高职英语教学中“体验式”语法教学探新

目前我国高职英语教学由于学时减少,课程开设时间缩短,学生中普遍存在着基本句法不明,词法不懂,整体语法不牢固的现象。本文结合高职英语教学基本要求,探讨英语教学中如何通过加强语法教学让学生产生鲜活体验,从而提高语言运用的准确性,进而提高实际运用英语进行交际能力的方法。     

学生顶岗实习期间“现岗的胜任力”探究——以高职酒店管理专业为例

目前一些酒店企业对高职院校酒店管理专业顶岗实习生实习岗位采取硬性安排,不予轮岗,也不予轮职,使办学单位无法完成高位就业人才培养目标。其实,企业能否安排学生轮岗、轮职实习,应取决于学生在现岗的胜任力状况,即学生职业知识、职业能力、职业道德状况,并要有时间保证。为此,学校与企业双方应大力协作与支持。     

IBSTPI教师能力标准中教育技术内容的分析

IBSTPI教师能力标准非常突出教育技术内容。其教育技术内容包括2项能力、13条绩效指标和一些教育技术行为表现的例举;这些内容的实质是教育技术知识、技能和情感态度;他们具有四个特点:面向三种教学环境、体现时代性、可操作性强以及指向有效教学。这些对我国教师教育具有重要的借鉴价值。     

高职院校旅游管理专业群基于能力本位课程体系的构建路径

旅游管理专业群基于能力本位的课程体系建设遵循能力本位教育理论的一般规律,同时也加入了大量的本土化创新元素。青岛职业技术学院旅游管理专业群课程该体系构建的基础是对学生已经掌握的和他们应该掌握的能力进行分析。在课程体系建设实践中,旅游管理专业群参考DACUM方法,确定学生在某一领域已经掌握了哪些知识和能力,并对照他们应该掌握的知识和能力,找出二者之间的差距,从而判断学生的熟练程度,然后以此为根据来组织课程与教学。     

完善研究生创业教育体系的调查与分析——以中南财经政法大学为例

从系统梳理创业能力的国内外文献着手,运用德尔菲法,构建出6个维度的研究生创业胜任力模型.同时,根据对中南财经政法大学研究生的创业意向及创业能力所做的调查与分析,得出研究生创业能力普遍较低、创业实践机会缺乏、创业教育体系需要更加完善等结论.从而提出完善创业教育体系的政策建议:设置创业课程,指导学生制定职业生涯规划;充实和丰富创业教育形式.     

体育产业经营人员职业胜任力研究

以胜任力理论为基础,综合使用文献资料法和专家访谈法,对体育产业经营人员关键行为事件进行搜集,从经营管理任务胜任力、体育行业胜任力、公司胜任力三个维度和“基准性胜任力”“鉴别性胜任力”两方面构建了体育产业经营人员职业胜任力要素,以期为评价和培养体育产业人才提供理论依据和参考.     

Measuring financial literacy: Developing and testing a measurement instrument with a selected group of South African military officers

Abstract

Are South Africans financially literate, and how can this be measured? Until 2009 there was no South African financial literacy measure and, therefore, the aim was to develop a South African measurement instrument that is scientific, socially acceptable, valid and reliable. To achieve this aim a contextual and conceptual analysis of financial literacy that indicated the importance of financial literacy, the scope and impact of financial literacy education, and uncovered an acceptable financial literacy definition and its constituent concepts, was applied. A rigorous five-step process was then followed in developing a questionnaire that measures financial literacy knowledge, behaviour and attitude. This draft questionnaire was applied at the South African Military Academy (SAMA) to firstly determine and improve its validity and reliability, and secondly to measure the financial literacy levels of school leavers. Experts and users found this measurement instrument to be valid, and internal consistency levels of above .7 registered its reliability. On average the first-year SAMA students achieved scores of 55.55%, 69.85%, and 77.11% for financial literacy knowledge, behaviour and attitude. As a result it is postulated that there is now a scientific and socially relevant, valid and reliable South African financial literacy measurement instrument available.     

Swimming Against the Current

Most social work students approach research classes with some reluctance. Aversion is greatest among non-traditional students, who are older, more pragmatic, more apprehensive about research ventures. Faced with a class of such students, the author arranged an experimental research project at a shelter for abused women. The project encountered real-life pitfalls in that setting, and the students came to realize that subjectivity invades obejctive and rational processes. Learning research in an agency-based setting united this reluctant class into a cohesive team. Although experiential approaches to teaching research techniques are not new, this article advances some cautions about the conditions necessary for a successful outcome.     

A service,a ‘way of working’, or a profession? A discourse analysis of community education/community learning and development in Scotland

Community-based informal education, like other practices, is fundamentally shaped by the discourses under which it is constituted. In Scotland, since 1975, the practice has been formally established by government policy as an amalgam of youth work, adult education and community development under a discourse of informal education. This combination carries its own internal tensions alongside the continually contested relationship between the field of practice and the State. This study analyses key documents in order to chart the shifts in discourse around the constitution of Community Education/Community Learning and Development since 1975. The analysis reveals the force of managerialist discourses which transformed understandings of the practice from post-war welfare state discourses as a service, to its reshaping as technique under New Labour. Current discursive work is directed to its reconstitution (still somewhat ambivalently) as a profession. This ‘re-professionalisation’ connects with similar movements in medicine, social work, parole and teaching which are attempting to reduce the costs of actuarial disciplinary techniques (in record-keeping, reporting and the generation of outcome data) by returning professional trust and judgement to practitioners.     

Peer groups and behaviour problems

Abstract

The study evaluated the effect of a programme for elementary school students with behaviour problems integrated into the regular classroom. The programme combined in-class social skills training and specific educational activities with peers, namely cooperative learning and tutoring by a prosocial peer. The innovative aspect is that the social status and affiliations of children with behaviour problems are key components in the matching of children during peer support. The goal is to improve social behaviour and to change peer perception through interventional strategies, therefore improving social reputation. Pre-test/post-test control group design was used. Results from traditional analysis indicated no significant difference between treatment and control groups after the programme. A modest effect size showed a relative improvement for students with behavioural disorders who participated in social skills training. Results are discussed in terms of the role of friends in the intervention programme.