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.     

国际教育法学研究重心的转移及其启示

教育法学的形成与发展经历了一个逐渐完善的过程。近年来,伴随各国教育法制化进程的加快,教育法学的研究内容亦更加广泛,研究重心则逐渐转向对现实教育领域法律问题的研究,以及更加关注以权利义务为核心的教育法基础理论的研究等。国际教育法学研究重心的转移一方面受教育学、法学等基础学科的推动与影响;另一方面,也与各国教育法学形成的历史传统与特点有关。借鉴国际教育法学研究重心转移的相关经验与成果,对于我国教育法学研究具有现实的重要意义。     

严万里《商君书校》校勘特色平议

<商君书校>一书,以其校勘的精审、方法的缜密见长.著者淹博通贯,小学根底扎实,且熟谙于朴学家校治古书之法,因而在校勘的实践中应付裕如,左右逢源.在校勘上搜罗宏富,征引广博,在指出诸本文字差异的同时,抉择按断,兼下己意.不盲从古本或善本,敢于大胆发疑,刊改漏失,补苴未备,提出了若干具有创造性的新见解.校勘文字,大胆审慎,...     

Extraction of novel features for emotion recognition

Hilbert-Huang transform method has been widely utilized from its inception because of the superiority in varieties of areas. The Hilbert spectrum thus obtained is able to reflect the distribution of the signal energy in a number of scales accurately. In this paper, a novel feature called ECC is proposed via feature extraction of the Hilbert energy spectrum which describes the distribution of the instantaneous energy. The experimental results conspicuously demonstrate that ECC outperforms the traditional short-term average energy. Combination of the ECC with mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) delineates the distribution of energy in the time domain and frequency domain, and the features of this group achieve a better recognition effect compared with the feature combination of the short-term average energy, pitch and MFCC. Afterwards, further improvements of ECC are developed. TECC is gained by combining ECC with the teager energy operator, and EFCC is obtained by introducing the instantaneous frequency to the energy. In the experiments, seven status of emotion are selected to be recognized and the highest recognition rate 83.57% is achieved within the classification accuracy of boredom reaching 100%. The numerical results indicate that the proposed features ECC, TECC and EFCC can improve the performance of speech emotion recognition substantially.     

谈谈数学思想在程序设计上的应用

在程序设计中,常常会用到数学上的很多思想。本文以C语言程序设计为例,进一步阐述数学思想在程序设计上的应用。     

非师范专业《现代教育技术》通识选修课教学设计与开发探究

教学设计是开发课程和指导教学活动实施的一种系统方法。运用ADDIE模型,融合多种学习理论,对非师范专业《现代教育技术》通识选修课进行系统的教学设计与开发研究,采用主题式教学内容和团队式教学模式,设计与教学目标和内容相匹配的教学方法和教学手段。经过三年的教学实践与评估优化,课程的教学体系日臻完善,其教学质量和教学效果被广大学生认可。     

民俗旅游中传统文化的“真实性”探讨——以桃坪羌寨“花儿纳吉”赛歌节为例

旅游的“真实性”分为客观性真实、建构性真实和存在性真实．旅游地主流文化与边缘文化、强势文化与弱势文化之间的碰撞,使得文化差异性减少、趋同性增加,从而导致民俗旅游中“真实性”的缺失．以桃坪羌寨“花儿纳吉”赛歌节为例,通过与传统的“花儿纳吉”对比,探讨了民俗旅游对传统文化“真实性”的影响,意在揭示保护传统文化“真实性”的重要意义．     

抗战文学功能的美学思考

文学在抗战时期顺应历史潮流,宣传抗战促使抗战达到全面动员;这同时也促使了文学与当时的社会现实全面而整体的结合,走向现实主义,实现了抗战文学建国与建立新文艺的双重目标。由此,文学与抗战的结合充分显示了文学在抗战时期的作用和功能,展示了文学在特殊历史时期的特殊作用,同时,也为文学开拓了一个崭新的审美表现空间,使文学呈现出不同的文化特征和审美追求。