From attrition to retention: a narrative inquiry of why beginning teachers leave and then rejoin the profession

The issue of beginning teachers leaving the profession in the first few years of their career represents a global problem, and while discrepancies exist over precise numbers, there is consensus that the attrition rate of new teachers is high. This paper reports on a narrative inquiry into two beginning teachers who left the profession after just 1 year of practice, only to return 2 years later. By examining this continuum from attrition to retention through the lens of the two teachers’ narrative accounts it is possible to gain some insights into how new teachers’ personal and professional landscapes intertwine. Findings reveal that these beginning teachers’ experiences of their school contexts combined with their personal stories in the first year of practice shaped their professional identity culminating in them leaving and then rejoining the teaching fold. Insights gleaned may have significant implications for beginning teachers, school leaders, teacher education institutions, and policy makers.     

论宋元小说话本中的叙事空间

叙事空间是叙事研究的重要内容,它包括了话语空间和故事空间。在中国古典小说研究中,对故事空间的研究富有多重意义,是不可或缺的。宋元小说话本中包含了诸如街市、官衙、庙宇寺院和郊野等多种叙事空间,它们与民众世俗生活息息相关,是现实生活的投影和精神象征。宋元小说话本中的叙事空间有着鲜明的特点和重要的叙事意义,它表征着时代小说观念的变化,体现出"城市"与"郊野"相对的二元空间模式;它们变换频繁,是推进小说情节转换的主要方式,但这种快速转换也使小说中的细节性、场景性描绘较为缺乏。     

What's in their baggage? The cultural and social capital of Australian students preparing to study abroad

Governments and educational institutions promote study abroad in the belief that it offers valuable learning experiences for all students. Yet studies suggest that equitable access to study abroad is more myth than reality. This study took a narrative approach supported by survey data to explore this issue at one Australian university. The survey indicated that the majority of students are effectively excluded from the university's Student Exchange Programme, and that those included generally have high cultural, social and economic capital. Interviews revealed how multiple dimensions of privilege typically work to make study abroad imaginable, affordable and do-able for some. These findings are complicated by one student's atypical narrative, which serves to raise further questions for research.     

Factors affecting successful reintegration

This study explores the perspectives of education practitioners towards the process of reintegrating pupils (many of whom display social, emotional and behavioural difficulties), from a pupil referral unit (PRU) to mainstream educational provision in a rural bilingual Welsh authority, and examines the barriers and facilitators they identified as evident within their individual schools and catchment area served with regards to reintegrating and including pupils. The study locates the process within a specific geographical context and discusses whether there are specific reintegration barriers and facilitators inherent within the setting. Patterns of pupil referral and reintegration between the PRU and mainstream schools were examined and analysed from “pupil tracking data” which tracked pupils throughout an academic year from their arrival at the PRU before the perspectives of education practitioners towards potential reintegration barriers and facilitators were gathered through an initial expert sample and a second landscape sample postal questionnaire. Interviews were subsequently conducted with respondents from Primary, Secondary and PRU settings to drill down into the influence of specific barriers and facilitators identified earlier. This study suggests that although generic reintegration barriers and facilitators may be evident within all settings, there were specific factors inherent within this geographical context identified by education practitioners, which acted in the most part as barriers to successful reintegration and inclusion.     

Terra Populus: Workflows for Integrating and Harmonizing Geospatial Population and Environmental Data

The Terra Populus project (TerraPop) addresses a variety of data management, curation, and preservation challenges with respect to spatiotemporal population and environmental data. In this article, we describe our approaches to these challenges, with a particular focus on geospatial data workflows and associated provenance metadata. The goal of TerraPop is to enable research, learning, and policy analysis by providing integrated spatiotemporal data describing people and their environment. To do so, TerraPop is assembling a globe-spanning and temporally extensive collection of high-quality population and environmental data, ensuring good documentation, and developing a Web-based data access system that enables users to assemble customized integrated data sets drawing on a variety of data sources and formats. We describe TerraPop's collection strategies, detail the geospatial workflows involved in preparing data for ingest into the project database and those used to transform data across formats for dissemination, and discuss the system used to capture and manage provenance metadata throughout the project. A key aspect of the project is the development of global current and historical administrative unit boundaries that can be linked to census data. These boundaries serve as the linchpin of TerraPop's data integration strategy, and constitute an important data set in their own right.     

康纳利叙事课程的理论基础

20世纪80年代以来,叙事课程研究在北美兴起,其发展迅速,影响深远,成为了当下国际课程研究领域的重要新生力量。叙事课程研究的深受欢迎和成效显著,在很大程度上得益于康纳利和克兰迪宁的智慧和努力。作为一种新兴的理论思潮,其主要是建立在四种相互联系的哲学基础上:经验主义、现象学、建构主义和后结构主义。     

论芥川龙之介小说中的“叙述者”

芥川龙之介是一位非常注重写作技巧的短篇小说大家,在他的小说中叙述者的声音极富变化。芥川笔下的“叙述者”既沿承了传统的戏剧化叙述,又发展了具有现代性的非戏剧化叙述,更是创造了双重叙述的模式。芥川在叙述者方面的创新给读者带来了新奇的审美感受,形形色色的叙述者也让他的小说变化多端,从而保持经久不衰的艺术魅力。通读芥川的小说我们会发现,一方面他注重技巧的创新,打破了小说叙事的常规;另一方面,他有“破”而无“立”,没有建立自己的创作规则。他在带给读者新奇之感的同时也启迪着我们去重新认识和思考小说与创作。     

教育影视叙事研究刍议

教育影视叙事研究是研究者通过搜集、解构和重构教育影视作品,研究教育故事中的显白教诲或隐含道理,揭示该作品的教育意义或教育主题的一种解释性理解活动;它具有课堂教学价值、教师专业发展价值和理论价值;教学型教育影视叙事研究与非教学型教育影视叙事研究具有不同的程序。     

Social Media as Primary Source

This article explores and critiques the use of social media as a primary source in the writing of twenty-first-century history. Since the introduction of so-called social media in the early 2000s, social scientists, journalists, and users have hailed this media form as a revolutionary departure from the ‘old media’ that dominated the twentieth century. Part of the narrative of ‘new media’ is it provides greater amounts of user agency, removes structural impediments for social dialog, and promotes an egalitarian exchange within the global sphere. This article suggests that this account is a product of the narrative structure of classical liberalism, through which social media as an object of knowledge and effectivity is produced. It concludes that the use of social media as a primary source for social histories of popular protest will require substantive theoretical scrutiny by scholars writing about these processes of the twenty-first century.