Voice over distance: a case of podcasting for learning in online teacher education

This paper reports on a case study of an online pre-service teacher education course in a New Zealand university aimed at exploring the potential of student-generated podcasts as a form of interactive formative assessment at a distance. The study was part of a wider two-year funded project with the overall goal of documenting, developing, and disseminating effective and innovative e-learning practice. Findings from lecturer and tutor interviews, student focus group (FG) discussion, and course evaluations indicate that the podcasting task provided opportunities for the course lecturer, tutors, and students to learn and share ideas with one another. The experience empowered students to develop the skills and confidence to initiate more independent inquiry into technologies to support their pedagogical purposes. The study contributes to a better understanding of the skills, dispositions, and knowledge needed to prepare teacher candidates for teaching-learning contexts where information and communication technologies are increasingly pivotal.     

Talking Together,Learning Together: The Story of English PGCE Student Teachers’ Adventures in Classics

This article reports on the first two phases of a project to promote the classics through English at Key Stage 3, a scion of the Cambridge Schools Classics Project. We discuss the primary importance of speaking and listening in the English classroom both for the individual and the collective, and reflect on the power and importance of using classic tales in English as a means of promoting good-quality oracy. We comment on the precarious position of both oracy and story in the 2014 national curriculum. We report on the impact of a project during which student teachers were introduced to classical oral storytelling and encouraged to use it in their teaching. Findings suggest that the student teachers recognised oracy and storytelling as fundamental to their developing pedagogy and that they saw the need to promote oracy.     

“What would you like me to do? Lie to you?” Teacher education responsibilities to LGBTI students

The experiences of lesbian, gay, trans (The use of trans with an asterisk avoids the use of transsexual or transgender and promotes recognition of the inadequacy of such labels), bisexual and intersex (LGBTI) student teachers were recently investigated at a New Zealand faculty of education. Student teachers studying in early childhood education and care, primary and secondary initial teacher education (ITE) were asked about their perceptions of LGBTI visibility and inclusion. Methods used were online questionnaires, focus groups and individual interviews. While the study encompassed all aspects of the ITE programme, this work uses one specific question about practicum from the questionnaire, and findings related to practicum and teaching from the focus groups and individual interviews. In this article, the experiences of LGBTI (those who identified as non-heterosexual) student teachers and “straight” (those who identified as heterosexual) are discussed. Findings suggest that both faculty and practicum settings are heteronormative and indicate that LGBTI student teachers felt uncertain about their safety. Both LGBTI and straight students felt they had not been given adequate preparation to manage the complexities of diverse sexualities on practicum or in their future teaching. We argue that addressing heteronormativity in ITE will better prepare student teachers for the rich diversity of students and families they will encounter in their teaching.     

Beginning teachers and diversity – why the need for extended critical professional support

This article draws from a qualitative study of seven beginning teachers’ perceptions of diversity over a period of 6–18 months. The study found that while initial teacher training had broadened their understanding of diversity and its implication for teaching, it was established pedagogical practices in their schools that influenced the novices’ ongoing understanding of responsiveness to learner diversity. For these novices, the influence of the structures and systems of their school contexts began to restrict their pedagogical stance. Based on the reported findings and wider research data, the article argues the need for ongoing critical professional support for beginning teachers who can deepen their understanding of learner diversity and its pedagogical implications. It underscores the importance of a genuine partnership between schools and teacher education providers to enable the continuation of critical professional support for novices, particularly in contexts where there are no mandatory links between preservice programmes and beginning teaching like New Zealand, where this study was undertaken. The author contends that it is unrealistic otherwise to expect beginning teachers not only to challenge entrenched practices but also to sustain the efforts of initial teacher education programmes in preparing them to be responsive to diverse learners.     

自动制造系统Petri网模型的一类子网极小信标的计算

作为Petri网的一个结构性目标,信标在柔性制造系统死锁控制理论中起着关键的作用。基于Petri网图论和信标的定义,针对Petri的一类子网S4PR网,提出了一种极小信标的计算方法。首先找出S4PR网的初始资源图,然后根据初始资源图找到所有的资源子图,对应每一个资源子图计算其对应的信标,最后根据极小信标的定义对得到的信标进行判断,删除非极小信标即得到所有的极小信标。给出一个S4PR网的例子解释提出的计算方法的应用,和传统的极小信标的计算方法比较,该计算方法可以节约计算时间,另外该算法可以用于任意规模的S4PR网的极小信标的计算。     

中药栽培学教学改革初探

中药栽培学是一门综合应用性很强的新型特色学科,如何开展好教学以适应快速发展的中药现代化的需求一直是广大教育工作者热议的话题。本文结合我省发展实际,对该门课程改革进行了初步探讨,以期为中药栽培学的教学与实践提供帮助。     

三亚俱乐部休闲潜水运动初次参与人群的水下适应研究简

以三亚俱乐部休闲潜水运动初次参与人群为研究对象,结合潜水运动的特点进行分析研究,以期为休闲潜水运动提供理论依据。     

从声母系统看《韵镜》的产生年代

通过对<韵镜>列字的考察,可以得出其声母共有四十二类,与七八世纪佛经音义反映的声母系统极为一致.这可能是向我们透露了一个重要信息:<韵镜>反映的是中唐甚至是更早时期的汉语语音系统,其成书年代亦当在七八世纪甚至更早.     

青少年跳高运动员启蒙训练研究

以14名青少年业余跳高运动员为对象,进行多年系统训练研究,分析和论证了跳高启蒙训练的特点、指导思想、训练原则,健全了训练的完整体系。论述了制订跳高启蒙训练的多年、年度、月、周、课等训练计划的方法。为从事青少年跳高业余训练的教练员提供参考和依据。     

Collaborative action research through technologically mediated agoras

The study presented in this article forms part of a wider project promoting collaboration between junior researchers from different universities with the objective of rethinking and improving teaching practice in relation to the use of technology. The article describes research carried out during the 2012/13 academic year aimed at developing collaborative action research through technologically mediated agoras involving students from three Spanish universities. The main results of this study show that junior researchers improved their teaching practice through technologically mediated inside and outside agoras. In addition, the transformation of university classrooms into agoras enabled the negotiated reconstruction of knowledge for the analysis of good practice in the use of technology. Likewise, these agoras helped reduce limitations by breaking down the barriers of time, distance and resources for sharing findings and limitations between junior researchers. Furthermore, they pave the way for improvements and their implementation in learning processes during initial teacher training.