Scientific Education in Asia

Migrant parents’ challenging experiences of home-schooling during the COVID-19 lockdowns

2024-04-03T09:32:53+08:00

The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant educational disruption globally. When the pandemic forced schools to switch to emergency home-schooling, parental engagement in education became more critical. Some parents found home-schooling as an opportunity to form stronger relationships with their children. Others acquired an enhanced insight into their children’s schoolwork. However, the emerging literature shows that, as not all parents were equally positioned to support their children’s learning at home, emergency home-schooling has resulted in a significant learning loss. Guided by the concept of capital interaction, this article reports on a qualitative case study that investigated the experiences of 20 migrant parents in Victoria, Australia. A thematic analysis of the data reveals challenges associated with parental self-efficacy, financial hardship, language and technological barriers, time constraints, and disengagement and exhaustion. Remote learning may return in the future, and we must prepare for such disruption by improving equitable access to education delivered online and at home. To this end, the paper outlines some policy ideas.

Leadership and Reshaping Schooling in a Networked World

2024-04-03T09:23:58+08:00

This paper is initiated from a position that, until recently, the nature of schooling globally has remained largely unchanged since its design in the last century, and there has been a hegemony that supported its form to be enduring and largely unchanged. However, in a digital, networked world, there is a need to rethink and redefine schooling. Following an examination of schooling in the 21st Century, summarising the context and critical challenges presented by new and emerging digital technologies, suggestions about what schooling might look like in an increasingly digital, networked world are presented. Guidance is provided in relation to key questions for leadership to reshape schooling in a networked world, including: how might schools move into the networked mode? what is required to lead and manage a networked school community? how will a networked school become defined less by its physical space and timetabled lessons, but by being networked and that learning can take place anywhere, anytime?

Promoting Role of Situationalized Teaching Method for Foreign Language Classroom in Colleges and Universities

2024-04-03T09:35:57+08:00

Scenario-based teaching mode intervened in China's foreign language classroom at the end of the 20th century, and stood out among many other teaching modes with its intuitive and vivid characteristics. This paper discusses the current situation of multilingual teaching in China's colleges and universities, and the positive effect of contextualized teaching mode on students' learning and interest; it aims to demonstrate the relevance of this teaching mode to the actual demand for foreign language talents in China's social development, and to put forward targeted classroom construction strategies for its application, in order to teach colleagues.

Mapping the Evolution of eLearning from 1977–2005 to Inform Understandings of eLearning Historical Trends

2024-04-03T09:29:57+08:00

While there have been very limited studies of the educational computing literature to analyze the research trends since the early emergence of educational computing technologies, the authors argue that it is important for both researchers and educators to understand the major, historical educational computing trends in order to inform understandings of current and future eLearning trends. This study provides the findings of an analysis of 2,694 journal articles published between 1977 and 2005 in four major, international educational computing journals. It provides the platform for a subsequent analysis for the period 2006–2013 and beyond, as future educational computing research is published. The journal articles analyzed were categorized according to their research themes. Subsequently, clustering analysis, multi-dimension scale analysis, and research diversity analysis were performed on the categorized results to explore the research trends. The research literature analysis confirmed that there were identifiable evolutionary trends dating from 1977, and, importantly, the analysis highlighted that each key breakthrough in technology was accompanied by increased educational research about those technologies to inform educational practices. Importantly, two major driving forces of the historical trends identified were technologies and pedagogical approaches. The paper concludes with explanations of how these trends from 1997–2005 have shaped the current focus on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) needed for effective current and future eLearning.

Beginning teacher preparation and readiness for the profession as inclusive educators

2024-04-03T09:19:09+08:00

In this study, we investigated the perceptions of beginning teachers regarding their preparation for becoming inclusive educators. Our aim was to explore what they considered facilitators and barriers to becoming inclusive educators upon transitioning into the profession. The research was informed by the three apprenticeships model encompassing the cognitive, practical and moral dimensions of teaching that is the knowledge, skills and beliefs required to practice as an inclusive educator. We collected interview data from eight beginning teachers who transitioned into the profession in 2020 or 2021 and undertook a thematic analysis of these conversations. Our analysis identified that beginning teachers perceived that their teacher education at university did not prepare them sufficiently with 1. Strong professional inclusive education terminology and knowledge; 2. Practical and evidence-based skills for instruction and assessment; or 3. The opportunity to work with people with disabilities in inclusive contexts in order to become effective inclusive educators across all three domains. Findings are discussed and future directions for research are outlined.