回归自然 重拾历史——对中国传统民族民间舞蹈进入普通高校课堂的思考

中国传统的民族民间舞蹈素有历史文化的＂活化石＂之称,它还生动地展现出了各民族的生活习俗、人文环境、民族文化、民族服饰、历史变迁等种种轨迹,为人类的生存与发展留下了深刻的印迹。本文从中国传统的民族民间舞蹈文化保护和传承的角度,对中国传统的民族民间舞蹈文化进入普通高校素质教育课堂的方式方法进行了思考和探索。     

谈我国民族民间舞蹈的发展趋向

主要阐述了我国民族民间舞蹈的发展趋向,同时提出了有关民族民间舞蹈发展的个人观点,希望以此吸引更多从事民族民间舞蹈研究的人员来关注我国民族民间舞蹈的发展,并以发展的眼光探寻我国民族民间舞蹈未来之路。     

试论中国民族民间舞蹈文化的传承和发展

民族民间舞蹈文化的传承是我们进行传统文化传承和发展的重要组成部分,我们必须予以高度的重视和关注。本文从民族民间舞蹈文化传承和发展的重要意义出发,对当前民族民间舞蹈发展存在的问题进行简要分析,并提出了一系列传承和发展中国民族民间舞蹈文化的有效途径和策略。     

“湖湘”特色舞蹈研究型课程开发的思考

目前湖南省高校舞蹈专业教育呈现出诸多问题,如课程设置、教材内容以及人才培养模式多呈现出相似的格局与模式,因此,我省高校舞蹈专业有必要引入＂湖湘＂特色舞蹈。挖掘具有历史和地域特色的古典舞蹈文化,将研究成果运用到舞蹈作品的创作和课程教学中;深入挖掘研究我省的民族民间舞蹈文化,将其拓展为可利用的舞蹈教育资源是开发我省地方特色舞蹈研究型课程的主要途径。     

舞蹈文化对民间舞蹈教学影响的研究

任何一门艺术的形成都有其深厚的文化底蕴,中国的民间舞蹈艺术亦是如此.我国地域广阔,民族众多,各民族在历史发展的长河中,产生了丰富多彩的民族民间舞蹈.我国的民间舞蹈种类有上千种之多,在这些丰富的民间舞蹈中,由于各族人民的生活方式、生产方式、宗教信仰、所处地域环境的差异,形成了形式纷繁、风格迥异的歌舞艺术.一个民族的舞蹈涵融着本民族悠久的历史文化,体现着一个民族特有的心理特征,民间舞每一个特有的动作姿态无不受其特有文化的烘托,并与其特有的审美情趣相关联.只有把民族民间舞蹈文化与舞蹈教学紧密结合,才能使学生更好地掌握舞蹈,在表演时不仅能展现优美的肢体动作,还能表现出丰富的文化内涵.本文通过对民族民间舞蹈文化分类和民族民间舞蹈涵盖的内容进行剖析,并结合当前我国民族民间舞蹈文化与舞蹈教学结合的现状,提出了剖析舞蹈动作体态、姿态的由来、了解舞蹈发源地的民俗文化,感受民族审美意识、舞蹈教育中充分重视结合人文教育的重要性、引导学生掌握获取民族民间舞蹈发展最新动态的手段、抓住典型动作示范,提高动作的完美性等中国民族民间舞蹈文化与舞蹈教学相结合的措施.旨在为民族民间舞蹈教学提供理论参考.     

浅析高校民族民间舞蹈教学现状及改革路径

民族民间舞蹈带有浓厚的人文色彩和地域风情,在长年累月的积累中逐渐形成自身的文化特色,并已经成为各族人民传递情感、宣泄情绪的重要手段。近年来,高校舞蹈教育虽然逐渐成为了我国民族民间舞蹈传承的重要阵地,但是随着文化的不断进步和发挥在那,高校民族民间舞蹈教育逐渐显现出一些问题。本文从时代对民族民间舞蹈的需求角度出发,研究如何创新高校民族民间舞蹈的教育,提升高校舞蹈专业的教学质量。     

浅谈民族民间舞蹈与情感表现

民族民间舞蹈是中国艺术海洋中一朵瑰丽的奇葩,本文通过介绍民族民间舞蹈的历史概况、起源种类,分析了情感表现在民族民间舞蹈中的重要意义和作用.     

民族民间舞蹈的文化解读与教育传承——评《民族民间舞蹈的传承发展与艺术创作》

民族舞蹈是具有鲜明地域性、民族性特色的艺术瑰宝,产生于人们的日常生活与劳动活动中.与宫廷舞相对,民族民间舞蹈因为植根民间,由劳动人民所创,在艺术形式上表现出灵活生动、不拘一格的姿态;在艺术风格上表现出生活化、俚俗化、简单化等特征,具有独特的审美价值,是现代艺术创作发展和舞蹈教学重要的艺术灵感来源.要保留民族民间舞蹈的艺术风采,最好的形式莫过于对其进行传承与发展,在原有民族民间舞蹈形式的基础上融入现代舞蹈精髓,根据当代舞蹈审美原则对其进行改编创作,并推广到舞蹈教育领域,进一步传播与发展民族民间舞蹈魅力.民族民间舞蹈不仅是视觉艺术中的优秀代表,同时也是传统民间文化的突出代表,在继承发展民族民间舞蹈过程中,有必要对民族民间舞蹈的文化内涵、文化风格、文化传播机制进行分解研究,以便为更好地传承发扬民族民间舞蹈奠定基础.     

民族民间舞蹈文化传承规律及发展趋势研究

我国是一个多民族国家,不同的民族有着不同的历史和文化,舞蹈作为表达历史文化的重要载体,不同的民族其舞蹈形式也不同。但是各民族的舞蹈有一个共同的特征,那就是其表达和特点都与各自民族民间的生活和生产活动相关,是一个民族的重要文化组成部分。那么我国该如何去保护和传承这些民族民间的精神财富,使其能够长远流传和发展下去,是非常值得探讨的问题。本文主要对民间民族舞蹈的概念、特点等内容进行归纳,并结合当前民族民间舞蹈的发展现状、传承规律等探讨,提出关于我国民族民间舞蹈文化传承与发展的措施,从而使我国的民族民间舞蹈能够符合时代的审美,进而更好地传承和发展。     

论民族民间舞蹈文化和民族民间舞蹈的教学

民族民间舞蹈是民族传统文化最常见的传播载体,具有传承性、大众性、娱乐性、民族性等突出特点。民族民间舞蹈文化与民族民间舞蹈教学系一种相辅相成、互相促进之关系,教学是对民族民间舞蹈文化的传承、保持和升华。基于此,民族民间舞蹈的教学要注重甄选适宜的教材,客观地剖析教材,多元地开展教学,以此促进舞蹈人才的培养。     

The constitutive force of the Catecismo del Pueblo in Puerto Rico's popular democratic party campaign of 1938–1940

This paper explores the formation of a political order, a constituency, during the 1938–1940 senatorial campaign of the Partido Popular Democratico in Puerto Rico. In particular it examines the constitutive force of the Catecismo del Pueblo, a small booklet in the form of questions and answers regarding the party's basic assumptions and orientations. This booklet developed a political constituency by mediating a covenantal relationship through discourse in the form of a catechism. Burke's notion of constitutional dialectics is used to explore the Catecismo's nature as constitutive, as a catechism, and as the mediator of a political covenant between the Party and the jíbaros.     

A Conceptual Model (The Six Mirrors of the Classroom) and It’s Application to Teaching and Learning About Microorganisms

In this paper a conceptual model of instruction “the six mirrors of the classroom” used as a frame for teaching a learning topic, the microorganisms are depicted. The paper consists of four sections: (a) the six mirrors of the classroom model (SMC); (b) the SMC as implemented in the expository and cooperative modes of instruction in classrooms and results; (c) a “Journey of Inquiry into the Wonderful World of Microorganisms” (JIWWM), developed according to the Science–Technology–Environment–Peace–Society (STEPS) approach; and (d) teaching and learning the JIWWM, in ninth-grade classes, within the SMC model. The results show that science topic can be taught in the frame of the mirrors of the classroom. When the instructional goals of the teachers used the mirror “1, classroom organization” and mirror “6, pupils’ social behavior” and the third ring around the all six mirrors cooperative skills were practiced, academic outcomes were achieved, and attitudes toward environmental preservation and peace improved. The SMC model can serve as a valuable tool for teachers, since it can design their teaching and learning settings in a more controlled environment, in terms of objectives, teachers’ and students’ social behaviors, and academic outcomes.     

Efficient propagation with in vitro seed germination of Vanda falcata

Vanda falcata (Thunb.) Beer (Orchidaceae), a famous native orchid of China, Japan, and Korea, is known as one of the most beautiful and charming orchid species in the world (Ohwi, 1965; Lawler, 1984; Arditti, 2008). V. falcata is widely cultivated and delights the world with its compact plant shape, elegant white blooms, and sweet coconut-like scent. However, vegetative propagation by division has limited the development of V. falcata because of its inefficiency (Mitsukuri et al., 2009a, 2009b).     

Higher education: a public good or a commodity for trade?

Conventionally, higher education is regarded as a public good, benefiting not only the individuals but also the whole society by producing a wide variety of externalities or social benefits. Of late, however, the chronic shortage of public funds for higher education, the widespread introduction of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization in every country and in every sector, and the heralding of the international law on trade in services by the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Trade and Services—all tend to challenge the long-cherished, well-established view of many that higher education is a public good, and to propose and legitimize the sale and purchase of higher education, as if it is a normal commodity meant for trade. The very shift in perception on the nature of higher education from a public good to a private good—a commodity that can be traded—will have serious implications. The paper describes the nature of the shift from viewing higher education as a public good to a private, tradable commodity and its dangerous implications.

Layers and links: Learning to juggle ‘one more thing’ in the classroom

This paper presents a model—hypertextual function—to consider teachers’ thinking, practice, and development in the use of technology. Hypertextual function is a multi-dimensional model linking a teacher's knowledge about students (familiarity) and technology (facility), with a teacher's teaching practice of integrating technology with content (transparency) and across disciplines and experiences (connectivity), and a teacher's sense of support (collegiality). Additionally, a teacher's context affects each of these. Such a model is important as technology becomes more pervasive and integrating technology into classrooms adds another layer of complexity to teaching. Case studies and graphic representations of the proposed model are presented.     

Youth voices: connections between history, enacted culture and identity in a digital divide initiative

The design of educational experiences is often mediated by historical, institutional, and social conceptions. Although these influences can initially shape the way that educational opportunities are created and implemented, this preliminary form has the potential to reorganize. In this paper, we illustrate how history shows its presence in the ways that instructors systematically arrange a technology course for urban youth. This original approach to the course inhibits youth participation. Incrementally, however, the cultural enactments of instructors and students lead to a reorganization of activity. Through highlighting history and examining the intersection of culture, we provide insight into the ways in which adolescents of color become successfully engaged in learning technology. We focus our study by asking how co-existence and the dialectic of structure and agency play a role as youth develop an identity as a technology user. Further, this emergent learning design affords outsiders a unique view of the educational and contextual experiences of these youth. Our illustration of how history, enacted culture and identity mediate the emergent learning design stems from a grounded theory approach to analyzing video, interview and artifact data in this after-school technology course.

The Talking Drawings Strategy: Using Primary Children’s Illustrations and Oral Language to Improve Comprehension of Expository Text

Listening and reading comprehension can be assessed by analyzing children’s visual, verbal, and written representations of their understandings. “Talking Drawings” (McConnell, S. (1993). Talking drawings: A strategy for assisting learners. Journal of Reading, 36(4), 260–269 is one strategy that enables children to combine their prior knowledge with the new information derived from an expository text and “translate” those newly-acquired understandings into other symbol systems, including an oral discussion with a partner, a more detailed drawing, and written labels for the drawing. The Talking Drawings strategy begins by inviting children to create pre-learning drawings. These initial drawings are a way of taking inventory of a child’s current content knowledge about a particular topic. After pre-learning drawings are created and shared, children listen to or read an expository text (e.g., information book, passage from a textbook) on the same topic as their drawing. Pairs of students discuss the information and either modify their pre-learning drawings to be more detailed or create completely new drawings that reflect the recently-acquired information. Students are encouraged to label their drawings with words in a diagram or schematic fashion. By evaluating the “before” and “after” artwork, educators can identify advances in students’ reading and listening comprehension of the terminology, facts, and principles on a particular topic.     

The potential for developing educational farms: a SWOT analysis from a case study

ABSTRACT

Purpose: Educational farms (EFs) serve a number of social and economic functions and are part of the debate about new learning environments, multifunctional agriculture and firm diversification. Through the analysis of a case study, this paper aims to identify strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of EFs and key factors for setting a development strategy.

Design/Methodology/Approach: A direct survey to EFs in Molise region (IT) was implemented during April-May 2017 and results were assessed following a SWOT approach.

Findings: Strong motivation and connection with agritourism activities are strengths of EFs in the region; small size, unskilled staff, lack of structured educational pathways, and limited profitability are the main weaknesses. Farms opportunities come from a territory rich in rural landscapes, environmental resources, and typical food products, and from a growing demand for educational tourism. Obstacles are in the institutional sphere and due to the absence of regional networks. Based on SWOT findings, key factors for EFs development are discussed.

Practical implications: EFs development requires innovative educational and managerial tools, a more concerted and proactive role for multiple stakeholders, and the implementation of a network approach. Study findings solicit actions from public institutions and advisory services to improve farmers’ skills.

Theoretical implications: The paper contributes to the theoretical debate about the need for a multidisciplinary approach in dealing with the analysis of EFs.

Originality/Value: The analysis underlines the importance of internal and external drivers in stimulating farms and institutions to support diversification strategies, rural development and transformation processes in inner areas.     

Developing a communal identity as beginning teachers of mathematics: Emergence of an online community of practice

The aim of this study is to investigate how a community of practice focused on becoming a teacher of secondary school mathematics emerged during a pre-service teacher education programme and was sustained after students graduated and began their first year of full-time teaching in schools. Bulletin board discussions of one pre-service cohort are analysed in terms of Wenger’s (1998) three defining features of a community of practice: mutual engagement of participants, negotiation of a joint enterprise, and development of a shared repertoire for creating meaning. Emergence of the online community was associated with our own role in facilitating professional dialogue, the voluntary and unstructured nature of participation, initial face-to-face interaction that created familiarity and trust, and the convenience of using email rather than logging on to a website. The study shows that the emergent design of the community contributed to its sustainability in allowing the pre-service and beginning teachers to define their own professional goals and values.