Student empowerment in a constructivist values learning environment for a healthy and sustainable world

Learning Environments Research - Civic education is a moral development imperative of the Indonesian national curriculum and the United Nation’s policy on education for sustainable...     

莫言小说中的感觉世界和色彩语言

莫言是一个很有创新意识的作家,他喜欢通过视觉夸张,描摹一个色彩浓郁的、独特的感觉世界。红得耀眼的高粱地,绿得发亮的老茅草,在绚丽的色彩中表达主观情愫,在其丰富的寓意中表露他的生命主题意识、文化心理以及他内心对世界的思考。     

Being well in the world: an alternative discourse to mental health and well-being

The author provides a critique of the current campaign promoting well-being and mental health in UK schools. The paper focuses on the unintended consequences of aligning with a medical model of understanding mental health which include concerns about ignoring ecological factors and, to some extent the social construction of individual mental health. The author considers the relevance of Arendt's notion of being at home in the world, (Arendt, 1994), as understood in the context of Biesta's educational commentary, (Biesta, 2017). Finally, the author argues that the current frame of reference for mental health intervention is insufficient in meeting the challenges facing the next generation of students.     

让学生生活在思考的世界里

本文从三个方面浅谈对学生思考能力的培养,以便为学生搭建思考的舞台,使学生生活在思考的世界里。     

回归生活世界：高校思想政治理论课走出困境的路径选择

高校思想政治理论课教学困境实质上是对生活世界的遗忘.确立面向生活世界的教学价值取向,构建源于生活世界的教学内容,创设融通生活世界的和谐课堂,不断提升和强化思想政治理论课的逻辑魅力、内容权威力和主体实践性,是提高高校思想政治理论课教学实效性的现实路径.     

可持续发展模式是未来世界经济发展的惟一选择

从20世纪70年代对人类生存环境因素的研究开始，到当今可持续经济发展模式的提出。表明人类对自身行为的觉醒，人们逐渐意识到，不能再盲目地沉浸在经济文明的成就之中了，应当对我们人类过去的行为进行反省，对传统的经济发展模式进行深刻地检讨，在此通过对当前不可持续发展因素的分析，旨在从宏观上阐述可持续发展战略应当强调人类的经济活动与自然、环境的不可分性和协调性，反映的是人类经济活动的共同性，需求性和公正性相统一的原则。     

Professional development for teachers: a world of change

As the industrialised world shifted to an interdependent and global society, formal schooling was quickly recognised as a major factor in achieving a knowledge society of lifelong learners capable of transforming and revitalising organisations. Teachers were encouraged to engage in learning together to improve teaching and, by extension, improve learning for the children in their care. This article identifies three emerging trends intended to broaden teachers' learning and enhance their practices through continuous professional development: glocalisation, mentoring, and re‐thinking teacher evaluation. The body of the article indicates how these three trends are unfolding in Australia, England, Latvia, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Taiwan, and the USA.

However, teachers cannot bring about necessary changes without organisational and systemic change; namely, collaboration with governmental agencies and other institutions. The authors suggest that transforming schooling in the twenty‐first century depends on education policies being supported by expanded teacher participation in education policy‐making, more coherent governmental policies across agencies, and collaborative, differentiated models for career‐long continuing professional development.     

Education for sustainable development in Africa: a critique of regional agendas

Asia Pacific Education Review - Education is often perceived in policy agendas as playing a transformative role in realising sustainable development and the SDGs on the continent. The assumption is...     

The education for sustainable development movement in Japan: a political perspective

The Japanese government provided various political opportunities for non‐governmental groups and individuals in Japan to ‘jointly propose’ policy on education and sustainable development at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002. These opportunities resulted in the emergence of the Japanese education for sustainable development (ESD) movement, and the crystallisation of a broader proposal that led to the initiation of the UN Decade of ESD (2005–2014). In this paper, we trace the history of these two outcomes, arguing that the opportunities, developed through the coordination of non‐governmental groups by government, took place within, rather than broadened or confronted, the government’s scope of interests. While the paper illustrates how the government’s continued support was crucial to the development of the ESD movement and the UN Decade, and the movement has met with considerable achievements thus far (via its collective challenges to conventional education in a sustainability context in Japan), we argue that recognition of the political opportunity structures that affect the movement’s further development remains crucial. In particular, we argue for close attention to the significance of a corporatist framing of this emerging civil society movement in Japan by the national government, and call for further political and historical analysis of ESD movements and their relations with government, around the world.     

Pluralism and criticism in environmental education and education for sustainable development: a practical understanding

Education is presented with a challenge when faced with criticism of modern science and adoption of a pluralistic view of environmental education and education for sustainable development. In dealing with this challenge, a practical understanding inspired by the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein is suggested as a complement to more traditional theoretical and analytical responses. Through reminders of how criticism appears in everyday practice, the article shows that criticism does not necessarily have to be understood solely by reference to specific theoretical positions, but can also be seen in terms of the diverse ways that human beings react morally, encounter different norms and conduct ethical reflection. In such a practical understanding, the question is not whether the criticism is correct or not in absolute terms but rather whether the opinions and perspectives have significance in people’s lives. Criticism of modern science does not therefore appear to be a reason to exclude modern science, the proposal here being to acknowledge and embrace the criticism and the alternative views put forward by the critics. By means of a practical understanding, the opposition expected between criticism and pluralism can be dissolved, rather than solved.     

艺术语言:活的形象

发话主体创造艺术语语言的“本”审美活动,实际是一个审美意象过程,意象是艺术语言的本体,艺术语言的始终是一个意象生成问题,艺术语言蕴育着发话主体的情、意、神,所以它才有活的生气,使象活真情为,艺术语言是情感的反映形式,所以它的拘泥于一种形式,它的生成情就象是发话主体的生命体验和情感的形式化,它外,形象感人,它内,蕴藉丰富,给人以无限的遥思。     

Beyond motivation: history as a method for learning meta-discursive rules in mathematics

In this paper, we argue that history might have a profound role to play for learning mathematics by providing a self-evident (if not indispensable) strategy for revealing meta-discursive rules in mathematics and turning them into explicit objects of reflection for students. Our argument is based on Sfard’s theory of Thinking as Communicating, combined with ideas from historiography of mathematics regarding a multiple perspective approach to the history of practices of mathematics. We analyse two project reports from a cohort of history of mathematics projects performed by students at Roskilde University. These project reports constitute the experiential and empirical basis for our claims. The project reports are analysed with respect to students’ reflections about meta-discursive rules to illustrate how and in what sense history can be used in mathematics education to facilitate the development of students’ meta-discursive rules of mathematical discourse.     

ACES Beyond Fifty: Creating a Future

As the golden anniversary milestone of ACES passes, this article addresses counselor education for the 1990s and beyond, something future leaders and members can reference.