Science education through informal education

To develop the pedagogic efficiency of informal education in science teaching, promoting a close cooperation between institutions is suggested by Monteiro, Janerine, de Carvalho, and Martins. In their article, they point out effective examples of how teachers and educators work together to develop programs and activities at informal education places such as science museums. Their study explored and discussed the viability and relevancy of school visits to museums and possibilities to enhance the connection between students’ visits in informal contexts and their learning in schools. Given that students learn science by crossing the boundaries of formal and informal learning contexts, it is critical to examine ways of integrated and collaborative approach to develop scientific literacy to help students think, act and communicate as members of problem solving communities. In this forum, we suggest the importance of students’ lifeworld contexts in informal learning places as continuum of Monteiro, Janerine, de Carvalho, and Martins’ discussion on enhancing the effectiveness of informal learning places in science education.     

学校体育中的礼仪教育

从全方位、多层次的视角来认识学校体育,有效利用学校体育教育中所孕育的包括个人礼仪、社交礼仪、文书礼仪、习俗礼仪和体育仪式等礼仪教育内容,形成生物的、教育的、心理的、社会的多维体育“育人观”。     

法学教育中的诚信教育

随着市场经济的发展,一方面社会渴求诚信社会的建立,继承和发展中华民族的优良传统;另一方面在经济利益的驱使下,不诚信的事件频频发生,法律行业作为经济社会的重要职业门类,缺乏诚信的事件也时有发生,特别是在法学教育中诚信教育的缺失对法律职业发展的伤害尤为突出。本文拟从诚信教育的涵义出发,分析法律教育中的诚信教育现状,提出加强法律教育中诚信教育的对策。     

Neuroscience, education and special education

The discipline of neuroscience draws from the fields of neurology, psychology, physiology and biology, but is best understood in the wider world as 'brain science'. Of particular interest for education is the development of techniques for 'imaging' the brain as it performs different cognitive functions. Cognitive neuroimaging has already led to advances in understanding some of the basic functions involved in learning and raised implications for education and special education in particular. For example, neuroimaging has enabled scientists to study the very complex processes underpinning speech and language, thinking and reasoning, reading and mathematics. In this article, Professor Usha Goswami of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education first reviews basic information on brain development. She provides a brief introduction to the tools used in neuroimaging then considers recent findings from neuroscience that seem relevant to educational questions. Professor Goswami uses this review to suggest particular ways in which neuroscience research could inform special education. In its closing sections, this article provides authoritative perspectives on some of the 'neuromyths' that seem to have taken root in the popular imagination and argues for increased dialogue, in the future, between the disciplines of neuroscience and education.     

Mathematical education versus critical education

This paper concentrates upon the relationship between mathematical education (ME) and critical education (CE) connected with the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory. To make the discussion as precise as possible a distinction is made between three alternatives in ME: Structuralism, pragmatism, and process-orientation. These alternatives are related to the key terms of CE in order to show the extent to which ME and CE contradict each other. The conclusion is that there does not exist any integration — nor even any close relationship-between ME and CE. Finally, this result is discussed in the light of the following two theses:

1. It is necessary to increase the interaction between ME and CE, if ME is not to degenerate into one of the most important ways of socializing students into the technological society and at the same time destroying the possibilities for developing a critical attitude towards precisely this technological society.
2. It is important for CE to interact with subjects from the technical sciences, and among these ME, if CE is not to be taken over by the technological development and fade away into an unimportant and uncritical educational theory.

     

试论体育的审美教育作用

体育活动可以作这审美教育的途径。它能增强审美主体的审美感知能力,调节审美情感,最终达到与艺术审美教育同样的目的－群体的和谐与道德的至善。     

试论素质教育与高校体育

高校教育是素质教育的最后阶段，有着更进一步提高学生综合素质的作用。高校体育也不例外，它具有与社会生活衔接的特点，本文通过对高校体育在素质教育中的地位、作用；素质教育对高校体育工作者提出的新的要求，以及如何运用素质教育的原则促进高校体育教学的阐述。来使我们清醒地认识到，在当前转变教育观念的形势下，如何搞好高校体育工作。     

远程高等教育·远程教育产业

随着我国加入WTO,给远程教育改革增强了压力和动力。选择高等教育作为发展现代远程教育的重点和突破口,既避免了在实践中的某些盲目性,也有利于逐步形成现代远程教育开放网络,构建起终身学习体系。尝试把现代远程教育作为一个基础产业来办,以建立起既符合市场规律,又利于教育自身发展的最佳运作机制,形成远教产业优势,实现远程教育与市场经济的对接。     

Lifelong education and philosophy of education

Problems of scale lead to the use of lay tutors in education for trade union members. These tutors need support from their organization. The design of this support is far from easy. A Dutch research project reveals some of the problems of providing support for these educational volunteers. Some results of this research are reported in this article. First, attention is devoted to some ideas about trade union education, based on British and Dutch literature. Second, the article concentrates on the investigated practices: local trade union education in the Netherlands, lay tutors and their tasks. In order to decipher the role of support activities, the elements of a model of volunteer activities are proposed. With a view to the diffusion of Dutch experience, a model of the support activities of trade unions related to the tasks of lay tutors is described. Five support environments for lay tutors are subsequently sketched.

Although some aggregation has been achieved, the level of knowledge remains quite low. Fundamental knowledge on support does not, as yet, exist. Knowledge is still far too limited to be able to provide advice on which environment to choose in a specific situation. Creating finely tuned support for lay tutors cannot be reduced to making a choice or to the combination of certain elements. If creating support is not the same as making a choice, this implies a design task. To assist efforts in designing support activities for lay tutors ten recommendations are made. Finally, their quality is briefly discussed.     

职业教育呼唤人文教育

人教育作为对人精神层面的关怀，对任何教育都是不可缺少的。但目前的职业教育对此却少有关注。本就职业教育忽视人教育的原因、职业教育进行人教育的必要性进行了分析，并提出了职业教育进行人评议教育的方法与途径。     

Content of curriculum in physical education teacher education: expectations of undergraduate physical education students

This study explored the perceptions of university physical education students of the importance of physical education curriculum content areas and how those perceptions related to the reasons for course choice and motivation. Physical education degree students (n = 188) completed measures of their perceptions of physical education content areas, attractors to physical education, and motivation. Strong reasons for course choice were sport and physical activity-related. Instruction of movement skills, health education, games, motor development, and physical education identity were perceived as more important, whereas sports and socio-critical perspectives were perceived as less important. Perceived importance of all content areas was positively related to the choice of course for confident interpersonal service, sport and physical activity, and role model reasons, as well as to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Physical education programmes should consider what content is delivered and how to effectively integrate practical and theoretical content.     

哈耶克教育观及其对我国教育的启示

冯.哈耶克是当代著名的自由主义代表人物,他把自由主义思想与对教育的观察相结合,对教育与国家的关系、教育机会均等以及教育中的自由与知识进步等提出了创新性的见解。通过对自由与平等及其限度的分析,期望哈耶克的教育视野为当前我国教育改革与发展提供参照性的启示。     

Intercultural education and teacher education in Sweden

The Swedish school is a meeting place for different cultures. Gender and class variations have been recognized for many years. More recently, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity has also entered Swedish classrooms. This article examines these new educational circumstances in three parts. The first section defines some multicultural terms in Swedish context and briefly describes Sweden as a multicultural society. The second section discusses different pedagogical strategies in Swedish multicultural classrooms where cultural diversity problematizes traditional education. The final section addresses the need for an intercultural perspective in teacher education.     

对终身体育与公共体育课的思考

对高校体育课存在的问题进行了剖析,指出了课程的设置应从学生的需要和发展出发,以终身体育为主线最终实现素质教育.     

Reflections on quality education in African higher education

Abstract

Worldwide the diverse ills in society are often seen as a manifestation of the weaknesses and poor quality of the education systems practiced, especially those founded on traditional approaches – highly disciplined patriotic regimens, with a great deal of memorisation and not much room for reflecting and questioning, in contrast to the contemporary education mission which seeks to produce free citizens, citizens who are free not because of wealth or birth, but because they can call their minds their own (Nussbaum, 1998). This paper critically explores both the basics of traditional education regimens, and the contemporary education mission as espoused by some renowned intellectuals, and concludes that a sound education system ought to cultivate humanity – a citizenry that can think critically, solve problems and apply new skills and techniques in diverse contexts, a citizenry that is knowledgeable about the care and wise use of the environment.     

试论教育期望效应在成人高等教育中的运用

教育期望效应是指教师对学生抱有较高的信心,期待他们向好的方面转变。实验证明这对成人高等教育也是非常有效的教育方式。这是对传统的罗森塔尔试验的发展,在教学实践中要注意做好相应的各环节的工作,并且要遵循试验的技术要求。     

Is religious education compatible with science education?

This paper tackles a highly controversial issue: the problem of the compatibility of science and religion, and its bearing on science and religious education respectively. We challenge the popular view that science and religion are compatible or even complementary. In order to do so, we give a brief characterization of our conceptions of science and religion. Conspicuous differences at the doctrinal, metaphysical, methodological and attitudinal level are noted. Regarding these aspects, closer examination reveals that science and religion are not only different but in fact incompatible. Some consequences of our analysis for education as well as for education policy are explored. We submit that a religious education, particularly at an early age, is an obstacle to the development of a scientific mentality. For this and other reasons, religious education should be kept away from public schools and universities. Instead of promoting a religious world view, we should teach our children what science knows about religion, i.e., how science explains the existence of religion in historical, biological, psychological and sociological terms.     

主体性教育与函授教育管理改革

函授教育及函授生自身的特殊性，决定了函授教育的一切教学活动都应围绕函授学生的学习需要来展开，在面授时间安排、学籍管理制度、课程内容设置、学业评价方式等方面，应充分贯彻以函授生为主体的教育思想，发挥函授生学习的积极性、主动性和创造性。     

Passive education

Abstract

This paper does not present an advocacy of a passive education as opposed to an active education nor does it propose that passive education is in any way ‘better’ or more important than active education. Through readings of Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and B.S. Johnson, and gentle critiques of Jacques Rancière and John Dewey, passive education is instead described and outlined as an education which occurs whether we attempt it or not. As such, the object of critique for this essay are forms of educational thought which, through fate or design, exclude the passive dimension, either within or outside of formal educational settings. An underlying component of this argument is therefore also that education does occur outside of formal educational settings and that, contra Gert Biesta and his critique of ‘learnification’, we may gain rather than lose something by attending to it as education.     

Creativity in education

Currently considerable interest is being shown in creativity by the government and bodies such as QCA and Ofsted. A ‘creativity agenda’ has emerged with important implications for teaching and learning in schools. Drawing on research literature, as well as work completed by Secondary PGCE English and Drama trainees, this paper aims to provoke discussion about how creativity in education is defined and the impact of more explicit understandings of creativity in classrooms.