大学生常见挫折及教育对策

大学生在校期间会受到日常的学习、人际交往、生理、恋爱、家庭等方面这样或那样的挫折,教育工作者要做好教育和引导工作,帮助大学生积极应对挫折,战胜挫折。     

贵州省优化教育资源配置及其政策选择

通过大量数据、资料分析贵州省学校教育资源、教育经济资源与教师人力资源配置状况,寻找出贵州省优化教育资源配置过程中存在教育经济资源缺乏、教育投入严重不足,教育条件保障和教师人力资源配置水平偏低,教育发展不够协调、教育结构亟待优化,学校教育资源不足等问题,同时又面临扩大规模与提高质量的＂双重使命＂的挑战。为此,尝试提出贵州省优化教育资源配置主要应优化配置学前教育资源、普及高中教育和扩大高等教育规模等八大政策选择。     

基于全国导游考试分析的导游人才队伍建设建议

导游人才队伍是我国旅游业发展的重要人才和智力保障,通过对全国导游考试内容形式和通过人数进行多维度分析,了解我国导游人才队伍建设现状,发现我国导游人才队伍建设速度缓慢,高等级和外语导游人才缺乏,地域发展不均衡等问题,并从完善导游考试制度、鼓励导游提升发展、加强外语导游培养和促进地域均衡发展四个方面对导游人才队伍建设提出建议。     

以创新求是精神全面深化高等体育院校教育综合改革--兼论我校学科专业特色与人才培养目标

面对我国高等体育教育发展新形势,围绕高等体育院校改革与发展进行分析和阐述。文章联系成都体育学院教育综合改革实践认为,专门(专业)体育院校必须协调好“体育特色鲜明”与“多学科协调发展”的关系,在人才培养方面必须牢牢把握“体育”这一“根本”专业特色;进一步强化术科(含艺术类)专业技能和专项技术水平的提升,推进体育术科人才培育质量的再提升,解决行业话语权问题;进一步主动对接社会对体育多元化的需求,并紧紧依托具体竞技运动项目平台,解决“体医渗透、体文结合”办学特色的落地问题;进一步创新人才培养模式,坚持特色,形成优势,实现学科、术科融合发展。     

外语教育学与相近学科对比研究

我国外语教育一直偏重教学实践,轻于理论建设,缺乏明确的学科依托,这已成制约其深入发展的主因之一.因此,强化外语教育理论架构,思考外语教育理论属性,探讨外语教育学科归属,对外语教育发展具有重要意义.本文在前期研究的基础上,重点探讨外语教育学这一新兴学科与应用语言学、教育语言学、二语习得、他语人英语教学和外语课程与教学论的...     

What should teacher educators know about technology? Perspectives and self-assessments

This article offers a first look at teacher educators’ (N = 336) perceptions of their technology competencies based on the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs; Foulger, Graziano, Schmidt-Crawford, & Slykhuis, 2017). The participants generally rated their competence levels highly in relation to the TETCs. Although many participants reported that the TETCs adequately reflected the competencies required of them, they suggested various additions and changes to the TETCs. This mixed-method study advances understanding of teacher educators’ perceptions of the importance of various competences to their work and offers feedback from the field regarding which competencies might be missing from the TETCs.     

A case study of the diversity culture of an American university athletic department: perceptions of senior level administrators

The topic of diversity has received considerable attention from scholars who study sport within the context of higher education in the USA. But despite this interest in the topic, an in-depth focus on how college and university athletic departments effectively manage diversity is missing from the literature. Therefore, we conducted an intrinsic case study of an American university athletic department in efforts to highlight its unique diversity culture (i.e. how it creates and sustains a culture of diversity and inclusion) and the potential impact this culture could have on its various educational stakeholders, and how they interact in this organizational or workplace setting. Findings from our qualitative case study with senior level administrators uncovered two major interrelated themes. First, this institution of higher education has a history and culture of valuing diversity, and this in turn has positively impacted the athletic department's commitment to diversity. Second, the integration of the athletic department into the broader university culture, particularly because of its organizational structure, has enabled this department to better embrace diversity and avoid some of the educational challenges many of its peers face. Research and practical implications are discussed in this study.     

Imagining a future,living in the present and remembering the past

The remit for this short piece was to identify themes emerging from the articles in this edition by Julie McLeod, Duncan Waite and Eugenie Samier, to consider how these themes reflect on the current field, and to identify their ongoing relevance. Additionally, I was asked to consider the current challenges that the field is facing and what this means for research and journals such as this one. My short response is that our research has to matter. It has to matter to us as individuals so that what we do is worthwhile; it has to matter that we can provide rigorous research that is reliable so that it can inform policy makers and administrators; and it has to provide teachers and students with a greater understanding of why they are doing what they are being asked to do.     

The invisible impact of educational research

Although there are policy calls for educational research to discover ‘what works’ and thereby inform decision making directly, the research literature argues instead for research to have a ‘conceptual’ impact on practice. Empirical studies also suggest that, when teachers use research, their use is conceptual; research influences the content and the process of their thinking, changing attitudes and perceptions and making educational decision making more intelligent. This study investigates the ways in which educational research has achieved impact on practice from the perspective of the researchers. A sample of highly-rated impact case studies in the UK’s research assessment exercise (REF2014) were subject to content analysis, using qualitative coding techniques. Analysis shows that most research is ‘invisible’ to education practitioners because it is embedded in educational policies, technologies, and services. This ‘invisible use’ is unlikely to realise the conceptual benefits claimed for research utilisation. If educational research is to make educational decision making more intelligent at its point of use, it will be necessary to re-think current notions of quality in research impact.     

Externalizing behavior problems and interest in reading as predictors of later reading skills and educational aspirations

This study examined the developments in children’s externalizing problems and interest in reading during their first four years of school (Grades 1–4) and investigated whether this development predicted the children’s Grade 6 reading skills and educational aspirations. Data comprised (1) teachers’ ratings of externalizing problems and children’s (N = 642; 43% girls) self-ratings of their interest in reading, collected between Grades 1 and 4, and (2) measures of reading fluency and comprehension, and children’s self-reports of educational aspirations, collected at Grade 6. First, latent growth modeling showed that a higher level of externalizing problems in Grade 1 was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading. Second, a positive association between the initial level of interest in reading and a linear change in externalizing problems indicated that children with a lower interest in reading in Grade 1 were rated by teachers as exhibiting higher levels of externalizing problems, which nonetheless declined over the course of their first four years of school more than among other children. Third, a higher initial level of externalizing problems with a linear change in these problems across Grades 1–4 was a predictor of lower subsequent educational aspirations and poorer reading comprehension in Grade 6. Analysis of the indirect effects indicated that a higher level of externalizing problems was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading, which, in turn, was related to poorer future reading fluency and lower educational aspirations. The findings imply that problem behaviors are interlinked with academic skill development and motivation across the first six years of school.