Framing Sustainable Rural Learning Ecologies: A Case for Strength-based Approaches

In this paper, we suggest strength-based approaches for the creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. We have framed the creation of rural learning ecologies with appreciative inquiry (AI) as a framework and argue that it begins from understanding rurality from positive psychology. The premise within AI has been seen to be the shift from deficient understanding of rural spaces to consideration of them as areas with untapped potential. Arguments for strength-based approaches are based on the fact that they promote improvement from within. This is placing rural communities at the forefront and removing them from the receiving end. We argue that such approaches are giving acknowledgement to rural dwellers that they are better placed to address their solutions drawing from different forms of capital. This paper argues that rural education improvement strategies are possible when educational leaders draw from the capacities that exist in rural spaces.     

高校扩大来华留学生规模的措施

高校发展留学生教育是由学校发展和社会需求所决定的。高校应该把握目前大好的机遇,扩大留学生规模。本文提出了思想重视、体制保障、质量保证、注重特色、完善日常管理等5项扩大留学生规模的措施。     

近年来中国农村民主政治研究综述

随着村民自治价值的日益凸显,中国农村民主政治发展越来越成为学者关注的热点和焦点。就研究群体而言,高校的学者和实际工作第一线的同志构成了两股重要力量,这两股力量由于工作岗位和工作性质的不同,他们的很多看法,包括政策诉求、一些价值取向等有着一定差异。在研究视野和路径的选择上,整体性的国家分析路径、地区性的类型分析路径、个案性的村庄分析路径获得了同等程度的关注。由于各自分析的资料来源不同,关注问题的侧重点及期望值不同,得出的结论也呈多维化特征。     

学校体育推行生命安全教育的价值与途径

基于学校体育生命安全的视角,通过解读生命安全教育的内涵,论述了学校体育具备帮助学生认识自我、认识健康、认识生命,发展和保持学生生命健康水平,促进学生生命特征全面发展,提高学生的生命价值和生活质量等价值功能;学校体育与生命安全教育在理念和教学内容上都具有相融性,在体育教育的理论与实践教学中,要采取多种行之有效的方法途径,将生命安全教育融合在体育课程中,主动承担学校生命安全教育的职责。     

经济和管理类本科生经济法课程教学路径探索

经济和管理类的本科生由于法律基础较为薄弱,因此对于这些群体的经济法课程的教学路径应该不同于法学专业的本科生。本文试图从教学实践中摸索经济和管理类本科生经济法课程的教学路径问题。     

Development of a taxonomy of keywords for engineering education research

The diversity of engineering education research provides an opportunity for cross-fertilisation of ideas and creativity, but it also can result in fragmentation of the field and duplication of effort. One solution is to establish a standardised taxonomy of engineering education terms to map the field and communicate and connect research initiatives. This report describes the process for developing such a taxonomy, the EER Taxonomy. Although the taxonomy focuses on engineering education research in the United States, inclusive efforts have engaged 266 individuals from 149 cities in 30 countries during one multiday workshop, 7 conference sessions, and several other virtual and in-person activities. The resulting taxonomy comprises 455 terms arranged in 14 branches and 6 levels. This taxonomy was found to satisfy four criteria for validity and reliability: (1) keywords assigned to a set of abstracts were reproducible by multiple researchers, (2) the taxonomy comprised terms that could be selected as keywords to fully describe 243 articles in 3 journals, (3) the keywords for those 243 articles were evenly distributed across the branches of the taxonomy, and (4) the authors of 31 conference papers agreed with 90% of researcher-assigned keywords. This report also describes guidelines developed to help authors consistently assign keywords for their articles by encouraging them to choose terms from three categories: (1) context/focus/topic, (2) purpose/target/motivation, and (3) research approach.     

组合式试讲是提高试讲功效的有效途径

针对高校扩招引起班级人数成倍增长的现实，提出中教法课中原有每人独立试讲45分钟的传统模式将被四人合讲45分钟的组合式试讲模式所取代的解决思路。     

二传手调整传球组织进攻浅析

在正常情况下一传球到位时二传手可能组织各种前后排相互结合的变化多样的融合进攻.但在比赛中若出现一些一传不到位的球,这时候就需要通过调整传球来组织进攻.面对排球比赛竞争日益激烈的今天,调整进攻在现代排球比赛中已成为一个不可忽视的重要环节.本文探讨了二传手调整传球组织进攻的原则与方法,旨在从理论与实践两个方面为排球运动的训练与比赛提供参考.     

The Physics Laboratory – A Historical Overview and Future Perspectives

In the framework of teaching the natural sciences, ``laboratory' is a general name for activities based on observations, tests, and experiments done by students. It is hard to imagine learning to do science, or learning about science, without doing laboratory or fieldwork. In this paper, a historical overview of the place, purposes, and goals of the laboratory in physics teaching is presented, together with perspectives for its future related to the most recent results of research in physics education, mainly those concerning the constructivist and social constructivist learning approaches. Based on these approaches we try to validate the belief that microcomputer-based laboratories (MBLs) are one of the most promising perspectives in physics laboratory teaching, based on both theoretical and empirical grounds.     

Approaches to studying and academic performance in short-essay exams

Previous research has generallyfailed to find a relation between the waystudents approach the task of studying andtheir exam grades. The present studyinvestigated why it is that a deep approach tostudying, which has been shown to result in ahigher quality of learning, does notconsistently result in higher exam grades. Theparticipants in the study were 49 third-yearpsychology students. They completedquestionnaires that assessed approaches tostudying, motivation, and intelligence. Theirfinal exam marks, along with indicators of thequality of their final exam responses and thequantity of information reproduced in the finalexam were used as indicators of academicperformance. The results showed that the deepstudy approach was linearly related to thequality of exam responses, but quadraticallyrelated to the quantity of informationreproduced. The use of the deep approach was nomore effective in facilitating high exam marksfor questions that emphasised understanding ofthe study material than for questions thatemphasised reproduction of it. Taken together,these findings suggest that students who usehigh levels of the deep approach fail toconsistently achieve higher exam grades becauseof deficiencies in the quantity of theirresponses, rather than because of theinsensitivity of exams to students'understanding of the study material.