OP-ED

There is a general consensus that too many US children are entering school without essential readiness skills. However, there is a lack of consensus as to what constitutes readiness and a corresponding lack of consensus as to the type of early childhood experience that is most likely to prepare children for academic success. This paper offers a perspective, grounded in theory and practice, on issues of readiness and education during the preschool and kindergarten years. This perspective involves a view of human development that stresses the role of adult involvement in young children's learning and emphasizes the preschool years as atime for building cognitive skills that will serve as essential foundations for later academic learning. Images drawn from practice in Korean early childhood classrooms illustrate how teacherdirected activities may foster preschool children's development of these essential cognitive foundations in a developmentally appropriate manner.     

OP-ED National testing in mathematics: One province's predicament

Ability grouping is a common practice in many mathematics classrooms. Its negative effects on students have been documented in research spanning two decades or more, and yet it is still widely implemented—in some countries even mandated. Using data from interviews with Australian students in the compulsory years of secondary schooling (14–16 year‐olds), and using the theoretical tools offered by Bourdieu, I argue that the objective practices of school mathematics create an environment through which students internalize the practices to develop a sense of self, a habitus. This habitus potentially is more or less empowering, depending on the experiences within these streamed settings.     

OP-ED Approaches to international comparative research on curricula and curriculum-making processes

This is the second of four essays discussing Wu’s ‘Interpretation, autonomy, and transformation: Chinese pedagogic discourse in a cross-cultural perspective’ (JCS, 43(5), 569-590). The essay is interesting against the background of recent debates, both inside and outside China, about the relationship between the Chinese and Western traditions of curriculum and pedagogy. The essay helps one to understand that there is no clear divide between the so-called Chinese and Western traditions. The modern Chinese language as well as its pedagogical discourse have been hybridized with something western, with the implication that it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. However, the paper falls into a trap of cultural judgement: it (re)interprets the Confucian ‘authentic’ texts as ‘desirable’ and attributes many ‘contemporary’ pedagogical practices and/or the discourse of the so-called ‘Confucian heritage’ to the influence of the West.     

OP-ED Literacies,technologies and the future of the library in the 'information age'

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge; where is the knowledge we have lost in information (Eliot 1934).     

OP-ED Why I like test scores and what they tell me about curriculum

This paper provides a critique of recent theoretical work on ‘critical pedagogy’, focusing particularly on its relationship with media education. The first part of the paper questions critical pedagogy on several grounds: its synthesizing political and theoretical ambitions; its neglect of educational practice; and its evasion of questions of power and authority. It concludes by considering the implications of recent criticisms of this approach in terms of classroom practice. The second part of the paper considers the ways in which critical pedagogy theorists have sought to engage with media education. It questions the pedagogical relations which are established by such writers’ critical practice, and the theories of the media and of learning on which they are based. It contrasts these arguments with approaches to media education developed in the UK and elsewhere, focusing particularly on the relationships between pleasure and ideology and between theory and practice.     

The Neophyte,The Natural,The Thinker and The Star

The paper examines the ways in which group work teachers deal with students understanding of the complexities of group work, while they support students acquisition of practice skills with groups. The students' ability to acquire skills in working with groups, and demonstrate them will vary greatly. Principles and techniques used in teaching group work should reflect these variations. Specific and concrete ways that instructors may use to individualize their approaches in teaching and communicating are presented. These principles and techniques also are relevant for teaching other social work practice methods.     

从人名看东西方文化异同

人名是社会的一面镜子,透过人名可以发现不同的社会文化、社会心理以及不同的社会生活变迁的印迹.文章从东西方人名的异同这一角度分析其相应的土壤--东西方文化的异同.     

旅游合同违约责任及其损害赔偿

旅游合同是旅游法的重要组成部分,也是规范迅速发展的旅游业的重要法律制度。由于旅游合同是无名合同,旅游合同违约情形时常发生,本文试从旅游合同违约的几种情况分析违约责任的承担及其责任方式,以促进旅游合同违约责任制度的研究。     

北石窟寺地下水与石窟岩体潮湿渗水的关系及地下水治理措施

本文通过对庆阳北石窟寺地层岩性地质构造和水文地质特征的分析,认为受窟前二级阶地阻挡和岩层斜层理向山倾影响,排泄不畅的地下基岩裂隙水,是北石窟寺洞窟岩体潮湿、渗水的重要原因之一,也是窟内空气湿度大,形成凝结水的原因之一.在此基础上提出了地下水治理措施,并对北石窟寺地下水治理工程作了介绍.     

旅游,听力,生活

本文为外教Rober to P. Reyes在离开中国时,写给他学生的一封信,主要目的在于鼓励中国学生学习英语,以及如何培养英语学习的兴趣等各方面的良好建议。     

从人名看东西方文化异同

人名是社会的一面镜子,透过人名可以发现不同的社会文化、社会心理以及不同的社会生活变迁的印迹。文章从东西方人名的异同这一角度分析其相应的土壤——东西方文化的异同。     

消费者心目中的家具

目前 ,家具市场正向着多元化方向发展 ,它有着许多新的流行趋势 ,形形色色的现代流行家具正在市场上展现着各自的魅力 ,使消费者在选购家具时要考虑诸多问题 ,关注更多的方面     

Riemann-Stieltjes积分存在性的判定

Riemann积分的存在性问题是微积分的主要任务和难点,本文讨论了在Riemann可积意义下比Riemann积分更具有一般性的Riemann-Stieltjes积分存在性的判定.     

《沉沦》与《青春》之比较

这篇文章对《沉沦》与《青春》进行比较研究,分析两者在故事结构、主题、人物形象、手法和风格等方面所存在的相似和差异,并揭示出造成这些相似和差异的原因,使得这两部作品得到更好地理解,对探索文学创作和鉴赏具有一定的借鉴意义。     

住宅建筑漏电保护器设计和安装

结合相关设计规范,阐述住宅漏电保护器的设计,包括漏电保护器的设置安装、漏电断路器的额定动作电流值的合理整定、优先选用电磁式漏电断路器、室内空调电源支路宜装设漏电保护器、电涌保护装置和漏电断路器安装位置的确定,以及住宅等电位联结等.     

艺术的蜕变与情感价值的失落

情感是人性的一个基本方面,也是人类建构文化的基点,情感价值是人类文化的首选价值。传统文化是以情感为主体的文化,艺术是传统文化中最具情感性的文化,是文化的原生形态。然而,情感文化并不能为人类征服世界的本能意志提供支持,理性文化成为文化的主体是必然的,因此艺术的衰落也是必然的。但并不能因此就认为艺术会必然死亡,只要情感存在着,艺术就必然存在着。     

住宅建筑漏电保护器设计和安装

结合相关设计规范,阐述住宅漏电保护器的设计,包括漏电保护器的设置安装、漏电断路器的额定动作电流值的合理整定、优先选用电磁式漏电断路器、室内空调电源支路宜装设漏电保护器、电涌保护装置和漏电断路器安装位置的确定,以及住宅等电位联结等。     

复摆运动中的混沌现象

从简单的复摆运动模型出发，利用计算机对其运动方程进行迭代求解并模拟各种运动，分析了其运动的各种典型情况及混沌现象，用两种方式对其运动进行图象描绘。