Xiufeng Liu

Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn

Models of Competence and Data Mining

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For many people, a high standard for student learning is desirable. This is what underlies current standard-based science education reforms around the world. As someone who was born and brought up in a less-privileged home and educated in a resource-limited school environment in a developing country, I always had to study hard to meet various standards from elementary to high school to univ- sity. My first book in English published over 10 years ago (Liu, X. [1996]. Mathematics and Science Curriculum Change in the People's Republic of China. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press) provided me an opportunity to examine standards (i. e. , Chinese national science teaching syllabi) from a historical and political point of view. I argued that standards are developed for particular poli- cal agendas in order to maintain the privileged position of certain groups (i. e. , urban residents) in a society at expenses of others (i. e. , rural residents). Thus, underneath standards is systematic discrimination and injustice. Since then, I have had opportunities to study the issue of standards in much more breadth and depth. This book, Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn: Models of Competence and data mining, provides me an opportunity to examine standards from a different perspective: opportunity to learn.

Produktdetails

• Innovations in Science Education and Technology 17
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-8221-3
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9789048182213
• ISBN-10: 9048182212
• Artikelnr.: 32798604

Inhaltsangabe

Equity and Excellence in Standard-Based Education.- Competence and Opportunity to Learn.- Models of Competence and Data Mining.- Models of Competence and Opportunities to Learn in the Classroom.- Models of Competence and Opportunities to Learn at Home.- Models of Competence and Opportunities to Learn in Schools.- Pedagogical and Policy Implications.