Science Pedagogy as a Category of Historical Analysis: Past, Present, and Future

Historical studies of science pedagogy have flourished in recent years. This essay offers an assessment of the literature on science pedagogy from the 1930s to the present. It argues that rather than focusing on the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault, historians of science pedagogy could with profit turn to the work of Ludwik Fleck. Fleck offers three categories of historical analysis – experience, sensation, and cognition – that are embedded in science pedagogy. He furthermore argues unequivocally for the central importance of considering the cultural context of science pedagogy. Fleck’s interpretation of the role of publishing in science is used in the final section of this essay to assess scientific publishing and textbook culture, topics that are the principal concern of the articles in this volume. Among the novelties of the articles in this volume on textbooks are (1) the connections they draw between textbooks and social structure; (2) the relationships they suggest between textbooks and the public sphere; and (3) their identification of the eighteenth century as the crucial transformative century in textbook production.     

《英国病人》对民族主义的超越及其缺陷

民族主义犹如一把双刃剑,可以对一个国家的政治活动施加积极或者消极的影响。《英国病人》中四位主人公的言行举止都体现了对于民族主义的超越。然而,与翁达杰自身经历有关,小说及小说家宣扬的对于民族主义的超越有其缺陷。着眼于人本主义,实现超越民族主义的唯一途径是尊重每一个民族,平等对待任何一个民族的成员。     

阿普尔批判教育演讲及对中国教育改革的启示

迈克尔W·阿普尔的教育演讲阐明了教育评价的四种方式,批判新霸权主义集团的教育政策,揭露“现在教育改革究竟谁获益”的本质．从意识形态、政治制度与多元文化传统的视角对美国基础教育改革的《不让一个孩子掉队法案》进行批判反思,并提出萎于反思性实践的合理性建议,对中国教育改革具有启示意义。     

国际远程教育研究的现状与挑战——专访国际远程教育著名专家迈克尔·穆尔博士

迈克尔·穆尔博士(Michael G.Moore),美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学学习和绩效系统系教育学教授,《美国远程教育杂志》主编,国际远程教育界著名的理论家和实践家,美国远程教育研究与实践的开拓者之一。在实践方面,他创办了美国第一本远程教育杂志——《美国远程教育杂志》(1987),在美国组织召开了第一个远程教育研讨会(1988),成立了美国第一个远程教育研究中心(1989);在理论方面,他提出了著名的远程教育独立学习和交互距离理论,编辑出版了多部远程教育著作,包括新近出版的远程教育百科全书——《远程教育手册》。     

Michael Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy: A Philosophical Critique

ABSTRACT

This paper examines Michael Young's 1958 Young, M. 1958. The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870–2033: an Essay on Education and Society, London: Thames and Hudson.  [Google Scholar] dystopia, The Rise of the Meritocracy. In this book, the word ‘meritocracy’ was coined and used in a pejorative sense. Today, however, meritocracy represents a positive ideal against which we measure the justice of our institutions. This paper argues that, when read in the twenty-first century, Young's dystopia does little to dislodge the implicit appeal of a meritocratic society. It examines the principles of education and administrative justice upon which meritocracy is based, suggesting that since 1958 those principles have changed. Young's warning no longer has any effect on us because the meritocratic system it warns us against has been transformed.     

Where is English Majors’ Future?-A Revelation from Japan Earthquake Dialogue and Michael Dell’s Success Story

With an English program Dialogue about Japan earthquake, it is found that English major’s future is pale and gloomy. It’s just like Michael Dell’s success story, when people found direct marketing is a better way, they would try to get dealers out of the way. English majors are facing the embarrass like dealers.     

The Unpublished Diaries of Michael P. Riabouchinsky

SUMMARY

This article describes the diaries of Michael P. Riabouchinsky (Mikhail Pavlovich Riabushinskii), held by the New York Public Library, and their value as a resource for the study of the Russian emigration. The diaries and other papers were donated to NYPL in the course of the 1950s through 1960, after the author's death, but have thus far remained outside the purview of most scholars despite their significance as a primary source.     

Foster Watson: 1860–1929

ABSTRACT

Michael Young’s work is central to debates about knowledge and the school curriculum. In recent years he has renounced his early argument that school subjects represent the ‘knowledge of the powerful’, arguing instead that access and equality for all students are dependent on ensuring that all get access to ‘powerful knowledge’. This paper provides an interpretation of Young’s work.