Explanations of attitudes to change: Colombian mathematics teachers’ conceptions of the crucial determinants of their teaching practices of beginning algebra

This article arises from a study whose overall purpose was to investigate the relationship between Colombian mathematics teachers’ conceptions of beginning algebra and their conceptions of their own teaching practices. The teachers’ understandings of their teaching practices were explored with a view to unravelling their conceptions of change in their teaching. Focusing on the perspectives of teachers afforded opportunities that exposed the powerful role that the teachers’ conceptions of social/institutional factors of teaching played in their conceptions of their practices. The degree to which the teachers attributed these (external) factors as crucial reasons for what they do in their teaching was the basis of a categorisation of their conceptions of the crucial determinants of their teaching practices into three types. The findings are particularly relevant to our understanding of the stability of mathematics teaching approaches in the Colombian context but have likely implications for a range of international education contexts. Specific implications for the development of the research into teachers’ conceptions of mathematics and its teaching, and for teacher education programmes are presented.

校企合作的利益生产可能性曲线分析

企业经济转型升级对科技和人才有了更高要求,职业院校与企业在技术研发和人才培养方面有共同需求,又有各自的比较优势,校企双方利用自身比较优势通过合作实现有限资源的最大利用,提高社会资源的利用效率。     

LGBTQ literature in middle school classrooms: possibilities for challenging heteronormative environments

This paper uses a case study approach to examine how the heteronormative nature of one middle school setting and classroom environment shapes the climate of safety, support and learning for LGBTQ students when they are engaged in studying a novel with a gay character. Heteronormative environments inform and shape positioning of and by students and teacher, impacting how knowledge is created, processed and applied. LGBTQ literature integrated into the classroom curriculum invites opportunities for possibilities through windows and mirrors for exploration of the world and self. Heteronormativity, positioning and LGBTQ literature thereby become interactive catalysts that create and foreclose possibilities and impossibilities for student learning. Three themes emerged from the study that reveal positioning and possibilities when studying a text with a gay character: (1) the school environment and classroom context positioned students as heterosexual; (2) students and teacher positioned gender performance and sexual identity as other; and (3) while the text acted as both a window and a mirror, the teacher and students consistently framed different, and sometimes contradictory, views for each other. Together, these themes reflect a nested understanding of gender performance and sexual identity that subscribed to heterosexual norms and limited possibilities for LGBTQ students.     

Possibilities and priorities for IJED in times of uncertainty: A 40th anniversary analysis

This article reflects upon the history of the Journal, its evolving nature and rationale and upon possibilities and priorities for the future in what are uncertain times for all.     

浅谈电大工程数学中的古典概型教学

概率是电大开放教育工程数学中的一项重要教学内容。概率是在古典概型的基础上发展起来的,古典概型在概率中占有相当重要的地位,在社会生产、生活中及理论研究中有着重要的应用。作者结合几年来的教学实践谈谈对工程数学中古典概型教学的一些做法和体会。     

In the Midst of Doubled Imaginaries: The Pacific Community as Diversity and as Difference

How shall we understand the signified "community" as in a Pacific Community? Conventional understanding of "community" privileges community understood as diversity, a collective of multiple identifiers of cultures and nations (as in multiculturalism or multinationalism). Postcolonialists, like Stuart Hall and Homi Bhabha, claim that such imaginary is inscribed in "democractic liberalism," suppressing, concealing, and containing the imaginary of "community as difference." In this article, the author calls upon readers to move boldly into the interspace midst these two imaginaries, and claims that though it is a site of ambiguity, ambivalence, and uncertainty, it may be a site of generative possibilities and hope for newness, a site of becoming in struggle.     

关于创设我国永佃权立法的思考。

我国现行的农地法律制度存在着一定的历史局限性和诸多缺陷，无法有效地保证农民的利益。形成这些缺陷的原因是多方面的，最重要的是与土地承包经营权的债权性质有关。农地法律制度立法，如果完全脱离现行的土地制度，实行土地私有制或单纯建立农地使用权制度，都不能很好地解决目前土地制度立法面临的困扰。而在现行农地制度的基础上，创设一种适合中国国情的新型永佃权制度，把农村家庭联产承包责任制与永佃权制度有机地进行整合。具有极大的可行性，必将极大地调动广大农民的生产积极性，从而为本世纪大力发展农村社会生产力提供有效的制度保障。因此，有必要在邓小平理论指导下，本着与时俱进的精神，创设适合中国国情的永佃权制度。     

我国高职教育发展的国际合作之路

采取中外合作的模式开展国际合作办学，是我国高等职业教育跨越高速发展的必由之路。这是高职教育发展的历史和现状及世界经济一体化所决定的。入世后，高职教育有开展国际合作的需要和可能，合作形式也在日益增多和完善。     

Jerome S. Bruner: manifesto for the future of education / Jerome S. Bruner: manifiesto por el futuro de la educación

Jerome (Jerry) S. Bruner’s death at the age of 100 left a huge human and intellectual void, especially for those who had been in regular contact with him. Jerry has been an inspiration, not only due to his enormous intellect but also to his vitality and warm mentoring of so many people. This article aims to continue to honour the richness of his work, but also to cultivate possibilities for the new generations. Based on a personal elaboration of Bruner’s ideas, this article is a manifesto for the future of education that cannot be but a manifesto of cultural psychology of education. Here it has been summarized in five main stances.     

“微博”写作应用于“大学语文”课程改革的探索

"微博"成为高职学生普遍热衷的一种写作方式。这种写作对于重建学生的表达欲望,培养他们的观察力感受力,积累写作素材,养成良好的写作习惯等都具有积极的意义。将其引入高职"大学语文"教学,利用它提高学生的书面语言表达能力,是进行课程创新性改革的有益尝试。