Embodiment and the Risk of Reading

In this article, Anders Öhman discusses Gert J. J. Biesta's concept of the risk of education and what it could mean for the study of literature in the classroom. The article's point of departure is Bakhtin's theory of the utterance. The utterance, for Bakhtin, has to be embodied, that is, it has to be governed by a purpose: it must be uttered by someone, or at least the reader or listener must imagine that it is uttered by someone that speaks with an intent. A grammatical sentence that is not an utterance has no author and no direction or intention; it is therefore abstract and belongs to no one. Reading on the Internet, or digital reading, often consists of short passages or text fragments for which it is difficult to identify an author. These fragments are not embodied and thus the reader does not feel addressed by the text. Although Biesta does not reckon with Bakhtin's theory, his critique of “strong education” provides an analysis that runs along similar lines. According to Biesta, the notion of strong education and what he calls the “language of learning” regard knowledge as free of values thus rendering it abstract. In bringing together Bakhtin's and Biesta's analyses, Öhman concludes that in order for knowledge to elicit valuation, it must first become embodied; this process, in turn, is important to creating the conditions necessary for a dialogue to occur between the content of teaching and the students.     

Toward a theory of the educational encounter: Gert Biesta’s educational theory and the right to the city

This paper outlines a theory of the educational encounter, the space of, and the right to that encounter. Situated in response to neoliberal educational reforms, this theory is developed through a reading and synthesis of the educational theory of Gert Biesta, the architectural component of his theory, and literature on the right to the city. The author argues that the notion of the encounter is latent yet central in Biesta’s work and that it can be further cultivated and more precisely attended to by turning to theoretical work on the right to the city, which is engaged here primarily through the lens of the encounter. Several themes are drawn out from the literature that can help in formulating a theory of the educational encounter such as the habitat/inhabit dialectic, the use/use-value/exchange-value framework of space, and the role of struggle in the production and maintenance of space.     

Towards a shift in perspective for inclusive education research – a continental approach

With a starting point in the tradition of geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik, this article presents a challenge to inclusive education research to engage a Continental perspective on educational research. The motivation is to entice inclusive education researchers to begin to ask educational questions of inclusion, as opposed to inclusive questions of education. Recent years has seen a call to re-think inclusive education research and this paper attempts to answer this call by turning to a Continental perspective and the emphasis on an at least relative autonomy for the theory and practice of education. The article explores the relationship between Continental and Anglo-American educational theory, and why they seem to have developed in such distinct directions. Beginning with the Anglo-American perspective, it is outlined how pedagogy and the so-called educational interest became replaced by the scientific standards dominant in other academic disciplines. This is countered by a look at the continued endeavours in the Continental spheres to formulate specifically educational criteria for educational processes. This leads to a negative aim in the form of arguing against neo-liberal policy and the politicisation of inclusive education, and a positive aim in the form of an argument for a move towards constructing a pedagogical ideal of inclusion.     

What Is Educational about Education? The Distinctiveness of Education

This article explores two questions: (1) Is education a unique and distinct discipline? (2) Is education anything other than the achievement of noneducational aims or objectives? In it, Trevor Norris examines how these two questions are interconnected, specifically analyzing how what we think about education as a distinct field of study informs what we ask of it as a practice. When we study education, we should be educational about it, because if we render education as the object of study, it is never endowed with agency or distinctiveness. Norris inquires into the distinctiveness of education as a way of thinking and a way of impacting the world, asking what are the conditions that make it possible for us to identify something as “educational”? To investigate this question, Norris draws from Hannah Arendt's account of politics, and he concludes by describing a case study assignment that requires educational foundations students to draw from philosophy of education in order to show what exactly is educational about education by contrasting education with business and psychology.     

英美文学教学的现状和改革对策

在培养人文通识型通用人才的新目标下,英美文学课程作为英语专业一门重要的传统课程,必须重新调整目标,进行教学改革.本文分析了英美文学教学的现状,针对存在的问题,从课程设置,教学手段和方法,师资力量和教师科研水平方面提出了改革策略.     

改善人文课程教学推动大学人文教育 --我国大学人文课程教学的调查与分析

高等学校的人文课程的教学效果如何,将直接影响校园文化的营造与整个大学及其学生的素质教育的进程。调查表明,由于教师素质、教学内容以及管理制度等方面的原因,目前人文课程的教学还停留于较浅的知识层面的传授,故难以调动学生选修人文课的热情。因此,理解人文教育的真谛,采取有效措施,完善人文课程教学,推动大学人文教育。     

文学教育的人文素质教育功能

文学教育是人文素质教育的沃土,承载着丰富的人文素质教育功能。从纵向来看,它滋养一个民族成长壮大,影响一个人长大成人,有力推动人类社会向前发展;从横向看,它关联着一个人人文修养结构中的各个层面,如情感、道德、语言、能力、精神等;从人文教育的内容和途径来看,它们都与文学有千丝万缕的联系。     

遵循元认知心理规律提高学生的自学能力

组织学生进行自学是提高教学质量的重要方面。遵循元认知规律能够提高学生的自学能力。元认知的结构包括三部分：元认知知识、元认知体验、元认知监控。学生在自学过程中加强对个人认知活动及影响这种认知活动的各种因素的认识，根据学习目标对自己的学习心理和行为不断进行自我监控、自我评价、自我调节，能有效地提高学习效果。     

马克思主义与中国文学研究

论文针对当前存在的所谓“消解主流意识形态”和“马克思主义业已过时”的错误观点,论述马克思主义作为一种学说的伟大贡献以及它传入我国百年来对文学研究所产生的影响,并对马克思主义在我国的传播与应用过程所产生的“左”和“右”的倾向作了反思,具体分三个层次阐释了马克思主义对文学研究的指导意义,指明在学术研究中提倡马克思主义的指导并非拒绝非马克思主义学术研究的贡献和借鉴作用。     

数码时代的人文研究

电脑和网络技术的发展给予人研究的影响是重大深远的，有其积极的方面，但也有些问题需要注意，它不能完全取代传统的研究方法。在利用计算机和网络给人研究带来便利的同时，应预防在先，消除可能带来的负面作用。     

文献数字化背景下的学术研究——以人文科学为例

根据现代知识体系形成和管理方面的理论,人类的智慧是通过由数据而信息而智慧这样一种层级递进的方式产生的。数字化文献的大量出现和数据库的广泛应用,对于人文科学的深入发展、对现代知识体系的形成具有积极正面的作用和深远的影响,这种影响只会在深度和广度上继续发展而不会逆转。     

试论外国文学课堂小组合作研究学习教学

传统的外国文学课堂教学是教师讲得多,学生说得少;学生死记硬背的多,创新意识少;学生独自学习的多,相互之间合作研究的少。本文提出小组合作研究的教学模式,并从合作学习研究的几种方式来探讨教学方法。     

在矛盾中完善自身——中国古代人性、人学、文学深层关系略论

中国古人认为人性是性与情对立统一的矛盾体,与之相关的人学则探讨了如何保持本性,脱于禽兽和如何追求完美,比齐圣人的问题。而文学既作为了一种人们认识、反思自身的参照物,又成为人学探讨人性的手段,并作为一个过程与人学融合在一起。三者之间,由矛盾沟通,相互影响,并最终指向完善自身的终极目的。     

树立人文与写作两面旗帜——中国现当代文学教学改革浅谈

市场经济大潮涌动,人文领域渐渐萎缩,传统文学专业魅力日益减退。运用文学应有的魅力,寻回失落的人文情怀。让学生阅读经典,培养道德感、同情心、正义感和审美感。学以致用是中国几千年优良的学术传统,中文教师应该要求学生写作日记、读书笔记、撰写论文,努力营造浓厚的写作氛围,至关重要的是培养学生的写作能力。重塑中文系大学生笔杆子的社会形象,是中文专业走出困境的必然选择。     

中美医学人文教育之文学的比较和启示

文学是医学人文教育的重要组成部分,文章从教育理念和培养目标、课程设置和教学内容、教学方法和考核方式、师资队伍和校园人文环境等五个方面,并结合遵义医学院珠海校区的调研,对中美医学院校的英语文学教育现状进行对比分析,为我国医学院校的英语文学教育改革提供一些启示。