新课程改革下的课堂教学典型异化现象及反思

自从新课程改革实施以来，很多教师由于对新课程所倡导的理念理解不到位，产生了认识上的错误，引发了教学实践行为上的异化现象，典型表现有：课程教材只注重联系学生生活实际，忽略了学生对未知世界的想象和探究：课堂活动片面追求气氛，用“牧羊式”取代“填鸭式”；把接受性学习与探究性学习对立起来；忽略了学生主体地位由确立到实现的“过程”．对此，我们必须适时反思，并积极探讨合理对策。     

Playful structure: a novel image of early years pedagogy for primary school classrooms

Playful structure is a new pedagogic image representing a more balanced and integrated perspective on early years pedagogy, aiming to blend apparent dichotomies and contradictions and to sustain and evolve play-based practice beyond Year 1. Playful structure invites teachers and children to initiate and maintain a degree of playfulness in the child’s whole learning experience, even when the learning intentions demand a supportive structure. Thus, playfulness becomes characteristic of the interaction between adult and the child and not just characteristic of child-initiated versus adult-initiated activities, or of play-time versus task-time. The paper is based on intensive observations and interviews with teachers in Northern Ireland who participated in a play-based and informal curriculum. This paper explains how playful structure rests on complementary processes of infusion of structure into play-based activities and infusion of playfulness into more structured activities, illustrated by cameos. ‘Infusion’ suggests the subtle blending process that allows apparent dichotomies and contradictions to be resolved in practice.     

Prospective primary teachers’ perceptions about the use of mathematics homework

The benefit of homework (HW) has been the subject of ongoing debate among various stakeholders. Within this debate, and in relation to teacher development, prospective teachers’ views of HW have received limited attention. In this study, we survey primary pre-service teachers’ (‘PSTs’) views of HW use (n = 45 teaching grades 2–5; n = 39 teaching grades 6 and 7) in a single discipline (mathematics) at one large Australian university.

The literature suggests students in upper primary and secondary grades will benefit from the use of mathematics HW. Results of the study, in contrast, suggest our PSTs teaching early primary grades planned to give proportionally (but not significantly) more mathematics HW than those teaching later grades. Reasons for this disparity are discussed. We argue there is a need in teacher development to equip PSTs with a better understanding of how classroom and home-based learning work together in the development of mathematical understanding.     

高校课堂教学与青年教师培养探究

青年教师是培养跨世纪人才的主力军,课堂教学是＂质量工程＂实施的核心阵地。受各种主客观因素的影响,高校青年教师的教学能力和教学效果却不容乐观,青年教师的教学质量成为高校教学质量的薄弱环节,提高青年教师的教学能力成为我国高等教育质量工程能否顺利推进的一个亟待解决的问题。本文尝试立足课堂教学,搭建校本培训平台,从课堂教学规范化、科学化、艺术化的角度探讨青年教师课堂教学能力提高的对策。     

高职生职业能力培养的思考

高职生应具备的职业能力包括社会适应能力、动手能力、市场竞争能力、开拓创新能力等。高职院校需从课程设置、课堂教学、实践教学环节、师资队伍建设等方面进行深入改革,以培养学生的全面素质,提高学生综合职业能力。     

Primary teachers’ understanding of the interactive whiteboard as a tool for children’s collaborative learning and knowledge‐building

This paper reports on the second phase of a joint teacher/researcher project that explored teachers’ understandings of the potential of the interactive whiteboard (IWB) as a tool for primary school children’s collaborative group work. By examining teachers’ written analyses and discussions of work carried out in their own classrooms, the paper seeks to contribute to the debate about the ways in which the use of IWBs can contribute to changes in pedagogy. It highlights the interrelationships between collaborative learning and factors identified as important in the research carried out by teachers, amongst them the children’s technical skills and confidence, the mediating role of the teacher, the IWB affordances for knowledge‐building and the teachers’ own knowledge, attitudes and professional development. The paper also provides an account of how participation by the teachers in a course with Faculty staff, focused on the collaborative co‐construction of knowledge related to learning and to classroom research grounded in the values and principles of socio‐cultural theory, supported changes in pedagogic practice.     

思想政治理论课对新增内容的贯彻执行情况分析

由于思想政治理论课教材具有一定的滞后性,高校思想政治理论课教师对新内容进行了具体、详细地分析研究并切实融入教学中,成为高校思想政治理论课教学的重要内容。习近平总书记2016年12月在全国高校思想政治工作会议上提出了"因事而化、因时而进、因势而新"的"三因"理念,为搞好思想政治理论课教学提出了更为明确的要求。为了解高校思想政治理论课对新增内容的贯彻执行情况,研究者面向江西省五所高校的学生和马克思主义学院(思政部)的教师以问卷的方式进行了调查,对结果进行了分析,并从中寻找出解决问题的办法。     

Lyotard’s pedagogies of affect in Les Immatériaux

Abstract

This paper explores the continuing relevance to education of ideas about art and resistance that Jean-François Lyotard signalled in his curated exhibition in 1985 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris entitled Les Immatériaux. The exhibition was for Lyotard the ‘staging’ of a resistance at the dawning of an information age that challenged the prioritisation of computerised ‘data’ through the very deconstruction of data as presented in artistic form. While the implications of this event for art exhibitions are still being theorised and debated, it is the insight Les Immat?ériaux provides as pedagogical encounter that is the focus of this article. The paper explores the exhibition in the context of the immateriality of art and develops this argument towards a notion of artistic testimony that then culminates in an analysis for the pedagogical significance of the exhibition in the information drenched, highly networked context of contemporary education.     

Educational use of social networking technology in higher education

This study explored how social networking technology can be used to supplement face-to-face courses as a means of enhancing students' sense of community and, thus, to promote classroom communities of practice in the context of higher education. Data were collected from 67 students who enrolled in four face-to-face courses at two public universities in Taiwan. Findings indicated that the majority of participants developed strong feelings of social connectedness and expressed favorable feelings regarding their learning experiences in the classes where social networking sites were used as a supplementary tool. Learner difficulties and concerns of instructors about the educational use of social media are addressed with recommendations for future research and practice.     

The Students' Faculties

In this paper, we question how we might disrupt positivist research paradigms that preclude students from engaging and experiencing ownership in the research process. We question what we, as professors, could do to facilitate the transition from traditional research reporting to a disposition of inquiry that allows for ambiguity and discovery in the research process.

Evidence presented was gathered over the course of a two-year qualitative research project completed in a capstone education course. Like most capstone courses, we required a summative research paper, but student work suggested they had minimal interest or enthusiasm for the project. However, by redirecting our students' research interest from traditional research reporting to the generation of authentic research questions drawn from their student teaching experience, a solution emerged. The students' questions provided the basis for the ensuing qualitative inquiry project that afforded them a new and authentic type of inquiry.

This paper describes the process our students engaged in to complete this qualitative inquiry, including the identification of the research question and analysis of field notes and documents. It concludes by sharing samples of the students' research questions and findings that illustrate the authentic inquiry and ownership they experienced as a result of the project.