Graduate learning outcomes in science: variation in perceptions of single- and dual-degree students

The development of transferrable skillsets, articulated in statements of graduate learning outcomes, is emphasised in undergraduate science degree programmes. Science students enrolled in dual (double) degrees comprise a significant minority of Australian science undergraduates. Research comparing perceptions of single and dual degree students on their science learning outcomes has rarely been explored. The Science Students Skills Inventory was used to compare the perceptions of single (n = 640) and dual (n = 266) degree undergraduate science students. The instrument explored science graduate learning outcomes across six indicators: importance; the extent to which outcomes were included; the extent to which they were assessed; improvement; confidence; and likely future use. Analysis of findings, employing the planned–enacted–experienced curricula framework, offers insight into potential avenues towards coherence of the experienced curriculum by arguing the need for shared perceptions of graduate learning outcomes for single and dual degree science students. The key contribution of this study is a shift towards progressive curriculum development that draws on both single and dual degree student perspectives to achieve graduate learning outcomes. Recommendations include: whole-of-programmes curricular pathways premised on progressive development of learning outcomes that are inclusive of dual degree students, explicit interdisciplinary learning opportunities, and adoption of dual/single status as a demographic variable reported in future research.     

Parental Involvement in Children’s Learning: The Case of Cochlear Implantation—Parents as Educators?

Extensive research emphasises the importance of parental involvement for children’s learning and academic achievement. This paper reports from a Norwegian study researching parents’ experiences on follow-up after their child’s cochlear implantation. Within this context, parental involvement is suggested to be of major importance for the child’s language learning. The study explores the parents’ talk on their involvement in the child’s language after implantation. Data consist of 27 written parental accounts and interviews with 14 of these parents. The analysis shows the parents’ extensive involvement in the child’s language learning. The study brings into conversation how understandings of learning influence parental involvement, leading to implications for the parents and children involved. It addresses a need for debate on how parents can support children’s learning, whilst avoiding parenthood becoming a series of educational tasks.     

对"中国现代数学起源于肇庆"命题的若干思考

利玛窦具有很丰富的数学知识背景,他以他的数学才能和语言天赋,在中西方数学文化融合方面做出了杰出的贡献,对中国近、现代数学的萌芽与发展产生了深远影响.利玛窦在肇庆既传播了欧氏几何,也传播了“非欧几何”.他所传播的“西方现代数学”及其所获得的效应,确立了他以数学来赢取中国民心的学术传教思想,为他后来在中国系统地传播“西方现代数学”奠定了坚实的基础.利玛窦与中国士大夫合译了许多西方数学名著,不仅引入了新的数学体系,而且引入了新的数学思想和方法(包括几何公理化思想),使中国传统数学焕发出了生机与活力,开创了中西方数学文化融合的纪元,推动了中国近、现代数学与数学教育的萌芽和发展.     

Friendships for wellbeing?: parents’ and practitioners’ positioning of young children’s friendships in the evaluation of wellbeing factors

ABSTRACT

Friendship matters for young children’s development, learning and experience of wellbeing. This paper emphasises the significance of young children’s friendships for their wellbeing, especially in the context of early years settings. Findings are presented from two online questionnaires developed for the project, in which 155 parents/carers and 285 practitioners in England expressed their perceptions of what matters for young children’s wellbeing. Data shows some ambivalence in the views of both parents/carers and practitioners about the importance of friendship in this context. Both groups gave low prioritisation to ‘the company of friends’ for children’s wellbeing. As friendships are of central importance to young children themselves, this could suggests that adults and children may have different priorities, which raises questions about the extent to which young children’s friendships are seen as important by adults. The paper concludes by proposing the need for practitioners in particular, but also parents, to consider their roles and priorities for children’s lives within schools and nurseries, including how they might sensitively support and facilitate children’s friendships in play, activities, transition and everyday life.     

禅义和多种幸福观

幸福是什么？这有多种的解释。如佛教禅宗的禅意,就和我们的幸福观有很深的联系。     

从《汉志》诸子分类说到百家异趣中的思想趋同

对于战国诸子及其著作的思想归属,《汉书·艺文志》做出了明确的划分。后世对此有许多批评。诸子思想本是丰富多彩的,硬性把一个思想家归入某一类,削足适履在所难免。放开看去,诸子思想之间本来就存在着许多融通之处,儒、墨、道、法、名、阴阳诸家思想交互影响,你中有我,我中有你,思想趋同是战国时代百家异趣主旋律中的一个重要音符,纯而又纯、绝对对立的两派思想本来就不存在。从庄子、荀子、韩非子、司马谈直到班固,上古时代的学术批判有认同,有别异,别异的任务重于认同,而别异的主要目的则是为了排斥异己乃至于消灭异己,因此对诸子之间的思想趋同自然不太留心。趋同与异趣并行不悖,这才是战国时代意识形态领域里的真实景象。共同的社会历史性是思想趋同存在的根本原因之所在。     

班级社会学研究(下):新论初探

基于鲜活的教育实践及冲突社会学与批判教育学理念,可以得出一种新的"基于抗衡的合作主义"的班级观。这是一种主位、客位互释的班级观,其研究出发点是"班级第一性",目的是为公民社会奠基,其班级历程包括教师权威的施展、学生同辈的竞争以及教师权力与学生权势的互动。对于这种班级观来说,冲突是手段,抗衡是机制,合作是目标。这种班级观需要教师树立解放型权威观,成为转化型知识分子;学生通过良好的班级政治生活来涵养未来公民社会的必备素质。     

Towards a critical re-conceptualization of the purpose of higher education: the role of Ubuntu-Currere in re-imagining teaching and learning in South African higher education

ABSTRACT

The 2015–2016 South African higher education students’ movement proved historical for our country in bringing to our dinner tables: issues of higher education transformation and decolonisation; institutional culture(s); curriculum reform; the need to foreground and make inclusive assessment in education; the coloniality in our knowledge production, and more. Influenced by the emergence of the student movements and the critique they have brought to South African higher education, we bring to the fore the often silent critical reflections on the purposes of higher education in general, and in South Africa especially, as they relate to teaching and learning. We propose that the purposes of higher education in relation to teaching and learning ought to respond to (1) context, (2) democratic difference, and (3) cosmopolitan perspectives. We argue that discourses, phases and logics about South African higher education have tended to disregard and, at times, blur the context and differences as well as cosmopolitan perspectives. Using the notion of Ubuntu-Currere, we re-imagine how teaching and learning could respond to context, difference and cosmopolitanism with examples from the South African higher education experience.     

体育“跨头课”教学初探

为更好地执行国家教委颁布的《中学生体育合格标准》,对上好不同年级的体育“跨头课”提出了教师首先要在理出教材头绪的基础上,制订出教学进度计划,并在教学中根据不同情况,区别对待学生,及时调整教材,既可提高教师工作效率,又能取得满意的教学效果.