嫁接与转换的艺术

本文主要是以切身的设计实践为论述基础，探讨这种嫁接活动应遵循的一些原则，力求把民族性与国际性、“土特产”与“洋包装”、少数民族文化与中原汉民族文化有机地结合，尝试以较大范围的区域特色代替某种单一的地方特色。     

对职业学校学生加强道德教育的思考

目前职业学校学生的道德现状令人忧虑,影响职业学校学生道德教育的原因主要有来自社会的消极影响、学校德育工作本身存在的问题和学生自身因素及家庭的影响。因此,在新形势下加强职业学校学生道德教育是十分必要的。     

丁玲的"牢狱"——从个案看体制内外女作家主体性精神建构的困境

丁玲之于中国文坛举足轻重。可以说,其近60年写作生涯的大半都显性存在于中国文学史,作家丁玲一直是时代的代言人;作为共产党领导下文艺体制内部的工作者和领导阶层,她亲历了新文学体制在政治体制规约之下从建立到形成的全过程。到了晚年,丁玲仍作为中国文坛的“旗帜”参与到国际文化交流活动中去,成为中国主流文学的代言人之一。纵观丁玲的一生,对合理社会制度的热切追求贯穿始终,其对自我、社会、人生的不懈求索与积极探寻都体现出同时代女性知识分子、作家中鲜有的激情、勇气和主体实践精神。然而,现实境遇中的丁玲却时时陷身于有形、无形、肉体、精神的“牢狱”。从丁玲个案探讨体制内外女作家主体性精神建构的困境,正是本文题旨所在。     

近年来我国教育产业问题研究述评

近年来各界学围绕教育的产业属性，教育能否产业化，发展教育产业的意义与作用等问题，进行了较广泛的讨论，观点见仁见智，莫衷一是。     

哈佛与耶鲁:大学特色生成与发展的两种不同模式

本文以哈佛大学和耶鲁大学的办学特色为例,探讨大学特色生成与发展的不同模式。哈佛自始至终是以敏锐的判断能力和历久常新的价值追求主动地进行着改革,但却成功地避免了大学自身发展内在逻辑的中断和毁灭,耶鲁则自始至终以沉静、稳操胜券的胸襟和自信有条不紊地控制着改革的进程,但却成功地避免了因外力的推动而进行的大规模突变而对自身发展造成的伤害。从哈佛的创新和耶鲁的保守不同特色的发展轨迹中得出了这样的结论:大学特色既是学校自身发展的历史积淀,又是在历史的传承中与时俱进的产物,但是在不同背景下的大学发展都是在自身特殊的环境因素的影响下形成不同的特色,体现在传统基础上的不同变式。在大学特色生成和发展的路径的选择上,每一所大学所选择的适宜路径并不相同,但都按照自己适宜的方式生长乃至繁盛。     

Florida and Puerto Rico Secondary Science Teachers’ Knowledge and Teaching of Climate Change Science

Misconceptions about climate change science are pervasive among the US public. This study investigated the possibility that these misconceptions may be reflective of science teachers’ knowledge and teaching of climate change science. Florida and Puerto Rico secondary science teachers who claim to teach extensively about climate change were surveyed in regard to their conceptions of climate change science and the climate change-related topics they teach. Results show that many teachers hold naïve views about climate change (e.g. that ozone layer depletion is a primary cause of climate change) and climate change science (e.g. that it must be based on controlled experiments for it to be valid). In addition, teachers in both groups neglect crucial topics such as how evidence for climate change is developed and the social, political, and economic dimensions of climate change. Our results suggest the need for teachers to understand how to teach climate change and the nature of climate change science using authentic contexts that promote effective socioscientific decision-making and climate change mitigation.     

Integrating Tinbergen's inquiries: Mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals

Visual signals convey emotions and intentions between individuals. Darwin underlined that human facial expressions represent a shared heritage between our species and many other social mammals. Social play is a fertile field to examine the role and the potential communicative function of facial expressions. The relaxed open-mouth (or play face) is a context-specific playful expression, which is widespread in human and non-human mammals. Here, we focus on playful communication by applying Tinbergen’s four areas of inquiry: proximate causation, ontogeny, function, and evolution. First of all we explore mimicry by focusing on its neural substrates and factors of modulation within playful and non-playful context (proximate causation). Play face is one of the earliest facial expressions to appear and be mimicked in neonates. The motor resonance between infants and their caregivers is essential later in life when individuals begin to engage in increasingly complex social interactions, including play (ontogeny). The success of a playful session can be evaluated by its duration in time. Mirroring facial expressions prolongs the session by favoring individuals to fine-tune their own motor sequences accordingly (function). Finally, through a comparative approach we also demonstrate that the elements constituting play communication and mimicry are sensitive to the quality of interindividual relationships of a species, thus reflecting the nature of its social network and style (evolution). In conclusion, our goal is to integrate Tinbergen’s four areas of ethological inquiry to provide a broader framework regarding the importance of communication and mimicry in the play domain of humans and other social mammals.     

The Intellectual Structure of Research on Educational Technology in Science Education (ETiSE): A Co-citation Network Analysis of Publications in Selected Journals (2008–2013)

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the intellectual structure of the research on educational technology in science education (ETiSE) within the most recent years (2008–2013). Based on the criteria for educational technology research and the citation threshold for educational co-citation analysis, a total of 137 relevant ETiSE papers were identified from the International Journal of Science Education, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, and the Journal of Science Education and Technology. Then, a series of methodologies were performed to analyze all 137 source documents, including document co-citation analysis, social network analysis, and exploratory factor analysis. As a result, 454 co-citation ties were obtained and then graphically visualized with an undirected network, presenting a global structure of the current ETiSE research network. In addition, four major underlying intellectual subfields within the main component of the ETiSE network were extracted and named as: (1) technology-enhanced science inquiry, (2) simulation and visualization for understanding, (3) technology-enhanced chemistry learning, and (4) game-based science learning. The most influential co-citation pairs and cross-boundary phenomena were then analyzed and visualized in a co-citation network. This is the very first attempt to illuminate the core ideas underlying ETiSE research by integrating the co-citation method, factor analysis, and the networking visualization technique. The findings of this study provide a platform for scholarly discussion of the dissemination and research trends within the current ETiSE literature.     

Contradictions,dialectical oppositions and shifts in teaching mathematics

The study reported in this paper concerns the tensions and conflicts that teachers experience while they enact a new set of reform-oriented curricular materials into their classrooms. Our focus is οn the interactions developed in two groups of teachers in two schools for a period of a school year. We use Activity Theory to study emerging contradictions and we elaborate on the construct of dialectical opposition to understand the nature of these contradictions and their potential for teacher learning. We provide evidence that discussions about contradictions and their dialectical character in the two groups support teachers to engage differently in mathematics teaching and learning and carry potentials for shifts in the practices that evolve in their classrooms. Our study addresses empirically in the context of mathematics teaching the philosophical claim about the role of contradictions as a driving force for any dynamic system.