远程开放教育中实现人文关怀的有效策略——“交互距离模型”理论的应用

远程开放教育的基本特点是教师和学生之间存在着距离,但同时也存在着学生未知状态与学习内容之间的心理距离。面对这种状况,需要坚持人文关怀,并将其贯穿和落实到学习过程、学习内容和教学方法等环节中,以实现现代远程开放教育的可持续发展。"交互距离模型"理论对于促进远程开放教育中实现人文关怀有着积极的指导意义:理念上坚持以人为本,注重发挥学生的主体性;氛围上坚持师生平等,建立和谐的师生关系;机制上坚持有效反馈,重视信息的及时交流。     

直面现实的力作——读罗伟章的长篇小说《磨尖掐尖》有感

本文对《磨尖掐尖》中几位教师进行了分析--语文教师费远钟胆小怕事,只关心学生的学业成绩;英语老师郑丽争强好胜,近乎工作狂,却得不到学生的尊重;语文老师莫凡宗对现实有清醒的认识却也无可奈何。指出在当今高考制度下一些尖子生的生存状态令人担忧--他们不堪重负走向疯狂,并进而得出结论:罗伟章的小说表达出了对社会现实的强烈关注,体现了一个作家应有的真诚与良心。     

胡瑗的慎为思想与防备之术

在如何治理国家、保证国家长治久安的问题上,胡瑗表现出了明显的忧患意识。他认为,统治者的一言一行对国家治理都会产生一定的影响,统治者必须谨言慎行。同时,他认为不管什么时候,国家都存在危机,所以他特别强调统治者要有忧患意识。应对危机,关键要做好各种准备,尤其是军事准备。因此要大力推进武学教育。     

道德关怀思想的内涵探析

道德关怀思想的提出,拓展了理论界对道德教育理论的研究范畴.道德关怀思想的内涵包括,道德关怀思想的前提即通过彼此关怀的关系来认识自己;道德关怀思想的本质即责任;道德关怀思想的表现即情感.     

大学英语分级教学改革下授课教师适应性研究

经过对大学英语分级教学改革下不同级别任课教师对改革实施的制度的适应性进行考察,指出教材难度的选择要有针对性;在教学目标管理上可以采用阶段性和总结性教学目标相结合的方式;在管理机制上,应重视教师的付出和其所实施的有效教学行为而不能仅重视教学成果,而且心理干预对教师的激励也很重要。     

农村中小学布局调整政策的历程、反思与走向

农村中小学布局调整有利于优化农村教育资源配置,实现优质教育资源共享,促进农村义务教育持续、健康发展。从教育政策的角度,通过回顾中国改革开放至今学校布局调整的主要历程,反思目前布局调整中的主要问题以及展望中小学布局调整政策的走向,对今后更加科学、合理地制定学校布局调整政策是具有重要意义的。     

段淑芳小小说论

段淑芳是湖南专注于小小说创作的"80后"优秀青年作家之一。她以女性的独特视角去关注底层生活,通过"含泪的微笑"等多种形式表达内蕴的深沉,诗意散淡的语言,使她的小小说有其独特价值。     

Understanding Cultural Differences in the Antecedents of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Business Students in the United States and Chile

We surveyed business students in the U. S. (n = 256) and Chile (n = 310). The survey included measures drawn from studies of pro-environmental behavior using Schwartz's norm activation theory (Schwartz, 1977 Schwartz, S. H. 1977. “Normative influences on altruism”. In Advances in experimental social psychology, Edited by: Berkowitz, L. Vol. 10, 221–279. New York: Academic Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980 Ajzen, I. and Fishbein, M. 1980. Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.  [Google Scholar]), and a values-beliefs-norms model created by Stern, Dietz, Abel, Guagnano, and Kalof (1999) Stern, P. C., Dietz, T., Abel, T., Guagnano, G. A. and Kalof, L. 1999. A value-belief-norm theory of support for social movements: The case of environmentalism. Human Ecology Review, 6(2): 81–97.  [Google Scholar]. Our results show Chilean business students are more altruistic than business students in the United States and Chilean students felt stronger pressures from their peers to engage in pro-environmental behaviors. Chilean business students also expressed higher levels of awareness of environmental problems, a greater sense of obligation to protect the environment, a stronger willingness to limit property rights, and stronger intentions to engage in pro-environmental behavior.     

The Intergenerational Transmission of Environmental Concern: The Influence of Parents and Communication Patterns Within the Family

This article reports on the intergenerational transmission of environmental concern and the explanatory power of communication patterns within the family. Using representative data from the Parent-Child Socialization Study in Belgium (PCSS, 2012), this article focuses on the relative influence of the mother and the father, and gender-specific patterns in the transmission of environmental attitudes. The results clearly confirm the transmission hypothesis: both the mother and the father have a significant influence on the environmental concern of their offspring. No gender-specific transmission mechanisms were found. In families that communicate regularly about the environment, transmission was more effective. Nevertheless, the transmission effects were only moderate, indicating that environmental concern may not be a core attitude within Belgian families.     

Analog of parental empathy: Association with physical child abuse risk and punishment intentions

Objectives

Current research has been inconsistent in corroborating that parents’ compromised empathy is associated with elevated physical child abuse risk, perhaps in part because of an emphasis on dispositional empathy rather than empathy directed at their own children. Research has also relied on self-reports of empathy that are susceptible to participant misrepresentation. The present study utilized an analog task of parental empathy to investigate the association of parental empathy toward one's own child with physical child abuse potential and with their tendency to punish perceived child misbehavior.

Methods

A sample of 135 mothers and their 4–9 year old children were recruited, with mothers estimating their children's emotional reactions using a behavioral simulation of parental empathy. Mothers also provided self-reports on two measures of child abuse potential, a measure of negative attributions and expected punishment of children using vignettes, as well as a traditional measure of dispositional empathic concern and perspective-taking.

Results

Findings suggest that parental demonstration of poorer empathic ability on the analog task was significantly related to increased physical abuse potential, likelihood to punish, and negative child attributions. However, self-reported dispositional empathy exhibited the pattern of inconsistent associations previously observed in the literature.

Conclusions

Parental empathy appears to be a relevant target for prevention and intervention programs. Future research should also consider similar analog approaches to investigate such constructs to better uncover the factors that elevate abuse risk.