Positive emotions: passionate scholarship and student transformation

This paper challenges the practical and conceptual understanding of the role of emotions in higher education from the twin perspectives of transition and transformation. Focusing on the neglected area of positive emotions, exploratory data reveal a rich, low-level milieu of undergraduate emotional awareness in students chiefly attributed to pedagogic actions, primarily extrinsically orientated, and pervasive throughout the learning experience. The data conceive positive affect as oppositional, principally ephemeral and linked to performative pedagogic endeavours of getting, knowing and doing. A cyclical social dynamic of reciprocity, generating positive feedback loops, is highlighted. Finally we inductively construct a tentative ‘emotion-transition framework’ to assist our understanding of positive emotion as a force for transformational change; our contention is that higher education might proactively craft pedagogic spaces so as to unite the feeling discourse, the thinking discourse (epistemological self) and the wider life-self (ontological) discourse.     

Australian academics’ perspectives on quality and accountability

Abstract

Universities have been challenged as teaching as well as research institutions. On the one hand, universities have been required to teach more students and pay more attention to quality of teaching and educational programmes; on the other hand, there has been increasing focus on faculty research performance. This paper examines whether these are conflicting demands, or whether university faculty are able to fulfil these requirements simultaneously. In Norway, the number of university students almost doubled between 1987 and 1995. Norway is, therefore, a sound case to examine the impact of massification on university research.     

Rites of Passage: Does adaptation to university mean severing connections?

Many factors go into the decision of selecting a university, ranging from the overall costs and the programme of study to the institute’s reputation; however, accommodation while at university and proximity of the university to one’s permanent abode also play important roles in this decision-making process. Thus, first-year students experience different stages of separation from their prior networks depending on their individual situations. The results of this Ontario (Canada) 2012 study add to prior research by indicating that separation of students’ living arrangements and distance from home impact on transition and incorporation variables, which influenced students’ adaptation to university.     

Community‐based early intervention for children with behavioural,emotional and social problems: evaluation of the Scallywags Scheme

Scallywags is a community‐based, early intervention programme for young children (aged 3–7) with behavioural, emotional and social problems, which integrates work in the home and school with a parenting curriculum and direct work with children. A pre‐post intervention study across multi‐sites of 340 participants is reported. Using standardised measures, the study found statistically significant reductions in problems at home and school experienced by children who completed the programme, and in parental stress levels. Participation was found to be high and the project acceptable to parents, many of whom would be described as hard to reach. The rigorous evaluation of this real‐life service and its positive outcomes highlight the potential of such programmes to tackle the needs of these children and families, and help prevent longer‐term problems associated with early onset behavioural problems, including social exclusion, antisocial behaviour and educational failure.     

Academic failure of first-year engineering and technological students in India and assessment of motivation factors – a case study

This study has been conducted to show that there is a recent trend in engineering colleges in India that students who are considered to be highly intelligent show poor academic performance during their 1st year. This article is proposed to examine the role of motivation factors such as teaching methods and learning material in the academic performance of engineering and technological students in India. A test was carried out among engineering students. A total of 200 male and female students participated in this test. A 2-group discriminator analysis was done to analyse the data. The results showed that there was a significant correlation (p = 0.000) between motivation factors and academic performance of engineering students. The higher the rating of these factors by the students, the higher their performance.     

基于M-learning的教学模式研究——以信息管理与信息系统专业为例

移动学习(M-learning)作为一种崭新的学习形式,能够有效地拓展学生学习知识的空间和时间,随地学习,使学生的应用能力大大提高.深入分析了移动学习的基本要求,针对信息管理与信息系统专业的特征与发展需要,研究与设计了基于M-learning的信息管理与信息系统专业的课程教学模块.     

经济学专业文理科生学习质量的差异性研究

基于4个年级258名经济学本科专业学生的数据,对文理科生在经济学专业学习质量上的差异性进行实证研究。研究结果表明：经济学专业文理科生的专业学习质量在整体上存在差异但统计不显著;文理科生专业学习质量的分布呈现显著差异,理科生学习质量相对较好但同时分化也相对较大;个体层面上理科生学习质量相对优劣的状况比较稳定,变动程度弱于文科生。针对文理科生专业学习质量上存在的差异,制定实施相应的对策和建议,有助于改善专业教学、提高教学质量。     

高校统一战线服务社会主义文化建设的必要性研究

中国共产党人一向重视文化建设问题,建设社会主义主义文化强国是建设中国特色社会主义的一项重要内容。高校统一战线是党外知识分子的聚集地。服务社会主义文化建设,是高校统一战线践行以"思想上同心同德、目标上同心同向、行动上同心同行"为核心内容的"同心"思想的必然要求,是中国知识分子注重个人修养、强调"传承文化""教化民众"传统的历史使命,也是高等教育这一特殊岗位和统一战线这一社会团体的职责。     

耦合三量子阱中隧穿诱导的可控光学增益和吸收

考虑自发辐射相干,解析地研究了半导体耦合三量子阱系统中探测光和信号光场的增益和吸收性质。基于光与原子相互作用的半经典理论,通过建立耦合量子阱中自发辐射相干的理论模型,求得了系统的探测光和信号光场的线性极化率。结果表明,量子阱内部自发辐射相干强度及外部控制光场能实现对探测光和信号光的线性增益和吸收性质的有效调节,进而显示隧穿诱导透明单、双窗口及增益之间的相互转换。     

关于构建高校青年教师培养体系的探索

青年教师是推动高等教育事业发展的重要力量,是实现高等学校持续、协调、快速发展的重要保证。本文针对高校青年教师培养研究中存在的共性问题,结合天津科技大学实际情况,对高校青年教师培养体系的构建进行了有益的探索实践。