Assimilation, Faith and Identity: Educational Implications of Change and Continuity

In England, the presence of an established church places its adherents within the social mainstream. Other religious groups have been tolerated though suffering social and educational disadvantages. With the passage of time through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, minority religious groups such as Irish Catholics have been assimilated into the host culture, and allowed to have their own schools.
However, it would appear that contemporary movements of people to the United Kingdom have retained loyalties not only to their own religion, but, in some instances to their own language, which they perceive as a vital element of their own culture and identity. Demands for schools, within the state-funded system, for minority religious groups have not lessened. As faith schools in England increase in number, their role in a multicultural society becomes increasingly problematic. Lessons about changing models of assimilation and identity can be learnt from a brief review of the historic Irish Catholic experience that, in turn, can illuminate the current experience of a Greek Orthodox school in south London.     

学术评价系统与学术阶层的形成

学术研究与学术评价之间存在着逻辑上、时间上以及方式上的冲突。论文发表的级别、课题项目级别、人才称号级别、年度考核的量化模式都在逐渐成为衡量学者学术贡献的重要指标,同样也在成为促使或抑制学术人阶层流动的重要工具和"砝码",学术成果的数量和"级别"构成了学术系统中的"差序格局"。建立良性的学术秩序则需要打破以物化逻辑为基础而形成的"差序格局",通过增设跨学科的研究项目,规范学术期刊的各项制度,推行基于"学术代表作"为基础的同行评议制度,并加强第三方评价机构的建设,减少学术共同体中"特殊主义"因素的干扰,在学术评价制度与学术阶层流动之间形成良性互动。     

Evaluation of an Integrated Bridging Course on Academic Writing for Overseas Postgraduate Students

This study, supported by the Flinders University Research Budget, evaluated the effects of an integrated four‐week bridging course for postgraduate overseas students. It was funded by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and focused on the students' academic writing skills in terms of English grammar, expression and spelling as well as on structure, argument and critical analysis. Quantitative data was gathered from the training group and two control groups, one made up of overseas peers, the other of local postgraduate students. Further qualitative data were gathered from the training group through Journal entries and regular discussions. Results showed a significant improvement in expression and structure in the training group's writing from pre‐ to post‐training, with a significantly higher mark awarded by independent raters to post‐training writing. While significant differences between the two overseas groups and the local control group had been recorded on most variables before training, some of these were reduced between the training group and the local group after training. Although results were positive overall, students continued to produce high rates of errors in grammar and to display weaknesses in developing an argument. Journal entries suggested that students began their studies in a state of gross over‐confidence and moved through doubt and concern before reaching a more accurate estimate of their abilities at the end of the bridging course.     

中西宗教文化审美

通过从伦理现实与世俗超越,感性包容与理性独尊,淡然宁静与积极进取等方面对基督教与儒教与道教的分析比较中,可见中国文化注重感性的内在世界,崇尚淡然处世;西方文化注重理性的外在世界,崇尚积极进取,是有其宗教文化的历史渊源的。     

语文课堂评价初探

教学评价是教学实践中的重要环节,其本质是教学过程的反馈活动.教学评价对提高教学质量、优化教学过程具有重要作用.选择恰当的评价方式,充分尊重学生,珍视学生独特的感受、体验和理解,当可更好地发挥课堂评价的功用,不但能够提高课堂教学的成效,而且能够开启学生心智,促进学生生动活泼地健康发展.     

论素质教育进程中的高校班级文化

积极营塑校园文化必须重视班级文化建设。在全国实施素质教育的进程中,班级文化的地位和影响越来越突出。为此有必要对班级文化的内涵、功能、形成发展以及班级文化建设的几个关节点进行分析和论述,以全面推进素质教育进程中的班级文化建设。     

宗教的日常:对文化的一种观察

通过对日常一些“小事”的观察，我们可以发现，宗教对日常生活进行了一定程度的“渗入”。如此的“渗入”是人类为解决生存问题而衍生的，是人们创造性活动之一，它具有一定的逻辑性与合理性。从文化与人的角度来理解，从根本上说，“宗教的日常”是文化的本质所决定的。     

流行文化——班级管理中不可缺少的音符

通过十几年的班级管理,笔者发现流行文化以一种强大的诱惑力深刻影响着当代高职学生,对高职学生的身心健康和价值观的形成起着不可估量的作用。从流行文化融入班级管理的价值、流行文化步入班级管理殿堂的途径及渗透班级管理后的思考,说明流行文化是进行高职学生班级管理不可缺少的一个音符。     

陇南农村小学美术校本课程开发的构想

随着美术新课程的全面推行,小学美术教师则成为小学美术校本课程开发与建设的中坚力量,美术校本课程的开发需要广大美术教育工作者用毕生的精力去探索、研究。现以甘肃省陇南地区为例探讨农村小学美术校本课程开发,利用地域优势开发美术校本课程;借助历史遗产开发美术校本课程;传承民族文化开发美术校本课程的思路与构想。     

宗教：跨文化心理学研究一个不可忽视的因素

宗教与文化相互交织,有着千丝万缕的关系。宗教应纳入跨文化研究的原因有四：宗教在人们的生活当中具有重要地位;宗教是健康以及其他跨文化变量的重要指标;宗教可以预测几个重要的跨文化维度;宗教信念和行为受文化因素的影响。在跨文化研究中,应考虑宗教的五维度框架,即意识形态维度、仪式维度、体验维度、知识维度、社会维度。     

浅谈艺术类高等职业院校文化建设

艺术类高等职业院校肩负着文化传承、文化创新和培养高级专业人才的使命.然而,在国内高校大规模扩张以及经济社会发展过程中出现的各种功利主义、实用主义等思潮冲击下,如何准确把握自身职能定位,已成为新时期艺术类高等职业院校文化建设的一项重要课题.艺术类高职院校文化建设是其发展过程中所形成的具有自身特色的物质财富和精神财富的总和,涵盖了学院文化中精神文化、制度文化和物质文化三个层面.加强艺术类高等职业院校文化建设对提高育人水平、提升学校文化内涵和综合实力具有十分重要的意义.     

西方学术自由:走向自觉的历程

本文通过对西方学术自由从不自觉走向自觉历程的分析，认为学术自由是伴随着大学的产生而产生，学术自由的直接起源不在古希腊而在中世纪大学，在学术与宗教信仰、学术与国家、学术与人类社会进步的诸种关系得以解决之后，以柏林大学的建立为标志，学术自由开始成为大学的自觉要求。     

中小学骨干班主任培训探析——以宁波市为例

当前,骨干班主任培训已经成为中小学班主任培训的主要内容。要重视骨干班主任培训的目标定位,探寻骨干班主任培训路径,精心构建课程体系,规范管理培训过程,科学组建师资团队,努力创新培训模式,以提高培训成效。     

文化视阈下的地震灾后宗教重建问题

宗教是历史的钥匙,是文化的重要组成部分。近年来四川、青海、云南大地震都涉及宗教问题,灾后宗教重建须从社会主义先进文化建设的高度进行引领,要将宗教作为文化传承的重要载体和精神文明建设的重要内容来全面考量,既要注重物质的层面,又要注重精神的层面,既要弘扬传统又要讲究创新,既要体现政府的组织功能,也要体现社会的整合力量,既要发挥宗教的积极作用,又要避免负面影响。     

英语委婉语的文化诠释

语言是文化的载体。英语委婉语作为语言的重要组成部分有着丰富的文化内涵。英语委婉语的形成和发展受到英美社会文化的影响,同时也映射了英美社会文化的各个层面。     

Evaluation of an Educational Computer Programme as a Change Agent in Science Classrooms

I report on benefits from 26 teacher-participant evaluators of a computer game designed to motivate learning and to ease conceptual understanding of biology in South Africa. Using a developmental, social constructivist and interpretative model, the recommendation is to include the value systems and needs of end-users (through social dialogue); curriculum issues (learning theories in the ECP and those the education authorities recommend, as well as ECP-curriculum integration); the nature of the subject the ECP presents (e.g., Nature of Science); and the compatibility of the ECP with school computers.     

An Evaluation of Primary School Children Coding Using a Text-Based Language (Java)

All primary school children in England are required to write computer programs and learn about computational thinking. There are moves in other countries to this effect such as the U.S. K-12 Computer Science Framework (CSF) for development. Debates on how to program and what constitutes computational thinking are ongoing. Here we report on a study of programing by children aged 7 – 11 using Java and elements of computational thinking they experience. Our platform comprises a novel Story-Writing-Coding engine we have developed. We compare novice (children’s) processes of coding an animated story with that of experts (college students) and evaluate the differences using four measures based on the progressive coding of a complete program. We also analyze the use of novice (children’s) computational thinking in this coding process. This research is set against a backdrop of approaches to teaching programing and concepts of computational thinking in recent educational literature.     

高职职业生涯辅导课程评价研究

高职院校职业生涯辅导课的评价应遵循结果评价与过程评价相结合、定量评价与定性评价相结合、他人评价与自我评价相结合的原则,以知识维度、能力维度、态度纬度三个方面作为职业生涯辅导课的评价内容.同时,采取等级评价法和档案评价法,调动教师、学生、企业参与职业生涯辅导课评价,真实全面地反映出学生的学习效果.     

An Evaluation of the Connected Mathematics Project

Abstract

A formative, internal evaluation was conducted on the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP), a middle school reform mathematics curriculum used in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, by the author (lead teacher of said project). Approximately 3,500 students in this public school system were enrolled in this program, and the district school board planned to expand the program to include all 12 public middle schools. An analysis of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Louisiana Education Assessment Program mathematics data indicate that the program is working: The CMP schools significantly outperformed the non-CMP schools on both standardized tests. Questionnaires distributed to the teachers and to a sample of the students indicated that both groups believe the program is helping students become better problem solvers.     

An Evaluation of an EDY Course in Behavioural Techniques for Classroom Assistants in a School for Children with Severe Learning Difficulties

This study is an evaluation of a behavioural skills training course (known as the Education of the Developmentally Young‐‐EDY) which was run for eight classroom assistants (all trained nursery nurses) at an ESN (S) school in Manchester. It arose out of a previous study (Farrell, 1982) which suggested that while teachers improved their practical skills following EDY training, classroom assistants did not. In this study the classroom assistants were filmed working with an individual child on four occasions; twice prior to their training, once immediately following it and once more ten weeks later. The video tapes were randomly arranged and shown to two independent and trained raters. The raters rated the classroom assistants on four aspects of behavioural teaching, all of which are integral parts of the EDY course. The results showed that taking all the teaching techniques together, the classroom assistants made significant gains following training but that these gains were only evident on two of the behavioural techniques when they were analysed separately. When comparing the findings of this work with other studies, the main conclusion is that, although classroom assistants do benefit from EDY training, their progress may not be so marked as that of classroom teachers.