The Talking Drawings Strategy: Using Primary Children’s Illustrations and Oral Language to Improve Comprehension of Expository Text

Listening and reading comprehension can be assessed by analyzing children’s visual, verbal, and written representations of their understandings. “Talking Drawings” (McConnell, S. (1993). Talking drawings: A strategy for assisting learners. Journal of Reading, 36(4), 260–269 is one strategy that enables children to combine their prior knowledge with the new information derived from an expository text and “translate” those newly-acquired understandings into other symbol systems, including an oral discussion with a partner, a more detailed drawing, and written labels for the drawing. The Talking Drawings strategy begins by inviting children to create pre-learning drawings. These initial drawings are a way of taking inventory of a child’s current content knowledge about a particular topic. After pre-learning drawings are created and shared, children listen to or read an expository text (e.g., information book, passage from a textbook) on the same topic as their drawing. Pairs of students discuss the information and either modify their pre-learning drawings to be more detailed or create completely new drawings that reflect the recently-acquired information. Students are encouraged to label their drawings with words in a diagram or schematic fashion. By evaluating the “before” and “after” artwork, educators can identify advances in students’ reading and listening comprehension of the terminology, facts, and principles on a particular topic.     

谈中、日私小说中的"自我"

私小说是产生于日本 ,影响到中国现代文学的一种小说形式。中、日私小说存在着明显的差异。日本私小说的“自我”是自我封闭、不求进取 ,向内深深的反省 ;而中国私小说中的“自我”却在喟叹感伤中潜伏着进取、反抗、并伺机向外扩张个性。造成这种差异的原因 ,主要是因为作家的个人境遇、社会文化和时代背景的不同     

中国现代家族题材小说的情节样式

中国现代家族题材小说的情节,围绕个人与家族(家庭)冲突展开,呈现出“吃人与被吃”、“叛逆与回归”、“反叛与割断”、“破坏与重建”等样式,揭示了家族制度和家族文化对个体的压制和扼杀,反映了五四运动后中国民众独立与自由意识的形成和发展历程。     

现代化中的农民问题

农民问题伴随现代化进程始终,只有在一个国家充分实现城市化后才能最后解决。西欧、拉美等地的农民转变受到其历史与环境上的特殊条件的影响,而东亚的“小农制”模式缓和了农民在现代化进程中所难免遭受的苦难,对我们具有重要的借鉴意义。解决我国目前的农民问题,需要新的思路:尤其是转向主要在城市解决农民问题而不只是在农村解决,转向主要依靠个人与社会来解决而不是像以往那样只依赖于政府与官员。     

人性的颂歌——从精神分析学说论沈从文小说

沈从文“五四”以来受外国文学思潮尤其是弗洛伊德精神分析学说的影响，在其小说中以浪漫主义的笔调、富于幻想的语言，将精神分析学说发挥极致，构筑了一个与同时代作品互补的异彩纷呈的人性世界。     

A Process Approach to Community-Based Education: The People’s Free University of Saskatchewan

On the basis of insights provided by Whitehead and John Cobb, I show how the People’s Free University of Saskatchewan (PFU) is a working model of free, open, community-based education that embodies several characteristics of Whitehead’s philosophy of education. Formed in opposition to the growing commercialization at the original “people’s university,” (the University of Saskatchewan) the PFU has spawned distinctive ideals of its own. The PFU reflects Whitehead’s belief in the importance of shared knowledge fostered by community-based education, the value of abstract and practical knowledge, and the power of the imagination to establish a community of learners capable of acting freely together.     

长篇反腐小说粗鄙化倾向透视

反腐小说大都满足于对生活表象的简单描摹,缺乏深层次的批判意识;小说情节雷同,模式化、概念化倾向较为明显。粗鄙化怪圈是制约反腐小说艺术与思想价值提升的瓶颈。反腐题材小说的兴起是小说努力关注现实、重返中心的表现,同时也是小说与消费文化合谋的结果。     

Different children’s perspectives on their learning environment

This article reports and discusses findings from an ethnographic case study, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of how different children perceive their learning environment in the first grade of primary school, with regard to social as well as academic aspects. The theoretical framework is based on an interactional perspective, where children’s learning and development are considered to take place in a dynamic and ecological system. The reported results are based on interviews with 16 children, and observed teaching situations during the first year of primary school. Research among children demands special ethical considerations, such as how to avoid questions and interest from the researcher affecting the position of children being vulnerable in some way. The findings show that, within a group of children, facing a similar learning environment, there are significant differences between the experiences expressed. The findings presented support the importance of listening to children when planning educational settings. Listening to and taking into account the children’s different voices is an essential part of research and education that strives for inclusion, learning and well-being of all children.     

论唐五代白话小说的伦理观

唐五代白话小说往往儒道释三教观念并存,作品援儒入佛,宣扬忠孝,意在借助中土传统伦理观,搭建中土受众对佛教文化的心理接受平台.     

论解放区小说人性层面的审美意蕴

诞生于特殊的战争年代的解放区小说,体现出了鲜明的主流意识形态的主导性特色。因此,不少人在评价解放区小说时,往往认为解放区小说创作的审美性已丧失在对主流意识形态的政治话语的认同中。只要创作主体是从表现普通民众的生存状况出发,文学受众就能透过文本看到基于社会性、阶级性之下的人性美的存在。