Establishing the mobile learning system in English Teaching

as the IT industry develops,smartphones are dorminant.The application of smartphones in English teaching is effective and both teachers and students can benefit.     

Reflecting and learning together: action research as a vital element of developing understanding and practice

This article details how an action research/reflective practitioner approach added value to the efforts of participants who were engaged in developing their practice and working together within a New Labour area-based policy initiative. The process of reflecting and learning together in the project supported practitioners in thinking, learning about, designing, engaging in and changing elements of their practice according to the evidence they had gathered. A key element of the article is how the notion of reflection ‘in’ action and ‘on’ action (Schön) supported people from different backgrounds and settings in understanding and developing their practice through improving self-knowledge and confidence and, in turn, their knowledge of other perspectives. The article raises issues in relation to the use of action research at the interface between micro- and macro-development, individual and group work, and worker and manager perspectives. It concludes by suggesting some of the issues that those engaged in further development of innovative, interagency and interdisciplinary projects might need to address if an action research/reflective practice model of working together for change is to be made more widely available, relevant and useful.     

Identity and learning: The inextricable link

Decades ago, feminist theorists opened the possibility that learning is deeply entwined with gender. Kelli Zaytoun argues that the interface between learning and identities formed by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other individual contexts is not yet well enough understood. She offers a framework to help move the discussion forward.     

Maximising the language and learning link in computer learning environments

In studies on the implementation and educational uses of computers there are reports of changes in students' behaviour as a result of working with computers (Rowe, 1993; Crook, 1994). Social, collaborative and dialogic exchanges have been observed as students engage in tasks around computers. This research provides evidence that the computer is a social facilitator in the sense that it provides opportunities for collaboration, group work and interaction which fosters cognitive change (Wild, 1995).
This article recognises the social role of the computer, and supports the view that computers can be used to facilitate learning through language. There is growing awareness that if we are to realise the full potential of computers in education, consideration must be given to their role as catalysts in the learning process, rather than technological tools (Hawkridge, 1990). Computer assisted learning has progressed through many phases, and through investigation of underlying theoretical frameworks it is possible to recognise the change of focus from individual accounts of learning to social perspectives.
Theoretical frameworks which emphasise the social dimensions of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) legitimise the link between computers, language use and learning and indicate that computers must be integrated into the social life of classrooms if their pedagogical benefits are to be realised.     

The link between the laboratory and learning

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that when a caller expressed interest in seeing his laboratory, Cavendish ordered his butler to bring it in on a tray. That was two hundred years ago, and science laboratories have grown far beyond that, encompassing whole institutions. Even in schools they are commonly large, well‐equipped rooms, expensive to establish and maintain, served by specialist assistants. Despite the cost, laboratories are so embedded in the practice of science teaching it is difficult to imagine doing without them. Yet their purpose is not universally agreed, and evdence of their effect is equivocal.     

《市场营销学》的教学模式设计与探索

本文在分析课程教学意图与学生实际情况的基础上，对网上课堂的构建和《市场营销学》网络课程设计、面授辅导课的安排以及形成性考核等方面进行了教学模式改革与创新，力求为学生量身定做课程教学设计．并通过整合教学资源，教会学生自主学习的方法。     

确立具有本土意识的课程与教学观

当前我国基础教育课程改革实践存在着简单引用、错位嫁接后现代课程与教学观来指导我国课程与教学改革的现象.联系我国国情以及我国教育改革实际来判断,直接引用后现代课程与教学观并不能指导我国基础教育课程改革实践.后现代课程与教学观在我国基础教育课程改革中的滥觞,恐怕与我们盲目追随国外教育理念,忽略我国自身已有的教育教学经验,进而放逐本土意识有关.课程与教学观念变革应确立本土意识:挖掘、整理、继承我国优秀的传统教育思想;立足我国国情以及我国教育改革实际,批判地借鉴国外先进教育理论;总结我国以往基础教育课程与教学改革的经验教训.     

Facilitating Primary Science Teaching: A narrative account of research as learning

This paper is, in part, a narrative account of a teacher educator's professional growth during a longitudinal case study of three primary science teachers, Katie, Jean and Ruth, as they made the transition from pre-service to inservice teaching. The study sought to explore ways in which the beginning teachers perceived and dealt with constraints to science teaching in the primary school, and how they changed and adapted the knowledge and skills developed at university in a practical situation. The findings of the study are organised by considering what we, the researchers, saw as three categories of challenge for these beginning primary science teachers, their initial alienation from the study of science, the differences between teaching science and teaching other subjects in the primary school, and the impact of novice status on science teaching. Working with participants to help them respond to these challenges became an occasion for our own development as science educators.     

Research and Teaching: Conditions for a positive link

It has become increasingly clear over the past decade that the question of a positive link between research and teaching has no simple or general answer. At the same time, there may well be a positive link under particular conditions. This paper argues that a positive link can be due primarily to the processes, rather than the outcomes, inherent in research and teaching, and that, in particular, student-centred teaching and learning processes are intrinsically favourable towards a positive link, while more traditional teaching methods may at best lead to a positive link for the most able students, who in the perception of traditional academics are, of course, the future university teachers. This finding, in turn, leads to a rational explanation of the persistent myth of a general positive link. Finally, it is argued that pedagogic research and its outcomes could play an important role in strengthening the link.     

The case study method: exploring the link between teaching and research

Within the ongoing debate on the roles and tensions between teaching and research in higher education, this paper explores the extent to which the pedagogical case study method can contribute to bridge the gap between teaching and research. Based on an initial survey on 1,057 university academics, the results reveal the existence of five major groups of academics with varying degrees of link between the two topics and demonstrate the variations in the contributions that pedagogical case studies contribute to classroom teaching and to scholarly research for each subgroup. The implications for higher education at both the institutional level and the personal academic level are then explored.     

Cognitive models: The missing link to learning fraction multiplication and division

This quasi-experimental study aims to streamline cognitive models on fraction multiplication and division that contain the most worthwhile features of other existing models. Its exploratory nature and its approach to proof elicitation can be used to help establish its effectiveness in building students’ understanding of fractions as compared to the traditional algorithmic way of teaching, vis-à-vis the students’ negative notions about learning fractions. Interestingly, the study showed the benefits and drawbacks of using these cognitive models in the teaching and learning of mathematics.     

On sustenance: Teaching and learning the great works

This essay is for J. Walter Sterling and my students during the Fall 1988 Semester.