Article reviewed:
Smeh, Kathy and Rod Fawns. "Classroom management of situated group learning: A research study of two teaching strategies." Research in Science Education (2000): 225-240.
The article “Classroom management of situated group learning: A research study of two teaching strategies” by Kathy Smeh and Rod Fawns, describes scientific approach of teachers how to get effectiveness from pupils’ labs and experiments. Therefore, the main idea of the article is teaching management, based on empirical- observational level. During the experiment, groups of pupils should compare different materials and then made conclusions. Respectively, we can see that the article includes all empirical methods: observation, experiment, measuring and comparing.
“Theory and research have neglected situational continuities that the teacher may provide in management of formal and informal collaborations” .
In my opinion, article structure mostly uses ad-hoc classificatory systems and conceptual frameworks. It presented by collected data, key findings and results of findings, the results from previous studies.
Project 2-2
Article reviewed:
Phyllis Braudy Harris, Susan Long and Miwa Fujii. "Men and elder care in Japan: A ripple of change?" Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology (1998): 177-198.
For the second project, I decided to take article “Men and elder care in Japan: A ripple of change?” . The main idea of article is a discussion about elder care in Japan and man’s role in this issue.
The concept of the article is an exploratory study, which investigates the role of man (father, son, etc) in daily elder family’s life. It gives the basis of communication and explains main empirical methods. The concept of article includes the special classifications: it shows the meaning the men’s role in caretaking of elders (not women’s role). “The research examines five following areas: motivation, tasks, impact on work/family lives, community reaction and meaning” .
As the article takes a research and observation, it is logical that the operational definition fits better for this case: it describes set of operations, which connected each other and act consecutively.
The results and findings show the empirical evidence of research or the possible solution for the problem.
Works cited
Phyllis Braudy Harris, Susan Long and Miwa Fujii. "Men and elder care in Japan: A ripple of change?" Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology (1998): 177-198.
Smeh, Kathy and Rod Fawns. "Classroom management of situated group learning: A research study of two teaching strategies." Research in Science Education (2000): 225-240.
