EUROPEAN DISSERTATION SUMMARIES

To alleviate teachers’ reluctance toward practical work, there has been much discussion on teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, teaching materials, and failsafe strategies for practical work. Despite these efforts, practical work is still regarded as a challenging task for many elementary science teachers. To understand the complexity of teachers’ conflicts in practical work, this study examines teachers’ ideas about teaching and learning that influence teachers’ decision‐making and action on teaching practical work. More important than knowing technical–rational aspects of practical work is to understand the internal contradictions that teachers have to resolve within themselves regarding their capabilities and beliefs about science teaching and practical work. Using stories and experiences of 38 third‐year university students in a science method course in Korea, we seek to understand the conflicts and negotiations that they experience as they make decisions regarding practical work throughout their course. Reflective writings and group discussions on their lived experiences and concerns were used to probe participants’ ideas on teaching using practical work. From written and verbal data, themes were saturated in terms of the aspects which could (dis)encourage their practice. Results suggest that there are multifactorial challenges in pre‐service teachers’ understandings and concerns in practical work. Besides time, materials, and curriculum, pedagogical assumptions and values also compositely challenge the minds of teachers. As the pre‐service elementary teachers negotiated within themselves the importance of science in classroom and social levels, the question is raised about their identities as pre‐service elementary teachers to appreciate the balance between science teaching and practical work.     

Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen: faculty identity and commitment in a Hispanic‐serving institution

This study examines our experiences as female junior scholars with multicultural backgrounds teaching at the same Hispanic‐serving institution. As education scholars with mixed‐heritage families, we identify with the commitment to serving Latinos and the number of mixed‐heritage people in the USA. The election of Barack Obama, whose racial background is both black and white, to the US presidency signifies the emergence of mixed‐heritage people as a demographic presence in this country. Our research suggests that more understanding is needed about the experiences of mixed‐heritage faculty in academia, as well as the ways in which faculty from any background may develop multiple affiliations with cultural communities and pursue professional agendas related to communities that they do not neatly fit into. Despite this variation in backgrounds and research agendas, we share our efforts in advancing Latin@ educational attainment.     

自主性学习的特征及其方式

自主性学习是创新学习的方法之一，应充分认识自主性学习的特征，正确地选择适合自己学习个性特点的学习方法，提高学习效率。     

试从"自我"角度探求科技人性化之路径

文章初步尝试从人的自我的角度来探求科技人性化之路径:人要着眼于“善”假外物而促动科技的生命化和艺术化,用独立灵明的自我意识监控科技对自我之身心整体及其与外部自然和社会环境的关系过程,以大公大我推动科技在人类内部和谐的基础上发展。     

强光束小尺度调制的非线性演化规律

Bespalov-Talanov关于小尺度自聚焦的经典理论在调制场的非线性演化阶段不适用。本文将这个理论推广到大信号非线性增长情形。结果表明，小尺度调制场和本底场在传输过程中经历周期性的能量交换过程。数值模拟验证了解析结果。     

Academic socialization,parental educational expectations,and academic self‐efficacy among Latino adolescents

This study examined the direct association between parental educational expectations and adolescents’ academic self‐efficacy, as well as the moderating influence of parental academic socialization messages. Participants were 148 Latino parent–adolescent dyads with the majority of Mexican origin (80.4%). Most of the parent participants were mothers (85.8%). Adolescents were 13 (46%) or 14 (54%) years of age, and 53% identified as female. Adolescents reported their academic self‐efficacy and perceptions of their parents’ educational expectations; parents reported on their academic socialization messages of shame/pressure and effort regarding academics. The results suggest that, after accounting for parents’ level of education and immigrant status, parental educational expectations were positively associated with adolescent academic self‐efficacy. This association was stronger among adolescents whose parents reported transmitting fewer messages of shame/pressure and academic effort. These results point to the importance of nuances in the content and type of academic socialization messages within Latino families.     

在远程网络教程编制中关于有效教学策略的应用

随着利用 Internet进行远程教育的日渐深入 ,网络教学资源的开发与利用显得越来越重要。本文以高师《公共心理学》网上教程为例 ,从信息的组织结构、内容的表现、支持自主学习的策略等几方面 ,探讨了在远程网络教程编制中有效教学策略的应用     

Reflectors as online extraverts?

Increasingly, online learning is perceived as an effective method of instruction. Much recent educational research has focused on examining the purposes and situations for which online education is best suited. In this paper, students enrolled in two online courses are compared with their peers enrolled in equivalent classroom‐based courses to investigate aspects of the relationship between learning style and mode of delivery. Student satisfaction measures are taken from participants in both modes of delivery and compared with student learning style. Feedback from the ‘Reflector’ learning style demonstrates higher satisfaction levels with the online mode of delivery compared with their matched counterparts following equivalent classroom‐based courses. Therefore, whilst ‘Reflectors’ might be regarded as Introverts in the traditional classroom setting, the additional time for reflection offered by online delivery makes this group more likely to contribute to online discussion, report higher satisfaction levels and generally behave more like online Extraverts.     

希腊神话中人的自我意识探析

具有突出的"人化"特征的希腊神话,实质是古希腊人以神秘的形式对人自身的设问和解答,内蕴着丰富的自我意识--自我生成意识、自我本质意识、自我价值意识、自我责任意识.这些意识从不同角度体现着古希腊人对自我的原始关照,并透射出人类自我理性认识的曙光.     

用保角变换法计算单芯偏心电缆单位长度的自感

文章利用分式线性变换计算单芯偏心电缆单位长度的自感,并对结果进行讨论。