清末访日官绅眼中的日本教育

甲午战争之后,清政府为救亡图存,维系统治,以日为师,派出大批官绅考察教育.在他们的考察日记中,对当时日本教育的宗旨、特点、学制、普通教育和专门教育都进行了详细介绍.这些记录对中国近代学制的制定,转变学风,创办新式学堂,发展新式教育,聘请外国教习等都产生了积极的推动作用,对中国教育的转型和近代化影响深远.     

清末日本教习与中国近代教育学术的发端

清末,新式学堂如雨后春笋般涌现,师资大量匮乏。为填补新式学堂尤其是师范学堂的师资空白,清政府聘请大批日本教习来华。他们来华后,不仅承担新式学堂大部分课程教学,还积极参与到新式学堂的建设中,推动中国近代教育学术萌芽和发展。本文通过分析日本教习的来华背景以及在华教育学术活动,从而阐明日本教习在中国近代教育学术发端中的地位及影响。     

对幼教师资科学管理的再认识

提高幼教师资力量是当前推动我国幼儿园教育的重要举措.本文分析了我国幼教师资管理中存在的问题,并且针对性地提出了改善幼教师资科学管理的办法.     

浅析清末日本教习在中国的兴衰

鸦片战争打破了天朝上国的美梦,有识之士开始睁眼看世界,向西方学习,开展洋务运动,兴办了一些新式学堂,从外国聘请教习来传授西方先进文化技术。甲午惨败,引发中国教育改革运动,创办新式学堂,大量向日本聘请教习,这些日本教习为清末教育改革作了突出贡献。后由于中国民族意识的觉醒,大量留学生归国,美国等西方列强对日本教习的排挤及其日本教习的自身的问题,日本教习在中国逐渐走向了衰落。     

我国台湾地区幼教师资特点之分析与思考

文章从幼教师资培养、幼儿教师资格鉴定与招考、在职幼儿教师结构与进修等方面介绍和分析了台湾地区幼教师资的特点,据此对我国内地幼教师资培养与培训工作提出若干建议.     

日本教习与清末师范教育的创始

清末新政时期,大批日本教习执教于中国新创办的师范学堂中,推进了中国师范教育事业的发展,为中日近代教育的交流作出了一定的贡献。本文通过分析这一时期的师范学校大量聘请日本教习的原因、分布状况,考察其教学活动及所授课程等,从而阐明日本教习在清末师范教育中的地位及所产生的影响。     

清末安徽教育近代化与日本关系研究

清末戊戌变法与新政改革,均主张“效法日本”,安徽教育近代化在此背景之下开始逐步推进。一大批皖籍贤哲赴日考察教育及相关制度,仿照日本学制在省内兴办新式学堂;派遣皖籍学子赴日留学,聘请日本教习来皖任教,有效地促进了安徽教育近代化事业的发展。受日本影响,清末安徽教育的近代化过程中,大批具备先进思想的仁人志士走向革命化,为近代中国推翻帝制的革命运动推波助澜。     

幼教师资本科培养目标与模式改革探讨

随着我国将幼教师资培养逐步纳入到高校层面来开展,部分本科高校承担了幼教师资培养工作。相关高校在幼教师资的本科培养方面存在培养目标定位笼统而缺乏可操作性、学生对培养目标认知不足而难以收到良好成效的问题,故而离一线幼教机构的要求尚存在不小差距。由于幼教师资大规模本科培养历史不长、培养经验缺乏、课程设置比较繁杂,难以确保学生获得扎实的专业素养;评价标准比较单一,难以有效发挥幼教师资培养的导向功能,因此现行培养模式成效不足,应当改革:一是落实《幼儿教师专业标准》,明确培养目标中的关键问题;二是努力推行幼教师资培养课程体系改革;三是切实完善幼教师资培养计划,从而确保我国幼教师资培养的质量和水平。     

幼教工作者对特殊幼儿融合教育问题的态度和意见的调查研究

为了解普通幼儿园工作者对特殊幼儿融合教育问题的态度和意见,本文对174名教师和保育员进行问卷调查,主要发现:(1)幼教工作者对特殊幼儿有一定的了解,但不够深入;(2)幼教工作者以及普通幼儿家长在保障师资、设备以及教育方式的情况下,更乐意接受特殊幼儿进入普通幼儿园;(3)幼教工作者认为学前阶段实施特殊教育最需解决的问题依次为师资问题、设备问题、家长观念、教师观念、经费问题以及专设督导机构问题。     

幼教师资存在的问题及培养培训策略

采用问卷调查对幼教师资现状进行的调查表明,幼教师资的教育理念和师德、专业知识和能力都存在一定的问题,为此要重视职业道德教育和专业理念的提升,加强教师专业化学习、提高幼教师资专业能力,以提高幼教师资基本素质。     

我国幼儿教师专业化发展探论

文章通过对当前幼儿教师专业化发展的制度操作、实践操作、观念意识三个制约层面的分析,提出"健全幼儿教育政策法规;加大国家对幼儿教师教育的投入,提升幼儿教师生存质量;采用‘开放型’幼儿教师培养、培训模式;去除幼儿教师在思想观念上的模糊认识"四大应对策略。     

Sigrun Gudmundsdottir’s contributions as a signpost to narrative research: a review of www.svt.ntnu.no/ped/sigrun/

Although action-research is a well-known research methodology in the field of education, in the case of Greece there are few actions-researches carried out by early childhood teachers. The absence of action-research in early childhood education settings is related to the way many early childhood teachers shape their professional role as well as the curriculum of their initial education and in-service training. This paper describes the case study of three Greek early childhood teachers who do action-research for the first time. According to the three teachers, fear of educational research, the children’s age, time pressure, parents’ demands, and colleagues’ reactions are among the main obstacles in doing action-research in early childhood education.     

立法促进高素质幼儿教师队伍建设:台湾地区的经验及其启示

近年来,为更好促进学前教育事业发展,台湾地区先后制定并颁布了多部学前教育及其相关法律,以建设一支稳定和高质量的幼教师资队伍。通过对台湾地区学前教育及相关法律的分析,发现台湾地区立法保障高素质幼儿教师队伍建设的主要经验有:1.明确规定并不断提高幼儿教师的资质;2.明确规定幼儿教师的任用制度;3.十分重视幼儿教师的在职进修与研究;4.注重保障幼儿教师的合法权利和待遇。台湾地区经验对于促进我国大陆地区幼儿教师队伍建设立法,提高教师队伍质量,因而促进学前教育事业发展具有积极的借鉴意义与重要启示。     

Challenging and Appropriating Discourses of Power: Listening to and Learning from Early Career Early Childhood Teachers of Color

ABSTRACT

The racial mismatch between teachers and students has become a salient issue in efforts to counter the historical failure of children of Color in American (pre)schools. To address this mismatch, scholars have argued for the critical need to recruit and retain teachers of Color. In this article, we propose that to successfully prepare teachers of Color so that they remain committed to the profession, we must learn from their experiences during their preservice preparation and their first years of teaching. Against the backdrop of normative institutional discourses shaping teachers and teaching, we sought to learn from the ways in which six early career early childhood teachers of Color reconciled their preservice teacher education experiences, identities, and beliefs about education with the construction of their identities as teachers. To do so, we asked: How do the discursive spaces of early childhood teaching and teacher education shape the practices, beliefs, and identities of early childhood teachers of Color during their teacher education programs and within their three first years of teaching? Through Critical Narrative Analysis of in-depth interviews, we sought to unveil the discourses that shape and are shaped by the experiences of early career early childhood teachers of Color. Findings indicate that instead of being colonized by institutional discourses and oppressed by others' perceptions, to remain in the profession, these early career early childhood teachers challenged and appropriated institutional discourses, reauthoring them agentively. Implications underscore the responsibility of teacher education programs in preparing teachers of Color to negotiate the ever-so-normative discursive space of early childhood teaching and teacher education, if they are to enter and remain in the profession.     

教育机构在幼教人才培养方面的调查研究——以南阳市幼儿园为例

新时期的社会发展对教育提出了更高的要求,幼儿教育改革和新纲要实施的深入,都对幼儿教师的教育提出了新的挑战,而幼儿教师的职前培养对教师的专业化发展和教育水平的提高发挥着重要的影响作用。因此,通过对在职教师教育现状进行调查和分析,总结在职幼儿教师在职业态度、专业能力、专业观念、专业知识、专业技能和研究能力等方面的情况,可以明确不同类型幼儿教师培养机构在对幼儿园所需人才教师培养方面的优势和不足,为各层次幼儿教师的培养提供一定的参考依据,在制定新的培养方案时更加有的放矢,更加具有针对性和实效性。     

The meaning of play: A cross‐cultural study of American and Japanese teachers’ perspectives on play

Abstract

Early childhood teachers’ understandings of play were examined in a qualitative comparative study of 41 Japanese and 41 American participants. Qualitative analysis of the data yielded five themes: the power of living, the opportunity to learn and to develop, fun activities, child's work, and the opportunity to explore nature. Two themes emerged in regard to the meaning of play for adults: enjoyable and voluntary activities and child's play. Finally, we identified two themes regarding playfulness: state of heart and fun feelings. Teachers in both nations used rhetoric that is congruent with the current Zeitgeist of developmentally appropriate early education. One theme that differentiated the groups was the notion that play is children's work. While several Americans mentioned this slogan, this was not the case for the Japanese participants. In contrast, the theme of play as the power of living was more representative of Japanese teachers’ understandings of play, and this reflects the philosophy set forth by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.     

幼儿教师专业发展的途径与方法研究

对幼儿教师专业发展现状进行调查和分析,以期为幼儿教师教育发展提供最基本的理论依据,更好地促进幼儿教师的专业发展。在幼儿教师专业发展中存在很多问题：师资队伍建设没有规划,专业配置不合理;学历达标率较高但专业程度不够扎实;教育教学教研问题突出;家园合作还停留于表浅水平;园长管理水平不够成熟。笔者提出幼儿教师专业发展的对策：制定师资队伍建设规划,建立和完善幼儿教师任用制度;改革师范院校幼师教育,确保幼师生源质量;加强教师自主专业发展,提高教育教学教研能力;加大宣传力度,推进家园合作;发挥终身学习方式,翻新自身专业素养;提升幼儿园园长的管理理念,为教师创造支持性发展平台;加强与其它教师培训机构的联系,开展多渠道的培训。     

Seeking comfort: How and why preservice teachers use internet resources for lesson planning

This study examined 158 lesson plans at one institution across two teacher education programs, inclusive early childhood and elementary education, to determine the impact of Internet usage as inspiration on preservice teachers’ lesson plans. Fisher’s exact test determined statistically significant differences between the Internet use of preservice teachers in the two programs. The data revealed that the preservice teachers in the elementary education program used more Internet resources when planning lessons compared to the preservice teachers in the inclusive early childhood program. Follow-up interviews suggest that the preservice teachers in the inclusive early childhood program had more practicum field experiences, thus increasing their use of physical resources and reducing their use of Internet resources.     

Toward a Model for Early Childhood Environmental Education: Foregrounding,Developing, and Connecting Knowledge Through Play-Based Learning

Environmental education represents a growing area of interest in early childhood education, especially since the inclusion of environmental principles and practices in the Australian Early Years Learning Framework. Traditionally, these two fields of education have been characterized by diverse pedagogical emphases. This article considers how teachers in particular see different types of pedagogical play, such as open-ended play, modeled play, and purposefully framed play as providing opportunities for young children and teachers to develop knowledge through experiences about environmental education in early childhood settings. As a result of findings based on our qualitative research study involving early childhood teachers and children, an emerging model for thinking about environmental education in early childhood is proposed as a way of integrating these pedagogical emphases traditionally associated with environmental and early childhood education. Avenues for future research associated with this model are also identified.     

日本高校英语教师继续教育模式探析

日本高校英语教师继续教育的模式包括继续教育的法制化和制度化、教师资格认证制度、继续教育培训方式以及培训机构四个方面。我国应借鉴日本高校英语教师的继续教育模式,制定高校英语教师的任职条件,实行高校英语教师资格的有效期制,建立高校英语教师继续教育培训制度和鼓励机制,以推动和促进我国高校英语教师的专业发展。