高等教育国际化的向度分析与原则厘定

高等教育国际化是指在经济全球化、信息全球化的特定背景下,世界各国在人才培养、科学研究、师生人员、课程建设、教育资源等方面通过交流与合作,以促进世界高等教育相互融合与认同的动态过程。高等教育国际化的内容不是单维的,而是多向度的,主要包括培养目标国际化、课程与教学国际化、人员交流国际化、科研国际化等维度。在高等教育国际化的进程中,需要坚持自我与他者兼顾、形式与内容互补、规模与质量并进、借鉴与超越并举、共性与个性相结合的原则。     

数学教育研究理论与实践的经典之作——读“京师”数学教育丛书有感

数学教育理论的构建是数学教育研究的主题,其思想、理念对教师的影响是深远的."京师"数学教育丛书基于数学,紧密联系数学教学实践,由数学教育界知名专家在多年研究的基础上,通力合作而成.学术性、实用性兼备,是数学教育方向研究生、本科生、中小学数学教师提高数学和数学教育素养,系统学习数学教育理论的经典著作.     

关于数学教师课程知识来源

数学课程知识包括教材知识和资源知识,数学教师获得课程知识存在7种方法与途径,分别是:作为学生时代的经验;职前培训;在职培训;有组织的教研活动;同事之间的交流;阅读参考文献;自身的教学经验积累与反思.     

追寻优质的数学教育——一所综合了东西方教育理念的美国高中学校简介

美国的一些重点学校非常重视资优生的培养,并确实做到了因材施教.由于中美中小学教师从不同的视角进行教学,中美数学教育的研究方向和焦点及教师的教学方法有很多不同的地方.中国的教育应该思索和继承中华民族好的教学传统,同时学习和吸收发达国家培养优秀人才的经验,以保证和提升基础教育在世界的领先地位,同时,要在中学阶段因材施教,充分重视数学资优生的培养.不能以美国有多少诺贝尔奖获得者来抨击中国的中小学教育.     

基于SWOT分析农村教师教育培训的困境及发展策略

农村教师教育培训是农村基础教育发展的基本保证,面临大力发展的机遇,但同时由于种种原因,也面临严峻挑战。认真分析农村教师教育的外部机会与威胁,根据农村教师教育培训的优势和劣势制定合适的发展策略,以求得生存与发展。     

Lamaze breathing: what every pregnant woman needs to know

Lamaze breathing historically is considered the hallmark of Lamaze preparation for childbirth. This column discusses breathing in the larger context of contemporary Lamaze. Controlled breathing enhances relaxation and decreases perception of pain. It is one of many comfort strategies taught in Lamaze classes. In restricted birthing environments, breathing may be the only nonpharmacological comfort strategy available to women. Conscious breathing and relaxation, especially in combination with a wide variety of comfort strategies, can help women avoid unnecessary medical intervention and have a safe, healthy birth.     

Prenatal parenthood

In this article, we discuss the intuitive knowledge mothers have of their unborn baby. We propose a shift in focus from caregivers' merely providing information to first listening to pregnant mothers as they share their intuitive knowledge of their baby. This approach enables mothers and fathers or partners to know they are already parents to their unborn baby and empowers them to get in touch with their baby's presence and who he or she is during pregnancy. This intuitive knowledge may be a protective behavior that will enable mothers to keep babies safe during pregnancy.     

Teaching about the importance of trees: a study with young children

This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the effect of the storytelling teaching approach on kindergarten children's retention of ideas about the importance of trees. The study also assessed the effect of storytelling on children's intention to participate in a tree planting activity that they had to select from a list of activities. The story that was created included such elements as binary opposites, mental images, mystery, and wonder, according to Kieran Egan's theory. The study utilized a two‐group design, was conducted in three phases (pre‐test, intervention, and post‐test), lasted 11 weeks, and its results provide evidence of the effectiveness of the storytelling approach when compared with the traditional method of expository teaching complemented with visual images (pictures) of trees and their importance to human beings. The pedagogical appropriateness of the story, which was based upon the binary pair of opposites ‘security–insecurity’, is also discussed in the paper.     

Video diaries: a tool to investigate sustainability-related learning in threshold spaces

This paper takes as a case study an undergraduate field class from a UK university to rural Uganda. It describes and evaluates the use of video diaries as a tool for investigating the process of transformative learning in the context of education for sustainability. The applicability of threshold concept theory to this learning is investigated. Results show the video diary technique to be much more successful in capturing the development of student learning than written diaries. Despite some practical difficulties, rich data were generated. Analysis demonstrated that learning met three of the five criteria for threshold concepts: the learning was transformative, integrative and troublesome. Further research could test whether the learning in this case study met the threshold concept criterion of irreversibility. Further elaboration of the theoretical relationship between threshold concepts, transformative learning and education for sustainability is also needed. It is concluded that the video diary method is potentially transferable to other educational research contexts and may be particularly suitable for researching learning in threshold spaces.     

To be or not to be ‘a disabled student’ in higher education: the case of a postgraduate ‘non‐declaring’ (disabled) student

This paper draws on data from a research project that was funded by the UK's Higher Education Academy. The project focused on the experiences of disabled students in one English higher education institution, and a key feature of the project was to attempt to access the perspectives of ‘non‐declaring’ disabled students. This paper draws on the experiences of one of the ‘non‐declaring’ respondents, Anna, a postgraduate student. In the UK, some students declare their disabled status on entry to a higher education institution, some do so once at the institution and some never let the institution know of their impairment. It is the perspectives of this latter group that are particularly difficult to access. Anna's experiences as a postgraduate student provide some insight into what may affect decisions about declaration of impairment. Drawing on a social‐relational understanding of disability, factors that influenced her decision not to ‘declare’ and the consequent effect on her experience of higher education are explored.