The Influence of Service Learning on Students' Personal and Social Development

Abstract. An explanatory methods design was used to evaluate the influence of a service learning course on learning, personal, and social outcomes for service learning (n = 142) students. These students showed improvements in diversity and political awareness, community self-efficacy, and civic engagement scores from the beginning to the end of the semester. In addition, the students' academic learning, personal and interpersonal development, and community engagement were detected as the major benefits from engaging in service learning. The findings of this study suggest that service learning contributes to students' academic learning and personal and social development through social-emotional processes.     

LEARNING THROUGHOUT WORKING LIFE: A RELATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL AGENCY

ABSTRACT:  Individuals actively and continually construct the knowledge required for their working lives. Two outcomes arise from this constructive process: (i) individual change (i.e. learning) and (ii) the remaking of culturally-derived practices comprising work. These arise through a relational interdependence between the contributions and agency of the personal and the social. The relationship is interdependent because neither the social nor personal contributions alone are sufficient. The social experience is important for articulating and providing access to work performance requirements. However, personal factors such as individuals' capacities, subjectivities and agency shape how workers interpret and engage with what they experience and, consequently, how they learn and remake practice throughout their working life. This case is elaborated through a discussion about learning with considerations of intersubjectivity, personal epistemologies, pedagogy and curriculum as experience.     

Special Education in Arab Countries: Current challenges

Arab countries have undertaken various measures to develop special education programmes and services over the last three decades; nevertheless, major challenges remain regarding the expansion of these programmes and services and improving their quality. This article provides an update on disability and special education in Arab countries. Reflections on the historical development of special education in Arab societies are briefly presented. Major challenges currently faced by Arab countries in the field of special education are described, and some recommendations for action are offered.     

Outdoor Adventure Education: Applying Transformative Learning Theory to Understanding Instrumental Learning and Personal Growth in Environmental Education

We conducted a qualitative study of the experiences of 23 Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE) participants to determine what participants found significant about their course and to what course elements they attributed this significance. Participants experienced personal transformations, which they attributed to spending extended time in pristine nature, separation of the course from normal life, the community that formed among course participants, and the intensity and challenge of the course. Whereas outcomes related to personal growth, as opposed to changes in environmental behaviors (instrumental learning), are consistent with participant motivations for joining OAE courses and with most course activities, transformative learning theory suggests ways in which courses might integrate personal growth with instrumental learning to better foster environmental behaviors post-course.     

Lifelong Learning in Social Work Education: A Review of the Literature and Implications for the Future

Social workers practice in rapidly changing and complex environments where they encounter challenges that include increasing evidence-based practice requirements, a shifting information landscape, and diminishing workplace resources. To address these challenges, social workers need to engage in lifelong learning. The purpose of this article is to explore conceptual elements and assumptions underlying lifelong learning; propose social work specific approaches to lifelong learning; present a conceptual model to orient social work educators to the possibilities inherent in lifelong learning for practice, with inclusion of suggested practice behavior; and offer a research agenda for practice.     

我国成人教育的历史发展与现实思考

成人教育担负着构建终身教育体系,推动学习化社会建设的重任。通过历史与现实的思考,我国应扩大成人教育办学规模,提高重视程度;推动成人教育立法,创新管理制度;建立开放、灵活的成人教育体系;调整成人教育培养目标,创新发展模式;加强成人教育理论与师资建设,大力推进课程与教学改革。     

我国学习不良儿童社会性发展研究综述

学习不良是指个体的实际学业成就与根据其智力潜能期望达到的学业成绩之间的差异,这种差异达到一定标准时就是学习不良。我国对学习不良儿童社会性发展的研究主要从其社会认知、社会行为与相关因素三个方面来探讨学习不良儿童社会性发展的内在机制、特点及影响因素。本文总结了国内这方面的相关研究,以便理清思路,为今后的研究提供借鉴。     

南非学校环境教育政策与策略评析

南非是一个环境问题较严重的国家。结束了种族隔离制度后，南非开始关注环境教育，以此作为解决环境问题的关键策略，并取得了较好的成绩。本文就南非环境教育政策的发展、学校环境教育课程目标、基本策略和途径等方面对南非环境教育的政策与策略作一全面的分析与评价。     

A WAY WITH WORDS: A Unique Approach to Literacy and Career Development

This article describes a unique collaboration between the Career Center at the University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia Public Schools and the community. A WAY WITH WORDS is an America Reads community literacy program that has enriched the educational experience of graduate, undergraduate and K–5 students since 1996. Teams of undergraduate volunteers led by graduate students in Counseling Psychology and Educational Leadership (ELPA) tutor local children in an effort to increase literacy. The teams interact and communicate with children, parents, teachers and principals as they serve during school and in after-school programs that they co create with school administrators and community members. Tremendous opportunities exist for learning about socio-economically and increasing ethnically diverse communities. During a biweekly seminar, team leaders lead career exploration activities that focus on mentoring, multicultural issues and team building. The program seeks to cultivate civic responsibility as an aspect of career development through communication, relatedness and reflection.     

论特殊教育中社会工作支持服务的拓展

全纳教育的理念要求我们对特殊儿童提供预防、教育、康复、职业训练等领域的综合服务,社会工作成为其重要的专业支持。基于英美国家以及港台地区的经验分析,我们发现社会工作在特殊儿童的筛选评估、专业服务、团队沟通以及政策倡导等方面都发挥着重要作用。我国特教体系中社会工作支持服务的拓展需要进一步完善特教政策,促进专业融合,拓展实务模式以及加强社会宣传。     

The Moral Dimension of Personal and Social Education

Throughout the 1990s there was considerable discussion of the moral dimension of teaching instigated largely by the Office for Standards in Education (1994) and School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (1995, 1996a, b) discussion papers. Although there was widespread acceptance among educationists, the inspectorate and the teaching profession that there was a moral dimension to teaching, differences were apparent in the perceptions of the significance of this dimension and the implications of it for schools. On the one hand, many teachers acknowledge the moral dimension of teaching, they recognize that teachers from time to time have to deal with controversial issues and have an obligation to respect the rights of children. However, they tend to see this dimension as peripheral to the main business of teaching and learning and not something which will influence how they are judged as professionals. Some recent perspectives on Personal and Social Education, such as the emphasis on personal competence or the self-esteem movement, have contributed to the marginalization of moral concerns in favour of a skills or therapeutic approach. This paper supports the view that teaching is inevitably a moral enterprise and that teachers need to be encouraged to see themselves as autonomous moral agents whose decisions have a fundamental impact on pupils' personal development.     

高校思想政治教育政策研究回顾与思考

已有研究围绕思想政治教育政策的内涵、变迁、内容、制定和执行等方面初步展开,取得了一些成就。但已有的成果政策研究意识不强,研究内容缺乏体系,研究方法缺乏专业的政策分析。实现思想政治教育政策创新,提高政策有效性和针对性,发挥政策解释力和约束力,需要增强政策研究动力,明确研究目标和对象,构建系统的研究体系,形成具有思想政治教育政策特点的研究方法,并从理论层面解决好思想政治教育政策科学发展问题。     

我国高校网络教育公共服务体系发展的比较分析与思考

本文从依托单位、合作网院、学习中心、门户网站、支撑平台及发展趋势等方面比较分析奥鹏、弘成和知金三个公共服务体系及试点项目的发展现状,并认为全国和区域性多样化公共服务体系并存可能成为一种发展趋势.     

国际环境教育的回顾与反思

按照时间序列对国际环境教育进行了梳理。对国际环境教育的产生、确立、发展、成熟四个阶段的特点进行了详细论述。在回顾的基础上对国际环境教育进行了反思，指出了它的不足就是发达国家和发展中国家环境教育开展的不均衡且环境教育效果不显著。     

The Concept of Pastoral Care: A Genealogical Analysis

This article considers the implications of a small‐scale research project, undertaken by the authors, which used the example of the Massage in Schools Programme (a simple peer massage programme) to ascertain whether the planned use of touch‐based activity can support the growth of social and emotional skills in the primary classroom. Such claims are considered within the context of a modern society that is ill at ease with touch. Data, including observations of children and interviews with children and staff, were collected in two primary school classrooms pre, during and post the introduction of a six‐week massage programme, led by Massage in Schools practitioners. The findings of this project demonstrate that the number of social relationships reported by children did increase post intervention. The article goes on to consider the possible mechanisms by which this was achieved and features of the classroom context that may mediate the impact of the intervention. The authors conclude that a touch‐based intervention such as the Massage in Schools Programme may have a positive and potentially educational value for children and schools and support the growth of social and emotional skills.     

关于开放教育交互学习的思考与建议

开放教育的交互学习能够帮助学生提高学习效果,增进学生之间和师生之间的相互了解,是一种重要的学习方式。本文对目前教学实践中常用的交互学习方式和手段的特点及应用现状进行了分析,进而提出加强面授辅导、统一建立电子邮箱、提高课程论坛质量、充分利用电话和通信软件等改进建议。     

特殊教育本体认识论审视——基于特殊教育概念的分析

厘清特殊教育本体认识论是建构特殊教育理论与推进特殊教育改革的前提和基础。通过对特殊教育概念分析发现,当前特殊教育认识论主要包括扬弃论的特殊教育认识论、补缺论的特殊教育认识论、同一论的特殊教育认识论。这些认识各有合理之处,特别是在不同历史时期各具合历史性与合规律性的价值。其中,同一论的特殊教育认识论更能适应时代需要,指导和引领特殊教育发展,因此需要更多地从同一论立场来认识与实践特殊教育。     

近年来我国对特殊教育教师教育研究综述

特殊教育教师教育问题是当代世界各国特殊教育界人士共同关心的热门话题。本文主要对近年来我国学者对国内外特殊教育师资培育的总趋势、目标和方向、培育的模式、培育的课程及特教教师任职资格、制度的研究状况进行综述 ,并总结出“一体化、开放化、多元化和制度化”是当前特教师资培育的必然趋势。我国的特教师资培育研究应以此为鉴     

Education and Welfare: Issues in Co-ordination and Co-operation

Allison and Von Wald (2010) highlight the substantial opportunities presented by expeditions to address the crucial topic of personal and social development. The present paper wishes to address the apparent oversight of transfer within such learning experiences. Issues that need to be addressed if the impact of transfer is to be optimised are exemplified using four categories, relating to both outcome and process considerations. Furthermore, it is argued that transfer should not be assumed, but rather carefully planned for and attended to as part of any curriculum or development activity. Consequently, facilitation of transfer outcomes by a leader may need to involve both transactional and transformational direction, in addition to consideration of environmental factors and the participants themselves.     

民办教育研究

改革开放40年来,我国民办教育历经恢复发展、快速增长、规范调整、分类管理四个阶段,从“国家办学补充”到成为社会主义教育事业的重要组成部分。民办教育改革发展的综合效应不断释放,对提高教育供给水平、深化办学体制改革、促进教育与各领域融合、壮大教育资本总量等有重要价值。促进新时代民办教育健康发展,需要坚持市场机制和政府管理相结合,充分发挥市场机制在民办教育资源配置中的重要作用;坚持依法治教和改革创新相结合,在法律法规框架下推进民办教育改革发展;坚持先行先试和统筹协调相结合,用渐进式改革强化新法新政落地效果。