Selecting Books for Children Birth Through Four: A Developmental Approach

The selection of books to read to young children matters enormously in the role books play for enriching children’s lives. This paper reviews the scientific evidence for the appropriate selection of books, and argues that care in selecting books targeted to children’s developing skills will enhance the power and the pleasures of reading to young children.     

Polices of promise and practices of limit: Singapore’s literacy education policy landscape and its impact on one school programme

This paper is about the interaction between policy and practice, and about how competing policies contributed to a paradoxical tension within that interaction in one school. Within a paradigm of educational renewal, the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) has initiated a number of policies designed to give schools autonomy in designing and implementing programmes to achieve optimal educational outcomes for its students. Among these are READ! Singapore, Teach Less, Learn More and the School Excellence Model. In this context, we review an MOE initiated Extensive Reading (ER) programme in one school. Despite such innovative policies, Dewey Secondary School’s [The names of the school and individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.] pedagogical and literacy practices continue to be largely influenced by other dominant features of Singapore’s and the school’s own educational culture—an exam-oriented focus that prioritises outcome and skill-based pedagogy and the school’s historical practice of restricting literacies. Competing policies as interpreted by the school and diverse stakeholders result in a morphed ER programme—an adaptation of a reading programme that reflects the programme intent overtly but one that collides at other times, and as a result, is pulled in different directions. The story is, thus, one of ‘policies of promise and practices of limit’.     

试论数学在现代经济学中的作用

随着经济学的发展,用数学分析和求解问题已成为对各经济领域进行研究,从而获得最佳解决方案的必要手段,如经济指标分析、金融市场风险评估,效益的合理分配、生产成本控制等都离不开数学模型的建立与求解,数学在经济学中的运用不断扩展,已成为经济学中最重要的方法之一,是经济理论研究取得突破的重要工具。     

概率方法在解决实际问题中的应用

举例说明如何利用概率论和随机过程的相关知识建立目标函数,求出最优值来解决实际问题。     

用C语言求解算式复原问题

算式复原问题是指把一个算式中的全部数字或者部分数字用字母或符号代替,然后通过逻辑推理加以复原。本文从传统的数学逻辑推理出发,研究分析出解题方法．利用C语言编程求解,提出一种更高效的解决方法。     

教师教学质量评价的数学模型

以学校督导评价、学生评价、系直属部门评价为教师教学质量评价的依据,采用层次分析法建立数学模型,为正确评价教师的教学质量提供了一定的理论依据。     

竞渡模型研究及应用

利用数学模型的基本理论和方法,对竞渡问题进行建模和分析,确定了两种情况下游泳者所选择的方向和路线,并对竞渡模型进行了推广和应用。     

“We were slow; it was challenging” and “It was hard not to make knots”: Crocheting as a Literacy Event in a Second Grade Classroom Community

This paper describes a “crazy about crocheting class” and shows how crocheting became a literacy event that promoted student empowerment and classroom community while engaging second grade students in authentic literacy practices. We document how crocheting evolved from a classroom management activity that also encouraged fine motor skills to a stimulus that drove individual and shared reading and writing. We show how this teacher planned instruction by building on student interest and enthusiasm and how these students experienced literacy as an every day social practice.     

以校园媒体为平台加强大学生媒介素养教育

媒介素养是信息社会现代人必备的基本素质。本文提出以校园媒体为平台,组织大学生开展媒介实践和理论学习是加强大学生媒介素养教育的一个可行和有效的途径。笔者从树立媒介素养教育的意识,构建合理的媒体运作机制;将媒体实践与理论相结合,培养学生媒介素养;由点及面,多种形式辐射媒介素养教育等三方面对如何发挥校园媒体在大学生媒介素养教育中的作用提出了建议。