Enacting Informal Science Learning: Exploring the Battle for Informal Learning

Informal Science Learning (ISL) is a policy narrative of interest in the United Kingdom and abroad. This paper explores how a group of English secondary school science teachers, enacted ISL science clubs through employing the Periodic Table of Videos. It examines how these teachers ‘battled’ to enact ISL policy in performative conditions at the micro-scale, and how this battle reflected macro-scale epistemological and political considerations. Data from the study suggests that for some, ISL was low stakes as it was seen to have negligible impact upon performance data. As a result, there was some resistance towards enacting ISL and conflict between the formal and informal curriculum processes. Nonetheless, analysis indicates that the informants highly valued ISL despite the requirement for them to justify it over more formal and ‘effective’ approaches to learning science.     

Channel One Revisited: Prospective Teachers and the Role of American Higher Education

This study examined perceptions of college of education students and their experiences with Channel One, a privately-owned news service used in public education. Given that about one-third of middle and high schoolers in the US view the broadcast every school day, the authors surveyed 172 freshmen to discern their views and attitudes toward Channel One programming and commercials and the role colleges and universities might play in relation to this media service. While most studies on Channel One have been conducted from a K-12 point of view, the goal of this study was to reconsider the topic from the perspective of prospective teachers and post-secondary education. A. J. Angulo  is Assistant Professor of Social Foundations, Winthrop University. He received an Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Harvard University. His research interests include history of education, technology and education, and student rights. Susan K. Green  is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Winthrop University. She received a Ph.D. in social psychology from Loyola University, Chicago and a Ph.D. in educational psychology and research from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Her interests include classroom assessment, motivational and instructional strategies to promote learning, and multicultural issues in education.     

教育产业化与高师音乐专业技能类课程的教学

在高等教育产业化形势下,由于近几年来不断地扩大招生规模,高师音乐专业演唱、演奏技能类课程教学有所变化。应正确认识高师音乐教育的培养目标,以对学生负责、对音乐教育负责的态度,根据目前的实际情况,灵活运用多种教学形式与现代化教学手段,促进教学质量的提高。此外,高师音乐系不能无限制地扩招。     

高师院校加强对创新型教师培养的思考

创新是民族进步、国家兴旺的不竭动力。高师院校承担着为基础教育培养创新型教师的任务。章在论述了创新教育与素质教育的关系、创新型教师的基本特征后，着重探讨了高师院校培养创新型教师的6条途径。     

专科院校计算机课程体系改革初探

本文分析当前大学计算机专业的课程设置混乱状况 ,主要论述专科院校计算机课程体系改革的必要性 ,并提出了一套完整的改革方案     

调整教学计划办出有特色的高职教育

高等职业教育要按照社会特定职业或岗位的需要培养学生的职业能力，这就决定了高职教学计划在培养目标及业务规格上有新的突破，这里重点介绍了我院在调整教学计划方面的一些做法及本人的粗浅认识。     

Neoliberal practices amidst social justice orientations: global citizenship education in South Korea

Abstract

Global citizenship education (GCE) positions itself on the global arena as a transformative social justice oriented educational curriculum that addresses the political, social, economic and cultural inequalities brought about through colonisation and neoliberalism on the global and local levels. Through an exploration of the discourse, design and delivery of GCE in the young nation-state of South Korea, we argue that, in fact, GCE reinforces and maintains the hegemonic ideals of global capitalism; core-periphery global and local relationships; and dichotomous views of poverty and inequalities. We argue that these approaches reflect South Korea’s geopolitical realities, but that attitudes towards GCE in South Korea also reflect its cultural norms and values towards working together towards a common good. Ultimately, we call for a more nuanced approach to GCE scholarship in which we move away from theoretical divisions to practical applications of social justice that work within increasingly capitalist/neoliberal interests for a more inclusive world.     

小学科学课程:国际趋势与政策建议——基于10国课程标准的比较

我国小学科学课程标准实验稿颁布十余年来,纷争一直不断.研读国外小学科学课程标准文本,总结国外小学科学课程改革经验与发展趋势,有助于为我国标准的修订与完善提供借镜.综观国际经验,有关我国小学科学课程标准完善的建议主要为:完善课程目标维度,增加具体化的纵向目标;优化课程内容领域,合理设置课程模块;优化课程内容选择与组织,认真对待科学知识;优化课程内容呈现,指导教材编制;细化课程实施建议,为教师提供切实帮助;改进课程评价,制订具体可行的评价标准.     

构建新型农民职业教育培训体系全面推动农村小康社会建设

构建新型农民职业教育体系,是全面推动农村小康社会建设的必要条件.分析了我国农民职业教育体系的现状,并从这一现状出发,阐述新型农民职业教育培训体系的概念与内涵,提出构建这一体系的基本原则、体系框架、建设重点及主要模式.     

自由教育的历史演变及当代特征

始于古希腊时期的自由教育思想，直到今天仍然在教育理论和实践领域发挥着影响力，考察自由教育的历史演变及当代特征，有助于准确地理解和把握自由教育思想。