Development of system thinking skills in the context of earth system education

The current study deals with the development of system thinking skills at the junior high school level. The sample population included about 50 eighth‐grade students from two different classes of an urban Israeli junior high school who studied an earth systems‐based curriculum that focused on the hydro cycle. The study addressed the following research questions: (a) Could the students deal with complex systems?; (b) What has influenced the students' ability to deal with system perception?; and (c) What are the relationship among the cognitive components of system thinking? The research combined qualitative and quantitative methods and involved various research tools, which were implemented in order to collect the data concerning the students' knowledge and understanding before, during, and following the learning process. The findings indicated that the development of system thinking in the context of the earth systems consists of several sequential stages arranged in a hierarchical structure. The cognitive skills that are developed in each stage serve as the basis for the development of the next higher‐order thinking skills. The research showed that in spite of the minimal initial system thinking abilities of the students most of them made some meaningful progress in their system thinking skills, and a third of them reached the highest level of system thinking in the context of the hydro cycle. Two main factors were found to be the source of the differential progress of the students: (a) the students' individual cognitive abilities, and (b) their level of involvement in the knowledge integration activities during their inquiry‐based learning both indoors and outdoors. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Classifications of college students’ protean and boundaryless orientation to work

Increasingly, individuals navigate their own careers in self-directed (protean) and boundaryless contexts. These concepts have been applied to adult employees but have seen limited application with young adults. Therefore, 205 college students were assessed on the Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes scales (Briscoe, Hall, and DeMuth, 2006); i.e., self-directed career management, values-driven, boundaryless mindset, and organizational mobility preferences. Scale items were reworded to focus on college experience. Cluster analysis organized respondents into five distinct protean-boundaryless career types. Three types were similar to those hypothesized for adults, while two types were unique to our sample.     

如何在历史教学中培养学生的乐学思想

在“减负”和素质教育的呼声越来越高的今天,传统历史教学给学生的巨大压力是教学者们面临的问题,本文就如何培养学生历史课的乐学思想作了详尽阐诉,通过对教学现状、学生的心理、及教学环境的剖析,指出激发学生的学科兴趣,端正其学习动机是提高历史教学的质量的法宝。     

论媒介消费主义影响下的大学生消费

出生于20世纪80年代的当代大学生作为现代社会青年精英群体,他们的消费方式无疑将深刻地影响到未来中国的消费方式,因此探讨媒介消费主义对于当代大学生群体的影响有着特殊的现实意义。媒介消费主义对大学生消费发生的影响主要表现为:媒介消费主义影响下大学生消费的矛盾性、大众媒介引领大学生消费时尚和媒介消费主义打造大学生消费的符号文化等三个方面。     

周边不规则大型深基坑地下水控制设计

地下水控制是大型深基坑工程中的关键技术。结合某周边不规则的深基坑工程,从基坑周边既有工程环境、施工场地条件、基坑地质和含水层特征等多方面综合考虑,对基坑场地内上层滞水和孔隙承压水分别提出控制设计思路,给出排水管路、深井降水网布置设计方法,以及降水井结构设计图,最后评价地下水控制对深基坑周围环境的影响。对于类似建筑,具有一定的参考价值。     

《微机原理及接口技术》教学探讨

根据课程的特点以及教师和学生在教与学的过程中所遇到的困难,从教学内容、教学方法、教学手段和教学实践环节等几个方面介绍了微机原理与接口技术课程的教学体会以及实施办法,其经验对从事本课程教学的教师有比较好的借鉴作用。     

高职"六位一体"校企合作办学模式探析

在我国，高职校企合作办学面临着许多困惑，而“六位一体”校企合作办学模式将“基地、招生、教学、科研、管理、就业”六个环节紧密结合，是实现校企合作联合培养高职人才的有效途径之一。本文阐述了“六位一体”校企合作办学模式的内涵和实践意义，并在此基础上作了深层思考。     

思维模式差异与英文写作

东西方思维模式存在差异。西方人遵循单向式思维模式,而东方人则遵循多向式思维模式。表现在写作上,西方人倾向借助线性发展模式,而东方人则常使用螺旋型模式展开语段。思维模式的差异导致了许多中国学生在英文写作中缺乏连贯性和逻辑性。为改变这一现状,教师可引导学生运用写作图式,尝试将"支架"理论引入写作教学,加强写作连贯性和逻辑性的训练。     

‘The sky is the limit’: higher education,gender and empowerment in the Bedouin community in the Negev in Israel

This article addresses the meaning that female Bedouin from the Negev in Israel give to higher education. I shall focus the discussion on the processes in which personal and social contexts merge into one another. Although there has been an increase in the number of investigations of the ways in which Bedouin women in the Negev in Israel participate in the public sphere, a survey of the literature reveals that no investigations have been conducted on the meaning educated women attribute to higher education during the course of their lives. Through an analysis of ten in‐depth interviews carried out between 1998 and 2001, this article examines issues such as gender, empowerment and social mobility amongst young Bedouin women in Israel.