普通高中开设职业技能课程探索--以宁波北仑中学为例

普通高中开始职业技能课是实现普职融通、建设现代职业教育体系建设的关键环节。以宁波北仑中学为例分析发现,通过线性结构及平行结构等多种课程实施模式,在普通高中开设职业技能课程可以取得多方面教育成效,包括提升普高教育理念,开启职业启蒙教育,为学生营造多科学的成长环境,等等。但职业技能课程在实施过程中也面临一系列问题,包括没有形成统一的课程标准,教师不够重视,评价机制不完善等。针对这些问题,普通高中应建立统一的职业技能课程准入机制,加强普高教师技能培训,改革职业技能课程评价机制。     

职业核心能力与职业技能并重的高职课堂教学模式创新策略──以外贸类课程教学为例

注重职业核心能力培养,突出职业技能提升,是现代职业教育人才培养的基本理念。鉴于此,有必要设计更为开放的学习活动,推进课堂教学结构创新;提升课堂教学技艺,优化课堂教学过程;紧跟技术进步,创新教学方法。为保障教学模式创新的实施,需要打造精良的课堂教学团队,构建信息化交互和共享学习管理平台,优化课堂教学评价。     

音乐专业职业技能“三步法”实践教学模式的研究与应用

高职高专音乐教育专业人才培养目标应适应基础音乐教育改革的发展需要。把学生的能力测评从围绕“舞台”转向围绕“讲台”,所学知识和技能必须与讲台实现有效对接;运用“三步法”实践教学模式培养学生职业技能,让学生职业技能培养更具有针对性,使学生毕业后能够直接服务于基础教育。     

归化策略下的旅游翻译研究——以桂林景区资料翻译为例

旅游翻译要达到准确传递信息、引发旅游兴趣的目的,归化法就应为其主要策略。本文作者结合翻译桂林景区资料的体会探讨了归化策略下的各种翻译技巧。     

跨文化交际预测理论与大学英语听力能力训练

英语听力能力的训练尽管与读、写、说、译同为英语基本技能,但在实际教学中并未受到足够重视。中国学习者训练英语听力能力的过程在本质上也是跨文化交际的一部分,因而跨文化交际的预测理论对听力能力的训练具有一定的指导意义。本文从具体的听力材料出发,分析了跨文化交际预测理论在帮助学生积极主动、透彻全面理解材料中的作用,得出结论,预测应该作为英语听力教和学中必不可少的一部分对待。     

高职高等数学课程考核方式改革探索与实践

本文结合高职《高等数学》课程课堂教学改革情况对现在实行的传统考试方式的不足作出思考,并对其考核方式进行改革探索,变终结性考试为过程性考试的新考核方式,以及对实施新考核方式所取得效果进行分析。     

The construct of media and information literacy in Singapore education system: global trends and local policies

This paper discusses the representation of information literacy and media literacy in the Singapore education discourse as part of its twenty-first century competencies framework. Through examining the conceptual definitions, purposes/aims, and means of these two significant twenty-first century competencies in the global context and the Singapore education policy, the authors argue that despite both information literacy and media literacy have been widely recognized as crucial skills in the knowledge-based economy, they are perceived as separate concepts, given differentiated emphasis, and implemented using similar approaches by various governmental and educational agencies in Singapore. To facilitate the acquisition of these critical competencies, this paper argues that an overarching framework featuring the seamless integration of information and media literacy in school curricula and public education needs to be in place to clarify conceptual concerns and guide its practical implementation.     

Learning in Retirement and Old Age: an agenda for the 21st century

This article is about education and learning for the ‘retired’. In using this term, it is recognised that any such definitions and given age bands cover a wide range of situations and learning needs. Such diversity should closely inform the educational agenda for older adults, and as it is a life phase defined by challenge and change ‘learning to be’ encapsulates much that is essential to that agenda. The international evidence shows how rapidly our societies are ageing, and how much longer is spent in retirement: so rapid is that change and so large the numbers of seniors and the elderly that the active nature of learning represents a critical aspect of response to this major phenomenon. Contrary to a popular image of declining skills and capacities, the evidence reveals a much more nuanced picture of capability among the retired. Comparisons are drawn with the early childhood sector, which had parallel characteristics but which has since moved rapidly upwards among policy priorities. In conclusion, the article argues that ‘active ageing’ rather than ‘lifelong learning’ represents a more promising embracing framework through which to develop learning in retirement and old age.     

Fostering Social and Emotional Skills for Well-Being and Social Progress

Children need a balanced set of cognitive, social and emotional capabilities to adapt to today's demanding, changing and unpredictable world. OECD countries and partner economies recognise the importance on the holistic development of individuals. However, there are big gaps between stakeholders' knowledge, expectations and practices on how to foster such skills. This paper presents evidence on the importance of social and emotional skills; on how policy makers and schools are currently enhancing and monitoring such skills; and, on the existing gaps between knowledge, expectations and practices to mobilise these skills. The paper concludes by pointing ways in which education stakeholders can do more to better develop and mobilise the skills that drive individual's well-being and social progress. The paper draws on findings and frameworks that are being published in a full OECD report entitled ‘Skills for Social Progress: the Power of Social and Emotional Skills’ in the first half of 2015.     

Deconstructing the Metanarrative of the 21st Century Skills Movement

Abstract

If Neil Postman, were alive today, what would he say to Prensky, the originator of the term, ‘digital native’, about the ways in which teachers should approach the wonders and perils of e-learning in their classrooms? As the Dean of a faculty of education which is devoted to both creating and critiquing a variety of digital teaching and learning strategies in K-12 and adult education contexts, I have kept a close eye on the developing metanarrative of the twenty-first century skills movement. Arguments and anecdotes from the movement’s proponents concerning teachers’ technological accountability and competencies are attractive and compelling to some educators at the same time as they are oppressive and disturbing to others. In order to deconstruct the technophilic discourses of Prensky, Trilling, and Fadel, I juxtapose their work with Postman’s cautionary tales about totalitarian technocracy in schools. Postman wants educators to question their taken-for-granted assumptions about the ways in which they and their students should interact with technology. Prensky and his followers wish to provide educators with effective ways to involve their students in experiential learning partnerships through the use of serious gaming, e-books, crowdsourcing, and Facebook. As the views of Prensky and Postman are contrasted, a number of interesting issues emerge. What, for instance, is the nature of moral development and cultural identity formation when collective intelligence, hypertexts, and virtual relationships displace traditional textbook and face-to-face modes of learning? In this article, therefore, I attempt to synthesize the opposing perspectives of Prensky and Postman in order to establish a balanced and yet critical theory of the nature of e-learning.