Yer Doin’ it Wrong: How NOT to Interact with Vendors,Publishers, or Librarians

Three librarians who have extensive experience working in libraries or for publishers, vendors, or consortia presented an informal discussion on librarian–vendor relationships. The audience was encouraged to participate. Problems were articulated; speakers and audience members contributed suggestions for better approaches or behaviors when handling difficult situations.     

人民警察出警速度与服务能力探析

人民警察出警速度与服务能力关系着人民群众对公安机关的期待与评价。现阶段交通堵塞、报警表述地址不详、警力不足、派出所分布不均等现象大大降低了人民警察的出警速度与服务能力。为此,通过发展多种警用交通工具、警用地理信息系统、报警地点编号方式、街头警务站等举措,能有效改善人民警察出警速度与服务能力的现状,践行人民警察全心全意为人民服务的宗旨。     

体感交互技术在教育中的应用现状述评

体感技术是人机交互历史上的一次革命,它以躯体动作、声音等自然语言来操纵多媒体设备,提供了革命性的体验。目前,体感技术研究集中在感应精度与深度方面,在教育应用领域也有一些前沿探索和实验。该技术自体感游戏开始之际便进入了大众视野,在实现技术上可分为惯性感测、光学感测以及惯性及光学联合感测三类,微软的Kinect采用了光学测感和声学感知技术。在教育应用方面,体感游戏开始进入课堂,就取得了较好的影响。它在语言、数学、科学、物理、特殊教育等不同学科领域内均有应用,通过三个典型案例详细讨论了其具体的教学步骤。体感技术在教学中作为教/学工具、教学内容和教学环境,可用于情境化学习、个别化学习以及游戏化学习三类教学形式,并根据不同用途具有多个整合关键点。总之,体感技术应用在教育中具有体验优、多感官、以学生为中心和支持合作学习的优势,但现阶段在部署、教学法和评价上还存在一些问题。     

灰树花液体培养基配方的研究

通过正交交互设计试验优化灰树花的液体培养基配方,确定玉米粉和葡萄糖有交互作用,其比例为3∶2时为最优搭配。获得灰树花液体培养的最优配方为黄豆粉2%,玉米粉3%,葡萄糖2%,磷酸二氢钾0.05%,硫酸镁0.2%,豆油0.05%。将灰树花在50L发酵罐中进行深层培养,转速140r/min和通气量为300L/min,菌丝体产量为14.69g/L。     

Managing the teaching–research nexus: ideals and practice in research-oriented universities

This paper demonstrates that while ideals of close linkages between research and teaching are widely embraced in research-oriented universities, a practice of division of labour between teaching-oriented and research-oriented staff persists. In an investigation of how the research–teaching nexus is managed at three Swedish universities, we identify a perceived misalignment between institutional incentives for individual academic staff and the needs of teaching. Under pressure from such tensions, managers are forced to deploy pragmatic strategies for the staffing of undergraduate education tasks. This includes allowing research needs and agendas to take priority over teaching needs. While managers seek to secure the participation of senior researchers in education, they often actively prefer to delegate the bulk of teaching activities to less research-active staff. Such strategies seem to reinforce existing patterns of division of labour among academic staff.     

What do families of the ‘professional and managerial’ class educate their children for? The links between happiness and autonomy

Based on a qualitative study involving 124 professional and managerial class families in Catalonia (Spain), this paper describes the aims and objectives these families have for the education of their children. During the fieldwork, when asked what they were aiming for in the education of their children, almost all of the parents replied ‘for them to be happy’. But what kind of happiness are they talking about? What kind of education might lead to happiness? Drawing principally on the work of Kellerhals and Montandon and their ‘contractual model of education’ and Bauman’s concepts of ‘secondary security’ and ‘homo eligens’, although also taking into account the related contributions of Lareau, Vincent and Ball, Stefansen and Aarseth, and Kusserow, the paper aims to demonstrate the strong connection these families make between happiness and ‘absolute’ autonomy, understood as two sides of the same coin and seen, by the participants, as the guiding principle that should shape the way they bring their children up.     

University–school partnerships: student teachers’ evaluations across nine partnerships in Israel

This article presents and discusses the findings of a study which focused on student teachers’ evaluation of their practice teaching in the context of a university–school partnership model integrated for the first time into the academic programme of a university teacher education department in Israel. A questionnaire was developed to examine the contribution of the major curricular components of the partnership for student teachers’ experience of learning to teach, as evaluated by the student teachers themselves. The questionnaire was delivered to 119 student teachers placed in 9 selected school–university partnerships. The findings of the study underscore the added value of supporting different kinds of mentoring frameworks within university–school partnerships. The international significance of the study is discussed with a focus on implications for emergent tensions, dilemmas and connections between local and global forms of university–school partnerships.     

Effects of learner–instructor relationship-building strategies in online video instruction

Although research has demonstrated that an increased rapport between instructors and learners can positively relate with increased learning gains, perhaps mediated by the positive attitudes toward the course and self-efficacy beliefs in the coursework, little has been done to test what instructional strategies might increase this rapport in online video-based instruction. This study compared online video-based instruction that made use of relationship-building strategies with online video-based instruction that did not use those strategies. The two instructions were identical in every other way. The results show that the attitudes of the college students were positively affected by the relationship building strategies in a statistically significant way (p = .025) and that learning gains were also positively affected at a very near-significant level (p = .052). The implications of the findings are discussed.     

Disability,Stigma and Otherness: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers

This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents and teachers in the US with regard to the meaning and implications of disability in the context of schoolling, and of raising a child with a disability. The findings revealed broad conceptual differences in the perspectives of these two groups. Teachers’ beliefs were generally consistent with medical model perspectives on disability as biologically defined. Parents’ interpretations, more aligned with a sociocultural paradigm, were situated in the cultural meanings ascribed to disability and linked with issues of stigma, marginalisation and access. The findings also revealed the existence of master narratives on families of children with disabilities, entrenched in assumptions of pathological functioning and negative outcomes among these families. Implications for professional–family partnerships in the education of students with disabilities are discussed.