Science as mind-affected and mind-effecting inquiry

A report on the development of a conceptual theory of instruction which relates the interaction between science and culture.     

论人受教育之必要性、可能性和超越性

人要成长为人就必须受教育,因为受教育可以促进人的人格化、人类化,使人获取基本的人之秉性和人之资格。人是一种“可教化的生命”“,可教化性”是人所特有的“先天的性格”。人受教育的旨趣在于:超越自然生命,走向文化生命;超越现实生命,走向未来生命;超越符号生命,走向实践生命;超越个体生命,走向人际生命。     

Gender,education and the possibility of transformative knowledge

Global policies today encourage greater access by women to formal schooling but leave aside issues of content and school practices essential to the modification of the social relations of gender. This article assumes a holistic approach and compares the promise of education with its actual contribution to transformative knowledge. It examines why education is upheld as such a promising mechanism, despite the numerous obstacles it faces given contemporary developments, particularly the increasing pressures of globalisation that move steadily weakened nation‐states away from interventions to foster social justice. Lack of consensus within the women's and feminist movements, limited efforts to change teacher training programmes and scant attention to the work of women‐led non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) in the provision of alternative education are identified as key elements in need of attention if transformative knowledge is to be secured.     

谈物理概念教学中的科学探究

<物理课程标准>提出:科学探究既是学生的学习的目标,又是重要的教学方式之一.物理概念是物理知识系统中的精华,是物理学的基础.在物理概念教学中,必须将科学探究贯穿于教学的全过程.一般说来,物理概念教学要抓好三个环节.一是创设学习物理概念的环境,引入物理概念;二是进行思维加工,运用科学的思维方法,形成物理概念;三是通过运用,进一步巩固、深化、活化物理概念.在概念教学中贯穿科学探究,就要在概念教学的三个环节中充分体现科学探究的七个要素.     

Aporias, responsibility, and the im/possibility of teaching multicultural education

Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's notions of aporia and responsibility, this essay discusses the dilemmas of multicultural education and the pedagogical responsibility of multicultural educators. Derrida emphasizes that there is no responsibility without experiencing aporia as the possibility of the impossible. To promote personal transformation and social justice in the multicultural classroom, we must acknowledge the aporias of teacher authority and student agency, self and other, center and margin, and intellect and emotion, and refuse to reduce them to any easy resolutions. The Derridean notions of aporia and responsibility ask us to approach multicultural education as a poetic experiencing of contradictions in order to invent new modes of subjectivity for both teacher and student. The complexity of teaching about social differences calls for creative pedagogy in which identity and community are destabilized while ambiguity and paradoxes are embraced, thus allowing us to imagine the world otherwise.     

The practice and products of communication inquiry and education

Communication is described as a discipline with an obligation to pursue any inquiry that will shed light on the process of life forces attempting a common union. A holistic perspective is cited as necessary to deal with the complexity and ambiguity this approach embodies: an approach that requires a recognition of both the art and the science of human communication. The ability to communicate effectively is termed fundamental for communication education. Consequently, for internal validity, both knowledge‐building and skills‐training are called for in the teaching of communication. For external validity, the discipline must strive to establish common understandings of its work and to send clear messages about the findings to those outside the field.     

Curriculum as open-ended inquiry in higher education

Abstract

Throughout the world, education curriculum are determined and guided by knowledge perceived as being critical for the advancement of humanity. Often such progress is indicated and determined by curriculum shaped by the ways of knowing of the dominant cultural group or languages that have achieved hegemonic status in such communities, in the process marginalizing any ‘indigenous’ ways of knowing as embedded in the language of other cultures. Sometimes such curriculum have little or no connection with contemporary reality. In this article I therefore argue that inclusive curricular knowledge types are critical in education in order to enable all people, individually and collectively, to progress without being inhibited by the hegemony of so-called ‘scientific’ knowledge. I also argue that knowledge as embedded in a language is power, and should therefore be connected to reality. Using critical social theory, I propose an alternative, inclusive treatment of knowledge types in education curriculum – open-ended inquiry – in order to level the learning field for all learners, and, in so doing, to adequately prepare tomorrow's world citizenry.     

Science education and worldview

Is there a place for Indigenous Knowledge in the science curriculum for a Zulu community in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa? This article argues “yes,” based on a participative research and development project that discovered relevant science learning in a Zulu community. Among community concerns for relevant factual and performative knowledge, we found that culture and worldview are critical to community identity, to visioning educational outcomes, and to learning in school science. Cultural practices may contribute to pedagogy and curriculum; curriculum, in turn, may affirm cultural practices. Further, worldview needs to be understood as an aspect of knowledge creation. By understanding key aspects of an African worldview, science educators can contribute to both meaningful science education and community well-being. By fostering culture and worldview, a rural community can make a unique contribution to science education.     

Science education through informal education

To develop the pedagogic efficiency of informal education in science teaching, promoting a close cooperation between institutions is suggested by Monteiro, Janerine, de Carvalho, and Martins. In their article, they point out effective examples of how teachers and educators work together to develop programs and activities at informal education places such as science museums. Their study explored and discussed the viability and relevancy of school visits to museums and possibilities to enhance the connection between students’ visits in informal contexts and their learning in schools. Given that students learn science by crossing the boundaries of formal and informal learning contexts, it is critical to examine ways of integrated and collaborative approach to develop scientific literacy to help students think, act and communicate as members of problem solving communities. In this forum, we suggest the importance of students’ lifeworld contexts in informal learning places as continuum of Monteiro, Janerine, de Carvalho, and Martins’ discussion on enhancing the effectiveness of informal learning places in science education.     

Qualitative inquiry into local education administration in Pakistan

The level of educational development in Pakistan is low. A decentralisation reform was introduced in 2000 to improve the delivery of basic education by designating the local government body with primary responsibility for administering it. A qualitative field study on local education administration at the North West Frontier Province found problematic issues which may be significantly hampering efficient and effective delivery of education, such as the transfer of teachers. Conversely, the informality of the interpersonal relationships was found to be a potential asset for advancing stakeholder networking and improving the delivery of educational services.     

本能教育、研探教育对学校教育的启示

把大教育分为本能教育、研探教育、学校教育进行比较,得到如下启示.1.教育目的和目标必须符合受教育者身心发展规律.2.教育内容必须强调基础性、生动性、多样性.3.传承教育方式不能全盘否定,单一传承模式必须改革.4.受教育者的主体地位和作用必须充分肯定.5.教育者素质直接关系教育结果.6.要建立新型师生关系.     

社会转型时期价值观念作用的可能与现实

面对社会的转型,人们的价值观念必然随之发生变化。就目前的社会现实而言,价值观念在社会发展中仍起着不可或缺的作用,这种作用既具有内在可能性,也具有实现这种可能性的现实性。因此,建构新价值观念对社会转型和社会稳定是非常必要的。     

三重积分变量替换公式的证明及应用

首先总结了已有的关于三重积分变量替换公式的证明方法,然后利用Gauss公式,给出了三重积分变量替换公式的一种新证法,并结合具体的实际模型将所获得的结果进行了应用．     

工科《复变函数与积分变换》的教学思考与探索

结合实践的教学经验,分析了工科复变函数与积分变换在教学过程中存在的问题,并针对问题,从优化教学内容和教学方法等方面进行了探讨,旨在提高学生的积极性,改善课程的教学效果。     

中学课堂教学研究性学习研究

当前我国中学教学研究性学习的现状表现为对研究性学习存在错误认识;教师观念没有转变,对研究性学习重视程度不够;教师观念没有转变,对研究性学习重视程度不够。学校、家庭、社会对学生研究性学习支持缺失等。因此,开展中学课堂教学研究性学习尤为必要。