Transformative and emancipatory literacy to empower

ABSTRACT

This paper draws on sociological and critical educational frames, particularly Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, in order to contest the dominant model of literacy education that is driven by the premise of a ‘knowledge economy’. Instead it foregrounds the political, social, and economic factors that marginalise learners. Data from two projects: an ethnographic study in a Further Education (FE) College in England and a study of community-based literacy programmes in Scotland, are probed to show how literacy classes can offer spaces to challenge symbolic violence and facilitate learners to reclaim identities of success. These changes are illustrated from the learners’ views of the contrasts between their experiences of school education and literacy programmes that use transformative and emancipatory approaches. Our research demonstrates how critical education can open up spaces for a more equitable approach based on the co-production of knowledge. It is argued that making changes to policy and practice could inform and shape the literacy curriculum and its pedagogy if adult literacy can disentangle itself from instrumental approaches driven by neoliberal fusion and instead create critical space for contextualised and emancipatory learning.     

中小学教师数据素养评价指标体系构建

教育数据在教育领域不断渗透,教师的数据素养水平对于有效利用教育数据、合理判断学生的行为具有重要影响。本研究旨在用德尔菲法构建中小学教师数据素养评价指标体系,为评估中小学教师数据素养提供参考依据。通过文献分析梳理中小学教师数据素养评价指标,选择相关领域专家12人,采用德尔菲法进行2轮专家意见征询,根据专家打分计算指标权重,形成中小学教师数据素养评价指标体系。问卷征询专家的积极系数为100%,专家权威程度均值为0.72,确定的一、二级指标重要性均值均大于4.00,变异系数均小于0.25,符合德尔菲法要求。最终形成了包含数据意识、数据知识、数据操控技能、数据应用能力、评价交流数据、数据思维6个一级指标和19个二级指标与40条具体内容的中小学教师数据素养评价指标体系。对46位教师进行小范围试用,验证了其科学性与可靠性,该评价指标体系可作为评价中小学教师数据素养发展水平的参考测量工具。     

基于核心素养的高中地理教学刍探

高中地理的课堂教学要围绕核心素养的培养,从人地协调观、综合思维、区域认知和地理实践力方面积极创新教学途径。教师应当通过多种多样的课堂形式,全面提升学生解读地图的能力,运用生活化的课堂教学培养学生的地理探索能力,结合多媒体教学培养学生地理空间思维,注重问题引导以培养学生综合思维。     

Learning,literacy and identity: ‘I don’t think I’m a failure any more’

The impact of participation in adult literacy programmes on learners’ identities is examined through an interrogation of their past and current experiences and the assessment of the effect of particular pedagogies. The findings show how learners’ positive experiences in their programmes had caused them to re-evaluate their previous understandings and enabled the construction of new identities as people that are able to learn. These changes had come about through the challenging of negative discourses, the creation of new figured worlds and imagined futures, and the use of a learning curriculum where learners’ experiences were utilized as positive resources.     

论网络环境下学习者的信息素养及其培养

网络学习是信息社会一种全新的学习方式，信息素养是未来人才的必备素质，也是实现终身教育的基本要求。学习者运用现代信息技术进行学习的意识和能力，直接影响现代远程教育的教学质量和学习效果。本文在综合前人研究成果的基础上，结合自己的认识，对网络环境下学习者信息素养的内涵、基本要求以及培养途径等方面进行了探讨。     

Networking around The Waterhole and other tales: the importance of relationships among texts for reading and related instruction

This article explores ways in which children's picture books form networks of relationships, and their implications for readers and classroom teachers. In this exploration, reading is seen to involve making connections within and beyond the text at hand. These connections, evoked differently across readers, shape readers' interpretations of text. Many possible meanings may arise from just one text, reinforcing the idea that no single correct meaning resides in a text. This article demonstrates tools for exploring textual connections with readers, and the value of such explorations for opening‐up reader interpretations of a text.     

建国以来我国公民科学素质建设的基本特征

本文将我国公民科学素质建设的历史放在整个中国社会变革的大背景中加以审视，在其基础上描述和讨论了建国以来我国公民科学素质建设的九大历史特征，以期为新形势下的公民科学素质建设提供借鉴。     

图书馆与"数字鸿沟"关系论略

数字鸿沟的本质是经济鸿沟,是传统经济增长不均衡问题在信息时代的延伸和加剧。我国图书馆界应对数字鸿沟面临着种种困境,却仍能发挥其信息交换的枢纽作用,然此作用亦不宜过分夸大。