Il ruolo della motivazione e della comprensione nello sviluppo della professionalitŕ degli insegnanti

2012 ◽  
pp. 118-139
Author(s):  
Giorgio Ostinelli
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Understanding By Design ◽  
Good Path

This paper depicts the different paths followed by two teachers in the development of their professionalism, through their participation to a pilot group experimenting a fairly innovative teaching approach, inspired to Wiggins & McTighe's "Understanding by design (UbD)" methodology (Wiggins & McTighe, 1998; McTighe & Wiggins, 1999; Wiggins & McTighe, 2007). UbD is a constructivist way to organize teaching, involving significant changes to usual teaching practices. The project is part of a wider school improvement strategy actually taking place in a group of Swiss vocational schools (Ostinelli, 2007, 2008a), whereby teachers are supported by some School Improvement Advisor/researchers (SIA). The SIA can be roughly described as a figure being at the same time an advisor, a researcher and a critical friend. The key idea is, after the creation of some pilot groups, to "aggregate" other teachers and to disseminate the experience to other schools: the present article deals with the first, embryonic stage. In today's world, is quite important for teachers not only to accompany, but also to be able to prevent the change taking place inside schools; in this context, an evolution in their teaching practices is decisive. UbD can be a good path to follow in this journey, but, like various innovations, can be also difficult, either for the teacher and the SIA. This article will try to explain why one of the teachers assimilated the new methodology, improving his professionalism, while the other didn't. Why and how, in some circumstances, a lack of understanding of the situa- tion experienced can drive to negative consequences to the development of innovative teaching skills? Which is the role of motivation in this context? In order to try to give some answers to these questions, both teachers were firstly interviewed, and then a motivational test was administered to them. The collected informations proved useful for a better understanding of the dynamics underlying the described experience.

scholarly journals The Structure of Leadership Language: Rhetorical and Linguistic Methods for Studying School Improvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lowenhaupt
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Linguistic Methods

AbstractIn this chapter, I discuss the justification for a linguistic turn in the study of school improvement with an emphasis on the language of leadership, and in particular persuasion, in the implementation of reform. In addition to exploring the ways in which discourse analysis can be used more generally to understand the nature of school improvement, I also focus on the particular method of rhetorical analysis as it can be leveraged to understand how the structure of language can be in and of itself an improvement strategy for educational leaders. After discussing the methodological approach, I share examples of studies of principals’ talk in the context of reform and the findings that emerged. I then consider the methodological implications of this rhetorical and linguistic turn, before ending with implications for future research and practice about the role of language in improvement efforts.

scholarly journals The role of a common european framework in the elaboration of national language curricula and syllabuses

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. M. Gouveia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
National Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The One

Following the Systemic Functional Linguistics based theory and methodology of Positive Discourse Analysis, this paper discusses some of the political, cultural and educational propositions motivating the Council of Europe’s document Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. A close reading of the text clearly shows that while attempting to promote a plurilingual approach to the learning of languages in Europe, the document also calls for a change in teaching practices aiming at a transformation in the dynamics of language relations in Europe. Some of the issues focused upon in the paper derive directly from the document’s stated objectives, namely questions of levelling, standardization, democracy and hegemony, on the one hand, and questions of plurality, independence, empowerment and difference, on the other.

scholarly journals La relación entre las opiniones acerca de la docencia universitaria y la función tutorial del profesor en la universidad

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (28) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Ethel Trengove Thiele
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

RESUMEN Esta investigación pretende indagar en la opinión que tienen las estudiantes de 4° año de la carrera de Educación Diferencial, en cuanto al desempeño profesional de la investigadora en diferentes ámbitos de la docencia, tales como la organización y estructura de la asignatura, es decir, si se evidencia suficiente dominio teórico y conceptual del tema que se desarrolla en la programación; si presenta una actitud mediadora para generar los propios aprendizajes de los estudiantes. Complementario a lo anterior, indagar si las estrategias de enseñanza son pertinentes a los aprendizajes esperados. Por último, saber si los procedimientos evaluativos son pertinentes y se enfocan a los aprendizajes que han alcanzado los estudiantes, y cuál es la percepción en torno a la interacción y clima que se genera dentro de las propias clases, y más allá del aula. Todo esto, con la finalidad de relacionarlo con prácticas pedagógicas innovadoras, como lo es la función tutorial del docente universitario, detectando aquellos puntos valorados y los no tan valorados para proyectar mejoras en aquellos aspectos que así lo requieran.Palabras clave: Competencias docentes, organización curricular, estrategias de enseñanza, procedimientos de evaluación.Relationship between opinions about University teaching and the mentoring role of the University teacher ABSTRACT This research aims to researching opinions that Fourth-year students of Special Education have regarding to the professional performance of the researcher in different teaching fields such as organization and structure of a course, that is to say, whether there is evident sufficient theoretical and conceptual mastery of the subject, whether there is a mediating attitude to generate learning in students. Complementary to that, the paper is aimed to reviewing whether teaching strategies are relevant to the learning objectives. Finally, it seeks to know whether the evaluation procedures are relevant and focused on learning students have achieved, and what would be the perception around interactions and climates generated in the classroom and beyond. The objective is to create a relationship with innovative teaching practices, as the mentoring role of the University teacher, unveiling valued and not valued aspects in order to project improvements in those weak areas.Keywords: Teaching skills, curricular organization, teaching strategies, evaluation procedures and interactions between teacher and student.

scholarly journals COMPETITIVENESS OF BIH IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL INTEGRATIONS

2017 ◽  
pp. 103-123
Keyword(s):  
Central Place ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Technology Knowledge ◽  
National Competitiveness ◽  
Good Path ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Balance Development ◽  
National Economies

In today's open and integrated world economy, the problem of competitiveness without doubt has a central place. It has shown that ever more intense competition in the conditions of all present globalisation is threatening to the survival, equaly, as of companies that are not able to transform, be inovative, productive and responsive to pressures from the environment, and as well whole national economies and communities. Bosnia and Herzegovina get a chance to improve national competitiveness through Stablisation and Association Agreement, ie. through the proces of accession to the European family. Reforms that are necessary to happen are a good path to correct principles of global competitivnes and to create preconditions for economic sustainablity, development and growth. However the role of the state, at the time of growing economic and political power of transnational mega-corporations, the devious development of technology, knowledge economy, despite numerous oppositions, is very important to balance development and to reduce negative consequences for unprepared and underdeveloped economies and national economies, which is also economy of BiH.

Plasma Levels of Protein S, Protein C, and Factor X: Effects of Sex, Hormonal State and Age

1995 ◽  
Vol 74 (05) ◽  
pp. 1271-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
C M A Henkens ◽  
V J J Bom ◽  
W van der Schaaf ◽  
P M Pelsma ◽  
C Th Smit Sibinga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Postmenopausal Women ◽  
Protein C ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Premenopausal Women ◽  
Protein S ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor X ◽  
Normal Ranges

SummaryWe measured total and free protein S (PS), protein C (PC) and factor X (FX) in 393 healthy blood donors to assess differences in relation to sex, hormonal state and age. All measured proteins were lower in women as compared to men, as were levels in premenopausal women as compared to postmenopausal women. Multiple regression analysis showed that both age and subgroup (men, pre- and postmenopausal women) were of significance for the levels of total and free PS and PC, the subgroup effect being caused by the differences between the premenopausal women and the other groups. This indicates a role of sex-hormones, most likely estrogens, in the regulation of levels of pro- and anticoagulant factors under physiologic conditions. These differences should be taken into account in daily clinical practice and may necessitate different normal ranges for men, pre- and postmenopausal women.

On the role of the dispute between "non-possessors" and "Josephites" in the culture of Moscow's prediction

1998 ◽  
pp. 61-62
Author(s):  
N. S. Jurtueva
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Moral Transformation ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Secular Power

In the XIV century. centripetal tendencies began to appear in the Moscow principality. Inside the Russian church, several areas were distinguished. Part of the clergy supported the specificobar form. The other understood the need for transformations in society. As a result, this led to a split in the Russian church in the 15th century for "non-possessors" and "Josephites". The former linked the fate of the future with the ideology of hesychasm and its moral transformation, while the latter sought support in alliance with a strong secular power.

From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If

This paper is a contribution to the growing literature on the role of projective identification in understanding couples' dynamics. Projective identification as a defence is well suited to couples, as intimate partners provide an ideal location to deposit unwanted parts of the self. This paper illustrates how projective identification functions differently depending on the psychological health of the couple. It elucidates how healthier couples use projective identification more as a form of communication, whereas disturbed couples are inclined to employ it to invade and control the other, as captured by Meltzer's concept of "intrusive identification". These different uses of projective identification affect couples' capacities to provide what Bion called "containment". In disturbed couples, partners serve as what Meltzer termed "claustrums" whereby projections are not contained, but imprisoned or entombed in the other. Applying the concept of claustrum helps illuminate common feelings these couples express, such as feeling suffocated, stifled, trapped, held hostage, or feeling as if the relationship is killing them. Finally, this paper presents treatment challenges in working with more disturbed couples.

Thomas More's “rule” of pleasure before, after, and inUtopia

Moreana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (Number 207) (1) ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Gerard Wegemer
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
De Officiis

After establishing a context of More's lifelong engagement with the “calculus” of pleasure, this essay shows how the section devoted to the Utopians' pleasure philosophy is structured around five formulations of a “rule” to calculate “true and honest [honesta]” pleasure in ways that playfully imitate and echo the “rule” Cicero formulates several times in De officiis to discern one's duty when there seems to be a conflict between honestas et utilitas. When followed, the Utopian pleasure calculus shows the necessary role of societas, officii, iustitia, caritas, and the other aspects of human nature, most importantly friendship, that Cicero stresses in his rule and that he argued Epicurus ignored. Much of the irony and humor of this section depends on seeing the predominance of Ciceronian vocabulary in Raphael's unusual defense [patrocinium] of pleasure, rather than a Ciceronian defense of duty rooted in honestas. Throughout, however, this essay also shows how More goes beyond Cicero by including Augustinian and biblical allusions to suggest ways that our final end is not as Epicurus or the Stoics or Cicero claim; the language and allusions of this section point to a level of good cheer and care for neighbors and for God in ways quite different from any classical thinker.

BLOCKADE OF THE SURGE OF PROLACTIN AT PRO-OESTRUS BY ADMINISTRATION OF ANTI-OESTROGENIC SUBSTANCE, MER-25

1973 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Yokoyama ◽  
Hiroshi Tomogane ◽  
Katuaki Ôta
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand

ABSTRACT A non-steroidal oestrogen antagonist, MER-25, was administered to cycling rats for elucidating the role of oestrogen in the surge of prolactin observed on the afternoon of pro-oestrus (POe). In animals injected with 20 mg of MER-25 intramuscularly on the afternoon (16.30 h) of the first day of dioestrus (D-1), the surge of prolactin was blocked while the level of prolactin on the afternoon of POe of these animals was significantly higher than that of the corresponding controls injected with oil. Ovulation was also blocked in these animals treated with the drug on the afternoon of D-l. On the other hand, treatment on the morning (10.30 h) of the 2nd day of dioestrus failed to prevent not only the surge of prolactin but also ovulation. These observations provide strong evidence for the view that oestrogen is responsible for the surge of prolactin on the afternoon of POe, and that the surge is accompanied by that of LH.

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