scholarly journals Rural, Poor and Mapuche: A Window into the Power of Caring Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosita Puga
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Moral Orientation ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Ethics Of Caring ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Radical Transformation

This article goes deep into the process of turning around a marginal and precarious school, into one with high quality learning results and an ethos of caring and competence that echoes and celebrates the life, insight and work of Nel Noddings, in particular her 17 years of teaching and leadership in elementary and high schools, and her philosophical work on the ethics of caring and its implications for education. The article gives an account of the context, process and results of the radical transformation of a rural school serving a Mapuche community in the south of Chile, which in 2007 had the worst learning results of the country. A decade later, against all the odds of territorial isolation, socio-economic poverty and cultural distance from the mainstream, the school is consistently achieving results equivalent to the average of upper middle status schools in the main cities of highly urbanized Chile. At the heart of the change is ambitious and effective teaching that both cares and is able to help students substantially grow in terms of their fundamental skills. The article examines the forces and actors involved, the concepts, moral orientation, means and strategies through which they acted, and the time-scale of the project.

scholarly journals Fabrication Of High Quality Qc Films Via The Route Of The Amorphous Phase

1998 ◽  
Vol 553 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Haberkern ◽  
C. Roth ◽  
R. Knöfler ◽  
L. Schulze ◽  
P. Häussler
Keyword(s):  
Transport Properties ◽  
Amorphous Phase ◽  
Electronic Transport ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Icosahedral Phase ◽  
Direct Transition ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Electronic Transport Properties

AbstractWe discuss the preparation of thin icosahedral films (Al-Cu-Fe and Al-Pd-Re) via the route of the amorphous (a-)phase which in some aspects is a precursor to the icosahedral phase. A direct transition from the a- to the i-phase occurs for Al-Cu-Fe films at 430°C on the time scale of minutes. The resulting films are of good quality as shown by diffraction and electronic transport properties. The surface of the resulting films is very smooth.

Designing and Developing Competency-Based Education Courses Using Standards

2017 ◽  
pp. 232-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy B. Hastings ◽  
Karen L. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Competency Based Education ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
High Quality Product

Standards provide designers and developers of competency-based education courses and programs with a structure and framework that serve as a way to create quality learning environments that align objectives, instruction, and assessments. At the micro-level, standards facilitate direction of the structure, format, and content of a competency-based course that ensures a high-quality product. At the macro-level, standards help institutional administrators and faculty make good, informed decisions about program policies and procedures.

Learning4Content

2015 ◽  
pp. 1903-1914
Author(s):  
Ramesh C. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Common Factors ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Mass Collaboration ◽  
Open Networks ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Learning

The world over, some common factors have contributed to the emergence and growth of open educational resources. These can be to increase access to educational materials, to reduce the costs, to enhance the quality of educational content through working collaboratively, and to be used for capacity building and research. The WikiEducator project has been the foremost initiative to turn digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks. WikiEducator was established on 1 May 2006, and since then, it has grown a very big network of more than 66,700 registered WikiEducators. Learning4Content is one of the flagship initiative of WikiEducator providing free training for teachers. In this chapter, the author discusses building a vibrant and sustainable global community contributing to design, development, and delivery of free content for learning and providing training to develop wiki skills for mass collaboration to create high quality learning resources.

Evaluating a Public School Relocation in Urban Taiwan

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 984-1006
Author(s):  
Chiu-I Sung
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Educational Literature ◽  
Quality Learning

This study investigates a proposal to relocate a secondary school in Taiwan because of political and urbanization forces. This important issue has received little attention in the educational literature. Interviews, a focus group, and surveys were used to collect the views of parents, students, teachers, administrators, and local influential people. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis was adopted to evaluate the possibility of school relocation. The results showed that teachers were less likely to agree to relocate, whereas policymakers supported the move. The principal, many students, and their parents would agree to relocate if the new site offered a high-quality learning environment.

scholarly journals Emotional climate and high quality learning experiences in science teacher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 1301-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Bellocchi ◽  
Stephen M. Ritchie ◽  
Kenneth Tobin ◽  
Donna King ◽  
Maryam Sandhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Science Teacher ◽  
Science Teacher Education ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Emotional Climate ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Learning

scholarly journals Discourse Centric Learning Analytics: Mapping the Terrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Knight ◽  
Karen Littleton
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Core Issues

There is an increasing interest in developing learning analytic techniques for the analysis, and support of, high-quality learning discourse. This paper maps the terrain of discourse-centric learning analytics (DCLA), outlining the distinctive contribution of DCLA and outlining a definition for the field moving forwards. It is our claim that DCLA provides the opportunity to explore the ways in which discourse of various forms both resources and evidences learning; the ways in which small and large groups, and individuals, make and share meaning together through their language use; and the particular types of language — from discipline specific, to argumentative and socio-emotional — associated with positive learning outcomes. DCLA is thus not merely a computational aid to help detect or evidence “good” and “bad” performance (the focus of many kinds of analytics), but a tool to help investigate questions of interest to researchers, practitioners, and ultimately learners. The paper ends with three core issues for DCLA researchers — the challenge of context in relation to DCLA; the various systems required for DCLA to be effective; and the means through which DCLA might be delivered for maximum impact at the micro (e.g., learner), meso (e.g., school), and macro (e.g., government) levels.

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