Using a modified argument-driven inquiry to promote elementary school students’ engagement in learning science and argumentation

This study explored the effects of a modified argument-driven inquiry approach on Grade 4 students’ engagement in learning science and argumentation in Taiwan. The students were recruited as an experimental group (EG, n?=?36) to join a 12-week study, while another 36 Grade 4 students from the same schools were randomly selected to be the comparison group (CG). All participants completed a questionnaire at the beginning and end of this study. In addition, four target students with the highest and the other four students with the lowest pretest engagement in learning science or argumentation to be observed weekly and interviewed following the posttest. Initial results revealed that the EG students’ total engagement in learning science and argumentation and the claim and warrant components were significantly higher than the CG students. In addition, the EG students’ anxiety in learning science significantly decreased during the study; and their posttest total engagement in learning science scores were positively associated with their argumentation scores. Interview and observation results were consistent with the quantitative findings. Instructional implications and research recommendations are discussed.     

思想政治教育网络环境初探

思想政治教育网络环境是现代思想政治教育环境的一部分，与传统的思想政治教育环境相比,它具有虚拟性、信息资源丰富性和共享性、开放性、自由交互性、超时空性等特征。对思想政治教育网络环境的研究对推动思想政治教育的学科建设和发展，开创思想政治教育的新局面具有重要的理论意义和现实意义。     

开发期刊文献信息为研究性学习服务

研究性学习的开展,要求高校图书馆尤其是期刊阅读方面提供更多、更新、更快的信息。要求改变当前期刊阅览中普遍存在的“守着学生看杂志,守着杂志看学生”的管理方式和只重管理、不重服务的工作思路及运行机制,建立期刊文献信息资源服务系统将使这种状态彻底改观,从而推动高校研究性学习深入持久地开展下去。     

科学教育中的探究教学模式发展述评

当前,伴随着强调以“科学探究”为核心的科学教育改革,世界范围内形成并发展了一些有代表性的科学探究教学模式。“学习环”模式和随后对学习环模式的修订以及由此发展出的数学模式,基本体现了强调科学探究的教学思想的发展过程。近年来的一些研究者仍然在探索新的科学探究教学模式。国际科学教育中的探究教学模式及其发展对于我国的科学教育改革具有重要启示意义。     

论科学探究活动中学生自我效能感的培养

自我效能感是动机的核心要素，是主体性学习的心理支持系统。科学探究活动对于培养学生的自我效能感具有重要作用。对自我效能感的内涵、教育定义以及在科学探究活动中培养学生自我效能感的途径作了深入探讨。     

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.     

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”。