Charles Peirce’s Rhetoric and the Pedagogy of Active Learning

Abstract

Although John Dewey has had the most profound effect on education, less is known about the philosophy of education of the original founder of pragmatism, Charles Peirce Using Peirce’s theory of formal rhetoric, I try to show that Peirce’s philosophy of education, when fully understood, is aligned with Dewey’s pedagogy of experiential learning, and can provide a justification for the promotion of active learning in the classroom. Peirce’s rhetoric, as one part of his logical or semiotic theory, argues that reasoning alone is not sufficient to gain knowledge, but that it must be embedded within a community of inquiry, of a certain sort. Applying this to the classroom, I argue that we, as teachers, should endeavor to create the features of a proper community of inquiry in the classroom, one that emphasizes engagement of the students in doing research rather than passively receiving information about its results.     

继往开来:Charles M. Reigeluth学术思想探析

查尔斯·M·瑞格鲁斯是美国著名的教学设计专家。文章回顾他了的学术生涯和贡献,结合教育技术发展的历史,讨论了瑞格鲁斯对前人教学设计理论的继承与发展,也分析了他学术理论的不足,并揭示了他对处于发展初期和转型阶段的中国教育技术的特殊启示。     

浅析《大卫·科波菲尔》中人物描写的基本特点

《大卫·科波菲尔》中狄更斯对人物的外在形态进行了细致入微的刻画,对反面人物进行了辛辣的讽刺,同时采用了夸张,比喻,对比等修辞手法塑造了很多独一无二、栩栩如生的人物形象。本文对书中人物描写的基本特点进行了简要分析。     

狄更斯小说的情感色彩和法律因素

狄更斯的童年经历和人生轨迹使他的作品充满着情感和法律的交织与冲突。作为一个温和的人道主义者,狄更斯主张“行善施爱”,极力宣扬人性中善对恶、美对丑的最终胜利,将“爱”高置于法律之上;作为一个清醒的现实主义作家,狄更斯认为“恶者必亡”,既猛烈地批判资本主义法律的不仁不义,又否定“恶”对法律的肆意践踏,展示了善恶冲突中的情与法、罪与罚的复杂纠葛。     

被禁锢的心灵——查尔斯·狄更斯小说《远大前程》中的“监狱意象”

分析查尔斯·狄更斯小说<远大前程>中"监狱意象"的情景语境和社会文化语境,揭示小说的主题意蕴,展示小说家的人文关怀,从而管窥狄更斯后期小说的创作风貌.     

佩吉与他的诗体剧《贞德》——法兰西民族记忆的阅读与延续

家喻户晓的15世纪民族女英雄贞德传奇般的壮举和命运已经深深地印在法兰西民族的记忆中。法国史学哲学家、诗人佩吉以他特有的方式阅读并续写了这段记忆,从中发掘出的法兰西民族精神的内涵,经过作者的内化、锤炼、丰富与实践,再次沉淀于法兰西民族的记忆,进而也延续着人类的共同记忆。     

Art Works as Sources for Sport History Research: The Example of ‘Sports Allegory/The Crowning of the Athletes’ by Charles Louis Frédy de Coubertin

Abstract

Sport historians rarely use works of art as sources for their research. The main challenge they face is the difficulty to draw information and insights from the paintings that lie beyond what is apparent at first glance. This paper introduces the art historical methodology of iconological analysis that is of benefit to sport historians. This three-step approach is a tool for interpreting art works and contextualizing them with relevant biographical and societal information that influenced the artist’s life and work. The art work analyzed in this paper is the painting ‘Sports Allegory/The Crowning of the Athletes’ by Pierre de Coubertin’s father, the artist Charles Louis Frédy de Coubertin (1822–1908). This painting was chosen because of its relevance and importance to Olympic history. Up to now this piece has not been critically analyzed in sport history, and hence hardly any documentation on it can be found.     

Inoculation against Wonder: Finding an antidote in Camus,pragmatism and the community of inquiry

In this paper, we will explore how Albert Camus has much to offer philosophers of education. Although a number of educationalists have attempted to explicate the educational implications of Camus’ literary works, these analyses have not attempted to extrapolate pedagogical guidelines towards developing an educational framework for children’s philosophical practice in the way Matthew Lipman did from John Dewey’s philosophy of education, which informed his philosophy for children curriculum and pedagogy. We focus on the phenomenology of inquiry; that is, inquiry that begins with genuinely felt doubt, pointing to a problematic to which the inquirer seeks a solution or resolution. We argue that the central purpose of education is to develop lucid individuals. To this end, we concentrate on Dewey and the pragmatist tradition, starting from Peirce, leading to Lipman’s development of Dewey’s educational guidelines into classroom practice. We show where Camus and the pragmatists are congruent in their thinking, insofar as they can inform the educative process of the community of inquiry. What we conclude is that the role of the teacher is to develop lucid individuals facilitated in a classroom that is transformed into a community of inquiry embedded in contemporary historical moments.     

《远大前程》语言特色分析

英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯的长篇小说《远大前程》是他所有作品中无论从语言上还是结构上都堪称是最完美之作品,体现出他复杂多变的艺术风格。他的小说运用一系列的艺术修辞手法,如比喻、夸张、长短句并用、人物的本色语言、重复与对偶等等,刻画出栩栩如生的人物形象,给读者带来了美的享受和深刻的启迪。     

Charles C.Fries的语言学思想对系统功能语言学的启示

Charles C.Fries与布龙菲尔德、萨皮尔一起被认为是结构主义语言学的代表人物之一。Fries虽处在结构主义语言学鼎盛时期,但他的研究与同时期语言学家大不一样。对Fries的语言观和语言研究方法进行审视发现,Charles C.Fries的语言学理论与系统功能语言学有许多相似之处,比如他强调口语语料和对比性特征即纵聚合在语言分析中的第一性,他也关心语言的语境和语域。应重新评价Charles C.Fries和其他结构语言学家的语言学贡献。