‘You should collaborate,children’: a study of teachers’ design and facilitation of children’s collaboration around touchscreens

Touchscreens are being integrated into classrooms to support collaborative learning, yet little empirical evidence has been presented regarding how children collaborate using touchscreens in classrooms. In particular, minimal research has been directed towards how teachers can design for and guide children’s touchscreen-based collaboration. Concurrently, the Programme for International Student Assessment and other international organisations have highlighted collaboration and ICT skills as crucial competencies for mastery in the twenty-first century. Accordingly, this article presents three narrative cases from a touchscreen project in Denmark, where 41 second-grade children and three teachers from two classrooms participated. The cases are based on ethnographic field data and 150 hours of video footage of natural occurring interaction in classroom settings. The ethnographic field data and video footage are examined using a collaboration model and embodied interaction analysis. Each case presents features of the subtle processes of children’s collaboration around touchscreens and teachers’ role in designing and guiding such collaboration. Thus, this article illustrates teachers’ and children’s situated processes of integrating touchscreens for collaborative activities in their classrooms.     

Integrating curriculum: a case study of teaching Global Education

Despite widespread support for integrated approaches to teaching, classroom practice reveals a lack of implementation. This paper explores challenges and opportunities in teaching an integrated curriculum, and connects this with the contemporary notion of a twenty-first century curriculum and pedagogy. A case study of Global Education (GE) is used to delineate the complexity of issues when teachers attempt to move beyond disciplinary-based teaching approaches. We examine curriculum documents, advice for teachers on curriculum implementation, preservice teachers’ experiences in schools during Professional Experiences and national guidelines for Professional Experience. Through these data, a broad picture emerges of influences on integrating curricula in classrooms. Opportunities to integrate curriculum incorporating twenty-first century pedagogies were limited by pressures on teachers with preservice teachers rarely exposed to authentic integration. Teachers’ professional standing requires clear guidelines, which allow them to pursue important twenty-first century content and skills , for young citizens and this must begin in preservice education.     

论21世纪图书馆的发展模式与功能

本文分析了影响决定图书馆发展模式的四个重要因素。即技术、资金、文化心态和制度变迁。认为模式的不同导致图书馆功能在不同时代的差异，并提出了21世纪图书馆的四种发展模式，阐述了它们的主要功能。     

"四大名旦"和20世纪前期的上海

京剧"四大名旦"--梅兰芳、程砚秋、荀慧生、尚小云先后成名上海,从而促成了京剧鼎盛的局面,这是中国戏曲史上一个特别值得注意的现象.他们成名沪上缘于上海是个名角相对较少,束缚较少而宣传发达的新兴都市.四大名旦的上海之行带给他们的不仅是声名的鹊起,也使他们的演艺突飞猛进;而他们的"走穴"申城也对上海京剧舞台产生了深刻影响.     

高师学生思想政治工作的新思路

要作好高师院校思想政治工作,就必须树立高师教育的政治观,更新思想观念,创新工作方法,加强“两课”教学改革,重视心理健康教育等。     

面向21世纪电大财经类课程设置体系的改革与探索

如何构建面向21世纪人才培养目标的电大财经类课程体系,是电大教育面临的重大课题。针对目前电大财经类课程设置中存在的问题,必须对课程体系进行全面的改革。基本构想是电大财经专科教育应以基础理论教育为依托,专业知识以应用性知识为主体,以“必需、够用”为力度,着力于学生动手能力的培养体现厚基础、重技能、宽口径的专业特色。     

未竟的现代性--兼论20世纪中国文学的审美现代性

现代性是来自欧洲启蒙运动并迅速全球化的哲学理想,现代化是其社会图景。20世纪的中国,经历了初期的启蒙救亡、中期的政治遽变、“文革”后的经济建设,至今仍在现代化过程中努力前进。然而中西之间不同的文化传统和社会形态,决定了现代性进入中国后的曲折与变形。20世纪的中国文学被捆绑在现代化之路上,其审美特质与自主精神都必然受到特定时期历史社会的影响。     

新世纪美国学校德育发展的格局与走向

进入新世纪以来,美国学校德育领域出现了在实践上品格教育运动蓬勃发展,在理论上关心德育模式、公正团体德育模式与品格教育模式三足鼎立之势的发展格局;而各种学校德育模式的未来发展前景将决定于其所具有的民主性与有效性。研究和把握美国新世纪学校德育发展的格局与走向,对于我们准确把握当代美国解决社会道德危机的策略与动向必将有所裨益。     

“她世纪”与中国女性写作的走向

从政治化、情绪化向学术化、理性化的转变,是前女性主义向后女性主义转变的主要标志,＂她世纪＂的中国女性主义也经历了这样的转变。在女性文学创作领域,＂她世纪＂的中国女性写作从性别对峙走向多元化书写。在女性文学理论批评领域,＂她世纪＂的中国女性写作大都从喧嚣和骚动中走出,从解构转向建构,进入到一个相对平静的建设性时期。＂喷发式＂的发展势头减弱了,少见有出类拔萃的重头论著,但一批有创意的出版物和新著的问世,一批理论新人的登场,使这个领域充满了新的生机,我们仍寄望于未来。     

新世纪师生冲突研究综述

有关师生冲突的问题始终是教育学者关心的热点话题。通过对2000年以来国家图书馆和CNKI数据库相关检索,发现新世纪有关师生冲突的研究集中在师生冲突的类型及其表现形式、功能、原因及其根源和调适机制等几个方面,归纳整理了主要学术观点。