Teachers’ professional agency and learning – from adaption to active modification in the teacher community

The aim of this study was to examine teacher learning in terms of teachers’ professional agency in the professional community of the school. Altogether 2310 Finnish comprehensive school teachers completed a survey. Results showed that teachers’ active efforts to learn in the professional community and to promote school development cannot be explained, and hence reduced, to a single behavioral attribute. The findings indicated that teacher learning in terms of professional agency in the professional community consists of several elements including: skills, efficacy beliefs, and motivational factors, which entail transforming one’s teaching practices, experiencing collective efficacy, constructing positive interdependency, the appreciation of mutual agreements, and using active strategies of help-seeking. The investigation also suggests that the use of modifying strategies is characteristic of both the teacher’s professional agency as well as the strategies employed to reduce stress.     

Roles,practices and contexts for acting as agents of social justice – student teachers’ perspectives

ABSTRACT

Student teachers are oftentimes encouraged to apply theoretical principles of social justice to their professional practice. However, this can be problematic when theoretical knowledge is contested or if it is inconsistent with the practices in their future workplaces. Studies in this area often examine student teachers’ beliefs and understanding of their roles without taking account of how concrete working contexts shape what they see as possible in their practice. This study explored how students in two teacher education programmes based at the University of Edinburgh perceived their roles, practices and contexts for acting as agents of social justice. Mixed methods were used for data generation and triangulation including a questionnaire survey (n = 299) and scenario-based interviews (n = 9) to explore how students think about social justice issues in context. Student teachers generally saw agency for social justice as part of their role. Their understanding of the ways of addressing context-embedded issues of social justice focused on classroom practices while they raised concerns about how their practice depends on others in the system. We discuss the implications of these findings for teacher education.     

Critical considerations in becoming literacy educators: pre-service teachers rehearsing agency and negotiating risk

This article looks closely at the talk of two pre-service teachers over time to examine how they used language as a way of rehearsing their evolving agency as literacy educators. Drawing on critical sociocultural theory, I use Agency Tracing to highlight how pre-service teachers’ agentic actions are not isolated phenomena but ones developed and planned with others in language. Through rehearsals, they considered possible options and outcomes of actions before taking risks, therefore bolstering their confidence to act and resist individual and institutional Discourses of literacy. Analysis reveals that because pre-service teachers rehearse agency over time via language, such agency can be developed in teacher education coursework and field experiences. Findings indicate four recommendations to foster agency: rehearsals over time, dissonance to the point of frustration, observations and approximations in field experiences, and interactional spaces for critical reflection.     

共鸣与突围:论老舍的民族国家意识

从历史上看,抗日救亡运动在很大程度上左右着现代文学的格局,文学叙述中民族国家话语呈现出"宏大叙事"的态势并且在在战斗力和宣传力方面的价值远超文学价值。然而老舍却一直坚持其"平民写作"的风格和立场,在"宏大叙事"与艺术建构这两方面获得了平衡,而这一写作姿态让老舍文本既表露出强烈的民族国家意识,又显现出优良的艺术品质,在民族国家话语成为主流的年代,老舍在适应主流的同时,又因坚守而实现了自我的突围。     

PERFORMING CALCULATION IN THE ART MARKET

The purpose of this article is to suggest a model of calculation in art markets based upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and of actor-network theory. It will be argued that Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, economic, symbolic and cultural are useful for the specificity they lend to value making processes in the art market. However, actor-network theory's proposal of a distributed form of agency between humans and non-humans (e.g. calcualtion tools) is favoured here, posing a fundamental challenge to Bourdieu's notion of agency as resting solely at the hands of human agents. In order to understand the performance of calculation, this article explores the role of catalogues as an example of a market device in the Scottish auction market. It will be argued that the performativity of the catalogue cannot be fully understood without taking into account not only how it represents and enacts the value/s of aeshtetic objects, e.g. paintings, but also how this performance is mediated by its role as an aesthetic object.     

对我国国际货运代理法律问题的思考

我国没有统一规范国际货运代理的法律法规,致使从业单位多而复杂;实践中的运作方法引起多种不确定的法律关系又引发出一系列法律问题,给国际货物贸易及海上货物运输法律关系的正常发展带来不利影响.借鉴国际惯例,我国制定统一的国际货运代理法规显得十分必要.     

Positivity and quality of college life of business students: The mediating role of learning approaches

Drawing upon the causal agency theory, this study examined the direct and indirect (via learning approaches) links between positivity and quality of college life (QCL) of business students in a transitioning market, Vietnam. Two studies were conducted to test these relationships using structural equation modeling. Findings from study 1, based on a sample of 428 business students, showed that positivity was positively related to QCL. Further, deep learning approaches mediated the relationship between positivity and QCL. Findings from study 2, based on a sample of 416 business students, reconfirmed the role of positivity in QCL. However, the indirect relationship between positivity and QCL was not significant, demonstrating that surface learning approaches did not mediate the relationship between positivity and QCL. The findings contribute to the literature on positivity in higher education by confirming the overarching role that positivity plays, directly and indirectly (via deep learning approaches), in QCL.     

中国旅行社业产品创新制约因素分析

中国旅行社产品单一、雷同只是一个表面现象,问题实质是产品创新不足。导致中国旅行社业产品创新不足的因素是多方面的,有产品特性、旅行社业内部因素和外部因素。在各种制约因素中,最主要的是外部因素中的宏观管理制度在科学性、合理性及有效性方面存在缺陷。     

商品代销行为中的税务处理

商品代销是现代销售的重要方式之一,视同买断为其中的一种。在视同买断代销行为中,通过实例对受托方涉及的税种问题存在两种不同的观点进行了比较。并陈述了选择将买卖差价不视为手续费的理由。     

渭南市检察机关涉检上访问题调查报告

对渭南市检察机关2004年至2008年5月以来涉检上访问题的调查表明：当前基层检察机关涉检上访处理工作呈现工作规范性不强、工作机制不科学、工作考评标准不合理、处理方式被动的缺失。这些问题的产生涉及主观和客观两个方面的一些深刻原因。处理涉检上访工作要取得实效必须坚持标本兼治,强化案件质量管理,完善相关工作机制,做好上访信息工作是从源头预防、治理涉检上访的基本方略。