Reflections on the Manner in Teaching Project

In reflections on the Manner in Teaching Project, I focus on four themes: why teaching is an intellectual and moral endeavour; the significance of the school context for understanding the moral dimensions of teaching; the uses and limitations of moral theory in research on teaching; and the centrality of the person in the role of teacher. The 'Manner in Teaching Project' sheds useful light on these themes, including how to examine them systematically.     

The pedagogical balancing act: teaching reflection in higher education

Despite the common use of the term reflection in higher education assessment tasks, learners are not often taught how to communicate their disciplinary knowledge through reflection. This paper argues that students can and should be taught how to reflect in deep and transformative ways. It highlights the reflexive pedagogical balancing act of attending to different levels of reflection as a way to stimulate focused, thoughtful and reasoned reflections that show evidence of new ways of thinking and doing. The paper uses data from a current project to illustrate the effects of focusing on particular levels of reflection in the pedagogical strategies used, and argues that while the goal of academic or professional reflection is generally to move students to the highest level of reflection to transform their learning/practice, unless higher education teachers attend to every level of reflection, there are specific, observable gaps in the reflections that students produce.     

论教师教育研究的发展趋势

教师教育研究是当代中国教育改革研究中的热门话题,也是世界教育改革中的重要课题。我国自20世纪80年代以来倡导“教师教育”的概念替代原来的“师范教育”,然而,与教师教育改革实践相适应,未来教师教育研究的需要关注课程改革等诸多方面。     

教育实践反思的策略分析与路径探索

教育实践是教师教育课程的重要组成部分,教育实践反思是提高教育实践质量、实现教师培养目标的关键环节。厘清“反思”和“教育实践反思”的概念和意义,旨在使反思成为教育者的习惯和自觉,成为教育者的核心素养,成为教育的文化。分析和研究教育实践反思的策略,就是要在教育理论和教育实践之间架起一座桥梁,指导教育实践反思,解决教育实践反思中出现的问题,处理好“成事”与“成人”、“做人”与“为师”的关系以及“反思行为”与“反思意识”的关系,最终实现培养合格教师的任务和目标。教育实践反思的策略明确之后,在具体实施的过程中必须根据具体情况进行相应的调整,须将反思策略的指导性与反思路径与方法的灵活性结合起来,这样,反思才能真正实现其价值和目的。     

从“学”到“术”:教育学理论的实践转向

教育理论与实践的关系问题事关教育学学科的学术地位尊荣,近年来对此问题的研究取得的进展不多,本文认为可以通过调整思路,强化教育学的技术方面的因素,甚至向指南或手册方向发展,以增强教育学实效性的方式强化教育学学科的学术地位。     

Dimensions of Time in the Jewish Educational Thought of Joseph Lukinsky: Reflections on Maybe the Lies We Tell Are Really True edited by Barry Holtz and David Kahn (JTS,New York 2016)

ABSTRACT

This article represents a first attempt to analyze and synthesize the theological, hermeneutic, and educational insights of Joseph Sander Lukinsky, who was one of the foremost Jewish educational thinkers and master practitioners of recent times. Particular attention is paid to Lukinsky’s theology of revelation, to his educational theory, his hermeneutic orientation, and his practical pedagogy. The conclusion represents an effort to integrate the major insights gathered from these areas into a coherent web of thought.     

好理论与当代教育实践——对教育学理论研究的反思

本文从当今教育学教育理论研究的尴尬现状出发,探讨教育实践对好的教育理论的迫切需要,阐发好的教育理论的标准及获得好的教育理论对研究者的要求.     

理论先行还是实践先行--兼论教育理论研究者与教师的关系

教育理论与实践的紧张关系一直是困扰教育研究者和教师的难题。从哲学角度说,经验分析理论、解释学理论以及批判理论都不同程度地触及到了这一问题的关键,同时,教育界的理论家们也对此进行了不懈的探索,这对思考教育理论的研究方法以及教师教育的走向都颇有启示。     

Educational Stories: Engaging teachers in educational theory

A common complaint among those involved in teaching the educational foundations is the reluctance of many trainee teachers to engage in issues of educational theory. This is particularly apparent with those trainees who are more concerned with managing classrooms of children than grappling with what are often abstract and difficult ideas. This paper considers the current use of educational stories as a pedagogical strategy in teacher training, and a story that has been used in this way is presented. It is argued that teachers of the educational foundations disciplines can, via stories, appeal to the opposing tensions and schemata in students’ own minds, and this engagement can be enhanced when students are confronted with broader educational debates, perspectives and proposals. Stories provide abstract concepts with a necessary tension, they suggest a way of entering the theoretical via the concrete and they show students the personal relevance of certain debates, which may have previously appeared remote and obscure. The end result is that students are challenged to make decisions about matters of fundamental importance such as the kinds of teachers they will be and about the ethical commitment they will make to teaching.     

Fill the classroom with life: deepening the reform of Chinese primary and secondary classroom teaching

Classroom teaching is a life-practice in which both teacher and pupils engage and bring in their authentic and living experiences. Classroom teaching should be seen as a period of life-experience that is a meaningful component of the lives of both teachers and students. However, this is not how teaching is seen in most pedagogical and educational theory, teacher education, and in Chinese classrooms, and this perception inhibits reform. What must be understood to facilitate a view of teaching as a life-practice?     

Project work in the graduate classroom: Teachers as students apply skills beyond the classroom

Abstract

Through the use of a long‐term project in a graduate teacher education course on the importance of play, students learned skills beyond those usually required in a graduate classroom. Students used their understanding and knowledge of play, constructive practice, and project work to develop a family play day at the university lab school. As part of the project, students helped to develop a play‐style instrument that served as a self‐study for their own classrooms as they observed the play among their own students. The project culminated with the students hosting the families of the lab school at a fun day and preparing a brochure that gave families information about the importance of play.     

“研究性变革实践”:教师发展的新思路

在"研究性变革实践"中,教育理论与教育实践是相互缠绕、相互建构的复杂关系。"研究性变革实践"对教师提出了新的要求,也为教师发展提供了新的空间。教师在"研究性变革实践"中的发展过程可分为:模仿操作性方法,教育理论与教育实践的脱节阶段;理解教育变革内涵,教育理论与教育实践的沟通阶段;渐入变革佳境,教育理论与教育实践的创造性互动转化阶段。     

Windows into teaching and learning: professional growth of classroom teachers in an online environment

The Windows into Teaching and Learning (WiTL) project was developed by researchers at one large urban institution in the southeast region of the United States as a way to facilitate online clinical experiences for content area methods students during summer coursework. Utilising both synchronous and asynchronous elements, WiTL addressed the issue of students gaining meaningful clinical experiences in coursework offered during the summer. Though the purpose of WiTL was initially for methods students to engage in observations of and conversations with practising classroom teachers, an unanticipated outcome occurred. In this paper, the authors describe the WiTL process and discuss the impact it had on the professional growth of the practising classroom teachers. The results indicate that WiTL encouraged teachers to utilise reflective practice in rethinking their pedagogy and used technology to facilitate professional learning community among classroom teachers.     

德国中小学教师职业准备教育及其新发展

德国中小学教师职业准备教育包括理论知识学习为主的修业阶段和实践能力培养为主的实习阶段。德国中小学教师职业准备教育能够顺利且有效开展,得益于其完备有效的支持系统。为弥补原教师职业准备教育制度设计的不足,德国教师教育界推行了一些新举措。     

Assessment of pedagogical practices and processes in low and middle income countries: Findings from secondary school classrooms in Uganda

This article outlines the development and validation of a classroom observation instrument for use in low and middle income countries. The Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes Systemⓒ (TIPPS) was designed to be a rigorous research instrument as well as a practical feedback tool. Based on data from 197 Ugandan secondary schools, we were successful in assessing the quality of instructional practices and classroom processes in this context. The results reveal a 3-factor structure, good rater reliability, and concurrent validity with in biology, English, and mathematics scores. Strengths and limitations as well as future directions of the study are discussed.     

新建地方本科院校教育实践适应农村基础教育探究

在新建地方本科院校中,教师教育有被"边缘化"和"去师范化"的倾向,教育实践课程存在重视不够、时间缺失,内涵窄化、内容单一,教育实习管理松散、与农村中小学实际相脱节等问题。为此,新建地方本科院校要对教育实践课程体系、实践教学环节、教育见习、实习管理等方面进行改革,促进教育实践适应农村基础教育,提高教育实践质量。     

Career and Commitment in the Context of Comprehensive School Reform

The present article takes up a paradox: that teachers' involvement in ambitious innovation or large-scale reform may supply rich opportunities for professional growth while also introducing the seeds of longer-term career disappointment. Case study investigations of reforming high schools in the US from 1991 to 2001 illuminate the relationship of teachers' participation in secondary school reform to their teaching commitment and career trajectories. Two of the three successive studies produced a dominant pattern of initial enthusiasm followed by growing disappointment. We draw on the combined data to examine teachers' propensity to remain engaged with innovation or reform, and the ways in which sustained involvement strengthens or weakens teachers' career commitment and satisfaction.     

Exploring the tactfulness of implementing play in the classroom: a Hong Kong experience

‘Learning through play’ in early childhood education is widely advocated, but studies show that play is not easily enacted in classrooms. The quality of learning through play has been questioned in various countries, especially when learning outcomes are a global concern. This paper examines how one teacher implemented learning through play within a formal and didactic Hong Kong pre-school classroom. Following this real-life adaptation of the play pedagogy, this paper aims to illuminate the practical theories of linking play with learning in the classroom. The findings support the adoption of ‘play’ in young children's learning and reveal tactful ways in which a teacher can encourage the evolving ‘flow’ of children's play while simultaneously scaffolding their learning. The paper analyses the tact involved in the above process and suggests key dimensions for realizing ‘learning through play’ in the classroom.     

Reception of Arthur Sutherland Neill＇s pedagogical concept and his Summerhill School in Hungarian and German pedagogical literature and press

Arthur Sutherland Neill is one of the most debated personalities among the representatives of the classic reform pedagogy, due to his pedagogical concept and its practical realization, and his Summerhill School, equally. He is often mentioned during public debates, where mostly the ＂three S＂--＂sex, swearing and smoking＂, are existing as subject of the debates. While analyzing publications about Summerhill School appearing in Hungarian and German pedagogical special literature and press, a kind of polarized attitude has been realized towards the conceptions and school： Some talk about him admiringly; others criticize him while emphasizing the concept＇s drawbacks and unique features.