Reducing Heterosexism in African American Christian Students: Effects of Multicultural Education Courses

Sexual-minority college students continue to experience heterosexism in the form of heterosexist and biased language from peers. Religion has been identified as a predictor of sexual prejudice among college students. Yet there is limited research on the intersection of race, religion, and heterosexism, and on interventions designed to address this prejudice. This study examined the effectiveness of multicultural education courses at a large public university on reducing heterosexism in Christian students. Analysis of pre- and post- data using repeated measures ANCOVA indicated African American Christian students had significantly higher heterosexism scores than White Christian students, and African American Christian students had a significant decrease in heterosexism as compared to White Christian students after taking a service learning course. These results have implications for future research and education on prejudice reduction.     

Challenges and Achievements: Teaching Shakespeare''''s Sonnet 34 to a Third Year "English Literature" Class

In the course offerings to students in the Foreign Languages College here atGuangxi Teachers'University,I had noted what was in my opinion an overemphasis onprose at the expense of poetry;and also a dearth of courses thatwentdeeply into a singlesubject,period,or writer.In place of this,courses tended to be survey,background,criticism,or history.After discussing this with my colleague,Professor Zheng Shuning,here at the Uni-versity,I determined to take a different approach in my Fall Term,…     

Practicing Lament to Teach for Justice: Reflections from a Survey Course

What pedagogical routines and rhythms can teachers in Christian institutions of higher education adopt to teach for justice? The article explores this question by detailing efforts to incorporate the practice of lament into the learning routines of a survey course on global poverty. Drawing on recent scholarship on practice-oriented pedagogies and lament theology, the discussion articulates a lament pedagogy that aims to deepen students' empathetic engagement with the voices of suffering they encounter in the course and to engender a performative response to injustices they confront beyond the classroom. In particular, the article details how the use of literary accounts written by non-Western authors who explore themes of disruptive social change, poverty, and injustice in their works intersects with an overarching practice of lament to foster enduring processes of dispositional formation in students. A closing discussion considers how the pedagogical routines developed in a global poverty course might be adapted to and implemented in courses across the liberal arts curriculum. The article makes the case that educators in Christian colleges and universities are critical in the ongoing public recovery of a practice of prayer and worship that is fundamental to one's engagement with suffering in the world.     

浅谈高校英语专业专门用途英语课程中的翻译方法——以市场营销英语课程为例

为了适应经济发展的需要,培养复合型人才,很多高校的英语专业在原有EGP课程的基础上都开设了ESP（Englishfor Specific Purpose,专门用途英语）课程。如何把ESP课程的内容翻译成通顺的中文,让学生正确理解教材内容,掌握知识要点成为教师教授ESP课程的重要内容。本文以市场营销英语课程为例,通过分析ESP语言的特点,讨论了对其的翻译方法。     

Christian Higher Education: An Education that Liberates

In this wide-ranging review essay, the author engages Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance, a book edited by J. Carpenter, P. L. Glanzer, and N. S. Lantinga (2014). His remarks focus especially on the five chapters of the book that survey Christian higher education in nations where he has direct experience: Brazil, Kenya, India, South Korea, and the United States. An extended reflection, both philosophical and practical, is then offered on a common task of Christian higher education across many cultures: how to develop and sustain a holistic education that promotes Kingdom prospering, above and beyond national and commercial purposes. He makes the case for a liberating education that seeks to instill a dynamic combination of integrative thinking and character formation. The essay ends with practical advice as the author encourages fellow educators to focus their efforts on faculty development, general education, and cross-cultural partnerships as the keys to building and sustaining a liberating education.     

A framework to support group essay writing in English for Academic Purposes: a case study from an English-medium instruction context

In English for academic purposes courses, group oral presentations are quite common but essay writing tends to be seen as an individual endeavour, albeit with scope for peer review. This article discusses action research reflecting on student perceptions of a framework to support students through a semester-long collaborative essay assignment in an English-medium instruction university in Macau. The framework presented incorporates collaborative and individual assignment tasks, assisted by information and communications technology, to support the collaborative process and facilitate the assessment of the individual within the group. Even though writing in a group may take more time and effort, it is viewed favourably by the majority of students due to the additional learning gains to be made by writing collaboratively, including the increased quality of ideas and the social interactions (face-to-face and online) required to come to agreement.     

Not Just a Specimen: A Qualitative Study of Emotion,Morality, and Professionalism in One Medical School Gross Anatomy Laboratory

Medical schools are increasingly integrating professionalism training into their gross anatomy courses, teaching ethical behavior and humanistic attitudes through the dissection experience. However, many schools continue to take a traditional, technical approach to anatomical education while teaching professionalism in separate courses. This interview-based study explored how students viewed the body donor and the professional lessons they learned through dissection at one such medical school. All students oscillated involuntarily between seeing the cadaver as a specimen for learning and seeing the cadaver as a person, with some students intentionally cultivating one of these ways of seeing over the other. These views shaped students’ emotional and moral responses to the experiences of dissection. The “specimen” view facilitated a technical, detached approach to dissection, while the “person” view made students engage emotionally. Further, students who intentionally cultivated a “specimen” view generally felt less moral distress about dissection than students who intentionally cultivated a “person” view. The concept of respect gave students permission to perform dissections, but “person-minded” students developed more complex rules around what constituted respectful behavior. Both groups of students connected the gross anatomy experience to their professional development, but in different ways. “Specimen-minded” students intentionally objectified the body to learn the emotional control physicians need, while “person-minded” students humanized the body donor to promote the emotional engagement required of physicians. These findings support efforts to integrate professionalism teaching into gross anatomy courses, particularly content, addressing the balance between professional detachment and concern.     

正确处理公共选修课与专业必修课的关系

选修课与必修课都是以促进学生个性发展为根本旨趣。引导学生根据自己的个性特点进行选择是选修课的一个基本准则。当然学生必须保证修完必修课的基础上选择选修课的学习。因此,既要合理确定选修课与必修课的比例关系;又要科学指导学生选课。     

高职课程计划制定及调整的若干问题

高职课程改革是高职院校教学改革的核心，制定或调整好课程计划是学校课程改革的起点，课程计划必须坚持以人为本，适应市场需求，增加新工课程，减少陈旧的知识内容和纯科性的内容，补充实践方面等内容，才能使高职改革顺利进行。     

怎样利用范文进行英语写作教学

作为学生英语综合能力的书面表现,英语写作是一门相对来说较难的课程,所有英语写作教师都应在教学中不断探索一些行之有效的办法,本文就如何利用范文进行英语写作教学进行了一些探讨。     

The politics of normalcy: Intersectionality and the construction of difference in Christian-Jewish relations

This article examines the workings of a discourse of normalcy for a group of black Christian fundamentalist students. Focusing on the intersection of religion and race the essay analyzes the representation of Jewish people as dark and other, while constructing Christians who are white and normal. The inversion of racial identities unfolds in contradictory ways, reinscribing a discourse of colorblindness while simultaneously reifying categories of race. Through discourse analysis the article discusses how the political moves in both centrifugal and centripetal directions to construct a "universal" (Eurocentric) Christian identity while suppressing subgroup differences.     

关于提高高师学生数学教学语言表达能力之管见

数学教学是数学语言的教学 ,学生在校期间必须加强这一方面的学习 ,强化学生的语言训练意识。利用基础课程的学习 ,加强学生数学思维能力的培养和数学素养的提高 ,并把实践活动贯穿于整个教学过程     

Beyond Evolution: Addressing Broad Interactions Between Science and Religion in Science Teacher Education

Science and religion are two indisputably profound and durable cultural forces with a complex history of interaction. As ASTE members are aware, these interactions often manifest themselves in classrooms and in the surrounding communities. In this essay, we encourage science teacher educators to broaden their perspectives of science–religion interactions so that they may better assist pre- and in-service science teachers with addressing topics such as the age and origins of the universe and biological evolution in an appropriate manner. We first introduce some foundational scholarship into the historical interactions between science and religion as well as current efforts to maintain healthy dialogue between perspectives that are frequently characterized as innately in conflict with or mutually exclusive of one another. Given that biological evolution is the dominant science–religion issue of our day, in particular in the USA, we next summarize the origins and strategies of anti-evolution movements via the rise and persistence of Christian Fundamentalism. We then summarize survey and qualitative sociological research indicating disparities between academic scientists and the general public with regard to religious beliefs to help us further understand our students’ worldviews and the challenges they often face in campus-to-classroom transitions. We conclude the essay by providing resources and practical suggestions, including legal considerations, to assist science teacher educators with their curriculum and outreach.     

校园精神与大学生素质教育

在大学教育中,校园精神以其特有的同化、凝聚、导向和激励功能与作用,指导与统帅着学校的教育（即正式课程的教育与隐蔽课程的教育）,并激发其特有的循序功能,使两融合成交叉互补的整体的教育活动,从而促进大学生素质的教育。大学校园中的群体（包括正式群体与非正式群体）规范为校园精神影响与整合大学生的诸素质的发展提供环境条件与途径。     

电路分析基础案例库的设计与应用

电路分析基础在电气信息类专业计划中是一门承上启下的课程,教学效果直接影响学生整个专业的学习。针对电路分析基础课程的教学特点,提出分类建立案例库,将与课程相关的典型案例有规律有系统地引入课堂,使学生建立课程结构体系和专业结构体系,扩大学生的专业视野,提高专业素养,可以有效提高教学效果。     

专业必修课弹性与创造性成长空间——以国内外五所高校计算机相关专业为例

培养方案弹性对于培养拔尖创新人才具有重要意义,但弹性却在国内高校培养方案必修课部分缺席.以文本分析和质性研究方法对国内外一流高校计算机相关专业培养方案进行比较、以半结构式访谈深入了解课程设置对学生学习的影响研究发现,麻省理工学院和卡内基?梅隆大学计算机科学专业培养方案的专业必修课弹性显著高于国内顶尖高校.研究提出,必修...     

Online or Face-to-Face: Do Mission-Related Student Learning Outcomes Differ?

This study investigated how an authentic assessment program was used to examine student learning outcomes within the context of a Christian university’s institutional mission, core values, and distinctive qualities. For the purposes of this study, an authentic assessment program is defined as assessing student-produced work within the context of the institutional mission. A sample of 1,814 undergraduate students taking one or more general education courses at the university during the 2007–2009 academic years was examined for any significant differences in student learning outcomes. A univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) indicated the Student Assessment System (SAS) scores for the online students were not significantly different from the SAS scores for the face-to-face (F2F) students after controlling for course grade. These results suggest that online students achieved the same critical mission-related educational outcomes that the university required of its F2F students. An implication of this finding is that the university just as effectively articulated its faith-based mission and vision to the online students as it did to its students taking classes F2F.     

College Academic Assistance Programs and Practices

Most public institutions offer some form of academic assistance to help their students adjust to the demands of college level learning tasks. Because these academic assistance efforts vary considerably, ranging from an emphasis on functional reading to an emphasis on strategic learning, it is important to describe these programs and their instructional methodologies and to review the pertinent research supporting them. After examining four critical issues confronting all academic assistance programs, the authors examined the goals, assessment procedures, salient features, and program evaluation methods of four prevalent program models: learning to learn courses, supplemental instruction, required programs for underprepared students, and integrated reading/writing courses. They concluded by outlining suggestions for future research and by listing specific questions that college students need to ask about the programs at their institutions.     

高校美术教育与大学生审美能力培养

全面推进素质教育是一个巨大的系统工程,美术教育是其工程中不可或缺的一个重要组成部份。在高校学生有限的美术教育课程中,应多途径培养高校学生的审美能力,从而引发其自身潜质提升,通过美术教育引领学生认识世界、认识自然、认识自己,使学生的文化素质得以全面提升。