Content,Joseph Schwab and German Didaktik

This article attempts to extend and deepen the conversation concerning the knowledge-based approach to curriculum espoused by Michael Young in his 2013 JCS paper through revisiting the structure of the disciplines thinking of Joseph Schwab and German Didaktik. It argues that curriculum making requires a theory of knowledge that not only differentiates different types of knowledge but also elucidates the concepts, theories, methods and habits of mind within a particular knowledge type that contribute to the cultivation of students’ intellectual and moral powers or capacities. Furthermore, it needs a theory of content that addresses how knowledge is selected and transformed into curriculum content, what educational potential content has, and how such potential can be disclosed or unlocked for the cultivation.     

谈新课改背景下的教育资源配置

2006年福建省开始实施的高中新课改,是一场既广泛又深入的教育创新,这次的课改涉及到培养目标的变化、课程结构的调整、课程内容的更新等,教育资源亟待重新配置.在新课改背景下必须结合校情,遵循市场配置与计划配置的经济理论,努力做好物质教育资源、非物质教育资源的重新配置与优化组合,才能获取最佳的课改效果.     

论新基础教育课程改革中的考试问题

新一轮基础教育课程改革在课程评价领域主要体现在对中小学考试的要求上。如何看待本次课程改革在考试上的诸多新规定与新要求,这是值得我们探讨和研究的问题。在现阶段我国中小学教育教学中,考试具有存在的必然性与必要性,它不仅是评价学生学业成绩的一种主要方式,而且还是中小学素质教育的一项重要内容。我们还不能拒斥和削弱考试的功用,更不具备取消考试的条件,相反应当想方设法改进、完善它,促使其规范化、科学化、多样化,充分发挥其积极作用,抑制其消极作用,促进学生的全面发展。     

Power,politics, democracy and reform: a historical review of curriculum reform,academia and government in British Columbia,Canada, 1920 to 2000

This paper explores the interrelations between power, politics, academia and curriculum reform in British Columbia (BC) using social studies curriculum documents as a case study. It describes how curriculum reform occurred and argues that reform was undemocratic as it was largely the product of individuals with power who invited individuals with educational ideologies that were attractive to them to aid them in the revisions. These educational ideologies came from the USA, illustrating the influence of US ideas overseas. The non-democratic nature of the curriculum reform process may partly explain why teachers often resisted the revisions, and why government officials attempted to appear more democratic by increasing teacher participation in the curriculum revision process later in the century. However, curriculum revision remained undemocratic. The paper comments on whether the curriculum revision process in a democracy ought to be democratic or not.     

新课程实施与教育评价改革

为了适应新课程改革的需要,必须对现行的教育评价,从开放性、个性化和民主化的角度进行整体改革。突出评价的开放性,使教育评价成为能够适应新课程开放性特点,为新课程开放性服务,并促进新课程开放性进程的工具;加强评价的个性化,加强教育评价对每一个个体发展的关注,承认个体之间的差别和个体发展的多样性和丰富性,使其成为为每个个体发展提供有效帮助的工具;加强评价的民主化,使教育评价有利于教育民主的形成和发展,使其不仅成为一种评定教学、监控教学、指导教学的工具,而且成为一种促进教育民主化进程的工具。     

新课程理念下的高校体育课程改革

随着对新课程理念研究的深入以及我国高等教育改革的深入,作为高等教育重要载体及重要组成内容的大学体育也必须要积极适应改革的潮流,对高校体育课程中与新课程理念不相匹配的内容进行改革。本文在探讨新课程理念下高校体育课程改革存在的问题的基础上,提出了一些解决的对策,以期更好地促进高校体育课程改革的健康发展。     

课程改革:愿景与可能

改革不仅是课程发展中的普遍现象,而且是课程发展的重要推动力量。课程改革主要缘起于对课程僵化问题、课程超载问题、课程失调问题的解决。课程改革是促使教育活动从自发走向自觉,实现教育决策科学化、理性化以及教育范式恰切性的前提与保障。课程发展史上并不缺乏改革,但并不是所有的改革都取得了成功。课程改革需要整体性立场、过程性思维与实践性路径。     

知识经济与教育改革

知识经济代表着世界经济的发展方向,人才开发培养是知识经济时代赋予教育的神圣使命,教育必须加大改革力度,加快发展步伐,才能为我国２１世纪经济起飞和民族复兴、为迎接知识经济的挑战提供人才支持和知识贡献。     

A reaction to educational reform: Implications for educational psychologists

Issue is taken with Benton and Hoyt's (1990) study of three groups as to their agreement or disagreement with the Holmes Group report Tomorrow's Teachers (1986), and the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century (1986). The three groups studied were volunteer respondents from the initial Holmes Group, Division 15 of the American Psychological Association, and the Teacher Education Council for State Colleges and Universities. Questions are raised regarding the Benton and Hoyt study's general assumptions, selection of documents for study, selection of and generalization about group responses, and general implications for all educationists as well as educational psychologists.     

Policy,practice, and reconversion in Spanish educational reform: teaching and teacher education in physical education

Abstract

Since the late 1980s, reform of the Spanish education system has been justified by reformists as a response to the social and economic changes that have occurred in Spanish society since the democratic transition in the 1970s. Consolidation of democracy, development of technology and economic convergence with the advanced nations of Europe have been seen as the major challenges for educational reform. Restructuring and legitimation processes derived from the requirements of the new reform have been conceptualized as a policy of reconversion, the main purpose of which is to maintain, or achieve, a strong competitive position in the international market. In this paper, conceptualizing educational reform as a reconversion process will allow us to link aspects of the new curriculum (content, pedagogy and assessment), school organization, teaching and teacher education in physical education with wider economic, social and cultural influences and explore the tensions and conflicts between policy and practice in PE in schools. The paper will argue that there is a widening gap between the interests of progressive educationalists and the direction of market‐driven education reform.     

高职院校摄影选修课程教改探析

摄影作为一门实用性非常强的学科其发展变化与社会、科学技术的发展进步紧密相连。新时期数码技术、计算机网络技术等新技术迅猛发展为摄影技术提供了新的发展机会,也带来了全新挑战。高职院校摄影选修课程在这样的大背景下也要进行一定的改革,否则就会被时代所淘汰,本文以此为主要研究主题,对现代高职院校摄影选修课程存在的问题进行了分析,并提出了高职院校摄影选修课程进行改革的几点意见。     

当前大学课程改革的几点反思

当前大学课程研究和改革的状况需要我们反思:大学课程的整合究竟是整合什么?加强人文教育就是要增加人文课程吗?怎样才能让课程保持"常新"?对现行的大学课程改革应有新的认识和思路。     

Joseph Schwab,self-study of teaching and teacher education practices proponent? A personal perspective

The field of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices, like a number of other areas of inquiry, appears negligent in paying intellectual debt to Joseph Schwab who revolutionalized the fields of curriculum and teaching in the 1970s with his ideas about the practical. In this article, I trace my personal journey of coming to know Schwab's contributions and how I came to vicariously know Schwab as a professor who not only paved the scholarly way to self-study, but also appeared to practice a form of self-study by making his personal teaching an object of inquiry. To my way of thinking, Schwab practically and theoretically blazed a trail for the self-study of teaching and teacher education practices long before the line of research became recognized as a legitimate strand of inquiry. Furthermore, Schwab's thinking provides, for me and others, a possible plotline that could lead to renewal in the field of teaching and teacher education.     

Open educational practices for curriculum enhancement

Open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) are relatively new areas in educational research. How OER and OEP can help practitioners enhance curricula is one of a number of under-researched topics. This article aims to enable practitioners to identify and implement appropriate open practices to enhance higher education curricula. To that aim, we put forward a framework of four open educational practices based on patterns of OER reuse (‘as is’ or adapted), mapped against the processes of curriculum design and delivery. The framework was developed from the in-depth analysis of 20 cases of higher education practitioners, which revealed patterns of OER reuse across disciplines, institutions and needs. For each open practice we offer evidence, examples and ideas for application by practitioners. We also put forward recommendations for institutional policies on OER and OEP.     

中国教育传统研究与教育改革

教育史学科应受到重视,教育史工作应努力为现代教育改革提供借鉴,并应积极直接参与到教育改革之中去,而不要封闭长城民为历史陈迹后才去研究它。     

Remaking the professional teacher: authority and curriculum reform

Globally, national curriculum policies are up for renegotiation. These negotiations are shaped by international and national top-down accountability regimes, and an increasing turn towards curriculum centralization and standardization. The new Australian Curriculum (AC) is no exception. The AC is an important educational policy event, one in which understandings about teacher professional authority is being redefined. In this paper, we examine how judgements about teachers’ professional authority are used to defend, promote and explain the AC. Drawing on an analysis of policy documents and interviews with high-level policy-makers, we argue that the AC is opening space in the policy field to reposition teachers’ work by promoting a view of teachers’ professional authority as constrained and defined through the written curriculum documentation.     

基于网络环境的经济法课程教学改革试验研究

通过开展基于网络资源利用的《经济法》课程教学改革试验,探索和建立该课程网络环境下的以教师为主导,学生为主体的自主协作学习教学模式。获得第一手试验资料,为深入研究相关问题积累素材和经验。     

高校课程体系改革刍议

高校课程体系改革是高等教育改革的重要内容,关系到教学质量和人才培养质量.当前,我国高校课程体系还存在一些问题,如知识分割过细,课程内容陈旧;课程过于求同,教学方式单一;重理论课程,轻实践课程;课程体系结构不够合理.由此,高校课程体系改革应加强基础性与综合性;重视多样性与前瞻性;强化实践性与职业性;加大开放性与国际性.