科学教育的重要途径—非正规学习

非正规学习在培养学生科学素质方面具有正规学习不可替代的重要作用。了解非正规学习的特点、规律和怎样影响人的科学素质的形成和发展对当前我国政府倡导的大力普及科学教育,提高全民,特别是未成年人的科学素质具有重大意义。非正规科学学习不仅能为学生提供丰富的认知冲突和社会互动机会,使他们建立起更加完善的知识结构,而且还能提高他们的科学论证能力。非正规学习是发展学生科学素质的必经之路。     

高师院校计算机应用基础课程分级教学探讨

通过对高师院校计算机教育现状的分析和存在的不足,依据分级教学的优势及特征提出一种探索性的计算机基础课程分级教学的构想,并试图为高师院校课程改革尝试提供参考。     

论基于探究的科学教学

随着国家基础教育课程改革向纵深方向发展,基于探究的科学教学已越来越被广大教师认同,并作为一种教学模式被教师所掌握,但在实际的科学教学中还存在着许多偏差。文章基于教师的角度,试图从传统的科学教学、学生学习科学以及探究性教学等方面来论述基于探究的科学教学的一些特点,并指出了教师应该努力的方向。     

加强青少年性健康教育 引领网络文化和谐发展

网络已经成为现代人生活中重要的组成部分,网络文化也逐渐成为影响社会发展的一个重要因素。但是,网上一些淫秽色情信息危害青少年的身心健康,并影响网络文化的健康发展。而性是人类心灵深处的东西,好的性教育应该使受教育者的性行为、性心理体现出高尚、纯洁的特点,这是一种思想、情感的高级教育。因此,要加强青少年性健康教育,用社会主义核心价值体系引领网络文化和谐发展。只有综合、立体、积极地开展性教育,以培养科学的性知识为基础,以培养健康的性态度为核心,才能使学生正确对待性生理和性心理的问题。     

基于核心素养的综合实践基地课程价值探索

综合实践活动是一门培养学生综合素质的跨学科实践性课程,综合实践基地作为开展学生校外综合实践活动的重要阵地,所开设的课程类型多样且具备多元价值。基于学生发展核心素养,综合实践基地课程价值可以归纳为以下六方面:一是积淀人文底蕴,提升审美情趣;二是强化理性思维,勇于质疑探究;三是培养信息意识,适应信息社会;四是塑造积极品质,掌握自护技能;五是担负社会责任,提高国家认同;六是树立创新意识,加强物化能力。     

Teaching Young Children to Make Picture Books

Teaching young children to make picture books provides the opportunity to both record and to share personal experiences in a unique format. Two powerful modes of thought and expression, the linguistic and the visual, are naturally integrated in the process of picture bookmaking. The public recognition of picture bookmaking efforts empowers young children who are struggling to master the reading and writing processes as they gain an understanding of how text and image work together to tell the story. The increased self-confidence which comes from mastery of both bookmaking and illustrating techniques is beneficial for all children.     

Singing our song: the affordances of singing in an intergenerational,multimodal literacy programme

This exploratory case study examined the affordances of singing as a multimodal literacy practice within ensembles that featured art, singing and digital media produced in an intergenerational programme that served a class of kindergarten children and community elders. The programme that was set up by the study in collaboration with a rural school and elders' organisation saw participants meet one afternoon a week for most of a school year. Study questions concerned the meaning making and relationship‐building opportunities afforded to the participants as they worked through chains of multimodal projects. Data were collected using ethnographic tools in an elders' home where the projects were completed and in the kindergarten where project content and tools were introduced to the children and extended by the classroom teacher. Themes were identified through the juxtaposition of data in relation to the literature and study questions. Results indicate that singing provided opportunities for participants to form relationships and make meaning as a group while combining modes. Study findings foreground the communicative power of singing and suggest how singing, when viewed through a multimodal lens, might be a potent tool for multimodal literacy learning.     

Linguistic and Cultural Appropriations of an Immigrant Multilingual Literacy Teacher Educator

This autoethnographic self-study describes my interpretations of multicultural awareness, with special attention to multilingual awareness (MLA), based on my interactions with 52 students in the context of two literacy courses over a period of one year. An autoethnographic self-study provided an avenue to harness my reflections on practice and to study the ways in which my practice reflected awareness of my role as an educator. Findings from my teaching videos, written responses to students, and student evaluations suggested that my communication patterns with students reflected certain elements of multicultural awareness, as displayed by my attention to individual predispositions, cultural practices and personal stereotypes. The findings also appeared to indicate that multicultural and MLA interacted to reflect facilitation and symbiosis. Facilitation seemed apparent in my awareness of differences among students’ cultures and my own as I monitored my linguistic processing. Symbiosis appeared to emanate from the recognition of how my response to individual predispositions facilitated my application of conversational strategies based on feedback. This, in turn, heightened my attention to stereotypical attitudes and behaviors. Implications for multicultural teacher education include the benefits of using autoethnographic self-study to scrutinize educators’ awareness in practice as they determine the impact of this awareness on their instructional roles in multicultural teacher education. By extension, the study suggests that autoethnographic self-study research can provide additional lenses through which to interrogate monolithic perceptions of diversity in multicultural teacher education.     

大学英语听力课堂改革初探

本文阐述了建立科学的大学英语听力教学评估体系的意义,详细分析了过去的教学评估体系存在的弊端及危害,指出我们必须建立一套适应大学英语听力教学目标的新的教学评价体系。通过课程设计及教学评价使学生在英语课程的学习过程中不断体验进步与成功,认识自我,建立自信,快乐地学英语,更好地促进学生综合语言运用能力的全面发展。     

Developing holistic practice through reflection,action and theorising

This article outlines how I, as a primary teacher engaging with a self-study action research process, have come to a deeper understanding of my practice. It explains how I have also come to an understanding of why I work in the way I do; of how this understanding influences my work, and the significance of this new understanding. My work as a teacher frequently includes doing collaborative digital projects with my class. As I engaged in research on my practice, I initially experienced difficulties problematising this work. I struggled to achieve clarity not only with engaging in critical thinking but also with articulating my educational values. I found Mellor’s idea about ‘the struggle’ helpful as he explains how ‘the struggle’ is at the heart of the research process. My new understanding around these collaborative projects emerged in terms of holistic practice; clarifying my ontological values and learning to think critically. I am now generating an educational theory from my practice as I see my work as a process for developing spiritual and holistic approaches to learning and teaching. I conclude by outlining what I perceive to be the significance of my work and its potential implications for education.