教育需要呐喊,更需要反省

近20多年来,中国以不可思议的惊人速度在发展,中国的巨变不仅让中国人自己感到骄傲,也让世界感到震惊。然而当我们从喜悦中清醒之后,我们不得不承认,作为一个世界人口大国,我们离世界强国还有相当的距离。可以追究的原因是:因为没有强大教育的支撑,导致我国人力资源的落后。当我们面对“时至2000年,我国15岁以上国民受教育年限仅为7.85年,只相当于美国100年前15岁以上国民受教育的水平,我国劳动力人口80%以上仅具有初中及以下文化程度,而接受过高等教育的劳动力人口比重仅占3.81%”这一事实时,我们必须做出的选择是:中国要振兴,必须优先发展…     

多元文化教育与公民的多元文化伦理

不同民族的文化之间的伦理态度和行动方式是重要的公民品质的内容,是公民道德教育的重要组成部分。不同民族与文化的相互尊重、共同发展、相互学习、相互欣赏,是多元社会中的公民应当具有的意识和能力。形成多元文化意识和文化发展能力,应该是公民公共道德教育的重要内容。多元文化教育不仅反映了对少数族群的文化的认可的政治价值的诉求,更重要的是把多元文化的共生和共存放置在积极的教育追求上,通过教育不仅实现文化的发扬和发展,而且养育多元文化的伦理关系和公民人格。培养公民的多元文化伦理是教育文化建构的重要任务。     

论多元文化教育的基本理念

多元文化教育是一种以多元文化主义为指导思想的教育。多元文化教育的目标是通过教育中的文化平等实现受教育者的政治权利平等。多元文化教育的内容主要是消除文化偏见,整合课程知识,建立和谐的群际关系等。多元文化教育的策略主要包括更新课程内容、改革教学方法、改变学业评价模式等方面的内容。     

现代远程教育中的多元文化教育

数字技术在不断加快全球文化同质化的同时,也给以它为核心的现代远程教育赋予了当代社会进行多元文化教育的最有效的功能。由于传统教育在历史习惯和时空等方面存在着进行多元文化教育的各种桎梏,不能构建不同民族文化深层次的课程展现模式,而形式多样的动态化数字文本却可以在教育机会均等、民族同一性、文化理解等多元文化教育方面虚拟出准实境化的、传统教育欠缺的、富有层次感的多维教育环境,以使远程学习者在核心价值、态度情感方面养成具有批判力的媒体素养。本文即是对现代远程教育日益作为工具和手段,在多元文化教育中具备的性质和功能的阐述。     

Multicultural Education through Meditation

This paper is based on the outcomes of a 6‐month study in a multicultural inner‐city primary school and involved twenty‐four pupils representing seventeen nationalities. The object of the study was to explore how imagination and concentration might promote language awareness and cultural pluralism. Among other techniques, the children used meditation as a way of exploring themselves and others. The study suggested that the children were open to new ways of learning, imagination being for them a meaningful medium for making sense of their world. The results supported the idea that for these children meditation could be an instrument of self‐knowledge and knowledge of others.     

Making Multicultural Education 'Real'

This paper outlines a problem-based approach to the teaching and learning of multicultural education for pre-service teachers at the University of Canberra during the second semester, 1999. Within the context of this research, problem-based teaching and learning will be considered as both curriculum and as a process. The curriculum consisted of carefully designed problems focusing on theoretical constructs relevant to the unit under scrutiny; the process involved problem solving, self-directed learning strategies and team participation at both the seminar and tutorial level (Gallagher, 1997). The decision to adopt this approach was driven by a need to connect practical classroom scenarios with the theoretical basis of the course. It was through the adoption of an Action Research model that these issues were explored.     

多元文化教育与比较教育研究

多元文化教育思潮兴起于20世纪六七十年代的西方发达国家，至今已成为当代颇令世人瞩目的一大教育思想与理论潮流，而其独具特色的以追求多元种族、民族与文化群体乃至全球社会共同平等和谐发展与进步为标志的价值理念与实践方式也逐渐为越来越多的国家和人民所接受和奉行。多元文化教育与比较教育研究之间存在着一种密不可分的内在关联，目前两者之间的这种互动关系正处于急速发展与变革的状态之中。     

Why Exceptionality Is More Important for Special Education than Exceptional Children

Special education is specially designed instruction designed to meet the unusual, specific needs of individual exceptional students. In designing such instruction, group characteristics can be important, but special education demands a focus on individuals, not groups. The only grouping of students with shared characteristics that is important for special education is what the students have learned and need to learn next about what is being taught, whether that be academic or social skills. A focus on group characteristics other than learning is misguided and weakens special education.     

Multicultural Education and Newcomer Youth: Re-Imagining a More Inclusive Vision for Immigrant and Refugee Students

In this article, we draw attention to the discourses and practices of multicultural and culturally relevant education as curricular contexts with long-lasting implications for newcomer youth. To best serve immigrant and refugee students and more explicitly include them in the field's discourse, we argue for a conceptual move to widen the scope of multicultural education and culturally relevant pedagogy. We highlight the tremendous contributions multicultural education approaches have made to equitable education, while also examining the ways in which some of their widespread theoretical framing have yet to address the particular needs of immigrant and refugee youth. We then suggest conceptual shifts to widen their scope to include newcomer youth's varied experiences and identity positions. These shifts are (a) advancing the role of genuine cross-cultural relationships over traditional forms of cross-cultural competence in multicultural educational spaces and (b) abdicating the search for cultural authenticity implied in some multicultural education practice in favor of facilitating cultural agency for newcomer youth.     

多元文化视野下的基础教育课程改革--兼谈多元文化教育的实质

学校中的教师与学生携带着"看不见的行李",导致教师与学生之间、学生各种亚群体之间的文化差异与碰撞。现代学校教育应该成为多元文化教育。"多元文化教育"不等于"跨文化教育",其实质是追求文化平等与社会民主的教育,是文化上的充分个性化的教育。由于基础教育的基本特性、社会主义性质和社会现实以及全国建设小康社会目标的要求,我国的基础教育课程改革应重视多元文化教育,这也是回应世界教育改革大潮的必然要求。     

There Must Be More to Life than This

Creativity is not art optional extra. It is the essence of life.     

More than merely monitoring

This paper by Dee Edwards, Project Officer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University and Judith Metcalfe, Staff Tutor in Science in the Birmingham Region continues the debate on the University's system for monitoring tutor‐marked assignments. The authors focus firstly on the monitoring of grade reliability and then review ways of enhancing correspondence tuition skills through staff development meetings.     

比礼物更重要的东西

一名准备出国工作的男子,临行前对哭哭啼啼的未婚妻说:"别担心,我会每天都给你写信。"此后很多年,他确实坚