Teaching Sacred Texts in the Classroom: The Pedagogy of Transmission and the Pedagogy of Interpretive Facilitation

Empirical research in Jewish education has found almost exclusive use of transmission pedagogy among Jewish studies teachers. This study hoped to fill out the empirical landscape by studying Jewish studies teachers who prioritize student-driven interpretation. It followed six Jewish studies teachers in four different Jewish elementary schools who all professed a commitment to student-driven textual interpretation. It found that in such classrooms there was a clear pattern of teaching moves. This article offers a detailed portrait of the previously undocumented Jewish studies pedagogy, interpretive facilitation.     

Distributed leadership for personalized learning

Abstract

Personalized learning refers to a collection of practices designed to place student interests and needs at the heart of schooling. Schools that implement personalized learning need leaders that support educators and students in redesigning the core practices of teaching and learning in K-12 schools. To answer the question of how leaders support this redesign, we use distributed leadership theory to focus on the macrotasks and microtasks that leaders enact to create the conditions for personalized learning practices. Drawing on a five-year, qualitative study of 11 personalized learning programs in the Midwest, we identify three macrotasks supporting personalized learning: reorganizing learning environments to support student voice and choice, assembling idiosyncratic technology ecosystems to distribute teaching and learning tasks, and redesigning instructional time to prioritize student’s interests, agency, and learning relationships. After we describe a number of microtasks associated with each macrotask, we discuss how a consideration of these kinds of leadership tasks can open the contemporary discussion of personalized learning from a narrow focus on learning technologies to an expansive vision of student-centered school reform.     

Envisioning Possibility: Schooling and Student Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

This article provides a rationale for using literature in the classroom to explore conceptions of curriculum and teaching. We discuss a number of exemplars from children’s and young adult fiction, both mainstream and less well known; offer a taxonomy for categorizing the range of visions of curriculum and teaching in the literature; and describe the responses of a group of middle school students to a unit that examined schooling in literature. We argue that reading literature which addresses student experiences in school can help students make sense of those experiences and, more importantly, open their minds to ideas about teaching and schooling that they otherwise might never have considered.John Kornfeld is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Education at Sonoma State University. His research in curriculum, children’s literature, school/ university collaboration, and the politics of schooling has been published in such journals as Theory into Practice, Social Education, and Theory and Research in Social Education.Laurie Prothro is a school library consultant and children’s librarian in Sonoma County, California. She specializes in collection development and young adult literature. Her most recent publication with John Kornfeld, entitled “Comedy, Conflict, and Community: Home and Family in Harry Potter,” appears in Elizabeth Heilman’s Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives.     

Does gender matter in computer ethics?

Computer ethics is a relatively young discipline,hence it needs time both for reflection and forexploring alternative ethical standpoints in buildingup its own theoretical framework. Feminist ethics isoffered as one such alternative particularly to informissues of equality and power. We argue that feministethics is not narrowly confined to women's issues but is an approach with wider egalitarianapplications. The rise of feminist ethics in relationto feminist theory in general is described and withinthat the work of Gilligan and others on an ethic of care. We argue for the need to connect theory toempirical evidence. Empirical studies of gender andbusiness and computer ethics are reviewed. We noteconcerns with surveying a student audience, the issueof how far questionnaires and interviews can get tothe heart of ethical beliefs and problems ofperforming statistical analyses of quantitative data.Although we recognize them, our own small surveycannot avoid all these problems. Nevertheless byrefining our scenarios we are able to offer analternative reading of a hacking problem in terms ofan ethic of care thereby pointing a way forward forfuture research in computer ethics inspired byfeminist theory.     

中德学者关于教育学问题的一次对话——“生命·实践”教育学系列论著编委会与本纳教授的座谈会

华东师范大学＂生命·实践＂教育学系列论著编委会与德国柏林洪堡大学本纳相会上海,就教育学问题展开了热烈的对话。本纳对普通教育学、教育过程中＂教＂与＂学＂的转化等问题进行了深刻阐述,同时对＂生命·实践＂教育学系列论著编委会成员提出的关于复杂理论与教育的关系、德国教育理论与实践的关系等问题做了回应。叶澜就教育学科的独特性、教育过程的复杂性、消极经验的价值等表达了自己的观点。双方一致认为,只要人类存在,教育学作为一门学科,就不会终结。     

教育学是科学吗？——教育一个基本性质的发现及其对政策取向的意义

本文提出并分析了教育学危机的根源,揭示了教育的一个基本性质,即教育不是一种本源现象,而是一种派生现象;不是一种本体现象,而是一种从属现象。本文简要论证并分析了知识的一个显著特征,由此从各个角度探讨了教育对知识的派生和从属性质。由这一基本性质的揭示,作者对政策取向或政策侧重点做出阐述：教育学只有在揭示教育的真实性质和关系...     

Editorial H-score as a metric of inner authenticity for national scientific journals—Pilot study for the field of pedagogy

There is evidence that national scientific journals are important for local communities despite their limited audience due to national languages and topics, like in pedagogy. However, it is not easy to assess the level of scientific rigour of local journals, as most do not have available scientometric data and are often published in minority languages. We hypothesize that a possible manifestation of a latent trait of inner authenticity of the scientific journal (meaning the journal is accepted by a community interested in developing the field which conducts internationally accepted research) could be H-index of the editorial board members. To test this approach, we evaluated H-index and gender of editorial board members (n = 490) from 17 Czech and Slovak national science-oriented scientific pedagogical journals which were not indexed or indexed in Erih+ or Scopus, and compared this with the five lowest-rated journals from the same field indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The H-index of editorial board members was somewhat higher in indexed journals with those from WoS showing higher scores, and the number of board members with no discernable H-index was far greater in non-indexed journals. Editorial boards of journals indexed in WoS were mostly male, compared to a dominance of women on boards of non-indexed journals. Acknowledging the limited sample, it appears that the H-index of editorial board members may be a way to value national scientific journals.     

涵养专业理性:教育学课程在职前教师教育中的核心价值

教育是理性的事业,蕴涵信仰理性、认知理性和反思实践理性三重意蕴的教育专业理性是教师专业发展的核心推动力。教师需要具备健全、合理、澄明的专业理性来审视和改造自己的教育观念与行动。作为职前教师教育重要课程之一的教育学课程担负着涵养师范生的教育专业理性以及为其教师专业素养可持续发展奠基的重大使命。     

教育学范式论

库恩范式是指某一学科的理论根基、第一原理,其重要作用在于它范例性地指出了某一学科领域的研究方向、程序、方法、标准等。在一个范式指导下的研究就是范式研究,这是一门学科成熟的标志。研究教育学的范式具有重大意义,如可以结束学派纷争,停止理论移植与嫁接,从而使后继研究者不再从零开始研究。当前,教育学处于前范式时期。要建立教育学的范式,应从教育学的第一问题教育是什么出发,因为教育不是一种活动,而是无数人为活动的泛称,没有一个客观、绝对的标准来判断某种活动是不是教育。     

后方法视角下的高职英语教学反思

后方法理论是一种不同于传统外语教学的新的教学思想体系,它跳脱了传统外语教学唯方法论的陷阱,主要阐述了后方法理论的由来及其理论框架,并从后方法理论的角度出发,探讨了它对高职英语教学的启示,以期更好地促进高职英语教学的开展。