Building a Literacy Community: The Role of Literacy and Social Practice in Early Childhood Programs

This article reports findings from two qualitatively based studies, one conducted at an urban preschool in Northern California and the other at a rural Head Start Center in the Midwest. By presenting detailed data from the two preschool sites, the article describes several ways to strengthen existing literacy practices for children, families, and teachers in both urban and rural early childhood settings. The studies focus on such critical aspects of child and family literacy development as ownership and inclusion, raising important issues for practice and policy in early childhood literacy and language education.     

民族地区高职高专非英语专业听力现状及其改进方法

本文通过分析民族地区高职高专非英语专业学生的听力现状以及存在的问题,根据民族地区的教育现状和民族地区学生在英语听力上学习的特点,提出了重基础、改进教学方法和培养学生自主学习等提高听力水平解决方法。     

CRITICAL LISTENING AND THE DIALOGIC ASPECT OF MORAL EDUCATION: J.F. HERBART'S CONCEPT OF THE TEACHER AS MORAL GUIDE

In his central educational work, The Science of Education (1806), J.F. Herbart did not explicitly develop a theory of listening, yet his concept of the teacher as a guide in the moral development of the learner gives valuable insight into the moral dimension of listening within teacher‐student interaction. Herbart's theory radically calls into question the assumed linearity between listening and obedience to external authority, not only illuminating important distinctions between socialization and education, but also underscoring consequences for our understanding of the role of listening in educational relations. In this inquiry, Andrea English argues that critical listening in teaching contributes to the moral education and development of the learner. To do this, she examines Herbart's view of the teacher's task as a moral guide in the realm of moral education. English contends that reexamining Herbart's theory of education (a theory that is, for the most part, no longer discussed in Anglo‐American educational philosophy) can productively inform our understanding of moral education in democratic and pluralist societies.     

基于间接言语行为理论的对外汉语听力教学研究

运用John Langshaw Austin提出的间接言语行为理论,通过数据证明了间接言语行为在语言使用中大量存在,以HSK听力试题为蓝本,用间接言语行为理论对其进行分析,证明了听力教学中同样有很多间接言语行为。     

Listening and questioning

In the article that follows, I take up a debate that has arisen over the past three years concerning the following issue: Does every act of listening involve the listener in questioning? I argue that the answer to the questions is yes. I give background on the question and then consider one instance of listening that may suggest no role for questioning to play. Drawing upon Gadamer, I present an argument in support of my claim. I conclude with an implication for research.     

英语专业学生听力教学现状及应对策略——以毕节学院学生听力教学个案为例

结合贵州毕节学院英语专业听力教学的现状,阐述英语专业听力教学中存在的一些问题,同时有针对性地提出改进英语专业听力教学的建议,从而提高英语专业听力教学质量。     

Maybe one in a hundred or one in a thousand in the neoliberal,new-managerial university! Aesthetics of experience and the question of transgressive critical thinking

ABSTRACT

Trangression is an act of challenging boundaries that separate apparently distinct oppositional categories objects. Examples are categories such as such as civilised/primitive, male/female, master/servant, Lordship/bondage. The article deals with such transgressions related to the evolution of class consciousness transgressive critical thinking. It is said to be particularly important and at risk in higher education today, as performativity reforms have closed the spaces for transgressive reflexivity, making it difficult for students to make sense of the possibilities and costs for the self that higher education can create. However, although the now professionally managed entrepreneurial university might appear to form a difficult space for developing critical thinking, critique is also a basis for the expansion of capitalism in the university, and through transferability this can create spaces for critical reflection.     

Betwixt and Between: Working Through the Aesthetic in Philosophy of Education: George F. Kneller Lecture,Conference of the American Educational Studies Association Savannah,Georgia, October 30, 2008

At a time when both philosophy of education and the arts are under threat within education, this article inquires into interdisciplinarity as one way of approaching the disciplines of philosophy of education and aesthetics. The article offers a retrospective autobiographical intellectual history and phenomenology of the author's own learning and scholarship within Higher Education in three main areas—philosophy of literature education, women's studies, and philosophy of music education, areas paralleling the three periods of her academic career. One sub-theme of this narrative about the balancing act of working in literature and music through philosophy of education is the author's ongoing resistance to professionalization or disciplinary academic control—of literature, philosophy, and music—while being a critical student of educational theory and practice in these areas—philosophy, literature and music within philosophy of education—of thus being “betwixt and between.” Two other themes comprising the article's subtext are “praxis” and “embodiment.” The double entendre of the phrase “working through” entails, first, using the arts of literature and music to practise philosophy of education; and secondly, embracing the psychological, ethical, and spiritual introspection that comes with critical engagement of the arts and its discourses. In short, the article aims to reprise some burning philosophical educational questions that have preoccupied its author over the years, questions deemed especially pertinent to the current increasingly diverse membership in the discipline of educational studies.     

试论大学英语听力技能的培养

大学英语是我国高等教育中一门重要的基础课程,而其中的听力理解是在学习英语时所遇到的一大难题。从语言学角度分析了大学生的听力现状,阐述了听力的特殊作用,从而提出了解决这一问题的措施。     

独立学院英语专业听力教学与学习策略的培养

当今学习策略的教学已成为教育教学的目标之一。特别是随着终身教育理念的确立和终生教育体系的形成,学习策略显得越来越重要。但在现实中,学生却缺乏学习的策略、方法和技巧。文章在了解学生现有的学习状况的基础上,从计划策略、监控策略、自我评价策略三个方面简要探讨了独立学院在英语听力教学中策略培养的意义以及培养学生学习这些策略的方法,从而逐步提升其自主学习的能力。     

A comparativist’s predicaments of writing about ‘other’ education: a self-reflective,critical review of studies of Japanese education

This self-reflexive essay teases out the predicaments that I have encountered through my past publishing experience, while situating them in a critical review of the existing English-language studies of Japanese education. Drawing on postcolonial theoretical insights and recent critical sociology of academic knowledge production, I use my personal experience as a starting point to identify the particular discursive structure of comparative education that constrains the articulation of ‘other’ education in the field. My critical review of comparative studies of Japanese education demonstrates that many of them, including my own, unreflexively accept the subject positions offered by this discursive condition and thus further constrain space for those who write in English about ‘other’ education and Japanese education in particular. In conclusion, I discuss recent studies of Japanese education that partially address the dilemmas raised in this paper and the wider implications of this study for the field of comparative education.     

大学非英语专业学生英语听力影响因素及其教学策略

英语听力教学是英语教学中的重要环节之一。本文深入分析影响听力的各种因素内涵及其相互关系．就我院高职生在英语听力培训中存在的问题进行剖析。总结了英语听力教学的经验及应对策略。     

Social participation of children and youth with disabilities in Canada,France and Germany

This article proposes a reflection on the issue of the terminology of inclusive education that has been dominating the national and international debates. Reviewing some of the relevant literature and drawing from observations in the education system, the author poses the question if the terms of inclusion and inclusive education represent the most operational terminology when it comes to education of children with disabilities and the different contexts in which their education and schooling occurs. Using examples from four different research studies in France, Germany and Canada, the author demonstrates that inclusion, under the lens of social participation, needs to be reconsidered by listening to people with disabilities, and also by accommodating the need for designated spaces that are offering a reprieve and safety from an ableist society.     

Lesson study: A collaborative approach to scholarship for teaching and learning in higher education

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has become an important field of inquiry, focusing on the development of new and critical pedagogic approaches in higher education. It is a broad field leading to the emergence of a number of contrasting perspectives concerning the development of insights into teaching and learning. In this article, we explore the potential for Lesson Study to act as a framework for reflecting on and developing pedagogic practice in the university sector. Originating in Japan over a century ago, Lesson Study is a collaborative tool for analysing and developing understanding of student learning. This makes it an ideal tool for capturing and interrogating new and critical insights into teaching and learning. An outline framework is suggested for developing the use of Lesson Study in higher education and we discuss how it can form a positive methodology for extending the work of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.     

Reflections on citizenship education in Australia,Canada and England

In this article we describe the background to the recent development of citizenship education in Australia, Canada and England and then, following an account of our methods, discuss issues arising from an analysis of a sample of textbooks from these countries. We suggest that the current policies to introduce versions of citizenship education have emerged in these countries in the context of diverse challenges to the legitimacy of the nation state. We argue, generally, that all three countries tend, in the textbooks we have examined, to emphasize forms of citizenship education that may submerge citizen empowerment under essentially orthodox agendas. We see differences in textbooks between and within the three countries but argue that, despite many exceptions, we are able to characterize textbooks in Ontario, Canada as education in civics (provision of information about formal public institutions), those in England as education for citizenship (a broad‐based promotion of socially useful qualities) and those in Australia as social studies (societal understanding that emerges from the development of critical thinking skills related to existing academic subjects such as history and English).     

近十年国内英语听力理解测试研究综述

对过去十年（2000～2010）刊登在国内外语类核心期刊和外语类刊物有关英语听力测试研究的文章进行检索统计,结果显示：（1）过去十年间,英语听力测试研究略有上升;（2）研究涵盖了任务类型、听力测试评分、反拨作用、听力应试策略和技巧、听力试题分析与命制等方面;（3）实证性研究略有增多;（4）研究对象以大学生为主,高、初中生为辅。分析发现,目前英语听力测试研究存在内容单一、缺乏广度和深度、实证研究方法欠缺科学性、研究对象失衡等问题。针对以上问题,该文提出听力测试研究未来发展趋势为：丰富对听力测试构建效度的研究;开展从认知与情感角度对考生听力测试理解过程的研究;增加听力理解形成性评价的研究;关注计算机化听力测试的发展。     

高职生英语听力学习中元认知策略应用情况调查研究

以问卷调查的形式,通过描述性统计和定量分析,应用元认知理论对高职高专非英语专业二年级学生的听力学习策略情况做了调查和探讨。调查结果显示学生在听力学习中自我管理策略和自我评价策略缺乏,自我监控能力较弱,因此也给高职高专英语教学带来一些启示。     

A perspective on education for sustainable development: Historical development of environmental education in Indonesia

This article examines the historical development of environmental education (EE) in Indonesia with emphasis on the non-formal sector, and applies its findings to the discussion on education for sustainable development (ESD), which seldom draws on case studies from developing countries. Local socio-economic and political conditions have made EE in Indonesia similar to ‘ESD’ in terms of its topical scope involving various social issues, although whether it should be referred to as ESD remains unclear. In contrast to the existing concerns about ESD, it involves critical views on the prevailing models of (neo-liberal) economic development. This article also shows that EE, like ESD, is at risk of exploitation by vested interests.     

Collaboration as a catalyst for critical thinking in undergraduate research

Critical thinking and working together are key skills for lifelong learning, but current assessment practices do not necessarily support their acquisition, given the instrumental attitudes to learning of many higher education students. A small‐scale action research project was undertaken within the context of tutoring on a research module of an undergraduate early childhood studies course. This research module offered a fruitful context for an examination of the potential for collaboration to act as a catalyst for the development of critical thinking. The data are explored principally through the theoretical framework of critical thinking dispositions devised by Norris and Ennis (1989).     

英语听力技能与策略--对非英语专业学生英语学习情况调查

通过对所选20名学生问卷调查数字的分析，研究非英语专业学生听力训练策略．揭示听力理解中存在的4个问题。强调大量行之有效地听力训练，特别是借助辅助技能培训和权威资料的听力训练，是提高听力理解力的最佳途径。