反思性讨论对英语教师专业发展的作用

本文以教育叙事的方式,从实证角度考察了某大学四位大学英语教师以团队合作形式进行的反思性写作教学,拟探索反思在教师专业化发展过程中的作用。研究表明,基于教师小组讨论的反思性教学,提升了教师教学技能,使大学英语写作教学更加专业化;同时也改进了写作教学效果,提高了学生的写作能力。本研究最后提出教学研究者如参与反思性讨论并对研究活动进行指导,可促进教师研究能力的发展,使其真正达到专业化的水平。     

Developing,expressing and contesting opinions of science: encouraging the student voice

In a typical science degree, little emphasis is placed on the need for scientists to make judgements about evidence and little value is placed on the development of students' opinions about science, with the focus largely on assessment of declarative knowledge. Yet it is the ability to evaluate evidence that is crucial to the development of the student as a scientist. This study assesses the impact on students' conceptions of science of a course that aims to engage students in discussion and reflection on what scientists do and on their own learning about science. Analysis of written reflective assignments from the three years the course has been run shows that participants become more confident in their expression of opinions about science and also develop a more mature view of science and its inherent uncertainty. It appears that a critical factor enabling this development is the way the course activities are designed to explicitly value students' opinions and to provide a supportive environment in which they can be expressed and contested.     

从应试教育到课程改革:教育现象学观照

教育现象学是一门追求教育生活中具体现象的学问,悬置成见、回归生活和反思性理解,是教育现象学的三个重要关键词。从教育现象学角度观照,应试教育存在的主要问题包括:教师讲授对悬置的忽视,标准答案情结对学生生活世界的遮蔽,缺乏师生对教材、他者与自我三者关系的反思性理解;课程改革的路径选择包括教师精通教材与悬置的运用,教师主动倾听让学生的生活世界得以显现,教师运用教学机智推进学生关于教材、他者与自我三者关系的反思性理解。     

示范性英语教学中的反思性实践

反思性教学方法是新型课程改革中所追求的一种崭新的教学方式。此篇文章以现代英语师范毕业生自身存在的问题为出发点,基于反思性教学的内涵、特点与意义,说明其在提高新进教师的专业能力发展方面的重要性,并详细阐述了反思性教学的过程与方法,旨在帮助学生在了解其概念特征的基础上,熟练掌握反思性教学的方法,并将其运用在实际课堂中,从而起到促进新进教师专业发展的作用。     

大学英语精读教师教学反思能力培养

反思性教学是提高教师个人自身教学能力和教育教学质量的必由之路。本文从反思内涵入手,谈及了反思性教学、英语精读教师教学反思以及英语精读教师教学反思能力的培养。另外,笔者结合自身教学经历,针对英语精读教师教学反思能力培养,提出了三条建设性建议,旨在对大学英语精读教学有所裨益。     

论外语教师反思能力的培养

反思是能动的审视 ,检验理性认识并进行加工的过程。反思是教师职业发展和自我评价的有效途径 ,教师教育方案应该纳入反思性教育理念。从反思的内涵入手 ,探讨了外语教师反思能力的培养方法 ,并提出建设性的建议     

A collaborative autoethnography study to inform the teaching of reflective practice in STEM

The paper explores a collaborative self-study, autoethnography research project, which aided in informing practice for the teaching of reflective practice in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at an Australian university. Self-report methods were used, because it enabled the collection of a variety of self-awareness data generated processes to help produce insights and understandings. This was achieved by undertaking a systematic approach to the exploration of a critical friendship between two academic support staff members alongside reflections from a recorded, focus group interview with nine STEM teachers. Four self-awareness data generated processes were used: (1) self-reflections; (2) collaborative reflections; (3) reflections on pertinent literature findings and (4) reflections from nine STEM teachers. A thematic analysis of the data was undertaken, which resulted in the discovery of three turning points such as moments of understandings that challenge assumptions and/or lead to new insights. The findings indicated that a STEM-centric, scaffolded approach that utilised the scientific method for reflective practice enabled the development of a shared understanding around teaching and assessing reflective practice for STEM teachers. First, because it boosted self-confidence and second, because it reduced scepticism around reflective practice as a non-scientific form of learning.     

Reflecting on Functioning in Trigger Happy America

Trigger warnings are posing serious threats to the ways that English educators can teach at the university level. If Aristotle – and Hillis-Miller years later – argue that literature must arouse and bring about catharsis, then proponents of trigger warnings are anaesthetising the power of words and watering down their ability to incite emotional responses and promote healing. By examining the relationship between proponents of the trigger warning and reflective functioning – a psychoanalytic concept that emerged out of the British psychoanalytic school – this article argues that English students and English educators who support the use of trigger warnings may suffer from poor reflective functioning. Individuals with poor reflective functioning have difficulty coping with their emotions as well as practising mentalisation during times of acute stress, which can be triggered in response to arousing interactions with texts. Finally, the article offers some suggestions for how English educators might use empathy, intentional self-disclosure and vulnerability as a means for enhancing reflective functioning in students and encouraging them to journey more freely and courageously into controversial, charged, and dramatic literary moments.     

Personally driven professional development: reflective self-study as a way for teachers to take control of their own professional development

This article is about personally driven professional development through the use of reflective self-study. The argument that teachers need to take responsibility for their own learning while also taking decisions on how and in what areas to develop is strongly made throughout the article. Data for this article were gathered over a 10-year period where the author engaged in several studies using self-study as methodology. Between studies, the author kept using reflective self-study as a professional development tool, and it is these data between various studies that were analysed using thematic and reflective analysis. Such analysis resulted in various overarching themes that show how reflective self-study can be of benefit if used by teachers researching their own classrooms. Benefits include teachers taking full ownership of their learning, relevance of learning, learning that is ongoing and not restricted to specific times and places, taking problematic situations as learning opportunities and how other sources take on new relevance through reflective self-study. Some implications for teacher-education programmes and current school structures are also discussed.     

Pre-service teachers’ attempts at debating contemporary issues in science education: A case study from Botswana

This paper constitutes an attempt to explore trends, issues and challenges that emerge when three different cohorts of pre-service teachers debate contemporary issues in science education at the University of Botswana. Apart from the author's experience of teaching the course, the impetus for this study also comes from a growing interest in the contemporary literature in the need for teachers who, in the context of globalization and knowledge economy, are ‘self-reforming’ through continually addressing the key issues of their profession. Unfortunately, the current situation is such that this burden of interrogation falls heaviest on teachers, despite their lack of skills in undertaking the task.