幼儿音乐教育活动的价值与培养途径探索

本文首先对幼儿音乐教育的价值理性进行了发掘,旨在使广大教师对幼儿音乐教育的重要性予以足够的重视;笔者还指出了幼儿的“歌唱”、“乐理”、“音乐欣赏”、“韵律”、“舞蹈”等活动与专门的音乐培养之区别,提供了与幼儿身心特点相匹配的音乐教育方法与途径。     

Students’ perceptions of the academic environment and approaches to studying in British postgraduate business education

Recent research on student learning in higher education has identified clear associations between variations in students’ perceptions of the academic environment and variations in their study behaviour. This study investigated a general theoretical model linking students’ demographic characteristics, perceptions and study behaviour with measures of outcome, and in particular, compared three accounts of the causal relationship between perceptions and study behaviour. Data were obtained from 469 postgraduate students at six British business schools. Path analysis was used to assess the causal relationships among the students’ age and gender, their scores on the Course Experience Questionnaire, their scores on the Revised Approaches to Studying Inventory and their ratings of general satisfaction with their programmes. This yielded evidence for the causal efficacy of most of the paths identified in the general theoretical model. In particular, as in the case of students taking more traditional academic subjects, there exists a bidirectional causal relationship between variations in students’ perceptions of the academic environment and variations in their study behaviour.     

Cheating or cheated? Surviving secondary exit exams in a neoliberal era

Cheating on exams is a rampant and highly developed practice among youth in the Arab world, often involving elaborate networks, advanced technology and adult authorities. Rather than viewing cheating as mere laziness or immorality, this article interrogates the social meanings of cheating by comparing the practices and discourses of cheating on high-stakes high school exit exams – the tawjihi in Jordan and the Baccalauréat in Morocco. Using informal networks to obtain higher grades, and thereby better futures, cheating is one way youth contest the putative meritocracy of the state to reclaim a sense of control over their lives. Ironically, cheaters develop twenty-first century skills of collaboration, networking and creativity outside the school in order to evade the nation’s formal system of educational sorting. We argue that cheating illuminates the declining effectiveness of the public school in the nation-building project and the simultaneous emergence of the outcomes-oriented ‘neoliberal student’.     

论国学教育与高职学生人文素质的培养

高职教育作为高等教育、国民教育的有机组成部分,开展以优秀传统文化为主要内容的国学教育,对于提升高职学生人文素质,增强综合实力具有不可或缺的重要作用。文章阐释了国学与国学教育的内涵,分析了国学教育的人文价值功能,对实施国学教育以培养高职学生人文素质的途径策略进行了探讨。     

Classroom action research on formative assessment in a context-based chemistry course

Context-based science courses stimulate students to reconstruct the information presented by connecting to their prior knowledge and experiences. However, students need support. Formative assessments inform both teacher and students about students’ knowledge deficiencies and misconceptions and how students can be supported. Research on formative assessments suggests a positive impact on students’ science achievement, although its success depends on how the formative assessment is implemented in class. The aim of this study was to provide insights into the effects of formative assessments on achievement during a context-based chemistry course on lactic acid. In a classroom action research setting, a pre-test/post-test control group design with switching replications was applied. Student achievement was measured in two pre-tests, two post-tests and a retention test. Participants were Grade 9 students from one secondary school in the Netherlands. Repeated-measures analysis showed a significant effect of formative assessments on students’ achievement. During the implementation of the formative assessments, intriguing discussions emerged between students, between students and teacher, and between teachers. Adding formative assessments to context-based approaches reinforces their strength to meet with the current challenges of chemistry education. Formative assessments affect students’ achievement positively and stimulate feedback between students and teacher(s).     

波兰罗兹大学英语教学法课程介绍与启示

本文介绍了波兰罗兹大学外国语学院英语教学法课程,同时还对国内一些同类学院英语教学法课进行对比分析;根据我国师范院校英语教学现状和英语教学法课程的课时安排、教材选用、教法选择以及教学实习的内容和次数,文章提出了一些教学改革的设想。     

浅析学生英文写作能力的培养

英语写作对大部分学生而言是一项艰巨的任务。教师在帮助学生培养写作能力的教学方法探索中要充分考虑学生的语言能力及写作目标,采用恰当的教学方式。期间,发现错误与改正错误,紧密结合课本学习是提高写作能力的重要手段。     

Student formation in higher education: teachers’ approaches matter

Teaching in higher education encompasses more than merely helping students develop knowledge and skills. It entails engaging students in their own formation as persons, professionals and citizens. From this perspective, this article investigates how approaches to teaching academic writing contribute to formation. By analysing a case from initial teacher education in Norway, we identify and examine one teacher educator’s beliefs about writing and his approaches to teaching writing. Theoretical framework rests on six discourses of writing developed by Roz Ivani? and on the formative possibilities and constraints embedded in these different literacy discourses. Thus, we provide students’ experien-ces with this teacher’s approaches and discuss what formation his approaches seem to have initiated. The findings point to the need for more critical reflection on the formative impact of teaching approaches in higher education more generally.     

Enhancing quality with a research-based student feedback instrument: a comparison of veterinary students’ learning experiences in two culturally different European universities

This paper explores the value of a research-based student inventory from the quality assurance point of view in two culturally different European higher education institutions for veterinary education. Perceived heavy workload is a well-known problem in veterinary studies and is a challenge to the quality of learning. First- and third-year students in both institutions responded to an inventory consisting of items regarding their approaches to learning, self-efficacy, study workload and the teaching-learning environment. There were differences in students’ approaches to learning and perceived workload between the two institutions. In both contexts, the strongest predictor of the workload turned out to be the surface approach to learning. Self-efficacy showed a positive correlation with the deep approach to learning and organised studying. The strengths of the teaching-learning environment varied between the institutions. Moreover, the present study discusses how the gained information could be used in improving the teaching-learning environment and students’ learning.     

福州建设创新型城市之管见

福州建设创新型城市,思路明晰、成就显著、任重道远。福州建设创新型城市的总体要求,就是要服务于国家战略,以政府创新为基础,打造城市特色,以战略集成和资本市场为支撑。福州建设创新型城市的主要途径在于,以科技创新为先导,以创新主体培育为重点,以政府主导为推动,以政策扶持为引导,以创新体制机制为突破口,以环境创新为前提。福州建设创新型城市的重点任务就是,应更加充分有效发挥人才第一资源的作用,应更加积极主动扶持企业提高自主创新能力。