Valuing production values: a ‘do it yourself’ media production club

In this paper, we identify how and why digital media production can contribute to the active participation of children in education and also consider how much of the existing work in this area is framed as a ‘miraculous’ answer to educational challenges without critical interrogation of either the process or product. To begin, we identify some of the prominent research and issues that have emerged from work of this kind and discuss the barriers to accessing equitable education in relation to new media production projects with kids. We discuss the changing state of knowledge production and communication in a new media world and address the place of literacy in this changing educational context. Following this, we present one example of a media production club and the way we look at this work to value students' productions in a way that differs from other research of this kind.     

评《现代汉语否定句法研究》

本文对李梅的《现代汉语否定句法研究》进行了简评。主要分三个部分,第一部分简略地介绍了该书各章节的主要内容,第二部分则指出了该书尚存在的一些不足,第三部分给出了简要的评价。     

Irish education and the legacy of O’Connell

In 1831, the British Government decided to become directly involved in the provision of elementary education in Ireland, a country over which it then had jurisdiction. By European standards of the time this was a highly unusual step. A number of scholars have interrogated the factors that led to this outcome as well as the role played by various individuals. Daniel O’Connell’s activities, at this time, have been described as relatively limited, which appears incongruous given that he is considered the most powerful Irish politician of this era and was then at the height of his powers. It is the central contention of this article that O’Connell was, in fact, intimately involved in bringing about a national system of elementary education. Of more lasting significance is the manner in which he defined the role of the politician vis-à-vis the Church authorities in educational policy-making. In this regard he established a pattern that remained unchanged for over a century and indeed, it could be argued, largely persists to this day.     

“Teaching is learning”: creating a meaningful English L2 writing class with service-learning

Integrating service-learning into content courses is a growing pedagogical model expanding in higher education institutes in many countries. To examine the application of this approach in English L2 writing classes, this study embarked on a tutor–tutee mentoring project at a Taiwanese university. The participants in this study served as writing tutors to help non-English majors with their writing skills. They went through five phases to complete their individual services—selecting a tutee, exploring the tutee’s difficulty in writing, designing a workshop for the tutee, implementing the workshop, and reflecting upon their service experience. Probing the tutors’ responses to a project evaluation survey, this study showed that the tutors generally considered the project to be beneficial for enhancing their writing skills, writing confidence, knowledge about how to improve academic writing, and awareness of their own capabilities in helping others. However, this project was limited in several aspects, such as the amount of time demanded, the tutors’ levels of teaching knowledge and skills, and some tutors’ lack of confidence. Based on the results, this study concludes by proposing pedagogical recommendations to help English writing teachers fuse this project into their writing curricula more effectively.     

关于生态旅游系统理论研究综述

生态旅游研究是一个既有理论意义又有实践意义的重大课题．在这一研究领域中，许多学者做了大量有益的尝试和探讨本文试图从生态旅游定义、生态旅游系统，包括生态旅游者、生态旅游资源、生态旅游业和生态旅游环境等方面介绍国内外生态旅游系统理论研究的进展，并试图探讨今后的研究方向和这一领域研究的生长点。     

市场调研课程教学问题之探讨

市场营销调研课程是营销专业一门非常重要的专业基础课。文章针对该课程开设的学期问题、执教该课程教师的定位问题、执教该课程会遇到实践的问题、该课程开设的目标问题等,提出以“学习社会”价值观改善市场营销调研教学的方法,具体为：建立系统而完善的市场营销调研教学目标体系,进一步完善市场营销调研课程教学的过程和内容,改善并加强市场营销调研课程的教学方法和手段,从而培养出高素质的人才。     

谈全面建设小康社会

党的十六大报告提出了在新世纪头20年里全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标，这是中国共产党在新世纪、新阶段的战略宣言。本从时代背景、内容特点及伟大意义等三个方面论述了这一奋斗目标。     

A case study of reading instruction in a Philippine classroom

In this article, we describe the reading practices in a public and high-achieving 6th grade English classroom in the Philippines. By utilizing a four resources model, we discuss the different roles that students assume in this classroom. Students in this class are mainly code breakers and text users and have limited opportunities to assume the other two roles of the four resources model. This case study provides a different view of reading, specifically a view of a culture of reading wherein higher status is given to oral reading performance rather than comprehension. We describe the way a high-achieving 6th grade Philippine classroom perceives reading. Through this article, we would like to contribute to the research literature on Philippine education and increase our knowledge of reading practices as they are conceived and practised in this particular classroom.     

Trends in research on project-based science and technology teaching and learning at K–12 levels: a systematic review

Project-based teaching is nothing new; it originates from the work of authors like Dewey and Kilpatrick. Recent decades have seen renewed interest in this approach. In many countries, it is currently considered to be an innovative approach to science and technology (S&;T) teaching. In this article, we present a systematic review of what recent scientific publications teach us about this approach: How is this approach identified in these publications? How is the use of this approach in school S&;T justified? What are the main research questions covered by studies in the field? What do these studies on this approach teach us? To answer these questions, we have selected and analysed articles published, between 2000 and 2014, in journals that are specialised in school science and technology education and that are indexed in ERIC database. In the synthesis based on this analysis, we present: (a) the theoretical constructs used by the authors to refer to this approach and the features identified to define it; (b) the justifications for this approach; (c) the research questions covered by studies in the field; (d) the data collection and analysis methods used in these studies; and (e) the main findings. In addition to presenting a synthesis of current research in this field, we offer a critical discussion thereof with a focus on two aspects, namely the way PBSTL is conceptualised and the rigour of the research methods used to ensure the validity of findings.     

Unpacking FIFA play as text and action in literacy practices in and out of school

ABSTRACT

In this article, we use a model for games and literacy to explore how one FIFA gamer worked across contexts. Previously, this model has been used to address the role of computer and video games in the teaching of literacy in the subject of English. In the current article, we combine this model with a learning lives perspective, which builds on the idea of following the learner across a wide range of contexts. The findings illustrate how one learner is able to research a specific topic, build a convincing argument for it and transfer knowledge from one source to another in a critical way. The knowledge of a game and its culture and the world around the game is prevalent in a gamer’s literacy practices out of school, and this is shown when our participant draws upon this knowledge in literacy practices for specific tasks in school.     

Operationalising pedagogical content knowledge research in technology education: Considerations for methodological approaches to exploring enacted practice

Like many areas of curricula internationally, technology education has encountered difficulties in achieving continuity between the rhetoric of prevailing policy and the reality of enacted practices. In technology education, the conceptually oriented nature of curricular goals is theorised to play a significant part in influencing this relationship. One way in which investigations of this relationship have been approached is considering the application of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) frameworks as a mechanism to understand the interaction of teachers’ knowledge and enacted practices. However, understanding from the philosophy of technology, and the technology education literature, suggests that technology education treats knowledge differently to many other disciplines. As a result of this, the interactions between teachers’ beliefs and knowledge are theorised to play a more significant role in influencing enacted practice in technology education. Building on this perspective, this article considers the need to investigate the roles of teachers’ knowledge and beliefs, and the interactions between these, in the investigation of enacted practice. Further to this, the article problematises the potential for a dominance of exploratory research, though acknowledging the need for research within different paradigms; a common frame of reference is advocated. In advocating a more holistic approach to investigating enacted practice, and the factors which may influence teachers’ enactment of teaching practice, it is envisioned that this article takes a step towards methodological coherence regarding the study of enacted practice in technology education.     

Technology transfer in schools: from research to innovation

Technology transfer should be a central objective of research into educational information technology, as it is generally acknowledged that the quality of this process is a critical factor in effectively bringing about innovation. The central focus of this paper is on this problem. In particular, we discuss the peculiarity of information technology transfer in schools as opposed to the transfer of technology in companies; we indicate some central problems of this transfer and discuss a typology of approaches to the transfer of educational information technology from research to school.     

Towards a Sociology of Learning in Primary Schools

In this paper the aim is to highlight the absence of a sociology of learning in relation to primary education. Further, it is argued that there is considerable scope for cooperation between psychologists and sociologists in tackling this issue and one way will be explored in which this could be achieved by drawing on social constructivist psychology and symbolic interactionist sociology. In support of this suggestion, some brief illustrative material is presented, drawn from a longitudinal ethnography of a pupil cohort progressing through a primary school in the UK.     

Computing and the Teaching of Structural Analysis/ Le calcul par ordinateur et l'enseignement de l'analyse des structures

Computer structural analysis is now one of the fundamental pillars in the teaching of engineering. The task is to capitalize on all the new technologies in order primarily to help the students understand the behaviour of structures and, by the same token, improve their ability to analyze them. Consequently, the computer has to be exploited in a smart and ingenious way to achieve this task better. If, in the past, this was done in a more or less successful way, it is nowadays extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to perform this task in a satisfactory manner. This is changing not only the teaching of structural analysis but also the content of the engineering courses. Hence, a reassessment and a reorganization of the teaching of computing for structural analysis have to take place. In this paper, a few ideas on the teaching of computing for structural analysis are discussed.     

17世纪的射影几何为什么没有发展成一门学科

射影几何是17世纪数学的最伟大的发现之一。可是与同时代兴起的其它学科相比,它的出现只不过是昙花一现:当笛沙格做出开创性的工作,它再也没有取得什么进展了,并且到这一世纪末,对它的研究已经消失。为什么射影几何在当时的历史背景下没有发展成一门独立的学科,本文对此力求做出一种科学的解释。     

The paradoxical effect of controlling context on intrinsic motivation in another activity

Controlling instructions typically undermine intrinsic motivation. However, in line with an autonomy restoration process, we hypothesized that prior exposure to a controlling context could increase intrinsic motivation displayed in a subsequent task if this second task is devoid of autonomy threats. A correlational study in educational context provided support for this effect by showing that students reported more interest in their music class when it was preceded by a class that was controlling. This effect was replicated in an experiment wherein participants who learned to play a game in a controlling context reported more interest in a second game than those who learned the first game in a neutral context. However, this effect disappears when the two tasks were done in a similar environment. Overall, this suggests that autonomy deprived students would display more intrinsic motivation in a subsequent task if this task gives a glimpse of autonomy satisfaction.     

设计·观念·表现——对高校设计学子学习现状的分析与整合

目前,由于时代的发展,社会的需求,高校设计专业是一个非常热门的学科.众多学校也是越来越注重这一学科的发展.更重要的是,对于学生学习设计来说,必须要对这一学科有一个明确而清晰的认识.应该根据本学科、本专业的特点,进行深入的、正确的了解和研究.只有这样才能在这一领域有所突破,才能形成一个良性的发展路径.     

Disengaging from the Legacy of Lady Bountiful in Teacher Education Classrooms

Working specifically from the authors location in a working class urban teacher education program in the United States, this paper argues for the examination and problematization of one foundational archetype of a teacher in North America: the (white) Lady Bountiful. Incorporating discussions of the historical colonial contexts that produced this archetype and the ideologies she represents, this paper argues that the persistence of this image in popular culture, in teacher education programs, and beyond, contributes to a climate that makes it difficult to address white supremacy, heteronormativity and social class issues in teacher education programs. In addition, the endurance of this archetype can 'prohibit' certain bodies from entering the teaching profession.     

马克思主义关于生态问题的理论贡献

生态学关于人与自然的关系，经历了由依附和利用大自然、无限度地掠夺大自然到寻找途径、恢复生态平衡的三个时期，出现了解决这种关系的几种有代表性的理论，然而都忽略了客观过程的辩证法，不能站在历史哲学的高度，提出解决这一问题的方案。马克思主义创始人虽不是生态学家，在这方面未留下系统的论述，但其理论中关于自由、实践的观点却为这一问题的解决提供了哲学思路；关于人与自然的辩证统一的观点为人与自然合理关系的建构奠定了理论基础。