Students’ use of personal technologies in the university classroom: analysing the perceptions of the digital generation

Faculty frequently express concerns about students’ personal use of information and communication technologies in today’s university classrooms. As a requirement of a graduate research methodology course in a university in Ontario, Canada, the authors conducted qualitative research to gain an in-depth understanding of students’ perceptions of this issue. Their findings reveal students’ complex considerations about the acceptability of technology use. Their analysis of the broader contexts of students’ use reveals that despite a technological revolution, university teaching practices have remained largely the same, resulting in ‘cultural lag’ within the classroom. While faculty are technically ‘in charge’, students wield power through course evaluations, surveillance technologies and Internet postings. Neoliberalism and the corporatisation of the university have engendered an ‘entrepreneurial student’ customer who sees education as a means to a career. Understanding students’ perceptions and their technological, social and political contexts offers insights into the tensions within today’s classrooms.     

从“个人兴趣与专业学习的统一”探讨大学生人生价值观教育

本文以人生价值观教育为研究基础,提出个人兴趣爱好体现自我价值、专业技能学习体现社会价值,而个人价值的实现必须存在于社会价值之中,所以大学思想政治教育应该在帮助学生完成"从个人兴趣爱好发展到对专业学习的认同",实现自我价值与社会价值有机统一的过程中发挥重要作用。     

加强高校学生思想政治教育工作建设浅论

高校学生思想政治教育工作是中国共产党思想政治工作在高校领域里的一种具体表现形式,也是高校德育教育的主要内容之一。大学生的思想政治状况如何直接关系着国家和民族未来的状况。本文关注新时期大学生思想政治以及行为表现出的诸多问题,及其所折射出的新时期高校学生思想政治教育工作存在的问题,并积极探索新时期加强高校学生思想政治教育工作建设的新途径,以提高思想政治教育工作的实效性。     

The Conceptualization of Models

In this paper, the theoretical basis and practical alternatives of critical pedagogy are applied to graduate courses in physical education. An autobiographical sketch is used to illustrate how critical pedagogy tries to affirm the “personal” and bridge it to the “political.” The faulty paradigmatic assumptions on which physical education in higher education is based are then analyzed and deconstructed. These paradigmatic assumptions are important factors for the crises facing physical education and society at large. Finally, an example of implementing critical pedagogy in the university classroom is provided, relating how students and the instructor can (a) connect the content and the objectives of courses to the broader social issues, (b) scrutinize and try to eliminate conventional relations of power in the classroom, and (c) bring the personal and the political into the learning process.     

大学生思政课学习方式及其教学启示研究

学习方式是影响大学生思政课教学效果的重要内因。对五省十多所高校2019名大学生的调查发现:大部分学生思政课学习方式多样,深层学习方式和浅层学习方式兼而有之;学生思政课深层学习方式多于浅层学习方式,但其学习方式有较大改进空间;不同学生群体思政课学习方式有差异,其中最为明显的是年级差异。尽管学生的课程观和教师的课堂教学质量都显著影响思政课学习方式,但深层学习方式更多受教师的课堂教学质量影响,浅层学习方式则主要取决于学生的课程观。实证研究结果为教师在思政课教学中有效促进大学生思政课深层学习提供了启示。     

Diversity in Basic Education in South Africa: intersectionality and Critical Diversity Literacy

The notion of essentialised racial difference was a keystone of apartheid education which served to cement white supremacy in South Africa. More recently there is a need for socially-just education that requires a robust analytical orientation in interrogating power, privilege and difference. Therefore this article engages the following questions: What are the philosophical, epistemological and pedagogical underpinnings of diversity in education in South Africa?; and What is the possible role of diversity literacy in fostering an active and participatory citizenship in the years ahead? We engage conceptually with the understanding of diversity in education in South Africa, followed by the presentation of a framework – Critical Diversity Literacy (CDL) – and a series of curricular questions emerging from this framework that might be pedagogically useful when engaging issues of power, privilege and difference in teacher training. CDL potentially addresses the weaknesses in previous approaches to engaging with issues of diversity in education and offers grounded, contemporary, and authentic opportunities for decolonising classroom content and practice.     

Intercultural interactions of mono-cultural,mono-lingual local students in small group learning activities: a Bourdieusian analysis

This research examines the understandings and experiences of mono-cultural, mono-lingual local students in relation to intercultural interactions within small group learning activities at university. Bourdieu’s concepts of field, habitus and capital are employed to illuminate a number of barriers to intercultural interaction. Using qualitative analysis of interviews with local students, the study revealed intercultural interactions to be co-shaped by multiple co-existing, interdependent and often competing structural and contextual elements, as well as the personal dispositions that students bring to the classroom. The field tends to privilege the capital held by local students (knowledge of small group work, verbal confidence, language), and imposes structural limits on interactions. While students' habitus mediates this effect, the overall result discourages interactions between local students and those from different cultural backgrounds. Implications for universities are discussed.     

论提高思想政治理论课教学效果的三个原则

思想政治理论课教学担负着培养青年学生思想道德与政治素质的重任。如何提高大学生思想政治理论课教学的实效性,始终是高校思想政治教育工作的关键问题。要提高思想政治理论课教学效果,思想政治理论课的教学应充分考虑党和国家对青年成长的要求、企业对人才的思想道德要求、学生自身成长成材的诉求,把三者进行有机结合,并在课堂教学过程中把握三个原则:理论要讲清、案例要经典、方法论要落实。     

大学生课外阅读倾向探析

课外阅读是大学生课堂学习之外的"自留地",文章对温州大学瓯江学院的大学生课外阅读倾向进行了广泛而深入的调查,对了解和掌握当前高校大学生课外阅读现状,分析大学生的课外阅读倾向,有效地开展大学生思想政治教育工作,具有十分重要的意义。     

基于虚拟社区大学生思想政治教育的探析

虚拟社区的出现给高校大学生思想政治教育带来了新的课题,在网络时代如何对大学生进行思想政治教育,教育效果如何才能更好的体现,是教育的双方都应重点思考的。本文从对大学生参与虚拟社区的现状进行分析的基础上,给出了虚拟社区大学生思想政治教育的目标指向。     

高职教育证券投资实务课堂教学途径探析

高职教育是高校教育的重要组成部分。高校教育的日益发展,对于课堂教学提出了新的要求,即满足学生不同层次的、多样化的需求。课堂教学是一门课程教学设计的中心环节,是直接接触学生,了解学生需求,满足学生需求的最主要途径。本文结合笔者在证券投资实务这门课程课堂实践的教学经历,探寻学生不同层次的课程需求,试图探索一条新的教学途径。     

Preparing university educators for hot moments: theater for educational development about difference,power, and privilege

A ‘hot moment’ is an emotion-laden moment of conflict or tension that threatens to derail teaching and learning. In this study, an educational development workshop used interactive theater depicting a hot moment to prepare university instructors for diverse classrooms. Participants in three workshops wrote short reflections, both before and after the theater-based experience, about whether instructors should consider differences among students. After the workshop, many participants took new dimensions of difference into consideration. Surprisingly, after the interactive theater experience, almost all participants reflected exclusively on instrumental issues in teaching (e.g. classroom management strategies), but not structural issues of difference, power, and privilege that underlie hot moments. The empirical findings and the author's reflections on a personal hot moment are theorized in terms of concepts from and critiques of critical and feminist pedagogy.     

以人为本的大学生思想政治教育必要性探索

大学生思想政治教育工作必须坚持以人为本,以大学生的全面发展为目标,促进学生身心和谐发展,全面提高学生的整体素质,为社会发展培养合格人才。从当前大学生思想政治教育现状、大学生自身发展的要求和当今时代和社会发展的要求三个方面阐述了对加强和改进大学生思想政治教育必须坚持以人为本的现实紧迫性。     

Turning in or tuning out? Listening to silences in education for critical political consciousness

What happens when a team of university education researchers initiates a social justice learning project in a local high school, and – despite the overall project’s considerable successes in cultivating students’ critical political ‘voice’ – is confounded by the periodic, apparent ‘silences’ of some of its young female students? Drawing on eight years of fieldwork in a groundbreaking high school social justice education classroom, this article examines the presumptions inherent in certain forms of social justice pedagogy, and the ways in which ensuing classroom disjunctures may, in fact, lead to deeper insights about education for youth critical social consciousness. The article focuses on two, interrelated issues: the unsettling and sometimes confounding ‘silences’ of female students and the correlation between such silences and social justice educators’ attenuated ability to recognize and support the myriad ways in which minority female students may encounter, negotiate, and articulate their own particular forms of Freirian conscientización.     

加强和改进大学生思想政治教育工作的实践与探索

高校学生工作部门在加强和改进大学生思想政治教育工作中,如何结合自身特点,发挥自身优势,探索有效途径和方法,是学生工作部门和工作者必须思想的重要课题。我们把思想政治教育与解决学生实际问题相结合,与第二课堂教育相结合,与队伍建设相结合,与学校管理改革相结合,为提高大学生思想政治教育工作实效性和建立长效机制进行了实践和探索。     

以创先争优为契机 加强大学生社会心态教育

培育大学生和谐社会心态,是加强和改进思想政治教育工作的一项重要内容。在创先争优这个大背景下,具有重要的现实意义。文章从和谐社会心态与创先争优的关系入手,探讨大学生社会心态的矛盾性特征,提出要从大学生共产主义理想信念教育,引导大学生实现社会价值与个人价值的统一,建立社会心态的宣泄机制,鼓励大学生进行自我心理调适等四个方面加强大学生社会心态教育。     

加强大学生公民政治教育的几点思考

为适应建设社会主义政治文明的要求,大学生思想政治教育的重心应该转向培养合格或优秀的公民。当前,可以通过课堂教育、学生社团活动、社会调查实践等途径加强大学生公民政治教育,增强大学生对党和国家的认同和热爱,培养他们的公共精神和责任,以及提高他们规范参与政治的能力。     

大学生社会主义核心价值体系教育生活化的思考

社会主义核心价值体系教育生活化是解决社会转型期不良价值观对大学生影响,增强大学生思想政治教育实效性和提升大学生对社会主义核心价值体系认同度及践行度的必然要求。实现大学生社会主义核心价值体系教育生活化,必须改革课堂教学,开展主题性社会实践活动,加强大学校园文化建设,构建服务型的学生管理模式。     

提高思政专业大学生实践能力的研究

与其他专业相比,高校思政专业大学生的实践能力提高甚微。提高思政专业大学生的实践能力应走“有的放矢”的路子,即:改革大学思政专业的课程设置和教学方法,拓宽第二课堂活动的内容和形式,强化思政专业大学生的探索性和创造性精神,     

基于和谐社会背景的大学生思想政治教育内容思考

构建社会主义和谐社会对我们的大学生思想政治教育工作提出了新的要求,其中,更新教育内容是最根本的,本文从深入开展和谐社会教育、以社会主义核心价值体系贯穿始终两个方面对大学生思想政治教育的主要内容进行了思考和概括,提出了个人观点。