Challenging ideological environments: international teachers’ experiences in an outside-of-country teacher training programme

Teacher training for developing nation contexts is often conducted in short, intensive inside and outside-of-country programmes. Concerns have been raised in relation to the uncritical take-up of the western-centric material provided by these programmes, which are usually funded by national and international government organizations. This paper explores an approach used in an outside-of-country teacher training programme funded by an Australian government grant. The research focused on teacher trainers from the Monastic education system and their reflections on whether critical literacy approaches could be incorporated into curriculum in Myanmar. It used a Bakhtinian framework to analyse the teacher trainers’ ideological environments and their hybridizations of critical literacy discourses for their own contexts. It was found that while the teacher trainers were passionate about the worth of developing critical literacy skills for their teachers and pupils, they struggled with a range of constraints that existed for them within their country. The research illustrated the importance of providing spaces for participants in programmes such as these to critically reflect on the relevance of non-government organization (NGO) and international non-government organization (INGO) training programmes, especially in light of the multiple challenges that are a part of their everyday lives.     

论大学生媒介素养教育与高校校园文化建设

信息时代,媒介传播的大众文化深刻影响着大学生群体。结合媒介素养教育的内涵,高校校园文化作为培养大学生素质教育的重要阵地。理应引入媒介素养教育。     

中澳美的经济变革与数学课程改革方向

世界经济结构正经历巨大的转型,具体表现为农业所占GDP的比例显著下降,而制造业,尤其是服务业则不断提高.中国、澳大利亚与美国是3个具有代表性的国家,经济上的这种变化对教育以及数学课程都产生了影响,反映了当今社会中对人们所需的"数学素养"的全新要求.中国、澳大利亚与美国义务教育阶段国家级数学课程都强调了"统计思想"与"关系性思维"这两个重要内容.     

高职高专院校学前教育专业学生语言素养的培养

高职高专院校学前教育专业学生在语言素养方面存在自我认识模糊和心理素质薄弱等问题。培养学生语言素养的策略包括重视口语基本训练、注重词汇的规范使用、讲究学法灵活多样和培养学生的形象感受四个方面。     

浅谈现行统计调查存在的问题及建议

随着我国政治经济形势的发展，党和国家决策需要统计部门提供的数据越来越多。依靠以往已实行的普查、抽样调查等方法进行统计数据收集，已不能适应形势发展之需，因此，对统计调查中存在的问题必须进行分析，找出解决这些问题的办法。     

平民识字教育：理念、实践及其启示

陶行知先生早在上世纪二三十年代,就关注、组织平民教育,认为平民识字的终极目标是“做新民”,平民识字教材应该“使人起而行”;他还提出并运用“帮助大众认识汉字”的一整套方法。学习、研究、借鉴陶行知平民识字教育理念和实践,对于推进素质教育、造就现代化社会所需要的一代新人是很有现实意义的。     

Is students’ energy literacy related to their university’s position in a sustainability ranking?

Abstract

University rankings are increasingly important internationally, and in the UK include a sustainability ‘Green League’. However, there is little evidence about experiences of studying in ‘sustainable universities’. We report an empirical study at five universities in varied positions in the Green League, exploring students’ energy literacy, environmental attitudes and perceptions of their institution’s energy-saving efforts. Although the link to energy literacy is not clear, findings suggest that there are significant differences between students’ environmental attitudes at universities placed at different points in the league. In addition, students at higher ranked universities are more positive about their university’s energy-saving efforts, suggesting that these institutions may exhibit more overt manifestations of sustainability. This is important since students report being more likely to choose energy-conservation behaviours if there is visible representation of energy use. The study is the first to attempt a comparison between universities at different positions in a sustainability ranking.     

论媒介素养教育与思想政治教育的有效结合

媒介素养教育与思想政治教育的对象的相同性、目的的一致性、内容的关联性、方法的相通性、途径的相似性为两者的结合提供了极大的可能性,而且素质教育的要求、思想政治教育自身发展的要求、媒介素养教育在中国本土化的发展要求使两者的结合非常有必要.将媒介素养教育纳入思想政治教育体系,用思想政治教育的内容来引导媒介素养教育,是对两者有效结合路径的思考,其教育过程大致分为理论学习、思考辨析和实践操作三个阶段.     

YouTube: Educational Potentials and Pitfalls

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The Use of Newspaper Articles as a Tool to Develop Critical Thinking in Science Classes

The aim of this research is to identify the difficulties experienced by secondary school students (aged 15–16) with the critical reading of newspaper articles with scientific content. Two newspaper critical reading activities in relation to the study of various scientific contents were designed and carried out in two schools (61 students in total), one with a student population from a medium to high social and economic bracket and the other with students from a medium to low social and economic bracket. These activities were designed taking into account the phases of the reading process: before, during and after reading. In order to analyse the difficulties ‘Elements of science critical reading’ were identified on the basis of the ‘Elements of reasoning’ of Paul and Elder and the categories proposed by Bartz C.R.I.T.I.C. questionnaire and a scale was drawn up. The results show that the activities designed were useful in helping students to read critically. We also rated very positively the instrument created to assess the students' answers: the scale based on the performance indicators of Paul and Elder. This instrument enabled us to detect the aspects of critical thinking where students have the most difficulties: identifying the writer's purpose and looking for evidence in a text. It was also shown that the stance taken in the articles also had an influence on the results.