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School-based teachers’ professional development policies: learning from the practices of English classroom at public secondary school in northern Pakistan
Get PDFProfessional development (PD) is critically important for the professional survival of classroom-level teachers across the globe and Pakistan is no exception. Mentoring and action research are one of the various forms of PD. Conducting PD sessions help teachers improve pedagogy, classroom practices and to become self-directed learners (Slepkov 2008; McNif, 2016). This study reports learning from a PD session and classroom action research from English class in a mountainous northern part of Pakistan. Techers were exposed to various techniques of general teaching, lesson planning, writing reflections/ portfolios and classroom management through a 5-day workshop. After the sessions, the teachers taught English to grade 7 students for three cycles. Pre- and post- intervention tests, teachers’ reflective diaries, lesson plans and portfolio books were sources of data collection. The study shows that there is a thirst amongst teachers for professional grooming. Also, students gradually benefitted from new teaching techniques. The study suggests mentoring and action research to be integral part of school professional development plan, so as to improve learning outcomes of students and teachers’ professional growth. Sustainability of these initiatives is a challenge due to lack of proper mechanism and policies. There is a need for a school policy on classroom level research to improve teaching practices and learning
Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter (No. 58) = 彩園通訊 (第58期)
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嶺南通訊 Lingnan Newsletter (第189期)
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Turning critical education issues in the Greater Bay Area into research agenda: Methodological reflections
No full textHong Kong\u27s positioning as an international financial centre and government policies developing the financial services industry
No full textIntergenerational learning for active ageing: Chinese senior immigrants’ online learning during the COVID-19
No full textThe COVID-19 has greatly affected the immigrant community in terms of racial and ethnic inequalities, border closures, travel restrictions, service processing delays, and/or mental health problems (Clark, et. al. 2020). During the pandemic, older immigrants experienced not only a high risk for severe illness, but also long-term and short-term uncertainties in both their families and the local society. The older immigrants could not receive adequate health support and social services, and lifelong learning opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between intergenerational learning and ageing in immigrant communities. Through an examination of how Chinese senior immigrants learn intergenerationally in Canada during the COVID-19, this paper argues that intergenerational learning could be seen as a pathway for active ageing (WHO, 2002), which helps to enhance senior immigrants’ health and wellbeing, civic engagement, and social security.
Based on a self-initiated intergenerational learning project by a Chinese senior immigrants’ association in Toronto, Canada, this study examined how older immigrants practiced intergenerational learning with immigrant youth through a variety of online teaching and learning activities, including English language learning, arts learning and other online collaborative learning activities. The study interviews 16 Chinese senior immigrants and 10 immigrant youth participating in the intergenerational activities in Toronto. Results showed that online intergenerational learning served as a lifelong learning process for active ageing, and played important roles in 1) intergenerational knowledge transfer; 2) cross-cultural communications; and 3) online civic engagement and community development
How tendency of striving to avoid inferiority would predict procrastination among university students in Hong Kong? A structural equation modeling approach
No full textThe current study intended to examine whether the relationship between individuals’ striving to avoid inferiority tendency and procrastination was mediated by stress and then self-control. A total of 154 Hong Kong university students completed five sets of questionnaires, including the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), the Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale (SAIS), the Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ) and the General Procrastination Scale. The results of structural equation modeling revealed that striving to avoid inferiority positively predicted stress, stress negatively predicted self-control, and self-control negatively predicted procrastinating tendency. Striving to avoid inferiority did not directly predict procrastinating behaviour. Notwithstanding, the results of bootstrapping analyses supported the hypotheses that (H1) the effect of stress on procrastination was mediated by self-control, (H2) the effect of striving to avoid inferiority on self-control was mediated by stress, and more importantly, (H3) the effect of striving to avoid inferiority on procrastination was indirectly mediated by stress and self-control serially. Further research may investigate the thoughts and feelings pertinent to procrastinating behaviours and actual duration of procrastinating behaviour of the procrastinators among university students
Development of Chinese paper cutting as an expressive art intervention targeting psychological health of University students in Hong Kong: an intervention protocol
No full textMental health has become one of the noteworthy issues in the contemporary society, with particular attention paid to university students for their heightened prevalence rate of mental health problems. In Chinese society, individuals are reluctant to seek talk-based psychotherapeutic services because of the ramification of social stigmatisation (i.e., embodiment of one’s own failure) which impedes their direct verbal expression of their presenting issues. While multifarious dynamic, action-based therapeutic approaches can be found in Hong Kong, most of these modalities originate from Western cultures and rarely do they address the indigenous Chinese themes experienced by most local Chinese people exclusively. In view of the gap in the existing action-based therapeutic available in Hong Kong, the present protocol study explicates a novel therapeutic modality which integrates paper cutting, a Chinese traditional folk art, with art-based therapeutic techniques. Methods: university students aged between 18-25 are randomly assigned to either 2-week treatment group or waitlist group, respectively. In the treatment, subjects attend workshops on Chinese paper cutting plus daily take-home experiential exercises. All subjects complete the questionnaires measuring their self-esteem, self-compassion, mindfulness, symptoms of mental health and, quality of life at the baseline and 2-week after. Analysis: A multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) is conducted to examine if subjects in treatment group, compared with the counterparts, would significantly improve their self-esteem and mental health throughout this 2-week period. Implication: The present intervention protocol may serve as a prospective therapeutic approach in Hong Kong, for its incorporation of traditional Chinese philosophies embedded in local Chinese individuals