Between-context variability of the effect of schooling on cognitive development: evidence from the Middle East

This study contributes to the investigation of the variability of the schooling effect on cognitive development between educational systems and its underlying factors, by focusing on 3 cases differing in the characteristics assumed to affect the magnitude of the schooling effect (the quality of the schooling and students’ mean ability to benefit from their schooling): the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) educational system in the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and the 2 sectors of the Israeli educational system: the Jewish and Arab systems. Congruent with our expectations, the highest absolute and relative effects of schooling were found in the Israeli Jewish system. In contrast, the results obtained in the 2 Arab systems, namely, the higher schooling effect found in the poorer and more oppressed refugee camps of the West Bank, are surprising and require further investigation.     

The philosophies,contents and pedagogies of environmental education programs in 10 Israeli elementary schools

In this study, our aim was to understand how environmental education has been implemented in Israeli elementary schools. We selected ten schools that had implemented Education for Sustainability programs and analyzed their mission statements and curriculum documents. We observed each school’s activities and interviewed teachers. Our analysis shows ambiguity with respect to the rationales and the theoretical foundations of the programs. It also shows much didactic teaching of content, a strong focus on behavioral outcomes, especially with respect to reducing resource consumption and to increasing the levels of recycling, as well as some degree of working with the community. The unclear status of environmental education in Israel, in terms of its structure within the education system, prevents it from having sufficient resources for teacher education and curriculum development. It is suggested that this lack of clarity is the main cause of the ambiguity and for the use of the traditional pedagogies we found in our analysis.     

Schooling in times of acceleration

Abstract

Modern societies are characterised by forms of acceleration, which influence social processes. Sociologist Hartmut Rosa has systematised temporal structures by focusing on three categories of social acceleration: technical acceleration, acceleration of social change, and acceleration of the pace of life. All three processes of acceleration are closely linked to processes of internationalisation and globalisation. Given this background, developments in the context of school education are analysed in this article, paying special attention to the question of which areas of academic learning the categories of social acceleration affect and whether internationalisation and globalisation speed up these processes. The analyses show that effects of globalisation in the fields of management, market, and performance on education are closely linked to social acceleration.     

在“新基础教育”改革实验中促进教师发展

以做校长工作的多年经验和参与新基础教育的体会,通过案例的方式探寻教师发展的机制和过程。在教师发展的过程中应该处理好老师的困惑与转变,制定好教师规划,开展专家引领下的课堂研究,注重专家与教师的互动交流。     

Political depression,cruel optimism and pedagogies of reparation: questions of criticality and affect in human rights education

This article argues that there is an urgent need to engage with a deeper analysis of the contemporary culture of ‘political depression’ and its affective implications in human rights education (HRE). In particular, the article focuses on the following questions: How might a theorization of political depression be relevant to efforts that aim to renew criticality in HRE? In which ways can a ‘critical’ HRE turn our attention to important ethical, political and affective questions on human rights? Can the negativity of political depression become a site for HRE pedagogies that are ‘reparative’? The article makes an attempt to articulate some of the content and strategies of pedagogies of reparation and their significance in what is currently being formulated in the literature as ‘critical human rights education’. Reparative pedagogies invite in the classroom the challenge of how students can learn from unimaginable traumatic histories, while acknowledging the affective politics of histories of violence, oppression and social injustice, without falling into the trap of sentimentality, but rather engaging in social justice-oriented action and activism.     

多样化办学的实践与思考——以南京市宁海中学美术教育特色发展为例

普通高中多样化办学有利于满足不同学生的需要,推动学校的特色建设,为国家培养创新型人才。南京市宁海中学在课程基地的建设中,以“为了每一个学生的发展”为核心理念,创新课程设置,改善办学条件,改革评价机制,努力构建挖潜学生美术特长的综合性教学平台,注重学生的全面发展。     

Protecting academic freedom in changing times: the role of Heads of Departments

In changing times for higher education that are dominated by a neoliberal ideology, we set out to uncover how Heads of Departments (HoDs) perceive their role with respect to supporting their staff and their academic freedom. Freedom to pursue academic research is seen as key to the generation of new knowledge yet it is potentially constrained by funding regimes and university accountability systems. As HoDs operate at the interface between university systems and individual academic projects, how they perceive their role can have a profound influence on the working environment of their departmental staff. The research study is located in two successful departments in a research intensive university in England. The study shows that the HoDs were not captured by the neoliberal discourse and aimed to protect their staff so they could ‘get on with their work’. In so doing they interpreted university demands to the best advantage of their departments but were not active in challenging university driven changes, thus raising questions about the effects of accommodating to change, so risking incremental change, and of how less successful departments might be able to protect their staff and their academic freedom.     

论教育的时代使命与创新型人才培养

教育的时代使命究竟是什么,中国教育又为什么培养不出创新型人才,这是一个经常困扰学界的重大命题。然若深入探究,则可发现中国教育的时代使命并非就单纯地归结为人才培养一个目标,而培养不出创新型人才的根结也不仅在于学校的课堂教学或培养模式的转变,实际上其更与整个中国教育体系的功利化倾向乃至社会存在的各种急功近利的风气密切相关。换言之,审慎思考中国教育的时代使命以及何以培养不出创新型人才的困惑,就必须回归个体发展的规律源起,以及综合考量遗传、环境和教育对个体成长与创新素质培养的影响,而不仅仅局限于教育自身的改革囹圉。     

试论地方高师院校可持续发展

在机遇与挑战并存的今天,地方高等师范院校必须以发展为第一要务,明确办学地位,突出办学特色,找准办学策略,才能提高学校的生命力和竞争力,保证学校能够持续健康地发展。     

Educational development within higher arts education: an experimental move beyond fixed pedagogies

This paper explores creative educational development by asking what it is or might become. It is based on a singular pedagogical process within the fields of arts, design, and architecture in higher education. The exploration is framed by Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of difference, which allows for a movement beyond educational certainties that might sometimes limit developmental efforts in higher education. With the intersection of artistic-pedagogical processes and theoretical investigations, the paper aims to imagine potentialities for thinking and doing otherwise in educational development. Thus, this paper strives to become open toward expanding difference and creation within educational development processes.     

音乐教育与人脑开发研究进展

近十几年来,随着认知神经科学和脑功能检测技术的飞速发展,音乐与大脑之间的关系日渐引起神经科学家的关注。越来越多的研究表明,音乐学习和训练对人的影响不止于情感,它对脑的发育、认知发展确有一种积极效应。对这一问题的深入研究,不仅可以帮助人类解密大脑＂黑匣＂,而且还能深化人们对音乐教育价值的认识,使音乐教育在更加广义的人类发展和人类潜能开发方面表现出更大的作为。     

认知失调理论对增强思想政治教育说服力的方法启示

从费斯汀格的认知失调理论出发,结合当下思想政治教育说服力欠缺的现实,探讨增强思想政治教育说服力的新方法。     

Inclusive pedagogies in digital post-Covid-19 higher education

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only led to medical conundrums and uncharted scientific territories but has also engendered new educational challenges and opportunities that need to be considered in order to reconceptualise, recalibrate and reconfigure higher education in terms of its inclusive foundations and orientations. While current research has highlighted the role of digital teaching methodologies in creating the ‘new normal’ in higher education in the post-Covid-19 era, the ‘new normal’ must be concomitantly envisaged in terms of the role of higher education in fostering more inclusive e-learning spaces. This article discusses the ways in which the tenets of an inclusive pedagogical discourse can be conceptualized and enacted in virtual learning environments in terms of teaching methodologies, learner-centred content delivery and formative assessment implementation. The pedagogical triptych should be underpinned by an inclusive and equity-based ‘cyberculture’ that constitutes a sine qua non element in developing all students' sense of belonging and learning in higher education.     

网络化时代大学生思想政治教育面临的机遇与挑战

随着互联网技术的不断发展,信息化时代离我们越来越近。在当今社会,网络文化作为一种新颖的,不断发展的文化形式,日益影响着我们生活的方方面面。网络已经成为大学生学习生活中不可或缺的一部分,它塑造着大学生的精神生活,影响着大学生思想政治教育的方式和方法。我们面对网络带来的挑战,必须利用互联网的优势,扬长避短,拓展大学生思想政治教育的新渠道。     

论思想政治教育认知心理机制

思想政治教育实质上是人们对思想政治理论和实践的认知过程,认知心理学是研究人类认知的理论。以认知心理发生发展过程为研究基础,意在探究思想政治教育认知心理机制的内容以及优化策略。     

The Feminism Image in Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte is one of the representatives of female literature in 19th English Literature. Women in her novel all bear various oppressions from feudalistic concepts to some extent. So, they all share a common feature——very strong self-consciousness. Through the analysis of the two heroines in Jane Eyre, we can see that women with different characters would have different endings in the process of pursuing happiness. Only those who are really independent in personality and thoughts can know how to struggle for happiness,and education is the key to this social issue.     

认知失调理论在思想政治教育中的应用

认知失调理论是以研究人的“认知”来达到激励目的的一种理论,思想政治教育的目的是使人们形成符合社会发展要求的思想政治品德,二者有许多共通之处。将认知失调理论运用于思想政治教育中,有助于完善思想政治教育的方法,促进思想政治教育的实效性。     

Schooling effects on intelligence development: evidence based on national samples from urban and rural China

The current research investigated the variability of school effects on intelligence development in considering two economically and socially distinct groups of children. The data came from a nationally representative sample of primary school children from urban and rural areas of China. Two standardised reasoning tests were used to assess fluid intelligence. The between-grade regression discontinuity approach was applied to disentangle the schooling effect from the age effect. Results showed that the combined effects of schooling and age were 5.09 intelligence points per year, in which the schooling effect (4.37 points) was larger than the age effect (.72 points). The patterns of schooling and age effects were different in urban and rural subsamples. For the urban subsample, the schooling effect was smaller than the age effect for children from grade 1 to 3, but the schooling effect became larger than the age effect from grade 4 to 6. For the rural subsample, however, the schooling effect was always larger than the age effect. The effect of one year of schooling for rural children (5.59 points) was larger than that for urban children (3.15 points). These results suggest that schooling effects are closely related to the context where children are growing up.     

继续教育中学历教育和非学历教育的结合模式研究

学历教育和非学历教育相结合已成为继续教育的必然趋势,同时也是构建我国开放的终身教育体系的一个重点。文章从政策层面、教育监管、管理部门沟通协调和学习者需求四个方面提出了继续教育中学历教育和非学历教育的结合模式:政府宏观政策引导;多元主管部门协调监管;办学机构协作互补;学员"学历"、"技能"双收的培养模式。     

科学发展观下的高校思想政治教育的和谐发展

科学发展观的理念是一种将当前发展和未来发展统筹起来加以考虑的发展理念,在于引导人们适应目前社会,立足长远发展,实现人的可持续发展,对于我们高校思想政治教育的教师而言是对学生进行可持续发展的教育,体现我们的教育对学生的终极关怀,从而满足学生自身的发展,又为整个社会的和谐发展提供契机和理论支持。