Exploring early childhood preservice teachers’ mathematics anxiety and mathematics efficacy beliefs

Early childhood preservice teachers participated in a qualitative multiple case study to explore and examine the effectiveness of reform-based constructivist methods used in a mathematics methods course to change their mathematics anxiety, mathematics self-efficacy, and mathematics teachers’ efficacy beliefs. Findings indicated that instructor’s use of a variety of reform-based strategies to teach and model concepts were effective in reducing their mathematics anxiety and improving their mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs. Based on these findings, it is recommended that mathematics methods course instructors use reform-based constructivist methods in their courses as outlined by the NCTM’s (2014) principles. Teacher educators must also consider carefully their attitudes and disposition toward mathematics along with the type of classroom and learning environment they establish in mathematics methods courses. They must emphasize conceptual understanding during mathematics methods courses, understand the connection between preservice teachers’ mathematics anxiety and mathematics efficacy beliefs, and integrate field experiences as well as peer teaching opportunities into mathematics methods courses.     

Using Biomedically Relevant Multimedia Content in an Introductory Physics Course for Life Science and Pre-health Students

We will describe a one-quarter pilot algebra-based introductory physics course for pre-health and life science majors. The course features videos with biomedical experts and cogent biomedically inspired physics content. The materials were used in a flipped classroom as well as an all-online environment where students interacted with multimedia materials online and prior to engaging in classroom activities. Pre-lecture questions on both the medical content covered in the video media and the physics concepts in the written material were designed to engage students and probe their understanding of physics. The course featured group discussion and peer-lead instruction. Following in-class instruction, students engaged with homework assignments which explore the connections of physics and the medical field in a quantitative manner. Course surveys showed a positive response by the vast majority of students. Students largely indicated that the course helped them to make a connection between physics and the biomedical field. The biomedical focus and different course format were seen as an improvement to previous traditional physics instruction.     

基于地域文化渗透的“设计色彩”课程改革初探——以广西壮族自治区少数民族地域文化为例

“设计色彩”课程是建筑学专业课程中较为重要的一门基础性课程。通过总结目前“设计色彩”课程中存在的问题,综合研究国内外各大高校“设计色彩”课程现状,以问题为导向提出建筑学类“设计色彩”课程的改革方向。旨在提升建筑学“设计色彩”课程与“建筑设计”课程的衔接性,以及提升广西壮族自治区地域性文化在“设计色彩”课程中所占的比例,完善“设计色彩”课程的理论框架。通过课堂教学,引导学生将地域文化融入“设计色彩”课程作业中,加深对于广西壮族自治区地域文化的理解与认知。     

基于射频方向课程群的教学改革与创新

针对场技术课程教师"难教"、学生"难学"的状况,将相关课程组成以"电磁场理论"为基础的射频方向课程群,找出主干脉络;并针对课程实践性强的特点,开发了与课程群课程相关的实践项目。在教学过程中对教学方法、教学手段、实践教学进行了相应改革。结果表明,这些方法的实施减轻了学生对场技术课程的畏惧心理,激发了学习兴趣,使他们的实践能力和创新能力得以提高。     

西南大学西南民族教育与心理研究成果转换本科课程资源研究

西南民族教育与心理研究是西南大学特色、优势研究领域.该领域成果数量丰富、层次分明、类型多样.作为课程资源,它们对开阔学生视野、提升其综合素质有着不可替代的价值.将研究成果转换为学校的本科课程资源具有必要性和可行性.转换方式为:生成新的学科课程、融入并丰富现实课程、构筑校本课程.     

Multicultural Student-to-Student Dialogue and the Generation of Creative Ideas

Both participation in dialog and exposure to others from different cultures have been theorized to increase the ability of an individual to be creative. This study focused on the multicultural student-to-student dialog that took place in one graduate level course. The purpose of this study was to explore how participation in this dialog might influence student creativity, specifically how the students generated creative ideas for their final course papers. No connection was found between participation in the multicultural student-to-student dialog and the generation of creative ideas for their final papers. However, insight was gained into the creative process used by students in generating their final paper ideas.     

How Will We Understand What We Teach? - Primary Student Teachers’ Perceptions of their Development of Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Physics

The research outlined in this paper investigated how student teachers perceived the development of their knowledge and attitudes towards physics through video recorded practical workshops based on experiments and subsequent group discussions. During an 8-week physics course, 40 primary science student teachers worked in groups of 13–14 on practical experiments and problem-solving skills in physics. The student teachers were video recorded in order to follow their activities and discussions during the experiments. In connection with every workshop, the student teachers participated in a seminar conducted by their physics teachers and a primary science teacher; they watched the video recording in order to reflect on their activities and how they communicated their conceptions in their group. After the 8 weeks of coursework a questionnaire including a storyline was used to elicit the student teachers’ perceptions of their development of subject matter knowledge from the beginning to the end of the course. Finally, five participants were interviewed after the course. The results provided insight into how aspects such as self-confidence and the meaningfulness of knowledge for primary teaching were perceived as important factors for the primary science student teachers’ development of subject matter knowledge as well as a positive attitude towards physics.     

再谈计算机辅助教学

计算机辅助教学是一种很有前景的教学模式,优化教学结构,改善教模式,提高课堂教学效益。但是,这些优越性的发挥,却自始至终都受到软件、教师和技术与课程整合三方面的影响。处理好这些方面的关系,使计算机辅助教学取得良好效果。     

对“行动导向教学法、项目课程、学习领域课程”的认识

"行动导向教学法、项目课程、学习领域课程"三者都都强调工学结合地培养学生的职业能力。强调课程组织和实施改革的"行动导向教学法"正在逐步被大多数高职教师接受,但高职教师要能够熟练地将其应用于课堂之中,一方面要设法加强自身的专业实践能力,另一方面要在教学实践中不断地探索和积累。课程内容的改革方面,现阶段,"项目课程"更适合于各类高职课程的改革,也易于被高职教师所接受;学习领域课程作为比较理想的职业教育课程模式,应该是专业课程改革的方向和目标,更适合于经济发达地区、校企合作背景坚实的学校。     

论马克思主义基本原理概论教学的对话机制

“马克思主义基本原理”在四门思政类主干课程中有着特殊的地位,这是由其重要的学科建构功能、价值观初始化功能和整合社会科学功能决定的.以“学”为主的教育模式要求教师努力建构课堂和谐的“对话”,机制,启发式的前期导入准备是原理诠释的重要铺陈,基于问题展开的师生互动为有效“对话”创造条件,案例教学法最终使理论和实践相连,使教学目的和学生需求相连.     

中高职专业设置现状及衔接分析

中高职衔接是构建现代职业教育体系的重要内容,中等职业学校和高等职业院校的专业设置衔接顺畅是关键,因此研究中等职业学校与高等职业院校专业设置的现状及衔接的状态。可对今后在高职专业目录修订的过程中提供参考意见,为中高职衔接中课程内容的衔接奠定基础。从数量和内容上对中职学校和高职院校的专业设置衔接状态进行分析．发现存在专业数量不协调、专业名称不对应、专业大类的划分不合理等问题,并提出相应的解决对策。     

Field philosophy: environmental learning and moral development in Isle Royale National Park

We conducted a qualitative analysis of 5 years of student writing data to understand learning and moral development on a field philosophy course in Isle Royale National Park. We were interested in the connection between physical experiences in the natural world and the way students care about or value nonhuman beings, natural systems, and place. Students consistently demonstrated a shift from a dualistic to a more complex understanding of ideas, relationships, and the natural world. This widening perception and moral awareness occurred in tandem with course content learning. In this paper we describe the model that emerged from our data to describe this shift from dualism to complexity – from self-awareness, to social learning, to curriculum engagement, to a wider moral community – and the factors that facilitate each step. We also provide a planning and assessment tool to help other educators begin to observe ethical development and relational growth in their own interdisciplinary environmental field classes.     

简论高职“概论”教学中的历史教育

高职思想政治理论课应当承担历史教育的任务,“毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论课程”是承担这一任务的合适载体。概论课教学中开展历史教育,有助于培养学生的唯物史观,学生把握理论发展脉络,以及培养学生的爱国主义精神和历史使命感。概论课教学中开展历史教育,可以采用横向联系、纵向联系以及对同一理论进行多角度历史论证等方法实现。     

从“行为疏离者”到“共同遭遇者”：学校发展共同体的构建

＂行为疏离者＂是领导者与下属因行为疏离而形成的对立关系状态。＂共同遭遇者＂是领导者与下属遭遇到共同状况从而同心同德、同舟共济的现象。学校发展共同体,是以教职工职业场域为基础,自愿为前提,＂信任、合作、分享、发展＂为核心精神,以追求成功人生为纽带,以促进教职工个体和整体以及学校发展为共同愿景,在互动协作的过程中形成的一种关系的连结。形成这种共同体需要转换领导者角色,从刚性的权力本位到柔性的人本位,建设信任、合作、互惠型的学校文化,就会积累丰厚的学校＂社会资本＂,就会和谐发展,就会具有强劲的凝聚力和最佳的创新活力。     

兵法经营理论:适用与禁忌

在借鉴《孙子兵法》兵学思想的基础上寻求兵法理论与经济管理理论的契合点,是当今社会经济领域的一股时代潮流。兵法经营谋略可以帮助企业家们进一步提高战略意识,丰富竞争智慧。用兵法管理企业,可以提高管理者的素质和能力,强化团队的组织功能。但运用兵法经营理论时,应充分认识到战争与商业竞争的本质区别,兵法理论运用于社会经济领域有其不可跨越的禁忌,要避免肆意跨越道德底线,从而确保兵法经营理论健康发展,社会氛围更加和谐。     

Harnessing the Environmental Professional Expertise of Engineering Students—The Course: “Environmental Management Systems in the Industry”

More and more technical universities now advocate integrating sustainability in higher education and including it as a strategic goal for improving education’s quality and relevance to society. This study examines 30 fourth-year chemical engineering students, graduates of a university course designed to combine their terminological domain with sustainability-oriented goals, focusing on topics like corporate sustainability, developing environmental policy, introduction to ISO 14001—Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and environmental legislation. The study explores their perception of industrial-environmental issues and asks—How did the study unit influence the students’ ability to use their preexisting scientific knowledge, while relating to industrial-environmental issues? Our findings indicate that engineering students can develop industrial-environmental awareness, and make use of interdisciplinary knowledge beyond that strictly related to the realm of engineering. Regarding the research’s particular aim—i.e. determining the study unit’s influence on students’ ability to relate industrial-environmental issues to their own field of engineering—the findings indeed show a change in the students’ conceptions of environmental elements related to industry. The course graduates became more attentive to the environmental aspects associated with building and opening a factory, and the concepts they raised in connection with the topic gained in variety.     

Education with(out) distinction: beyond graduate attributes for Chinese international students

The recent explosion of Chinese students in Australian universities presents serious challenges for staff in higher education as we try to meet the conflicting demands of our positions. On one hand, we must offer diverse international students opportunity to compete equitably with their Australian counterparts and to receive an appropriate ‘Western’ education; on the other, we must work within the university's education policies which, ironically, have become increasingly homogenising. We here suggest that Confucian philosophy can offer us two-fold insight: first, into the ‘educability’ of international students and, second, into our roles as education providers. In this paper we present the philosophy, curriculum and outcomes of a 3rd-year Asian Studies course targeted exclusively to speakers of Chinese, in order to evaluate the importance of providing these students with fair and rigorous opportunities that are directly relevant to their educational aspirations. This course was specifically designed to meet the university's mandated ‘graduate attributes’ by developing students' command of written critique following ‘Western’ conventions of logical argument and without plagiarism. It is based on a theoretically transcultural ‘pedagogy of connection’ and, significantly, it is conducted bilingually in English and Chinese. Through a qualitative, constructivist analysis of this course, we argue the importance of dismantling the dominant, invisible, monolingual framing of Australian higher education in the strategic practice of course design, delivery and assessment so that prescribed Anglo-Celtic institutional goals can be realised equitably for international students.     

高职体育训练课实施体系之研究

高职体育课程目标要求高职院校要加强体育同现代生活的联系,培养学生健康的生活态度,突出体育实践教程的思想性、科学性、系统性和实用性的理论体系。为此,本研究采用实验教学、调查等方法,对体育训练课加载于体育课教学课时中进行实证研究。研究结果表明:以学生为主体设计的体育课+体育训练课课程体系,有助于提高学生对体育的认知态度和锻炼行为,对提高学生的体质和运动素质及改善学生的心境,使之形成文明、健康、科学的生活方式,产生了积极的影响。     

面向国防教育的光纤传感课程的教学设计

光纤传感课程是光学工程科学研究领域的入门课程。在线教育在疫情下凸显了其无可替代的重要性,可以作为本课程的辅助教学组成部分。利用丰富的网络资源和更多的受众群体反馈来弥补传统课堂教学理论教学的不足,可以有效激发学生的学生兴趣,也能让学生更好的掌握所学知识。针对面向国防领域的应用,从教学内容与教学方法两方面进行了详细的教学内容设计,使光纤传感课程的学习更加合理。此外,针对国防教育的特点,课程设计中也加入了相关课程思政内容,让学生们更直观地理解所学内容,激发学生们的爱国热情,能够在投入社会以后更加踏实工作,报效祖国。     

高校开展野外生存训练课程探索

野外生存生活训练集健身性、探索性、冒险性、趣味性、实践性于一身,具有丰富的教学内容、独特的教学形式、多样的组织方法等特点,能够提高学生在旅游及突发性灾害时的自救能力。把野外生存生活训练课程纳入体育教学将有利于激发学生的学习动机,培养学生的学习兴趣、意志品质和团结协作精神,并使学生在野外生存课程中增强团体意识和社会适应能力。因此,主要采用文献资料、理论分析等研究方法,重点探讨了学校开设野外生存生活训练课程的重要意义及其可行性分析,并提出了相应的建议。