Embodying Care: Igniting a Critical Turn in a Teacher Educator’s Relational Practice

When a cultural disconnect became antagonistic between me and my students of color, I found myself at a crossroads as a White teacher educator: use coercion and force students to follow my directions, or care and base my responses on students’ needs. I chose the latter. Findings suggest that this choice benefitted the class and changed how I see myself as a teacher educator. The construct of embodied care helps describe the turn in my relational teacher educator practice from caring intentions that were dyadic in nature to caring that uses relational means for social justice ends. Data points include field notes, analytic journal entries, email communication, course materials, student interviews, and course evaluations. This self-study research contributes to the literature on caring teaching by suggesting that, in racially and culturally diverse classrooms, caring habits can help teacher educators from dominant groups gain critical self-awareness.     

Understanding experience better in educational contexts: the phenomenology of embodied subjectivity

ABSTRACT

The authors consider in this critical paper that claims that human agents experience things-in-the-world as the same are deeply flawed as these accounts misconstrue and fail to appreciate the phenomenology of embodied subjectivity. To overcome these complex problems they outline how phenomenology can reach beyond positivist and standardised approaches to classroom learning and assessment and offer a broader and more encouraging perspective. They consider that the naturalistic account of subjectivity advanced by Merleau-Ponty provides a theoretically sound basis for understanding experiences better and for embodiment to become more central to educational aims. In developing their position they detail how recognising changes in Merleau-Ponty’s thinking over time are crucial for appreciating the nature of embodied subjectivity. Thereafter, they highlight and exemplify how practical approaches based on a phenomenological reduction of seeking, sensing and seeing could enhance the centrality of embodied subjectivity in contemporary education.     

Tracing worked examples: effects on learning in geometry

Previous research has verified the benefits obtained when learners trace out worked examples with the index finger. Our study conducted two experiments to explore the reasons for this phenomenon and its generalizability. Experiment 1 compared the learning effects among tracing, non-tracing, and cueing methods. The cueing method was included to isolate the variable of drawing attention. Students employing the tracing method obtained higher transfer test scores compared to those employing the cueing and non-tracing methods, rating the far transfer test as easier. The tracing effect was verified to have a greater impact on learning than solely focusing learners’ attention. Experiment 2 compared the learning effects among three methods – tracing with the index finger, tracing with a computer mouse, and observing others tracing. Students who merely observed tracing obtained lower far transfer scores than those who traced either with their finger or with the mouse, rating the tests as more difficult. There was no significant difference between the other two groups. Tracing promotes learning more than merely observing tracing. The learning benefits of tracing partly stem from the fact that it is action-based and can be generalized to mouse tracing.     

知其不可为而为之与不知其不可为而为之——鲍赛昂夫人与高里奥老头悲剧探微

在长篇小说《高老头》中 ,高里奥老头的惨死和鲍赛昂夫人的情场失意是两个典型的悲剧故事 ;从历史的角度看 ,是两个“时代落伍者”的悲剧 ;从道德角度看 ,是两个心灵纯洁、伟大的人物的悲剧 ;从悲剧审美角度看 ,鲍赛昂夫人的悲剧是知其不可为而为之的悲剧 ,高里奥老头的悲剧是不知其不可为而为之的悲剧。     

论中国传统德育思想的现代价值——基于中西方学校道德教育的比较视角

从伦理相对主义到核心价值观,现代西方德育思想在知性德育与生活德育、个性教育与人格教育以及规范德育与创造德育等方面已渐渐走向整合,在这一运思趋势下,中国传统德育思想的目标分层、对话模式以及“知行统一”的修养方法、“德得相通”的德育心理机制都显示出了其愈久弥新的智慧探索品质,是我国现代德育创新的重要思想根基。     

情绪概念重量隐喻的心理现实性分析

实验采用语义启动范式考察情绪概念重量隐喻的心理现实性。结果表明,轻重量启动下,个体对积极情绪词的反应时显著快于消极情绪词;重重量启动下,被试对消极情绪词的反应时显著快于积极情绪词,体现了情绪概念重量隐喻的心理现实性。该结果进一步丰富了概念隐喻的研究。     

孔子知行观的认识论解读

知行观是中国传统哲学中的一个基本问题。在儒学史上,孔子最先论及了知行问题。他的知行理论涉及道德论和认识论两个方面。一直以来,人们对其道德论意义作了重点研究,并取得丰硕成果。但其中所蕴涵的认识论思想也是传统哲学中一个不可或缺的组成部分。因此,有必要在其道德论意义的基础上,探讨其认识论意义,以及它对我们现代社会的意义和价值。     

性犯罪被害人司法救助研究

性犯罪被害人是急需救助的弱势群体,而救助性犯罪被害人是司法机关的职责之一。与其他刑事被害人相比,性犯罪被害人精神损害尤为严重,精神损害赔偿的要求合理而强烈,为此司法机关应修改相关司法解释,赋予性犯罪被害人精神损害赔偿权。同时,在司法实践中保障她们的知情权和参与权;鉴于性犯罪被害人的敏感与脆弱性,司法机关在救助时应尊重其人格、保护其隐私。     

论身体运动与身体认知的具身性转向

认知科学的发展改变了人们传统的身体认知观念,具身认知的思想逐渐引起研究者的关注与重视,关于身体认知的研究开始朝向具身化方向转变。从人体运动场域的视角,探讨身体运动与身体认知具身性转向之间的关系及其相互影响。研究认为,身体运动在身体认知与被认知的过程中起到中介和调适作用,身体运动的方式可以映射出身体认知过程的具身性变化。身体运动可分为客观身体运动与现象身体运动两种类型,它们对身体认知的具身性转向起着不同的推动作用。身体运动特有的行为模式反映了身体认知与周围环境的关联性,身体运动的限制作用体现在身体认知表征的特性与范围方面,身体运动的分派特征对身体认知转向中的构成性角色具有证实作用,身体运动的调适功能是身体认知与具身行动之间协调性存在的重要保障。在身体运动对身体认知具身性转向的解释方面,要求身体运动应在身体认知的具身性转向中保持主动,重视身体经验的投射功能,关注身体运动的物理属性与运动方式的决定性作用。将身体运动的相关研究融入到具身认知的范畴,形成完整而有序的研究范式,将有助于解决身体认知研究领域中出现的系列问题。