Protest Reconsidered: Identifying Democratic and Civic Engagement Learning Outcomes

Using a case study approach, the authors examine the democratic and civic engagement learning outcomes of a campus protest. The conceptual framework is built on the ideas outlined in Learning Reconsidered (Keeling 2004) and modeled in its pragmatic follow-up, Learning Reconsidered 2 (Keeling 2006). Results suggest student and campus administrator actions during a campus protest support democratic aims, student development, and digital age democracy. Recommendations for campus educators are included. This study extends previous discussion on activism’s journey from detrimental to developmental (Astin 1999; Chambers & Phelps 1993; Hamrick 1998; Hunter 1988) by mapping the learning environment through the interaction of protestor and university and by incorporating new forms of activism. J. Patrick Biddix  received his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with specialization in Higher Education from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is currently Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Research Methodology in the Department of Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology at Valdosta State University. His primary research interests include college student uses of technology outside the classroom, career pathways in student affairs, and research methodology. Patricia A. Somers  received her Ph.D. in Educational Administration with specialization in Higher Education from the University of New Orleans. She is currently an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests include college access, student persistence, student development theory, and two-year colleges. Joseph L. Polman  received his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Technology in the Division of Teaching and Learning at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His primary research interests include inquiry-based learning involving computers and the Internet as tools, viewed from a sociocultural perspective.     

Using Cultural Identity to Improve Learning

Many South-African learners, bringing their particular cultural identity to the higher education environment, find it challenging to achieve the academic literacy required for successful mastery of their studies. Though they want to realize academic success, a cultural chasm may exist between their cultural roots and their academic identity.

This article explores a model of academic language support that acknowledges cultural identity to facilitate access to academic scientific content and language. An action research project was conducted to test this model and discover whether incorporating indigenous knowledge in LEA 111 (English for Academic Advancement in Science and Health Sciences) would facilitate mastery of academic scientific content as well as language skills.     

体育学习动机对于体育课的影响

学生的一切活动都是由一定的动机引起的,学生动机是推动学生学习的一种内部动力,是激励学生从事学习的主观动因.学生参与体育活动的动机影响着当代体育教学目标、教学形式、教学方法及教学评价.     

Using Synchronous Technology to Enrich Student Learning

To explore the potential applications of synchronous technology to enrich student learning, faculty members from an American regional state university and a Chinese regional university collaborated to find appropriate ways to integrate synchronous technology (e.g., Adobe Connect) into an educational technology program in the American university and in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program in China. The paper reports the collaborative efforts in a project (from Fall 2010 to Spring 2012) using Adobe Connect to enrich student learning at both sites. The report includes the project overview, project implementation and its evaluation framework. Finally, the paper offers practical suggestions for using synchronous technologies such as Adobe Connect for instruction when implementing such an international project in two different countries.     

利用网络信息资源培养学习者自主能力

学习者自主在近20年来已成为外语教学界的一个热门话题,并逐渐成为外语教学的目标.然而在我国现阶段要实现这一目标却受到种种制约.本文从我国教育环境的实际出发,探讨了在新的信息时代如何利用网络资源以发展和培养外语学习者的自主学习能力.     

社会性软件促进非正式学习

非正式学习是指学习者利用一切适合的条件进行的具有明确目的指向,自我发起、自我调控、自我负责的学习活动.基于Web2.0的社会性软件,具有个性化、主体性、社会性、多样性等特征,它的推出及在教育、工作、生活中的普遍应用,为非正式学习提供了有力的技术支持,是人们获取知识的一种最普遍方式.根据社会性软件的主要功能及对学习的影响,可将非正式学习的组织形式划分为在线交谈、个人信息检索、个人知识管理、协作学习和生成学习等类型.应用社会性软件,学习者不仅可以快速从网络获取信息,而且可以对信息进行分类存储和处理,实现个人知识管理,同时能够实现与其它学习者的交流和信息分享,促进信息向知识的转化,促进虚拟"实践共同体"的形成.     

Using TED to Enhance Student Autonomous Learning

Based on the literature review about autonomous learning,the study put forward four steps for using TED to enhance student autonomous learning,which are preparation,activity design,presentation and evaluation. By doing so,both teachers and students can achieve their teaching and learning objectives.     

Leaning to do--把价值教育与TVET结合起来

一、共同学习和工作中的价值 价值代表人生的理想和目标,是我们追求的动机和目的.价值是解放、激发情感的,它给予我们思想和理解的动力,因此构成了个人和组织行为的内在驱动力.     

Using Cogenerative Dialogues to Improve Teaching and Learning

Traditional ideas about teaching and learning can run deep. Stephanie Bondi shares her experience of sharing power, voice, and responsibility with her students on a radical scale.     

Museums: Using Keyworkers to Deliver Lifelong Learning

The article describes a major study of the activities of keyworkers (mediators between museums and their public) within the context of museums' contribution to lifelong learning and to overcoming cultural exclusion. Field studies were undertaken in the UK, Ireland and Sweden based upon live projects with keyworkers who were subsequently interviewed about their roles, professional development needs and attitudes. In the UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum's keyworkers comprised youth workers, in Sweden they were traffic wardens and taxi drivers, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art worked with a group of elderly adults. From these studies, the research was able to articulate key recommendations for developing museum policy on keyworkers to enhance adult learning in and through museums.     

Museums: Using Keyworkers to Deliver Lifelong Learning

The article describes a major study of the activities of keyworkers (mediators between museums and their public) within the context of museums' contribution to lifelong learning and to overcoming cultural exclusion. Field studies were undertaken in the UK, Ireland and Sweden based upon live projects with keyworkers who were subsequently interviewed about their roles, professional development needs and attitudes. In the UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum's keyworkers comprised youth workers, in Sweden they were traffic wardens and taxi drivers, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art worked with a group of elderly adults. From these studies, the research was able to articulate key recommendations for developing museum policy on keyworkers to enhance adult learning in and through museums.     

运用现代教育技术 优化生物学教学

教育技术是现代教育学的一个重要概念。随着计算机技术的迅猛发展,以多媒体技术为核心的现代教育技术进入中学课堂,已成为学校教育现代化的重要模式,也是生物学课堂教学改革的重要课题。     

运用网络资源 创新美术教育

为了落实素质教育的美育任务,我着眼于现代化的网络资源,开展了以网络资源激发学生美术学习的兴趣。提高学生审美创造能力的美术教学改革,通过探索研究,取得了初步的经验和良好的效果。     

Learning theory and gifted education

Teachers need to know the psychology of meaningful learning to understand how gifted children learn.     

远程教学中的"学习小组"

远程教学"学习小组"的科学设计和有效实施已成为"人才培养模式改革"中重要组成部分,远教工作者为此作出了许多有益的尝试.前不久,天津电大组织了关于开放教育试点专业"学习小组"的探讨与交流.现刊登几位教师、学生的经验与体会,供大家参考.     

Learning to Live Together: the contribution of intercultural education

This article reflects the 17 years of experience of the 'Entreculturas project' in Portugal, where the 'Learning to live together' dimension has played a central role. It questions how intercultural education and training can contribute to promote and model an intercultural citizenship societal project and looks back at the history of the Entreculturas process in two different settings i) within the Ministry of Education (1991/2003), aimed at building and developing intercultural education in the educational system, and ii) at present, within the ACIDI — High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue —'upgraded' into a broader transversal dimension of immigrants' integration public policy.