Failing with grace: kids,Improv and embodied literacies

In this article, we explore the idea that comedy, with its often unorthodox ways of looking at, experiencing, and responding to the world, offers untold possibility for classroom literacy instruction. The article focuses on the potential of Improv comedy as socio‐materialist literacy in the classroom. It provides an account of Improv as a form of embodied literacy that operates as an assemblage created collectively between many people, practices, and material objects. We present findings from interviews with professional comedians regarding the possibilities of comedy for language and literacy instruction with elementary school children. The article then examines a moment from the subsequent classroom phase of the study to look at ways Improv can help students create stories and ways that laughter can be used to create a cohesive assemblage based around students' spontaneous creation of texts. The aim of the article is to provide educators with a practical means to apply socio‐materialist literacy in their classrooms through Improv, which will, in turn, allow students to create collectively generated texts and assemblages.     

Backstage accounting in preschool: analysing dealing with complaints as ‘rehearsing away’ professional knowledge

Citizens of modern societies must trust a broad range of systems and professionals. When distrust arises, professionals are expected to be accountable. This paper draws on conversational material from a preschool team meeting. When a preschool work team prepares to meet a parent who has complained about their recurring neglect to change her child’s nappies ‘in time’, they are found: (1) to carefully review the encounter with the client, (2) in a team-building fashion, to select suitable accounts to offer ‘front stage’ and (3) to internally justify their selection of accounts. Our results indicate that work team members who engaged in backstage rehearsal author the organisation for building trust and, simultaneously ‘rehearse away’ what should remain the organisations’ secrets. Communicating the intent to satisfy was deemed more important than was using evidence from their professional knowledge base.     

Embodied Rilkean sport-specific knowledge

This paper develops and introduces the embodied Rilkean sport-specific knowledge into the current sports knowledge philosophical debate. This idea is based on my interpretation of Mark Rowlands’ Rilkean memory theory. Broadly speaking, Rowlands proposed that an embodied Rilkean memory is memory content that is then ‘woven into the body and its neural infrastructure’ resulting in new bodily or behavioral dispositions. I propose that elite-level sports knowledge may become contentless bodily and/or behavioral dispositions and take the form of embodied Rilkean sport-specific knowledge. This version of sports knowledge enriches the current philosophy of sports debate that has centered on the analytical distinction between procedural knowledge (knowing how) and declarative knowledge (knowing that). After presenting the embodied Rilkean sport-specific knowledge concept and providing empirical evidence that supports its existence, I argue that the current distinction between ‘knowing how’ and ‘knowing that’ may not be exhaustive.     

论高校《法律基础》课程教育目标的三层次

从高校《法律基础》教育目标的历史演进出发,明确提出《法律基础》课程教育目标的三个层次,而“提高法律素质”是其根本目标,并简要概述了实现《法律基础》教育目标的途径。     

默会认识论在持拍隔网对抗性项群教学中的应用

借鉴默会认识论的理论体系，结合持拍隔网对抗性项群教学实践活动的特点，提出了默会认识论与持拍隔网对抗性项群教学之间的相互联系，解释了在该项群教学实践活动中教师教学过程和学生认识过程的心理体验，对掌握持拍隔网对抗性项群技术教学策略和准确评价学生技术掌握阶段，从思维领域层面进行导向．     

“Bridging the Gap between Food Pantries and the Kitchen Table”: Teaching Embodied Literacy in the Technical Communication Classroom

Drawing from literature on communication as a physical, material experience, this article expands Cargile Cook’s “layered literacies” (2002) pedagogical framework to include a seventh literacy—embodied literacy. The article uses a classroom case study in which students coproduced a cookbook with low-income, elderly, disabled users, to demonstrate how students can become more responsible and effective technical communicators by recognizing users’ divergent embodied experiences. The article includes suggestions for concrete classroom practices that encourage such embodied literacy.     

孔门好学多思的修身之道

孔子《论语》中“学”、“思”、“知”有其各自不同含义,孔子私学中注重好学多思的修身之道,孔子私学教诲之道较之苏格拉底“产婆术”更近于“教育”的本义。     

关于彩票的几点法律思考

我国正逐步走向彩票大国,彩票业已成为新经济中的一个亮点。然而,彩票法至今还未制定,成为彩票市场混乱一大原因。作者剖析了彩票业发展中出现的问题,并提出了解决问题的构想,旨在为彩票立法献策献议,促进彩票业的发展。     

Problems, perseverance, and mathematical residue

This paper reports on a qualitative study in which three third grade students were presented with a mathematical challenge related to the volume of a cuboid. The task required the construction of containers and the enumeration of the multi-link cubes¹ held by each of the containers. The study videotaped and investigated the students working as a group through potentially seven different problem solving categories, and how they dealt with the student-generated mathematical dilemmas that surfaced during their exploration of the original problem. The tapes were examined for the problem solving actions that the students demonstrated, and an analysis of the students' counting strategies and solutions explored the connection between the children's spatial structuring and their use of numerical operations in enumerating 3-D rectangular arrays of cubes. The notions of perseverance and control are considered as they emerge during autonomous problem solving and the mathematical residue that results from the developing understanding of volume is discussed.This revised version was published online in October 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

高师《小学国学启蒙导读》课教学模式探究

在宏观层次上,《小学国学启蒙导读》课采用以"教为主导、学为主体"的教学模式,在微观层次上,则构建了讲授—体知或研究—课外阅读指导—实践的教学模式。在微观模式中,从学生特点出发,以讲授作为整个教学模式的基石;以学生的体知或研究为主体,构建教学模式的主干;同时,教师应向学生介绍大量的国学经典泛读内容,以扩大学生的知识面。另外,实践是此教学模式的重要一个环节,也是国学经典学习的最终目的。