Does the Model of Language in the National Literacy Strategy Create Failure for Pupils from Differing Language Backgrounds?

The National Literacy Strategy (NLS) was introduced by the government in the wake of the hotly debated issue of falling educational standards in the UK. All schools were required to adopt the NLS Literacy Hour unless they could show their preferred programme would result in raised levels of achievement. My experience of delivering the Literacy Hour has been a process of adaptation to the needs of my pupils, who are drawn mainly from groups whose language backgrounds differ from that which is dominant in school. I have found that the requirements of NLS, together with many of the commercial resources used to teach it, are not appropriate for pupils from these groups and a question arose: is it the pupils who are in some way deficient or is it the approach and the resources being used? This article takes a case study of the use of a commercially produced resource to explore the model of language implicit in NLS, the kinds of resources it generates and the ways in which this creates failure in pupils from different language backgrounds. It then considers the New Literacy Studies and their implications for an alteration in our approach.     

用信息技术诠释乡土文化——历史文化名城保护与建筑教育的和谐共振

长江大学建筑学专业有两个立足点：其一是历史文化名城荆州深厚的文化底蕴和乡土气息，其二是地方院校建筑教育的生存发展空间。建筑教育应该同本地具体的区域经济、历史文脉、生态环境相结合，利用数字化信息技术研究并促进乡土建筑与自然环境的完美和谐，引导学生探求一种具有乡土特色的建筑创作思想和理念。     

中国社区体育组织文化分析

社区体育的开展深受社区体育组织文化观的制约和影响,本文从组织文化学角度研究了社区体育的组织管理问题,揭示了在不同历史阶段,应有相应的社区体育组织文化观,籍以推动我国社区体育的开展。     

Making it happen: Possibilities and pitfalls of Cunningham's educational semiotic

In fundamental agreement with Cunningham's overall thesis, we attempt in this paper to articulate what an educational semiotic might look like on a practical level. For educational psychologists, it should mean an increased awareness of the limited, localized world views offered by current models of cognition and an increased attentiveness to alternate models. For teachers, an educational semiotic offers integration of cognition and affect and instructional strategies that depend upon and facilitate many ways of knowing. For an educational semiotic to be realized, however, there must be much greater attention paid to the roles of motivation and metacognition in semiotic pedagogy.     

加强高校学生心理健康教育的紧迫性和主要措施

分析加强高校学生心理健康教育的紧迫性,从目前高校学生心理健康现状看高校学生心理健康教育工作的薄弱环节,采取措施加强学生心理健康教育。     

生活周期与终身体育(一)--终身体育及其在生活周期中的特点

社会经济时代的快速发展和社会物质基础的日益提高,特别是终身学习的发展趋势和人均寿命的不断延长,人类对创造从“幼儿期到老年期”人人都能方便参与的体育活动的软、硬件环境越来越关心了。从生活周期和终身体育的基本视点出发,在明确生活周期与终身体育基本概念的基础上,对生活周期中各个不同阶段的终身体育的特征和方法等问题进行了初步的理论探讨。