‘Core Subjects’ Policy and Arts Education for the Rich

What happens to art education when the national school curriculum in Israel follows a ‘core subjects’ policy? Allocating only two hours for all five art subjects (visual arts, music, drama, dance and cinematic arts) that remain outside the core curriculum increases the social‐economic gap between children whose parents can fund their art education privately and children whose parents cannot afford this. This also has worrying consequences for art teachers (most of them women) deprived of job security.     

The difference of literature: Writing now for the future of young readers

CLIE is pleased to print the 1992 Sidney Robbins Lecture, given at the Annual Conference of The International Association of School Libraries at The Queen's University, Belfast. Sidney Robbins founded this journal in 1970, arising from the series of Children's Literature Conferences which be had initiated at St. Luke's College, Exeter, where be worked. He died in 1971.Aidan Chambers began his career as a secondary school teacher of English and drama. For the last twenty-seven years he has been an author of fiction for young readers and a part-time tutor of pre-and inservice teachers. In 1969, with his wife Nancy, he founded Thimble Press, publisher of the magazineSignal and various guides to and monographs on children's books. He is a visiting lecturer in literature for children at Westminster College, Oxford.     

Curriculum on the move: the role of English in a Year 7 Cultural Studies programme

This paper describes a curriculum experiment to integrate the English and humanities teaching to a year 7 (age 11) cohort through a pedagogy based on Dorothy Heathcote's work on drama in education. An integrated Cultural Studies programme was devised in order to help students engage with meaningful issues in what Heathcote (1980) terms ‘real and felt’ contexts. As part of the national Creative Partnerships programme, Debbie Kidd, a drama specialist from an Arts organisation, worked with teachers to develop curriculum and pedagogy. The paper describes the project from the perspective of the two outsiders closely involved with the work. Debbie Kidd sets the context and discusses some of the outcomes to date. In an Afterword, Elaine Millard discusses some of the barriers to curriculum integration and argues for greater flexibility in English teaching and it s modes of assessment to make room for more creative engagements.     

How to use television to publicize your organization

As speech communication instruction is offered in an increasing number of secondary schools, academic courses are changing to include study of a broader spectrum of communication behavior. Paralleling this transition is increased concern among language arts educators for students’ personal and intellectual development through talk and drama. This article describes each of these developments and suggests an expanded role of speech communication in the secondary school curriculum through a blending of both movements.     

关于校本美术课程资源开发的理论思考

新一轮基础教育课程改革的展开和“国家、地方、学校三级课程管理”政策的贯彻,我国面临着正式开发校本课程的任务。校本美术课程策略的推行与课程开设具有一定程度的人力、物力方面的资源优势。校本美术课程资源开发主要从目标资源与教学活动资源两个方面展开。在内容上应涵盖两方面:一方面是对国家课程补充相应的课程资源;另一方面是学校要对新课程中规定的由学校负责的课程领域进行相应课程资源的开发。校本美术课程资源开发的发展方向从课程的“广度”与“深度”两个方面进行,同时还需加强理论研究、推广范例课程和加强与外界的交流。     

英语短剧潜在课程排演的技能指导探析

发展高校先进校园文化和对学生进行潜在教育这一课题备受关注。英语短剧作为潜在课程，活跃了校园文化，为学生营造了良好的英语学习气氛。文章阐述英语短剧排演的相关理论，并对该潜在课程在学生剧本编写和表演两方面的技能指导进行探析。     

克里斯托弗·马洛:英国戏剧之先驱

克里斯托弗·马洛是莎士比亚以前英国重要的戏剧家，他在多部作品中塑造的时代巨人形象及无韵体诗剧形式对文艺复兴时期剧作家，特别是莎士比亚的创作，产生了很大影响。马洛对英国戏剧的贡献巨大，是英国文艺复兴时期戏剧的真正创始人。     

基于“新六艺”教育的大美育体系建构与实践研究

“新六艺”教育是佛山市南海外国语学校基于中华美育精神构建的大美育体系。学校通过实行“减负”三部曲,即推行周末零作业、早上推迟30分钟起床、整合语数英等必修课课时,开辟美育时空;通过实行“添彩”三重奏,即打造课程阵地、课堂阵地、文化阵地,描绘美育画卷。“新六艺”教育在“点亮”自己的同时也“照亮”了他人。学校通过“输血”和“造血”两种方式,用“新六艺”教育打通教育扶贫“最后一公里”,引领每个大山孩子走向美美与共的美好境界。     

从小说的叙事性到戏剧的小说性

小说的叙事性是小说的主要性质。小说的叙事性使其成为正宗的叙事文学或说是叙事文学的主体。戏剧有无小说性的问题实际上是戏剧有无叙事性的问题。戏剧客观上有许多叙事性。小说的叙事性与戏剧的叙事性在时间、空间、叙述、效果等方面有许多相同点。二者的契合,就产生了戏剧的小说性。中国戏剧的小说性,是在它长期发展过程中溶化、综合叙事艺术而生成的。如将一些经典戏剧改编成小说是一定不乏读者的。戏剧的小说性这种现象,不是戏剧对本体的背叛与变质,而是对周边艺术的浸润与互动。     

And the ground gives way: Looking again atStig of the Dump and the National Curriculum in English

Ed Marum is a senior lecturer teaching in English and education at Derbyshire College of Higher Education. His previous posts have included those of General Inspector of Education for the London Borough of Merton and English Adviser for Liverpool. He is currently researching provision for and perceptions of narrative in the school curriculum.     

The national curriculum vs. the ideal curriculum: acknowledging student learning interests

For many students, school is a place that makes no sense; a place where students’ interests are not reflected in the curriculum. Using mixed methods research, we developed an instrument that identifies student interests. This instrument was applied in a pilot study that considered 10th-grade students from three schools in Santiago, Chile. We compared student interest and national curriculum for different factors and established how well aligned these are. The results reveal that private school students prefer subjects that require greater cognitive development, related to Young’s powerful knowledge. Students from voucher schools, on the other hand, prefer to develop their knowledge of the arts and physical education, both of which are subjects they tend to enjoy. These findings are coherent with Bernstein’s theories. This pattern is also repeated when comparing high-performing students with their low-performing counterparts, regardless of school type. The findings of this study not only help identify which subjects the students want to study, but also to understand the reasons behind their preferences. Understanding these reasons is key for developing a more contextualised curriculum that makes more sense to the students.     

学校剧的历史与价值

学校剧除了对中国戏剧的发展有重要影响以外,其实在教育上亦有独特的价值,但它的发展受制于社会传统,故而有点曲折,特别是在东方社会。在制度化教育以前,古希腊人已经注意到教育与戏剧有着极为重要的关联;夸美纽斯将演剧带入了学校教育,并在课程上给它一定的地位;杜威则赋予了它更新的内涵,由此学校剧经历了从宗教手段之一到艺术教育最高级形式的转变;如今更发展为教育戏剧,用以辅助普通学科的教学。     

From the discipline of literary criticism

The new English elective programs which are mushrooming in high schools all over the country are replete with offerings in oral communication and drama. On the other hand, separate speech and drama courses outside the aegis of English remain relegated almost exclusively to a “catch at catch can” spot in the curriculum.

A natural merger and a workable one is a combination of speech and English into a communication department. The basic goal of this department is to encompass oracy—speaking and listening, and literacy—reading and writing. This provides not only a fresh approach to traditionally bound English offerings and isolated speech offerings, but it appeals to today's student because it is a realistic one.     

Carnival in the Curriculum

This article focuses on a carnival in the curriculum project designed to revitalise the arts in the experience of students in Higher Education preparing to become primary school teachers. It argues the relevance of a combined arts or trans‐disciplinary artform in the remit of a visual arts education journal and explores carnival as a complex, inclusive, multifaceted and multidimensional cultural practice with deep historical and social roots. It locates carnival within theory and the debate about the arts in schools in the UK from the early 1980s. Drawing on the analysis of interviews with students and teachers in carnival project schools, issues and themes such as student involvement, creativity, artists in schools, and cross‐curricular learning are explored, concluding that carnival in the curriculum provides an opportunity for agency within the regulated official curriculum.     

Motivation and Attribution at Secondary School: the role of gender

A total of 1068 secondary school pupils completed a questionnaire concerned with enjoyment of school, enjoyment of subjects and what they attributed academic success to. Gender differences were shown in the overall enjoyment of school (girls expressing greater enjoyment). Girls also reported liking friends, teachers, outings and lessons more than boys, while boys reported liking sports and school clubs more. Enjoyment of school subjects reflected traditional sex stereotyping: girls reported more liking than did boys for English, French, German, history, drama, music and home economics while boys reported more liking for science. craft and design technology, physical education and information technology. Some gender differences were shown in rating factors contributing to academic success (girls rating hard work and teachers’ liking for you as more important than boys, and boys rating cleverness, talent and luck as more important than girls) but attributions with respect to academic success varied more with age than with gender.     

高中新课程背景下高师书法专业资料室建设刍议

"高中新课程标准普遍实施--高等师范课程改革--专业资料室建设",是一个相互作用的系统工程.通过研究"高中美术新课程标准"可知,高师书法专业资料室应该是高师美术专业资料室的组成部分,其建设范围受制于"新课标"和书法学科特点,在教学实践中适时征集采购是高师书法专业资料室建设的有效策略.实践证明,高师书法专业资料室的建设对部分学生形成书法特长以适应"新课标"规定的高中书法课程的开设具有十分重要的意义.     

Integration of school features into Taiwanese elementary school new English curriculum

Elementary school English activation curriculum, an additional two culture classes, has been implemented only in New Taipei City in Taiwan starting from 2010, so only a few studies focus on it. This is a case study of an English teacher's integration of a school's features into the activation curriculum in a rural elementary school. This study revealed students' positive attitude towards such curriculum, the students’ preference for the English teacher's use of a wide variety of activities and the implementation of alternative assessments; it also revealed the English teacher's expertise and pedagogical competence, developed in collaboration with other teachers.     

Peer Tutoring: An Aid to Individual Instruction

In this article, the author describes a personal teaching experience that led her to incorporate improvisational drama into her English classroom. The author describes justifications for implementing drama into the classroom as well as the possible benefits gained by teachers and students. Also included are several improvisational dramatic activities and instructions for incorporating them into the English curriculum. Using drama helped to develop confidence, community, and content knowledge in the middle school classroom.