Establishing a Community of Inquiry through Hybrid Courses in Clinical Social Work Education

Utilizing the conceptual framework of Garrison, Anderson, and Archer for critical inquiry, this paper outlines the importance of the community of inquiry (COI) model and how it may inform online social work education. Integrating the COI model, we discuss how online learning in the classroom with a hybrid approach has been used to facilitate critical reflection and discourse. To illustrate this approach, we provide two case examples from clinical courses taught in an MSW program.     

Talking about the test. Boundary work in primary school teachers' interactions around national testing of student performance

There is currently a strong belief in accountability as a policy of action and standardized testing has been implemented in several countries. This article examines tensions that occur in meetings when primary school teachers in Norway discuss national testing, and how these are handled. In particular, tensions revolve around what is seen as internal (teachers' everyday work) and external (policies and practices outside the main frame of teaching). Even though national testing is mainly seen as external to teachers' work, teachers involve in boundary work and reshape professional discourse in order to create relevance and maintain legitimacy following new expectations.     

EUROPEAN DISSERTATION SUMMARIES

To alleviate teachers’ reluctance toward practical work, there has been much discussion on teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, teaching materials, and failsafe strategies for practical work. Despite these efforts, practical work is still regarded as a challenging task for many elementary science teachers. To understand the complexity of teachers’ conflicts in practical work, this study examines teachers’ ideas about teaching and learning that influence teachers’ decision‐making and action on teaching practical work. More important than knowing technical–rational aspects of practical work is to understand the internal contradictions that teachers have to resolve within themselves regarding their capabilities and beliefs about science teaching and practical work. Using stories and experiences of 38 third‐year university students in a science method course in Korea, we seek to understand the conflicts and negotiations that they experience as they make decisions regarding practical work throughout their course. Reflective writings and group discussions on their lived experiences and concerns were used to probe participants’ ideas on teaching using practical work. From written and verbal data, themes were saturated in terms of the aspects which could (dis)encourage their practice. Results suggest that there are multifactorial challenges in pre‐service teachers’ understandings and concerns in practical work. Besides time, materials, and curriculum, pedagogical assumptions and values also compositely challenge the minds of teachers. As the pre‐service elementary teachers negotiated within themselves the importance of science in classroom and social levels, the question is raised about their identities as pre‐service elementary teachers to appreciate the balance between science teaching and practical work.     

舆论工作就是思想政治工作：—论教育宣传干部应具备的思想政治素质

教育新闻宣传工作的好坏对于教育的改革与发展大业有着直接影响，搞好教育新闻宣传工作要求教育宣传干部必须具备较高的思想政治素质。教育宣传工作者必须坚持新闻宣传工作的党性原则。有较高的理论水平，必须恪守社会主义新闻的职业道德，只有不断提高自己的思想政治和业务素质，才能更好地担负起“以正确的舆论引导人”的任务。     

高校宣传工作中学生记者团的培养与管理浅谈

高校宣传工作人员应该有意识、有目标地培养学生记者,并结合自己的工作进行有效的引导与管理,使学生记者在高校宣传工作中发挥积极的作用,为学校提高影响力、扩大知名度作出应有贡献。在此,笔者结合自己的工作谈一些新的想法和思考,并提出一些建议和意见。     

研究型野外实习教学的设计与实践

为了全面培养学生的智力和能力，在生态学野外学习教学中，我们开展了研究型的教学实践活动，教学实践证明，研究型的教学实践活动，不仅为学生提供了创新活动的条件和机会，而且能够有效地引导学生掌握学习方法，由于通过集体参与实践教学的全过程，因而在学生的智力和能力培养方面，作用十分明显。     

对新形势下高校思想政治教育工作的思考

高校肩负着培养和造就一大批创造性人才的历史使命，在全球信息共享和经济一体化的新形势下，如何对青年学生做好思想政治工作，使他们成为合格的社会主义现代化建设事业接班人，是新时期高校思想政治教育工作的重要任务。     

高职模具专业课程教学评价探究——以《塑料成型工艺与模具设计》为例

按照基于工作过程的项目教学特点,就高职模具设计与制造专业从事相关工作岗位所需具备的专业、方法及社会能力目标,结合“塑料成型工艺与模具设计”的课程案例进行了过程与结果并重的考核方案设计。     

管理学视角下的新建高职院校档案工作的加强

通过对部分新建高职高专档案工作现状的调查与思考,分析其存在的问题与不足．从管理学的角度谈了新建高职院校加强档案工作的一些做法和思路．以期对新建高职高专档案工作的提升有所帮助。     

社会工作视角下西部地区弱势儿童保护工作探析

儿童保护政策法规的不健全、儿童保护机制的不稳定、儿童保护主管部门较为单一以及专业社会工作人才较为缺乏等制度性因素,严重妨碍着西部地区弱势儿童保护事业的发展,造成弱势儿童权益侵犯事件屡屡发生。为切实提高西部地区弱势儿童的福祉,应建立健全儿童保护法律体系,建立儿童事务管理的党和政府双重管理体制,构建未成年人法律援助全程化机制,构建学校、家庭、社会三位一体的儿童社会支持系统,培养社会工作专业人才,以提升弱势儿童保护的专业性,注重对留守儿童、孤残儿童、受虐儿童等弱势儿童的保护与救助。