The ignorant environmental education teacher: students get empowered and teach philosophy of nature inspired by ancient Greek philosophy

This paper presents an attempt to apply Jacques Rancière’s emancipatory pedagogy of ‘the ignorant schoolmaster’ to environmental education, which emphasises environmental ethics. The paper tells the story of a philosophy of nature project in the framework of an environmental adult education course at a Second Chance School in Greece, where adult students researched ancient Greek philosophy of nature, discovered and adopted environmental values and taught their schoolmates. The paper presents the findings of this pedagogical experiment and evaluates the benefits and the skills that students can acquire through emancipatory pedagogy and through peer teaching and learning. Α cross-disciplinary combination of emancipatory pedagogy, environmental education, philosophy of nature and environmental ethics that can empower students and strengthen their environmental conscience with emphasis in ecocentric and ecojustice values is proposed. Τhe role of the teacher as a student, who continues to investigate and learn, trusting the intelligence and the abilities of his/her students is also examined. Furthermore, it is argued that there is a need to focus on the role of philosophy of nature and environmental ethics in environmental education and, because of its wealth and subtlety, ancient Greek philosophy can contribute to this emancipatory, environmental education paradigm.     

Alternative schools for troublesome secondary students

Results of a field experiment indicate that a certain kind of secondary school program reduced the disruptive behavior and improved the scholastic performance of students who were about to be suspended or expelled from their conventional schools. The research indicates that the program was demonstrably effective only with those students who were not at the outset extremely depressed and anxious. The essential characteristics of the program are described. The findings document the social psychological processes by which the program achieved its goals. Implications are drawn for a typology of delinquency; causes of delinquent and disruptive behavior; stigmatization; the possibility of an educational program being effective without the direct involvement of disruptive students' families or friends; and for some recurring questions regarding the design of alternative educational programs.     

Students teach sex education: introducing alternative conceptions of sexuality

In this paper, we describe an exercise that challenges hetero-normative and sexist notions of sexuality, allowing students to envision alternative models. Research shows how active learning eases student anxiety over challenging or threatening material. After reading Jessica Fields' Risky Lessons and Waskul, Vannini, and Weisen's article entitled ‘Women and Their Clitoris’, students designed a sex education curriculum that challenges conventional methods. Beyond critiquing existing sex education models, this exercise provides a space for students to reflect on their own sex education experiences, develop their own ideas for teaching about sex and become comfortable discussing sex and sexuality with their peers. All but one of the students reported finding the activity enjoyable or interesting. More than half of students reported change in their views about sex and sex education as a result of the activity.     

中职教育中的合唱教学

在我国,中职教育是职业技术教育的重要组成部分,它为社会输出初、中级技术人员以及技术工人,承担起了为国家培养高素质人才的社会责任。在中职教育的音乐教学当中,合唱教学不但可以提升学生之间的凝聚力和团结度,还能够充分增强学生的合作意识、审美情趣以及音乐鉴赏能力。本文将以中职教育中的合唱教学为课题,详细探讨中职教育中合唱教学的积极作用以及实施途径,以期能够为我国中职教育中合唱教学的开展提供一定的指导和借鉴性作用。     

Coping with career indecision: the role of courage and future orientation in secondary education students from Greek provincial cities

This study examined the relationships among courage, strategies of coping with career indecision, and future orientation in a sample of high school students. A total of 460 Greek adolescents from provincial cities participated in the study. The results indicated that courage indirectly predicted future orientation through productive coping strategies. The main conclusion refers to the fact that specific interventions could promote productive coping strategies and courage, which in turn, may foster the future orientation of adolescents to construct multiple positive occupational pathways, coping with various career and life decisions and, overall, orient themselves positively toward the future.

     

论中职学校数学教学中的心理健康教育

由于中职学生文化素质较低,在学习上有相当大的困难,其成长过程中产生的逆反心理和脆弱、孤独的封闭心理等问题也影响学习．数学是中职学生学习困难、易于厌学的主要学科之一,成绩的优劣元不与学生心理品质息息相关．因此,数学教学过程要善于捕捉学生心理问题的各种信息,及时了解学生的内心世界,并采取灵活、巧妙的办法,因材施教,适时、适度地渗透心理健康教育,帮助学生妥善地处理心理问题,使学生具有良好的心理品质、健全的人格和较强的社会适应能力,以促进其心理健康发展,从而提高中职学生的数学素质．     

Discipline knowledge and confidence to teach science: self-perceptions of primary teacher education students

There has been renewed debate in recent years about the relatively poor science discipline background knowledge of primary and preschool teachers, and their lack of confidence to teach science stemming from this. A reaction from teacher educators, such as recommended by theDiscipline Review of Teacher Education in Mathematics and Science Report, has been to provide more explicit science discipline units in pre-service teacher education courses. However, a few studies have cast some doubt on the notion that more science discipline studies (Skamp, 1989; Stepans & McCormack, 1985). This paper reports on pre-service students' perceptions of their cofidence to teach science before and after a science education unit adapted from the PECSTEP work (Kirkwood, Bearlin & Hardy, 1989), which included only a small amount of physical science, and took an explicit gender approach emphasising the students as learners. Specializations: primary teacher education, teaching strategies in science.     

中职语文教学中的审美教育分析

改革开放以来,我国的经济建设取得了重大发展成果。产业结构更加的科学、合理,高新技术产业逐渐成为经济发展的领跑者。中职作为培养技术型人才的重要场所,在当前经济发展背景下,已经逐渐走出了教育的低谷,焕发出第二次青春。但是,我们也不难发现,教师在教育过程中,对学生的专业基础以及实践能力培养格外关注,但是,在学生的审美教育中,却是有所忽视。这对于学生综合素质的提升造成了一定的阻碍。本文重点探索中职语文教学中的审美教育。     

中等职业教育英语教学探讨

英语是一门国际性语言,随着世界经济全球化的进程,英语作为一种交流工具也越来越受到人们的关注。在当前中等职业教育中,英语教学越来越表现出其突出的作用。而中等职业学校的英语教学势必要与现代社会所需求的复合型人才相接轨,这应当是职业英语教学迫在眉睫的改革趋势和发展方向,本文就当今社会环境下中等职业教育的英语教学,为中等职业教育英语教学提供一定的理论依据。     

中专语文教学中的人文教育

人文教育是中专语文教学的一个重要内容。由于中专学生的特殊性,决定了他们是非常需要人文教育的。本文主要从三个方面对中专语文教学中的人文教育进行分析。     

浅谈中专物理素质教育

论述在中专物理教学中如何加强素质教育。     

研究生创新教育中的协同教学

结合国内外高校研究生教育的现状,针对普通高校研究生教学中存在的问题,提出了多角度、多种方法协同培养的教学设想,以最大限度地挖掘学生的潜力,培养研究生的创新意识和创新技能,该教学模式对培养研究生的自主学习意识和探索能力将起到很好的引导作用。     

论课堂教学中的分层递进策略

课堂教学是学生能力形成的基础,课堂教学改革是职业学校教学改革的关键环节,如何搞好课堂教学改革,不少教师进行了许多有益的尝试,对此我们结合教学经验谈一谈课堂教学中的分层递进策略。     

Thinking styles: teaching and learning styles in graduate education students

This study investigated the relationship between two intellectual styles approaches: Sternberg’s thinking styles of teachers and Felder and Silverman’s learning styles. Ninety‐five graduate students majoring in special education, reading, educational leadership and curriculum, and elementary education completed the Thinking Styles in Teaching Inventory (TSTI) and the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (ILS). Several thinking styles from Sternberg’s theory of self‐government were highly to moderately correlated with Felder’s learning styles. The TSTI did not differentiate between master’s and doctoral students, but the ILS did so. Participants differed in their thinking styles in teaching and in their learning styles, based on their educational major.     

Determinants of students’ school-identification in secondary vocational education

This article reports on a study regarding the school-identification of 1819 first-year students in secondary vocational education. We measured the school-identification of these adolescents and used the perspective of self-regulation to define three blocks of potential determinants, including the students’ personal goals (1) their appraisals of the school and classroom (2), and their peer- and home-identities (3). One other block included students’ personal characteristics, such as general ability (i.e., course-level) and gender (4). In a two-wave regression procedure we investigated the contributions of the four blocks of potential determinants in explaining students’ school-identification. The first wave showed three key-determinants, including students’ appraisals of teacher-expectation and course-utility and the extent to which they felt alienated from their school. Of secondary importance were students’ relational identities, with peer-identity being more important than home-identity. Personal goals were the least important determinants. The second wave showed how the key-determinants were explained by the students’ appraisals of mutual-support, and involvement, fairness, humour, learning-support, reward and personal respect of their teachers. Elaborate interpretations of the results are provided in the discussion.     

试论中职会计教学中的创新教育

随着改革开放政策的大力推进,经济和社会多元化的发展使得国家对专业型和应用型人才的需求大大增加。会计,作为一门专业性极强的学科,会计人员专业素养和专业实力的提高依赖于国家教育部门的教学实力。这就要求国家教育部门拥有特色的办学方式和强有力的师资团队,采用创新的教学方式,注重会计人才实践能力的培养。只有这样才能将培养专业型和应用型人才的目标落实在实处,使会计人才的培养和社会需要相结合。本文将对中职会计教育的发展现状作出分析。     

分层教学法在中职体育教学中的运用探究

随着社会经济和科技文化事业的发展,我国越来越重视对青少年德智体的全面发展,在中职院校中开展体育选修课这一基本形式也得以巩固和深入。学生可以追求个性化的发展,根据学生的不同需求采取不同的教学模式势在必行。传统的教学模式已无法满足现今的教学需求,因此,本文从分层教学方法的理论出发,探索在中职体育教学中开展分层教学的可行性,分析其实施的意义,以及提出如何进行分层教学的实践方法,从其与传统的体育教学方法的区别总结出分层教学的优越性,探索其在体育教学中的实际运用。