How teachers perceive the new curriculum reform: Lessons from a school district in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The meanings that a teacher attaches to the new curriculum reforms act as his or her map on the curriculum implementation journey, and these usually determine the success of the education reforms. This research article explores the meanings attached to the new Science curriculum reforms by primary school teachers in a school district in South Africa, where the perceived meanings emanated from, as well as the role they played in the implementation of the reforms in the classroom. It is argued that new curriculum reforms have to take place concurrently with other changes in order for them to have a significant and long-lasting effect. Three possible ways will be suggested that will help the teachers to avoid formulating reform meanings that are not aligned with the vision and goals of the new curriculum.     

关于语文课程目标百年嬗变的反思

自晚清语文独立设科以来,语文课程目标问题是人们一直在讨论而始终没有达成共识的老大难问题。尽管如此,人们对语文课程目标的认识不断趋向成熟,对语文课程目标体系的建设不断趋向完善,对语文课程目标的表述也不断趋向科学。回顾与反思近百年来关于语文课程目标的规定与讨论的历史,梳理语文课程目标论争的主要观点,探究语文课程目标嬗变的根本原因,对于我们认定语文课程目标的价值取向、构成要素和表达方式无疑是有益的。     

基于环境教育使命的高师地理科学专业建设与课程改革

环境教育经历了从单纯的环境教育到可持续发展教育、从渗透式课程到独立式课程、从绿色课程到绿色学校的发展历程。在肩负环境教育使命的背景下，高师地理科学专业建设和课程改革有着以下新的目标：一是满足为中学独立式环境教育培养专门师资的需要；二是为满足大学环境素质教育和中学渗透式环境教育需要积极建构绿色校选课程体系；三是通过加强围绕绿色课程改革和绿色科研厦其实践的地理科学重点专业建设，推动绿色大学的创建活动。     

试析美国幼儿教育课程模式的理论流派及其启示

美国幼儿教育课程模式是我国改革开放后幼儿教育课程改革的重点学习和借鉴对象,可惜一直以来研究者忙于介绍单个的课程模式,而缺乏整体的认识和剖析.本文从理论流派的角度,分别从浪漫主义流派、文化传递主义流派和进步主义流派剖析众多美国幼儿教育课程模式,最后就学习和借鉴美国幼儿教育课程模式提出了一些启示和反思.     

Examining Physics Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching a New Physics Curriculum

In this study, we investigated the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) that physics graduate teaching assistants (TAs) developed in the context of teaching a new introductory physics curriculum, Matter and Interactions (M&I). M&I is an innovative introductory physics course that emphasizes a unified framework for understanding the world and presents physics through a few fundamental principles rather than exposing students to concepts through a series of derived equations. Through a qualitative, multiple case study research design, data were collected from multiple sources: non-participant observations, digitally recorded video, semi-structured interviews, TAs?? written reflections, and researchers?? field notes. The TAs?? PCK included three components: (a) knowledge of M&I curriculum goals, (b) knowledge of instructional strategies appropriate to the M&I course, and (c) knowledge of students?? learning. This study shows the complexity of adopting curriculum reforms and the necessity to support the faculty??s and TAs?? knowledge development when a novel science curriculum is adopted.     

21世纪英国高中课程改革的特征与影响

进入21世纪以来,英国政府不断出台新的教育政策,进行了多次中学课程改革,对高中课程结构进行调整,强化国家课程的实施,不断改进和完善证书体系,加大教育投入,呈现出了明显的中央政府教育集权化的倾向。这些高中课程改革为提高英国中等教育水平、促进英国社会经济的发展做出了积极的贡献,但职业教育与学术性教育之间的分野十分明显,实现＂教育民主＂和＂教育公平＂的目标仍然任重而道远。     

研究性学习活动的误区及指导策略

以当前物理新课程为背景,从新课程实施过程中研究性学习存在问题出发,结合研究性学习的特点,给出了研究性学习的原则,进一步找出了研究性学习的几种形式.     

Educational Transfer of Sorts: The American credit system with Chinese characteristics

The credit allocation system, a prevalent element of American higher education, is designed to further general education. This paper assesses the success of transferring this American component into a Chinese context. After a general discussion of higher education and credit systems in their American and Chinese environments, the paper presents a case study. It explores from both a cultural and pedagogic perspective the employment of the credit system at Shenzhen University in southern China. Cultural, environmental and structural factors contribute to the transfer's ineffectiveness. Without systemic and structural changes, the educational reforms discussed will be unlikely to accomplish their stated goals of active learning and individualistic curricula. The narrowness of curriculum is likely to continue, unaffected by the credit system.     

Educational Research, Policy and Practice: National Report on Secondary Education in Lao PDR

Following the adoption of a new education law in 2000, the government of Laos has initiated a series of reforms aimed at realizing the national strategy for human resource development for the year 2020. In implementing government policy, the Statistics and Planning Division and the National Research Institute for Educational Sciences have provided basic statistics to analyze the current situation, develop new curricula and teaching materials, monitor the reform process and undertake action research. The paper outlines the main achievements of the Lao education reform (e.g., quantitative growth of secondary education, curriculum and pedagogical reforms), concerns regarding difficulties in achieving key goals (e.g., low participation in mountainous areas serving ethnic groups), and strategies being adopted within the educational development plan for 2001–2005. Key Words: curriculum, educational goals, education law, educational reform, educational research and policy, ethnic minority, Lao PDR, secondary education, technical and vocational education     

学前教育专业钢琴课程分层教学的实践与反思

分层教学是一种教学组织模式。学前教育专业钢琴课程分层教学就是在实践基础上,按照分层教学实施的原则．对学前教育专业钢琴课的内容和要求进行改革,并对遇到的难点问题进行反思,最终达到“保尖、促中、补差”的分层教学目标。     

“新课程”实施的因素及策略探析

任何一次课程改革，课程方案的研制、传播、宣传、规划和采纳往往不会带来实际变化。要想顺利推进“新课程”的实施，有效达成新一轮基础教育课程改革的目标与理想，就必须时可能影响新课程实施的因素周全地加以分析，并采取相应的策略，努力促使这些因素成为动力而非阻力。     

Viewpoint: What we did not learn from the 60s about science curriculum reform

An analysis of our efforts with curriculum reform in science during the 60s is offered. Failure to state the problems and to engage all those interested, involved, and affected is noted. Instead of proceeding with the same tactics and using the same rationale for new reforms, a rationale for focusing upon instructional goals and enlarging the research and development team is presented. Basically, a call for treating science curriculum reform as a science rather than an art is advocated.     

1979年以来语文课程目标的发展及现阶段困境的成因

语文课程目标在整个语文课程中处于十分重要的位置,在每一次的课程改革中也都处于核心地位。对1979年以来的语文课程目标进行梳理,把这三十余年的语文课程目标的发展分为三个阶段,并论述每一个阶段的特点,并尝试发现语文课程目标实施过程中的一些问题,以更好地促进语文课程目标的实现。     

中国高句丽史精品课程建设述论

高校精品课程是指体现高校教育特色和一流教学水平的示范课程。加强对精品课程的建设力度，能够带动一批课程的改革和创新，从而提高教育教学水平和质量。中国高句丽史课程是我院省重点建设学科，它的精品化建设，将有利于深化教育教学改革，推动学院课程建设的进程。     

简论制约语文课程与教学目标的知识状况

合意的能力要靠适当的知识来建构。从语文课程的观点看 ,听、说、读、写能力的培养 ,首先是个知识的问题。语文课程与教学目标的基本构成 ,是包括态度、技能、策略在内的知识 ,目标的提出与实施 ,受惠于、也受制于相关学科的知识状况。在当前的语文课程改革中 ,对知识状况的关注和审视 ,应紧急地提到议事日程。     

中世纪大学课程特色及启示——以巴黎大学为例

中世纪大学课程具有经典性、等级性、世俗性和形式性等特点.中世纪大学课程在价值取向、制度安排和课程教学方面为我国课程改革提供了丰富的启示.     

高校中国旅游地理课程的改革创新探索

中国旅游地理属于区域旅游地理学的范畴,是高校旅游、地理等学科专业的必修主干课程,也是培养21世纪旅游高级专门人才的基础课程之一,必须加大其改革创新的力度。为此特就加强中国旅游地理课程改革创新的背景及现状进行初步探讨,并提出要构建教学创新体系,改革课程内容,进行教学方法的改革与创新,加强学生创新和实践能力的培养。     

A distributed leadership perspective on the Finnish curriculum reform 2014

Bridging curriculum research with educational leadership, we examined the 2014 Finnish curriculum reform compilation and enactment process through the lens of distributed leadership.

As a tool for the examination, we used the resource–agency duality model of distributed leadership. It explicates how organizational members create resources and enact agency to achieve organizational and individual goals. This mixed-methods study had three phases. First, we conducted document analysis to position the 2014 curriculum in a series of curriculum reforms. Second, we analyzed how distributed leadership was interpreted and incorporated in the goals and instructions of the 2014 national core curriculum document. Finally, we surveyed 21 key actors for their insights of distributed leadership in the curriculum compilation and enactment process.

The findings revealed a trend of deepening and expanding distributed leadership in curriculum work over the past decades. This trend mirrored the general societal development in Finland. The 2014 curriculum explicated goals and instructions to use distributed leadership for inclusion, multidisciplinary learning, student-centred assessment and operational culture. The key actors regarded the leadership for the 2014 curriculum work as distributive which enabled resource creation and agentic participation on both national and local levels.     

基础教育课程改革存在缺憾的原因反思

本次基础教育课程改革对学生就业分流数量大、教育经费不足、办学条件较差、教师素质整体偏低、教育人员习惯于刚性规定等国情考虑不充分,没有认真汲取国内以往课改在教育目标制定、教材多样化建设、教学实践等方面的经验教训,没有细致总结美国、加拿大、英国等国在确立教育目标、制定课程结构、教材市场化建设、教学实践改革、教学评价改革等方面的经验教训。课改理论研究不成熟,实验方案化,实践研究滞后。     

我国职业教育课程改革中的问题与思路

我国已进入新一轮职业教育课程改革的高潮,这次改革中最为关键的问题是:如何提升学生的职业能力?思路是专业课程的项目化;如何面对学生学习准备不足的状况?思路是突出普通文化课程的服务性;如何克服学分制所面临的困境?思路是全面推行职业生涯指导;如何解决教师在课程改革中的主体地位与其超负荷的工作量之间的矛盾?思路是建立支持教师参与课程改革的激励机制.