Home-School Reinforcement: A Case Study

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Leach ◽  
Alan Ralph
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Home School ◽  
Disruptive Behaviour ◽  
Problem Behaviour ◽  
Fading Procedure ◽  
Home Based ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
History Of

A home-based reinforcement programme was implemented to decrease classroom rule violations by a 16-year-old boy with a long history of disruptive behaviour in a secondary school classroom. The critical features of the intervention are described and discussed, including the fading procedure employed to maintain the behavioural gains exhibited during the programme's operation. The usefulness of minimal interventions, such as home-based reinforcement programmes, in the management of problem behaviour in schools is discussed, and comment is made on some possible benefits to behavioural practice of the collaborative style of intervention exemplified.

Technology-Based Values Teaching in Secondary Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Miriam Borham Puyal ◽  
Susana Olmos-Migueláñez ◽  
Paola Perochena González ◽  
María José Rodríguez-Conde
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Multicultural Classrooms

This chapter presents a case study of the use of ICTs, and in particular the blog, in a Spanish Secondary School classroom in order to promote the teaching of values such as solidarity or tolerance. The aim was to enhance coexistence in increasingly diverse and multicultural classrooms in which the acknowledgement and development of these values prove essential for a successful coexistence.

scholarly journals Profesor y alumnado conectados en una red pública compartida

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-478
Author(s):  
Teresa García Gómez ◽  
Juan José Carmona Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Network System ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Competencia Digital

El presente trabajo analiza el modo en el que el uso de las TIC y medios digitales impulsan la creación de participación ciudadana en el aula; siendo el profesor el vehículo que guía estos procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje. La metodología utilizada es de corte cualitativo, concretamente una investigación con Estudio de Caso en un aula de secundaria, en la que se ha indagado en qué medida el uso de las herramientas web 2.0 incentivan la construcción de ciudadanía. Como resultados destacan una ruptura con el estilo docente «tradicional», creándose una Red de redes donde usa Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus de manera activa e interconexionada entre sí, potenciando una formación en y para la ciudadanía a través de un propuesta didáctica para el ejercicio de la autonomía, donde la competencia digital y la competencia social y ciudadana están íntimamente interrelacionadas. En conclusión, la participación democrática y la colaboración entre iguales, unido al desarrollo de ambas competencias, fomentan un estilo de ciudadanía activa. This paper discusses how ICT and digital media can promote involvement in civil society, with teachers being the vehicle for these educational and learning processes. Through a qualitative approach focused on a case study of a secondary school classroom, it shows to what extent the use of Web 2.0 tools encourage the building of citizenship. The most significant results show a break with "traditional" teaching through a complex network system, including active and connected uses of Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus to promote the learning of citizenship through a teaching method aimed at exercising autonomous behaviour where digital and social capacities are deeply intertwined. To conclude, citizen involvement and peer to peer cooperation, as well as the development of both capacities, promote an active-style citizenship.

The Curriculum Development and Project-Based Assessment of Design Education in Singapore and Hong Kong Secondary Schools

2018 ◽  
pp. 220-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Lin Wong ◽  
Kin Wai Michael Siu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Project Work ◽  
School Design ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
History Of

Project work is an essential feature in design education and curriculum and the major assessment that students need to work on. Project-based assessment is one of the promising approaches for assessing students' performance in design education. It is also the appropriate pedagogical approach for teaching design. In project-based assessment, students need to finish several tasks, such as identify a problem, research on relevant materials, suggest possible solutions to the problems, realize the chosen solution, make the artifacts and evaluate it in a project. It is natural and indubitable in the design classes – teachers and students would probably accept it without any questions. However, in the recent years, project work in design education at secondary school levels has been developed in some new directions that it is significantly differentiated from the traditional project work in the past. It is then interesting to review the historical development of secondary school design education and understand the practice of project-based assessment. The design curricula of Singapore and Hong Kong are chosen for case study and comparison in this chapter. Through examining the similar background of curriculum development of Singapore and Hong Kong, the comparison and the discussions of the chapter also highlight some issues and the future development of curriculum and assessment in K-20 education of both places. The aims of the chapter are to (1) review the history of curriculum development in Singapore and Hong Kong secondary school design education; (2) review the project-based assessment in the design curricular in both places; and (3) discuss the general and specific issues of curriculum development and project-based assessment based on the reviews.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

Turning Aliens into Socialists

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Jessica Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Highly Evolved

Immediately after the Second World War Sweden was struck by a wave of sightings of strange flying objects. In some cases these mass sightings resulted in panic, particularly after authorities failed to identify them. Decades later, these phenomena were interpreted by two members of the Swedish UFO movement, Erland Sandqvist and Gösta Rehn, as alien spaceships, or UFOs. Rehn argued that ‘[t]here is nothing so dramatic in the Swedish history of UFOs as this invasion of alien fly-things’ (Rehn 1969: 50). In this article the interpretation of such sightings proposed by these authors, namely that we are visited by extraterrestrials from outer space, is approached from the perspective of myth theory. According to this mythical theme, not only are we are not alone in the universe, but also the history of humankind has been shaped by encounters with more highly-evolved alien beings. In their modern day form, these kinds of ideas about aliens and UFOs originated in the United States. The reasoning of Sandqvist and Rehn exemplifies the localization process that took place as members of the Swedish UFO movement began to produce their own narratives about aliens and UFOs. The question I will address is: in what ways do these stories change in new contexts? Texts produced by the Swedish UFO movement are analyzed as a case study of this process.

Rethinking the Agency of Women in the Shea Industry

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abiba Yayah
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Home Based

The agency of women in most African countries is often affected by the socio-economic and political policies that are almost always disadvantageous to women, especially women who have little to no knowledge of their rights. Using the shea industry in Ghana as a case study, I chronicle the challenges as recounted by rural women involved in this home-based work in the Northern Region of Ghana and critically analyse these challenges and their implications. Focusing mainly on the results of my recent field work, I present some of the accounts relating to the lack and exclusion of recognition of and respect for the experiences of rural women who are in fact the linchpin of the shea industry in Ghana. Initiatives and strategies of non-governmental organisations and some governmental policies have attempted to address these challenges that have implications for the livelihoods of rural women. Research and policies have only offered “band-aid solutions” to the economic disempowerment of rural women in the shea industry in Ghana as they have not dealt with the causes. This article seeks to refute the claim that equity exists by indicating the lack of equity and justice in the policies in the shea industry. In an attempt to provide an understanding of the economic disempowerment of women in this industry, I consider my field work as a good source as it exposes the experiences and everyday practices as narrated by rural women in the industry. This article seeks to analyse the existing discourses especially those pertaining to the contributions and experiences of rural women in the shea industry.

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