Chronicling innovative learning in primary classrooms: conceptualizing a theatrical pedagogy to successfully engage young children learning science

This article reports on an innovative pedagogical approach devised to re-envigorate primary (elementary) teachers’ practice in the United Kingdom for older children. Learning science in elementary schools for 8–11 year olds (Key Stage 2 in England) has been constrained for several decades while teachers prepared them for national tests. The recent demise of these high stakes assessments (for the 11 year olds) has opened up creative space to enable re-development of the ways that science is taught and learnt. This article describes how an innovative approach to teaching science to more mature primary children can be developed through the application of theatrical techniques. Dramatizing science can offer a more lively, none traditional way to learn, that can appeal to and involve all children in a science classroom. In this study, 17 teachers from 12 Staffordshire schools experimented with these new pedagogical approaches to explore how they might enhance their practice and augment their children’s learning. Reflective journal extracts, field notes, informal discussions, interviews and classroom observations indicated how successfully the thespian techniques were applied. Findings indicate that dramatizing science learning through various means that encourage social interaction, improvisation and reflection on historical narratives appears to not only engage and motivate learners but also aid them in grasping more challenging conceptual and procedural ideas.     

中世纪英语戏剧的早期发展

英国戏剧产生于中世纪基督教礼拜仪式,其早期发展与教会密切相关并体现了中世纪宗教和文学艺术之间的复杂关系.中世纪英语戏剧主要分为神秘剧和道德剧.神秘剧以<圣经>故事为素材,把从人被赶出乐园到世界末日的整部人类历史搬上舞台;而道德剧则把人的一生戏剧化,表现人心灵中的善恶冲突和教导人们在罪恶充斥的世界上应该如何抵制各种罪孽,如何遵循各种基督教美德从而获得救赎.中世纪英语戏剧取得了很高成就,并为文艺复兴时期英格兰戏剧的繁荣打下了基础.     

公共教育学的革命:由教师教育学向学生教育学转变

公共教育学作为师范生的一门必修课，长期以来对师范生向师性的培养并未起到应有的作用，其原因在于该课是以教师能教些什么为出发点而组织的教学内容，即教师教育学；而不是以学生为本所建构的教学体系即学生教育学。     

The pedagogy of saneness: a schizoaffective storying of resisting sane pedagogy

This article is an autoethnographic account of a ‘schizoaffective’ sufferer learning about and navigating the environs of saneness as a graduate student resisting traditional sane pedagogic structures. Culling from theories found in adult education, Whiteness Studies, and Mad Studies to show that saneness can be conceptualized as a site of critical pedagogy, the author narrates numerous ways in which saneness is embedded in schools and society. In addition, he describes how sane performativity is taught and made educational by inducting a new notion into educational studies: the pedagogy of saneness.     

"旧形式"与"新演剧"--论中国左翼戏剧大众化的理论与实践

中国左翼戏剧大众化运动有着丰富的内容。一是在如何解决外来化与本土化的关系问题上进行了理论和实践的探索；二是对待中国传统戏曲的态度发生了积极的转变；三是去掉了固守“爱美剧”的洁癖，使左翼戏剧“职业化”，进入化市场，从而掀起了新的演剧浪潮，为中国现代戏剧步入繁荣期唱响了前奏曲。     

读者反应批评在戏剧教学中的运用

读者反应批评是以注重对读者接受为研究对象而非作品本身的一系列现代文学批评理论的概称，重点研究读者在阅读过程对意义创造的重要作用。读者反应理论应用于文学教学可以通过各种方式来实现，如：交谈、讨论、自由辩论、创造性写作及角色扮演等等。本文以肖伯纳的戏剧《华伦夫人的职业》为例，试图阐述在戏剧教学过程中讨论及角色扮演如何能启发学生的批评性思维，说明读者反应批评在戏剧教学中的应用，并试图对英美文学教学改革起到抛砖引玉的作用。     

山陕眉户戏研究综述

眉户戏又称“迷胡”、“曲子”,形成于清朝乾嘉盛世,由山西、陕西黄河两岸的民歌小调孕育而成,是一种具有顽强生命力的地方小戏,它的特点是曲调悠扬动听,简便易学,以反映民间生活为主。经过对地方大戏、民歌、流行音乐、西洋音乐的吸收借鉴,眉户戏至今仍然有广阔的舞台。历史上,眉户戏一直名不见经传,文献中没有关于它的任何记载,这给日后的研究工作带来诸多不便。对它的研究20世纪50年代以后方才全面展开,研究者主要着眼于其源流发展、艺术特色、剧本三个角度,尤其着力于对眉户音乐的搜集整理,但与该剧种自身发展的丰富性相比,现有研究仍需进一步深入。     

Exploring practices of multiliteracies pedagogy through digital technologies: a narrative inquiry

Digital technologies have fast become integral within literacy learning and teaching across contexts as students engage with a variety of digital and multimodal texts. While teachers in New Zealand schools have a high degree of autonomy in the design and planning of literacy programs, little is currently known about how they understand and enact multiliteracies pedagogy (MLP). Using data gathered via interviews and classroom observations in an intermediate school in New Zealand, this article adopts a narrative inquiry approach to explore one teacher's approaches to using digital technologies and texts within literacy instruction. We explore in particular the ways in which MLP may be enacted implicitly rather than explicitly, within the complex matrix of teachers' personal beliefs and learning experiences, the perceived learning needs of students, and the school curriculum. We conclude with a call for the conscious and purposeful teaching of MLP, focusing on synaesthesia and the semiotic functions of texts.     

Critical liberal education: an undergraduate pedagogy for teacher candidates in socially diverse university settings

This article addresses the lack of attention universities have given to adjusting liberal education, the undergraduate major for teachers in California, to the increase of multi‐ethnic, multi‐racial, and social class heterogeneity in state universities. This article argues for a revised pedagogy for undergraduate liberal arts education for teacher candidates in California called critical liberal education. This pedagogy emphasizes the interdisciplinary knowledge and inquiry skills of a traditional program in conjunction with intercultural competence, civic engagement and an ethical stance toward social justice. This pedagogy brings liberal arts education in line with living in our complex multicultural democracy to create analytic, engaged teacher‐citizens for the twenty‐first century.     

Social class and pedagogy: a model for the investigation of pedagogic variation

This article addresses an enduring concern in the sociology of education: how social class differences are reproduced through schooling. In particular it focuses on the functioning of pedagogy in this regard. The article presents a model that elucidates the inner logic of pedagogy in order to reveal the structuring of inequality with respect to different groups of students. Theoretical concepts are drawn from the work of Bernstein, Dowling (1998 Dowling, P. 1998. The sociology of mathematics education: Mathematical myths/pedagogic texts, London: Falmer.  [Google Scholar]) and Pedro (1981 Pedro, E.R. 1981. Social stratification and classroom discourse: A sociolinguistic analysis of classroom practice, Stockholm: Stockholm Institute of Education, Department of Educational Research.  [Google Scholar]). An analysis considering the relay of social class differences, what is relayed, and its organizational form is undertaken with respect to working class and middle class children learning literacy in a sample of South African primary schools.     

Aretaic pedagogy: how we can transform the aesthetics of good teaching

Abstract

The article aims to introduce the epistemology of aretaic pedagogy as a refreshing paradigm of good teaching, situating at its centrality, instead of a knowledge-based perspective, a virtue-based approach to education. Its origins are in Aristotelian virtue ethics, which premise the acquisition of intellectual and ethical virtues as the highest good of the good life. Aretaic pedagogy is therefore constructed on the basis of the theory of virtue development and deliberates teaching as an ethical, virtue-driven practice. Its epistemological framework depends largely on three components: the notion of teaching as a practice, the embodiment of internal goods in teaching/learning and the harnessing of students’ private knowledge. Dialogue, beauty and play are proposed as the main internal goods within the students’ learning, which can act as key sources of their practice of virtues. As concerns a teacher’s pedagogical presence, it is argued from a dual professional prospect: the technological and the ethical. Therefore, a teacher is called to exercise a nexus of epistemic, technical, poetic and ethical virtues.     

Catastrophe,commemoration and education: On the concept of memory pedagogy

Abstract

Dealing with memories of catastrophes is undoubtedly important for education. Yet, how is such an education possible? On which theoretical basis can we describe it? In this article, I build a bridge between ‘Memory Studies’ and educational studies with regard to the topic of ‘catastrophe’ and thus present a provisional general theory of education, such as ‘Memory Pedagogy’ in analogy to ‘Memory Studies’. After describing the category ‘catastrophe’, I outline the basic differentiation between ‘communicative memory’ and ‘cultural memory’ in the field of Memory Studies. I will demonstrate how this basic differentiation can be connected to education through the concept of ‘Bildung’ in German philosophy. On the basis of these preliminary remarks, I highlight the potential of Memory Pedagogy by interpreting a case of catastrophe education, the project ‘Picture of Atomic Bomb’ (PAB). Based on the analysis of the PAB project, I insist that functions as a generator of communicative memory concerning catastrophes through education. Additionally, I point out that the transition from communicative memory (kommunikatives Gedächtnis) to cultural memory (kulturelles Gedächtnis) in the meaning of Jan and Aleida Asmann can also be observed in the PAB project.     

Development of computer play pedagogy intervention for children with low conceptual understanding in basic mathematics operation using the dyscalculia feature approach

This study describes the development of a basic computer-based play pedagogy intervention using a dyscalculia-remedy-oriented approach such as repetition and number orientation manipulation, and the investigation of its effect on children displaying dyscalculia characteristics. This computer play was evaluated in a group of 50 seven-year-old Malaysian children, who were low achievers in mathematics subject and were divided into control and intervention group. The intervention group engaged with the newly developed computer play for an hour per day for five consecutive days, while the control group attended normal classroom learning for the same time period. Overall post-test scores indicated that children from the intervention group performed significantly better than the control group after the five-day intervention period by 57.9%. Number disorientation and arithmetic operation confusion, which are common amongst the children displaying dyscalculia characteristics, were also significantly reduced after the intervention. This implies that the children benefitted from the computer play.     

1980年以来国内革命根据地戏剧运动研究综述

戏剧运动是根据地政府领导下的,利用民间戏曲形式进行政治宣传的文化改造运动,也是根据地社会文化史研究的重要内容,颇受学界重视。该领域研究取得了丰富的成果,成绩显著,值得重视和总结。但就总体而言,存在着研究视野不开阔、研究理论单一和研究方法陈旧等不足。     

Liquid subjects: news media and public political pedagogy

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between news media and political education within consumer society. We argue that political education today needs to be understood as part of consumerism and media culture, in which individuals selectively expose themselves to and scrutinize various media representations not only of political issues, but also of political subjectivity and action. Individuals learn about how they might become political and act politically through their engagements with the news, in the context of the characteristics of liquid modernity, namely consumer culture, individualization, and choice. When examined through a lens of public pedagogy, political education becomes intertwined with consumer culture and the role of media in the education and socialization of political subjectivity. In this paper, we look at one example of the relationship between news and the education of political subjectivity by drawing from a larger research study, which examined the role of mainstream and alternative media in citizens’ political mobilization on climate change. We argue that news consumption is part of a public political pedagogy through which individuals negotiate becoming liquid subjects, that is, citizens who take a critical, monitorial, and individualistic consumer approach to becoming political and taking part in social change.     

心理剧与戏剧疗法之比较

心理剧和戏剧疗法有一个共同来源,但它们又不完全一样。确切地说,是由于它们极大的相似性,它们经常由于彼此以及彼此相似的创造性行为方式而混淆。心理剧与戏剧疗法在其含义以及理论观点、实践、目标人群与治疗者功能等方面都有实际差异。     

Heidegger Teaching: An analysis and interpretation of pedagogy

German philosopher Martin Heidegger stirred educators when in 1951 he claimed teaching is more difficult than learning because teachers must ‘learn to let learn’. However in the main he left the aphorism unexplained as part of a brief four‐paragraph, less than two‐page set of observations concerning the relationship of teaching to learning; and concluded at the end of those observations that to become a teacher is an ‘exalted matter’. This paper investigates both of Heidegger's claims, interpreting letting learn in the context of Heidegger's larger philosophical project, and suggesting why in light of that project to become a teacher is an exalted concern. The methodology guiding the inquiry is largely hermeneutic, the purpose of the essay to interpret teaching from a Heideggerian perspective: its nature and general method.     

论曹禺戏剧的象征主义色彩

曹禺戏剧成功运用了象征手法,无论在主题展现、形象塑造、环境设置、结构安排等方面,象征色彩都非常明显,这种表现手法贯穿于曹禺整个话剧创作。这些手法的运用,使曹禺戏剧的风格热烈而激荡,内容深刻、含蓄、富于哲理性,洋溢着一种缠绵淡远的诗情画意,具有经久不衰的艺术魅力。     

安顺地戏面具与民间傩戏面具之比较

安顺地戏面具与贵州傩堂戏面具均为贵州独具特色的假面面具。他们具有不同的文化内涵,在造型、色彩、构图等方面也存在明显的差异。文章对傩堂戏面具和地戏面具的文化内涵、美学特征等进行了比较研究。     

Inclusive pedagogy and knowledge in special education: addressing the tension

There has been an increasing focus in policy and practice on adopting inclusive pedagogy as a way of reconceptualising how schools work with children with special educational needs (SEN). The paper considers the split between knowledge and pedagogy inherent in some dominant strains of inclusive pedagogy. Drawing on the ‘knowledge turn’ in curriculum studies, we argue that although an analytical distinction between knowledge and pedagogy may be useful, too strong a delineation between the two fails to best serve the needs of children with special needs. Specific implications for teacher education in relation to SEN in England are considered.