The dilemma of international counselor education: Attending to cultural and professional fits and misfits

Efforts at international counselor educationare potentially problematic because of oftenunexamined differences between host and donor.These differences can include culture itself aswell as the related constructs of worldview andinformation processing styles. The interactionbetween this `cultural nexus' and the`professional nexus' of theoretical models,therapeutic schools, and particular professionsprovides the topography that must be negotiatedby educators attempting to cross nationalboundaries. The international counseloreducator who wishes to avoid doing harm in thelocal development of the mental healthprofessions must at a minimum take into accountthe potential sources of difference betweenhost and donor implied in such cultural andprofessional distinctions.     

发展科学教育 培育科学文化

中国的科学教育已走过百年历程,起到了十分重要的教育作用。但总的来说,我国的科学文化还很不发达,科学教育程度不够。为了改变这一现状,我们需要从三个方面进行努力:第一,全面理解科学教育,树立正确的科学价值观;第二,培育积极完整的科学文化;第三,创造和谐、自由的科研环境。     

Philosophy of Science and School Science

The purpose of professional education programs is to prepare aspiring professionals for the challenges of practice within a particular profession. These programs typically seek to ensure the acquisition of necessary knowledge and skills, as well as providing opportunities for their application. While not denying the importance of knowledge and skills, this paper reconfigures professional education as a process of becoming. Learning to become a professional involves not only what we know and can do, but also who we are (becoming). It involves integration of knowing, acting, and being in the form of professional ways of being that unfold over time. When a professional education program focuses on the acquisition and application of knowledge and skills, it falls short of facilitating their integration into professional ways of being. In addition, through such a focus on epistemology (or theory of knowing), ontology (or theory of being) is overlooked. This paper explores what it means to develop professional ways of being where the focus is becoming, not simply knowing as an end in itself.     

科学、科学文化和科学教育

要搞好科学教育,需要拓宽视野,深化认识,提升境界,减少盲目性。为此,要弄清科学的内涵、关注科学内涵的发展;要摒充狭隘的还原主义科学观,从多种角度揭示科学的内涵、本质并加以综合;要注意挖掘现代科学的文化内涵,认识它对有效培养学生科学素养的作用,重视科学文化的教育价值并用来指引科学教育的改革,不能简单地采用"科学 人文"的方式;还要抓住重点,妥善处理好科学文化各要素之间的关系。     

略论爱因斯坦的科学精神与科学思想

爱因斯坦是位伟大的科学家，同时也是一位杰出的思想家。他的怀疑和批判精神，关于自然界统一性的思想和自然科学的唯物主义是引导他取得一系列科学成就的指导思想，并已成为人类宝贵的精神财富，对科学的进步产生了并将继续产生巨大的推动作用。     

Nature of Science and Science Content Learning

Besides viewing knowledge about the nature of science (NOS) as important for its own value with respect to scientific literacy, an adequate understanding of NOS is expected to improve science content learning by fostering the ability to interrelate scientific concepts and, thus, coherently acquire scientific content knowledge. However, there is a lack of systematic investigations, which clarify the relations between NOS and science content learning. In this paper, we present the results of a study, conducted to investigate how NOS understanding relates to students’ acquisition of a proper understanding of the concept of energy. A total of 82 sixth and seventh grade students received an instructional unit on energy, with 41 of them receiving generic NOS instruction beforehand. This NOS instruction, however, did not result in students having higher scores on the NOS instrument. Thus, correlational analyses were performed to investigate how students’ NOS understanding prior to the energy unit related to their learning about science content. Results show that a more adequate understanding of NOS might relate to students’ perspective on the concept of energy and might support them in understanding the nature of energy as a theoretical concept. Students with higher NOS understanding, for example, seemed to be more capable of learning how to relate the different energy forms to each other and to justify why they can be subsumed under the term of energy. Further, we found that NOS understanding may also be related to students’ approach toward energy degradation—a concept that can be difficult for students to master—while it does not seem to have a substantive impact on students’ learning gain regarding energy forms, transformation, or conservation.     

Contextualized Science for Teaching Science and Technology

A comprehensive view of science and technology in curricular reforms and materials is needed to promote public understanding and participation in science issues. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the treatment of the nature of science and technology in science curricular materials in India. Textbook sections on the conceptions of mechanics are the basis for this analysis. A contextualized curriculum for schools is offered as a more productive approach to learning and exploring science concepts, processes, and science-and-technology issues. The controversial Sardar Sarovar Hydro-Electric Project in India is used as an exemplary case that can further this effort. The paper concludes that a contextualized curriculum is potentially quite powerful for addressing the nature of science and technology in school curricula and materials.     

隐喻中的科学与科学中的隐喻

由隐喻的由来及发展来看,隐喻有其固有的科学认识论功能,将修辞学上的隐喻方法引入科学教学的范畴,在初中科学教学中尝试并认识隐喻的教育功能.     

科学的反思及其与宗教的关系

科学与宗教作为人类思想的两大体系有着极其复杂的关系。在科学飞速发展的今天,人们清楚地认识到,在相当长的时期内科学与宗教将会共存,并以互相依存、互相促进的方式成为推动社会发展的主流。对宗教进行“取其精华,去其糟粕”,在建立和谐社会进程中是十分有益的。     

应用科学的研究与应用写作学的发展

科学研究的成果要通过具体的文章来体现。应用科学的研究与应用写作学是相互影响,相互促进的。应用科学的研究离不开应用写作学,应用科学的发展,又必将大大促进应用写作学的发展。