“I WANT TO USE MY SUBJECT MATTER TO...”: THE ROLE OF PURPOSE IN ONE U.S. SECONDARY HISTORY TEACHER’S INSTRUCTIONAL DECISION MAKING

In this study, we explore the instructional decision making of Charlotte, a graduate of an intensive social studies teacher education program. Charlotte articulated a sophisticated conception of historical thinking and appeared to possess exemplary pedagogical content knowledge. Her classroom practice did not incorporate the approaches to historical thinking and inquiry that were discussed in her methods course. She possessed a clear view of her purpose of history teaching, which was to impart a particular set of moral values; her practices were consistent with her purpose; and she controlled her class to accomplish that purpose. Key words: instructional decision making, history teaching, social studies, historical inquiry, document‐based instruction, methods courses, beginning teachers Dans cet article, les auteures analysent une décision pédagogique de Charlotte, diplômée d’un programme de formation à l’enseignement spécialisé en sciences humaines. Charlotte, qui a développé une conception avant‐gardiste de la pensée historique, semble posséder une connaissance exemplaire du sujet. Ses pratiques pédagogiques n’incluent pas les approches discutées dans son cours de méthodologie quant à la pensée et à la recherche historiques. Elle a une notion claire du but qu’elle poursuit en enseignant l’histoire, à savoir la transmission d’un ensemble précis de valeurs morales. Ses pratiques vont de pair avec ce but et elle contrôle sa classe de manière à atteindre son objectif. Mots clés : décision pédagogique, enseignement de l’histoire, sciences humaines, recherche historique, enseignement à l’aide de documents, cours de méthodologie, jeunes enseignants

Creating social impact with side-events

All over the world, sport events are seen as significant tools for creating positive social impact. This is understandable, as sport events have the power to attract enthusiastic participants, volunteers and to reach large audiences of visitors and followers via (social) media. Outbursts of excitement, pleasure and feelings of camaraderie are experienced among millions of people in the case of mega events. Still, a fairly large section of the population does not care that much for sports. Some may experience road blocks, litter and noise disturbance from the events. Sport events generally require investments, often from local or national authorities. Concerned citizens rightfully point at alternative usage of public money (e.g. schools, health care). Thrills and excitement are good things, but does that warrant public money being spent on? Or is there a broader social significance of sport events? Can sport events help alleviate societal issues (like cohesion, inequality and non-participation), do they generate a social impact beyond what spectators experience during the event? In this report the authors have aimed to describe the state of play as regards the evidence for the occurrence of a social impact from sport events and the strategies that are required to enhance social impact from sport events. For the report, an extensive scan of the literature was performed and input was collected from a key group of international experts

Evaluatie Le Grand Départ Utrecht 2015

De evaluatie van Le Grand Départ Utrecht beoordeelt of de opdracht en hoofddoelstellingen zijn gerealiseerd en welke lessen de gemeente Utrecht hieruit kan trekken. Onderdelen die zijn onderzocht zijn een analyse van de waardering van de bezoekers, de economische impact van het evenement en de organisatorische en maatschappelijke legacy ervan

More is not better:The emotional dynamics of an excellent experience

Emotions embody the value in tourism experiences and drive essential outcomes such as intent to recommend. Current models do not explain how the ebb and flow of emotional arousal during an experience relate to outcomes, however. We analyzed 15 participants’ experiences at the Vincentre museum and guided village tour in Nuenen, the Netherlands. This Vincent van Gogh-themed experience led to a wide range of intent to recommend and emotional arousal, measured as continuous phasic skin conductance, across participants and exhibits. Mixed-effects analyses modeled emotional arousal as a function of proximity to exhibits and intent to recommend. Experiences with the best outcomes featured moments of both high and low emotional arousal, not one continuous “high,” with more emotion during the middle of the experience. Tourist experience models should account for a complex relationship between emotions experienced and outcomes such as intent to recommend. Simply put, more emotion is not always better

Bunyavirus requirement for endosomal K+ reveals new roles of cellular ion channels during infection

In order to multiply and cause disease a virus must transport its genome from outside the cell into the cytosol, most commonly achieved through the endocytic network. Endosomes transport virus particles to specific cellular destinations and viruses exploit the changing environment of maturing endocytic vesicles as triggers to mediate genome release. Previously we demonstrated that several bunyaviruses, which comprise the largest family of negative sense RNA viruses, require the activity of cellular potassium (K+) channels to cause productive infection. Specifically, we demonstrated a surprising role for K+ channels during virus endosomal trafficking. In this study, we have used the prototype bunyavirus, Bunyamwera virus (BUNV), as a tool to understand why K+ channels are required for progression of these viruses through the endocytic network. We report three major findings: First, the production of a dual fluorescently labelled bunyavirus to visualize virus trafficking in live cells. Second, we show that BUNV traffics through endosomes containing high [K+] and that these K+ ions influence the infectivity of virions. Third, we show that K+ channel inhibition can alter the distribution of K+ across the endosomal system and arrest virus trafficking in endosomes. These data suggest high endosomal [K+] is a critical cue that is required for virus infection, and is controlled by cellular K+ channels resident within the endosome network. This highlights cellular K+ channels as druggable targets to impede virus entry, infection and disease