探索有利于高校环境教育能力提升的有效课程体系——以集宁师范学院科研课题“岱海电厂及岱海地区旅游资源的可持续发展与环境保护”为例

将环境教育与可持续发展教育纳入课程目标,旨在帮助学生在今后的决策中成为环境友好的伙伴,从容面对环境挑战。开展科研课题＂岱海电厂及岱海地区旅游资源的可持续发展与环境保护＂目的是培养具有社会责任感、跨学科、高素质、具有创新能力和团队精神与领导力的复合型创新人才,提升高校师生环境意识和环境教育能力,提高广大师生的可持续发展意识,提高研究环境问题和解决环境问题的能力,把＂节能减排＂工作落实到学校管理和教学活动之中,促进广大师生的行为转变,开发出适合我校节能减排教育的校本课程。     

Challenges and possibilities in climate change education

Educating and communicating about climate change is challenging. Researchers reported that climate change concepts are often misunderstood. Some people do not believe that climate change will have impacts on their own life. Other challenges may include people＇s difficulty in perceiving small or gradual environmental changes, the fact that overconsumption brings people power and recognition, people＇s weak connection to nature, and people＇s tendency to make emotional decisions and quickly solve environmental problems. Drawn from research, some climate change communication and education strategies are presented. Well designed environmental messages could convince people that they can still reduce the scale of the phenomenon and could link mitigation actions to people＇s positive desires or aspirations, while providing local examples of climate change impacts and illustrated information. In mitigation education, some strategies （future education, reflective, experiential, socio-constructivist approaches and the community of change）, jointly used, could correct the learners＇ misconceptions and lead them to action. In adaptation education, scientists and citizens could get together to choose a specific problem that may worsen with climate change, analyze it, and propose and implement adaptations. In the meantime, pedagogical strategies inspired by cognitive science could strengthen the citizens＇ skills： posing and solving problems, decision-making, scenario building and sustainable planning.     

高职环境监测专业技能培养的教学改革实践

根据环境监测课程的特点,结合教学实际,对高职学生环境监测技能的培养的教学改革与实践进行了初步探讨,从教学方法改革、课程体系建设,教学手段、师资队伍建设等方面进行了阐述。     

流浪的精神气质与矛盾的家园情结——读托马斯·沃尔夫的小说《天使,望故乡》

流浪主题是古今中外的普遍话题,无论何种意义的流浪,家园意识、怀乡感伤都是流浪者的普遍情愫。作为精神的流浪者,托马斯·沃尔夫的生活一直＂在路上＂,因此,他对故土、对家园怀着一种复杂的感情。火车是沃尔夫作品中最持久的意象,通过对沃尔夫作品中火车喻意和人物对家园的不同理解的分析,可以体察作者固有的流浪的精神气质和矛盾的家园意识。     

对高校学生工作的思考

高校应以科学发展观统领学生工作,树立以学生为本的意识和服务意识,在学生工作的内容、形式和方法等方面进行不断创新,建立起科学、高效、务实的学生工作机制,最终让学生在一个开放和完全信任的氛围中学习和生活,使学生工作达到统合综效。     

System thinking skills at the elementary school level

This study deals with the development of system thinking skills at the elementary school level. It addresses the question of whether elementary school students can deal with complex systems. The sample included 40 4th grade students from one school in a small town in Israel. The students studied an inquiry‐based earth systems curriculum that focuses on the hydro‐cycle. The program involved lab simulations and experiments, direct interaction with components and processes of the water cycle in the outdoor learning environment and knowledge integration activities. Despite the students' minimal initial system thinking abilities, most of them made significant progress with their ability to analyze the hydrological earth system to its components and processes. As a result, they recognized interconnections between components of a system. Some of the students reached higher system thinking abilities, such as identifying interrelationships among several earth systems and identifying hidden parts of the hydrological system. The direct contact with real phenomena and processes in small scale scenarios enabled these students to create a concrete local water cycle, which could later be expanded into large scale abstract global cycles. The incorporation of outdoor inquiry‐based learning with lab inquiry‐based activities and knowledge integration assignments contributed to the 4th grade students' capacity to develop basic system thinking abilities at their young age. This suggests that although system thinking is regarded as a high order thinking skill, it can be developed to a certain extent in elementary school. With a proper long‐term curriculum, these abilities can serve as the basis for the development of higher stages of system thinking at the junior–high/middle school level. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 47: 540–563, 2010     

《独立评论》 成功之道

《独立评论》是20世纪30年代中国最有影响的政论刊物之一。其成功之处在于得到读者的认可、高层的关注,以及发行量大、覆盖面广;其成功之道在于具有独立的编辑人格、办刊经费的自给、拥有高水平且相对稳定的作者群、秉持时效意识与开放精神。     

Schooling and local environmental knowledge: Do they complement or substitute each other?

Schooling and the knowledge acquired at school have been considered both a cause of loss of indigenous knowledge (because it opens pathways to the non-indigenous world and worldviews) and a potential remedy to its demise (if educational curricula is aligned with indigenous realities by giving instruction in local languages and incorporating local knowledge in school content). We test the association between academic and local environmental knowledge using data from a society of forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon who were exposed to a partially contextualized school curriculum. We found that although schooling and academic knowledge bear a negative association with local knowledge the magnitude is low, probably because schooling was partially contextualized. Contextualized learning might help avoid that the provision of universal education comes at the cost of humanity's cultural diversity.     

跨文化语言教学现状分析及对策研究

如何在第二语言学习过程中形成跨文化交际能力是目前大学英语学习中迫切需要解决的问题。在实际英语教学中跨文化教育面临着文化教学本身的难度以及教师、学生文化意识的不平衡,教学内容、教学方式的单一、测试评估等方面的不利因素,面对这一现状,采取积极的对策,将合理有效的教学活动与学生的学习体验实践相结合,将语言能力的夯实与文化意识的提高相结合将会提高学生的跨文化交际的能力。     

论高校思想政治理论课教师的角色意识与角色定位

高校思想政治理论课教师的角色意识与角色定位,关系着教师职业素养与课程本质的实现。高校思想政治理论课程特有的功能和特点,要求思想政治理论课教师必须担当起党的理论、方针、政策的宣讲者和大学生健康成长的指导者与引路人的角色。这一角色定位就要求任课教师必须确立自觉的类角色意识、群体角色意识与个人角色意识的综合素养,从而有效实现课程的教育功能,体现课程、学生以及教师自身发展的共同要求,以增强高校思想政治理论课教育教学的实效性。