‘Teaching’ the path towards university: understanding student access through storied-futures and meritocratic grand narratives

The notion that the stories of our lives shape dispositions towards imagined futures is another lens through which university underrepresentation should be viewed. A storied lens attends to how futures, like university attendance, are storied during childhood to the extent that some youth imagine, and therefore plan, these futures as natural progression. Such was the case for study participants, indicating that childhood stories contain answers for mitigating social reproduction connected to parental education and cultural forces within the home. Examining social mobility through the underexplored storied-futures grand narrative presents unique solutions that lay hidden within the dominant meritocratic grand narrative.     

Discrete Choice Modeling in Education: An Innovative Method to Assess Teaching Practices

Self‐reported measures are an easy, time‐efficient, and low‐cost way to collect research data compared to other assessment methods. They are, however, characterized by several limitations regarding the quality and the clarity of the data they produce, especially when they are implemented in education. The main purpose of the current study was to use a method called discrete choice modeling (DCM) in education, in order to develop a self‐reported instrument that will reduce the bias for socially desirable responses and to assess teachers’ practices in physical activity. DCM method has the ability to overcome the respondents’ tendency to answer in a socially desirable way. A nationally representative sample of 531 Greek early educators participated in this study and were administered a self‐assessment questionnaire based on DCM. Results showed that the DCM based newly developed instrument manages to assess effectively educators’ practices and provided evidence of the applicability of the method in education. Further implications and future recommendations regarding the effective application of DCM in education are discussed.     

Parents’ son preference,childhood adverse experience and mental health in old age: Evidence from China

BackgroundSon preference is an enduring phenomenon in China and may often be related to childhood adverse experiences. According to a life-course perspective, adverse experiences during a childhood period may have a long-term effect on mental health in later age. However, little is known about this relationship between parents’ son preference, childhood adverse experiences and adulthood mental health in China.ObjectiveThe study aims to evaluate the association of parents’ son preference and individual mental health in old age in China. The mediating role of childhood adverse experiences was also estimated.Participants and settingThe China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2015 combined with CHARLS life history survey was analyzed (N = 11,666).MethodsMental health was measured by a shortened modification of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale including seven items, and higher scores indicated worse mental health status. A four-step mediating model was applied.ResultsRespondents growing in families with son preference had on average 0.75 (P < 0.001) points higher on the mental health scale than their counterparts, and the effects were consistent for both males and females. Childhood adverse experiences measured by physical maltreatment, emotional adverse experiences and witnesses of inter-parent violence mediated the relationship between parents’ son preference and individual adulthood mental health by 47.87%. For females, physical maltreatment and emotional adverse experiences explained the most parts of health effects of parents’ son preference, whereas witnesses of inter-parent violence was the most influential mediator for males.ConclusionParents’ son preference led to adverse childhood experiences, which influenced mental health in adulthood.     

啦啦操运动在中学体育教学活动中的推广运用研究

在深入贯彻德智体美劳全面发展的教育观念的背景下,中学体育教育不断被学校、家长所重视,在中学体育教学中丰富体育课程形式成为实现全面发展的重要途径,啦啦操运动以其独特的魅力成为中学体育教学中重要的组成部分,因此本文首先从啦啦操运动的慨念出发,分析啦啦操运动在中学体育发展与教学运用的重要意义,其次,对啦啦操运动本身的美学特征与内涵进行研究,最后,浅析啦啦操运动在中学体育教学中的运用推广策略。     

武陵贫困山区中小学体育教师队伍现状分析与对策

采用调查法、访问法，探索武陵山区各级中小学体育教师配备、待遇，流失和未来发展的策略。     

影响中学生抑郁的认知因素及其预防

抑郁是中学生的一种常见消极情绪。本文试从自我效能感、自我评价、归因方式、自尊等方面，对影响中学生抑郁的认知因素进行探讨，并在此基础之上提出了一定的预防措施。     

浅论中学业余田径训练的特点及其控制过程

采用文献资料等研究方法,对我国中学业余田径训练的特点进行了初步分析,根据控制论、信息论和系统论的原理和方法,对中学业余田径运动员的选材、训练目标的确定、训练阶段的划分、训练计划的制定、训练计划的实施、训练结果的检查和评定等进行控制,旨在为中学体育教师和教练员控制业余田径训练过程提供参考.     

对中学篮球教学中重视学生“球感”训练的实验研究

本文通过对学生进行“球感”的训练 ,提高了学生对篮球运动中的控制球和支配球的能力 ,并令一些平时不怎么喜爱篮球运动的学生也乐意参加了 ,提高了学生的身体素质、终身体育意识和锻炼的习惯。     

天水农村中小学体育设施开发利用的现状调查与思考

在体育课程改革的新形势下,以甘肃省天水市21所有代表性的农村中小学体育设施资源为研究对象,采用特尔菲法、问卷调查法、文献资料法、实地考察法、访谈法、数理统计法,对当前甘肃省天水市农村中小学体育设施资源开发利用的现状进行了调查分析。指出了存在的主要问题,提出了农村中小学体育设施资源开发与利用的思路、案例、保障体系等。     

关于中学体育创新教育的调查与思考

通过对中学体育创新教育现状的调查,发现中学体育教学过程较重视体育对人的生物学改造,而忽视体育教学深层次的、内在的创新问题.结合调查,分别就中学体育教学内容与教学方法的创新问题以及体育教学培养创新思维与学生体育学习考核评价的创新问题提出见解.