自主学习模式下的大学英语口语教学

口语教学是目前我国大学英语教学的难点和重点。在学生自主学习的教学模式下，大学英语口语教学应该课内外结合，教学内容应与学生的经历和现实语境结合，全面提高学生的英语语言运用能力。本文重点探讨口语教学的理论依据、具体教学模式、遇到的困难以及解决的办法。     

Examining the ethical environment in higher education

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the world have found themselves faced with new challenges on issues of ethics. Much of this has been centred on issues of assessment: plagiarism, buying essays, sharing/lending of previously passed work and the stealing of marked/returned work of others. Institutions still treat academic misconduct as largely a behavioural difficulty rather than an issue of ethics (or education), suggesting that academia places a far greater emphasis on combating new forms of dishonesty than it does on encouraging ethical habits and a healthy ethical environment. To date, the majority of research in this area has examined these forms of academic misconduct from the point of view of the student and/or the university, with the perspective of academics receiving very limited attention. Our hypothesis is that academics are perhaps best placed to provide the education needed to create and sustain an ethical environment, and we argue that being ‘ethically aware’ is a critical factor in the development of academic competence for all parties. This study adds to existing research in three ways: firstly, by highlighting the importance of an overall framework for an ethical environment within HEIs; secondly, by suggesting an ecological model of key parties (the university, students and academics) with responsibility for this environment in assessment; and thirdly, by including new evidence (generated by a survey of academics) to extend our understanding of their views on these issues.     

学校体育校本课程开发的思考

以新一轮基础教育课程改革为契机,学校课程改革的背景,学校体育校本课程开发为切入点。运用文献资料法,逻辑推理及分析法对学校体育校本课程开发过程中影响因素的分析,旨为学校体育与校本课程的开发提供参考意见。     

Teachers' perspectives on environmental education in multicultural contexts: Towards culturally-responsive environmental education

This inquiry explores teachers' perspectives on enacting environmental education in a Québec urban locale with high student diversity. Participating in focus groups and interviews, teachers from three schools discussed their experiences incorporating environmental education into their multiculturally-diverse classrooms. Challenges included value clashes, a lack of common lived experiences, and reconciling contradictory educational perspectives and political policies, which often placed teachers in paradoxical positions. Findings suggest moving toward practices of culturally-responsive environmental education that demand more than awareness but include interactive dialogue. Teachers need support from beyond the classroom and the capacity to develop curriculum facilitating the inclusion of students' culture.     

拉什迪:东西方文化夹缝中的悲剧人物

在以多元文化并存和全球化趋势为显著特征的后殖民时代,"换语之人"异军突起,成就斐然.其代表人物拉什迪从"边缘"到"中心",成为世界文学明星.但是,他在前宗主国文化的影响下,背离了本民族的传统文化,文化身份发生质变,成了东方主义理论的传声筒,起列了加剧东西方文化冲突的消极的文化功用.他的悲剧具有警世意义.     

茨威格与阿来作品中的民族意识比较——从后殖民批评理论的角度分析二者的“流放”与“寻根”

茨威格和阿来分别是犹太民族和藏民族的杰出代表,他们自身以及其作品自然的渗透出强烈的民族意识,由于作家的成长经历和时代背景,使其作品中表现出＂流放＂和＂寻根＂的后殖民批评理论的特点,因此无论是在地域、种族、文化、宗教等方面的流放,民族意识觉醒后的寻根,还是共同存在的表现各异的人道主义关怀,均是真正把握两者民族意识之间的共性和异性的咽喉。     

Supporting English second-language learners in disadvantaged contexts: learning approaches that promote success in mathematics

In the Australian context, children living in disadvantaged circumstances, whose second language is English, are one of the groups at risk of failing in mathematics. This paper explores the impact purposely developed learning activities (Representations, Oral Language and Engagement in Mathematics Learning activities) have on pupils' mathematics outcomes in the first three years of formal schooling (Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2). The participating group (n = 461) comprised 328 English language learners and 133 mainstream pupils. To ascertain the impact of the learning experience, pre- and post-tests were conducted at the commencement and completion of each school year. The results indicate that all of the children significantly improved, with English as a second language pupils showing the greatest gains, and achieving norm-referenced expectations for their age.     

Fostering Social and Emotional Skills for Well-Being and Social Progress

Children need a balanced set of cognitive, social and emotional capabilities to adapt to today's demanding, changing and unpredictable world. OECD countries and partner economies recognise the importance on the holistic development of individuals. However, there are big gaps between stakeholders' knowledge, expectations and practices on how to foster such skills. This paper presents evidence on the importance of social and emotional skills; on how policy makers and schools are currently enhancing and monitoring such skills; and, on the existing gaps between knowledge, expectations and practices to mobilise these skills. The paper concludes by pointing ways in which education stakeholders can do more to better develop and mobilise the skills that drive individual's well-being and social progress. The paper draws on findings and frameworks that are being published in a full OECD report entitled ‘Skills for Social Progress: the Power of Social and Emotional Skills’ in the first half of 2015.     

Disability,Stigma and Otherness: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers

This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents and teachers in the US with regard to the meaning and implications of disability in the context of schoolling, and of raising a child with a disability. The findings revealed broad conceptual differences in the perspectives of these two groups. Teachers’ beliefs were generally consistent with medical model perspectives on disability as biologically defined. Parents’ interpretations, more aligned with a sociocultural paradigm, were situated in the cultural meanings ascribed to disability and linked with issues of stigma, marginalisation and access. The findings also revealed the existence of master narratives on families of children with disabilities, entrenched in assumptions of pathological functioning and negative outcomes among these families. Implications for professional–family partnerships in the education of students with disabilities are discussed.     

身份构建之旅：约翰·高尔斯华绥《品质》的后殖民主义解读

目前,对约翰·高尔斯华绥作品的研究大部分集中在对其现实主义的分析上,该文将从后殖民理论这一新的角度对其短篇小说《品质》进行重新解读,通过描述在后殖民语境下,处于弱势文化的少数族群在构建自我身份问题上所经历的人生路程以及其在后殖民文化下的生存困境,来分析作品中所体现出的超越种族的世界关怀。