Teachers�� emotions and professional identity in curriculum reform: A Chinese perspective

In educational research, emotion has attracted substantial attention since the mid-1990s. While there are many studies of teacher emotion in educational change in the West, there is a remarkable dearth of such studies in China. This qualitative study attempts to address this issue by examining teachers?? emotional experiences in the national curriculum reform of senior secondary education in China. Results indicate that teachers revealed complex emotional responses to the reform. These emotions were related to teachers?? perceptions about the use of new textbooks, teaching approaches, and, more importantly, the uncertain changes in college entrance examinations. Three types of teachers with different emotions and professional identities are identified in the reform (i.e., the losing heart accommodators, the drifting followers, and the cynical performers). These findings highlight the Chinese perspective on teacher emotion and provide some implications for the management of curriculum reform and teacher emotion in the Chinese context.     

认知隐喻视阈下的手语研究述评

认知语言学中的概念隐喻理论是研究手语本质及其认知机制的重要途径.通过剖析有声语言和手语中隐喻表达的异同,揭示二者共同的神经基础,有利于阐明手语中隐喻表达的系统性与独特性.     

基于Multi-Conc的英语词汇自主学习研究

近年来,语料库应用于外语教学已经得到越来越多的关注,免费在线语料库软件Multi-Conc储存了丰富的语料库资源,综合运用了其他语料库软件的功能,实现了语境共现和自动生成词汇练习的统一,但是,国内目前尚缺乏对该软件应用的介绍和研究。两学年的教学实践证明,该软件在提高学生英语词汇自主学习能力方面,效果较为明显,值得进一步推广和深入研究。     

刘勰情采观与苏珊·朗格情感形式观比较研究

刘勰的情采观和苏珊·朗格的情感形式观,虽然在时代思潮以及各自的立论基础上都各不相同,但在情采关系和情感形式关系方面却有相同之处：一是情采和情感形式都是构成文本缺一不可的有机统一体,二是情采观和情感形式观都认同情感具有逻辑优先性,三是情采观和情感形式观肯定形式具有能动的反作用。     

The Effects of a Kit-Based Science Curriculum and Intensive Science Professional Development on Elementary Student Science Achievement

The science achievement of 226 5th graders from districts that have a kit-based inquiry science curriculum supported by intensive professional development (PD) is compared with data from a group of 173 5th graders from other districts that use nonkit science materials and do not have systematic science PD for teachers. Within the kit-based project, the sample of project teachers is stratified to select teachers with a high number of science PD hours versus those with few hours. While there were no significant differences in the mean total scores for kit-based students with low PD versus high PD teachers, the kit-based classrooms scored significantly higher than students in nonkit classrooms on both the pretest and posttest, though there were significantly more minutes of science instruction in the nonkit classrooms. Finally, nonkit teachers taught more units of shorter length and reported lower levels of preparedness to use reform pedagogical approaches.     

Erosion behavior and mechanism of boronised steels

Boronising of steels is a hardening process to get high surface hardness. The erosion resistance of boronised steels was researched with the use of four kinds of erodent, i.e. glass, alumina, quartz and silicon carbide. The erosion rate increases rapidly with erodent hardness and severe erosion occurs with high impacting angle range of hard particles. SEM analysis indicated that chipping is caused by repetitive impacting of glass and quartz, whereas by alumina and silicon carbide impacting, chipping, and that plastic flow take place simultaneously and the erosion rate reaches the peak value when the impacting angle is above 60°.     

Patterns of Social Interaction of Mainstreamed Preschool Children: Hopeful News from the Field

Much of the research on social interaction in mainstreamed settings has focused on “reverse mainstreamed” or special environments in contrast, the present study observed 600 social interactions in 19 regular preschools. Three findings emerged: a) retarded children are substantially integrated into the emotional and social life of the peer group, but not fully integrated into peer group verbal life; b) there is an inverse relationship between teachers’ initiation of social interaction with retarded children and the degree to which the latter are integrated into peer group life; and c) teachers provide retarded children with more verbal enrichment and emotional protection than these children receive from their peer group. On balance, these findings are fairly encouraging, suggesting that to a considerable extent mainstreaming is working in preschool classrooms.     

从历史和现实的角度谈人的全面发展

人的全面发展是个历史发展过程 ,马克思主义把人类关于人的全面发展的考察从空想变成了科学。认真落实“三个代表”思想推进人的全面发展。素质教育是人类最终全面地、科学地了解认识自己、开发完善自己、彻底解放自己 ,实现人的全面发展的关键环节和必由之路