Preparing primary trainee teachers to teach children from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds or groups: participation, experiences and perceptions of trainee teachers

This research was conducted in response to the exit survey of a cohort of Primary PGCE trainee teachers at a UK University in a predominantly White area who indicated low confidence in teaching children from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds at the end of their course. The research aimed to find out why trainee teachers felt unconfident in teaching children from BAME groups or backgrounds. Using qualitative methods, findings were analysed using a Critical Race Theory framework. Many of the trainee teachers who participated in this research demonstrated a lack of understanding of their own White privilege and a deficit discourse when discussing children from BAME backgrounds. The study explores how ITE, which is often short and already crammed with content, could embed quality training in race and diversity throughout courses in a way that will both challenge individual perceptions and encourage trainee teachers to examine structural barriers within schools

Regulating in the Global Village: The Case of Non-Invasive Pre-Natal Tests

In the context of the global village, this paper focuses on the development of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)—a test that provides clinicians and prospective parents with an easy, early and safe opportunity to obtain potentially reliable genetic and health information about the future child. In the first part of the article, we identify various concerns relating to NIPT, now released into an environment that is remarkably difficult to regulate. For example, we question whether the online information about NIPT upon which women might rely will be reliable and up-to-date, whether women might use Internet suppliers to work round local legal restrictions, and whether the stored test results might impact on future children. In the second part of the article, whilst recognising the limited opportunities for making effective regulatory interventions in the global village, we suggest some possible responses to the particular concerns about NIPT identified in the paper

State-of-the-art Methods and software tools for short-term prediction of wind energy production

International audienceThe installed wind energy capacity in Europe today is 20 GW, while the projections for 2010 according to the Kyoto protocol and the EC directives is up to 40-60 GW. The large-scale integration of wind energy emerges the use of advanced operational tools for short-term forecasting of the wind production in the next hours up to the next 2-7 days. End-users (independent power producers, electric companies, transmission system operators, etc) recognize the contribution of wind prediction for a secure and economic operation of the power system. Especially, in a liberalized electricity market, prediction tools enhance the position of wind energy compared to other forms of dispatchable generation. The paper presents in detail the state-of the-art on the methods, the software tools and the relevant R&D projects for wind power forecasting. The paper finally presents experience by end-users that run operationally such prediction systems today as stand-alone applications or interfaced to EMS/DMS systems. The paper reviews the related literature on wind power prediction. Emphasis is given on operational tools such as WPPT, Prediktor, Zephyr, Previento, SIPREÓLICO, LocalPred, More-Care etc. The various models or tools are classified using criteria like: · The type of implemented approach i.e. timeseries (neural networks, ARMA etc) or physical. · The specific spatial scale focused by the models (regional, wind park scale, micro-scale). · The on-line performance of the prediction tools and their coupling to Energy Management Systems

Междометные фразеологизмы с компонентом зоонимом в английском, казахском и русском языках: эмоциональное и оценочное содержание

Цель – определение общих и специфических характеристик предмета исследования с вытекающими задачами сопоставительного ступенчатого описания избранных МФЕ, выражающих базовые эмоции (радость, гнев, печаль и др.) и их разновидности

Software Acquisition Patterns of Failure and How to Recognize Them

Tenth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Acquisition ManagementNaval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research ProgramPrepared for the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CANaval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research ProgramApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited