The Regular Educator's Role in the Individual Education Plan Process

The migration of online educational needs to tools like Google applications, coupled with the realization that today's twenty-first-century students are digital natives who have lived their entire lives exposed to current technology, forces educators to find ways to use technology to enhance traditional curriculum. In this article, the author examines how one program, Advanced Placement Language and Composition, incorporates Web 2.0 tools including several Google Applications (Gmail, Docs, notebook, personalized homepage, Web pages, calendar, blogger, and talk) into its high school curriculum. Furthermore, the author addresses the gap between students and teachers that occurs cross-generationally in a discussion of successful technology best practices in teaching and learning as seen by a baby boomer teacher, a Gen X teacher, and the N-Gen students taught daily.     

Ethical Issues in the Malaysian Education System

Malaysia is a multi-ethnic country in which the government gives preferential treatment in education, employment, and ownership to its majority ethnic group: Bumiputera. However, affirmative action policies in the current Malaysian context should work according to John Rawls’ Theory of Justice by being based on income rather than ethnicity. Certainly Malaysian Government should be praised for giving freedom to the Chinese and Indians to select their preferred school and this is partly consistent with Amartya Sen’s view of freedom; however this article argues that these communities are apparently given constraint freedom of choice.     

Pupils' perspectives on the lived pedagogy of the classroom

This paper is based on a pedagogical action research initiative that explores what constitutes the ‘lived pedagogy’ of the classroom from the pupils' perspective. Photography and group interviews were utilised to allow pupils to express their perspectives. The results show that pupils considered situations meaningful when they were able to work, solve problems and create items together. The pupils appreciated situations in which they experienced a sense of belonging and could influence the use of time and space during the school day. The paper considers possibilities and challenges related to acknowledging pupils' voices in the lived pedagogy of the classroom.     

Developing primary science through IT-INSET

The purpose of the research study was to find out if the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) could improve the planning, performing and evaluating process within a sequence of six gymnastics lessons, and whether this would then improve the children's technique. The research consisted of a questionnaire given to the 30 children in the class at the end of the six consecutive lessons, an interview with the class teacher prior to the implementation of ICT and again afterwards, and observations. The findings showed that ICT improved the plan, perform and evaluate stages, within gymnastics, and consequently, the children's technique improved.     

Beyond the teaching-research nexus: the Scholarship-Teaching-Action-Research (STAR) conceptual framework

As knowledge for competitive advantage develops beyond the transfer of simple data and information to focus on knowledge that has meaning, values, purpose and a more integrated aspect, higher education is required to graduate students able to operate in a more worldly manner across disciplines. Government's response to this need has been to demand that universities adhere to more rigorous quantitative output measures of the quality of research and teaching. The response from universities has been mixed. While some academics are exploring teaching innovations to develop students' knowledge, research and problem-diagnostic skills through actively engaging them in authentic professional challenges, others are focusing on increasing discipline-linked research outputs. This is leading to a renewed debate as to the relative importance and contribution of teaching and discipline-based research. This paper argues that, rather than re-open this old division, a new framework is needed in which multi-directional interactions between discipline-based research, teaching-as-practice and scholarship of teaching are recognised. A conceptual Scholarship-Teaching-Action-Research framework is presented to provide focus for further discourse.     

Participatory Action Research and MSW Curricula

Abstract

The value of partnership and participation for human empowerment is routinely stressed in today's social work practice literature, in which scholars emphasize the need for consumer participation, co-inquiry, and client collaboration. Because research is recognized to be a crucial element in such collaborations, one would expect that, alongside traditional research topics, the goal of empowerment would likewise be recommended in current social work research literature and curricula. One might further expect that the curricula, as part of the menu of research methods, would espouse specific kinds of participative inquiry available in the social work and social science literature.

The purpose of this study is to explore to what extent social work research methodology courses offered through social work MSW graduate programs in the USA include content that encourages active involvement in the process of research by the people whose lives are being studied. In other words, the question put to test has been how much emphasis (or how little) is placed on a relationship of partnership between “inside” and “outside” participants in the design, implementation, and analysis of the research activity? Utilizing a content analysis research design, the study posed and addressed three exploratory hypotheses in an attempt to answer this question.     

Risk of Domestic Violence After Natural Disaster

Abstract

This paper describes the use of a participatory action research model to teach undergraduate social work research and statistics. Strategies of the model include (1) integration with social work education, (2) policy analysis, (3) literature review, (4) collaboration with practitioners, (5) collaboration with the target population through qualitative research, (6) quantitative study, (7) ongoing social action efforts, and (8) evaluation. An example is used of a project addressing a community problem with increased domestic violence during recovery from natural disaster.     

大学生体育消费的经济行为与策略

采用经济学、市场学、教育学理论,分析大学生体育消费的类型和特点以及经济行为与选择,从而提出合理有效的促进学生体育消费的策略.     

中超联赛主客场赛季制准备期训练特点的研究

中超联赛主客场赛季制最大的特点是准备期短,竞赛期长,如何在较短的准备期中形成运动员的竞技状态,并在竞赛期中维持这一状态就显得十分重要。通过对中超联赛主客场赛季制赛前准备期的训练时间和任务、训练内容与方法手段、训练负荷的特点等进行探讨与分析,以指导中超联赛球队的训练,从而提高我国足球训练工作质量和运动水平,并进一步完善我国足球训练理论。     

“逆向法”构建应用型土建类人才培养方案

传统的人才培养方案基本采用由基础课、专业基础课和专业课组成的三段式体系,比较重视理论的完备性,较难满足培养应用型人才的需要。“逆向法”构建的培养方案,以岗位设置为切入点,分析职业核心能力,围绕能力培养,确定专业技能课程,并根据专业技能课程的教学需要,由上至下逆向依次确定专业基础课和基础课,从而突出了培养方案的针对性和应用性。