Developing networks of grass-roots science curriculum action

This paper describes an ongoing process of participatory curriculum development. It outlines some of the tensions which need to be explored in science curriculum development: debates about the nature of science, of society, of school science content and of learning theories. The process whereby action can arise from this debate is also explored. An example will be outlined of a network of science curriculum action which has developed from the work of a range of science education projects in Natal, South Africa. Specializations: science curriculum development from primary to tertiary level. Specializations: inservice primary science teacher development. Specializations: inservice teacher development, biology education. Specializations: environmental education, teacher development. Specializations: environmental education, teacher development.     

Metafiction for beginners: Allan Ahlberg'sTen in a Bed

Margaret Mackey is studying for a master's degree in library and information studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. Previously, in Britain, she taught English language and literature in secondary schools for ten years. She has been secondary editor ofThe Essex Review of Children's Literature and has editedFestival Plays (Longman), a collection of young playwrights.     

从“祥林嫂”看封建社会妇女解放的局限性

妇女解放问题，是关系社会文明的重要问题。通过对祥林嫂等人物形象的分析，揭露封建礼教的种种罪恶，进一步探讨封建社会妇女解放的局限性。     

群育：集体主义教育不可或缺的因素

群育是培养人的合群性的教育,它既强调个性又防止极端个人主义,既注重群体又避免整齐划一,是极端个人主义和过分强调整齐划一的狭隘集体主义的调和。群育并非新鲜概念,它在我国传统教育理念中已经存在,目前港澳台地区及新加坡教育中仍明确提出群育目标。现阶段重新认识和引入群育,有利于厘清个人与群体的关系,以人们易于接受的理念和方式培养学生的合群能力及合作精神,丰富和发展集体主义教育。     

Parental concerns and priorities in the education of disabled students

During a conference organized as part of I.Y.D.P., parents of the disabled from throughout Queensland attempted to identify the primary needs they experienced in coping with a disabled child in the family. Recommendations were made concerning the provision of services which would help to alleviate these needs. Issues and recommendations concerning education, including educational rights, legislative and financial considerations, teacher education, and the adequacy of educational services, are discussed in this paper. The dearth of a range of appropriate post‐school options was of crucial import; provision of continuing education services for disabled school leavers, including minimally handicapped students integrated into regular classes, is seen as an urgent requirement. Co‐operative planning and service provision should be given priority status by special education authorities, tertiary institutions and employment departments and agencies.     

What Is Wrong with Practicum?: some reflections

The purpose of this study was to examine students’ perceptions of previously identified negative aspects of practicum during preparation courses for careers in the field of early childhood education. Students at each of three year levels of the course earlier had been surveyed using a Likert‐type instrument following recent practicum experiences. Item frequency analysis was conducted for each separate year group's responses and for the combined group. Analysis of data from the combined responses included item properties, item‐scale relationships, scale properties and instrument factor analysis. Results of factor analysis revealed seven interpretable stressors, the most serious being the cluster labelled ‘physical demands’. The 10 most negative aspects for each year level (i.e. items with the lowest means) were compiled in a subsequent instrument similar to the original but also including a request for explanatory comments following each item. These three instruments were administered at the end of the same year. Student comments on the latter instruments clarified the statistical results and are presented here in the categories of ‘demands on students’, Hime and energy’, ‘coping with written requirements’, and ‘conforming with mistrusted practices’. Reflections on the implications of this illumination of statistical analysis are then presented.     

立足于“关系”的教育研究

教育现象是复杂的,我们从复杂性思想、现代哲学、思维方式等方面入手,把教育世界还原到教育中的事件与关系,使教育中的关系成为我们进行教育研究的基本出发点。教育研究应关注教育中的关系:就教育活动本身而言,应关注教育场域;就教育研究者而言,应持一种介入的态度;就教育学科而言,应努力跨越边界,实现学科之间的穿梭。     

"地籍管理"中城乡地籍一体化管理教学的探讨

随着我国土地管理业务的发展,地籍管理的内容也在不断更新。作为现代地籍管理重要内容的城乡地籍一体化管理,在现行的大多数教材中涉及较少。为使现在的在校大学生毕业后能适应快速发展的地籍管理业务,应在“地籍管理”教学中强化城乡地籍一体化管理的教学,并贯穿于整个教学过程中。本文阐述了城乡地籍一体化教学的必要性,对教学内容的安排、教学重点和难点的设置、教学方法及实践环节的设计进行了探讨,以期对“地籍管理”课程的教学有所裨益。     

Many spaces: Some limitations of single readings

Margaret Mackey is studying at the University of Alberta in Canada, pursuing a Ph.D. in Education. Her particular interest is the development of readers and the importance of the relationship between readers and texts. Previously, in Britain, she taught English in secondary schools and was secondary editor ofThe Essex Review of Children's Literature.     

Challenging from the margins into the mainstream—improving renal services in a collaborative and entrepreneurial spirit

Can the development, both clinical and managerial, of practitioners involved in healthcare be enriched by connecting action learning principles and practice with research on ‘tempered radicals’? Might such connection also assist the efforts of patients and their advocates to create more holistic approaches to patient care? This paper explores these questions with reference to a UK Department of Health project to improve renal services. The prime focus is the experience of a set of set advisers who ‘held the ring’ on the project, supporting the work of the sets and attempting to make sense of the emerging learning.