Envisioning Possibility: Schooling and Student Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

This article provides a rationale for using literature in the classroom to explore conceptions of curriculum and teaching. We discuss a number of exemplars from children’s and young adult fiction, both mainstream and less well known; offer a taxonomy for categorizing the range of visions of curriculum and teaching in the literature; and describe the responses of a group of middle school students to a unit that examined schooling in literature. We argue that reading literature which addresses student experiences in school can help students make sense of those experiences and, more importantly, open their minds to ideas about teaching and schooling that they otherwise might never have considered.John Kornfeld is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Education at Sonoma State University. His research in curriculum, children’s literature, school/ university collaboration, and the politics of schooling has been published in such journals as Theory into Practice, Social Education, and Theory and Research in Social Education.Laurie Prothro is a school library consultant and children’s librarian in Sonoma County, California. She specializes in collection development and young adult literature. Her most recent publication with John Kornfeld, entitled “Comedy, Conflict, and Community: Home and Family in Harry Potter,” appears in Elizabeth Heilman’s Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives.     

浅谈信息时代的教学

本文从信息时代对人才素质结构的要求、网络及网络教学的特点出发，分析了网络教学的开展给学校教学带来的新变化、新特点；最后提出了网络教学的学习模式。     

高校原典精读课教学中的师生互动——语言学精读课教学方法探索

本文就近年来复旦大学开设的"《普通语言学教程》精读"、"《语言论》精读"两门课程的教学实践,探讨高校原典精读课程多层次师生互动的教学方法.     

创建化学课堂教学"绿色生态环境"的探索与实践

化学课堂教学"绿色生态环境"的创建,是体现"科学发展观"和"新课标精神"的具体实践.其核心是把促进学生的个性发展和可持续发展作为化学课堂教学实施的重点,注重学生学习动机的激发;注重师生之间的协调合作与互动;注重发展学生的创新思维能力,为实现化学课堂教学目标和促进学生健康成长做好铺垫.     

中德学者关于教育学问题的一次对话——“生命·实践”教育学系列论著编委会与本纳教授的座谈会

华东师范大学＂生命·实践＂教育学系列论著编委会与德国柏林洪堡大学本纳相会上海,就教育学问题展开了热烈的对话。本纳对普通教育学、教育过程中＂教＂与＂学＂的转化等问题进行了深刻阐述,同时对＂生命·实践＂教育学系列论著编委会成员提出的关于复杂理论与教育的关系、德国教育理论与实践的关系等问题做了回应。叶澜就教育学科的独特性、教育过程的复杂性、消极经验的价值等表达了自己的观点。双方一致认为,只要人类存在,教育学作为一门学科,就不会终结。     

教育学是科学吗？——教育一个基本性质的发现及其对政策取向的意义

本文提出并分析了教育学危机的根源,揭示了教育的一个基本性质,即教育不是一种本源现象,而是一种派生现象;不是一种本体现象,而是一种从属现象。本文简要论证并分析了知识的一个显著特征,由此从各个角度探讨了教育对知识的派生和从属性质。由这一基本性质的揭示,作者对政策取向或政策侧重点做出阐述：教育学只有在揭示教育的真实性质和关系...     

新课程背景下高中化学高效课程的构建

以厦门市首届中小学、幼儿园教师教学技能大赛高中化学组典型案例作为研究样本,从以学定教、整合教学资源、校本资源开发三个方面建构高中化学高效课堂。     

Editorial H-score as a metric of inner authenticity for national scientific journals—Pilot study for the field of pedagogy

There is evidence that national scientific journals are important for local communities despite their limited audience due to national languages and topics, like in pedagogy. However, it is not easy to assess the level of scientific rigour of local journals, as most do not have available scientometric data and are often published in minority languages. We hypothesize that a possible manifestation of a latent trait of inner authenticity of the scientific journal (meaning the journal is accepted by a community interested in developing the field which conducts internationally accepted research) could be H-index of the editorial board members. To test this approach, we evaluated H-index and gender of editorial board members (n = 490) from 17 Czech and Slovak national science-oriented scientific pedagogical journals which were not indexed or indexed in Erih+ or Scopus, and compared this with the five lowest-rated journals from the same field indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The H-index of editorial board members was somewhat higher in indexed journals with those from WoS showing higher scores, and the number of board members with no discernable H-index was far greater in non-indexed journals. Editorial boards of journals indexed in WoS were mostly male, compared to a dominance of women on boards of non-indexed journals. Acknowledging the limited sample, it appears that the H-index of editorial board members may be a way to value national scientific journals.     

语言焦虑对大学英语课堂教学影响研究

焦虑变量与非英语专业学生的英语学习成绩有密切关系,过高或过轻焦虑都不能达到最佳行为结果,适度的焦虑才会带来最佳教学效果。提高教学效果的一个行之有效的方法就是关注学生的心理状态,创设良好的学习氛围,使学生处于适度焦虑状态;注重教学方法,激发学生学习动机和兴趣,做到因材施教。     

大学英语教师修正性反馈信念与课堂教学行为关系研究

教师教学信念影响其教学行为,也是预测教师教学质量和教学效果的最有效指标。文章运用课堂观察、深度访谈和刺激性回忆法,聚焦于三位英语专业精读课教师的教学信念和课堂行为,通过对所得数据进行定量和定性分析发现：由于个体差异,不同教师所持的教学信念互不相同,他们的课堂教学行为也存在巨大差异;同一教师持有内部相矛盾的信念,但这种个人内部矛盾的信念会随着教学经验的丰富和专业知识不断程序化而减弱;由于教学环境和教师所调用的知识的不同,同一教师的教学信念和教学行为之间虽具有一定的联系,但二者之间具有很大的差异。这就要求广大教师要不断反思自己的教学,积极开展行动研究,注意发展和完善自己的教学信念体系,努力促进专业知识的程序化,以应对复杂多变的课堂教学环境。