Communication breakdown: how conflict can promote responsible leadership in students

This study of an outdoor-based leadership course for teenagers shows how open-ended, difficult group tasks can enable participants to develop ‘dispositions for learning’, which promote ‘responsible leadership’. The latter is defined as responding ethically and uniquely to encounters with difference. Uses of educational psychology often circumscribe ‘challenge’ to avoid risk and promote predictability; a riskier, wilder conception is proposed instead through a ‘pedagogy of challenge’. It is shown that course participants reflected on their most difficult moments, most of which ended in failure and dispute, as their most powerful and memorable learning experiences. Implications for schools and classrooms are considered.     

Transforming the embodied dispositions of pre-service special education teachers

Teacher education programs seek to foster dispositions that welcome student differences in race, culture, language and ability. However, pre-service teachers’ dispositions are difficult to transform because they tend to be aligned with the field of schooling where differences are punished or excluded. This study examines an activity for transforming pre-service teachers’ communicative habitus that was inspired by Bourdieu’s theory that habitus or dispositions are unconsciously embodied and therefore require a bodily counter-training for change. The activity instructed 17 pre-service Special Education teachers to communicate an experience through sound alone rather than words in order to challenge teachers’ deeply embodied communicative norms and open them up to the possibilities of non-normative communication. Follow up discussions, written reflections and videotaped think-alouds provided opportunities for explicit pedagogy and reflection. In this article, we discuss findings and implications from a recent implementation of this activity.     

Gender, Psychosocial Dispositions, and the Academic Achievement of College Students

Researchers have recently claimed that there are substantial differences in the psychosocial dispositions and academic achievement of male and female college students. To test this proposition, a sample of 854 undergraduate students were selected from a major Canadian Research-1 university. Multiple regression analyses assessed the effects of gender and several other independent variables on coping strategies, academic control, self-esteem, and grade point averages. Few differences emerged between the genders on the psychosocial dispositions or on academic achievement. The results suggest that both male and female students can improve their coping strategies and academic control, which together directly affect their academic achievement.     

北京高速公路出入口智能化交通系统的应用

本文针对北京五环路与八达岭高速路出入口的拥堵问题,介绍了智能交通自动收费管理系统,并对其 应用进行了可行性分析。     

一种高精度正弦信号源的设计

设计了一套采用计算机、数据采集卡等硬件和在LabVIEW虚拟仪器平台上开发的软件构成的高精度正弦信号源,可以满足CW系列智能控制器出厂检验要求．从系统总体方案设计和软件等方面对信号源的实现方法及功能进行了详细的介绍．     

职高学生时间管理和学习拖延的关系研究

以职高学生为研究对象,采用《中学生学业拖延问卷》和《青少年时间管理倾向量表》进行调查,探讨职高学生的学习拖延和时间管理倾向的关系。结果表明：（1）职高生的时间管理倾向体水平处于中等水平;（2）职高生的学习拖延总体水平较高,处于中等偏上水平;（3）职高生的学习拖延和时间管理倾向显著负相关。     

从《东方快车谋杀案》看侦探小说的叙事技巧

侦探小说的叙事对比一般的叙事文本来说是比较复杂的,但是究其内部的结构而言,无非也是在叙事视角、叙事时间、叙事人物中运用了一系列手段,制造了一种陌生化的效果。克里斯蒂作为著名的推理小说作家。她的作品具有一定的代表性.实质上,从形式上分析阅读一篇侦探小说的同时,就在意义层面逐渐消解了侦探小说的意义和价值。     

Teachers’ dispositions towards the role of digital devices in play-based pedagogy in early childhood education

Abstract

A body of research is emerging on early childhood education teachers’ views on the integration of digital technologies in their practice. Despite evidence of the digitalisation of homes in affluent societies and children’s interactions in highly mediated digital environments, few teachers so far have integrated digital devices into a play-based pedagogy. Thus, this project aimed to examine the attitudes and aptitudes towards digital devices of teachers in their personal lives and professional practice in five countries (England, Luxemburg, Malta, Greece and Kuwait). An online survey designed to collect broad-scale data was followed by focus group interviews. The findings demonstrated that although teachers are digitally competent in their personal lives, there is a dominant ideology regarding the nature of play-based pedagogy that hinders the integration of digital devices into their practice.     

试析唐游侠诗的抒情方式

唐朝是我国古代游侠诗歌发展的最高峰，不但在思想内容上超迈前人，表现出唐人特有的气质和情感，精神和理想，影响深远。在艺术表现形式上也是兼容并包，极于成熟。限于篇幅，文章仅就其抒情方式作了简要分析，认为直抒胸臆、心理刻画、借景抒情是其突出方式，体现了唐游侠诗歌内容的丰富性和人物性格的复杂性。     

Coaching college students in the development of positive learning dispositions: A randomized control trial embedded mixed-methods study

Enhancing college students' learning habits, attitudes, and capacities have been an important research topic in educational psychology. In this study, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a coaching program that integrated mindful agency coaching and motivational interviewing for the development of positive learning dispositions in college students. A randomized control trial embedded mixed-methods design was employed. The quantitative phase with two experimental groups showed that the intervention group (n = 24) showed significant improvement in mindful agency, self-efficacy, learning motivation, and emotional intelligence after the coaching, compared with the control group (n = 30). The qualitative phase with students in the intervention group (n = 15) revealed five themes: Task orientation, motivational management, openness and acceptance, self-awareness and self-regulation, and supporting factors for coaching. Integrated findings demonstrated whether and how coaching could be a promising approach to enhancing college students' various positive dispositions that are essential for them to be mindful, resilient, and self-directed learners.