The eco-club: a place for the becoming active citizen?

This paper makes a twofold contribution. Firstly it presents a typology of eco-clubs that can be used to contextualise eco-club observations by researchers and can support management of eco-clubs by practitioners. Secondly it explains how participation in eco-clubs provides a space for a child to both enact and develop as a citizen, a place for being-as-becoming. It shows how children navigate adult behaviours in these settings and how these experiences afford opportunities for the development of attributes including critical and analytical thinking that are commonly associated with citizenship education in England. In conclusion the paper makes links between these unintended outcomes and the liberal underpinnings of educational institutions in England.     

Constructing competence: an analysis of student participation in the activity systems of mathematics classrooms

This paper investigates the construction of systems of competence in two middle school mathematics classrooms. Drawing on analyses of discourse from videotaped classroom sessions, this paper documents the ways that agency and accountability were distributed in the classrooms through interactions between the teachers and students as they worked on mathematical content. In doing so, we problematize the assumption that competencies are simply attributes of individuals that can be externally defined. Instead, we propose a concept of individual competence as an attribute of a person's participation in an activity system such as a classroom. In this perspective, what counts as “competent” gets constructed in particular classrooms, and can therefore look very different from setting to setting. The implications of the ways that competence can be defined are discussed in terms of future research and equitable learning outcomes.

战略杠杆、核心能力与企业技术创新战略

企业如何结合内外部环境分析制订技术创新战略是企业技术创新过程中首先要解决的问题。本文引入战略杠杆理论 ,并结合企业核心能力 ,提出企业战略杠杆同核心能力的供求及匹配关系 ,进而借用经济学中的基本模型对企业技术创新战略作出分析。指出通过重组实现技术创新供给与需求的高水平均衡。     

高职商务英语专业人才的商务能力培养

商务英语专业是一门语言与国际商务技能相结合的专业,其技能型人才培养不仅是英语听、说、读、写、译各项能力的拓展过程,而且更是商务知识的获取和应用的过程。笔者通过问卷调查,了解企业对高职商务英语专业人才商务知识和技能要求情况,并对调研结果进行深入分析与研究,结合自己多年的教学经验,探讨了教学中商务英语专业人才商务能力培养的策略。     

涉外护生跨文化护理能力培养的思考

文章介绍了跨文化护理概念,分析了当前跨文化护理的市场需求,提出了培养跨文化护理能力的理论依据,并以湖北职业技术学院为例,探讨了涉外护理专业培养涉外护生跨文化交际能力的措施。     

日语情境教学中移情能力的培养

移情能力直接影响到跨文化交际的质量、效果和进程。在就业竞争日益激烈的今天,作为高职院校的教师,为实现学生日语素质与日资企业需求的无缝对接,在日语教学实践中运用情境教学,培养移情能力,对于培养素质较高的日语人才有极其重要的理论与实践意义。     

Competency,epistemology and pedagogy: curriculums holy trinity

In this era of heightened calls for accountability and standards, clear visions of competence are more necessary than ever and, moreover, these planned products of education need explicit articulation. Such articulation falls within the purview of the formal curriculum and it is with this that the present article concerns itself. It draws on a past Ontario, Canada curricular initiative, The Common Curriculum, as the vehicle through which to examine the difficulties inherent in spelling out a conception of competence. Such difficulties, it is argued, stem from the inextricable link between definitions of competence and their associated epistemological and pedagogical implications.     

调整大学英语教材以增加中国文化渗透应慎行

中国文化走出去战略意义日益提高,而中国大学英语教育中中国文化缺失的问题又日益凸显,由此有教育者疾呼应调整大学英语教材以增加中国文化渗透。而本文作者则认为这建议有不合理之处,首先,中国文化失语症的根本原因是文化知识缺失,而非英语表达方式缺失;其次,在调整过程中,"具体选择哪些内容"和"具体在哪个阶段使用"这两个关键问题目前尚没有得到合理解答。同时,此类建议对提高跨文化交际能力的实际效用并不大。因此,本文作者认为调整大学英语教材以增加中国文化渗透应慎行。     

Relationship Between Intercultural Communicative Competence and L2-Learning Motivation of Iranian EFL Learners

In today's interconnected multicultural world, citizens' differential levels of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) can play an important role in the amount of enthusiasm, time, and efforts they invest in second or foreign language (L2) communication and learning. ICC has recently found its way into L2 theory and research. This study attempted to first develop a measure of ICC and then explore the relationship between Iranian L2 learners' ICC and their L2 learning motivation, on the one hand, and between gender and the development of ICC, on the other. The participants were 180 B.A. English Literature/Translation and M.A. TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) students at several Iranian universities. A test battery including the final version of the ICC questionnaire and an L2-learning motivation questionnaire adapted from Gardner's attitude/motivation test battery was then administered to a random selection of 70 students (M = 30 and F = 40). The correlation results indicated that there was a strong, positive relationship between L2 learners' ICC and L2-learning motivation. Meanwhile, t-test results demonstrated that Iranian female and male L2 learners did not possess different levels of ICC. The finding related to the ICC and motivation association suggests that an account of ICC development be incorporated into L2 teachers' classroom agendas at different educational levels.     

坚持生本理念 重视创新思维 彰显“天津风格”--2021年天津市初中毕业生学业考试语文学科作文命题特征

从命题特征、考场作文创新点、基于命题指向的教学策略三个方面,对2021年天津市初中毕业生学业考试语文学科作文命题进行分析,试题积极落实立德树人教育目标,以语文学科核心素养为导向,践行生本理念,坚持守正创新,对学生语文素养进行了全面考查。进而阐释新时代背景下初中语文作文教学的基本方向和路径。