‘Surprise Me!’ The (im)possibilities of agency and creativity within the standards framework of history education

Abstract

In the current culture of regulation in higher education and, in turn, the history discipline, it is timely to problematize discipline standards in relation to student agency and creativity. This article argues that through the inclusion of a critical orientation and engaged pedagogy, historians have the opportunity to bring a more agentic dimension to the disciplinary conversation. Discipline standards privilege that arrogant historical moment in the higher education sector when certain skills development and knowledge creation becomes a hegemonic discourse. As a result, there is less emphasis on creativity, agency, and individual opportunities for the demonstration of the historical imagination at work. We need to ensure that the insights gained from teaching and learning practice and research are not lost in the rush to meet discipline standards through compliance.     

A mentoring programme based on competency development at a Spanish university: an action research study

This article describes an action research (AR) project for designing and implementing a structured mentoring programme in a Spanish university. A student affairs unit, a team of researchers, faculty-mentors and student-protégés worked together on three cycles of AR. The result is a programmatic mentoring programme for the development of non-technical personal and professional competencies for undergraduate students. This paper describes the original situation that sparked the project, the iterative process followed, the tools and guides developed and the final programme designed. In addition to the increase in the level of satisfaction perceived by the entire university, the paper outlines the five critical factors that emerged from the AR project: the competency development process, programme value added, trust between mentors and protégés, the prominence of the student-protégé in the improvement plans and the continuous improvement culture generated.     

充分开发农村自然资源促进体育新课标的实施

通过对肇庆、云浮两市农村学校基本情况、体育教学资源、教学现状和课程改革情况的调查统计，分析了农村学校实施体育新课标的现状及存在的实际困难，提出应充分开发和利用农村的自然资源，以此加快农村学校体育新课标的实施．     

基于胜任特征的大学生职业生涯管理研究

造成大学生就业困难的因素很多,但不能有效进行职业生涯规划与管理是其中的重要原因。基于胜任特征的大学生职业生涯管理主要包括基于胜任特征的职业生涯诊断、职业生涯目标确定和职业生涯的策略制定与实施三个步骤。将胜任特征理论引入大学生职业生涯管理领域,能够帮助大学生确定就业目标,将已经确定的就业目标进行分解。     

道德法律化:当前道德建设的重要途径

随着社会主义市场经济的不断发展，我国道德状况出现了紊乱和“滑坡”的现象。这在很大程度上是由于道德规范的软约束机制造成的，因此，应从道德与法律的内在规律出发，结合道德法律化的历史和现实的实践经验，强化道德软约束，加强道德法律化建设。     

我国义务教育阶段学生核心素养模型的构建

近年来,学生核心素养模型的建构成为推动世界教育改革的重要环节。通过总结质量标准建立的需要,梳理国家宏观教育目标,分析当前国际形势,提出我国基础教育阶段学生核心素养的概念内涵;并指出核心素养必须能够指导教师日常教学、促进教育评价、指引教育改革发展方向;在核心素养的遴选时要遵守素养可教可学、对个体和社会都有积极意义、面向未来且注重本国文化这三个原则。我国义务教育阶段学生核心素养的遴选应注重一贯性、发展性与时代性,其建立过程需要广泛征集教育利益相关者意见,要处理好核心素养与教育改革和发展的关系,让其更好地服务教学实践,要完善核心素养测量与评价体系,推进其服务教育评价领域。     

大学生贫困认定中的困惑及应对策略

做好高校学生的贫困补助工作十分重要,它体现了国家对经济困难家庭的关爱,体现一种社会公平。但是高校学生的贫困认定是一项十分模糊的工作,有许多令人困惑的东西。文章从大学生贫困认定的标准、贫困认定中的隐私保护、贫困认定中的诚信问题三个方面进行探讨,希望能为大学生贫困认定工作提供借鉴。     

Metadata Dreaming

ABSTRACT

The author presents the state of metadata schemes today and discusses the idea of a “third way” between free-text searching and full cataloguing. He concludes that there is no such compromise and suggests that metadata schemes will have to incorporate controlled vocabularies and detailed designators if they are to progress, thus leading to a confluence that will be, in essence, a new form of traditional cataloguing.     

再谈我国特殊教育课程标准制定的几个问题

本文就我国特殊教育学校课程改革的指导思想 (包括课程改革的目的、依据 )、课程标准的内容体系以及课程改革必须注意的其他相关问题 ,如特殊教育学校的文化课标准问题、特殊学生的创造力问题等进行了论述。     

A love towards a thing eternal: Spinoza and the classroom

There is a growing concern about the struggles of early career teachers and an understandable questioning of the preparation being offered by teacher education courses. Are our preservice teachers being given workable strategies and techniques to allow them to survive the early years? Is it strategies and techniques that are primarily at issue here? Could it be that there is something more fundamental, to do with an underlying philosophical understanding about human nature, the desire to learn and the need to relate? I want to suggest that instruction about strategies and techniques is too often built on an insecure and incompatible foundation of assumptions about the nature of the world of sentient beings and their relationships. Ontology matters. Philosopher Spinoza divided the world of thought into ideas that were adequate – contributing to our well-being, potency and happiness – and those that were inadequate – leading us to feel weak, at the mercy of outside forces, and sad. I want to argue, with Spinoza, that inadequate ontologies lead to a sense of impotence and frustration, and that adequate ideas – a stronger ontology – can underpin and sustain a more durable pedagogy. I explore this idea by looking at some classroom events through a Spinozean lens.