scholarly journals Proposed system for analyzing the location of preschools: a Brazilian case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 446
Author(s):  
Kellen Dayelle Endler ◽  
Cassius Tadeu Scarpin ◽  
Maria Teresinha Arns Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
National Education ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Current Location ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Infant Education ◽  
New Facilities

Early infant education and care have become priority issues in Brazil. The present article evaluates the spatial distribution of public preschools in the municipality of Curitiba, in Paraná State, Brazil. This problem is an important aspect of school administration and can relieve problems of inequality in public education, such as accessibility and availability of places. The main contribution of this article is the system it proposes for rationalizing decision-making in the education system in question. This system presents four complementary analyses, although they are independent of one another: (i) analysis of the current location of facilities; (ii) analysis of the proposed location; (iii) analysis for expanding the capacity of existing units; and (iv) analysis of the opening of new facilities. The models were generated using VB.NET© modeling language and were solved by the CPLEX© solver. The results showed that, in general, there is a need for immediate planning to increase the number of places available in public infant education in Curitiba, which is also a requirement for compliance with the goals of the National Education Plan (NEP) that is now in force nationwide. 

Interactive acculturation of Turkish-Belgian parents and children in Flanders: A case study of Beringen

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-428
Author(s):  
Özgün Ünver ◽  
Ides Nicaise
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Domain Specificity ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

This article tackles the relationship between Turkish-Belgian families with the Flemish society, within the specific context of their experiences with early childhood education and care (ECEC) system in Flanders. Our findings are based on a focus group with mothers in the town of Beringen. The intercultural dimension of the relationships between these families and ECEC services is discussed using the Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM). The acculturation patterns are discussed under three main headlines: language acquisition, social interaction and maternal employment. Within the context of IAM, our findings point to some degree of separationism of Turkish-Belgian families, while they perceive the Flemish majority to have an assimilationist attitude. This combination suggests a conflictual type of interaction. However, both parties also display some traits of integrationism, which points to the domain-specificity of interactive acculturation.

scholarly journals Immigrant Parents’ Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care Practices in the Finnish Multicultural Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Leena Lastikka ◽  
Lasse Lipponen
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Cooperative Partnership ◽  
Education And Care

Although the number of immigrant families is increasing in Finland, the research on their perspectives on early childhood and care (ECEC) services is scarce. The objective of this small-scale case study was to increase the understanding of immigrant families’ perspectives on ECEC practices. Through the qualitative content analysis of interview-based data, four themes emerged as particularly important for working with immigrant families: (a) fostering dialogue and mutual understanding; (b) promoting cultural and linguistic diversity; (c) encouraging cooperative partnership; and (d) providing support and individualized attention. This study contributes to the development of more inclusive and supportive ECEC practices in order to better support families with immigrant backgrounds.

Examining How Stakeholders at the Local, State, and National Levels Made Sense of the Changed Kindergarten

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 822-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Brown ◽  
Joanna Englehardt ◽  
David P. Barry ◽  
Da Hei Ku
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Standardized Testing ◽  
First Grade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Local State ◽  
National Education ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Academic Content ◽  
Education Stakeholders

Kindergarten in the United States has fundamentally changed. It is the new first grade where children are taught increased academic content and experience more standardized testing. There is much debate among education stakeholders about these changes, but such discussions are often siloed— making it difficult to know whether these changes reflect these stakeholders’ understandings of kindergarten specifically or public education in general. This explorative video-cued multivocal ethnographic study addressed this issue by examining how local, state, and national education stakeholders made sense of the changed kindergarten. Such findings provide insight into what it is they viewed driving these academic and instructional changes, what opportunities for further reform exist, and whether these stakeholders will work to support and/or alter such changes.

scholarly journals SENCER “Do-Now” KQED social media in the classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Thomas C Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Civic Capacity ◽  
National Education ◽  
College Course ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Student Reactions ◽  
Enhanced Learning

By developing opportunities for students to learn through compelling current events, learning environments are improved.   Inspired students discover relevance to their lives, create dialogue and gain confidence in their ability to expand civic capacity.   Social media has been used to provide an experimental venue for this enhanced learning in selected courses nationally through project SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Reform), an NSF sponsored national education reform initiative.   In the fall of 2015, the New Century College course Mysteries of Migration was one of six courses selected nationally for the inaugural SENCER collaboration with KQED in San Francisco, where social media blogs called “Do Now” are flourishing.  In this session, I will discuss the implementation of “Do Now” blogs into Mystery of Migration’s semester–long case study assignment.   This course is interdisciplinary in scope, integrating the biology and ecology of migratory organisms with public policy.   In this session I will discuss the student reactions and evidence of learning through the use of “Do Now” and the merits of implementing social media into existing courses. 

scholarly journals Desafío TEP – Positive Educational Trajectories. A Public-Private Alliance to Strengthen Public Education During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Valenzuela ◽  
Simon Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
School Exclusion ◽  
Educational Trajectories ◽  
Education Service ◽  
Educational Foundation ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The University

AbstractThis case study describes the Desafío TEP project, which arose from a public-private alliance between the Arauco Educational Foundation, the Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE) from the University of Chile, and the Andalién Sur Local Public Education Service (SLEP). The goal of the project is to develop a model for the prevention of school exclusion (resulting from repetition and dropout) in public schools.Although the initiative was in consideration to be suspended due to the closure of schools across the country caused by COVID-19, instead the proposal was completely redesigned, recognizing that the pandemic would increase the problems of school exclusion. The innovations generated in this redesign are anticipated to lead to long-term sustainability and scalability in the region through cost reductions and the promotion of remote interactions between different establishments working in networks, such as the SLEP, the schools, and the teams from the CIAE and Arauco Educational Foundation. This network is further supported by the actors in the educational system of the territory.

Designing and Mining Web Applications

2010 ◽  
pp. 401-417
Author(s):  
Rosa Meo ◽  
Maristella Matera
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Frequent Patterns ◽  
Application Management ◽  
Modeling Methods ◽  
Web Logs ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
The Web

In this chapter, we present the usage of a modeling language, WebML, for the design and the management of dynamic Web applications. WebML also makes easier the analysis of the usage of the application contents by the users, even if applications are dynamic. In fact, it makes use of some special-purpose logs, called conceptual logs, generated by the application runtime engine. In this chapter, we report on a case study about the analysis of conceptual logs for testifying to the effectiveness of WebML and its conceptual modeling methods. The methodology of the analysis of the Web logs is based on the datamining paradigm of item sets and frequent patterns, and makes full use of constraints on the conceptual logs’ content. As a consequence, we could obtain many interesting patterns for application management such as recurrent navigation paths, the most frequently visited page’s contents, and anomalies.

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