Relational Learning in Social Work Education: Transformative Education for Teaching a Course on Loss,Grief and Death

This article explores the relational learning model for teaching clinical social work practice. Evaluations of a course on loss, grief, and death illustrate that relational learning methods enhanced students' relational and communicative knowledge and skills, and contributed to a transformative learning process. Relational learning is a method of teaching that is consistent with the postmodern classroom and with the mission of contemporary social work practice.     

高职学生英语学习中的情感研究

情感因素在外语学习中起着很重要的作用。积极的情感因素对外语学习有促进作用,消极的情感因素则会阻碍外语学习。为了提高学生的外语学习,教师应该想法设法帮助学生建构积极情感。在此联系教学实际,分析了高职学生英语学习的情感现状,探索了造成学生情感问题的原因,并就教师应该如何帮助学生构建积极情感提出了见解。     

网络辅助外语写作教学

随着社会的实际需求和高等院校语言教学的发展，外语写作教学日益受到重视。文章主要探讨如何结合网络环境资源，整合多种写作教学法，从而有效地组织外语写作教学，改变传统写作课堂枯燥和沉重的局面。     

Early childhood directors as socializers of emotional climate

Early childhood centres are vibrant social communities where child and adult emotions are integral to learning. Previous research has focused on teaching practices that support children’s social-emotional learning; fewer studies have attended to relevant centre-level factors, such as the emotional leadership practices of the centre director. The present study qualitatively explored the role of directors in cultivating climates supportive of social-emotional teaching and learning. Program administrators (N = 12) were interviewed to inform a model of Positive Early Emotional Leadership. Findings indicate that administrators believe that they play a vital role in creating and maintaining positive centre emotional climates. Moreover, the ways in which directors influence the climate of the centre resemble the emotion socialization processes identified previously in parenting and teaching literatures. These findings connect developmental theory to educational practice, highlighting the potential connections among centre directors’ leadership practices, teachers’ emotional experiences at work, and children’s social and emotional learning.     

Interaction and cognitive engagement: An analysis of four asynchronous online discussions

Online discussion plays a unique role in face-to-face and distance teaching and learning. Interaction and student cognitive engagement during the online discussion are critical for constructing new understanding and knowledge. This article analyzes types of interaction that occur during online discussions, examines levels of student cognitive engagement in each discussion, and explores their effects on and implications for learning and teaching in higher education. By combining methods of social network analysis with qualitative content analysis, the article explores new methodologies for analyzing participation, interaction, and learning that take place online, and suggests areas for research in learning and teaching online.     

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ABSTRACT

The role of emotions in learning and teaching has largely been neglected in educational literature, particularly in higher education. Yet there are signs of increased interest in emotions in recent literature. This paper argues that emotions are a vital aspect of relationships. How we feel with and about others is central to the quality of those relationships. Thus, emotions matter in college teaching and learning as an aspect of enriching social and relational experiences that support student development. This paper discusses four key relationships in higher education: students with subject matter; students with teachers; students with other students; and students with their developing selves. For each key relationship, key literature is referenced, and suggestions for enhancing practice are offered.     

高职生大学英语合作学习能力培养探析

合作学习起源于20世纪70年代初的美国,它认为课堂是现实社会的一个缩影。它强调知识存在于社会情景中,教师应通过与学生的共同建构来传递知识,让学生在小组或团体中开展学习,互相帮助、互相沟通,是一种极富创意与实效的教学理论和策略体系,受到各国教育界的重视。它能较好地解决高职院校英语教育中教与学的矛盾。本文就如何在高职英语教学中应用合作学习理论,进行合作学习实践,促进高职英语教学改革进行了有益的探索。     

Problem-Based Learning in Social Work Education: Students’ Experiences in Denmark

Problem-based learning (PBL) constitutes a promising way of integrating academia and social work practice because PBL fosters engagement with real-life problems and enhances important skills needed in social work practice. However, little attention has been given to social work students’ experiences of PBL. In this article we address this gap by exploring experiences of learning and learning preferences among master’s-level students in a Danish social work education setting where extensive problem-based project work is used. We find a discrepancy between students’ preferred learning and when they experience learning the most. Possible reasons for this discrepancy, and implications for teaching, are discussed.     

The moderating effects of emotions on cognitive skills

An important challenge in higher education today is the growing tutor–student ratio that diminishes the ‘human touch’. As learning and teaching ultimately form an interpersonal process, this will lead to student discontent and impact on their learning. Whilst there is little that teaching practitioners can do in terms of the growing student numbers they have to tutor, they may however influence student learning by enhancing their positive emotions. This study examines the importance of emotions in improving cognitive skills and how they interact with knowledge and reflection. This research contributes to theory by examining the role of emotions as a moderating factor in the learning process. Our findings reveal that emotions moderate the direct relationship between knowledge and cognitive skills, and the indirect relationship between knowledge and cognitive skills via reflection. The findings demonstrate the critical role that emotions play in student learning. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.     

就业导向下高职外语专业教学改革探讨

以南通职业大学外语系教改实践为样本,探讨了高职院校外语专业以就业为导向、深化教学改革的途径。主动适应社会经济发展需求,以就业为导向、提高就业率,是高职教育的核心目标。只有坚持改革和重组外语专业的课程体系,教学模式、教学方法和评价方法,加强产学研合作和教材建设,才能切实提高高职外语教学的质量和外语专业学生的就业竞争力。     

A pedagogy of emotion in teaching about social movement learning

This article explores the role of emotion in teaching about social issues in higher education. We draw and expand upon Boler's notion of a ‘Pedagogy of Discomfort’, Goodman's and Curry-Steven's concept of a ‘Pedagogy for the Privileged', and on Freire's idea of a ‘Pedagogy of Hope', in reflecting on our own experiences in teaching a graduate-level course on social movement learning. We argue for the importance of further sociological theorisation of the role of emotion in teaching and learning in higher education, and acknowledge the challenges a Pedagogy of Emotion present to those teaching in the social sciences at the post-secondary level.     

大学英语分级教学体系的探讨

“因材施教 ,分类指导”是教育学的一项基本原则 ,也是大学英语教学大纲中明确规定的一项教学原则 ,学生入学英语水平较为薄弱的高校应在这一原则的具体贯彻实施过程中运用现代外语教学的理论 ,有效地构建大学英语“分级教学”的体系 ,要特别注意学生的学习情感以及系统的支持作用 ,前者为学生学习的发动机 ,而后者是英语学习的一个重要的环境条件。     

Negotiating accountability during student teaching: the influence of an inquiry-based student teaching seminar

Drawing on the work of Russian literary critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, this article explores how an inquiry-based social studies student teaching seminar helped three preservice teachers negotiate the pressures of standards-based reforms during student teaching. The author first examines how initial perceptions of standardization and high-stakes testing corroded images of powerful teaching and created an ex post facto relationship with teaching social studies. The author then explores how an inquiry-based seminar mitigated these initial impressions by (1) suspending the authority of accountability; (2) creating contact through collaborative inquiry; and (3) refracting practice.     

Student teachers’ emotional teaching experiences in relation to different teaching methods

The role of emotional experiences in teacher training is acknowledged, but the role of emotions during first experiences of classroom teaching has not been examined in large samples. This study examines the teaching methods used by student teachers in early teaching practice and the relationship between these methods and emotions experienced. We modified the Academic Emotions Questionnaire for the assessment of emotions and used an abridged version of the Instructional Approaches Questionnaire for the assessment of teaching methods. The results indicate that good preparation and a willingness to use constructivist pupil-oriented methods reduce student teachers’ negative experiences and promote learning about teaching.     

初中生在线学习情绪影响因素研究

情绪对在线学习效果有重要调节作用,探析初中生在线学习情绪的影响因素有助于完善中学在线教学体系,提升教学效率。对13个省市1 606名初中生进行问卷调查,探讨了学习环境适应性、学习方式适应性和在线学习周期持久性对初中生情绪的影响,结果发现:(1)初中生在线学习期间情绪呈积极状态,对居家学习环境和在线学习方式适应较好,未产生明显学习倦怠;(2)各影响因素在年级、性别、城乡上具有显著差异;(3)观测影响因素对初中生在线学习情绪影响的回归模型为:情绪状态=-6. 935-1. 116×年级-1. 466×性别+1. 277×学习方式适应性-0. 587×学习环境适应性-1. 05×学习意愿。     

Supporting writing for assessment in online learning

This article explores some specific issues involved in online learning and assessment. It draws on data from a postgraduate course for professional educators, delivered globally online, and highlights the relationship between students’ online discussion and their written assessed work, arguing that we need to focus on both of these in terms of the writing demands they make on students. In so doing it utilizes a theoretical framework which conceptualizes writing as contextualized social practice. The paper illustrates the complexity of the rhetorical demands being made on students in these new environments of teaching and learning and, in focusing on writing, complements present approaches to online learning which have, to date, tended towards collaborative and constructivist perspectives. The article highlights the relationship between pedagogy, technology and assessment. It concludes with a discussion of the design of an online writing resource to support student writers on this particular masters programme.     

翻转课堂融合TBL应用在儿科临床教学中的探索

儿科临床教学是将儿科理论与实践有效结合的重要阶段,如何做好儿科临床教学工作,使学生能够更好地掌握儿科临床知识是一项艰巨的任务。文章探索翻转课堂融合TBL这种新颖的教学模式应用于儿科临床教学的可行性,从儿科临床教学的特点,翻转课堂融合TBL教学的实施过程,翻转课堂融合TBL教学的优点、存在的问题及解决的建议等方面进行论述,说明翻转课堂融合TBL教学是其他教学模式的补充、完善和优化,值得尝试。     

Putting in more: emotional work in adopting online tools in teaching and learning practices

This paper explores the emotional journey associated with changing one's teaching and learning practices and how this constitutes emotional work. The paper analyses the emotions evident in the data from a small-scale phenomenological study of lecturers who are using technological tools in their teaching, learning and assessment practices in one higher education institution. The discussion illuminates the nature and scale of the emotional work experienced by some lecturers when changing their teaching and learning practices to incorporate technology. It indicates that this challenge is so extreme that even the most committed advocates of online teaching practices may consider giving up and reverting to traditional ways of teaching. The paper identifies strategies that lecturers use to manage the anxieties they experience in their adoption of online tools.     

Action learning for professionals: a new approach to practice

Following on from the article ‘Building Capacity in Social Care: An Evaluation of a National Programme of Action Learning Facilitator Development’ (Abbott, C., L. Burtney, and C. Wall. 2013. Action Learning: Research & Practice 10 (2): 168–177), this article describes how action learning is being introduced in Cornwall Council, UK and explores the relationship between social work and action learning in practice. In essence social work needs to perform well and achieve positive outcomes for users of its services. Cornwall Council's Children's Social Work and Psychology Services is introducing action learning for professionals as a new approach to practice.     

Young children's emotional practices while engaged in long‐term science investigation

In this article, the role of young children's emotional practices in science learning is described and analyzed. From the standpoint of performativity theory and social‐constructionist theory of emotion, it is argued that emotion is performative and the expression of emotion in the classroom has its basis in social relationships. Arising from these relationships is the emotional culture of the classroom that plays a key role in the development of classroom emotional rules as well as the legitimation of science knowledge. These relationships are reflected in two levels of classroom dialogue: talking about and doing science, and expressing emotions about science and its learning. The dynamics of the negotiations of classroom emotional rules and science knowledge legitimation may dispose students to act positively or negatively toward science learning. This analysis is illustrated in the experiences of a teacher and her students during a 3‐year ethnographic study of emotions in science teaching and learning. This research suggests the importance of the interrelationship between emotions and science learning and the notion that emotional practices can be powerful in nurturing effective and exciting science learning environments. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 41: 693–719, 2004