Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change

Abstract

This paper explores the emotional experiences of some undergraduate sustainability students in a semester long course on climate change. Specifically, it attends to experiences of anxiety, frustration, overwhelm, guilt, grief and hope. I suggest these experiences are characteristic of a process I term learning to live-with climate change. Learning to live-with climate change involves attuning to the relational composition of the world and thus the self; mourning desirable relationships that are lost as the planet warms; and responding to these conditions in ways that may foster more liveable worlds. Collectively, these processes enrol people in practices of bearing worlds: enduring the pain of the end of the world they have known, and labouring to generate promising alternatives. As such, these processes reconfigure the self and its relations, and attunement to how climate change composes, recomposes and decomposes particular subjectivities is important. The paper argues that affective adaptation is therefore a crucial element of climate change education.     

论目前英语语法教学的趋势及对基础语法教学的影响

目前,在以英语为第二语言(ESL)的教学中,语法教学的趋势是既重视语法的形式,也重视语法在具体语境中的使用。这种趋势可以在任务型教学法的新发展中和三维语法教学法中体现出来。这种趋势对我国的基础英语教学也有积极的借鉴作用。     

建构主义学习观指导下的高职英语语法教学的研究

就近几年高校学生学习的状态来看,高职英语的教学一直都是难题,尤其传统的英语教学方式更是不被学生接纳。这就需要及时对高职英语教学方法进行革新与完善,将学生的中心转移到学习上来。本文就高职英语的现状进行分析,并提出有效的解决策略,让学生在英语学上的兴趣得以提高。     

Powerful knowledge: insights from music's case

This paper examines Young and Muller's elaboration of Michael Young's concept of powerful knowledge and considers music's alignment with the characteristics theorised as distinguishing this type of knowledge. Consideration of the concept in relation to music may be timely as music teachers continue to grapple with the problem of knowing what knowledge to include within the parameters of a school curriculum. The concept of powerful knowledge may provide us with a fresh way of considering what school music may have to offer in such a noisy and musically heterogeneous world. This curricular challenge, however, is by no means unique to music, even though it may be exacerbated in music which is so open to the forces of cultural change. I argue that access to this knowledge occurs by placing abstract concepts at the centre of curriculum conception as the means to mediate the space between everyday knowledge and the more vertical discourse of school knowledge. It is in this ‘academic’ space that students can come to understand and utilise music as a form of powerful knowledge, when epistemic understanding illuminates the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of musical experiences.     

In defence of a pedagogy of the heart: theory and practice in the use of imaginal knowledge

This article outlines one of the theoretical approaches to pedagogy of the heart, drawing specifically on the work of Hillman and his concept of imaginal knowledge. Imaginal knowledge, as opposed to evidence-based and critical pedagogy, illuminates the imagination and moves the heart towards humanistic action. In this paper, we argue that this is an area neglected in the education of professionals. The paper provides a number of methodological strategies for integrating education of the heart with critical and evidence-based knowledge. These strategies deal with how to evoke the imagination and move the heart and then progress to issues of classroom communication and the management of emotions. The context is the teaching of supporting sciences to health professionals in the university sector.     

英语专业语法提高对策初探

本研究者对部分英语专业学生语法学习方面进行调查,通过分析发现影响语法学习的因素可以分为内因即学习者自身和外因即教师及语言因素。本文针对影响因素和存在的问题分别对教师和学习者在语法的教与学方面提出了一些实际建议。本研究旨在一方面帮助英语专业学生认识到语法的重要性及影响语法学习的因素而积极主动地采取合理有效的对策解决语法学习存在的问题;另一方面提出有效的建议以助于教师在语法教学过程中更好地发挥指导作用。通过语法学习和语法教学的较好结合,英语专业学生能掌握好英语语法,从而能更有效地运用语法规律指导实践。     

汉语语法和修辞结合论

本通过分析语法与修辞的关系，论述了语法属科学部门，而修辞属艺术部门，它们之间存在本质区别。     

Integrating the epistemic and ontological aspects of content knowledge in science teaching and learning

A study has been made of how physics problems are attempted by school and by university students, in both examination and tutorial situations. The performance of the students is interpreted within the framework of a psychological model of learning which incorporates working memory capacity and disembedding ability. The implications of the results for teaching and for setting problems is emphasized, in that the same question in different forms may be testing different skills.     

成人教育英语语法教学探讨

英语语法教学一直是外语教师关注的话题,外语教学总是在赞成语法教学和反对语法教学这两种不同的观点中发展。通过十余年高校英语语法教学实践,我认为英语语法还是应该教,但教法应该改革创新。     

生成语法与认知语法视角下的英语存现句对比研究

生成语法是20世纪50年代末乔姆斯基创立的现代语言学流派。乔姆斯基创造性地提出了语言习得天赋假说,并运用该理论去描写和解释语言。生成语法认为语言是独立于其它认知能力之外的一种任意的、自治的形式系统。认知语法则认为语言就是认知的表现,所有的语言表达方式都可以从认知层面上找到解释。本文介绍了转换生成语法和认知语言学产生的背景和哲学基础,重点分析和对比了转换生成语法和认知语法视角下的英语存现句生成理论,并对他们作出了客观的评价。     

母语负迁移对高职生英语语法学习的影响及对策

本文从语言学角度探讨母语负迁移对高职生英语学习的影响,通过对汉英两种语言的对比分析,找出影响学生语法学习的深层原因,针对学生易出现的错误,提出相应的解决对策,旨在对高职教师的英语教学和学生的英语学习提供帮助。     

中古汉语语法研究概述

中古汉语语法研究,起始于20世纪初,发展至今已取得了丰硕的成果。特别是80年代以来,研究领域不断拓展,几乎涉及了句法与词法的各个方面。研究材料日益丰富,学们已不再局限于传世中士献,而是将视线转向出土献、汉译佛典、甚至同一语系的亲属语言。研究方法不断更新,在传统语言学注重实证的优良传统的基础上,进一步借鉴现代语言学的理论和方法。本对这一时期的研究论及动态择要作一概述,目的是对中古汉语语法研究作简要的回顾,总结成绩,发现不足,拟为新时期的研究提供必要的借鉴和参考。     

中国英语专业学生语法学习观质性研究

本文通过半结构访谈考察英语专业学生的语法学习观,并基于质性研究方法构建其语法学习观模型｡研究发现,学习者的语法学习观是一个环环相扣完整的系统,由语法特征､语法功能､学习方法和学习目标构成｡该观点的形成与中学英语学习经历关系紧密;其完整性受到大学阶段学习目标变化的影响｡因此,要构建完整的语法学习观,应依据学习目标选择恰当的理论语法来揭示语法特征､展现语法功能;同时,写作很有可能成为改革的突破口｡     

Developing a thirst for knowledge: How uncertainty in the classroom influences curiosity,affect, learning,and transfer

Uncertainty is a key variable in fostering curiosity, which, in turn, is associated with learning. Yet, research in educational contexts rarely takes uncertainty into account, and rarely explores uncertainty and curiosity in the context of complex instructional activities. One concern with uncertainty is that it can provoke negative affect. Providing learners with expectations of future uncertainty may attenuate their feelings of negative affect. In a study with 138 middle school students learning physics concepts, we examined the relationship between uncertainty, curiosity, learning, transfer, and affect. Some students were given an inherently uncertain form of instruction, called Invention, in which information on how to solve the problem was initially withheld, while others were given direct instruction with all the necessary information to solve similar problems beforehand (No Uncertainty condition). Some of the students receiving uncertain instruction were given expectations about feeling uncertain (Expected Uncertainty condition), and some were not (Unexpected Uncertainty condition). Students in the unexpected uncertainty condition were the most curious, while students in the no uncertainty condition were the least curious. However, giving expectations of uncertainty reduced students’ negative affect. All groups learned the content equally well, but the expected and unexpected uncertainty groups exhibited greater transfer. Further, positive affect predicted learning, above and beyond condition, and curiosity predicted transfer, but not above and beyond condition. This study extends existing research on uncertainty and curiosity by studying these constructs in real classrooms, in the context of an exploratory learning paradigm, and by considering curiosity’s effect on transfer, rather than just learning. This work also demonstrates a practical approach for educators to foster students’ curiosity and transfer.     

生态语言学视角下的英语专业语法教学

生态语言学是生态学与语言学相结合而形成的一门新学科。以生态语言学指导,从教学目标、教学内容、教学方式和测试方式生态化等方面探讨英语专业语法教学,给英语语法教学提供了新的思路和方法。     

词汇法在开放英语语法教学中的应用

语法教学在英语语言教学中占很大的比重。但由于受传统语法教学模式的影响,教师在进行语法教学时,往往只注重对语法结构及语法规则的讲解,结果导致语法教学难以收到预期的效果。分析其存在的问题之一就是语法和词汇的教学脱节。基于Halliday等人的观点,我们应该改变过去把语法和词汇孤立开来的做法,要注重词块的作用,注重语法和语境的结合,把词汇法应用于开放英语语法教学中,改变开放英语语法教学和词汇教学相分离的状况,以使教学效果达到最佳。     

National identity and its relationship with teachers' historical knowledge and pedagogy: the case of Taiwan

National identity is one of the most important forms of ideology that affects human behaviours. Yet, the issue of whether it influences history teachers' subject matter knowledge or teaching practice is overlooked most of the time. With regime change in Taiwan, history curriculum and textbooks are no longer dominated by a China-centred narrative; more Taiwanese history is included in the curriculum. Given the fact that the Taiwanese are split on the issue of national identity, it is important to understand if and how teachers vary in their historical knowledge and instruction. This study examines the issue by investigating the relationships between Taiwanese junior high school history teachers' national identities, their subject matter knowledge and teaching practices. The result indicates that teachers' national identities significantly relate to their historical knowledge and conceptions about history, but bear no relationship to their teaching approaches. Pro-independence teachers have significantly more knowledge in both Taiwanese and Chinese histories and have better conceptions about the nature of history, but they do not necessarily choose to provide students multiple perspectives and interpretations. The implications for democratic citizenship education and teacher education are discussed.     

Emotions in the history of Latin American popular education: constructions for a thinking-feeling pedagogy

The purpose of this paper is to identify the presence of emotions in the constitution of popular education in Latin America, thus contributing to understand popular education as a thinking-feeling practice. It starts from the assumption that emotions are also historical and cultural expressions that mark societies and their understanding of education. In the chronicles of Guaman Poma de Ayala, one can see signs of the resistance to the conquest and of the ambivalence that characterizes coloniality; in Juana Inés de la Cruz, one hears the voice of a woman who breaks the silence; in Paulo Freire, lovingness and indignation are constitutive elements of his liberating pedagogy. In history, some emotions, such as honour, lose their strength or have their meaning changed; others, such as solidarity and insurgency, appear as possibilities of transformation in new times. The study attempts to contribute to the understanding of the complex relation between rationality and emotions in education.