Eight Pedagogical Preambles on Dolly the Sheep

This paper explores the assumptions underlying a commonplace school activity based on the mandated science curriculum: exploring the difference between natural and human made structures. Following a student's desire to use Dolly the Sheep as his example, a great array of contemporary and classical connections are explored.     

Peer facilitated writing groups: a programmatic approach to doctoral student writing

Very few empirical studies have investigated programmes in which doctoral students act as peer facilitators in faculty writing groups. We report on the development of a centrally delivered doctoral student writing programme in which twenty student participants were mentored and provided with the resources to initiate their own faculty-based doctoral writing groups. ‘Legitimate peripheral participation’ was used as a conceptual lens to interpret the data collected during the establishment and evaluation of the programme. All student participants in the preparatory training course, which was developed in consultation with postgraduate students and research supervisors, went on to become doctoral writing peer facilitators of peer writing groups. Insights from seven of these showed how a well-structured and supportive programme harnessed the benefits of peer learning by bringing personal rewards to participants and building institutional capacity around doctoral research writing literacies.     

研究性学习在高职美术教学中的实践

本文针对高职教育美术教学的现状,探讨了研究性学习在美术教学中的实施策略和操作方法,证明了研究性学习在美术教学中具有增强学生合作精神、促进学生自主性学习、培养学生创新精神和实践能力等实际功效。     

Sharing teacher knowledge at scale: teacher inquiry,learning design and the representation of teachers’ practice

Sharing teachers’ professional knowledge remains challenging. Teachers’ development often remains ad hoc or local, and attempts to scale this up have proved problematic. To address this, research in areas such as ‘learning design’ has explored the use of formal representations of practice. This proposes that educational practice can be improved by documenting, sharing and building on what teachers already do. Whilst this has led to some successes, it has not resulted in the widespread transformation of practice. This paper reviews the literature about sharing teacher knowledge. The challenges of scaling up development are then considered in relation to two theories that help explain the challenges: Communities of Practice and Sociomateriality. This analysis is illustrated through case studies in Norway and the UK. These show that teachers already create and share artefacts that represent their pedagogic knowledge. However, they found formal representations, such as learning designs, difficult to work with. The paper concludes that scaling up teacher development using abstract formalisms is unlikely to succeed. Instead, teachers value stories and the materials they already create in their day-to-day practice. It is this intermediate level of representation, between direct experience and formal abstraction, that offers the most promise for sharing practice.     

Cutting apart together: a diffracted spatial history of an online scholarly relationship

Drawing on the notion of cutting together-apart introduced by Karen Barad and combining it with Lefebvre’s notion of a flaneur (f. flâneuse) who moves between temporal, spatial and political relationships, this article performs a collaboration mediated by social media, namely blogging and tweeting. It draws on the notion of history, space, and social relationships to describe how two women met online. This collaboration as inquiry is about working together despite our differences – finding places to meet rather than diverge, and to dialogue rather than debate. Through a duo-ethnography of how this relationship worked and did not work, notions about how the digital world can act as a mediator for academic work are explored.     

“‘科学有曰’之再现经典实验:比萨斜塔实验”教案

本教案以“比萨斜塔实验”为素材,将“科学思维”与“探究实践”的科学方法及相应的科学思想作为重点,以“像科学家探究科学一样学习科学”为教学理念,在“5E教学法”的基础上强化了二次“探究—解释”,以探究式学习与情境教学为主要教学方法,以动手实验、交流讨论、角色扮演相结合的活动形式,引导学生进行“质疑→思辨→实证”的科学探究,实现“具象→抽象”的科学认知,初步了解和运用“思辨的科学”与“实证的科学”。     

现象学方法在比较教育研究中的应用

现象学有两层含义:一是作为哲学理论的现象学;二是作为研究方法的现象学。作为方法的现象学表达的是一种研究的"思维态度"或"思维方式"。现象学作为方法首先被应用于教育研究领域。20世纪70年代后,现象学方法被引入比较教育研究领域,打破了比较教育研究一直以来实证论独占鳌头的局面,为比较教育研究范式走向多元融合的开放道路做出了贡献。     

高中生化学探究学习能力及其培养

培养学生的探究学习能力是高中化学教学的重要课题.教师在教学过程中根据教学内容和学生实际优化实验,创设教学情境,进行开放性教学,鼓励合作探究并重构评价方式,从而不断提高学生的探究学习能力.     

对突发事件网上舆论若干热点的思考与对策

当前突发事件网上舆论的发展演变与“两新”人员、媒体工作者、社会闲杂人员、网络公关群体以及高校学生等几大网络群体关系密切。因而要重视网上舆论发展趋势中存在的若干最新走向,关注几类网络新技术对网上舆论传播速度、影响深度与传播广度的影响。对此,我们在网上舆论预警、引导和利用网络新技术等方面提出相关对策。     

小群体教学模式在高校田径教学中的实验研究

采用实验法、问卷调查法、数理统计法和专家访谈法等方法．以湖南工业大学体育学院体育教育系2009级男生一、二班为研究对象,探讨高校田径课教学中实施小群体教学模式的意义。结果表明：小群体教学模式能促进学生问的互帮互助、互评互议,有利于提高学生学习的积极性和主动性,提高学生学习兴趣和参与意识;有利于发挥学生的潜力,促进学生的个性发展;有利于学生综合能力和社会性的培养;有利于发挥学生的主体性和教师的主导性作用,教学效果比传统教学模式显著。