教育学研究的价值重估——从指导实践到解释实践

教育学研究存在着本体神话与科学神话,教育学者因而苦恼于教育学科性质的界定以及教育实践中隐藏的教育规律的探寻。随着对追寻确定性信念的质疑,教育学研究的固有价值取向日益凸显出与实践的疏离。教育学作为一门“实践之学”．其真正价值在于解释实践而非指导实践。解释力是评价教育学研究的基本价值尺度,而多样性的解释也隐含了不同的价值立场．需要包括教师、教育行政人员、教育学者在内的实践者根据实践逻辑作出相应的价值选择。     

高职生英语词汇记忆策略训练实验研究

本实验研究参照了前人的策略分类观点和英语词汇本身的学习特点,提出了词汇记忆的三种基本策略。基于三种策略的训练研究表明：联想记忆策略训练能明显改善高职学生的词汇记忆．元记忆自我测试策略和拼读策略训练对高职英语低水平学生的词汇记忆有着显著的积极影响。本研究还提出了词汇学习策略的教育启示。     

Changing Pedagogical Practice in Teacher Education: Negotiating the spaces between realism and relativism

This article reports a self-study from a larger research project that explored the impact on pre-service and in-service teacher education of a new national curriculum in New Zealand and the conceptualisations of epistemological shifts signalled by that document. A pedagogical initiative to introduce inquiry-based learning into a graduate diploma course for pre-service primary teachers was the result of and the catalyst for further reflection on my practice and the (mis)alignments between my theoretical understandings and beliefs and my pedagogical choices. In this article I focus on the tensions and contradictions I encountered while attempting to enact, in a tertiary environment, a pedagogy that aligned with the underpinning principles of the new curriculum. I describe the model that I developed to understand those tensions and contradictions, which are characterised as the spaces between realism and relativism. I suggest that negotiating these spaces is part of the process of becoming a teacher and a teacher educator in the twenty-first century.     

‘Rings on the water’: examining the pedagogical approach at a football program for detained youth in Sweden

Abstract

Studies indicate that sport within youth institutional settings can be beneficial (e.g. learning social skills) or problematic (e.g. social exclusion) depending on how they are structured, delivered and, ultimately, experienced by students. In this article, we examine the experiences of students and staff in an educational sport program at a Swedish all-male youth detention home (ages 16–20) in order to increase understanding of the pedagogical approach of a sports-based program for detained youth. Drawing on interviews with both students and staff, we identify and elaborate four aspects of the program—building a pedagogical platform, ‘seeing’ and meeting students, creating a supportive environment, and thinking beyond the institution—that were collectively represented to initiate and guide a process of growth and change for students. We discuss how these aspects of the program’s pedagogical approach, in contrast to deficiency-based approaches, can provide a useful framework for delivering sport in ways that can benefit detained youth and other young people in socially vulnerable situations.     

Para‐teacher scheme and quality education for all in India: policy perspectives and challenges for school effectiveness

This paper argues that the concepts, beliefs and understandings of local and non‐local teacher educators in a Hong Kong university are grounded in their own cultural cognition and antecedents. It presents the viewpoint that contemporary notions of good practice were compromised when applied to a context that is strongly influenced by the tenets of Confucianism. Thus the conclusion is that the contingencies of teaching and learning contexts are sufficiently different to compromise the goal of having pre‐constructed notions of good teaching. The alternative is that university tutors and future researchers re‐conceptualise good teaching practices within a context that gives it meaning and purpose.     

Technological Literacy: A Framework for Teaching Technical Communication Software Tools

Understanding technological literacy for technical communicators is crucial for effective pedagogy in technical and professional communication. Challenges of teaching technical communication students the functions and concepts of workplace software include the number of rapidly changing applications, a desire to focus on education over training, limited faculty expertise in software, limited resources for teaching software, and a desire to focus on technical communication principles. To address these challenges, the authors explore how to use a four-level framework of technological literacy along with existing resources to design a course to help students use, understand, and evaluate technical communication technology.     

Bridging the gap: a longitudinal study of the relationship between pedagogical continuity and early Chinese literacy acquisition

This longitudinal study examined the relationship between pedagogical continuity in literacy education and early literacy development by comparing Chinese children in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Stratified random sampling was used to select 24 preschool and Primary 1 classes in four communities catering to middle‐class families in each city. The 24 teachers were interviewed about their teaching methods and views on pedagogical continuity in individual sessions. Further, their teaching activities were videotaped over a period of a week. Their students (n = 758) completed a Chinese literacy attainment test at the beginning and at the end of the same academic year. Analyses indicated that Hong Kong students outperformed their Shenzhen counterparts in Chinese literacy attainment, at both preschool and primary levels, concurrently and longitudinally. This suggests that the holistic approach followed in Hong Kong might have a more positive impact on children's literacy development than the approach followed in Shenzhen. Implications of the findings for early childhood curriculum reform are discussed.     

机械设计类基础课程综合教学改革与实践

基于国内外高校机械设计类基础课程的教学现状,分析了课程教学改革方向：提高学生创新能力、实践能力及团队协作能力。文章提出了机械设计类基础课程综合教学改革的新模式,该模式通过课程内容的整合、课程进度的统筹、团队创新型课程设计的增设可从根本上改变课程间孤立无关或很少相关的缺点以提高学生的实践能力、动手能力和创新能力。     

Re-focusing the Teaching of Poetry at Key Stage Two in Northern Ireland: Some Literary-critical and Pedagogical Explorations

This paper argues that there is scope for considerable change and improvement in the way in which Poetry is taught at Key Stage Two in Northern Ireland. In making this case for significant improvement, the paper has three interconnected parts. In the first part, a range of critical ideas highlight the richness of poetry as a literary genre. Secondly, a number of pedagogical ideas are presented, which emphasise the enjoyment of poetry as an end in itself. In the third part, there is firstly a comparative evaluation of the statutory requirements for teaching Key Stage Two poetry in Northern Ireland and England. Secondly, the results of a questionnaire, which was distributed to a reasonably representative selection of Literacy Coordinators in primary schools across Northern Ireland, are evaluated. The results suggest that there is Indeed considerable scope for improvement in the teaching of poetry at Key Stage Two in Northern Ireland.     

论交往的教学论价值——基于教学哲学的视角

教学以交往为基本形态,其发生、运行、演化须依照交往有效性之路径展开。基于教学哲学的视角,在当前的教学论研究中,“交往”的本体论价值表现在教学存在、教学本质研究中,涉及教学实体、活动、关系等问题的方方面面,其认识论价值通过对教学论研究思维方式的影响体现出来,而其价值论价值,则体现在对生成的、演化的、历史的、宽容的人文发展观和师生关系观的树立和推广。