Disciplinary exclusion: wicked problems in wicked settings

This paper uses Rittel and Webber’s categorisation of wicked problems in order to interrupt discourses around school behaviour. Each of the 10 characteristics suggested by Rittel and Webber are examined using the English education system as a vehicle by which to consider and interrogate their complexity. This endeavour is crucial as although the characteristics of wicked problems naturally overlap, the cannot, and should not, be conflated if we wish to understand how different facets of a wicked problem shed light, and create shadows, that impact on all members of a school community. That school communities can be wicked settings adds nuance to the complexity of the problems that we face when educating students whose behaviours challenge the norms of their educational environment.     

试论团队精神在合作数字参考咨询中的应用

界定了团队和团队精神的涵义,分析了团队精神在合作数字参考咨询中的必要性,并探讨了合作数字参考咨询中团队精神的培养问题。     

Multiple components of fitness improved among overweight and obese adolescents following a community-based lifestyle intervention

Fitness is an important component of health, and obese adolescents regularly have poor fitness. Unfortunately, few have assessed the impact of community-based lifestyle interventions on multiple components of fitness. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of participation in a community-based intervention involving adolescents and parents on multiple components of fitness of obese adolescents. In a within-subject, waitlist controlled clinical trial with 12 months follow-up in Western Australia, participants (n = 56) completed multiple fitness measures at baseline, immediately prior to beginning an 8-week intervention and at 3, 6 and 12 months during a maintenance period. Performance on the shuttle walk was improved immediately post-intervention (increase of 42.8 m, 95% CI: 7.5, 78.2) and at 12 months post-intervention (increase of 44.6 m, 95% CI: 1.3, 87.8) compared with pre-intervention. Muscle performance of quadriceps and deltoids were improved post-intervention (increase of 1.1 (95% CI: 0.1, 2.1) kg · F and 1.0 (0.02, 2.1) kg · F, respectively) and all muscle performance measures were improved at 12 months following the intervention. There were no changes in waist circumference. A community-based lifestyle programme such as Curtin University’s Activity, Food and Attitudes Program (CAFAP) may be a viable strategy for improving fitness in overweight adolescents.     

High-extensible scene graph framework based on component techniques

INTRODUCTION With the tremendous growth of the digital en- tertainment industry in the past decades, the scale of game scene is becoming more gigantic. To effectively manage and organize the massive data, game engine usually uses hierarchical scene graph. Many popular 3D modelling tools, such as Maya, 3D Studio Max, use scene graph to manage the scene content (Sowizral, 2000). 3D modelling software—Houdini directly edits scene graph to create and modify the virtual environment. Most v…     

我国"民工荒"问题的深层次研究

在农村剩余劳动力存量超过1.5亿的中国,从2004年初直至2005年,在沿海地区的劳动密集型行业竟然出现了“民工荒”。虽出人意料,但又有其经济、社会、文化及政策方面的必然原因。它已经并将继续在一定程度上影响中国经济社会的发展。提高农民工待遇、企业进行转型或转移、创造良好制度环境、转变我国经济发展战略是应对“民工荒”的有效措施。     

Examining the effect of positive behaviour support on academic achievement of students with disabilities

Students who engage in challenging behaviour compromise the fundamental ability of schools to educate children. Consequently, teachers face the daunting task of designing effective strategies to promote positive educational outcomes for their students. Since the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act amendments, the use of positive behaviour supports (PBS) to address the behavioural needs of children challenged by disabilities has expanded. There is evidence to support the utility of PBS in reducing challenging behaviour among students. However, successful schools are also gauged by the academic achievement of their students. Hence, it is important to examine the extent to which behavioural outcomes are related to academic outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which PBS interventions aimed at reducing challenging behaviour result in corresponding improvement in academic achievement. A meta‐analysis of extant research indicated a positive correlation of 0.40 between improvement in problem behaviour and academic achievement. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/c9OUU0GkGrw .     

Measuring Communication Styles in the Malaysian Workplace: Instrument Development and Validation

The aim of the present study is to access communication style in the Malaysian workplace through the development and validation of a communication scale appropriate to the Malaysian workplace. The analysis involved data from 200 state development employees, and construct and criterion-related validation using data from 510 employees, representing three organizations in Malaysia. The results provided support for the use of language (pekerti) and communication and interaction (bicara) as crucial communication dimensions for the Malaysian workplace, which are identified from the item-generation procedure.     

不同年龄组农民体育意识和体育行为的比较研究

采用问卷调查法对不同年龄组农民保健意识、休闲方式、体育价值、体育锻炼动机、体育法规的认识、体育参与和制约因素进行了调查和分析,结果认为:农民的体育意识和体育行为均随年龄的增加成下降趋势。     

女性的非言语行为研究及其教育引导

俗话说,男女有别。男女两性在非言语的表达上也存在着诸多的差异、非言语的首要特征就在于它的模糊性和不确定性,所以弄清楚非言语行为所附带的内涵具有重要的意义,特别是对相对而言情感比较丰富、具体形象化的女性的非言语行为的理解更有意义。在这篇文章里所要探讨的就是不同于男性的女性非言语行为的一些特点及其教育引导。