Teaching and Learning About Inquiry: Insights and Challenges in Professional Development

The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers who participated in a professional development program continued to learn about inquiry and inquiry teaching as they implemented inquiry in their classrooms. A qualitative design utilizing inductive analysis was used to investigate teachers’ understanding and classroom implementation of inquiry. Findings are presented as assertions, drawing support from four focal teachers. For each assertion, confirming and disconfirming data are presented. Based on these data, we assert that a) there was little or no change in teachers’ individual understanding of inquiry, and b) professional development enhanced teachers’ ability to design inquiry-based activities – however, classroom implementation did not reflect a high level of inquiry.     

Practising Silence in Teaching

The concept ‘silence’ has diametrically opposed meanings; it connotes peace and contemplation as well as death and oblivion. Silence can also be considered a practice. There is keeping the rule of silence to still the mind and find inner truth, as well as forcibly silencing in the sense of subjugating another to one's own purposes. The concept of teaching runs the gamut between these extremes, from respectfully leading students to search and discover, to relentlessly bending them to one's own will. This article examines contradictory connotations and practices of silence and teachers’ ambivalent perceptions of it in order to conceptualize a positive practice of silence for teacher education.     

对沉默权的一点思考

沉默权是一种在刑事诉讼中赋予犯罪嫌疑人、被告人的重要诉讼权利.这种诉讼权利从十七世纪产生至今,已经有几百年的历史,它反映了一个国家在刑事程序中,犯罪嫌疑人、被告人的人权状况和刑事诉讼文明进步的程度,现在已经成为世界许多国家刑事司法制度中体现人权保障的重要内容之一,对丰富刑事诉讼职能、实现刑事诉讼结构公正、完善刑事诉讼证据规则等方面具有十分重要的作用.笔者认为在实施依法治国伟大方略的今天,在我国刑事司法制度中确立沉默权是非常重要的,而且是具有可行性的,本文的主要目的就是要对此发表自己的一点粗浅看法.     

对沉默权的一点思考

沉默权是一种在刑事诉讼中赋予犯罪嫌疑人、被告人的重要诉讼权利。这种诉讼权利从十七世纪产生至今 ,已经有几百年的历史 ,它反映了一个国家在刑事程序中 ,犯罪嫌疑人、被告人的人权状况和刑事诉讼文明进步的程度 ,现在已经成为世界许多国家刑事司法制度中体现人权保障的重要内容之一 ,对丰富刑事诉讼职能、实现刑事诉讼结构公正、完善刑事诉讼证据规则等方面具有十分重要的作用。笔者认为在实施依法治国伟大方略的今天 ,在我国刑事司法制度中确立沉默权是非常重要的 ,而且是具有可行性的 ,本文的主要目的就是要对此发表自己的一点粗浅看法。     

Teaching the Teachers: Dismantling Racism and Teaching for Social Change

As a response to the attacks on ethnic studies in Arizona and the move to ban certain books, this essay presents theoretical and pedagogical reflections from two professors and addresses the ways teacher preparation programs can offer a resistance. Based on the authors’ experience in teacher preparation programs, one in the humanities and the other in mathematics, they discuss fundamental concepts that undergird social change methodology from Gloria Anzaldúa (la facultad and conocimiento) and from Isabel Gunning’s work (World Traveling). Ultimately, our premise is that teachers of teachers can impact the curricula in significant ways that result in dismantling racism and in teaching that is focused on positive social change. We posit that the university classroom where future teachers are trained must address (1) Equity issues, (2) Cultural identity or cultural framing, and (3) Culturally relevant strategies and teaching, modeled by the university professor.     

教学工作评估对军队院校的挑战与思考

对高等院校教学工作水平评估的部分要素进行了研究,重点讨论了高级职称人员承担本科生课程、课堂教学质量评价标准、网络课程等问题,特别针对军队院校的特点进行了分析,并强调需通过多种方式提高全社会对教学工作的重视程度。在此基础上探讨了教学工作评估标准的发展问题,可为科学合理地评价教学工作水平提供借鉴。     

The Information Challenges Approach to Teaching Information Management

This article describes one approach to teaching Information Management (IM) at honours degree level that the authors helped develop and deliver at Napier University Business School, namely 'Information Challenges' . Information Challenges provides a flexible framework upon which to teach the diverse and rapidly changing area of IM, as well as learning about current thinking and practice from leading academics and practitioners from industry and commerce. This article identifies the main areas of study within the field of IM and explores the main teaching and learning methods that were adopted and implemented within the Information Challenges approach. The main lessons learnt from developing and applying the Information Challenges approach will be highlighted, along with a number of issues that may emerge in the future.     

Breaking the Silence: Achieving a Positive Campus Climate for Diversity from the Staff Perspective

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that create a positive climate for diversity and to demonstrate how these factors predict outcomes related to achieving a positive campus climate for diversity. Based on survey data collected from 437 staff members employed at a large, public, predominantly White university in the Midwest, results suggest that the institution’s ability to achieve a positive climate for diversity reflects not only the personal characteristics of the staff member (race, gender, education level, and age) but also their perceptions of their immediate work environment. Implications are discussed.     

建构主义教学取向及其面临的挑战

虽然九年一贯课程纲要揭示了学生要有带着走的能力、教学要以学生为主体、以生活经验为重心等充满着与建构主义相符的理念,但是如何使建构主义的精神落实到教学之中、探讨建构主义的教学取向及其在教学方面可能面对的困境,正是我们应努力的方向。     

Racism and Social Work: A Model Syllabus for Graduate-Level Teaching

ABSTRACT

This article provides a prospective model syllabus for graduate-level social work courses exploring the interactions between social work and race—both historical and present, both productive and problematic—and makes an argument for this subject matter’s relevance for a course to be implemented in the graduate-level curriculum of social work programs. Instructors can view this syllabus as a template they can customize for their own purposes and contexts, and thus it should not be viewed as fixed, comprehensive, or definitive. Due to the evolutionary nature of research, language, and terms, the syllabus, of course, will need constant revision; but it is conceived as offering a curation of resources, thereby providing a starting point for education on this important topic, at least for this moment in time.     

Breaking Through the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy About Jewish Education

This article responds to three articles in the most recent issue of The Journal of Jewish Education (74:1) in which a variety of researchers examined Bible teaching that employed an approach to Bible pedagogy that had been characterized by the present author as “the Contextual orientation” in his previously published book, Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice. The article responds to these three empirical studies in the light of the theory that he had previously articulated and explores issues, complexities and new insights that are raised by the suite of articles. In particular the article looks at various uses of the “The Documentary Hypothesis” as they appear in the empirical studies and it explores complexities in the relationship between the Contextual orientation and other orientations (particularly “Personalization”) that were raised by these three studies, many of which were not anticipated in the author's original work.     

Fear of Deportation in High School: Implications for Breaking the Circle of Silence Surrounding Migration Status

Long-term ethnographic data on the daily lives of undocumented students, their teachers, and administrators reveal the effects of fear of deportation (De Genova,?2002) on the routine of a high school. Thirty years after Plyler v. Doe guaranteed the educational rights of undocumented students, this study finds many factors contributing to the creation of a Circle of Silence around these students’ rights and access to schooling that threatens the educational opportunities of a significant population of immigrant students. The implications of this study reveal how schools can become a space to interrupt this vicious cycle through awareness, counseling, and advocacy.     

英语词汇教学浅议

学生在学习英语词汇时，常抱怨记不住单词，或看上去会了的单词却仍有读错、拼错、写错或者用错的现象。本文根据心理学的研究成果，提出了教师在教学过程中解决这些问题的方法。     

DIVERSITY IN CONSULTATION: "Teaching on Racism: Tools for Consultant Training"

Diversity is becoming an increasingly important consideration in the consultation field. Consultants are often in a unique position to make significant individual and organizational change with respect to diversity. As the field beings to develop cross-cultural consultation competencies and skills, it is important to emphasize the sociopolitical factors of diversity, specifically oppression. Lessons learned from a course on White racism are presented, with a focus on strategies for identifying and changing contemporary racist behavior. These lessons are presented as useful foundations for training preservice or inservice consultants to address diversity concerns and related systems of oppression.     

沉默权的矛盾分析

沉默权制度的确立在当代中国面临着种种难题,主要表现为沉默权自身的矛盾,法制运动的理念先导与实践滞后的矛盾,沉默权与我国文化差异的矛盾,制度创新中价值取向之间的矛盾,沉默权与诉讼模式传统影响的矛盾等。这些矛盾的存在使得我国在确立沉默权制度上步履蹒跚,我们对此应充分认识并努力创造主客观条件解决它。