Mapping teacher status and career-long professional learning: the Place Model

This paper engages with key contemporary debates about teaching and teacher education through proposing an innovative, interdisciplinary model, the Place Model, which uses two senses of ‘place’ to provide comparative lenses for a timely, a-priori examination of the place of the teacher: place in the humanistic geography tradition as a process – a cumulative, career-long professional learning journey – and, also, place in the sociological sense of teacher status. This article considers a range of international literature before speculatively ‘populating’ the model with a range of examples in a way which raises important questions about conceptions of teachers across the globe, and provides an alternative and original vision of the profession.     

An educational framework for participatory action learning and action research (PALAR)

The purpose of this article is to provide an educational, theoretical, and methodological framework for using a special kind of action research, namely PALAR (participatory action learning and action research). This integrated methodology of lifelong action learning (AL) and participatory action research (PAR) has been developed over the past 25 years. It has been proven to be an effective approach to individual, professional, organizational, community (and generally practice) development. PALAR can be instrumental in pursuit of social justice and is well suited for both experienced and beginning researchers interested in researching and improving their own practice. The article illustrates with case examples how this framework has been put into practice for various programs in a variety of fields and countries. The PALAR framework is the basis for a generic program design, structure, and content, and for processes of learning, teaching, assessment, evaluation, and leadership development. It is a systemic and systematic program on how to design, justify, conduct, evaluate, write, and publish research that is particularly useful for community or work-based theses at master’s, professional doctorate, and PhD levels. An original feature of this article is its comprehensive overview and summary of the theory and practice of PALAR for the first time, with references to further readings.     

西部大开发的生态伦理问题研究

探讨了西部大开发中的生态伦理问题，认为倡导生态伦理是西部大开发的内在要求，是西部大开发主体实线的行为规范。生态伦理可以消除生态危机的发生和防止生态环境进一步恶化，有利于西部地区经济的可持续发展。     

清末新政与日本的亚洲主义

清末新政是一场王朝自救运动，历时十年。日本参与并引导了这场改革，期间中日关系相对缓和，日本亚洲主义影响下的对华政策给这一现象带来了答案。     

试论研究性学习的评价特点及原则

研究性学习的评价不同于传统的只重学科成绩的评价方式，它具有综合性，实践性，科学性的特点，其评价过程要遵循五个原则：课内与课外结合，成果与过程结合，指导与激励结合，学校与社会结合，知识与能力结合。     

框架小说与框架阐析

“框架小说”是欧洲小说的一个重要模式。通过对《十日谈》框架结构独到的艺术特征和丰富的人文主义内容的阐析，表明这类小说的框架部分和框架中的故事一样，具有深刻的思想性和艺术性。     

邓小平人才思想对我们的重要启迪

邓小平人才思想，对实现人才强国战略具有重大的现实指导意义。主要是：办好中国的事情，关键在人；按照德才兼备原则，大胆提拔，使用人才；适应现代化建设的需要，营造人才脱颖而出的社会氛围；深刻领会邓小平人才思想，推进人才强国战略的实施。     

"以德治国"与大学生道德教育

江泽民同志提出“以德治国”的重要思想,是对社会主义道德建设的新发展。高校贯彻“以德治国”思想是时代发展的要求,也是加强当代大学生道德建设的内在需要。教育工作者要积极探索推进大学生道德教育的措施和方法,提高大学生的道德素质。     

Personalized learning in iSTART: Past modifications and future design

Abstract

Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) provide unprecedented opportunities for personalized learning at scale. One such system, iSTART (Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking) is an adaptive, game-based tutoring system for reading comprehension. This paper describes how efforts to increase personalized learning have improved the system. It also provides results of a recent implementation of an adaptive logic that increases or decreases text difficulty based on students’ performance rather than presenting texts randomly. High school students who received adaptive text selection showed increased sense of learning. Adaptive text selection also resulted in greater pre-training to post-training comprehension test gains, especially for less-skilled readers. The findings demonstrate that system-driven, just-in-time support consistent with the goals of personalized learning benefit the efficacy of computer-based learning environments.     

Modeling the influences of upper-elementary school students’ digital reading literacy,socioeconomic factors,and self-regulated learning strategies

Background: Reading is an interactive and constructive process of making meaning by engaging a variety of materials and sources and by participating in reading communities at school or in daily life.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the factors affecting digital reading literacy among upper-elementary school students.

Method: A 3-stage stratified cluster sampling was implemented that resulted in a sample of 592 upper-elementary students from 29 classes in 7 schools. Self-Regulated Learning Strategies Assessment (S-RLSA), Digital Reading Literacy Assessment (DRLA), and student reports of their parents’ education backgrounds were used to collect data on the outcome and predictor variables. Interpretation of these data involved two highly regarded statistical techniques. First, structural equation modeling was used to explore relationships amongst the constructs. Second, multi-group invariance (MI) analyses were used to assess the influence of parental education and self-regulated learning strategies on students’ digital reading literacy.

Results: Enriching students’ family learning resources and strengthening their self-regulated learning abilities could have very important influences on promoting upper-elementary school students' digital reading literacy -webpage information retrieval, reading and communication abilities.

Conclusions: This study also provides information on how teachers can address student resources to improve digital reading literacy and self-regulated strategies.