浅谈高等教育自学考试性质

高等教育自学考试是一种教育制度与教育形式相统一的高教模式,就其性质集中体现在个人自学、社会助学和国家考试诸方面。但本质属性与普通高教并无区别。     

关于提高函授教学质量的几点思考

函授“自学为主,面授为辅”的特点,决定了只有抓好自学和面授两大教学环节,才能有效地提高函授的教学质量。网络教学对于改革函授传统的教学方式和手段,提高函授的教学质量具有重要的现实意义。     

试论基于校园网的开放式教学模式

针对传统教学模式的弊端,基于校园网的开放式教学融合了多媒体技术、通信技术和网络技术,形成了一种以学生自主个别化学习与交互式协同学习相结合的新学习模式。这种模式顺应了学生对个性化、主动性学习的要求,使学生主动学习的理念得以具体实现,对于改革传统教学观念、教学方法和教学手段,提高教学质量和效率都具有十分重要的意义。     

私权利之视角下的高考移民现象

以海南省2005年被取消报考一本院校资格的李洋等28名“高考移民”为例,从私权利之视角剖析“高考移民”现象合法、合理性的一面。通过正当的户籍迁移手续进行的“移民”,具备合法性。在高等教育资源分配不均衡的形势下,“移民”是考生的一种自立救济行为,具备合理性。要缓解高考移民现象,需将迁徙权纳入法律保障范围,公平合理地调整高等教育资源布局,加强高校招生录取权的司法监督,从而达到保障全国考生权利的目的。     

小学高年级学生体育课"自主探究学习"模式的构建

探索了在班级授课制条件下,实施以学生自练、议练、创练为一体的体育课“自主探究学习”模式。     

Transition to Science Teacher Educator: Tensions Experienced while Learning to Teach Lesson Sequencing

This self-study investigated the tensions that I (Heidi) encountered when teaching elementary preservice teachers how to develop a coherent sequence of five science lessons. Four lesson planning components guided me in developing a series of lessons to support the preservice teachers with this exercise. Employing self-study methodology, data sources included preservice teachers' artifacts, an audio-recording of the preservice teachers discussing the planning of their lesson sequence, and two reflection journals, one kept personally and one kept collaboratively with my co-author and critical friend (Meredith). Findings indicate that a tension of telling and growth developed gradually during the three weeks of teaching. The collaborative journal revealed that this tension was promoted by two other tensions: confidence and uncertainty, and planning and being responsive. Implications regarding the need for explicit teacher educator coursework and reflective practice opportunities are discussed as potential avenues for Ph.D. programs to consider to lessen the tensions that doctoral students may experience during their transition into the role of teacher educator.     

Challenges in Enacting Core Practices in Language Teacher Education: A Self-Study

In this study, I explore my practices as a teacher educator in one course both before and after returning to the K–12 classroom to teach secondary language learners for one academic year. By examining the intersection of self-study and practice-based teacher education, I illustrate how I used self-study as a mechanism for innovation and change and focus on the challenges I encountered in implementing the use of practice-based education in my work as a teacher educator. Qualitative data analysis revealed that in redesigning my approach to my course, I stopped short of my goals to make the course more practice-centered. Although I provided students with many opportunities to practice planning, I did not provide enough focused opportunities to practice implementation and to participate in giving and receiving feedback. I learned that engaging teachers in practice-based teaching requires teacher educators to be both specific and deliberate in setting their own purposes for establishing the centrality of practice in their courses and to explain these clearly to teacher candidates. Further work in which teacher educators study their use of practice-based pedagogy would benefit from using a self-study lens. Other researchers are urged to add to the limited body of research about the use of practice-based pedagogy with teachers of language learners, particularly English language learners.     

The Impact of a Pedagogy of Teacher Education Seminar on Educator and Future Teacher Educator Identities

Educators require support as they move from classroom to higher education settings. This collaborative self-study provides insight into one such support space, a doctoral seminar titled Pedagogy of Teacher Education, and how our identities as educators and future teacher educators developed through participation in the course. Several important themes emerged as we negotiated and adopted new identities as educators, and future teacher educators and researchers. These themes include our development of a collaborative mindset, a teacher educator-researcher perspective, and a critical self-awareness. The findings draw on our professional and personal histories to explore the prominent features that influenced and shaped our identities as educators and future teacher educator-researchers. In sharing our development as educators and future teacher educators, this article provides insights into the ways in which doctoral students in education begin to develop their identities and pedagogies through guided support from more experienced teacher educators.     

“Tjaa,I Do Have Ears,But I Do Not Hear”: New Literacy Studies and the Awakening of a Hearing Teacher

To address the low literacy achievement of minority students, the sociocultural movement of the New Literacy Studies (NLS) encourages us to expand on current understandings of literacy. Instead of thinking of literacy as a neutral set of skills transferable from one setting to another, NLS researchers encourage us to contextualize literacy within individuals’ social and cultural realms. In this view, there are multiple literacies. As a literacy teacher of students who are deaf, I have witnessed students struggling with school-based literacy learning. As I began to examine what I was doing within the classroom, I realized that my assumptions about literacy instruction were the main source of students' struggles. In this study I explore how I used the theoretical perspective of the NLS to expand my understanding of literacy. The findings suggest that, in order to base literacy instruction on students' resources, teachers need to learn to negotiate conflicting educational Discourses on reading and writing, to create a space within the classroom for students to bring in their literacy practices, and to recognize and preserve students' agency and identity in their learning. Findings also indicate the vital role of writing in deaf students' learning of Icelandic.