The development of argument skills

This work sought to obtain experimental evidence to corroborate cross-sectional patterns of development in argument skills and to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to foster development of these skills in academically at-risk 13- to 14-year-olds. Students participated in 16 sessions of a collaborative, goal-based activity providing dense exercise of argumentive thinking. One condition included peer dialogues; another did not. The former was the more effective, although both groups progressed. Participants showed increased frequency of usage of powerful argumentive discourse strategies, such as counterargument, and decreased frequency of less effective strategies. Quality of individual arguments (for or against a claim) also improved, supporting the existence of a close relation between these two kinds of argument skills.     

明治启蒙思想家的中国论

明治初年，福泽谕吉、津田真道、西周等启蒙思想家认为儒学不仅是落后于时代的虚学，而且也是一种维护封建等级制度的意识形态。明治启蒙思想家由痛恨儒学发展到轻视中国。在他们的笔下，清末的中国人被描绘成一个保守、排外、性格残忍的民族，在社会上造成了一种蔑视中国的风气。但是，福泽谕吉独具慧眼，对中日两国的社会结构加以比较研究，得出了一个新颖的观点：即由于中国社会的权力和权威都集于皇帝一身，所以人们头脑僵化，缺乏社会改革的契机。     

民间舞教学中艺术感染力的培养研究

在民间舞教学中,教师除了需要对学生进行理论性知识的教学之外,还应该培养学生的艺术感染力。民间舞蹈艺术在我国的发展已经有上千年的历史,其得到良好传承的主要原因就在于艺术的感染力。因此,在民间舞教学中培养学生的艺术感染力是非常关键的。学生只有具有较强的艺术感染力,才能够将民间舞的精髓传承下去,实现民间舞蹈的良好发展。     

河南旅游形象刍议

文章研究河南旅游形象的确立问题.提出"河南旅游形象"的概念,认为应以形象硬件和形象软件为基础,以传播主体、评价主体、形象主体为依托,树立和传播河南旅游形象,高起点发展河南旅游业.     

Software with the appeal of blocks

Daniel D. Shade is Assistant Professor, Department of Individual and Family Studies and Director of the Computers As Partners Project, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.     

Self-report visual scale of course appeal

A 4-item affect scale portrayed on crosswise lines was developed and tested on medical students participating in preclinical courses with a view to measuring appeal as an educational outcome. This usage was based on assumptions that end-of-course adaptation could be derived from affect responses and should reflect the appeal of a course experience. Indeed, the results demonstrated that positive affect (pleasure, satisfaction) and negative affect (anxiety, grief) responses have substantial correlations with an independent measure of appeal: course valuing section scores of the Course Valuing Inventory. Moreover, students with various adaptation modes, as signalled by affect response patterns, showed significantly different means in course valuing scores. Significant differences were also shown in adaptation mode distribution among students finishing courses with distinct integration methods, or levels of learner control. As hypothesized, it was found that end-of-course adaptation modes differentiate between learners who do and do not volunteer for a student preceptorship in the same course. Findings suggest that affect responses can be used as a scale of course appeal to measure the effects of motivational strategies.     

学生申诉处理的实践与思考

本文探讨了高校学生申诉处理工作中的若干理论与实践问题，对如何完善申诉制度提出了看法。     

The university as agent of social transformation: The postmodern argument considered

This is an abridged version of an essay that will appear inThe Imperiled Academy, edited by Howard Dickman, to be published by Transaction this year.     

论民事诉讼程序的公正性

程序公正已经成为司法现代化的基本价值取向,“程序决定正义”已经是法学界的共识。本文论述了我国民事诉讼法中的程序公正原则,并对程序公正原则在民事诉讼实践中存在的问题进行了分析和探讨。     

境外高校独立办学立法的现实诉求与思考

推进境外高校独立办学立法是重大教育改革于法有据的必然要求,是支持跨境教育新业态健康发展的法治保障,也是推进跨境教育治理现代化的必由之路。海南自由贸易港应尽快制定境外高校独立办学的专门管理法规,以区域性跨境教育先行先试,进而辐射更大区域、更大范围乃至带动全国教育领域改革开放的协同发展。境外高校独立办学立法的主要原则是教育主权原则、教育公益性原则、高校独立办学原则和透明原则。立法的重点是厘定独立办学机构的法律地位,明确其法律权利和义务,规范其审批程序,加强政府部门对独立办学行为的监管和不当行为的责任追究,实现境外高校独立办学法治化、规范化。     

Inclusion and homophily: an argument about participatory decision-making and democratic school management

Abstract

This paper reports findings from a study about school staff’s perceptions of the preferences for social interaction that young people have with similar and different others. This tension was explored empirically using scenarios of moral dilemmas to conduct in-depth semi-structured interviews with school staff from special and mainstream secondary schools. The issue was explored with reference to a tension between social inclusion, the principle of embracing difference, and homophily, the concept that similarity breeds connection. The data suggest that homophily and inclusion can come into a tension with an ethical dimension. In education, the homophily/inclusion tension is one between students’ preferences for being among similar others and the moral imperative of including everybody; or between individuality and commonality. Inclusion is often translated into a demand for full participation as the only way to respond ethically to difference. However, the recognition of students’ rights to negotiate their preferences, even when they come into tension with what is considered to be politically correct, is also an ethical position. The paper concludes that the homophily/inclusion tension is constructive as it challenges the moral necessity of inclusion for all, and opens a debate about participatory decision-making and democratic school management.     

略论不正规教育对学校教育的影响

学校教育除了正规教育外,还存在不正规教育。然而在实践中,它往往被忽略,成为实施素质教育的冷点问题。不正规教育具有松散性、潜在性、非预测性等特点,不正规教育对学生的身心发展具有独特的影响,教育同行们应引起足够的重视。     

The argument for a constitutional right to communication and language

The need for and right to communication and language is fundamental to the human condition. Without communication, an individual cannot become an effective and productive adult or an informed citizen in our democracy. The importance of communication and language for deaf and hard-of-hearing children is so basic as to be beyond debate. Given the historic difficulties deaf and hard-of-hearing children face, their compromised communication and language skills and the educational, social, cognitive, and psychological consequences, this note contends that a constitutional right to communication is both necessary and legally sound. The right to assemble and to vote, the right to equal protection under the law must be extended to the right of deaf and hard-of-hearing children to full communication development and access. If the Constitution venerates the right to speech, the right to communication and language is of equal or greater value.     

刍论高校教师授课感染力的提升

高校教师在课堂情景中对学生道德与情感的发展起着极为重要的作用。感染力一定意义上即教学魅力。对塑造学生特殊的思维品格、思辨能力和创造素质具有独特价值。提升高校教师授课感染力,对高校教学水平的提高有着决定性作用。本文试从八个方面去探讨高校教师应该如何提升授课感染力。