Creating an Ofsted story: the role of early years assessment data in schools’ narratives of progress

This paper explores the growing importance of measures of progress in judgements of schools’ effectiveness in England, with a focus on the role of the early years (settings for children aged 2–5) in providing data for these measures. Qualitative data from a research project involving three diverse school-based and pre-compulsory early years settings are used to explore how teachers and school leaders prioritise the collection of data in their every-day practice, in order to show how children make continual progress. The need for a narrative of progress as children move up through the primary school, an ‘Ofsted story’ for the school inspection service, is discussed alongside recent policy which requires a ‘baseline’ assessment at age four. We argue that there is a reification of progress in schools and early years settings, and that this changes the status of early years within the sector.     

Teachers’ voice,power and agency: (un)professionalisation of the early years workforce

This article examines Slovak early years teachers’ concerns with conceptions of teacher professionalism. It suggests that there is a mismatch between understandings of professionalism, policy aspirations and the attitudes of teachers to their own professionalism, and that this mismatch fuels early years teachers’ sense of agency. These tensions between conceptions of professionalism, teaching practice and actual working conditions have led to a ground-up approach to self-governance within the early years teacher workforce. We analyse teachers’ discussions in an early years online forum of 12,500 members that was started and remains governed by the teachers themselves. It represents in itself a very particular attitude and response to the need to determine what it means to be a professional teacher. This analysis examines intersections of policy, quality and professionalism, and highlights considerations of power and voice, and the complexities of uncertainty and change. The article concludes with the suggestion that teacher attitudes, power and agency are impacted in unpredictable ways by the policy landscape.     

Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

姚孙棐年谱简编

姚孙棐系出桐城麻溪姚氏,是明末清初的遗民诗人,其诗歌创作能转益多师,每见性灵情致,颇显时代特色。姚孙棐一生教育子女多所成立,并积极参与各种诗文社交活动,交游非常广泛。姚孙棐对麻溪姚氏家族及家族文化的发展兴盛,颇见功勋。     

清初苏努家族信仰天主教探析

苏努家族身为满清皇族却几乎举家信奉天主教,其家族命运的转折也与天主教颇有关系。在遭贬流放前后苏努家族的信仰状况有很大变化,大致可分为未入教、主动入教和被动入教三类。影响其家族信仰选择的因素主要有生活处境、知识构成、政治考量、传教士的介入等。苏努家族的多元信仰是家族成员主动或被动寻找精神归依、实现精神救赎的结果。     

The Power and Function of Images in Northern Europe During the Migration Period

ABSTRACT

In the fifth and early sixth centuries, numerous objects in northern Europe were decorated in a particularly consistent visual style (‘Germanic Animal Style I’). This article argues that we should treat these images not simply as representations of cultural notions, but as an active part in the process of creating a shared elite identity, formed during a particular period of historical crisis.     

前期差错更正所得税的会计处理

企业在会计核算过程中可能会发生各种各样的差错,产生错账。错账会影响财务报表使用者对企业财务状况、经营成果和现金流量作出正确判断。就企业发现重要的前期差错时,对前期差错更正涉及到所得税时如何进行会计处理进行了探讨。     

抽油机减速箱缺油保护系统的研制

抽油机减速箱损坏的主要原因是减速箱润滑油不足造成的,而目前抽油机减速箱内的油量情况难于实时发现并采取措施,减速箱缺油后,抽油机不能立即停机,而减速箱继续在缺油状态下长期运转,在大多数情况下将造成齿轮、轴承的损坏,甚至报废。为解决这一问题,我们研制了一种实时报警装置,当油量少于设定最小值时,它可以在现场发出报警信号,并对抽油机按要求采取强制停机等措施。     

水泥混凝土路面早期裂缝的防治

本文阐述了水泥混凝土路面早期裂缝的形成原因和防治措施。     

The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers

This paper discusses factors that enhance induction experiences for beginning teachers. It reports the findings from case studies that explore the impact of new entrants to the teaching profession in Scotland. The data suggest that the most supportive induction processes mix both formal and informal elements, but that the informal elements such as collegiality, good communication and a welcoming workplace environment should not be underestimated. The study also highlights the potential benefits of a more collegiate environment for teachers across the career phases. Experienced teachers and new entrants had a range of experience to offer each other, thus creating more cohesive professional working which was supportive of early career teachers while encouraging reflection on practice among the more experienced professionals.