Academic identity,confidence and belonging: The role of contextualised admissions and foundation years in higher education

This article presents a cross-national exploration of responses to widening participation (WP), with a specific focus on the provision of foundation year (FY) programmes and the use of contextualised admissions (CA) in selective Irish and UK institutions. There remains a dearth of research on these routes, with little understanding of the characteristics of students who utilise them, of why students use these routes and little knowledge of their effect on students’ experiences in university and their overall sense of belonging. A year-long longitudinal comparative case study design examined three alternative entry routes in two selective higher education institutions (HEIs) in England and Ireland: a well-established FY; a newly formed FY; and a CA pathway. Data were collected through a mixed-method approach. Questionnaires and in-depth focus groups were employed at fixed points with participating students in each route. Results indicated that FY students had lower levels of familial educational history and parental occupation. FY students’ sense of belonging significantly increased over the year, with students reporting increased confidence and sense of belonging due to the relationships established during the FY. CA students’ sense of belonging remained the same, with students reporting feeling different and isolated. Results indicate that while students utilising FYs may be ‘more disadvantaged’ than CA students, their experiences helped establish a sense of belonging; illustrating the need for diverse WP routes catering to a wide range of needs. Results highlight the importance of providing opportunities to develop social and bridging social capital for all non-traditional students.     

Building a just world: the effects of service-learning on social justice beliefs of Chinese college students

This study aimed to examine the effects of different service experiences on the social justice beliefs of 60 Chinese college students with mixed methods. The quantitative results indicated that the participants in two service groups (i.e. for at-risk adolescents and adolescents with cerebral palsy) demonstrated a more significant promotion of social justice beliefs than their peers in non-service group. A qualitative analysis provided evidence of the mechanism underlying service-learning, as well as different service experiences affecting on students’ social justice beliefs. Finally, the implications for implementing service-learning and realizing social justice goals in China were discussed.     

Habitus as foregrounded history: theorising affect in the social formation of embodied practice

This article builds upon a tradition of feminist critical engagements with Bourdieu, developing the concept of ‘foregrounded history’ as a way to conceptualise the temporal and affective in processes of habitus formation. Through analysis of affects ‘produced through the social encounter’ within everyday childhoods on a British council estate, the article explores habitus as histories both embodied and felt in the present. Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted within the interrelated fields of the Primary School and the Community Centre, this article considers processes of distinction, disagreement and resistance in the formation of classed positionings on The Estate.     

实验教学体系的研究与实践——机械设计制造及其自动化专业实验教学改革

针对机械设计制造及其自动化专业实验教学现状,将部分实验进行综合、汇总并以＂独立课程＂的方式进行;同时鼓励学生进行课外作品的创作,建立了课内实验与课外相结合的实验教学新体系,保证了学生的基本实验技能,锻炼和提高了动手能力和工程意识。     

研究型实验课教学模式的试验报告

通过研究实验课的教学模式,发现了传统实验课教学模式的弊端,并通过对实验课教学模式近5年的改革及试验,发现了研究型实验课教学模式的优势。本文阐述了这种实验课教学模式的特点,并与传统实验课教学模式进行了对比,得出了该实验课教学模式可以推广的结论。     

社区康复实训中心学生自主管理模式探析——以重庆城市管理职业学院社区康复实训中心为例

根据社区康复实训中心管理的现状和存在的问题,提出以学生为主体的自主管理模式,让学生成为管理的主人,充分发挥学生的主观能动性,促进实训中心管理水平和实践教学质量的提高,培养学生的服务意识、责任意识,提升学生的自我管理能力,使他们能更快适应岗位需求。     

三维立体教学平台的高职实践教学模式——以深圳职业技术学院为例

在论述三维立体教学平台实践教学模式（“模块化、进阶式、组合型”模式）的构建思路基础上,详细介绍和阐述了该模式的实施策略和实践,总结了该模式的特征以及与传统模式的区别。     

A focus on time-lapse ethnography: learning to teach

This article makes the claim that developing ethnographic work through follow-up interviews can add to our understanding of researched phenomena and explores how using concepts from Bourdieu and theories on the social construction of time strengthen the research design and add a stronger longitudinal diachronic element to data analysis. Extending an ethnographic study of learning to teach by interviewing respondents nine years after the study and after the completion of their teacher education course is shown to develop insights around the initial research findings by focusing on the temporal aspects of data. Adopting this methodological approach can develop small-scale qualitative work and contribute to an accumulation of research findings to avoid simply revisiting familiar research ground.     

Unpacking teachers’ intentions to integrate technology: A meta-analysis

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is a key model describing teachers' intentions to use technology. This meta-analysis clarifies some of the contradictory findings surrounding the relations within the TAM for a sample of 45 studies comprising 300 correlations. We evaluate the overall fit of the TAM and its structural parameters, and quantify the between-sample variation through meta-analytic structural equation modeling. The TAM fitted the data well, and all structural parameters were statistically significant. On average, the TAM variables explained 39.2% of the variance in teachers' intentions to use technology. Several sample, measurement, and publication characteristics, including teachers’ experience and the representation of the TAM variables, moderated the relations within the TAM. Overall, the TAM represents a valid model explaining technology acceptance—however, the degree of explanation and the relative importance of predictors vary across samples. Implications for further research, in particular the generalizability of the TAM, are discussed.     

台州社会组织发展的现状与对策

改进社会组织管理,建立有效的社会组织管理体制,是国家十二五规划的重要任务。进入新世纪以来,台州社会组织发展迅速,但现在遇到了政策、发展空间、运作资金、人力资源等方面的制约。台州应以政府职能转移为突破口,成立领导和实施政府职能转移的专门机构,处理好政府与社会组织之间的关系。同时完善登记制度,在资金、人力以及发展政策方面加大支持力度,构建台州社会组织管理机制,以推动社会组织的进一步发展。