变——由“五育并举”到“四育并提”

五育并举是蔡元培教育思想的重要组成部分,也是民国初年四育并提教育宗旨的理论基础。民国初年教育宗旨的制定,体现了推翻帝制后教育观念由臣民向公民的现代转变,而其形成过程,更是当时教育思想纷争讨论的一个侧影。探讨民国初年教育宗旨的嬗变问题,不仅可以深化对我国近现代教育史的认识,而且对当代教育也有一定的借鉴意义。     

学习型组织理论在中小学校长培训中的应用

搭建学习型组织,形成学习共同体,使校长成员之间实现相互影响,在影响中获得共同进步,是新形势下提振校长学习力的新模式。该模式有助于激发校长参训的主动自觉性,有助于增强培训过程的参与度,从而保证培训的成效。     

STEM领域中女性生涯选择影响因素研究述评

中国国际“互联网+”创新创业大赛不仅是我国推进创新创业教育的一个新举措,而且还是促进高校科学技术成果落地转化的新路径。“互联网+”双创大赛融合科学教育与科学传播的优势,“互联网+”双创大赛既是一种项目导向式创新型科学教育,也是一次面向大众的科学传播活动,对于高校教师、在校大学生和高校管理者都有重要意义。     

Classroom environments that foster a disposition for critical thinking

In this article, we examine the disposition for critical thinking (CT) from three perspectives and analyse the underlying constructs of the disposition for CT, such as one’s ability, sensitivity and inclination to engage in critical, mindful thought. Environmental factors that enhance or inhibit the development of a generalisable disposition for critical thought are discussed. Finally, we present a set of empirically-verified classroom practices that can help to foster a disposition for CT.