Social Presence Online: Networking Learners at a Distance

This paper draws on two studies which researched the use of online small group environments where collaborative learning is a central structure for learning. The establishment of social presence is facilitated through the socio-affective aspect of small group interaction which contributed to the effectiveness of learning online. Social presence, the ability of online learners to project themselves into a textual environment which has few visual or contextual cues, will be explored as an important element in facilitating effective online learning. The teacher's role in helping students project their online social presence and in establishing an environment for learning within the larger group computer conference will also be discussed.     

女性文学研究与大学语文教育

把女性文学研究的经验和成果运用到大学语文教育中,使大学语文在课程目标、教材编写、教学内容、教学方法等方面都增加一个女性主义视角。把培养大学生先进的社会性别意识作为课程目标之一,用女性主义视角审视教材编写,改变无性别色彩的教学内容。尝试运用女性主义教学法进行颠覆性文本阅读,通过增加性别视角实现多元化、多维度文本解读。     

对话与思考:西方教育领域中的女性主义本土化探析

西方教育理论中的女性主义思潮以其对性别与教育的独特理解,为我们提供了与世界教育对话的新途径,促使我们重新思考女性教育与妇女解放的互动关系。可以说,无论是在西方,还是在中国,妇女解放的思想并不只是要在两性心理、心理、社会差异等基础上强造一个平等的世界,而是要在两性和谐共处的基础上,争取最大限度的共同自由和全面的发展。     

现代西方女性主义的教育理论与实践

现代西方女性主义运动从十九世纪三十年代开始经历了两次高潮。在二十世纪五十年代以来的第二次高潮中,教育成为女性主义者特别关注的领域。她们认为,传统教育无处不表现出性别化的明显特征,因此,在理论研究上必须突破传统性别角色理论、社会分工理论,以及“以男性为标准”的机会均等理论等分析框架,在实践上提倡建设性别公平化学校,进行社会公平化教育。这是现代社会文化多元的表现,也是社会民主化、现代化的重要标志。     

教育政策研究中的性别意识探析

教育政策贯穿整个教育管理活动,每一种教育管理行为的发生都来源于一定的教育政策。近年来,在教育政策研究的基本环节中,＂人＂的主体不断增强。对＂人＂的关怀往往是基于对抽象化的人的分析,在话语中缺少了一个重要的人类学现实——人的性别存在。女性主义教育思潮与社会性别理论的兴起,丰富了教育政策的理论基础和研究视角,在教育政策研究中纳入性别意识,能够使教育政策研究更加贴切于＂人＂的存在,更富有＂人性＂。     

大学生英语学习策略运用的性别差异比较研究

通过对大学生英语学习策略的调查研究,从性别及不同学习水平等方面比较英语策略运用水平,力求发现学生选择英语学习策略的规律,从而帮助和指导学生改善学习策略,提高学习效率。     

“Struck by the Way Our Bodies Conveyed So Much:” A Collaborative Self-Study of our Developing Understanding of Embodied Pedagogies

Embodied pedagogies offer methodological and pedagogical possibilities for exploring and understanding the emotional and embodied dimensions of teaching and learning to teach. In this paper we present a collaborative self-study that examines what we have learned about the nature, value and facilitation of embodied pedagogies through our experiences as both facilitators and participants. Through engaging in this self-study we have deepened our understanding of three aspects of embodied pedagogies: the nature of embodiment as a process of learning and coming to know, the challenges associated with engaging learners in embodied pedagogies, and some of the factors that contribute to skilful facilitation of embodied pedagogies. Articulating these understandings offers insight for ourselves and for other teacher educators looking to engage preservice teachers in embodied explorations and understandings of teaching and learning.     

社会性别视角下的拐卖妇女问题

近年来,拐卖妇女的现象屡禁不止,不但使受害者遭受极大的痛苦和不幸,而且给社会治安的良性运行带来了威胁。本文在介绍拐卖妇女问题现状的基础上,尝试从社会性别的角度分析拐卖妇女问题产生的原因,并且提出相应对策,希望能够给拐卖妇女问题的研究带来新的分析视角。     

Gender structure and women’s agency: toward greater theoretical understanding of education for transformation

Under the research radar, and yet highly influential in transformation of practices concerning the social understanding and enactment of gender, are women-led non-governmental organizations (WNGOs). Their continued efforts to reconfigure gender identities and their impact on public policy formation have expanded notions of citizenship and democracy as well as moved social justice to greater levels of concreteness. This article seeks to contribute to the literature by probing the role of WNGOs as educational institutions that both create and disseminate knowledge about gender inequalities and gender justice and, in so doing, foster the formation of assertive individual and collective identities that subsequently influence the public arena through their advocacy of measures to reduce inequalities between women and men. The work by these WNGOs confirms the theoretical premise that to effect social change, new knowledge must be created by the very groups that seek to alter the disadvantageous conditions that confront them.     

Critical perspectives on youth digital media production: ‘voice’ and representation in educational contexts

This paper offers a critical discussion on voice and representation in youth digital media production in educational settings. The paper builds on existing calls from digital media and visual studies scholars to approach youth-made media with greater attention to context in production practices. In this discussion, the author addresses the importance of technological tools, media genres, settings, and program design in the construction of voice and representation for children and youth making digital media. The paper presents a case study derived from a three-year ethnographic research project and feminist intervention in one under-resourced school in Toronto, Canada. Through the examples presented in this paper, the author presents a critical discussion about the process and content of digital video created by girls making media in particular contexts, under distinct conditions.