Teaching about the importance of trees: a study with young children

This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the effect of the storytelling teaching approach on kindergarten children's retention of ideas about the importance of trees. The study also assessed the effect of storytelling on children's intention to participate in a tree planting activity that they had to select from a list of activities. The story that was created included such elements as binary opposites, mental images, mystery, and wonder, according to Kieran Egan's theory. The study utilized a two‐group design, was conducted in three phases (pre‐test, intervention, and post‐test), lasted 11 weeks, and its results provide evidence of the effectiveness of the storytelling approach when compared with the traditional method of expository teaching complemented with visual images (pictures) of trees and their importance to human beings. The pedagogical appropriateness of the story, which was based upon the binary pair of opposites ‘security–insecurity’, is also discussed in the paper.     

对我国文化生产力运行环境的思考

文化生产力体现人们生产文化产品和提供文化服务的能力和水平,已经成为社会进步和经济发展不可忽视的重要推动力。文化生产力在经济环境、政治环境和社会环境下有效运行,通过改革体制、完善法制、健全市场体系、政府引导和政策扶持等方式可以推动文化生产力发展。解放和发展文化生产力最终目的在于满足人的精神需求。     

基于物联网的远程学习评价探微

随着计算机和网络技术的发展,如何运用物联网改进远程教育已成为关注的热点之一。文章叙述了物联网的连通性、技术性、智能性特征和感知层、网络层及应用层的网络架构,分析了远程学习评价不够客观公正的原因,提出了利用物联网技术多个方面收集、处理学习者学习过程的相关信息,从而改善远程学习评价,以促进建立公平公正、积极向上的远程学习环境,进一步提高远程教育的质量。     

媒介环境及其对创造性人才成长的影响

媒介环境是由大众传媒构成的影响人的发展和社会发展的外部条件,其实质是信息丰富、变化迅速的现代信息环境。随着大众传媒的飞速发展,媒介环境以其信息容量大、传播路径宽、传播速度快、受众范围广等优势对创造性人才的成长产生了广泛而深刻的影响。在媒介环境的影响下,创造主体应提高其接收信息、鉴别信息、选择信息与处理信息的能力,排除消极信息的干扰,有效利用各类积极信息,促进其创造力的发展。     

清末士人对西北生态环境的关注与研究——以三部西北行记为中心

清朝嘉道年间曾掀起过西北边疆史地研究的热潮,其中包括不少对生态环境的关注和研究的内容。祁韵士的《万里行程记》、方士淦的《东归日记》和林则徐的《荷戈纪程》是其中较具代表性的三部行记。他们的考察路线基本相同,均记载了西北之行沿途的山川名迹、人物土俗、物产、环境等内容。而且三者之间在时间上恰好先后有别,所以从中可以看出其间西北生态环境所发生的变化。而这些清末士人对西北生态环境的关注和研究,对于今天的西部开发和生态保护无疑具有重要的参考价值。     

从当前我国会计环境看会计国际化

随着经济全球化的发展，会计国际化已是大势所趋、潮流所向。面对会计国际化不可逆转的趋势与其背后隐藏的巨大国家利益的矛盾，我们究竟应如何抉择？本文从会计系统必须与其运行的环境相适应这一基本观点出发，结合我国当前会计环境加以分析，提出了自己的一些观点。     

大气环境影响研究中应注意的几个问题

本文针对大气环境影响研究中，易被忽视或常常被误解的三个问题——非正常排放时的浓度预测问题、有效源高订正问题、烟囱参数设计合理性的论证问题，从理论、原理上提出了对这些问题的理解，还通过实例作了具体说明。     

Usefulness of cognitive intervention programmes for socio-emotional and behaviour problems in children with learning disabilities

Behavioural and emotional problems occur more frequently in children with learning problems than in a cross-section of the general population, both at home and at school. While behaviour problems reportedly are a key obstructive factor impeding inclusive education, children with both behavioural and learning disabilities carry a high risk of social exclusion and school dropout when they are in mainstream environments. Meta-analyses indicated only a moderate impact of social skills training. To see what kind of intervention programme would be effective in modifying cognitive as well as socio-emotional behaviour and at the same time focusing on contextual interaction and intervention, a pilot study has been carried out in Belgium with 11–13-year-old students with learning disability and behaviour problems in special schools. A total of 24 children in the experimental group were matched against a control group of 24. Children in the experimental group, after having received 14 lessons of FIE (Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Programme), showed a marked increase in some cognitive functions (hypothetical thinking, perception and understanding of humour) but not in others. A significant effect on socio-emotional behaviour could not be shown quantitatively, but was evident from qualitative interviewing. The mediating attitude of the teachers was a key influencing factor in producing lasting changes. Programmes such as FIE, provided they address children as well as teachers in a comprehensive way, focusing on cognitive as well as socio-emotional behavioural changes, may become powerful instruments to help children as well as teachers in a highly differentiated inclusive school environment.     

对“意义”的多维透视

“意义”是人文社会科学中的基本范畴之一。从语言学、哲学、逻辑学等多个角度对其进行研究,可以全方位地挖掘“意义”的内涵。同时,从“意义”的分类及特征着眼,也有助于对“意义”内涵的把握和理解。     

以"学"为中心的教学设计要素研究

建构主义学习理论体现了以“学”为中心的教学思想,建构主义学习环境下的教学设计是以“学”为中心的教学设计;本文回顾了以“学”为中心的教学设计的发展历程,对以“学”为中心的教学设计的内容要素进行了分析研究,并对其进行了反思.