ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Value of Teaching Preparation during Doctoral Studies: An Example of a Teaching Practicum
Author: Edwards, Jeffrey D.
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Students,Doctoral Programs,Teacher Education,Mentors,Personal Narratives,Practicums,Teacher Attitudes

For doctoral students who seek faculty appointments in academic settings upon graduation, it is imperative those students have access to quality mentoring, direct instruction, and experiential opportunities to apply effective teaching methods during their training. Currently, some doctoral programs are beginning to develop teaching practicums which provide essential skills and experiences for doctoral students. The purpose of this paper is to describe best practices in the field of education and provide examples of post-graduate programs that are providing training and teaching opportunities to graduate assistants. One existing teaching practicum course offered at a public university in the southeast is described in detail. In addition, to support the value of a teaching practicum during doctoral training, narrative accounts from two doctoral students and a faculty mentor who participated in a teaching practicum is provided.
A Teaching Attitude Adjusting Model for College Teachers Based on Attitude Theories
Author: Zhang, Linying
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Behavior,Teacher Characteristics,College Faculty,Influences,Attribution Theory,Instructional Effectiveness,Behavior Theories,Teaching Styles,Talent,Teaching Conditions,Organizational Climate,Organizational Culture,School Support,Teaching Models

Teaching attitude of teachers influences the accomplishment of teaching objectives, the quality of teaching and students' learning outcomes and is the main variable in the process of higher education teaching. By referring to attitude theories and group characteristics of college teachers, this paper analyzes the elements that influence teaching attitude of teachers, establishes a teaching attitude adjusting model for college teachers, aiming at providing new administrative framework and critical control point for the management of teaching attitude of college teachers.
Teaching Petrarchan and Anti-Petrarchan Discourses in Early Modern English Lyrics
Author: Ribes, Purificación
Date: 2012-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English Instruction,Literature,Literary Devices,Teaching Methods,Literary Criticism,Discourse Analysis,Poetry

The aim of the present article is to help students realize that Petrarchism has been an influential source of inspiration for Early Modern English lyrics. Its topics and conventions have lent themselves to a wide variety of appropriations which the present selection of texts for analysis tries to illustrate. A few telling examples from Spenser, Sidney, Donne and Marvell have been chosen where the topic of the lady cast as a valuable treasure is variously addressed. Whereas Spenser's Sonnet 15 of his &quot;Amoretti&quot; conveys the lover's confident hope of its possession in a near marriage, Sidney's Sonnet 37 of &quot;Astrophil and Stella&quot; portrays his frustration at the idea of being robbed of his cherished jewel by a less worthy rival. Donne's &quot;The Sun Rising&quot; extends the image of the valuable treasure to include the lyric I, while removing the traditional Petrarchan opposition between &quot;charitas&quot; and &quot;eros,&quot; whereas Marvell's &quot;To his Coy Mistress&quot; inscribes his parody of the Petrarchan topic of the lady as unattainable jewel within the &quot;carpe diem&quot; tradition.
Secondary School Admissions: The Choice for Black Parents in the London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom
Author: McCalman, Lionel
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Admission (School),School Choice,Parent Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Role of Education,Social Systems,Blacks,Municipalities,School Districts,Preferences,Underachievement,Educational Quality,Academic Achievement

In the UK, the law places a lot of emphasis on parental rights and choice--the right to choose the school that suits the needs of your child. Parents can list in order of preference and this ranked order is lodged with the education authority (through one common application form), and hope that within the complexities of the admissions process, the system mitigates in their favour. For some black parents, the oversubscription criterion is often perceived as the hurdle within the allocation procedure. Their children will loose out. This paper provides an insight into the views of some black parents in the London Borough of Hackney and through a personal and critical engagement; analysis is brought to bear on a terrain of current educational debate. An attempt is made here to address the role of education in a capitalist society.
Lifelong Mathematics Learning--A Threat or an Opportunity? Some Remarks on Affective Conditions in Mathematics Courses
Author: Schlöglmann, Wolfgang
Date: 2006-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Lifelong Learning,Mathematics Education,Adult Learning,Learning Motivation,Emotional Response,Adult Education,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Interviews,Statistical Analysis,Environmental Influences,Economic Factors,Work Environment,Role of Education

In the last decades of the 20th century lifelong learning became a key concept for solving social and economic problems in highly industrialized countries. Lifelong learning was the societal response to conditions in a rapidly changing economic world. Humans have always learned in the normal course of their lives, but this learning was informal. Modern conditions require formal education in formal courses with a controlled output. In many reports by international organizations lifelong learning is seen as a necessity and also as an opportunity for adult learners. But does this picture reflect the affective situation of all adults in mathematics courses? Many adult learners in mathematics courses are unemployed, and instead of being willing participants, they were forced into courses which include mathematics as a compulsory component. They have not chosen to participate in a learning program. This paper discusses the motives of adult learners for pursuing mathematics courses, as well as their emotional state in these courses, by using the results of a previous empirical study of the state of mathematics education within the Austrian adult education system.
The Importance of the Teacher for Developing Interest in Learning English by Chinese Students
Author: Yang, Yunbao
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Role,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,Learning Motivation,Student Motivation,Teacher Student Relationship,Learning Experience,Language Role,Language Teachers,Second Language Instruction

The importance of the English teacher for the development of interest by students in the learning of English is discussed. In the Chinese context, the teacher is regarded traditionally as knowledgeable and the source of learning by students. Commonly, learners have no idea why English language is important to them and their interest in English relies on their teacher. A few perspectives are discussed regarding teachers as motivators of the successful learning of English.
Moral Reasoning, Academic Dishonesty, and Business Students
Author: Bélanger, Charles H.
Date: 2012-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Moral Values,Cheating,Business Administration Education,Correlation,Undergraduate Students,Ethics,Moral Development,Student Attitudes,Surveys,Foreign Countries,Self Esteem,Personal Autonomy,Self Concept,Student Responsibility,Regression (Statistics)

This study links moral reasoning, academic dishonesty, and business students. Undergraduate business students (N = 1357) from eight Ontario (Canada) universities responded to a survey to express their perceptions and expectations of their academic environment and the variables that can help them to understand what is morally right and what is morally wrong. Results revealed these emerging adults welcome some moral guidance but they are not inclined to encumber themselves with too many rules. Their main expectations revolve around self-confidence, independence of thought and action, acceptance of responsibility for themselves, and what academic dishonesty involves. The authors discuss these findings in the context of moral development of emerging adults who are challenged to achieve identity coherence and ethical judgment. For their part, business schools have the obligation to offer enriching academic experiences and train values-based leaders without preaching &quot;morality.&quot;
Service Mathematics in Irish Universities: Some Findings from a Recent Study
Author: Gill, Olivia
Date: 2007-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Mathematics,Qualitative Research,Delivery Systems,Planning,Evaluation Methods,College Faculty,Observation,Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Questionnaires,Interviews,College Freshmen,Competence,Mathematics Education,Nonmajors,Teaching Methods

In this paper the authors report on a qualitative investigation into service mathematics carried out in Irish universities against a backdrop of major concerns nationally and internationally embodied in the so-called &quot;Mathematics problem&quot;. The enquiry involved a close inspection of how service mathematics is perceived, planned, delivered, evaluated, assessed and experienced by both lecturers and students in selected service mathematics courses in all seven Irish universities. Murphy (2002) used Brousseau?s concept of didactical contract to uncover the implicit contract present in Irish second level classrooms. The authors emulated this work to discover the hidden learning contract in university service mathematics lectures in Ireland. Major outcomes of the study include insight into the nature of the didactical contract at work in the service mathematics courses surveyed, and the development of a preliminary characterisation of service mathematics in Irish universities. Service mathematics is also an issue for adult mathematics education and impacts on it.
Problems in Library Construction of Newly-Upgraded Local Undergraduate Institutions
Author: Qiu, Chunlan
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Undergraduate Study,Academic Libraries,Library Administration,Library Development,Library Services,Performance Factors,Staff Utilization,Staff Development,Library Materials,Change Strategies,Foreign Countries

Based on an analysis on the features and problems in the libraries of some newly-upgraded local undergraduate institutions, this article finally comes to a series of management countermeasures.
Brazilian Peasant Mathematics, School Mathematics and Adult Education
Author: Knijnik, Gelsa
Date: 2007-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Education,Cultural Influences,Adult Education,Foreign Countries,Cultural Differences,Ethnography,Power Structure,Mathematics Curriculum,Social Bias,Social Justice,Social Change

The paper analyzes adult mathematics education from a cultural perspective. Specifically, its purpose is to broaden our comprehension about this field of knowledge using as a theoretical tool-box an Ethnomathematics perspective founded on post-modern thought, post-structuralism theorizations and Wittgenstein's work developed in his book &quot;Philosophical Investigations.&quot; This Ethnomathematics perspective allows us to study the Eurocentric discourses that constitute academic mathematics and school mathematics; to analyze the effects of truth produced by the discourses of academic mathematics and school mathematics; to discuss issues of difference in mathematics education, considering the centrality of culture and the power relations that institute it; and to problematize the dichotomy between &quot;high&quot; culture and &quot;low? culture in mathematics education. Taking elements of the empirical data produced in many years of fieldwork with peasants of the Brazilian Landless Movement who participate in adult education courses as students or as teachers, the paper discusses some aspects of this social movement, especially the educational work they are developing; it outlines the theoretical background that supports the idea that there are different mathematics; it presents and analyzes some elements of the mathematics produced by the Landless peasant form of life, establishing relations with school mathematics, problematizing curricular issues of adult mathematics education.
Information and Communications Technology in Teaching Marketing: Benefits and Problems
Author: Kadembo, Ernest M.
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Marketing,Technology Uses in Education,Technology Integration,Influence of Technology,Teaching Methods,Educational Practices,Educational Strategies,Change Strategies,Plagiarism,Educational Innovation

The advent of a continuous innovation and improvement, particularly in respect of information and communications technology has had a huge impact on the quality of life and in education delivery is an open secret. The benefits from exploiting ICT in education are ernomous but there are abuses that have tarnished its use in education. The excellence ICT is attributed with has been put to the sword and will stretch this innovation to develop tools for redressing these predicaments. ICT is with us from the cradle to the grave. This research reviewed published information and confirmed the overwhelming importance of information technology in marketing education. ICT has revolutionalised learning by enabling easy access to information through online materials and learning has become more convenient as students can combine work and online learning to good effect. However, academics and students have found it easier to access materials and often fail to acknowledge the source thus distorting the originality of the source. Where the systems for guarding against plagiarism are not thorough there is widespread abuse of the learning process. The paper recommends stringent systems for checking against plagiarism and that work submitted should be current if not live so as to avoid students duplicating work from elsewhere and appropriate punishment meted. At the same time there is software for detecting cheating in education which has gone some way in detecting the culprits and that had had a significant effect in reducing the proliferation of education malpractices.
Globalization and Its Impact on the Medium of Instruction in Higher Education in Malaysia
Author: Mohamed, Mohini
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Global Approach,Bilingualism,English (Second Language),College Faculty,Teacher Surveys,Teacher Attitudes,Educational Policy,Educational Practices,Politics of Education,Public Policy,Language of Instruction,Program Effectiveness,Program Evaluation,Science Education,Mathematics Education,Questionnaires,Preferences,Writing for Publication,Educational Change

Understanding bilingualism in science and mathematics education and developing a principled instruction is a pressing issue in Malaysian system of education. With the implementation of government policy of teaching science and mathematics in English starting from year 2003, an increasing number of students are affected with this policy. An initial study has been undertaken to examine the view of instructors from two public universities in Malaysia. A total of 175 respondents comprise of professors, associate professors and lecturers from eleven faculties participated in the research. In the context of Malaysia, even though the dilemma was due to governmental initiatives, it is important to raise the consciousness of the bilingual educator and to liberate their view of bilingual education beyond a simple governmental definition or a single societal perspective.
Adult Mathematics Education and Commonsense
Author: Colleran, Noel
Date: 2007-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adult Education,Mathematics Education,Problem Solving,Thinking Skills,Mathematics Skills,Cognitive Ability,Intelligence,Intuition,Mathematical Concepts,Concept Formation,Educational Research

The relationship between quantitative problem solving and commonsense has provided the basis for an expanding exploration for Colleran and O'Donoghue. For example the authors (Colleran et al., 2002, 2001) discovered the pivotal role commonsense plays in adult quantitative problem solving and suggest commonsense is an important &quot;resource? in the adult problem-solving context. In more recent papers &quot;Adult Problem Solving and Commonsense&quot;: (Colleran et al., 2003a) and &quot;Adult Problem Solving and Commonsense: New Insights&quot; (Colleran et al., 2003b) the authors explored the valued position given to &quot;higher order&quot; thinking as distinct from the &quot;other&quot;, &quot;lower&quot; form of thinking, sometimes described as commonsense thinking. They also looked at the manner in which commonsense is created from &quot;natural learning&quot; in a range of different environments. In Colleran and O'Donoghue (in press) the authors broadened the investigation to include the views of a number of researchers in the field of commonsense who suggest that commonsense is a powerful intellectual resource and provides the bedrock on which mathematical understanding is built. The authors have come to the view that the creation and use of commonsense require intelligent, creative thinking and this &quot;order? of thinking takes place naturally in the commonsense environment. Further this intelligent thinking is supported by attitudinal as well as structural elements that facilitate the individual to engage new commonsense situations so that they become natural learning environments.
Studies on the Internationalized Higher Education
Author: Ren, Li-juan
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Global Approach,Educational Change,Educational Practices,Educational Research,Knowledge Economy,Access to Information,Global Education,Concept Formation,Educational Objectives,Curriculum Development,Study Abroad,International Educational Exchange,Educational Cooperation,Humanities Instruction,Adoption (Ideas)

As for the heated problem of the Internationalized Higher Education (IHE), the thesis makes a deep research stating the tendency of IHE and focusing on the strategy and the issues that must be paid more attention to in the realization of the Internationalized Higher Education (IHE).
The Design of Health Care Management Program for Chinese Health Care Professionals
Author: Qiu, Xiao Ling
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Program Design,Health Education,Professional Education,Business Administration Education,Design Requirements,Interviews,Business Administration,Hospitals,Health Personnel,Curriculum Design,Educational Practices,Accreditation (Institutions),Flexible Scheduling,Flexible Progression,Experiential Learning,Occupational Surveys,Adult Education

Business education has been booming in China due to the increasing demand of business graduates since China's economic reform. Chinese health care professionals are eager for business education to improve their competencies. The purpose of the study was to investigate the determinants of a successful health care management program for Chinese health care professionals. In-depth personal interview was applied in the study. There were 40 Chinese health care professionals that participated in the study in Guangzhou City China. They came from five local hospitals. The findings indicated that the Chinese health care professionals considered some health care management program attributes to be more important than other health care management program attributes. The study indicated that the flexible and practice-oriented health care management programs which are accredited by Chinese education authorities and provided by reputable schools were welcomed by the Chinese health care professionals.
Images of Mathematics in Popular Culture/Adults' Lives: A Study of Advertisements in the UK Press
Author: Evans, Jeff
Date: 2007-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Adult Learning,Popular Culture,Learning Motivation,Advertising,Films,Affective Behavior,Mathematics,Public Opinion,Newspapers,Content Analysis,Classification,Discourse Analysis,Emotional Response,Knowledge Level

The success of policies to attract adults back to the learning of mathematics, at various levels, is often linked to questions of motivation. However, motivations depend on relevant beliefs, attitudes and emotions about mathematics--which themselves reflect, together with experiences with maths in school and in the home, wider cultural discourses on mathematics. The work presented here is part of a larger study examining the complex relations between popular cultural products such as advertisements and films, the way that knowledge is portrayed by them, and possible consequences for people's affective responses. The initial phase of the project (Evans, 2003, 2004) analysed small &quot;opportunistic&quot; samples of advertisements and films. The advertisements portrayed mathematics as generally negative, whereas the films were more ambivalent. In the next phase, we produced larger samples of both advertisements and films. In this paper, we report on our search through a systematic sample of issues of UK daily newspapers for &quot;mathematical&quot; advertisements. A notable finding was the very small number of advertisements containing images of mathematics. Those few advertisements we found were most frequently for cars, or for services to businesses. Using a discourse theoretical perspective and a hybrid methodology, we categorise advertisements according to features such as their &quot;appeal&quot; to potential consumers--and we also produce semiotic readings of a sub-sample of advertisements, as to their &quot;message&quot;, in particular their images of mathematics, and of people doing, using, or teaching mathematics. Here we find these images to be much more varied and subtle than in the initial phase. We end by discussing some of the consequences of our analysis for perceptions, teaching and use of mathematics in today's market economy societies.
Employability of Graduates--A Search through the Educational Processes of Indian Engineering Institutions
Author: Viswanadhan, K. G.
Date: 2008-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Employment Potential,Engineering Education,Accreditation (Institutions),Correlation,Data Analysis,School Statistics,College Outcomes Assessment,Delivery Systems,Educational Practices,Academic Achievement,Factor Analysis

There is a big boom in manpower requirements in IT industries in India in recent years. Presently India is aiming at becoming the major source of manpower in IT and other technical fields in the global scenario. To achieve this target, enhancement of employability of graduates coming out of engineering colleges are very important. A study has been conducted, which critically evaluates the educational processes and its influence on the student performance, which can be treated as a measure of employability. The study is primarily based on the accreditation data of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India. Most of the process factors are found to be correlated with the student performance and major differences were observed between the process levels of various categories of institutes. Integration of effective teaching methodologies and necessary supporting processes in the curriculum may enhance the performance of the graduates from the engineering institutes.