高等院校双语教学的现状与对策

双语教学作为提高大学生综合能力,培养高素质人才的一种教学改革手段越来越受到各高等院校的重视,但是,在双语教学中还存在着很多问题,如对"双语教学"这一概念的认识、师资、学习者的程度参差不齐等,针对这些存在的问题,文章提出了解决问题的方法和建议。     

高校“浸润式”英汉双语教学模式探究

"浸润式"英汉双语教学是指在"以人为本"的教育思想指导下,教育者努力创设互动性、参与式的教学氛围,让学生"浸泡"在英汉双语环境里,潜移默化地提高学生英语应用能力的一种教学模式。通过双语教学资源的网络化、双语师资专业的复合化、双语教学方式的互动化以及双语课程建设的系列化等途径,使高校"浸润式"英汉双语教学模式能够得到顺利实施和构建。     

新疆双语教育语言政策研究

本文以新疆双语教育为研究对象,阐述了新疆双语教育的研究现状,并从语言政策角度对新疆双语教育政策进行了梳理。     

A critique of the role of culture in Maori education

Educational under-achievement by a section of the Maori population is a persistent problem for New Zealand. This article is a theoretical examination of the practice and consequences of a culture-based curriculum that is promoted as the solution. We develop the argument that not only is the ‘cultural solution’ at odds with the complex social reality in New Zealand, but it is itself a contributor to educational under-achievement.     

美国沉浸式教学及其对中国双语教学的启示

沉浸式是指用第二语言作为教学语言进行学科教学的一种双语教学模式。沉浸式教学始于加拿大,在美国取得了很大发展。近年来,中国各地纷纷掀起双语教学热潮。然而,我国的双语教学还刚起步,在师资、教材和教学方法等方面还存在不足。借鉴美国沉浸式教学方法,我国双语教学可以通过创设语言环境、制定教学常规、设计详尽的教学计划等措施,切实提高教学质量。     

The politics of education policy in England

In this appreciative discussion paper I provide an overview of the reforms made to education in England, and engage with the politics of education through examining the simultaneous and inter-related processes of politicisation, depoliticisation and repoliticisation of educational matters. I engage in a discussion of the papers in this special issue through this framework.     

论教育创新与教育改革

关于教育创新的研究是教育科学的一个重要研究领域。时代背景和教育自身规律决定了教育创新在教育改革和发展过程中有着重要的意义和价值。教育改革和教育创新这两个概念的逻辑关系是相互交叉、部分重叠的。在新形势下,我们应当以一种教育创新和教育改革良性互动的辩证思维来思考教育改革问题,推动教育改革在一些陷入僵局的问题上摆脱目前的困境。     

The accountability era in US teacher education: looking back,looking forward

Abstract

In keeping with the theme of the 40th anniversary issue of EJTE, this article looks back and forward at US teacher education accountability. It argues that “holding teacher education accountable” has been the major approach to reforming teacher education in the US for the last two decades, assuming that enhanced teacher education quality depends on vigilant public evaluation and monitoring of outcomes related to teacher education institutions, programs, and teacher candidates. This article looks back at the “era of accountability” by examining five policy, political, and professional developments that contributed to its emergence and strong hold on US teacher education. Looking forward to the future of teacher education accountability in the US, the article argues that we need a new approach – democratic accountability in teacher education – which is based on intelligent professional responsibility for students’ learning including democratic knowledge and skills, strong equity, and genuine collaboration with multiple stakeholders.     

加拿大沉浸式双语教育与美国淹没式双语教育

本文论述了加拿大沉浸式双语教育和美国淹没式双语教育的差异性,指出它们各自的特点和应用范围.沉浸式双语教育是一种强式和添加型双语教育,其目的是创造一种双元文化,而淹没式双语教育是一种弱式和缩减型双语教育,最终目的是为了实现单语制和单语社会.     

The perceptions of knowledge and learning of Amazonian indigenous teacher education students

This study focuses on the perceptions of knowledge and learning by indigenous students in an intercultural bilingual teacher education programme in Amazonian Ecuador. The study framed within postcolonial and critical theory attempts to create a space for the indigenous students to speak about their own views through the use of photography and researcher-respondent discussions. We found that the students conceptualised knowledge and learning primarily through their everyday domestic life rather than through their experiences of schooling which appears to play a secondary role.     

本科中外合作办学实施沉浸式双语教学的探讨

双语教学的成效是近年来高等教育关注的一大热点。在本科中外合作办学中,沉浸式双语教学作为培养复合型双语人才的教学模式得到了大力推广。本文介绍了目前本科中外合作办学中实施沉浸式双语教学的现状,探讨了现阶段沉浸式双语教学模式所取得的成效和面临的问题,并就此提出了相应的建议。     

Publishing for pre-tertiary education in Ghana: the 2002 textbook policy in retrospect

This paper assesses the performance of the “National Textbook Development and Distribution Policy for Pre-Tertiary Education” of 2002. It examines the policy in theory and in practice by exploring the extent to which the liberalisation of the textbook trade has helped to improve on textbook procurement, production and distribution, availability, quality and access to the books. The paper discusses the context leading to the transition from the state-controlled policies to the present liberalised textbook provision policies in Africa. The tensions that marked the transition period and the role of the World Bank and other development agencies in the policy shift have also been discussed. The paper identifies a number of implementation challenges stalling the full realisation of the objectives of the textbook policy including the Ministry of Education’s interference in the textbook procurement process and some publishers’ and authors’ abuse of the conflict of interest regulation in the policy. The paper makes a number of recommendations for consideration.     

双语幼教人才培养模式探析

双语教育,是一种培养双语人才的教育模式,幼儿有二语习得的潜在优势。当今,随着双语幼教的普及,许多师范院校都开设了双语幼教专业,本文旨在探讨双语幼教人才培养模式。     

The roots and routes of environmental and sustainability education policy research

Environmental Education Research has developed a Virtual Special Issue (VSI) (http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/ed/ceer-vsi) focusing on studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy. The VSI draws on key examples of research on this topic published in the Journal from the past two decades, for three reasons. First, to provide readers with a series of snapshots into the genealogy of ESE policy research in this field. Second, to encourage renewed attention to previously published work. And third, to offer commentary on the evolution of research trends, approaches and findings.     

新疆民族教育的发展与双语教育的实践

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is an area of great importance for the ethnic minorities of northwestern China, and the development of local minority education has been a constant concern in both government and academic spheres. By means of analyzing government documents, statistical data and research literature, this article attempts to define the fundamental modes and development processes of minority education in Xinjiang. Furthermore, the article elaborates on discussion of the development and problems relevant to bilingual education in the concentrated Uyghur communities of southern Xinjiang based on the author’s field research in the Kashgar Prefecture in 2007. Translated by Zhang Lin from Beijing Daxue Jiaoyu Pinglun 北京大学教育评论 (Peking University Education Review), 2008, (2): 2–41, revised by Daniel Weisman     

Pushing the entrepreneurial prodigy: Canadian Aboriginal entrepreneurship education initiatives

Globally, neoliberal education policy touts youth entrepreneurship education as a solution for staggering youth unemployment, a means to bolster economically depressed regions, and solution to the ill-defined changing marketplace. Many jurisdictions have emphasized a need for K-12 entrepreneurial education for the general population, and targeted to youth labeled ‘at risk’. The Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative’s Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Program (AYEP) has been enacted across Canada. This paper applies critical discourse analysis to a corpus of texts, exposing how colonial practices, deficit discourse, and discursive neoliberalism are embedded and perpetuated though entrepreneurial education targeted at Aboriginal students via AYEP.     

流动人口子女教育问题:现状与反思

当前我国流动人口子女教育问题的现状不容乐观,问题主要表现在流动人口子女的受教育机会、学业成绩、心理状况以及民工子弟学校的师资和教育教学设施等方面。流动人口子女教育反映出的众多问题实则是我国较为保守的、传统的社会管理体制不能适应和不断提升的城市化进程的必然产物。它牵涉面广,已远远超出了义务教育的范畴,也远远超出了纯粹的教育范畴,它与户籍管理、财政制度、税收政策、社会保障、公民权利等一系列社会、政治、经济问题相联系。未来流动人口子女教育政策的构建必须立足于这些复杂的、深层次的问题的解决。     

Interrogating discourses of intercultural education: from indigenous Amazon community to global policy forum

This article investigates discourses of intercultural education, taking as its starting point two ‘encounters’ in 2010 with contrasting aims and expectations of intercultural education. One is the launch of the 2010 Global Monitoring Report, where intercultural education is viewed as a means of overcoming marginalisation and promoting inclusion, and the other is in a rural Amazonian community context, where intercultural education serves to actively compound processes of exclusion. The article examines these discourses of intercultural education, locating them socially, culturally, politically and historically, and draws distinctions between educational analyses of diversity that emphasise identity and difference and those that prioritise interculturalism. It exposes complex and intersecting dynamics of social change and political contestation in the Amazonian ‘encounter’, which question the viability of globalised (technical-adaptive) strategies for inclusion of people whose intercultural lives are characterised by abjection and marginalisation.     

Oral language acquisition by deaf pupils in primary education: impact of musical education

When a child has some hearing loss, a great number of interdependent factors of human development, and more particularly linguistic development that come into play, is apparent. From a school perspective, some requirements can be met in order to make school the best place to enhance this linguistic development, while at the same time the deaf child is educated in a normalized environment. The aim of this paper is to carry out a longitudinal follow‐up of a group of five deaf pupils educated in mainstream schools, considered as optimal for school integration, and to analyse their linguistic development considering both the excellence of the school and the use of a programme of musical education with deaf pupils throughout the period of study. These data are compared with those obtained from another sample of deaf pupils, educated in similar settings, who did not follow the aforementioned hearing training programme. The main results show that musical education has some positive effects on supra‐segmental aspects of language, on voice quality and on the structuring of simple sentences.