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Editorial: Reclaiming the professional development agenda in an age of compliance
This issue of the journal takes as is starting point a global context, which has seen certain powerful and pervasive discourses underpinning a raft of educational reforms in a number of educational settings, in particular the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. These reforms have, among other things, been characterised by a rhetoric of devolution accompanied, ironically, by an assertion by the state and other central agencies of control over the what (curriculum) and how (pedagogy) of teaching, often driven by a "standards" agenda. These changes have had an enormous impact on the nature of teachers' work through the implementation of managerial organisational practices and other accountability mechanisms. It can be argued that in such a context, professional development, in being yoked to a reform agenda, has become little more than induction into ideological compliance. This issue seeks to bring together the voices of educational researchers and reflective teachers who have investigated the changing nature of professional development across a range of educational settings
A âNewâ Journalist: The Americanization of W. T. Stead
This work was supported by a Queen Mary University of London studentship and a Queen Mary University of London Central Research Fund Scholarship.W. T. Stead, the journalist and editor, is known primarily for his knight-errant crusade on behalf of women and girls in the sensational investigative articles âThe Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylonâ (1885). The controversial success of these articles could not have been achieved without Steadâs study and adoption of American journalistic techniques. Steadâs importance to nineteenth century periodicals must be informed by an understanding of Stead as a mediating force between British and American print culture. This premise is developed here through exploration of the terms âNew Journalismâ and âAmericanizationâ. Drawing from every stage of his career including his amateur yet dynamic beginnings as an unpaid contributor to the Northern Echo, I will examine Steadâs unofficial title as the father of New Journalism and the extent to which this title is directly attributable to his relationship with America, or, to use Steadâs term, his Americanization.PostprintPeer reviewe
Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the transatlantic social gospel network
This chapter examines how Harkness and her contemporary W. T. Stead navigated the position of journalists with an activist agenda in a transatlantic market for socially engaged publications. It explores the extent to which both Harkness and Stead made use of the ârhetoric of progressive Protestantismâ across the generic categories of their writing: realist fiction, activist journalism, and critical travel writing. In examining the âclash between socialist and evangelical rhetoricâ in the context of emerging âmodern marketing methodsâ, the chapter exposes the problems inherent in labels of ideological inconsistency as applied on gendered terms.Postprin
Klipsun Magazine, 1974, Volume 04, Issue 03 - February
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Klipsun Magazine, 1975, Volume 05, Issue 02 - January
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Effects of simultaneous speech and sign on infantsâ attention to spoken language
Objectives: To examine the hypothesis that infants receiving a degraded auditory signal have more difficulty segmenting words from fluent speech if familiarized with the words presented in both speech and sign compared to familiarization with the words presented in speech only. Study Design: Experiment utilizing an infant-controlled visual preference procedure. Methods: Twenty 8.5-month-old normal-hearing infants completed testing. Infants were familiarized with repetitions of words in either the speech + sign (n = 10) or the speech only (n = 10) condition. Results: Infants were then presented with four six-sentence passages using an infant-controlled visual preference procedure. Every sentence in two of the passages contained the words presented in the familiarization phase, whereas none of the sentences in the other two passages contained familiar words.Infants exposed to the speech + sign condition looked at familiar word passages for 15.3 seconds and at nonfamiliar word passages for 15.6 seconds, t (9) = -0.130, p = .45. Infants exposed to the speech only condition looked at familiar word passages for 20.9 seconds and to nonfamiliar word passages for 15.9 seconds. This difference was statistically significant, t (9) = 2.076, p = .03. Conclusions: Infants\u27 ability to segment words from degraded speech is negatively affected when these words are initially presented in simultaneous speech and sign. The current study suggests that a decreased ability to segment words from fluent speech may contribute towards the poorer performance of pediatric cochlear implant recipients in total communication settings on a wide range of spoken language outcome measures
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