移动学习在英语自主学习中的应用研究

随着各类移动通信设备的不断普及和升级,加上移动通信技术的飞速发展,为满足人们不断增加的学习需求,一种新型的学习方式应运而生——基于移动通信技术和移动互联网技术的移动学习。在外语界则有学者认为移动学习是中国外语学习的未来,将会对我国的教育信息化、教育全民化、学习终身化起到巨大的推动作用。移动学习具有不受时空限制,学习者可以随时、随地根据自己的进度开展学习的鲜明特点,因此,其在英语自主学习中将会有广阔的发展空间。     

WebQuest设计与应用调查分析

WebQuest教学模式自引入我国以来,其研究、推广和实践已产生了较为广泛的影响。WebQuest设计应用发展状况如何?实践探索中有哪些经验或教训?网络探究教学应该如何有效地组织和实施?对近年来国内WebQuest教学模式设计与应用案例的广泛调查和统计分析表明:WebQuest及网络探究教学的深入发展需要有关人员面向学生发展,更新教育理念,走出技术误区;立足实践探索,关注学习过程,灵活应用模式;改变管理理念,调整评价机制,完善信息化学习环境。     

Rethinking our underlying assumptions about what we do and why we do it: academic development as a case

In this paper, academic developers from universities in three countries explore underlying assumptions about what we as developers do and why we do it in relation to evaluating development programs. Through addressing three questions, key ideas emerge that highlight what is often overlooked in day-to-day practice: the fact that academic development has a ‘signature pedagogy’ defined by the ‘learning paradigm’; the potential role of different stakeholders in setting criteria for evaluation; and the inclusion of non-traditional academic development literatures (e.g., adult education, educational change, organizational development) to avoid perpetuating established practices. Our intent is to intellectually challenge ourselves and others to move beyond sharing program and evaluation activities to explore ideas and literature not often considered in our day-to-day work. While the context is academic development, we believe the questions and the answers that emerged are of value to all involved in staff and professional development.     

Field philosophy: environmental learning and moral development in Isle Royale National Park

We conducted a qualitative analysis of 5 years of student writing data to understand learning and moral development on a field philosophy course in Isle Royale National Park. We were interested in the connection between physical experiences in the natural world and the way students care about or value nonhuman beings, natural systems, and place. Students consistently demonstrated a shift from a dualistic to a more complex understanding of ideas, relationships, and the natural world. This widening perception and moral awareness occurred in tandem with course content learning. In this paper we describe the model that emerged from our data to describe this shift from dualism to complexity – from self-awareness, to social learning, to curriculum engagement, to a wider moral community – and the factors that facilitate each step. We also provide a planning and assessment tool to help other educators begin to observe ethical development and relational growth in their own interdisciplinary environmental field classes.     

欧盟终身学习战略的发展、影响和启示

终身学习已经成为欧盟教育培训政策的主要标语。本文按时间顺序回顾了终身学习是如何作为欧盟教育培训领域的重要战略而出现的,并考察了终身学习对欧盟的影响,最后分析了它对我国构建学习型社会的借鉴意义。     

"学会生存"和"学会关心":教师专业发展的两种互补状态

从“学会生存”到“学会关心”是终身教育理念的进一步深化，也是社会发展在教育领域的反映。还是教师专业化发展的内在要求。“学会生存”更多的是从教师自我教育、自我提高的角度出发：而“学会关心”则从更深层次对教师教育发展提出的要求。但是，事实上，“学会生存”和“学会关心”已是推动教师教育发展的两种互补状态。     

欧盟终身学习战略的发展、影响和启示

终身学习已经成为欧盟教育培训政策的主要标语。本文按时间顺序回顾了终身学习是如何作为欧盟教育培训领域的重要战略而出现的,并考察了终身学习对欧盟的影响,最后分析了它对我国构建学习型社会的借鉴意义。     

Educational development for responsible graduate students in the neoliberal university

In this article, we examine how our work in educational development, specifically in graduate student training, enacts the logic of neoliberalism in higher education in Canada. We approach this examination through a collaborative autoethnographic consideration of and reflection on our practices and experiences as educational developers, the design and delivery of a graduate student survey and our own experiences of and identification with ‘self-actualizing graduate students’. Further, we illustrate how neoliberalism shapes the work of teaching and learning centres resulting in offering programming, which compels graduate students to act in ways that can be read as responsible and capable of navigating an increasingly bleak academic labour market. Throughout the article we call attention to the ways in which our role as educational developers may either reinforce or disrupt neoliberal discourses. While we urge a critical approach, we also reflect on constraints to such criticism.     

试论我国教育技术发展中的回归现象——兼论何克抗先生的《从Blending Learning看教育技术理论的新发展》

近年来,在我国教育技术发展进程中出现了一种有目共睹的现象,那就是“回归”。不论我们的教育技术决策者、研究者还是实践者自觉与否,这一涌动的思潮已渗透到我们的理论研究、学科建设、工作实践以至事业发展的方方面面。认真探讨和研究回归问题,重新理性地审视教育技术的发展轨迹,正视客观事实的存在极其合理性,检讨和梳理不同时期我们的研究工作,其目的在于让浅层次的“螺旋式上升”成为历史,让简单的重复不再重演。     

合作学习兴起的背景比较

合作学习是世界上许多国家普遍采用的教学理论体系和策略 ,也是我国新课程改革大力倡导的一种学习方式。通过对中美合作学习兴起的背景的比较分析 ,更能结合中国的教育现状 ,促进我国合作学习的发展。     

摭谈外国教育教学和学校管理的特色

世界各国优秀教师成功的教育教学案例和外国许多著名学校的管理经验丰富多彩、特色鲜明,外国教育丛书分别对外国优秀教师的教学过程、教育特色和外国著名学校的管理特色进行了系统的介绍和扼要的解读,使关心国外教育改革与发展的人们在较短的时间内能快速地了解到国外中小学教育教学及管理的最新情况,进而反观自我,反思已有的教育教学及管理,借以实现我们自己新的发展与超越。     

探究性学习研究

探索性学习是我国教育改革大力提倡的一种学习方式，探究性学习的实施与开发需要一定的社会基础和心理基础。在实施的过程中，教师与指导者需要掌握探究性学习的界定、类型；同时，也需要掌握探究性学习开发的具体模式，从而为这种学习方式在基础教育领域开发奠定一定的基础。     

幼儿园课程要关注幼儿的生活质量

关注和提高幼儿的生活质量是时代赋予教育的使命。关注与提高幼儿的生活质量是幼儿园课程的价值追求。要关注幼儿的生活质量,就要关注幼儿对生活的体验与感受,关注幼儿在教育生活中的独特学习方式,关注幼儿个体在教育活动中的发展。幼儿教育与幼儿的生活密不可分,幼儿教育必须关注幼儿的生活质量。     

Mentoring as Socialization for the Educational Leadership Professoriate: A Collaborative Autoethnography

In this study, we analyzed the experiences of an educational leadership doctoral student and aspirant to the professoriate (protégé) and an educational leadership professor (mentor) during our two-year mentoring relationship. Collaborative autoethnography was employed, and our analysis relied primarily upon a process-oriented model of mentoring. Four main themes emerged: (a) reciprocal trust, (b) experiential learning, (c) stability and change, and (d) mutual benefit. Our relationship also was marked by several critical features, and we described the timing and sequence of the socialization experience. This productive mentoring relationship offers a detailed model for doctoral students and faculty members who wish to pursue a similar relationship. From our research, we also contribute to the broader mentoring literature, in which previous researchers have rarely delved simultaneously into mentor and protégé experiences. Scholars who study mentoring will gain from insights into the manner in which anticipatory socialization unfolds, as well as critical features that emerge and evolve in the process.     

摭谈外国教育教学和学校管理的特色

世界各国优秀教师成功的教育教学案例和外国许多著名学校的管理经验丰富多彩、特色鲜明,外国教育丛书分别对外国优秀教师的教学过程、教育特色和外国著名学校的管理特色进行了系统的介绍和扼要的解读,使关心国外教育改革与发展的人们在较短的时间内能快速地了解到国外中小学教育教学及管理的最新情况,进而反观自我,反思已有的教育教学及管理,借以实现我们自己新的发展与超越。     

Three theses on teaching and learning in higher education

In our article, we explore the possibility of formulating theses about teaching as one way to use research as a basis for educational action. The theses are formulated from current educational research on teaching and learning in higher education. We also explore the potential for action and the consequences derived from the theses. With our theses, we criticise less complex ways of using research for educational purposes. Through theses we can suggest directions for action without prescribing certain methods or procedures and provide answers without reducing the teachers' possibilities for choice or diminishing their responsibility for their actions. Our exploration is an invitation to a collaborative exploration of theses on teaching and learning in order to broaden and deepen our shared basis for educational action.     

Narratives of learning communities in environmental education

Abstract

This article introduces the core concepts that emerged from five environmental education action research studies conducted by a group called Learning Communities in Environmental Education, Science and Mathematics (CEAMECIM) from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) in the south of Brazil. The studies focus on teacher education processes in learning communities involving teachers, researchers and environmental educators, and the critical writing and reading texts of classroom recordings to problematise participants’ teaching practices. CEAMECIM used action research cycles to examine narratives of educational action, narratives from teachers concerning their development as environmental educators, and narratives of their development of a sense of belonging, with a particular focus on critiquing social models that are based on hierarchies and individuality. From this analysis, we propose a new perspective on being and learning how to become a learning community, crystallised by the belief that ‘we are more when we are together’.     

Bringing Singapore’s teacher education beyond its shores

In recent years, education systems around the world have been keeping a keen eye on rankings of student achievement as measured by internationally benchmarked tests. This has led to considerable attention being paid to teasing out success factors that may account for countries that have emerged top of the ranks or those that have shown the most rapid improvement from one test period to the next. Singapore’s education system, which has consistently emerged as one of the higher ranking countries has garnered much international attention as a consequence. Even as other nations are learning more about Singapore, it is timely for Singapore to share our expertise and experience to benefit other systems. In this article, one such effort of internationalisation is focused on i.e., teacher education and professional development programmes. The underpinning philosophy of internationalisation is to serve the global educational community. Three models of internationalisation are expounded upon, namely; building the local capacity of our partner countries, training the trainers, and the offering of executive leadership training programmes to an international market. The past and future challenges of internationalisation are also discussed. The article ends with how it began, in terms of examining Singapore’s internationalisation of its teacher education and professional development programmes in the light of whether we are indeed, paving the Fourth Way as espoused by Hargreaves and Shirley (2009).     

The Importance of Community Knowledge in Learning to Teach: Foregrounding Māori Cultural Knowledge to Support Preservice Teachers' Development of Culturally Responsive Practice

Culturally responsive teaching is an essential component of reframing educator preparation for equity and has particular resonance when working in partnership with indigenous communities. As teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand, we continually seek to enhance our practices to ensure that Māori cultural values, pedagogies, and epistemologies inform all aspects of our teacher education curricula and support Māori educational aspirations. In this article we describe a preservice teacher education program co-constructed with our local Māori community that foregrounds Māori cultural knowledge. We focus particularly on two signature features of the program, a co-constructed framework for teacher growth and development and community-based learning experiences, highlighting the ways that these features engage preservice teachers in learning through Māori epistemological perspectives and pedagogies. We conclude by reflecting on the generative nature of engaging community expertise and knowledge to create contextually meaningful learning experiences for preservice teachers that support their development as culturally responsive teachers.     

Conceptualizing educational leadership in an academic development program

Promoting the development of educational leadership in higher education is essential for strengthening the quality of teaching and learning. Additional research is needed to conceptualize educational leadership, especially within informal roles. We analysed how faculty members in an academic development program conceptualized educational leadership. Five key characteristics emerged that inform the development of educational leadership capacity in postsecondary contexts: affective qualities, mentoring and empowering, action-orientation, teaching excellence, and research and scholarship. Three characteristics of academic programs aimed at developing educational leadership were also identified: funding and resources to implement a change initiative, building interdisciplinary communities, and embracing identity.