Teachers’ self-efficacy and intercultural classroom practices in diverse classroom contexts: A cross-national comparison

This cross-national study provides new insights in teacher efficacy in today’s culturally diverse classrooms using survey data of 269 early childhood and primary school teachers in England, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Teacher efficacy can be viewed as a two dimensional concept in which both general beliefs are measured alongside (diversity-related) domain-specific beliefs. These beliefs are related to the cultural classroom context and the use of intercultural classroom practices. Our results indicate that policies and professional development targeted at the reciprocal relation between diversity-related efficacy and practices are important when preparing teachers for working in diverse classroom contexts.     

我国电子资源引进的发展策略研究

针对电子资源采购的国际发展动态 ,分析我国电子资源引进的现状 ,根据电子资源自身的类型和特点 ,提出多元化、分层次引进电子资源的构想 ,并根据我国的实际情况提出相应的对策     

多媒体教室群控管理系统的设计与实现

针对当前多媒体教室在使用和管理中存在的问题，阐述了利用群控技术使用和管理多媒体教室的设计理念和设计方案。     

CD-ROM talking books: what do they promise?

This study describes one teacher's use of multimedia, specifically CD-ROM talking books, in the classroom. The goal of the investigation was to reveal and analyse how a primary (Grade 3) teacher integrated CD-ROM books into her curriculum. Issues emerging from the study included how features of the software interact with features of classrooms, how patterns of instruction are affected by the infusion of technology, and how students interact with the software, and each other, while reading the CD- ROM books     

从《说文解字》看中国先民的审美意识

以许慎《说文解字》中与审美范畴相关的字词解说为对象，从汉字文化学的角度，在饮食审美意识、人体审美意识两大方面考察了中国先民的审美意识。考察结论：中国先民审美意识既具有多样性又具有和谐性。     

Empowerment and relationships: A classroom model to enhance student motivation

This project focused on the goal of establishing a classroom model of motivation in which the source of student motivation is based on internal mechanisms or structures, along with the establishment of greater self-regulatory opportunities for students, and which results in greater student empowerment and motivation. One-hundred current elementary and secondary teachers and 100 university preservice teacher education students completed a 40-item Likert-type questionnaire that focused on four classroom dimensions of affirmation, rejection, student empowerment and teacher control. The results of this project suggested that, although veteran and preservice teachers agreed on the need for teacher control in the classroom, there was less agreement about their perceptions of the need to create a classroom environment of positive affirmation and student empowerment. Implications for future research and the need for creating an affirming, empowering, motivational classroom environment are discussed in light of the limitations for teachers and schools to encourage these constructs associated with recent federal legislative policies.     

Asking the ‘Right’ Questions. Identifying Issues in Developing a Technological Solution

It is well established that technological education is not just about the development of technical expertise. A socially constructed view of technology aims to recognise the culture of technology. Technology education as expressed in the New Zealand curriculum provides an opportunity for societal issues to have equal space with technological capability and technological knowledge. However, when technological activities focus on solutions it is all too easy for stakeholders' positions to be ignored. There is a need for a teaching approach to engage in a liberating technological literacy discourse where values and beliefs of all participants directly and indirectly involved in the activity, are examined. This research monitored a professional development programme where identification of the values represented in a familiar object provided a model for discussion and the development of a teaching environment that promoted consideration of values during problem-solving. The data have been collected from primary school teachers who developed teaching programmes for Years 1 to 8 (5–12 years).     

依托实验教学中心平台 促进第二课堂的发展

第二课堂作为培养大学生创新能力的重要途径,在高等农业院校日益受到重视。以山东农业大学生命科学学院开展大学生第二课堂实践为例,总结了实验教学中心在开展第二课堂中的作用以及开展大学生第二课堂创新活动的具体举措,并就取得的成效和产生的效果进行了概述。     

藏族习惯法在藏区草山纠纷解决中的作用与困境

藏区草山纠纷的解决方式中存在着各种法律资源、文化传统和知识体系的博弈争斗的流动场域,同时也是各种纠纷解决方式和制度进行博弈争斗的过程。对于藏区草山纠纷的解决,任何纠纷解决方式都是既有优点又有缺点的,它们分别代表了不同的文化传统和知识体系,有自己的适用空间和发挥作用的社会基础。针对实际,解决问题的出路在于实现各种解决纠纷方式的相互协调和分工合作,从而形成有效的多元化纠纷解决的运行机制。     

环境工程专业“环境化学”课程双语教学改革的实践与思考

双语教学是我国高校建设双一流大学的重要途径。本文结合环境工程专业的特点和人才培养需求,分析了环境化学课程双语教学的必要性和存在的问题,提出了启发-递进式教学模式、优选英文教材、优化教学内容、构建网络平台和建立多元化考核制等多种方法相结合的教学改革措施。