中学的第一天

我感觉到汗正渗透进我的T恤里。当旋转密码锁时，我感觉到我的手掌粘糊糊的。我使劲地回忆密码，每次我都以为自己想起来了，可锁依然打不开。左、右、右、左……到底该怎样转凉呢？我无法打开。我放弃了，开始跑下走廊。但是，我感觉我越跑，走廊就变得越来越长。我要到达的那扇门也离我越来越远了。我开始汗如雨下，接着我感到眼泪就要涌出来了。我迟到了!     

Exploring the Collaborative Ethic in an Urban School: A Case Study

A case study is presented of a project designed to establish a collaborative consultation ethic in an inner-city elementary school serving a culturally diverse student population. The story that is told describes the collaborative culture of the school as well as the evolution of a school-based university course in collaborative consultation. Lessons learned from this project include the realities of schools in need of change; the ability to promote a collaborative ethic in schools lacking administrative and collegial support; the usefulness of a qualitative case study approach in understanding and providing information to adjust an ongoing collaborative endeavor and the value of conducting a university course on collaborative consultation using authentic content-that is, content identified by participants to which collaborative problem-solving processes are applied.     

文化融合视野中的学校共同体建设——太仓市实验小学托管九曲小学、直塘小学的个案研究

本文主要阐述了城区优质学校托管农村薄弱学校的路径与方法,并从文化融合的角度探索了城乡学校共同体建设的理性认识和实践意义,各种跨校协作共同体组织与活动,创新了校际协作管理制度,开发了跨校活动课程,使城乡学校教师与学生都得到了共同发展。     

Promoting Social Awareness and Responsibility in the Primary School: The School Watch Initiative

The School Watch initiative is centred in South Wales and involves police liaison officers, primary schools and their pupils. In each interested school, the scheme is explained and the pupils then decide if they want to take part. A pupils' committee is elected which is given support and guidance by the liaison officer. A key element of the scheme is the involvement of the pupils themselves and the way the pupils' committee plays a major part in the choice and running of activities. The scheme benefits pupils both in terms of their personal and social development and in their attitudes to the police. The paper ends with a number of examples of the type of work that schools have undertaken within this scheme.     

“一带一路”背景下边境口岸旅游业发展策略研究——以广西凭祥口岸为例

边境地区作为连接中国与众多邻国的门户和纽带,在"一带一路"建设中具有独特的地位和作用。旅游业是服务贸易的重要组成部分,在"一带一路"倡议的具体实施中具有重要的意义。以广西口岸数量最多,种类最全,规模最大的边境口岸城市凭祥为例,通过SWOT分析法,分析凭祥口岸旅游业发展的优势、劣势、机遇、威胁,提出旅游业发展的SO策略、WO策略、ST策略、WT策略,旨在推动凭祥口岸旅游业的健康持续发展,并使其成为凭祥口岸更好地融入"一带一路"建设的重要支撑。     

Exploring the Social Integration of Sexual Minority Youth Across High School Contexts

Mental health disparities between sexual minority and other youth have been theorized to result in part from the effects of the stigmatization on social integration. Stochastic actor‐based modeling was applied to complete network data from two high schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (M_age = 15 years, N = 2,533). Same‐sex attracted youth were socially marginalized in a smaller predominantly White school but not in a larger, more racially diverse school. For both schools, homophily was a critical network feature, and could represent social support for and social segregation of such youth. These findings emphasize the school context in studying the social lives of sexual minority youth and suggest that youth may be better off socially in larger and more diverse schools.     

论“扶贫先扶志”工作的重要性

今年的"两会",脱贫工作是一个热点。云南省是我国脱贫攻坚主战场之一,脱贫攻坚是云南发展头等大事和第一民生工程。云南省要在省委、省政府的领导下,力争在"十三五"期间,消除本省贫困,使全省人民过上小康生活。笔者认为,要使每一个人脱离贫困,全面奔小康,可谓任重而道远。究其原因,主要是少数边远山区的贫困群体,在心智上就没有做好脱贫的准备。扶贫工作固然重要,但励志工作必须先行,即:扶贫先扶志。     

注重学校自我评估:英国教育督导评估的新走向

20世纪90年代以来,英国在组织外部力量进行严格学校教育督导的同时,逐渐增强了对系统的学校自我评价的重视程度,强调学校要充分利用国家教育政策、法律法规发展自我评价机制来提高教育质量。2005年3月,英国教育标准局(Office For Standards In Education,简称OFSTED)颁布新督导     

英国开放大学再认识:理念篇

大学理念是人们对大学的总体认识,包括大学的本质、大学的目的与特性、大学使命、大学作用、大学制度、大学在社会中的角色。英国开放大学的基本理念来自于英国传统大学,又有着自己的创新发展。传统大学自治的理念明确了开放大学的性质,新兴大学服务地方的观念确定了开放大学的功能,英国成人教育以学生为中心的思路决定了开放大学的教学理念,而高等教育民主化与平等化是开放大学的办学指导思想。本文分析了英国开放大学的理念框架所包含的哲学思想、使命、传统、路径和价值观,剖解了开放大学在这一框架基础上的治校行为、办学价值、教学创新、科学探索和全球互动,总结了40年来开放大学的制度创新实践。英国开放大学引领了国际高等教育改革的潮流,形成了自己独特的文化精神气质。     

A Case Study Exploring the Identity of an In-Service Elementary Science Teacher: a Language Teacher First

Teachers are central to providing high-quality science learning experiences called for in recent reform efforts, as their understanding of science impacts both what they teach and how they teach it. Yet, most elementary teachers do not enter the profession with a particular interest in science or expertise in science teaching. Research also indicates elementary schools present unique barriers that may inhibit science teaching. This case study utilizes the framework of identity to explore how one elementary classroom teacher’s understandings of herself as a science specialist were shaped by the bilingual elementary school context as she planned for and provided reform-based science instruction. Utilizing Gee’s (2000) sociocultural framework, identity was defined as consisting of four interrelated dimensions that served as analytic frames for examining how this teacher understood her new role through social positioning within her school. Findings describe the ways in which this teacher’s identity as a science teacher was influenced by the school context. The case study reveals two important implications for teacher identity. First, collaboration for science teaching is essential for elementary teachers to change their practice. It can be challenging for teachers to form an identity as a science teacher in isolation. In addition, elementary teachers new to science teaching negotiate their emerging science practice with their prior experiences and the school context. For example, in the context of a bilingual school, this teacher adapted the reform-based science curriculum to better meet the unique linguistic needs of her students.

     

Evaluation of an Extended School Day Program for African American Males in the Context of Single Gender Schooling and Schoolwide Reform: A Case for Extending the School Day for African American Males

This article presents the results of the 2nd-year evaluation of an after-school program designed for an extended school day program serving African American middle school students in the city of Baltimore, Maryland (ACCESS-West). This study describes the effects of schoolwide reform especially as it relates to single-gender schools, educating African American males, and extending the school day. The ACCESS-West program goals included improving academic achievement, improving student attitude toward school, decreasing chronic truancy and absenteeism, and increasing parental engagement and involvement. Second-year results reveal that three of the four goals were met but that the interplay between schoolwide reform and implementing the extended-day program had mixed effects on the program. Staffing and administrational changes and high percentages of special needs students adversely affected the program and results. Dedication, commitment, and implementation positively contributed to the outcomes of the 2nd-year results. The results contribute to the growing body of literature and research that continues to investigate the effects of single-gender schools on minority males. The results suggest that the schools need a number of years to establish their areas of staffing, administration, curriculum, and student enrollment before the results they can expect positive results. These results also suggest that providing African American males with an extended-day program that is flexible, yet structured, can provide positive results academically, behaviorally, and with the challenges of parental engagement and involvement.     

学校信息技术与教学整合制度化的案例研究

文章以某公立初中学校为案例,展现了该校信息技术教学整合的制度化过程和学校进行制度建立与扩散的策略。同时,文章分析了校领导、教师、家长、教育主管部门、技术元素等在这个过程中的行动逻辑与特征,以及各群体之间的相互作用。研究发现,在推进的策略上,年级的整体推进比实验班更容易实现制度化,并且在学校情境中,规制性与规范性要素比文化—认知性要素对制度建立和扩散更加有效。但是在整体推进模式下,学校与家长、教育主管部门等外部要素的冲突更加激烈。     

The Early College High School Initiative: An Overview of Five Evaluation Years

In 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started the Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI). Through this initiative, more than 200 Early College Schools (ECSs) opened by fall 2009. All of the schools aim to provide underserved students access to college classes while in high school. This article will provide an overview of the first 6 years of the ECHSI, and key findings across 5 years of the ECHSI evaluation, in particular highlighting how participants have implemented the ECHSI's core principles. However, the ECS is not a rigid model, and this article describes the variations in ECS implementation. Finally, this article documents outcomes such as attendance, grade-to-grade progression and graduation rates, student performance on assessments, and college credit accrual.     

Reducing Abstraction: The Case of School Mathematics

There is a growing interest in the mathematics education community in the notion of abstraction and its significance in the learning of mathematics. Reducing abstraction is a theoretical framework that examines learners behavior in terms of coping with abstraction level. It refers to situations in which learners are unable to manipulate concepts presented in a given problem; therefore, they unconsciously reduce the level of abstraction of the concepts involved to make these concepts mentally accessible. This framework has been used for explaining students conception in different areas of undergraduate mathematics and computer science. This article extends the applicability scope of this framework from undergraduate mathematics to school mathematics. We draw on recently published research articles and exemplify how students behavior can be described in terms of various interpretations of reducing abstraction level.     

普通高中课程群融合与共生案例研究

课程群是指为完善学生的素质结构,围绕同一学科或研究主题,将与该学科或研究主题具有逻辑联系的若干课程在知识、方法、问题等方面进行重新规划、整合而成的有机的课程系统。西安市曲江第一中学结合办学理念和西安地方特色,开发交叉学科课程群,形成了体现人文底蕴与责任担当素养的"漫谈‘一带一路’"课程、体现学生综合素养的考古社团、体现学生国际视野的浸入式英语课堂、体现学生实践创新的"春笋计划"申报等,更好地满足了学生、教师和学校的多方需求。     

论二战后英国的多元文化和社会融合

第二次世界大战后,为了经济的振兴,英国积极招募外国的廉价劳工来填补自身劳动力的缺乏。随着大批的移民的不断涌入,英国的民族和种族成分变得日益复杂,社会文化变得格外多元,种族矛盾和冲突日益突出。为了让外来移民更好融入英国社会,促进社会的融合,政府采取了各种政策和措施。文章将英国社会融合政策的演变分为三个时间段来进行阐述,通过解读英国各个时期所实施的社会融合政策,旨在为我国的民族文化政策提供思考和借鉴,进而促进民族的融合和国家的统一。     

调动中小学生学习积极性的"发动机"——学习动机

中小学生的知识学习过程受多种因素的影响。其中非智力因素对学生的学习会产生十分重要的作用,动机在各种非智力因素中又处于核心地位,而学习动机又是调动中小学生积极性的原动力。是什么原因造成中小学生学习动机不足,如何针对这些不足来改善教学,真正调动他们的学习积极性,这正是本文写作的目的。     

School Effectiveness and School Improvement in Context: The Case of South Africa

This article explores the issue of whether lists of characteristics constituting the effective school are universally valid. It argues that the effectiveness or otherwise of schools must be understood contextually as there are significant differences between both the material and ideological contexts of schooling. The article uses the example of South Africa to demonstrate the difficulties in judging schools in one context using criteria developed in another. Three examples of schools that can be considered effective in the context of the new South Africa are described and discussed and the article concludes by arguing that education for peace and democracy is an essential feature of school effectiveness in South Africa.