成人教育研究:回顾与前瞻

我国现代成人教育的系统研究勃发于20世纪80年代。二十余年来,成人教育研究成就和问题并存,动力和干扰共有。新世纪前期,成人教育研究必须全面更新研究意识,大力推进改革步伐,通过自主创新,努力构建我国成人教育的科学理论体系。     

波兰罗兹大学英语教学法课程介绍与启示

本文介绍了波兰罗兹大学外国语学院英语教学法课程,同时还对国内一些同类学院英语教学法课进行对比分析;根据我国师范院校英语教学现状和英语教学法课程的课时安排、教材选用、教法选择以及教学实习的内容和次数,文章提出了一些教学改革的设想。     

Enhancing children's literacy skills: designing the Q‐Tales ecosystem for children's e‐book design and publication

This article describes the conceptualisation and development of a pedagogical framework to support the design of e‐books for children to enhance literacy development. It emerged from research undertaken within the Q‐Tales international consortium project of the EU's Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation, where the aim was to facilitate key stakeholders to collaborate and participate in the online production and publication of high‐quality, educational e‐books for children. The pedagogical framework described here sought to answer the question “What concepts and principles undergird the effective design of pedagogically impactful e‐books for children?” It is grounded by the theoretical underpinnings of socio‐constructivism, constructionism and skill theory, and how they relate to children's literacy development. A framework describing different narrative forms and component features, key pedagogical activities appropriate for different stages of reading development and design recommendations regarding the integration of multimedia into e‐books are also central to the pedagogical framework. As well as informing the design of the Q‐Tales infrastructure for children's e‐book design and publication, we hope the guidelines and pedagogical activities enumerated here will be widely useful for those designing and developing digital, interactive narratives, particularly e‐books to enhance children's emerging literacy.     

Using Picture Books as Paired Texts to Teach Educational Theories

Picture books, when used thoughtfully and artfully, can teach theories to graduate students in literacy and foreign language education. In this article, the authors described how a pair of picture books is used to teach Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development and Krashen's Input Hypothesis in the fields of literacy education and applied linguistics. The authors first introduced the theoretical foundation and rationale of using picture books as paired texts to teach educational theories. Then, from a macroperspective, they described the procedures of designing a class activity with paired picture books. Next, they provided language teachers and educators with a specific sample in which materials, objective, and specific instructional steps are clearly listed. In the end, the authors explained how the article contributes to the field from three perspectives: first, it offers a helpful strategy to language educators who make instruction of theories to graduate students easier; second, it provides insights to language and content area teachers on teaching across the curriculum by using picture books; third, it suggests how teachers can pair other learning mediators with picture books to improve student learning.     

Employers’ support for adult higher education students in liberal post-socialist contexts

In most European countries, the proportion of adult students among both full-time and part-time workers has increased significantly over recent decades. Undertaking paid work is also increasingly common among traditional students. The opportunities to work while studying depend largely on the role of employers in promoting learning. However, both theoretical frameworks and empirical studies typically focus on the behaviour of firms in providing training. The support of employers for formal adult education has remained a marginal topic. The aim of this article is to analyse the contributions of employers to the acquisition of higher education from the perspective of the adult learners; we investigated how employers support their staff in higher education studies. We also tried to identify which kinds of learners have a better chance of receiving various benefits. We used two different data-sets: quantitative data from a study of adult students in higher education and qualitative data from interviews with managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises and at least one employed participant in formal adult education, collected in the framework of the international research project Towards a Lifelong Learning Society in Europe: The Contribution of the Education System supported by the EU Sixth Framework Programme.     

一项关于成人学习者网络英语课程学习焦虑的实证研究

研究成人学习者英语网络课程学习及其学习焦虑的问题。目的在于验证“网络语言学习焦虑”量表,找出成人学习者英语网络课程学习的现状和学习焦虑的原因,给出有效解决方法,提高成人在网络环境下英语课程学习效果。     

面向成人教育开放式虚拟实验平台的设计与应用

实践教学是成人教育的一块短板,现有的实践教学资源也较为零散、单一。文章针对这些结构差异、开发语言不同,甚至数据库管理系统也各异的课程实验系统,提出了一种采用面向服务架构(SOA)技术,将这些孤立的异构系统集成到统一的实验管理平台中,实现一个松耦合、标准化的开放式虚拟实验平台。各类课程实验项目具备统一的操作模式和管理方式,便于成人学生通过网络进行虚拟仿真实验。     

建国初期我国成人教育政策的回顾与反思

建国初期是我国国民经济恢复和完成社会主义改造的重要阶段,国家政治、经济和社会发展发生了历史性转变。以工农教育为主体的成人教育得到党和政府的高度重视,国家相继出台一系列政策措施,有力地保障了工农教育的广泛、深入开展,干部教育、职工教育、农民教育以及成人高等教育都取得了显著进展,为巩固国家新生政权和恢复经济建设提供了有力支撑。本文在回顾建国初期成人教育的基本政策主张和具体政策措施的基础上,对这一时期成人教育政策目标的阶段性特征、政策价值的工具性特征、政策对象的重点性特征、政策制定的单向性特征以及政策执行的动态性特征进行分析与思考。     

我国植物人监护制度研究

伴随医疗水平的提高和急救技术的发展脑损害者的存活率得到了提升,社会上植物人数量大幅增长。植物人具备民事权利主体资格却失去意识能力。我国现有的民事监护立法并未涵盖植物人监护问题,实践中有关植物人的人身监护和财产监护等问题都不同程度地陷入无法可依的窘迫境地。完善植物人监护,应将植物人监护纳入成年监护范围内;尊重植物人的自我决定权,引入意定监护制度,并强化国家公权力在监护监督中的作用。     

关于我国成人教育未来的几点思考

随着社会的不断进步发展,我国成人教育已面临越来越多的问题与困境,在挑战与机遇并存的今天,如何面对新形势,如何尽快适应并找到相应的解决办法,是我国成人教育急需解决的一个迫切问题。