Global Self-Worth among Adolescents: The Role of Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Physical Education

ABSTRACT

Global self-worth is important for healthy development and learning, and is therefore highlighted as a major aim in the Norwegian physical education (PE) curriculum. Based on prior research this study aimed to assess potential differences in global self-worth and contextual basic need satisfaction among 2854 adolescents (47.5% boys, 52.5% girls, ages 13 and 16) participating in different movement contexts, and to determine whether basic need satisfaction in PE relates to global self-worth. Structural equation modeling analyses indicate that basic need satisfaction in PE relates significantly to global self-worth. However, adolescents who do not participate in movement contexts outside school report significantly lower basic need satisfaction in PE compared to their sports-active peers, and could possibly therefore experience reduced global self-worth development through PE. Findings support research showing that sports active youth reap most of the bene?ts of PE, and thus, that PE violates the principles of equal education.     

Teachers’ capacity for organizational learning: the effects of school culture and context

This paper investigates how key elements of school culture are associated with teachers’ capacity to find and act on new information. We analyzed survey data from 3,579 teachers located in 117 schools which were a randomly selected sample from 9 states in the US. We found that school cultural components such as academic press, student support, and trust and respect among teachers promote teachers’ capacity for organizational learning. We also found that the role of teacher professional culture in molding the capacity for organizational learning is critical. In terms of school contexts, we identified that school level (elementary, middle, and high school) was associated with teachers’ capacity for organizational learning in 2 different ways. First, as the school level increases, the capacity for organizational learning tends to decrease. Second, as school level increases, the positive relation between reflective dialogue and teachers’ capacity for organizational learning is weakened. Implications of these results are discussed.     

八年级处境不利学生文言文文本阅读能力的区域监测

处境不利学生的阅读能力表现可以反映教育均衡发展的现状。文言文文本是八年级语文阅读教学的重要内容。通过大规模测评,对S市2510名处境不利学生的文言文文本阅读能力进行监测,运用量化、质性相结合的方法分析学生在整体把握、理解欣赏能力要素上的表现。结果表明,处境不利学生的理解欣赏能力较好,但文言断句存在生搬硬套的现象;思维开放度和灵活性的不足制约了处境不利学生实现"阅读抗逆"的可能性;处境不利差生的整体把握、理解欣赏能力都十分薄弱,存在阅读困难。为促进教育公平在学科层面的落实,语文教师应高度关注处境不利学生文言文阅读能力的发展,引导他们在整体把握文意的基础上灵活断句;关注学生的思维培养,提高其思维的开放度、灵活性;激发学生文言文阅读的兴趣,夯实基础;创设互动情境,增强文言文教学与日常生活的联系,强化学生文言文阅读的内部动机。     

‘Brown Paper Packages’? A Sociocultural Perspective on Young Children's Ideas in Science

How do we see young children's thinking in science? Is it, as much previous research has led us to believe, that their ideas can be neatly boxed like “brown paper packages tied up with strings” – as the song from The Sound of Music goes? Or are their ideas like “wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings” (Sound of Music): fluid, complex, rich.?.?.? Drawing on the author's research into young children's ideas about natural phenomena such as the rain and clouds, and on Rogoff's three foci of analysis (personal, interpersonal and contextual), this paper illustrates how a consideration of sociocultural theory can be useful in framing research with young children, and allow us to see beyond the boxes. Emphasis is placed on recognising that children's thinking in science is embedded within particular sociocultural contexts, is guided by others and integrated with their use of certain mental and physical cultural tools. Thus, the article aims to present an alternative method for the generation of data on young children's thinking. Specific analysis of this data will, it is intended, be presented in a subsequent article.     

文化语境与翻译

翻译不仅仅是语言的翻译,更重要的是文化的翻译.正确理解文化语境是翻译的关键.因此,译者应处理好文化、语言、翻译三者之间的关系.只有处理好两种语言所承载的不同文化的差异才有望于译文用最切近而又最自然的对等语再现原文的信息.     

美国“提前开端计划”的特征、经验及对我国学前教育的启示

“提前开端计划”是美国联邦政府投入最大、历史最悠久的早期儿童教育项目。该项目的基本特征包括：针对“处境不利儿童”,提供基于“全儿童”理念的综合服务;针对儿童和家长的两代人干预,植根社区且赋权穷人。从创办之初,提前开端计划一直在挑战中发展：回应政府提高儿童认知成就的期待、平衡“赋权社区”与“儿童发展”的张力、加强对项目质量的监管和问责、完善与公办学校系统的衔接。“提前开端计划”的经验为中国学前教育的发展提供了以下的启示：为弱势儿童提供综合性质的早期教育项目、将促进家长投入纳入学前教育的范畴、理性看待学前教育的功效、加强对早期儿童教育项目的实证研究。     

论人本主义视阈下高校贫困生的资助政策

高校贫困生作为大学校园内的一个特殊群体,受到社会各界的普遍关注。文章以人本主义理论为切入点,就高校贫困生现状、贫困生资助政策存在的缺陷等进行了分析,旨在促进高校贫困生资助政策的完善。     

Family Structure and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Parallelism of School Adversity

Abstract

A theoretically informed model in which the effects of negative junior high school experiences of mothers on the junior high school experiences of their children were examined. The model was estimated with the LISREL VIII program using panel data from 1,144 mother–adolescent child pairs. Mothers were first tested in 1971 when they were 7th graders, and both mothers and their children were subsequently interviewed in the 1990s. Results reveal the existence of a significant relationship between mothers' negative junior high school experiences and those of their children, which is partially mediated by family structure, mothers' educational attainment, and level of mothers' involvement in their children's school activities and interest in their progress at school.     

唯物史观重构的两种语境及其合理性辨析

对唯物史观进行重构的语境可分为意识形态主导型和学理研究主导型.在社会科学研究领域,脱离了意识形态限制的纯知识行为和脱离了既定知识影响的纯意识形态逻辑几乎是不存在的.学理研究与意识形态是相互渗透、相即相入的;重构结论的正确与否,虽然和基本语境之间有相关性,但并不必然具有因果关系.对唯物史观进行重构的语境合理性寓于它们有可能产生的科学后果、理论的逻辑自洽性和由诸理论沟通所产生的共识之中.     

高校图书馆对弱势学生群体知识援助策略研究

对高校弱势学生群体实施知识援助是？肖除学生贫困的有力措施,是实现社会公正与和谐发展的重要途径之一。文章就高校弱势学生群体产生的原因及现状做了阐述,并就高校图书馆对弱势学生群体实施知识援助提出若干具体措施。