新课程思想下的实验装备理念与实践

从新课程的思想与理念出发,阐述实验装备的理念与方法,为教育技术装备部门与学校抓好实验室建设和装备,促进课程目标的实现,提供一种思路和解决方法。     

延安大学红色经典艺术教育示范基地建设的探索与实践

红色经典艺术是中国共产党艺术实践的结晶,对学生艺术素养、人文精神、道德人格等方面有着深远的教育意义。延安大学借助获批国家红色经典艺术教育示范基地有利时机,大力推进红色经典艺术教育,通过加强领导,健全机构,突出特色,创新活动,引导示范,提升质量等途径建设红色经典艺术教育示范基地,取得了一些成绩,对高等学校红色经典艺术教育有一定的借鉴作用。     

舒曼音乐与浪漫主义的融合

德国音乐家罗伯特·舒曼（1810--1856）全身心地践履与诠释音乐浪漫主义,集作曲家与艺术评论家于一身,横跨音乐与文学两大领域。舒曼对音乐浪漫主义的践履,历经了探寻音乐艺术的坎坷,费尽了追求爱情婚姻的周折,充满了践行音乐创作的传奇;舒曼的音乐浪漫主义风格,展现了真挚性,秉持着内向性,体现出融合性;舒曼音乐与浪漫主义的融合则凸显创新精神,并交织二重属性,注重节奏变花。     

客家民居聚落环境意义之探析

客家民居聚落是客家人对自身生存、生活环境进行精密思索创造的结果。在漫长的历史发展中,聚落环境被逐渐赋予关于自然、文化与社会的深远意义,成为客家文化最为重要的象征之一。本文试从建成环境意义的角度出发,就客家民居聚落空间图式的系列形成过程探析客家民居聚落环境的意义及其启示。     

优势视角的学校社会工作辅导策略探析

优势视角理论是20世纪八九十年代兴起于西方社会工作领域的一个新的实践取向。文章介绍了优势视角理论的基本观点:建构主义的哲学基础、多元取向的分析原则、弹性灵活的操作步骤和平等合作的辅导关系。在此基础上,文章结合两年来在中学开展的现场研究,提出了优势视角的学校社会工作辅导策略:此时此地、外化提问、积极回应、寻求代替、亲身体验和回归日常,并对此进行了反思与讨论。     

Theory to reality: a few issues in implementing problem-based learning

The success of an intervention depends not only upon its theoretical soundness, but also on proper implementation that reflects the guidelines derived from its theoretical conception. Debates surrounding the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) have focused on its theoretical conception and students’ learning outcomes, but implementation is seemingly absent from the picture. This paper attempts to describe what research evidence is needed to fill in this missing information and provide a clearer picture of PBL. The author examines current PBL implementation practices and identifies potentially confounding variables that may play a role in inconsistent or conflicting research results in PBL. For example, various models of PBL have been developed and implemented to afford the specific instructional needs of the institution or learner population. These PBL models are in fact quite different in terms of the nature of problem solving and the degrees of self-directed learning, which theoretically, should result in different types of learning outcomes. Without distinguishing the models used, the results of comparative PBL research could have been confounded. Furthermore, human factors are another set of confounding variables that could influence the students’ learning processes and consequently affect PBL implementations and research results. To remedy these problems and reach PBL’s full potential, as well as obtain a more accurate picture of PBL as an instructional method and its effects on students’ learning, some fundamental changes are needed.     

The Challenges Facing Early Childhood Care,Development and Education (ECCDE) in an Era of Universal Basic Education in Nigeria

Early childhood is a critical period of rapid physical, cognitive, and psycho-social development of a child. The quality of care and education which a child receives at this crucial age will determine to a great extent the level of his/her physical and cognitive development in the future. In Nigeria, Early Childhood Care, Development and Education (ECCDE) is an aspect of Universal Basic Education which was introduced in 1999 to increase the access of children to basic education and improve the state of education in the country. While all hands are on deck to ensure successful implementation and achievement of the objectives of the scheme, it is unfortunate that ECCDE is facing some challenges thus making it unrecognized in Nigeria. This paper examines the challenges of early childhood education in Nigeria. To improve the situation, the following measures are recommended: establishment of more public crèche, kindergarten, and nursery schools by the government; enforcement of the use of mother tongue in the teaching of children; training more personnel in the field of early childhood education in tertiary institutions; and introducing unified curriculum as well as providing more infrastructures.     

Young Voices on Climate Change: The Paul F-Brandwein 2010 NSTA Lecture

Lynne Cherry Brandwein Lecture March 2010 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Young Voices on Climate Change: Inspired and Empowered Youth Tackle Climate Science and Find Climate Solutions. As a child, Lynne Cherry was profoundly connected to the natural world and a special place. She watched the destruction of her world. Now, through her Young Voices on Climate Change project, she is trying to give teachers and young people the tools to prevent planetary meltdown on a greater scale. Global climate change is upon us and the need for education and action is immediate. Outreach, visual storytelling, and scientific understanding are especially necessary in light of the recent polls that show that the public is becoming more confused and less concerned about climate change. Cherry’s climate book, co-authored with photojournalist Gary Braasch, and her Young Voices on Climate Change films feature climate solutions. They’re about win–win—save the environment, protect human health, reduce global warming gases, demonstrate youth making a difference with practical tools, motivate engagement in climate science, take pride in increased science literacy, reach young people through their hearts as well as their minds, and save money. Although young people can help their parents, peers and communities understand climate science, they can also show them that reducing CO₂ is in their economic interest, and spur them to take action. School carbon reduction initiatives are spilling over into communities yielding measurable results in both global warming gas reductions and significant monetary savings.     

Reclaiming Kindergarten: Part II: Questions About Policy

Part II of “Reclaiming Kindergarten” continues the discussion related to responding to the crisis in today’s kindergarten. In Part II, two policy questions are posed, the answers to which seek to respond to this continuing crisis. The questions center on issues related to engaging families in kindergarten and the need to consider a new early childhood paradigm where kindergarten is part of a continuous and seamless educational experience spanning prekindergarten through third grade. As in Part I, examples of classroom practice are used to illustrate the effective implementation of these principles in a kindergarten classroom.     

Facing multiculturalism’s challenges in Korean education and society

Multicultural policy in South Korea faces variants of challenges endemic to multiculturalism. These challenges are “dilemmas of difference,” “variable terms of inclusion,” and “legitimacy.” In Korea, these challenges arise in a setting in which ethnic diversity is of relatively recent origin, an ideology of ethnic homogeneity is prevalent, and official multicultural policy is limited in its reach to those who are designated as “multicultural families,” that is families in which one spouse is Korean and the other an immigrant, usually the wife, and their offspring. The exclusion of migrant workers and their families from Korea’s multicultural framework poses a core contradiction in Korean multicultural policies. This contradiction must be resolved if multiculturalism in education and other spheres is to promote equality and provide a foundation for national integration on terms that are equitable to the diverse constituents of Korean society. Inevitably, this will require a redefinition of what it means to “be Korean.” Even if multicultural policies fall short in their immediate effects on those toward whom they are directed, multiculturalism represents a significant shift in the discourse of Korean identity and will be terrain on which the status of diverse groups in Korea will be contested.