“Think before you type”: the effectiveness of implementing an anti-cyberbullying project in an EFL classroom

Cyberbullying takes place when the Internet is used purposefully to cause harm or discomfort to a specific person or group of persons. Because of the fast growth of digital technologies, cyberbullying is replacing physical bullying and becoming a prevalent social problem around the world. This study outlines the author’s efforts of integrating David Kolb's experiential learning theory, project-based learning, and a critical approach to language education to engage a group of Taiwanese college English-as-a-foreign-language students about the issues related to cyberbullying and the importance of healthy Internet behaviors. The results indicated that the 9-week project work heightened students’ awareness of cyberbullying and other social issues and enhanced their language skills. Students also held an overall positive attitude toward the project work. To conclude the article, several research directions are suggested to continue this line of inquiry.     

Do ‘global citizens’ need the parochial cultural other? Discourse of immersion in study abroad and learning-by-doing

The discourse of immersion is prevalent but little analysed in the field of study abroad. Linked generally to learning-by-doing, this discourse has significance for ‘intercultural education’. Based on text analyses of three guidebooks on study abroad, this article suggests four effects of the discourse of immersion: It justifies study abroad as different from, if not better than, classroom learning and tourism. It emphasises the difference between students’ home and host cultures and constructs each society as internally homogeneous. It constructs study-abroad students’ home societies as globalised and their host societies as immobile and parochial, creating a hierarchy when globalisation is valorized. Finally, it exoticises the learning-by-doing ‘teachers’ – the host people – by portraying them as parochial ‘cultural others’. This article suggests an uneven process where the call for production of ‘global citizens’ through study abroad constructs host societies as parochial and risks reproducing a colonialist hierarchy of exoticism through intercultural learning-by-doing.     

教育学中国话语体系的大教育学建构

教育学中国话语体系研究虽然已取得一定的成果,但目前教育学中国话语体系尚缺乏大教育学的建构视野。新时代的中国教育学人,应进行教育学中国话语体系的大教育学建构,使教育学既成为面向所有教育领域的教育学,又成为能涵盖各教育领域的大教育学,在每个教育领域,都形成独特的教育学中国话语。目前,教育学中国话语体系进行大教育学建构亟待突破的问题主要有四个方面：突破学校教育、基础教育领域;突破教育学学科界限;突破西方话语;突破抽象形式。教育学中国话语体系的大教育学建构应当通过四方面路径：聚焦终身教育体系;立足大教育学学科视野;回归中国文化传统;扎根中国教育实践。     

Introducing a fifth pedagogy: experience‐based strategies for facilitating learning in natural environments

Educators have identified four categories of ‘productive pedagogies’ that are considered to lead to authentic student engagement and learning in the classroom. This study was designed to explore and extend these pedagogies in the context of learning in natural environments, in particular, through the programmes of Queensland environmental education centres. In‐depth interview and observation data were collected from students, classroom teachers and centre teachers who had participated in 12 environmental education programmes across Queensland, in order to identify the strategies that are most effective in facilitating learning in the natural environment. A fifth productive pedagogy category, ‘experience‐based learning’, is proposed. Experience‐based learning is particularly important in addressing students’ environmental attitudes and actions. The implications for the delivery of environmental education programmes both within and outside the classroom are discussed.     

跨文化研究在线学习教育学——反思和比较中英高校在线学习合作项目的经验

本文旨在研究如何实现有效的跨文化协作,比较中英两国如何理解和组织在线学习。研究者依据现象解释学设计研究方法,对比和反思了参加跨文化合作开发在线学习课程的经历和体验,讨论了这一基于项目的协作交流如何促进了对在线学习的理解。最后,本文总结了一些可供开展后续相关探索活动的尝试性结论。     

No Quick Fixes: Problems in the Development of A-level Students’ Writing (and Learning)

Over the past 15 years, there has been a range of standards-driven educational interventions in England: focused particularly on students’ writing, they have been targeted at particular students, short-term and based on the assumption that identifiable, quantifiable inputs would produce pre-identified, measurable outputs. This article explores one such intervention, aimed at students in Year 13 who were seen as having difficulty with academic writing. It looks closely at the work of one student, and raises questions about the effects of high-stakes testing upon pedagogy in schools and the damaging impact that this has upon student learning.     

试论高校思想政治理论课话语权建设的三个维度

推进高校思想政治理论课话语权建设,必须全面把握其内涵。高校思想政治理论课话语权可以分为学科话语权、教材话语权、教学话语权,三者的生成过程、建构主体、实质内涵和根本要求既相对独立,又紧密联系、相辅相成,存在着不同主体的现实交叉、不同过程的相互交融、不同要求的内在一致等现象,因此高校思想政治教育理论课话语权建设的各个环节需要相互衔接、彼此支撑、整体推进。     

美国学生海外分布特点及美国国家留学政策规划

美国国会授权成立的“亚伯拉罕·林肯海外留学委员会”近期推出美国学生海外留学的国家发展规划,旨在切实增加美高校学生海外留学人数,促使学生更加熟悉其他国家的文化,提高学生的外语能力,满足反恐、经贸等美国国家利益的需要。美国高等教育界已经认识到海外留学应当成为本科生教育的一个必要环节。     

论教育学的生命立场

教育学的学科立场就是教育学看待问题的方式,这种方式最终取决于“教育”的方式。教育是关怀生命、促进生命发展的活动,具有生命性,而且教育现象、教育活动也因为生命的“在场”而具有意义。这决定了教育学必须具有生命的立场。教育学的生命立场意味着教育学是“成全生命”的人文之学。     

高师小学数学教育学课程的构建

对数学的深刻理解和熟知儿童数学学习心理,是小学数学教育的基础.数学教学是数学学习活动的教学,其主要任务是设计和组织数学学习活动.关于数学本质的认识对数学教育具有根本性的指导意义,应作为小学数学教育学的一项重要内容.案例教学法是小学数学教育学的主要教学方法,编写教学案例是小学数学教育学教材建设的重要任务.