On the road to reform: a sociocultural interpretation of reform

In this paper I discuss how reform in science education is interpreted by Barma as she recounts the story of Catherine, a grade 9 biology teacher, who reforms her teaching practices in response to a national curriculum reform in Quebec, Canada. Unlike some cases in response to reform, this case is hopeful and positive. Also in this paper, I address some familiar areas that must be considered when teachers undertake curriculum reform and how science educators may fulfill the role of facilitator and advocate in the support of teachers on the road to reform. The commentary focuses on how Barma retells the story through the lens of activity theory.     

The new educational policy for the reform of the curriculum and the change of school knowledge in the case of Greek compulsory education

This article looks critically at Greek educational reform to the curriculum of compulsory education—reform that took place so that Greece could put into practice the decisions of the European Union of Lisbon (2000) for the contribution of education to the adaptation of the new data of the ‘knowledge society’. Bernstein's theory about pedagogic discourse is utilized. Also, with the use of qualitative content analysis in specific resources (parliamentary debates, new curriculum and textbooks) we tried to answer the following questions: Which are the dominant social principles that led the Greek state to change the curriculum? Through which process and with the contribution of which factors did the reform of the curriculum come about? And which are the characteristics of the new school knowledge and of the pedagogic practices that are selected for their reproduction at the level of the classroom?     

美国第三次课程改革对我国的启示

美国第三次课程改革的特点:1.加强学生的品格教育;2.联邦政府引导,非政府组织和广大民众积极参与;3.课程的统一性与多元化协调发展。这些特点对我国中小学课程改革的启示作用有:1.我国中小学课程改革仍然需要加强道德教育;2.课程改革应该是自下而上的过程;3.继续推进课程的统一性和多样化发展方式;4.我国中小学课程改革要不断进行课程理论研究。     

也谈新课程改革之代价——与孙天华、张济洲同志商榷

如何看待知识在新课程中的地位成为当前学界讨论的热点问题,面对诸多对新课程改革有“轻视知识”倾向的讨论,有学者试图用代价论的观点来遮蔽这场讨论的实质。然而,新课程改革中出现的问题与困难能等同于改革的必然代价吗?且须以“轻视知识”为代价吗?居于我国国情能承受这种代价之痛吗?应如何正确看待知识与能力的关系?新课程改革能大破大立吗?在这些问题的启发下,新课程改革要分清课程改革中面临的问题与所谓的改革代价,认真权衡改革所可能产生的利弊,理性对待改革过程中所出现的问题与困难,认清改革中存在的矛盾与误区,摒弃将知识与能力二者机械分割的观点,树立正确的课程改革发展观,以继续推进新课程改革的健康发展。     

课程评价中存在的问题及其改进策略

课程评价在课程改革中起着导向与质量监控的重要作用,是推动课程改革的杠杆。是课程改革成败的关键环节。如果没有很好地发挥课程评价的应有作用,课程评价就会扼住课程改革的咽喉．给新课改带来一定的阻力。课改以来,课程评价取得了一些喜人的成绩,但确实也存在一些理论和实践上的问题．如在理论研究域存在泛化现象、理论研究的天平失衡;实践中对课程评价的理解偏离其本意、课程评价存在两难处境等。在对问题简要剖析的基础上,我们认为可以从研究域和理念认同上进行相应的探讨．以期在理论和实践中对课程评价的发展发挥一定的助推作用。     

课程评价改革的当代知识论基础

课程评价改革是课程改革系统中的关键环节。当代知识论是课程评价改革的重要理论基础之一。基于知识的多维价值性、个体境域性、动态建构性,课程评价改革需致力于:建立完整的评价指标体系,以利于学生整体素质的提升;倡导质性评价与量化评价相结合的方法,以尊重学生的个体差异;关注学生的求知过程,以激励学生探究知识的自主性和创造性。     

研究生思想政治理论课新课程改革的实践与思考

新课程改革不仅是课程体系的改革,更重要的是教育理念和教学方法的改革,在教学中注重导向性与前沿性和焦点性的统一、层次性与专题性和研究性的统一、实效性与理论性和情感性的统一,是确保研究生思想政治理论课新课程改革达成预期目标的关键。     

Instructional Supervision and Curriculum Monitoring: Reinterpreting the Principal’s Role through the Arts of Inquiry

The gulf between educational leadership theory and contemporary curriculum scholarship is becoming increasingly problematic now that principals have been legally mandated to add curriculum monitoring to their duties as instructional leaders. Lacking familiarity with curriculum theory and practice, many overburdened administrators are turning to Management by Walking Around (MBWA) as a way of dealing with their ever burgeoning list of responsibilities. This article briefly reviews a particular MBWA model, the Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through (Downey et al. 2004) and then interprets it through the lens of Henderson and Kesson’s (2004) arts of inquiry, a heuristic developed for helping curriculum workers think through the current multitude of reform proposals. This provides one example of the way that dialogue between the fields of curriculum studies and educational leadership may augment possibilities for lasting and positive reform of instructional supervision.     

Misrecognition and science education reform

In this forum, I expand upon Teo and Osborne??s discussion of teacher agency and curriculum reform. I take up and build upon their analysis to further examine one teacher??s frustration in enacting an inquiry-based curriculum and his resulting accommodation of an AP curriculum. In this way I introduce the concept of misrecognition (Bourdieu and Passeron 1977) to open up new ways of thinking about science inquiry and school reform.     

综合实践活动课程实施给中学图书馆的发展带来的机遇和挑战

综合实践活动课程是新课改的一个亮点。本文从理论上论证了课程实施给中学图书馆带来的机遇和挑战,然后通过调查得出的数据揭示中学图书馆的利用现状,对图书馆的发展提出改进意见和建议。     

实践哲学视野中的课程改革理论

实践哲学的课程改革理论兴起于20世纪70年代，反映了西方课程现代化改革中的社会矛盾和道德危机，在理论资源上受到了亚里士多德的实践哲学、彼得斯的知识伦理学和罗尔斯的社会正义论的影响。实践哲学的课程改革理论主张把课程改革作为伦理政治实践；课程改革是在实践理性指导下的集体的审议活动；课程改革的方式是一种审议的活动；课程改革需要就课程改革的目的作出集体审议。     

课程改革：从“学术理念”到“治国策略”

教育领域的学术研究与课程改革的关系包括三个方面,即学术研究关注课程改革,为课程改革提供背景素材;理论工作者积极投身课程改革并参与支持课程改革;对课程改革进行深度反思。统观这一过程,可见理论研究成果经历了一个从＂学术理念＂到＂治国策略＂的过程。在这一过程中理论研究从高层理论设计、标准教材编写、课堂教学专业支持、理论基础研究、评价标准制定、问题研究与反思等方面对课程改革进行了支持,使课程改革顺利进行并取得较好的成效,也为课程改革培养了理论工作者与研究型的实践工作者。     

基础教育课程“渐进”改革的理论构建与实践探索

我国基础教育新课程改革理念与实践中存在着"突变论"倾向,即认为当前中国基础教育课程是落后的、传统的、急需改变的,基础教育课程改革的历史使命就是要通过"突变"方式促进"传统教育"向"现代教育"转型,或是转向"后现代教育"。然而,中国基础教育课程改革应是深化、调整和完善现代教育体系,而非通过"突变"另创一套新体系,"渐进论"应是改革的方法论选择。     

高职院校理论课程设置问题探讨

高等职业技术院校理论课程改革要借鉴国外职业教育课程发展状况以及我国经济发达地区职业教育课程改革的经验，以构建一个课程体系更加科学、课程结构更加合理、课程内容更加先进、课程评价标准和制度基本完善的高等职业院校理论课体系。     

新课程改革背景下的中小学泥塑课教学

随着泥塑课作为课改内容走进中小学课堂,这种最能体现课改理念,创作最自由,学生最喜欢,最能充分发挥学生想象力、创造力和立体造型能力的课程,受到所有中小学生们的欢迎。     

“重建知识概念”辨

在我国基础教育课程改革中,提出“知识概念重建”是站不住脚的,必须坚持能动反映论的正确知识概念;建构主义不能作为正确知识概念的理论基础;用“重建”的“新”知识概念指导课程改革必将产生灾难性后果;在“革命”中进行的“概念重建”违反科学认识的规律;“知识概念重建”不是“理论创新”。     

我们需要怎样的课程改革——兼评《“新课程理念”“概念重建运动”与学习凯洛夫教育学》

新课程改革以来的学术之争以"钟王之争"为代表,钟王的学术之争经历了关于知识观、课程改革方向和课程理论基础的三次交锋,究竟应该如何看待新课程改革理念和凯洛夫教育学思想?通过对两者的境遇、实践品格、理论品格和意义的分析,我们认为我国的课程改革需要建立自身的课程理论,应立足本国的社会现实,发挥课程共同体的效力。     

简论基于过程哲学的课程思维方式转变

探讨课程改革的哲学基础是丰富当前课程理论、推动课程改革实践向纵深发展的紧迫议题。过程哲学的两个核心命题,为我国课程改革提供新的思维与视角。“过程”视野中的课程改革应该突出课程的过程思维和关系思维,克服教学评价中“具体性误置的谬误”,建构综合的评价机制,学校进行自我评价和教师自行设定课程。     

Rethinking critical mathematics: a comparative analysis of critical, reform, and traditional geometry instructional texts

This paper presents findings from a comparative analysis of three similar secondary geometry texts, one critical unit, one standards-based reform unit, and one specialist chapter. I developed the critical unit as I took the tenets of critical mathematics (CM) and substantiated them in printed curricular materials in which to teach as part of a larger study. The reform and specialist texts were both sections from commercially available textbooks. The primary goal of the textual analysis was to examine how the incorporation of critical or political themes into the required secondary mathematics curriculum transformed this curriculum. Key findings were that the CM text exchanged political for mathematical content and sent class-based messages about students’ academic potential. I conclude by arguing that the CM agenda proposed by advocates in the USA is problematic in terms of promoting equity in mathematics education.     

教师教学行为的现状分析与变革路径——以研究性学习指导教师为例

教师的教学行为对课程实施效果和课堂教学质量起着至为关键的作用。调查表明,研究性学习指导教师的教学行为呈现出多元和复杂的特征。多数教师认同新课程倡导的教学方式和学习方式,但在实践中要践行这种理念会遭遇很多困境,教师教学行为与课程改革的要求有一定的差距。变革教师教学行为的有效路径和策略包括引导教师从学生发展的角度认识教育的价值,提升教师变革动力;建构具有共同的价值观和教育理想的学校文化;重建合作开放的教师专业文化;构建基于人格和谐发展的课程评价体系;建立动态互惠的院校合作伙伴关系;以教师专业发展理论为指导改进教师培训模式,提升教师的课程实施能力等。