Tailoring an information skills programme for Trainee Nursing Associates

This feature describes the tailored information skills programme which was delivered for the second cohort of Trainee Nursing Associates (TNAs) at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and presents the results of the evaluation which was undertaken. Literature searching and critical appraisal were offered to the first cohort. Feedback was collated, and sessions were refined and tailored to better meet the information needs of the second cohort of TNAs. A comparison of confidence ratings before and after the programme ascertained whether the information skills programme had a positive benefit in confidence levels of attendees. D.I.     

华北山前平原农田关键带观测研究平台（栾城关键带观测平台）

中国科学院栾城农业生态系统试验站(以下简称"栾城站")位于华北太行山前冲洪积平原的中段,是地下水灌区高产农业生态类型的典型代表。由于近几十年来大规模、高强度的农业生产,区域地下水超采严重,地下水污染风险加剧。然而,人类活动影响下的地表生态系统与地下含水层被厚包气带隔开,地表农业生产活动对地下水水量和水质的影响机理尚不明确。目前,开展贯穿整个包气带的原位监测试验,是揭示这一过程机理的唯一途径。因此,建立大型农田关键带观测平台,是开展农业与地下水关系研究的重要需求。在中国科学院野外站网络重点科技基础设施建设项目的支持下,栾城站建设的"栾城关键带观测平台",通过对作物根系层—深层包气带—饱和带的土壤水、热、溶质等关键要素和变量的监测,可开展水分、溶质和污染物在厚包气带内的运移、转化规律研究,揭示饱和—非饱和过渡带水文过程及其与地下水补给关系,阐明农田生产活动的水肥迁移、转化及其对地下水量质变化的影响机制,为回答地表过程对地下水量质演化影响机理提供实验平台支持。     

多奇异点和Sobolev临界指数椭圆方程解的存在性与多重性

用变分方法证明了一类具有多个奇异点,Sobolev临界指数和非线性项的半线性椭圆方程正解的存在性和多重性．     

Disciplining the Future: A Critical Organizational Analysis of Internet Studies

This article provides a critical, cautionary stance toward the future structure of “Internet studies” as a field. A social constructionist reading of the process of organizing reveals the ways in which apparently obdurate structures are constructed and negotiated through everyday discursive practices. Subsequent structures and practices function ideologically to control organizational members in a concertive fashion by shaping and directing the conceptual frameworks for inquiry and action in a seemingly natural way. Definitions and metaphors construct conceptual boundaries of meaning for the field of inquiry, delimiting and protecting over time what counts as Internet and Internet studies. Over time, origins of knowledge are hidden within the structure of the organizations and a culture of unobtrusive control emerges. Unless radical measures are taken to reflexively interrogate everyday routines and habitual ways of talking in academic environments, the future field of Internet studies will not transcend the traditions of the academy but will be entrenched in and reproduce traditional structures and a traditional scholarly enterprise.     

批判性思维及其技能研究

批判性思维的核心内容是批判性精神和批判性思维技能。批判性思维技能是一种运用批判技术和策略反思性分析和解决问题的能力。依据批判性思维的教学、训练与大学生所学学科内容的关系,批判性思维技能训练可以有一般方法、沉浸方法、灌输方法和混合方法等四种。     

隐喻教学与英语专业学生批判性思维的培养

现代隐喻研究认为隐喻不仅是一种修辞手段,而且是人类认知、思维、言语和行为的基础。在英语专业教学中合理运用隐喻的认知及教学功能,可以有效地提高学生的批判性思维。     

The chameleon on a tartan rug: adaptations of three academic developers’ professional identities

This paper builds on discussions of academic developers’ identity experienced as a discomfiting, troubled, and often marginal space. Three experienced academic developers, located in research-intensive institutions in three different countries, using auto-ethnographic writing and a shared narrative inquiry, explore moments of congruence and conflict. While there are elements that sustain them in their job, the categorisation of their role can impact on their ability to do their job, undermining their credibility. This can prevent them from engaging in research that could enrich practice in their institutions and inform institutional strategy or change the culture in teaching and learning. Instead they are forced into discomfit: having to defend their right to be involved in the institutional discussions. The most worrying issue is the pervasive trend in the change of academic developers’ status (from tenure-track academic peers to professionals).     

HACCP原理在绞股蓝茶生产中的应用研究

研究了HACCP体系在绞股蓝茶生产中的应用,进行危害分析(HA),确定关键控制点(CCP),并制定相应控制限值,监控体系。通过建立HACCP计划工作模式,以提高绞股蓝茶生产质量管理水平和产品安全性。     

Online professional development for environmental educators: strategies to foster critical thinking and social interactions

Abstract

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer opportunities for professional development of environmental educators globally, yet we lack understanding of participants? cognitive and social learning processes and of how instructors can enhance these processes. Based on the Community of Inquiry framework, we used a survey and coded participant discussion board and Facebook posts to examine the cognitive, social, and teaching presence in the Environmental Education: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Addressing Wicked Problems MOOC, offered by Cornell University. Rather than train educators in a specific curriculum, the goal of the MOOC is to expand educators? critical and transdisciplinary thinking about the field of environmental education and to enhance social interactions to support learning, educators, and knowledge co-creation. Results indicate that cognitive presence is higher on the discussion board whereas social presence is higher on Facebook. Over half of cognitive posts focused on exploration, a lower level of learning, whereas just less than a fifth reflected higher level integration, suggesting room for enhancing cognitive learning. Our results suggest strategies to encourage higher levels of thinking and more meaningful social interactions to foster learning, educator support, and co-creation of knowledge, thereby improving online professional development.     

Collaborative feedback and reflection for professional growth: preparing first-year pre-service teachers for participation in the community of practice

Teaching has been described as an emerging community of practice. Within such professional communities, the processes of reflection and collaborative dialogue, or critical transformative dialogue, are central to the maintenance and improvement of professional practice for individuals, and the field. This paper reports on the challenges experienced by a group of first-year pre-service teachers engaging in a process of reflection and critique with peers, as they participated in a program focused on the development of core practices of teaching. These pre-service teachers' responses indicated their growing understanding of the importance of engaging in ongoing critical dialogue, as part of the “unnatural” aspects of teaching. The paper concludes with a reflection on the value of feedback from the earliest stages of professional learning.