幼儿园教育“小学化”问题思考

目前我国幼儿园教育＂小学化＂问题十分突出,严重影响了幼儿的健康成长。究其原因有三：一是幼儿教师专业素养低下,二是规范幼儿园办园的法规和制度缺失,三是国家和教育行政部门的监管缺位。建立健全幼儿园办园的法规和制度,加强幼儿教师的职前教育、在职培训和自我学习的制度建设,是解决幼儿园教育＂小学化＂问题的重要途径。     

“做中学”教师培训对教师教学观的影响

本研究采用高凌庵等人设计的《教师教学观调查问卷》,分别对参与和未参与做中学教师培训的76位小学和幼儿园教师进行问卷调查,结果表明参与做中学培训的教师比未参与做中学教师培训的教师更倾向于采取互动发展式的教学方式,且小学教师比幼儿园教师更多地采用了互动发展式教学。这说明做中学培训项目对教师教学观产生了重要影响,采用不同的培训方式可能会促使教师形成不同的教学观。     

基于“三学期制”培养创新型人才的实践与思考

建设创新型国家的关键是培养高素质的创新型人才。现有的人才培养模式在课程设置、教学内容、教学方式、实践能力培养等方面存在较大的缺陷,不利于创新型人才的培养。＂三学期制＂通过构建灵活的人才培养模式,强调学生的主动性参与,改革授课内容,突出实践能力培养,是培养创新型人才的一种有效模式。     

竞技健美操运动的核心力量训练

核心力量是竞技健美操基本姿势和动作的控制因素,对稳定脊柱、骨盆、保持正确的身体姿势,协调平衡,提高竞技健美操运动员的速度、力度、难度和表现力都具有很重要的意义。因此核心力量的训练对竞技健美操运动至关重要。其方法主要是针对躯干深层小肌肉,在不平衡的状态下进行各种负荷的训练。     

The influence of formal and informal formative pre‐service experiences on teacher self‐efficacy

Formal pre‐service training has been shown to be effective in building teacher self‐efficacy beliefs. However, the impact of other, less formal, ‘teacher‐like’ pre‐service experiences on the formation of efficacy beliefs has not previously been investigated. This study examines the associations between both formal and informal formative pre‐service experiences and teacher self‐efficacy. In addition, the effect of years of teaching experience on these associations was investigated. Three hundred fifteen teachers of general and Judaic studies in Jewish day schools in the USA responded to a survey about their formal pre‐service experiences; informal experiences as youth advisors, camp counsellors and childcare supervisors; and two measures of teacher self‐efficacy. Formal pre‐service training and positive student‐teaching experiences, as well as each of the three informal experiences, were found to be associated with positive teacher self‐efficacy. Interestingly, formal and informal pre‐service experiences appear to be associated with different aspects of teacher self‐efficacy. Formal teacher training was most strongly associated with efficacy for instructional practices, while the positive informal experiences were most strongly associated with efficacy for student engagement. The potential impact of both formal and informal experiences did not appear to fade over time. On the contrary, for those variables where an interaction with years of teaching was detected, it was the efficacy beliefs of the most senior teachers that were most related to their pre‐service experiences. These findings have important implications for the practice of both teacher trainers and those charged with recruiting and supporting teachers.     

Renaming teaching practice through teacher reflection using critical incidents on a virtual training course

This study approaches teacher learning from a dialogical viewpoint where lecturers’ voices used in a training course context reflect how lecturers generated new professional discourse. The design of the training course considered the analysis of several critical incidents (CIs) in online teaching. An analytical framework based on lecturers’ discourse and ways of thinking about teaching was used to identify types of renaming teaching practice. The empirical element of the study analysed the written utterances about teaching provided by 12 online instructors in order to determine what kinds of new discourse emerged during the analysis of 15 CIs in online teaching. Results showed that local discourse is the lecturers’ most commonly used discourse, prototypical incidents generated more professional discourse than personal and real CIs, and professional discourse can be created by means of at least nine different ways of articulating discourse. On the basis of these results, some pedagogical implications for lecturer learning are discussed.     

Extension for organic agriculture: a comparative study between Baden-Württemberg,Germany and Crete,Greece

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to compare the extension services offered in the field of organic agriculture (OA) in Baden-Württemberg (BW), Germany and Crete, Greece.

Design/methodology approach: 16 in-depth interviews, 10 in BW and 6 in Crete, were carried out with representatives of OA extension providers; interviews were qualitatively analyzed and overall results compared between the two areas.

Findings: The structure along with extensionists' capacities and methods employed are rich, appropriate, and well functioning in BW. On the contrary, poor structure, lack of networking and facilitation in Crete jeopardizes extension performance and impact. Practical implications: Contrary to BW, the situation in Grete does not allow for much optimism concerning the successful development of OA and the implementation of European Innovation Partnerships.

Theoretical implications: Further elaboration of the characteristics of extension/advisory services and their interlinkages, including the role of the state in facilitating pluralistic services, is needed.

Originality/value: The paper demonstrates the importance of the structure of extension services and the central facilitation role of the state; furthermore, the interdependency of structure, capacity and the methods employed is demonstrated which, in turn, influences extension performance and impact especially networking and facilitation for social learning and innovation co-creation.     

Challenging ideological environments: international teachers’ experiences in an outside-of-country teacher training programme

Teacher training for developing nation contexts is often conducted in short, intensive inside and outside-of-country programmes. Concerns have been raised in relation to the uncritical take-up of the western-centric material provided by these programmes, which are usually funded by national and international government organizations. This paper explores an approach used in an outside-of-country teacher training programme funded by an Australian government grant. The research focused on teacher trainers from the Monastic education system and their reflections on whether critical literacy approaches could be incorporated into curriculum in Myanmar. It used a Bakhtinian framework to analyse the teacher trainers’ ideological environments and their hybridizations of critical literacy discourses for their own contexts. It was found that while the teacher trainers were passionate about the worth of developing critical literacy skills for their teachers and pupils, they struggled with a range of constraints that existed for them within their country. The research illustrated the importance of providing spaces for participants in programmes such as these to critically reflect on the relevance of non-government organization (NGO) and international non-government organization (INGO) training programmes, especially in light of the multiple challenges that are a part of their everyday lives.     

中学教师继续教育培训需求调查分析——以福建省农村中学为例

开展农村地区中学教师继续教育培训需求调查,对提高农村教师培训实效性,促进农村教师专业发展及全面深入地推进新课程改革具有重要的意义。采用问卷调查方法,就福建部分农村地区中学教师参加培训的基本情况,对培训活动的认识、需求和意见进行调查。调查表明：目前大部分农村中学教师接受了县级以上的培训,对培训活动的性质、目的有了较正确的认识,但仍存在教师参加培训动力不足、培训效果不理想等问题。应提高认识,明确农村中学教师培训目标,把握教师培训需求,积极开展校本培训,构建以骨干教师培训为主,逐步带动全体教师参与的农村中学教师培训新格局。