The administrative authority of Taiwan,China has been executing the educational reform programs for more than two decades.However,the so-called between-class ability grouping which is prohibited by The administrative ...The administrative authority of Taiwan,China has been executing the educational reform programs for more than two decades.However,the so-called between-class ability grouping which is prohibited by The administrative authority of Taiwan,China is still found in many places;and Taiwan region of China's cram schools are even more popular and diversified than before.The authors argue that,in addition to individual's socio-economic background,regional characteristics and school attributes also play important roles.Bringing these two factors back in,the causal relationships among ability grouping,cram schooling,and student academic achievement can be analyzed more accurately.Using data from Taiwan region of China Education Panel Survey,the authors'empirical results show that,first of all,in more urbanized area,between-class ability grouping is less popular but cram school participation is wider spread these years.Secondly,the effects of family backgrounds on students'cram school participation are not as critical as they were before.Thirdly,between-class ability grouping and students'performance are positively associated but the internal mechanism still needs further investigation.展开更多
family and school are two significant institutions of human society, involving two important phases, i.e., nurture and schooling. A study of how these two phases progress in China and in the United States would help u...family and school are two significant institutions of human society, involving two important phases, i.e., nurture and schooling. A study of how these two phases progress in China and in the United States would help us to get a glimpse of the cultural differences bctween the two countries. Whereas Confucian traditions still strongly influence present-day China, individualism prevails in American society.展开更多
Introduction: The level of schooling of mothers is a determining factor in the follow-up of pregnancy and consequently the prognosis of childbirth and the quality of the newborn. Objective: The aim was to assess the i...Introduction: The level of schooling of mothers is a determining factor in the follow-up of pregnancy and consequently the prognosis of childbirth and the quality of the newborn. Objective: The aim was to assess the impact of the level of education on the follow-up of their pregnancy and perinatal prognosis at the Reference Health Centre of Commune V of the District of Bamako. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective, cross-sectional and analytical study aimed descriptive from August 15 to December 15, 2021. We included in this study all pregnant women who had a gestational age of at least 22 weeks of amenorrhea and who gave birth or were received in the immediate postpartum period at the maternity ward of the Reference Health Center of Commune V. Results: Out-of-school parturients accounted for 60% of cases. Among the parturients in school, 18% had a higher level. In our study, 14.3% of women in labour knew the date of the last menstrual period. In our series, 100% of mothers in higher and secondary school had completed an antenatal consultation (CPN) compared to 90.7% in the out-of-school mothers. CPN1 was performed in the first trimester of pregnancy in 21.1% among out-of-school parturients compared to 83.5% among higher-level parturients. The number of NPCs was greater than or equal to 4 in 47.9% of parturients. Conclusion: Women’s schooling has an impact on their socio-economic conditions on the one hand and on the monitoring and prognosis of pregnancies on the other.展开更多
The new semester has begun in China and students have gradually returned to their schools.However,the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children as today a growing number of parents b...The new semester has begun in China and students have gradually returned to their schools.However,the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children as today a growing number of parents believe home schooling offers a better education.Public opinion is voicing dissatisfaction with an education system criticized as being outdated.展开更多
A population of migrant workers have appearing during the process of China’s urbanization,and is an important part of the society that cannot be ignored.In the process of integration into cities,the equal development...A population of migrant workers have appearing during the process of China’s urbanization,and is an important part of the society that cannot be ignored.In the process of integration into cities,the equal development between the rights and obligations of migrant workers is gaining attention.Especially,the issure of schooling of their children has garnered a lot of attention.All problems resulting from schooling of their children are rooted in the asynchronization between system changes and social development.Systematic barriers have become the crux of schooling problem of migrant workers’children.展开更多
Tadpole swimming, including a solitary tadpole swimming and schooling side-by-side in an in-phase mode, is investigated numerically in the present paper. The three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for the unsteady ...Tadpole swimming, including a solitary tadpole swimming and schooling side-by-side in an in-phase mode, is investigated numerically in the present paper. The three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for the unsteady incompressible viscous flow are solved. A dynamic mesh fitting the tadpole’s deforming body surface is adopted. The results showed that for a solitary tadpole swimming, two vortex rings are shed in each undulating period. However, as the resultant force on the tadpole is drag, the vortex rings are obviously asymmetric, shaped like “C”. When the resultant force in the swimming direction approaches zero, the axes of the vortex rings are nearly vertical to the swimming direction. Distorted vortex rings are found when the resultant force on the tadpole is thrust. When the tadpole model obtains the optimum propulsive efficiency, its swimming speed and undulating frequency are close to the values observed in nature. For tadpoles swimming side-by-side in an in-phase mode, the vortex structures in the wake may merge, split and recombine. Compared with a solitary tadpole swimming, only a small hydrodynamic advantage occur with schooling in parallel, which may be one of the reasons why tadpoles rarely, if ever swim, side by side for any amount of time or distance in nature. The effect of the undulating frequency on the tadpoles schooling is similar to that on a solitary tadpole. In addition, with an increase in the Reynolds number, the thrust force and the propulsive efficiency both increase, while the power consumption decreases. We also found that the tadpole benefits from the vortex pair shedding from its blunt snout, which can strengthen the vortex intensity in the wake and improve the pressure distribution.展开更多
Purpose:(1)Critique conventional schooling as detrimental to student well-being and learning.(2)Articulate an alternative that is more conducive to learning and well-being in classrooms,schools,and educational systems...Purpose:(1)Critique conventional schooling as detrimental to student well-being and learning.(2)Articulate an alternative that is more conducive to learning and well-being in classrooms,schools,and educational systems.Design/Approach/Methods:I review the historical functions of compulsory schooling,the main critiques to conventional schooling developed over the past century,emerging knowledge on the neuroscience of learning and well-being,and cases of large-scale pedagogical transformation from the Global South.Findings:I argue that conventional schooling is detrimental to well-being,that deep learning is a precursor of well-being,and that compulsory schooling is not designed to cultivate it.Well-being has to be de-schooled so that students thrive in schools:The grammar of schooling has to be replaced with the language of learning.This requires deep and widespread cultural change,and some movements of pedagogical renewal from the Global South offer important lessons on how to accomplish this.Originality/Value:Expanding the scope of existing debates about student well-being by questioning the assumption that compulsory schooling is inherently good and pointing out that unless the default culture of schooling is replaced with cultures of robust learning,student well-being efforts will simply reproduce the very problems they seek to solve.展开更多
The practice of integrating songs into educational research is seen as an emerging phenomenon,focusing on students’existential situation from the perspective of culture.This paper explores the connections between the...The practice of integrating songs into educational research is seen as an emerging phenomenon,focusing on students’existential situation from the perspective of culture.This paper explores the connections between the songs selected and children’s life experiences in different periods between the 1950s and the present.There exist numerous songs involving the theme of schoolbags over the past 70 years.In 14 typical popular songs,the cultural implications of schoolbags roughly fall into four categories,namely political,emotional,playful,and visionary,each respectively reflecting different degrees of weight captured by the song originators.Accompanied by the diversity of musical rhythms and melodies,the musical images of schoolbags may vary in terms of phenomenology and schooling culture.The nature of schoolbags in songs keeps changing,closely related to the micro-political experiences of the singers.Therefore,as a teaching resource outside the classroom,popular songs exert a greater influence on students’spiritual cultivation than formal knowledge.展开更多
The Chinese labor market has transitioned from a dual labor market to a neoclassical labor market. With wages increasing for skilled workers, the impact on schooling must be considered by policy-makers. Taking advanta...The Chinese labor market has transitioned from a dual labor market to a neoclassical labor market. With wages increasing for skilled workers, the impact on schooling must be considered by policy-makers. Taking advantage of national representative data for 2005 and 2010, the present paper examines the hypothesis that increasing opportunity costs reduce children＇s schooling. The empirical result is of particular relevance to poor areas, where people tend to have high discount rates and place more value on real time income. Although the total public investment in education has been increasing, our findings suggest that targeting relevant regions and compensating opportunity costs will improve the efficiency of education investments.展开更多
Using the method of purpositive sampling,this research makes an empirical study on the relationship between the schooling for education and democratic qualities of public high school students in Beijing.The results sh...Using the method of purpositive sampling,this research makes an empirical study on the relationship between the schooling for education and democratic qualities of public high school students in Beijing.The results show that the democratic qualities of the students in public high school of Beijing are better as a whole,but they are still lack of democratic knowledge and abilities,etc.The results of correlation analysis,multiple regression analysis and independent-samples T test show that there are four different kinds of relationships between the schooling for education and democratic qualities of students.Firstly,there is little distinct correlation between school reputation and democratic knowledge,attitude and abilities of students.Secondly,there is little distinct correlation between prospective achievement and democratic knowledge and attitude of students,but have a large correlation with the democratic abilities of students(P<.001).Thirdly,there is a large correlation between teaching and democratic knowledge,attitude and abilities of students(P<.001).Lastly,there is a large correlation between activities participation and democratic knowledge,attitude and abilities of students(P<.001)展开更多
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an astronaut?Let's hear about retired astronaut Scott Kelly's experiences in space to get the answer to that question.Kelly graduated from college with an engineering...Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an astronaut?Let's hear about retired astronaut Scott Kelly's experiences in space to get the answer to that question.Kelly graduated from college with an engineering degree in 1987.He was later accepted into Navy flight school,and selected to attend the United States Naval Test Pilot School.展开更多
Parental educational anxiety has become a social symptom in China,and rural primary school students’mothers exhibit unique educational anxieties due to their special living environment.Based on interviews with 10 rur...Parental educational anxiety has become a social symptom in China,and rural primary school students’mothers exhibit unique educational anxieties due to their special living environment.Based on interviews with 10 rural primary school students’mothers,five typical educational anxiety experiences were selected for analysis,and themes such as rural life burden,children’s learning habits,mothers’educational expectations,mothers’educational methods,mothers’emotional state,deviation between reality and expectations,homework guidance ability,mothers’educational level,and attitudes towards children’s future development were refined.The root causes of educational anxiety among rural primary school students’mothers include the deviation between children’s actual performance and mothers’educational expectations,the sense of disparity under social comparison,physical and mental exhaustion caused by role overload,anxiety triggered by excessive economic burden,and a sense of powerlessness towards children’s educational outcomes.To alleviate the educational anxiety of rural primary school students’mothers,mothers should actively adjust themselves,fathers should actively participate in their children’s education,society should create a healthy atmosphere,and schools should strengthen family education guidance.展开更多
1 Do you have a smartphone?How well do you think you'd cope if someone took it from you for three weeks?This was the challenge that 26 pupils at a school in Colchester,England,recently faced as part of an experime...1 Do you have a smartphone?How well do you think you'd cope if someone took it from you for three weeks?This was the challenge that 26 pupils at a school in Colchester,England,recently faced as part of an experiment to find out how living without a phone would affect them.展开更多
Soccer is a very popular sport.Kids and adults play it all over the world.Kids play it in school yards and on the street.Others play it in parks and on soccer fields.Professional soccer players play it in stadiums.The...Soccer is a very popular sport.Kids and adults play it all over the world.Kids play it in school yards and on the street.Others play it in parks and on soccer fields.Professional soccer players play it in stadiums.The idea of the game is simple.Two teams play.Each team has 11 players.Players run up and down the field.They have to kick the ball into the other team's goal.Then they score a goal.The team with the most goals wins.展开更多
This paper explores the relationship between girls’schooling and empowerment in western China in the first decade of the 21st century.This paper adopted a capability-empowerment framework based on Sen’s capability a...This paper explores the relationship between girls’schooling and empowerment in western China in the first decade of the 21st century.This paper adopted a capability-empowerment framework based on Sen’s capability approach into which were integrated concepts by Bourdieu,Appadurai,Nussbaum,Kabeer,and Unterhalter,to help to understand the tenacity with which village girls pursued schooling.In interviews with a group of 23 girls and young women,several valued functionings of intrinsic capability sets in the freedom dimensions of well-being and agency and their association with rising levels of school attainment were found.The girls were found to be gaining empowering capabilities through schooling,but that these were not equally distributed,neatly slicing the group into two sharply defined groups with different life paths.One set dropped out in the middle school years with a smaller set of empowerment capabilities to work in low-skilled jobs in cities,which offered them new places to change.The other set remained in school longer to achieve a larger set of empowering functionings that they converted into more substantive freedoms in a variety of settings.展开更多
Chinese firms help 2,400 slum children to stay in school in Kenya’s capital city As laughter and singing echo through a community school in Mathare,a slum in the heart of Nairobi,Kenya’s capital,the vital role of qu...Chinese firms help 2,400 slum children to stay in school in Kenya’s capital city As laughter and singing echo through a community school in Mathare,a slum in the heart of Nairobi,Kenya’s capital,the vital role of quality education becomes unmistakably clear.展开更多
文摘The administrative authority of Taiwan,China has been executing the educational reform programs for more than two decades.However,the so-called between-class ability grouping which is prohibited by The administrative authority of Taiwan,China is still found in many places;and Taiwan region of China's cram schools are even more popular and diversified than before.The authors argue that,in addition to individual's socio-economic background,regional characteristics and school attributes also play important roles.Bringing these two factors back in,the causal relationships among ability grouping,cram schooling,and student academic achievement can be analyzed more accurately.Using data from Taiwan region of China Education Panel Survey,the authors'empirical results show that,first of all,in more urbanized area,between-class ability grouping is less popular but cram school participation is wider spread these years.Secondly,the effects of family backgrounds on students'cram school participation are not as critical as they were before.Thirdly,between-class ability grouping and students'performance are positively associated but the internal mechanism still needs further investigation.
文摘family and school are two significant institutions of human society, involving two important phases, i.e., nurture and schooling. A study of how these two phases progress in China and in the United States would help us to get a glimpse of the cultural differences bctween the two countries. Whereas Confucian traditions still strongly influence present-day China, individualism prevails in American society.
文摘Introduction: The level of schooling of mothers is a determining factor in the follow-up of pregnancy and consequently the prognosis of childbirth and the quality of the newborn. Objective: The aim was to assess the impact of the level of education on the follow-up of their pregnancy and perinatal prognosis at the Reference Health Centre of Commune V of the District of Bamako. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective, cross-sectional and analytical study aimed descriptive from August 15 to December 15, 2021. We included in this study all pregnant women who had a gestational age of at least 22 weeks of amenorrhea and who gave birth or were received in the immediate postpartum period at the maternity ward of the Reference Health Center of Commune V. Results: Out-of-school parturients accounted for 60% of cases. Among the parturients in school, 18% had a higher level. In our study, 14.3% of women in labour knew the date of the last menstrual period. In our series, 100% of mothers in higher and secondary school had completed an antenatal consultation (CPN) compared to 90.7% in the out-of-school mothers. CPN1 was performed in the first trimester of pregnancy in 21.1% among out-of-school parturients compared to 83.5% among higher-level parturients. The number of NPCs was greater than or equal to 4 in 47.9% of parturients. Conclusion: Women’s schooling has an impact on their socio-economic conditions on the one hand and on the monitoring and prognosis of pregnancies on the other.
文摘The new semester has begun in China and students have gradually returned to their schools.However,the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children as today a growing number of parents believe home schooling offers a better education.Public opinion is voicing dissatisfaction with an education system criticized as being outdated.
文摘A population of migrant workers have appearing during the process of China’s urbanization,and is an important part of the society that cannot be ignored.In the process of integration into cities,the equal development between the rights and obligations of migrant workers is gaining attention.Especially,the issure of schooling of their children has garnered a lot of attention.All problems resulting from schooling of their children are rooted in the asynchronization between system changes and social development.Systematic barriers have become the crux of schooling problem of migrant workers’children.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11472173).
文摘Tadpole swimming, including a solitary tadpole swimming and schooling side-by-side in an in-phase mode, is investigated numerically in the present paper. The three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for the unsteady incompressible viscous flow are solved. A dynamic mesh fitting the tadpole’s deforming body surface is adopted. The results showed that for a solitary tadpole swimming, two vortex rings are shed in each undulating period. However, as the resultant force on the tadpole is drag, the vortex rings are obviously asymmetric, shaped like “C”. When the resultant force in the swimming direction approaches zero, the axes of the vortex rings are nearly vertical to the swimming direction. Distorted vortex rings are found when the resultant force on the tadpole is thrust. When the tadpole model obtains the optimum propulsive efficiency, its swimming speed and undulating frequency are close to the values observed in nature. For tadpoles swimming side-by-side in an in-phase mode, the vortex structures in the wake may merge, split and recombine. Compared with a solitary tadpole swimming, only a small hydrodynamic advantage occur with schooling in parallel, which may be one of the reasons why tadpoles rarely, if ever swim, side by side for any amount of time or distance in nature. The effect of the undulating frequency on the tadpoles schooling is similar to that on a solitary tadpole. In addition, with an increase in the Reynolds number, the thrust force and the propulsive efficiency both increase, while the power consumption decreases. We also found that the tadpole benefits from the vortex pair shedding from its blunt snout, which can strengthen the vortex intensity in the wake and improve the pressure distribution.
文摘Purpose:(1)Critique conventional schooling as detrimental to student well-being and learning.(2)Articulate an alternative that is more conducive to learning and well-being in classrooms,schools,and educational systems.Design/Approach/Methods:I review the historical functions of compulsory schooling,the main critiques to conventional schooling developed over the past century,emerging knowledge on the neuroscience of learning and well-being,and cases of large-scale pedagogical transformation from the Global South.Findings:I argue that conventional schooling is detrimental to well-being,that deep learning is a precursor of well-being,and that compulsory schooling is not designed to cultivate it.Well-being has to be de-schooled so that students thrive in schools:The grammar of schooling has to be replaced with the language of learning.This requires deep and widespread cultural change,and some movements of pedagogical renewal from the Global South offer important lessons on how to accomplish this.Originality/Value:Expanding the scope of existing debates about student well-being by questioning the assumption that compulsory schooling is inherently good and pointing out that unless the default culture of schooling is replaced with cultures of robust learning,student well-being efforts will simply reproduce the very problems they seek to solve.
基金subsidized by the National Social Science Foundation Project of China(No.BAA190229)in 2019,is one of a series of research outcomes of the pedagogical project,“Studies on the Educational Culture of School Objects.”。
文摘The practice of integrating songs into educational research is seen as an emerging phenomenon,focusing on students’existential situation from the perspective of culture.This paper explores the connections between the songs selected and children’s life experiences in different periods between the 1950s and the present.There exist numerous songs involving the theme of schoolbags over the past 70 years.In 14 typical popular songs,the cultural implications of schoolbags roughly fall into four categories,namely political,emotional,playful,and visionary,each respectively reflecting different degrees of weight captured by the song originators.Accompanied by the diversity of musical rhythms and melodies,the musical images of schoolbags may vary in terms of phenomenology and schooling culture.The nature of schoolbags in songs keeps changing,closely related to the micro-political experiences of the singers.Therefore,as a teaching resource outside the classroom,popular songs exert a greater influence on students’spiritual cultivation than formal knowledge.
基金financial support from the Asian Development Bankthe China National Science Foundation(Grant No.71173234)the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
文摘The Chinese labor market has transitioned from a dual labor market to a neoclassical labor market. With wages increasing for skilled workers, the impact on schooling must be considered by policy-makers. Taking advantage of national representative data for 2005 and 2010, the present paper examines the hypothesis that increasing opportunity costs reduce children＇s schooling. The empirical result is of particular relevance to poor areas, where people tend to have high discount rates and place more value on real time income. Although the total public investment in education has been increasing, our findings suggest that targeting relevant regions and compensating opportunity costs will improve the efficiency of education investments.
文摘Using the method of purpositive sampling,this research makes an empirical study on the relationship between the schooling for education and democratic qualities of public high school students in Beijing.The results show that the democratic qualities of the students in public high school of Beijing are better as a whole,but they are still lack of democratic knowledge and abilities,etc.The results of correlation analysis,multiple regression analysis and independent-samples T test show that there are four different kinds of relationships between the schooling for education and democratic qualities of students.Firstly,there is little distinct correlation between school reputation and democratic knowledge,attitude and abilities of students.Secondly,there is little distinct correlation between prospective achievement and democratic knowledge and attitude of students,but have a large correlation with the democratic abilities of students(P<.001).Thirdly,there is a large correlation between teaching and democratic knowledge,attitude and abilities of students(P<.001).Lastly,there is a large correlation between activities participation and democratic knowledge,attitude and abilities of students(P<.001)
文摘Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an astronaut?Let's hear about retired astronaut Scott Kelly's experiences in space to get the answer to that question.Kelly graduated from college with an engineering degree in 1987.He was later accepted into Navy flight school,and selected to attend the United States Naval Test Pilot School.
基金Hunan Provincial Social Science Foundation“A Phenomenological Study on the Educational Life Experiences of Rural Young Teachers”(20YBA017)。
文摘Parental educational anxiety has become a social symptom in China,and rural primary school students’mothers exhibit unique educational anxieties due to their special living environment.Based on interviews with 10 rural primary school students’mothers,five typical educational anxiety experiences were selected for analysis,and themes such as rural life burden,children’s learning habits,mothers’educational expectations,mothers’educational methods,mothers’emotional state,deviation between reality and expectations,homework guidance ability,mothers’educational level,and attitudes towards children’s future development were refined.The root causes of educational anxiety among rural primary school students’mothers include the deviation between children’s actual performance and mothers’educational expectations,the sense of disparity under social comparison,physical and mental exhaustion caused by role overload,anxiety triggered by excessive economic burden,and a sense of powerlessness towards children’s educational outcomes.To alleviate the educational anxiety of rural primary school students’mothers,mothers should actively adjust themselves,fathers should actively participate in their children’s education,society should create a healthy atmosphere,and schools should strengthen family education guidance.
文摘1 Do you have a smartphone?How well do you think you'd cope if someone took it from you for three weeks?This was the challenge that 26 pupils at a school in Colchester,England,recently faced as part of an experiment to find out how living without a phone would affect them.
文摘Soccer is a very popular sport.Kids and adults play it all over the world.Kids play it in school yards and on the street.Others play it in parks and on soccer fields.Professional soccer players play it in stadiums.The idea of the game is simple.Two teams play.Each team has 11 players.Players run up and down the field.They have to kick the ball into the other team's goal.Then they score a goal.The team with the most goals wins.
文摘This paper explores the relationship between girls’schooling and empowerment in western China in the first decade of the 21st century.This paper adopted a capability-empowerment framework based on Sen’s capability approach into which were integrated concepts by Bourdieu,Appadurai,Nussbaum,Kabeer,and Unterhalter,to help to understand the tenacity with which village girls pursued schooling.In interviews with a group of 23 girls and young women,several valued functionings of intrinsic capability sets in the freedom dimensions of well-being and agency and their association with rising levels of school attainment were found.The girls were found to be gaining empowering capabilities through schooling,but that these were not equally distributed,neatly slicing the group into two sharply defined groups with different life paths.One set dropped out in the middle school years with a smaller set of empowerment capabilities to work in low-skilled jobs in cities,which offered them new places to change.The other set remained in school longer to achieve a larger set of empowering functionings that they converted into more substantive freedoms in a variety of settings.
文摘Chinese firms help 2,400 slum children to stay in school in Kenya’s capital city As laughter and singing echo through a community school in Mathare,a slum in the heart of Nairobi,Kenya’s capital,the vital role of quality education becomes unmistakably clear.
