‘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.     

Adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines among Portuguese preschool children: the prestyle study

ABSTRACT

Purpose

The 24-Hour Movement Guidelines (24 hMG) provide specific recommendations, including physical activity (PA), screen-time and sleep-duration, which preschoolers should achieve for a healthy day (24 h). The aim of the current study was to analyse preschooler’s adherence with the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines.     

高职院校学习预警平台的构建及其实证分析

开展信息化、智慧化预警工作是实现全面精准育人的重要途径,而预警应用平台无疑是预警工作的有力工具和实践载体,其设计方案应用效果的好坏直接决定着学习预警信息化愿景的达成度。文章在分析高职院校学习预警工作现状的基础上,从工作流程设计、平台框架设计和平台建设方法等3个方面提出了解决方案,并对平台的应用效果进行了实证分析,结果表明:平台的应用扩展了预警范围、提升了预警的精准度和时效性、提高了工作效率,且干预更为灵活、个性化,可为当前高职院校学习危机的实践改革提供新思路。     

The Mystery Room: discovering the flexibility of an information literacy-based educational escape room

Abstract

The Mystery Room is an educational escape room based on information literacy and applied to multiple audiences, including first-year students and library student employees. In this article, we explain how we developed the game, its theoretical underpinnings, and why it’s a flexible workshop for a variety of audiences.     

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.     

辽宁省专业运动队文化教育状况及对策分析

采用文献资料法、问卷调查法、座谈访问法、数理统计法 ,对辽宁省专业运动员的自然情况、文化教育的需求情况、教练员以及运动员对文化教育重要性和迫切性的认识等情况、运动队的领导、一般干部进行了调查。经分析发现辽宁省专业运动队文化教育存在五个方面的问题 ,针对存在的问题提出解决的对策 ,这对于加强辽宁省专业运动队文化教育、提高运动员的科学文化素质具有一定的实践价值。     

高校110m栏课余训练初期易被忽略的问题研究

作在多年实践中发现，教练员为了应付比赛，忽于求成，在训练初期普遍存在着许多易被忽视的问题，制约着运动成绩的提高。通过对110m跨栏技术特征、专项素质要求和一般高校课余训练的特点、现状分析，提出了相应的对策。     

高校体育教育专业实践课的英文教学

在华南师范大学体育教育专业团体操选修课的实践课中实施英文教学，两轮英文教学实验不仅没有影响专业课的教学质量，还有助于提高学生学习英语的积极性和教师应用英语进行专业课教学的能力。     

Does the Model of Language in the National Literacy Strategy Create Failure for Pupils from Differing Language Backgrounds?

The National Literacy Strategy (NLS) was introduced by the government in the wake of the hotly debated issue of falling educational standards in the UK. All schools were required to adopt the NLS Literacy Hour unless they could show their preferred programme would result in raised levels of achievement. My experience of delivering the Literacy Hour has been a process of adaptation to the needs of my pupils, who are drawn mainly from groups whose language backgrounds differ from that which is dominant in school. I have found that the requirements of NLS, together with many of the commercial resources used to teach it, are not appropriate for pupils from these groups and a question arose: is it the pupils who are in some way deficient or is it the approach and the resources being used? This article takes a case study of the use of a commercially produced resource to explore the model of language implicit in NLS, the kinds of resources it generates and the ways in which this creates failure in pupils from different language backgrounds. It then considers the New Literacy Studies and their implications for an alteration in our approach.     

学校体育呼唤诚信教育

社会的稳定、繁荣是以诚信为基础,学校教育中,其竞技体育决不可陷入缺失的怪圈。由于教师的言行具有示范性和后延性的特点,出自于教育者的不讲诚信的行为,不可避免地对成长的学生造成极不良的影响,所以,体育工作者应十分重视自身的示范作用,身教重于言传。通过严格各种竞赛、训练等手段,将体育教育与诚信教育相结合,培养学生的公民信用观念和意识,使之成为具有睿智思想,美好人性与健康体格的对社会有益的人。