美国小学德育课程模式历史转型及启示

德育课程是德育工作的核心,美国小学德育课程模式在数百年发展中经历了从单纯移植到建立国家德育体系,并随社会变革使德育课程模式逐步向现代转型,再到从小学德育的世纪改革走向综合德育课程模式新兴的演进历程。数次重大的转型推进了美国德育的现代变革,形成了一个兼容并包、整合互动的德育课程模式,对美国社会发展起了重要作用。     

职业教育城乡均衡发展问题表征与统筹保障——以重庆市为例

通过对重庆市职业教育的调查分析发现,职业教育城乡统筹发展取得了一定的成效,但仍存在着公平性缺失引发的职业教育机会的区域性失衡,支撑性不足引发的核心教育资源的匹配性失衡,协调性孱弱引发的职业教育结构的局部性失衡,水平性阻滞引发的人才培养质量的效力性失衡等问题。造成这些问题的关键症结在于职业教育城乡二元化困境及相应的教育体制障碍。实现职业教育城乡均衡发展的关键在于彻底打破城乡分割、高职中职分裂、学校脱离行业的体制,重点在于为办学管理体制、投入配置机制、人事管理体制等提供统筹保障。     

成人女性性别课程开发初探——女性主义课程论的视角

目前的成人教育课程存在着"性别屏蔽"、性别角色刻板、忽视女性个性化主体、女性学习方式极端化等诸多问题。以女性主义课程论的有关思想为指导,成人女性性别课程开发应确立适切性的课程目标取向,配置内在化的课程开发主体,选编有特色的课程内容,采取针对性的课程教学方式。     

大学通识教育教学质量评价体系及指标设计

科学、系统和可操作的通识教育教学质量评价体系的基本框架是:评价目标——通识课程教学目标对通识教育三大目标的支持程度,教学内容是否符合上述三大教学目标,教学形式与方法是否有利于实现上述三大教学目标,教学效果是否达到上述三大教学目标;评价对象——教师和学生;评价方法——档案袋评价法、课程嵌入式评价法、自我评价与他人评价相结合等;评价内容——教学目标、教学内容、教学方法和教学效果。     

“I Can Air My Feelings Instead of Eating Them”: Blogging as Social Support for the Morbidly Obese

The morbidly obese, defined as people who are 100 pounds or more overweight, are the fastest growing population among the obese. They often live with health risks, face discrimination, and lack traditional social support. This article explores the use of weight loss blogs by the morbidly obese (N = 50) and argues that blogging provides invaluable computer-mediated social support for them in four ways: (a) it allows for empathy; (b) it ensures accountability to others; (c) it provides venting and advice seeking; and (d) it shares validation of the weight loss experience. Additionally, the article argues that social support scholars must move beyond chat rooms and message boards as media and explore more media-rich environments such as blogging and social networks.     

The influence of clothing on perceptions of infant sex roles

This paper reports an evaluation of presentation skills training for participants from manufacturing, service, production, and research organizations using a repeated‐measures quasi‐experimental comparison‐group design. In addition to posttest assessments of participants’ reactions and learning, participants’ self reports of sixteen behavioral skills were assessed across three time periods. Similar analyses were employed to test for co‐workers’ ratings of program participants’ long‐term improvement. Statistical analyses of participants’ responses (controlling for the number of comparisons) revealed positive reactions to the training, improvement in learning, as well as short‐term behavioral change in eight of the sixteen skills taught. Long‐term change was found in seven of the dependent measures. On‐the‐job change was found in three skills. Taken together, improvement was found in all but two of the skills areas in the training. Analyses of co‐workers’ ratings of participants’ skills also revealed that trainees had improved on twelve of the sixteen presentation skills after the program.     

From Memories to Diaries: A Portrait of Hope Captured from the Lens of a Nurse Educator as a Breast Cancer Patient

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women worldwide. While it is true that hope influences how these victims view and live their lives, little is known as to how hope is lived and experienced by a breast cancer patient whose professional background and practice is nursing. This narrative–interpretive study purports to create a portrait of a nurse educator whose hope becomes her language of meaning-making. A Filipino nurse educator suffering from breast cancer was used as the subject of this study. Constituting the study's corpus of data is a series of diaries which were religiously written for a period of six months (November 2007–April 2008). Three interesting themes that elucidate the portrait of hope as embodied in the subject's diaries include (a) Stop: Searching for Meaning; (b) Look: Standing through Meaning; and (c) Listen: Sailing through Meaning. Notably, hope serving as a universal human experience is a powerful gift that enables an individual to see meaning amidst painful conditions, stand firmly despite adversities, and live by faith to continue life's journey.     

Web search strategies: The influence of Web experience and task type

Despite a number of studies looking at Web experience and Web searching tactics and behaviours, the specific relationships between experience and cognitive search strategies have not been widely researched. This study investigates how the cognitive search strategies of 80 participants might vary with Web experience as they engaged in two researcher-defined tasks and two participant-defined information seeking tasks. Each of the two researcher-defined tasks and participant-defined tasks included a directed search task and a general-purpose browsing task. While there were almost no significant performance differences between experience levels on any of the four tasks, there were significant differences in the use of cognitive search strategies. Participants with higher levels of Web experience were more likely to use “Parallel player”, “Parallel hub-and-spoke”, “Known address search domain” and “Known address” strategies, whereas participants with lower levels of Web experience were more likely to use “Virtual tourist”, “Link-dependent”, “To-the-point”, “Sequential player”, “Search engine narrowing”, and “Broad first” strategies. The patterns of use and differences between researcher-defined and participant-defined tasks and between directed search tasks and general-purpose browsing tasks are also discussed, although the distribution of search strategies by Web experience were not statistically significant for each individual task.     

走向校长专业化

校长职业只有走入专业化进程,才能提升校长群体的职业素养,才能满足社会改革和教育发展的需要。校长专业化所需要的知识应该是能促进校长群体提升职业活动水平的知识,能为校长群体的职业活动提供有效指导的知识。建构校长专业化的知识基础,除了利用已有知识,还需要生产新的实践性知识。校长是重要的人力资源,制约校长专业化最重要的因素是校长管理制度,应依据人力资源管理理论建立健全校长管理制度,通过制度建设促进校长的专业化进程。