文化政治:批判教育理论视域中的教师教育

批判教育理论将教师教育界定为文化政治。认为教师教育机构是一种公共领域。教师教育的目的在于培养转化性知识分子。教师教育课程是一种文化政治的形式,教师教育课程研究应特别注意揭示课程知识与权力的关系,关注权力、语言、文化、历史等内容。批判教育理论关注教师教育的文化政治属性,能为我国当代教师教育价值取向的转换提供有益的理论参考。     

教育生态理论视角下高职院校创新创业教育体系研究

以高职院校为探索体系建设的切入点,对全国第二批高职院校创新创业学院调查的分析显示,当前我国高职院校虽然已经建立相对稳定的创新创业教育体系,但仍然存在教育观念不成熟、管理机制不健全、教育结构不完善、教育投入不足等一系列问题,建议通过修正创业教育价值取向、突出创新创业学院教学地位、强化师资队伍建设、协调创新创业教育资源等途径,构建更具生命力的高职院校创新创业教育生态体系,以促进创业教育的可持续性发展。     

再论教育学的困境与出路:知识学的视角

在知识学视域中,教育学所承受的种种诘难均来自教育学知识的困境。教育学知识具有多样性、复杂性与中介性等特质,其内在地要求以"整体知识论"作为知识确立标准,并诉诸方法论的多元,最终实现多重的价值目标。在这个知识主导的新时代,教育学对外应确立起自我的公众角色,成为大众的普遍之学;对内则应充分展开自我反思,再造真正属于教育学的个性化文化制品,走向教育学形态研究。     

多层面语言政策视角下美国高等院校继承语教育的发展

文章从语言政策的角度出发,分析了来自于不同层面、不同语言政策行为主体的语言政策活动对高校继承语教育产生的影响,以此说明美国高校的继承语教育政策是多方语言政策行为主体互相影响、互相协调、互相妥协的结果,微妙地促成了一个能够暂时平衡各方利益和需求的现状。但是,目前美国高校的继承语教育政策实际上是在努力规避触及“种族”这一核心问题,尽量维护表面和谐。严格来讲,美国高校的继承语教育并不能从真正意义上保护和促进少数族裔的语言权利,它更多的是一个单纯的外语教育促进政策。     

高校思想政治教育理论与实践拓展--基于社会化理论视角的分析

当前国际国内意识形态较量深刻而复杂,加之我国社会转型及市场化、网络化、商品化潮流推动,大学生群体的思想意识与行为观念正发生着显著变化。高校思想政治教育必须要直面现实环境影响的挑战,寻求理论与实践上的双重拓展,开创出适应时代变化的思想政治教育新格局。高校思想政治教育新格局的开创,一是要拓展理论基础,将理论视野移向以综合性、现实性和总体性为特征的更为广阔的社会学学科视野中;二是要拓展实践形式,将学生的培养训练定位于以专业性、方法性和可操作性见长的社会工作实务体系之中。     

From numerical to comprehensive inclusion: utilizing experiences in the USA and South Africa to conceptualize a multicultural environment

This paper offers a critique of approaches to racial inclusion in the USA, and recommends that institutions of higher education adopt a more comprehensive approach. In particular, it argues that most approaches to racial inclusion in the USA focus on increasing the numbers of racially diverse students, or numerical inclusion. Despite the relative success of this approach, inequalities experienced by African American and other minority-group students attending predominantly white universities suggest that a more comprehensive approach to inclusion should be pursued. A comprehensive approach to inclusion would involve an examination of institutional characteristics to determine how policies, practices and programmes challenge African American and other minority-group students' success. For example, such an approach would involve a reconceptualization of the measures used to determine access, the nature and structure of curricula and teaching pedagogy.     

Lessons learned: towards a framework for integration of theory and practice in academic development

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I describe an approach to the integration of theory and practice at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational levels. The results of the research projects in which I have been involved over the last ten years are used to illustrate how these three levels have facilitated the identification of three tensions. These tensions together create a framework that can help academic developers better understand how to approach the challenges of advocating for the integration of higher education theory with academic practice in their own institutional environments, and how this integration is linked to existing higher education literature.     

论高校思想政治理论课教师理想信念的强化途径——基于马克思主义理想信念视角

在多元思想冲击下,马克思主义理想信念弱化的现实要求高校思想政治理论课教师担负起坚定和强化当代大学生理想信念的时代使命。基于此,厘清高校思想政治理论课教师理想信念的内涵,客观分析当前教师理想信念弱化的现实表现及成因,从加强理论学习、丰富理想信念内涵和提升理想信念层次等多重路径坚定和强化高校思想政治理论课教师的理想信念,将对人们坚定和强化马克思主义理想信念起着重要的指引意义。     

Becoming a teacher: the thoughts of undergraduates training to work in Primary Education and ideas for their university education

ABSTRACT

What makes a good teacher and what motivates a person to want to teach are timeless questions that concern us all. This study focuses on those who are currently training to become teachers, more specifically undergraduates studying a degree in Primary Education in the universities of Catalonia. It adopts a quantitative methodology based on a self-administered questionnaire conducted with a representative sample. Participants’ open-ended responses are recorded and codified. Three main categories are constructed: personal, authentic teacher; the teacher as story teller; and, the teacher as motivator of learning. Results highlight important differences between these categories, extolling above all the authentic, personal teacher, who leaves a mark thanks to their character and way of being. This, together with other findings, raises various considerations for the university training of future teachers.     

Education for citizenship in South Australian public schools: a pilot study of senior leader and teacher perceptions

Preparing students for informed and active citizenship is a core goal of education and schooling in Australia. The ways schools educate and prepare young Australians for citizenship involves a range of processes and initiatives central to the work of schools, including school ethos, mission, extracurricular activities and community-based participation. With regard to the formal curriculum, the recent introduction and implementation of the first ever Federal Australian Curriculum includes provision for a new subject – Civics and Citizenship. Research evidence from other nations suggests that schools understand, approach and enact education for citizenship in a multitude of ways, yet how Australian schools construct this aspect of their work is currently under-researched. In this context, and drawing on data from interviews with school leaders and teachers of Years 6–8 (11–14 year olds) students in a small sample of South Australian primary and secondary schools, we explore perceptions and current approaches to education for citizenship. Our findings suggest (1) that while school leaders and teachers value education for citizenship, they do so for different reasons; (2) that schools place values as central to education for citizenship; and (3) that community involvement is typically understood as occurring within rather than beyond the school.     

Education without a shared language: dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in Norwegian introductory classes for newly arrived minority language students

Based upon fieldwork in two upper secondary schools in Norway, this article offers an analysis of inclusion and exclusion processes for newly arrived minority language students. Minority language students are defined by policy as students who have a different mother tongue than the Norwegian and Sami languages, and students who are newly arrived in Norway are considered especially at risk for marginalisation. This article explores processes of inclusion and exclusion in two schools with segregated classes for this group, called introductory classes. The analytical framework is Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems, where inclusion is defined as the requirements for participation set by a system, and exclusion accordingly as being unable to meet these requirements. The article displays different constellations of inclusions and exclusions for newly arrived students in the educational system: in school organisations, organisation-based interactions and informal networks of students. It will be showed that introductory classes erect several barriers towards newly arrived students’ inclusion, especially towards those students who are placed at the basic level of the schools’ hierarchy of performances. As a consequence of multiple educational exclusions, informal networks emerge as alternative socialities that include and exclude students on the basis of mother tongue.     

The effects of discourses in regional contexts on the development of curriculum-based literacy standards for adolescents in schooling: a comparative study of South Australia and Ontario

This study analyses how discourses in regional contexts affect the development of curriculum-based literacy standards for adolescents in schooling. A comparative case-study research design enabled the influences of discourses at the regional level to be analysed. The case studies include the development of curricula to define a minimum literacy standard for the final years of schooling for adolescents in Ontario, Canada, and South Australia, Australia. Critical discourse analysis of key texts associated with the development of literacy standards in each region reveals how globally shared meanings about standard setting for schooling interact with other discourses operating in local contexts to produce curricula that define literacy standards. The results indicate that, while a global discourse about standards-based reforms may be foregrounded in curriculum, locally generated discourses can challenge key ideas associated with a simplistic discourse about standards. Discourses about literacy in Ontario and South Australia contest the assertion that literacy at the end point of schooling can be defined as a basic competency and local meanings associated with literacy are emphasised within the curriculum for each location. Language choices, involving particularly lexical cohesion, complex noun groups and nominalisation, are used to ensure that local meanings inform literacy standards for the endpoint of schooling.