Understanding Art: Preparing Generalist School Teachers to Teach Art with Artworks

This article focuses on ways of building preservice primary teachers' confidence in teaching art with artworks and, in particular, on how to develop their pedagogical content knowing. It is suggested that through opportunities offered for engaging in observational and reflective practices with artworks an initial groundwork is set that can challenge pre‐service teachers' preconceptions about art and promote an aesthetic form of inquiry. A qualitative approach was followed which included in‐depth interviews with twenty pre‐service teachers regarding their attitudes and knowledge towards artworks. The findings indicate that enhancing teachers' abilities to practice factual inquiries and then move on to interpretive inquiries of artworks can help them learn how to learn about artworks and how to organise meaningful art viewing activities with children. Issues relating to the participants' level of aesthetic understanding are also discussed as participants were asked to engage with artworks and their aesthetic encounters were documented.     

Preparing Elementary Pre-Service Teachers from a Non-Traditional Student Population to Teach with Technology

This article documents the development of a two-stage curriculum intended to improve elementary teacher candidates’ understanding of technology integration. Most students in the program came from low-income districts and lacked technology experience. The first stage of the curriculum consisted of a prerequisite basic technology skills course offered by the Computer Science Department. This was then followed by an online educational technology course offered by the College of Education. The objectives of the authors in this article are twofold. The first is to describe the rationale, procedures, and design of a two-stage curriculum, as a pedagogical model for teaching elementary teacher candidates to teach with technology, with the goal of preparing a new generation of teachers who are capable and comfortable applying a broad range of advanced technologies to meet the learning needs of their students. The second objective is to share the authors' findings from the evaluation, which employed mixed methodologies, after the students completed the online educational technology course. The results showed that an online educational technology course contributed to the candidates’ development of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and improved their attitudes and beliefs on their technology integration practices.     

Preparing Australian Teachers to Teach Asian Studies: The importance of in-country experience

In 1997 and 1998 students entering primary and early childhood courses at a rural Australian university were surveyed about their attitudes towards the teaching of Asian Studies. This paper presents the results of this survey. It further considers the extent to which the students' prior study of Asian language, Asian Studies or their personal experience of travel in Asia influenced their views of the importance of teaching Asian Studies and their feelings of competence in teaching Asian Studies. Implications for teacher education institutions and education systems are explored.     

White Women Preparing to Teach in Urban Schools: Looking for Similarity and Finding Difference

Research points to particular problems in the experiences of White teachers teaching students of color (Cochran-Smith et al., 2004). Despite good intentions, teaching students of diverse backgrounds and experiences can be challenging for teachers who are unfamiliar with their students’ backgrounds and communities. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of notions about “good urban teaching” for three women in a preservice teacher preparation program. Reporting on two years of data, we show how the three women negotiated their beliefs and identities in light of program demands and classroom realities. The lack of synchronicity within the women’s experiences highlights that the traditional (white, female, middle class) students in preservice teacher education programs are not homogeneous. The significance of this difference is highlighted through the concept of heterogeneity. We define heterogeneity as the differences that exist among traditional students in preservice teacher preparation programs. Our research suggests that heterogeneity is complicit in the progress or lack of progress of preservice teachers developing professional identities. This paper was originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association April 7–11, 2006 San Francisco, CA An erratum to this article can be found at     

Adivinanzas and Dichos: Preparing Prospective Educators to Teach Science by Incorporating Culturally Responsive Tools

Culturally relevant science pedagogy is seldom discussed in terms of infusion of literary resources, such as adivinanzas and dichos in the design of instruction. In this study, the authors narrate how a science methods course was infused with the use of culturally responsive tools to purposefully connect to the elementary science curriculum. Results indicate that prospective Latino teachers found multiple opportunities to address specific science objectives with adivinanzas and expressed the advantages of using these culturally responsive tools to introduce and summarize science concepts as they implemented lessons during field experience.     

论以社会主义荣辱观为核心的学校廉洁教育

学校廉洁文化教育是全社会反腐倡廉的重要组成部分。学校开展廉洁教育,不仅可以直接影响学生的心灵、学生的性格和品质,更有助于学生在成长过程中树立正确的世界观、人生观和价值观。学校廉洁教育主要是廉洁文化的教育,因此必须遵循学校教育的规律性,根据青少年学生人生发展的不同阶段的不同特点来实施廉洁教育。学校廉洁教育的目的是教育青少年学生树立起正确的荣辱观、金钱观、审美观,其中最主要的观念是人的荣辱观,所以荣辱观的教育是学校廉洁教育的核心内容。     

Preparing Mathematics Teachers to Teach English Language Learners: What We Know and What We Can Do

Abstract

A recent issue of The Educational Forum contained eight articles theming the preparation of teachers for linguistically-diverse classrooms. This article extends that discussion, and in it this scholar introduces practicalities for mathematics teachers in linguistically-diverse classrooms, and provides suggestions for teacher educators whose target audience is prospective mathematics teachers. The author’s intention is to contribute to the discussion of supporting ELLs in mathematics classrooms, and to advance the praxis for teachers and teacher educators.     

运用实验引探式教学进行化学创新教育的尝试

本文谈了作者尝试运用实验引探式教学进行化学创新教育的一点体会。     

Learning to Teach Mathematics: Questioning, Listening, and Responding

This paper reports a study designed to explore prospective teachers' learning to teach mathematics in the complex context of a university-based curriculum and instruction course. The course, taught with a focus on inquiry, used prospective teachers' weekly interactions with students as springboards for investigations of mathematics, teaching, and learning. A framework of questioning, listening, and responding is used to analyze prospective teachers' understandings and the tensions they experienced. The difficulties and tensions prospective teachers face in turn pose challenges and tensions for teacher educators. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

事物、世界与逻辑——从亚里士多德到布伦塔诺和胡塞尔的是论

自维也纳学派以来,逻辑就被当作思想推理的工具,它甚至反过来被当作消除形而上学的工具。然而在亚里士多德创立逻辑之初,逻辑与形而上学是不可分割的。从亚里士多德以来的形而上学史中一直都存在着世界与逻辑的关系问题。19世纪随着数理逻辑的发展以及它对黑格尔哲学的反省,新亚里士多德主义者恢复了亚里士多德式的形而上学和逻辑学研究;而作为布伦塔诺学派的后继者,胡塞尔通过建立现象学来回应世界与逻辑的关系问题,并处理了是论和逻辑学的关系。由此,重构这段思想史并刻画和分析是者与逻辑的关系问题,就对反思当代哲学中的反形而上学思想与逻辑工具主义具有重要意义。     

Considerations for Faculty Preparing to Develop and Teach Online Criminal Justice Courses at Traditional Institutions of Higher Learning

Criminal justice programs at traditional institutions of higher learning have been moving toward offering courses online and, in some cases, placing entire programs online for the better part of the past decade. In competition with for‐profit institutions, many traditional colleges and universities have expanded their distance education programming to include online courses and programs to attract students. As a result, the number of criminal justice students has increased, as have the profits for home institutions. With this growth in the online education market, the criminal justice faculty member has been thrust, willingly or unwillingly, into the world of online teaching—a method of instruction foreign to many instructors. From the authors’ experience at their current (and in the case of the lead author a second) institution, this paper addresses many issues that must be considered by faculty members before embarking on this type of time‐intensive initiative.     

高校生命教育:是“唤起”而不是“教化”

高校生命教育的产生和发展是适应时代发展的现实需要,但目前存在着认识和实践误区,呈现出单一化、事后化和工具化倾向。加强生命教育要"唤起"全社会对生命教育的高度重视和建设热情,要"唤起"高校对生命教育实施路径的科学探索,要"唤起"大学生对生命教育的学习热情和行动自觉。     

Reach to Teach ICT: Issues and Compromises

This paper outlines some implications for pupils’ learning and for teachers of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary or elementary education of using complete ‘reach and teach’ resource and lesson plan solutions to support a national scheme of work. The example resources referenced in the paper are ‘The LCP ICT Resource Files for Schools’, designed to enable teachers to deliver the ICT National Curriculum requirements for England and are structured to closely follow the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) scheme of work. The authors of the LCP ICT Resource Files became aware that there was a widespread takeup of their materials and that, therefore, the resources had potentially a substantial impact upon practice in many schools.Models of curriculum provision are presented and characteristics of good practice are adduced which the author recommends to those who write, review or evaluate complete teaching solutions for ICT.     

论目的论思想的发展、批判与超越——从亚里士多德、黑格尔到马克思

亚里士多德通过"四因"说确立起的目的论思想为哲学思想发展做出巨大贡献。黑格尔通过否定的辩证法为目的论思想提供了严密的逻辑论证,但由于绝对精神最终目的的虚无性,最终使其哲学囿于形而上学之中。马克思从主体和目的两方面对目的论思想进行了批判和改造,认为目的理性是现实的人所特有的自觉能动性,最终通过现实的人的实践劳动成功改造和超越了从亚里士多德到黑格尔的传统目的论思想的桎梏,启蒙了现代哲学发展。     

课堂教学:学有规律,教有优法——对"教有法而无定法"认识的反思和重构

“教有法而无定法”是教师的“日常教学生活概念”,缺少反思和确证,长期起主导作用的哲学教学论的引导以及以教为要点的教师课堂教学实践是其认识来源,结果导致教学方法选择的随意和教学效率和质量的低下。教学方法的选择受制于教学价值观、学习内容和学习材料的结构体系,应该建立在把握学习方法、学习内容分类和学生学习的规律基础之上。反思“教有法而无定法”,构建“学有规律,教有优法”的教学方法观是重建课堂教学的必然要求。