关于现代高师音乐教育改革的思考

根据长期的教学实践,社会调查和一些专题研究,对师范类院校的音乐教育目前存在的危机和现状进行了分析并提出以“两个负责态度”进行教育改革。     

Paired peer learning through engineering education outreach

ABSTRACT

Undergraduate education incorporating active learning and vicarious experience through education outreach presents a critical opportunity to influence future engineering teaching and practice capabilities. Engineering education outreach activities have been shown to have multiple benefits; increasing interest and engagement with science and engineering for school children, providing teachers with expert contributions to engineering subject knowledge, and developing professional generic skills for engineers such as communication and teamwork. This pilot intervention paired 10 pre-service teachers and 11 student engineers to enact engineering outreach in primary schools, reaching 269 children. A longitudinal mixed methods design was employed to measure change in attitudes and Education Outreach Self-Efficacy in student engineers; alongside attitudes, Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy and Engineering Subject Knowledge Confidence in pre-service teachers. Highly significant improvements were noted in the pre-service teachers’ confidence and self-efficacy, while both the teachers and engineers qualitatively described benefits arising from the paired peer mentor model.     

教师素质评价指标体系的建构与实施

本文围绕高校教师思想政治素质评价指标体系的建立方法，对建立指标体系的原则、总体设想以及评价的步骤与程序等试作一初步探讨。     

Why some teachers easily learn to use a new virtual learning environment: a technology acceptance perspective

After a decade of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in higher education, many teachers still use only a minimum of its affordances. This study looked at how academic staff interacted with a new and unknown VLE in order to understand how technology acceptance and support materials influence (perceived and actual) task performance. In an experimental design, 36 participants were split into a control (online help) and experimental (instructor video) condition and completed five common teaching tasks in a new VLE. In contrast to most technology acceptance model research, this study found that perceived usefulness of the VLE was not related to (perceived) task performance. Perceived ease of use was related to intentions and actual behaviour in the VLE. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between the two conditions, although the experimental condition led to a (marginal) increase in time to complete the tasks.     

高职教育存在的问题、成因及对策浅谈

本探讨了我国高等职业技术教育中存在的问题，分析了导致问题的原因，并在此基础上提出了改进高职教育的措施，以期为我国高职教育事业改革提供参考。     

先秦秦汉时期的伐木时间问题

本文从先秦秦汉文献出发,分析了先秦秦汉时期伐木以时的生产实践规律,讨论了总取林木和随时取林木的时间问题以及伐木以时在尊重林木生长规律和拥有可持续使用林木资源上的意义。     

新时期韩国教育的重大改革与社会反映

韩国是我国的临国，虽然社会制度不同，但所遇到的社会难题和教育问题，诸如早期留学热、课外辅导热、教育不公、教师评价难、职业教育衰竭等十分相近。韩国与社会制度相同的欧美各国的教育改革也有所不同，每届政府都很重视教育问题，努力通过修订国家相关的教育法律、政策和采取有效的行政措施，积极推进多项教育改革，以解决学业负担重、教育质量下滑、社会不公等诸多社会难题，值得分析与借鉴。     

飞翔及飞翔背后的故事——浅析《所罗门之歌》中歌谣的多重含义

在作品中,歌谣出现过多次,从头到尾贯穿了整个故事。故事始于歌声又终于歌声。歌声是黑人历史和文化的载体。歌声点出了“飞翔”这一重要主题,与主人公的成长息息相关;歌声还揭示了“飞翔”的多重含义,吟唱了“飞翔”背后一首不为人所知的黑人女性之歌。     

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.     

Pedagogical practices of NetNZ teachers for supporting online distance learners

A supportive online learning environment entails teachers using effective pedagogical practices to meet the needs of their students and developing a positive teacher–student relationship to foster learner motivation and engagement. This paper reports a study investigating how 32 secondary teachers in New Zealand taught their online distance classes and how they related to their students. These classes were administered by NetNZ, an online distance education community. An online survey conducted in 2016 found that NetNZ teachers used inquiry-based practices including flipped learning and knowledge-building pedagogies to support agency, autonomy, collaboration, and community development. They also used synchronous and asynchronous communication technologies to overcome barriers of relationship building in online settings. NetNZ was unique in delivering distance education in the New Zealand context in that it used a community approach to encourage a more active participation of its member schools and teachers in delivering distance courses to secondary students.