Playing with Fire,or the Stuffing of Dead Animals: Freire,Dewey, and the Dilemma of Social Studies Reform

In his proposal for a social studies both more critical and more participatory, Neumann's (2008) politically adaptive strategy of invoking standards for critical thinking poses troubling concerns for democratic-minded educators familiar with the trajectory of reforms. Neumann's outright dismissal of critical pedagogy ironically underscores how the political nature of educational knowledge itself mitigates the possibility of a more critical orientation. A reexamination of the Dewey-Lippmann debates points to the pivotal roles of dissent, dialogue and critical agency in democracy, and to the conclusion that, despite recent criticisms, critical pedagogy represented by Freire best meets Neumann's goal of a more “holistic approach to democratic health” (332).     

Playing football

Advice from a top footballer You need to be very fit to play football. Do all the exercises your coach tells you to do. Always make sure you warm up before a match. If you don’t, you might strain a muscle!     

对葫芦丝演奏方法与演奏效果关系的再认识

在葫芦丝领域,对演奏方法和演奏效果两个常见概念存在很多模糊认识。针对这些模糊认识,对二者进行科学区分和严格定义,以推动葫芦丝文化的健康发展。     

Playing with light

The authors conducted action research by developing workshops that involved teacher-participants in their own exploratory learning. The authors facilitated participants in researching of what they noticed, and wanted to understand about light and shadows by structuring the environment, and the questions that wereasked of them, in ways that integrated practices of teaching into those of researching. During the workshops, transitions evolved in how participants used materials to make light and dark effects and interacted with each other. Transactions also occurred in how the authors intervened to teach and research what participants did, and to encourage their reflective observations. It is proposed that such explorations offer new beginnings for extending understandings of physical phenomena and of the world, as made through our actions and thoughts.     

Playing a Game

Bored during a long flight, a famous scholar leaned over and woke up the sleeping man next to him to ask if he would like to play a game. "I'll ask you a question," the scholar explained, "and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $ 5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $50."When the man agreed to play, the scholar asked, "What's the dis'tance from the earth to the moon?" Flummoxed(使惶惑地), the man handed him $5. "Ha!" said the scholar. "It's 238, 8…     

Playing with Residuals

A simple way is given to create residual plots that are words or pictures. Three illustrative examples are presented.     

水中的亡灵

这种现象形成于每年春天,在夏天暴发--墨西哥湾有那一片地方经历着这段枯萎和缺氧的过程."死亡地带"发生在世界各地,从上乞沙比克湾到伯德尼亚湾.……     

以游戏精神实现教学与游戏的融合

“游戏教学化”与“教学游戏化”由于自身的弊端难以使教学与游戏走向融合,哲学解释大师迦达默尔关于游戏的阐释启发我们,只有给教学赋予游戏的精神:自成目的的精神,主动积极开放的精神,自我生成、自我更新的精神,无主体的精神,对话的精神,才能使教学与游戏从对立走向真正的融合。     

论儿童游戏中游戏精神的衰落

游戏是儿童最重要的存在方式，儿童游戏一直被认为是最纯粹的游戏。然而在现代社会种种因素的影响下，儿童游戏精神却面临衰落：知识和规范教学将游戏驱逐出了教育的领域；商业利益殖民了游戏的乐园；电子玩具控制了儿童的身体和心灵。儿童游戏精神的衰落现象值得教育关注。     

"Dead"≠死?

dead就仅有“死”这一个意思吗?不,实际上,dead的意思非常多,它的通常解释是“死的、无生命的”,英语解释是“no longer alive,without life,not able to live”,如:a dead man/leaf(死人、枯叶),dead rocks and stones(顽石)。但有时dead并非此意,如:It' s so cold outside that my fingersfeel dead.(外面天气太冷,我的手指都冻麻了。)这句话里的dead     

品特戏剧中的情人游戏

在哈罗德·品特的三部戏剧作品《回家》、《情人》和《微痛》中,家庭中的女性人物都表现出背离妻子身份的情人形象。对身份固定性的打破,使得这些品特女性成为父权体制中的不稳定因素,从内部对传统性别秩序产生了冲击。从朱丽娅·克里斯蒂娃在符号学影响下的女性理论视角进行解读,这些品特女性利用符号态的特质动摇了封闭的父权象征语言体系,为女性乃至所有个体的存在方式揭示出更多的可能性。     

论游戏中的幼儿学习

游戏是儿童的天性,在游戏活动中发生着大量的学习活动.本文通过对游戏和学习概念的理解分析,指出了目前存在的几种错误的价值判断.21世纪全球面临的教育改革,培养幼儿的游戏性品质,教会幼儿在游戏中积累经验、学会学习成为基础教育改革的关键.