Jingyu EDUC500

This interview is unique in a way that Fidler interviewed another radio interviewer. The conversation can be roughly divided into the following three sections. Part 1 1. What was your first job in radio? Did you sort of accidentally backed into it in public radio? 2. How long did it take you to get good? 3. You're impersonating. It leaves you to feeling authentic. Is that what you think you were doing in this clip? 4. So who knocked that out of you? Did someone come along and just say ‘knock it off'? Did someone do that? Or did you just realise yourself that to actually start talking like a normal person? 5. Theory -- 10,000 hours to spend at anything to be seriously good. Do you think there's a similar kind of lesson there to you? 6. It's worse though if she's not mean, isn't it? The two of them were able to build on their shared experience, both being experienced interviewers, and eased into a conversation about Glass's journey as a radio interviewer. Usin...

I like how she developed from the research questions in her Master’s thesis to the ones in her PhD. I wonder if it would make a difference had she not fostered a relationship with the children during the learning experiences? Coming from a science background without teaching experiences, it is amazing that she could work with a large number of children in interviews. As Katie mentioned in the QnA, what impact would it have on her interaction/experiences with the children? Were there any ethical consideration/restrictions that potentially hindered her interaction with the children? If so, how did she cope with them?

Proposed question: I am studying the move to mass higher education in China,  because I want to find out its impact on marginalised groups such as pupils in rural areas and children of migrant workers,  in order to better understand their barriers to accessing higher education and the effectiveness of higher education policies,  so that we will know more about ways to improve fair access. The reading I'm using for this week's reflection: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-010-9384-9#citeas Marginson, S. (2011). Higher education in East Asia and Singapore: rise of the Confucian Model. Higher Education , 61 (5), 587–611. The author studied the phenomenon of massive growth of post-secondary students in the Asia-Pacific region since the 1990s, with a focus on China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam, since 1990s. Except for Vietnam and Japan, these systems exhibit a distinctive model of higher education more effective in so...

Bavelas’s chapter presented a number of dos and don’ts in the research process, each with interesting examples. Essentially, research comes in stages, and researchers need to do the appropriate at each stage. The process goes as follows: assume something is there; explore one’s own thoughts and the phenomenon; generate examples that have the same quality; actively selects events/phenomena to form a class; express yourself in analogues; discover proof of a model; check procedure details with pilot work; check the results through testing. A few quotes stood out. “Creativity in the early stages of science is a way of thinking that can be learned and practiced” (p.308).  However brilliant the initial idea, if one cannot build on it, the research isn’t going anywhere. This is a big “stop” moment for me and made me reflect on how I approached it so far. As a newcomer to the field of Education, there is so much to learn and every topic seems fascinating and worth pursuing. The diffic...

With my niece and nephew, although they were constantly moving, I was able to follow them and noticed things in detail, such as clothing, facial expressions, and what they said and did. Having said that, I didn't remind myself as an observer. I interacted with them and the details were there in my head. I was able to notice changes, and make assumptions based on information I already had.  When it came to strangers, I was more aware of my role as an observer. T here was a lot going on at the same time, and I had to make a choice either following a specific person or switching between different people.  Partly because they were only in sight for a short period of time, people with distinctive features stood out, and I wasn’t able to give everyone the same level of attention.

I sat in my living room on the second floor in front of a large window overlooking the intersection of Wesbrook Mall and Birney Avenue, facing south.  The time was 9am on a Sunday morning, and the roads were quite busy with cars, not many pedestrians though. There were three cars parked on the left side of the road, one of them was a white Zipcar with a distinctive red logo. The sky was gloomy with some clouds. I heard someone in heels coming closer. I leaned over and saw a big blue umbrella. Under the umbrella, I could see a person in a black coat. I couldn't see her face. A Bus 41 came up Wesbrook Mall, it was quite empty without many passengers on. Another Bus 41 went the opposite way. It went away fast, and I didn't have a chance to look inside. Two joggers came east on Birney Avenue together. One of them was wearing a beanie, the other wasn't. They stopped briefly at the crossroad, looked both ways and carried on jogging in the same direction. There was a girl behi...

I was sitting at the desk, typing away, while watching my niece and nephew on the small screen via Facetime. It was 3pm in China. An, my niece, was up close to the camera, while Fei was pretending to be his favourite cartoon character Detective Black Cat, waving a wooden pistol and circling the living room. He was singing lines from the cartoon. I tried to have the attention of Fei. He ignored me. An had slightly messy hair. She was telling me about the snowman she built this morning while holding a Polaroid of it. While she was talking, I can see that she lost one of her front teeth. She looked comical without that tooth, and she sounded funny. She pressed the Polaroid to the camera. The screen went dark, and I couldn’t see a thing. I asked her to pull it back slightly. The snowman has a head and a slightly bigger body, two eyes made of buttons and nothing else. I asked if she would like to give the snowman some limbs. She declined and said that she likes to keep it simple. Fei ...