Classroom conditions to secure enjoyment and achievement: the pupils' voice. Listening to the voice of Every child matters

This paper argues that pupil voice and the active engagement of pupils in shaping their own educational experience are integral to the success of the ‘Enjoy and Achieve’ strand of the Every child matters: Change for children programme. Through accessing the voice of Key Stage 2 pupils, insight was gained into what pupils believe to be the ideal ‘classroom conditions’ which enable them to enjoy and achieve at school. Pupil voice was accessed using an innovative form of group interview incorporating an Ishikawa or fishbone tool. The data was collected from 180 pupils, from Years 3–6 (aged 7–11) in a UK Junior school. The findings identify eight ‘classroom conditions’ which pupils see as being critical for them to be able to enjoy and achieve at school. Two of these ‘classroom conditions’ do not appear to be supported by previous research.     

诠释学视野下的中国传统武术发展观

以马克思主义实践观为指导思想,站在文化变迁性和通约性的哲学立场上,深入贯彻马克思主义哲学的辩证否定观机制,提出了视域融合的传统武术文化发展观:首先,树立健康的传统武术文化心态,以一种理智的、客观的眼光,在全球视野中审视传统武术和竞技武术及西方体育的关系。其次,坚持文化自觉地理念,处理好传统武术的民族性和时代性关系。第三,既注重传统武术自身的保护、传承和超越,又注重传统武术与西方体育文化的交流与融合。     

探究体育新课程标准下的新型师生关系

从新课程标准下体育教学过程的学生、教师入手,采用对比的方法探究了体育新课程标准的实施必将使师生之间的关系,师生的教、学行为等发生变化。学生不应再是教学过程中的接收者、模仿者,而应该是劳动者、求索者、设计者;教师不应再是传授者、命令者,而应该是生产者、中介者、服务者。体育教学中的师生关系应该是一种平等、合作、互动的关系,教师不应再将自己凌驾于学生之上,只有这样,学生才能感受到运动的乐趣和学习环境的温馨,学习的积极性、主动性和创造性才能充分体现出来。     

班主任实施批评的基本要求

班主任批评学生时应做到:牢记批评目的,尊重学生人格;尽量避免公开批评和正式批评;选择适当的时机和心境;批语的方式方法要因人制宜;要就事论事,不连类而及;要使批评有积极而愉快的结果。     

基于网络应用的小学生开放性探究学习的教学设计

对基于网络应用的小学生开放性探究学习的任务、认知工具、组织形式、基本步骤、教师辅导策略等问题进行了设计和探究。     

班级社会学研究(下):新论初探

基于鲜活的教育实践及冲突社会学与批判教育学理念,可以得出一种新的"基于抗衡的合作主义"的班级观。这是一种主位、客位互释的班级观,其研究出发点是"班级第一性",目的是为公民社会奠基,其班级历程包括教师权威的施展、学生同辈的竞争以及教师权力与学生权势的互动。对于这种班级观来说,冲突是手段,抗衡是机制,合作是目标。这种班级观需要教师树立解放型权威观,成为转化型知识分子;学生通过良好的班级政治生活来涵养未来公民社会的必备素质。     

谈小学低年级绘本阅读研究

绘本以鲜艳的色彩,鲜明的主题吸引了低年级学生的阅读兴趣。在低年级开展多种形式的绘本阅读,可以极大调动学生的阅读积极性,提高学生的阅读能力。     

Utilising creative methodologies to elicit the views of young learners with additional needs in literacy

The research described in this article aimed to explore and examine the dominant ‘assessment’ and ‘participation’ stories of upper‐primary pupils with long‐standing and marked literacy learning needs, their views on how their level of participation in the assessment and remediation of their additional needs might be increased and also how they perceive themselves as literacy learners. This qualitative small‐scale study adopted a case study approach and utilised creative methodologies in the context of focus groups to investigate sensitively the views and experiences of Key Stage 2 pupils with additional needs in literacy. The findings discussed here are based on the outcomes from the four Northern Irish schools that participated in the original cross‐border (Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland) study. Findings are discussed in the context of strategies for promoting holistic and empowering pathways for learners with additional needs in literacy.     

Towards a critical re-conceptualization of the purpose of higher education: the role of Ubuntu-Currere in re-imagining teaching and learning in South African higher education

ABSTRACT

The 2015–2016 South African higher education students’ movement proved historical for our country in bringing to our dinner tables: issues of higher education transformation and decolonisation; institutional culture(s); curriculum reform; the need to foreground and make inclusive assessment in education; the coloniality in our knowledge production, and more. Influenced by the emergence of the student movements and the critique they have brought to South African higher education, we bring to the fore the often silent critical reflections on the purposes of higher education in general, and in South Africa especially, as they relate to teaching and learning. We propose that the purposes of higher education in relation to teaching and learning ought to respond to (1) context, (2) democratic difference, and (3) cosmopolitan perspectives. We argue that discourses, phases and logics about South African higher education have tended to disregard and, at times, blur the context and differences as well as cosmopolitan perspectives. Using the notion of Ubuntu-Currere, we re-imagine how teaching and learning could respond to context, difference and cosmopolitanism with examples from the South African higher education experience.     

Perspectives of students with autism on their participation in a peer-mediated intervention

The article describes research into the perspectives of students with autism regarding their participation as the target participants in a peer-mediated social communication intervention. Questionnaires were administered to four elementary-aged students with autism before and after their involvement in the intervention. The students' parents and teachers also completed questionnaires about the students' participation in the intervention. Through the use of these questionnaires, we gained an insight into students' experiences with the intervention, which elements of the intervention they found most enjoyable and most effective, and the perceived impacts of the intervention on their social communication behaviours. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the questionnaire data revealed that all four students with autism enjoyed participating in the peer-mediated intervention sessions, felt that their social communication behaviours had improved as a result of their involvement, and would like to be involved in similar sessions in the future. Implications for parents and educators who support the social communication of children with autism are explored.