Lifelong learning and welfare reform

This is the second of two papers which explore the scope and limitations of lifelong learning as an object of policy. In the first (see Griffin 1999) the evolution of the social democratic perspective was described. According to this perspective, it was suggested, the attempt to render lifelong learning as an object of policy entailed a reductionist concept of learning, so that it stood for little more than the expansion of education and training provision. In the following paper, an alternative perspective on lifelong learning, also emerging from the policy literature, removes it from the possibility of traditional policy analysis, relocating it in culture, civil society and patterns of lifestyle, leisure and consumption. Analytic distinctions between education and learning, function and provision, policy and strategy, and markets and quasi-markets are employed to explore various policy models. It is suggested that this perspective on lifelong learning needs to be understood in relation to policies for welfare reform and the crisis of the welfare state. In effect, it amounts to the integration of education policy into wider policies for welfare reform.     

构建终身学习体系建设学习型社会

终身学习是社会中个人根据社会发展和个人发展的需要,利用现代学习技术和手段,灵活地选择安排学习时机、时间、空间以及进程的学习制度,从终身教育走向终身学习,标志着教育乃至社会领域发生了深刻变革,是人类文明的一大进步。由此,构建终身学习体系,形成全民参与的学习型社会,是一个国家兴旺发达的保证。     

建构主义学习理论与物理教学改革

建构主义学习理论强调教师在教学中应以学生为中心,利用情境,协作,会话,意义构建等要素充分发挥学一的主动性,积极性和创新精神,使学生能有效地实现对所学知识的意义建构。本根据建构主义学习理论,对物理教学方式进行探讨,以期物理教学能更好适应时代和社会的要求。     

优化学习心理 促进美术教学改革

本文旨在探讨美术教学中学生的学习心理与教学效果之间的关系,针对美术教学方面存在的问题,针对学生的不良学习心理,提出多种优化方式,激发学生的学习兴趣,树立学习信心,改善学习方法,提高学习效率,从而促进美术教学质量。     

“塑料模具设计”学习领域课程教学改革探讨

本文提出了以基于工作过程为导向的高职模具专业塑料模具设计学习领域课程教学改革的思路。以汽车塑料件为载体,按照塑料件与模具类型构建了该课程的学习情境,设计了实例引导,行动导向,标准对接,情境育人的教学模式,制定了强化能力、过程考核的考核办法。     

建构主义学习理论与高校体育教学改革的研究

建构主义是20世纪90年代以来兴起于西方国家的一种社会科学理论,它是学习理论中行为主义发展到认知主义后的进一步发展,被称为"当代教育心理学中的一场革命"。本文力图在建构主义理论的思想指导下,结合当前我国高校体育教学的实际情况,对我国高校体育改革进行研究与探讨,这对推进我国高校体育改革必将产生重大的影响。     

基因工程实验教学改革与探索

通过三种策略实施实验基因工程实验教学改革.首先,依据专业培养目标,修订完善基因工程实验教学大纲,扩充、精选实验项目,实施闭环形式实验教学;其次,课前、课中、课后三个环节紧密衔接,确保实验课教学质量;最后,借助"对分易"平台辅助教学,实施包括"实验考勤""在线练习""课堂提问""实验报告"和"实验技能测试"的"五位一体"的实验课程成绩评定模式,加强过程评价.调查发现,86%的学生对这种实验教学模式"非常满意".学生的实践操作能力、实验报告撰写能力得到了提高.     

大学英语教学改革的思考

文章分析了大学英语教学现状,论述了教材、教师、学生等课堂教学3要素间的关系,对英语教学的改革理念、教学方法和手段做了初步探索和思考.     

合作学习模式在英语口语教学中的应用

本文通过对目前高校英语口语教学现状的分析,明确了口语课在大学生人才培养方案和学院战略目标中所起的作用,以及口语课的性质、对象、目标等,论述了在口语课堂教学中采用合作学习模式的具体操作、应用及其效果。     

提高体育院校学生学习积极性的教学改革研究

能否调动学生的学习积极性,是教学是否成功的关键。从近年来对我国体育院校学生学习积极性的现状调查来看,学生学习积极性普遍不高,这也在很大程度上阻碍了我国体育教学改革的发展继承。因而进行提高体育院校学生学习积极性的教学改革探索十分必要的,本文分析了进行提高学生学习积极性教学改革必要性,对造成学生学习积极性受挫的因素进行深入剖析,并在此基础上,提出了一系列的改革措施。     

Lifelong learning: concepts and conceptions

This article reviews a number of versions of the concept of Lifelong Learning and sets out the main lines of the conceptions of education articulated in them. It then goes on to suggest an alternative to attempts to produce essentialist definitions and proffers a pragmatic, problem solving approach. The article draws substantially on the book by the same authors The School, The Community and Lifelong Learning (London: Cassell, 1990).     

Lifelong learning,policy and desire

Recent lifelong learning policies have been criticised for creating an illusion of freedom whilst simultaneously reducing choice. The concept of desire permits engagement with the conscious and unconscious drives that underpin individual decision‐making, which direct the life course. Utilising the ideas of Hume and Spinoza, the present article articulates the interrelated nature of desire and learning. Evidence is drawn from Learning Lives, a Teaching and Learning Research Programme‐funded research project that uses the life history method to explore themes of agency, identity and learning across the life course. Boltanski and Thevenot’s sociology of critical capacity is used as a heuristic tool that illuminates the mechanics of desire as described by eight contributors. Their stories provide a basis from which to critique policies for lifelong learning that appear limited in relation to the multiple desires that drive their life choices.     

澳大利亚终身学习政策探析

为推进终身学习、建设学习型社会,近年来澳大利亚政府制定了一系列终身学习政策,将终身学习思想贯穿于各级各类教育的改革中.其终身学习政策主要包括改革基础教育、培养过渡能力、加强普通教育与职业教育的沟通、拓展成人学习机会等.     

信息化环境下高校教与学的改革方式与技术应用

随着计算机技术的发展和网络的普及,计算机和网络技术已经渗透到社会的各个领域。高校更是在信息化的浪潮中占据主导和主体地位。信息技术在高校的应用,使高校教与学的方式都发生了重大变革,这是高校教学自身发展的根本需求,也是时代进步、科技发展的必然结果。     

Pre-service teachers' pedagogical learning during practicum placements in special schools

This paper discusses the pedagogical learning of some South African pre-service teachers during a practicum in ‘special’ schools. Besides promoting their understanding of diversity, these pre-service teachers noticed aspects of pedagogy that had been less visible to them during previous practicum sessions in ‘mainstream’ schools. An analysis of focus group interviews, Facebook posts, and journal entries suggests that their attention was drawn to the value of multiple representations of core concepts, lesson pacing and behavior management in responding to learning differences. Observing and teaching in special schools enabled some tacit aspects of their developing practice to become more explicit.