Future Directions in the Movement Arts and Sciences

I argue in this paper that sport should be retained as an important part of the educational rationale for physical education. I consider Siedentop's critique of physical education and his alternative in the form of Sport Education. Siedentop's goals for youth sport and physical education and use of the work of Alisdair McIntyre are explored. It is argued that if we work to experience activities that are inherently pleasurable and intrinsically satisfying, then there is a possible future for activities such as sport. I conclude that school physical education is well placed to take up this challenge of sustaining sport as a moral practice and that the pedagogical tools already exist to do this in the form of a critical pedagogy.     

Future Directions of Civil Engineering Education

This paper briefly surveys the new trends of the research and development in the field of civil engineering and suggests that educators should adapt their curricula accordingly to produce civil engineers capable of coping with the professional needs of the coming century.     

Biology Education Research: Lessons and Future Directions

This feature draws on a 2012 National Research Council report to highlight some of the insights that discipline-based education research in general—and biology education research in particular—have provided into the challenges of undergraduate science education. It identifies strategies for overcoming those challenges and future directions for biology education research.Biologists have long been concerned about the quality of undergraduate biology education. Indeed, some biology education journals, such as the American Biology Teacher, have been in existence since the 1930s. Early contributors to these journals addressed broad questions about science learning, such as whether collaborative or individual learning was more effective and the value of conceptualization over memorization. Over time, however, biology faculty members have begun to study increasingly sophisticated questions about teaching and learning in the discipline. These scholars, often called biology education researchers, are part of a growing field of inquiry called discipline-based education research (DBER).DBER investigates both fundamental and applied aspects of teaching and learning in a given discipline; our emphasis here is on several science disciplines and engineering. The distinguishing feature of DBER is deep disciplinary knowledge of what constitutes expertise and expert-like understanding in a discipline. This knowledge has the potential to guide research focused on the most important concepts in a discipline and offers a framework for interpreting findings about students’ learning and understanding in that discipline. While DBER investigates teaching and learning in a given discipline, it is informed by and complementary to general research on human learning and cognition and can build on findings from K–12 science education research.DBER is emerging as a field of inquiry from programs of research that have developed somewhat independently in various disciplines in the sciences and engineering. Although biology education research (BER) has emerged more recently than similar efforts in physics, chemistry, or engineering education research, it is making contributions to the understanding of how students learn and gain expertise in biology. These contributions, together with those that DBER has made in physics and astronomy, chemistry, engineering, and the geosciences, are the focus of a 2012 report by the National Research Council (NRC, 2012 ).1 For biologists who are interested in education research, the report is a useful reference, because it offers the first comprehensive synthesis of the emerging body of BER and highlights the ways in which BER findings are similar to those in other disciplines. In this essay, we draw on the NRC report to highlight some of the insights that DBER in general and BER in particular have provided into effective instructional practices and undergraduate learning, and to point to some directions for the future. The views in this essay are ours as editors of the report and do not represent the official views of the Committee on the Status, Contributions, and Future Directions of Discipline-Based Education Research; the NRC; or the National Science Foundation (NSF).     

Hebrew Education in the United States: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

This article sketches the trajectory of Hebrew education in the United States from the early 1900s to the present. Attending to the historiography of Hebrew education, it shows how current curricula and pedagogical approaches have been stamped by historical considerations and language ideologies, how goals and strategies have changed (or remained the same) over time, and how the evolution of the field has been driven both by internal dynamics within the Jewish community and by changes in the broader social and political context of the United States. It concludes with a framework for constructing a meaningful research agenda for the future.     

从全球视角看国际医学教育及其未来方向

国际化是当今高等教育最重要的焦点,为医学院校带来了强有力的挑战和机遇.本文从全球视角分析高等教育尤其是医学教育国际化的内涵及其驱动因素,相信在新的教育技术和教学手段的促进下,未来的医学教育将转向跨国整合型、多校合作的教育模式.     

Changes in the World Created by the Journal of Science Education and Technology:Future Directions and New Initiatives

This paper deals with the mission of the Journal of Science Education and Technology; the people who are helping to further this mission; our review philosophy, policies, and electronic review process; and important information for authors, readers, practitioners, students, and administrators to know. It also includes announcements about new features in the Journal, and two book series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology and Classics in Science Education and calls for papers and book ideas to be submitted to cohenka@aol.com.     

The New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension: Future Directions

Abstract

Research in four areas has the potential to dramatically improve how practitioners address the challenges of integrating digital texts and tasks into their literacy curriculum. Advances in defining and measuring key components of online reading comprehension are rapidly emerging. In addition, instructional models, such as Internet reciprocal teaching (IRT), can lead to the acquisition of online reading comprehension, but teachers need access to sustained professional development that is aligned with their own learning goals.     

Future Directions for Research on Online Technical Education

ABSTRACT

Most research on online learning in higher education has been focused on general education at four-year institutions. There is a need for more research that focuses on online and hybrid education at community colleges in technical education fields. This issue includes articles from eight National Science Foundation funded projects doing innovative work on the use of online and hybrid learning in technical education. Examination of these articles suggests several potential directions for future research in this area including the following: how to choose between fully online and hybrid course delivery; how technical education programs can successfully partner with industry; how to examine and select specific online educational strategies to enhance online technical education; how to sustain innovative online educational programs after grant funding is complete; and how to support nontraditional students in online or hybrid technical education programs.     

New Directions in Electrical Engineering Education

Virtually all of us believe in the great importance of physics in engineering curricula and have fought for years to develop a strong and modern physical basis for instruction in engineering. From our observations, the basic question is no longer seriously disputed; the idea is generally accepted and only the details of local implementation seem to remain. If this is so, why does discussion continue on what should be a dead issue? Why do we continue to beat an academic "dead horse?" In searching for the answer, we have come to some disturbing conclusions which, theoretically, place the entire issue in a different perspective, establishing new directions in electrical engineering education.     

The Self‐Generative Mind in Education: Review and Future Directions

Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a surge of interest in diverse forms of spontaneous thinking, such as mind‐wandering, and their associated brain networks. Studies demonstrate the pervasiveness of these phenomena as well as their effects on education‐relevant domains such as academic skills, well‐being, creativity, executive functions, and socioemotional competencies. Based on a neurophenomenological approach and drawing on cognitive and neuroscience research, this article reviews this field and develops a framework for understanding deliberate and nondeliberate states of students' minds in the classroom and their associated brain circuitry. Different approaches to these states are examined from an educational perspective and ways in which this discourse can further be developed are suggested.     

Roots of Greatness: Future Directions

This article contains essential and contemporary information in the form of opinion statements written by past-presidents of ACES and serves to meet archival and proactive functions for those persons associated with the guidance and counseling movement. Fifteen leaders report their perceptions and suggest directions vital to future progress in facilitating the work of counselor education graduates. Without exception, the leaders set a mood for optimism with expressions of need for preparation standards of high quality in counselor education—a product of the delicate triangle linking faculty, graduates, and subject matter of the counseling field.     

老挝高等教育的世纪走向

本文介绍了老挝高等教育的发展概况及其改革与发展的三个阶段,并重点分析了面对新世纪老挝高等教育改革的政策、重点和策略,以及学位制度改革和国际合作情况.     

试论大学管理的新取向

在经济全球化的今天,伴随着新自由主义以及新公共管理思潮的盛行,传统的高等教育管理已经面临挑战,以市场为导向的管理对于高等教育的发展日益重要。借鉴西方发达国家高等教育管理的成功经验,论文主要从市场营销、投资管理和筹款管理三个方面对于目前大学管理中这种新取向进行了初步探讨。论文认为,随着高等教育领域生源竞争以及资金竞争的进一步加剧,我国大学也必须注意借鉴其他非营利组织在市场营销、投资管理与筹款管理方面的有益经验,重构我国现有的高等教育管理体制。     

加拿大的高等教育研究:历史、新兴主题和未来方向

本文对加拿大高等教育作为一个研究领域的演变进行了大致的描述性分析,主要关注这一领域中学术成就的历史发展;其次聚焦于一些得到相当多关注的新兴主题和研究课题,包括公平、多样性和包容性,高等教育的本土化和非殖民化,国际化,以及学生经历;最后对未来的趋势发表了一些评论。     

新媒体与未来教育

媒体的演进与发展一直以来都在一定程度上影响着教育的发展,新媒体也不例外地对现代教育带来了影响和改变。该文在梳理媒体技术的发展历程以及媒体演进对教育带来改变的基础上,辨析了新媒体对现代教育带来的影响及改变,以及新媒体与教育之间相互影响的关系。该文认为新媒体的普及与应用在改变学习者、教师、教学实践、教学系统等的基础上改变着现行的教育范式;同时,信息时代的教育需求迫使新的教育范式的产生,这一新教育范式所需要的教育功能也是新媒体技术演进和发展的方向。     

开创护理教育新的未来 --展望e-护理教育的发展

本文探讨了技术进步及其对护理教育的影响,试图回答以下问题:当前在技术上已经出现了哪些变化?我们如何看待未来采用的技术?最后,提出了进一步革新护理教育的四个设想。