合作性学习——基于大班环境下的高校思想政治理论课互动教学模式探讨

因客观条件所限，高校思想政治课普遍采取大班额教学，其缺陷在于：不利于师生之间互动、沟通、交流的深入。在大班教学环境中，思想政治理论课采取合作性学习这种互动教学模式，可以有效化解其弊端。     

论行动导向法在高职思想政治理论课教学中的应用

高等职业教育思想政治课是我国高职教育的重要特色课程,受到国家高度重视。但我国高等职业教育思想政治课与现实需求不吻合,存在着满意度不高、效果不显著、职业教育特色不鲜明等问题。行动导向法是德国职业教育成功的重要经验,应用行动导向法是改善高职思想政治理论课教学的现实需要,有其理论基础。在高职思想政治理论课教学中应用行动导向理念,运用项目教学法、案例研究法、角色扮演法和情境教学法等教学手段,能提高高职思想政治理论课的教学实效。     

关于提高思想政治课吸引力、感染力的思考

正中职学校思想政治课是对学生进行思想政治教育的主渠道。充分发挥思想政治理论课的育人作用,培养社会主义的合格建设者和可靠接班人,是中职教师的特殊使命。笔者认为,要提高思想政治课的吸引力和感染力,使思想教育真正进入学生头脑,必须从以下几个方面入手开展教学。一、教师的人格魅力是影响思想政治理论课吸引力、感染力的核心因素俄国教育家乌申斯基曾说:"教师个人对青年心灵的影响所产生的教育力量,无论什么样的教科书,什么样的思潮,无论什么样的奖惩制度都是替代不了的。"那么,什么样的教师是有个人魅力、受学生尊敬和欢迎的教师呢?笔者认为,一名优秀的基础课教师应具备两大素质。     

思想政治理论课教学趣味的作用

从"趣味"本身的含义和意义来看,思想政治理论课教学有趣味,就可以使学生感觉愉快、有意思,对学生有吸引力。学生在感觉愉快、有意思、有吸引力的精神状态下参与到思想政治理论课教学中,就会体会到思想政治理论的魅力,从而愉快地接受思想政治理论。在思想政治理论课教学中,有许多深受学生喜爱的优秀教师,他们的教学深受学生好评。他们富有趣味的教学表明,思想政治理论课教学的趣味具有多方面的作用。     

独立学院思想政治理论课实践教学体系构建

实践教学是独立学院思想政治理论课重要的组成部分,加强对思想政治理论课实践教学体系的构建对独立学院思想政治理论课的发展和创新有着重大的意义。要切实提高思想政治理论课实践教学的实效性,就应该从实践教学目标、内容和形式、评价机制等方面构建和完善思想政治理论课实践教学体系。     

高职思想政治理论课课堂教学实效性探究

当前在高职思想政治理论课教学中存在实效性不强的问题,如何提高教学的实效性,是高职思想政治理论课教学需要认真研究的问题,本文通过研究,指出提高思想政治理论课课堂教学实效性的一些策略,对于促进高职思想政治教学,培养合格的高职学生具有积极的意义。     

网络时代高校思想政治理论课教学方法的优化策略探析

随着高校思想政治理论课教学的要求不断提高,旧式的教学中使用的方式方法已经不能够适应时代的要求,网络时代的到来要求高校思想政治理论课的教学方法不得不进行合理的优化和创新。高校思想政治理论课如果根据网络技术来进行教学,有助于吸引学生的注意力,提高学生学习的兴趣,从而加强学习效果。所以,在新时代,使用新的技术手段来对高校思想政治理论课的教学方法进行优化,对于提高教学质量具有至关重要的意义。本文通过对网络时代下的高校思想政治理论课教学方法的优化的策略进行探讨,对高校思想政治理论课的教育工作者提供一些采用网络教学方法进行高校思想政治理论课教学的建议,以便对日后的教学工作产生具有一定意义的参考价值。     

高职高专思想政治理论课实践教学探讨

中宣部、教育部下发的《关于进一步加强和改进高等学校思想政治理论课的意见》中规定,高等学校思想政治理论课所有课程都要加强实践环节,要建立和完善实践教学保障机制,探索实践育人的长效机制,要通过形式多样的实践教学活动,提高学生思想政治素质和观察分析社会现象的能力,深化教育教学的效果。根据这一规定,如何加强高职高专思想政治理论课实践教学,提高实践教学的针对性及实效性,对加强学生的思想政治教育具有重大的现实意义,成为需要思想政治理论课教师探讨的重要课题。     

提高独立学院思想政治理论课实效性的途径

独立学院的特殊性对其学生的思想政治理论课教学提出了更大挑战。根据心理学和思想政治教育学的原理,要消除学生对思想政治理论课的逆反心理,提高独立学院思想政治理论课的实效性,必须紧扣学生的心理特点,提高教师的整体素质,注重传播内容的科学性,创新信息传播的途径和方式,营造良好的社会环境。     

高校思想政治理论课实践教学的探究

随着社会的发展,高校思想政治教育愈发受到社会关注。思想政治教育有助于引导学生形成正确的"三观",助力学生坚定政治立场。目前,高校思想政治理论课实践教学存在一系列问题,从思想政治理论课实践教学的内容、意义、现状入手,提出对应解决策略,旨在引领高校学生树立正确的人生"三观",培养优秀的德育品格,助力思想政治理论课实践教学质量和效率的双重提升。     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Evening and night work schedules and children's social and emotional well-being

ABSTRACT

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents’ non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children's well-being. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated mediating factors that underpin this association. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers’ non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based on data from the Families in Germany Study (FiD), this study aimed to address these research gaps. The sample consists of parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n?=?838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected in the years 2010–2013. Non-standard work hours were defined as working in evenings and or at night (every day, several times a week, or changing as shifts). Children's social and emotional well-being was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The findings show that both mothers’ and fathers’ evening and night work schedules are linked to an increase in children's externalizing and internalizing behavior and that this association is partially mediated by mothers’ and fathers’ harsh and strict parenting, with a stronger mediation effect for fathers parenting.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.     

History and the here and now

This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One feature of such changes has been the growth of gated communicates across the length and breadth of South Africa, but there are many more. One reason for their anonymity is that their evolution has been gradual and corpuscular, that they have become unconsciously familiar and are left unexamined. Another is our collective preoccupation with the metropolitan areas rather than the smaller localities where such processes are subterranean and confined. This paper presents very briefly some of the results of the researchers of the Local Histories and Present Realities programme over the past five years, in 19 separate centres. It examines the history and present circumstance of chiefdoms of Ga-Mphahlele and reveals the surprise finding that much of recent and contemporary politics revolve around events 200 years old. An analogous situation has arisen in Venda as well as in Mpumalanga and elsewhere, where a combination of new legislation to revive chiefly powers, and land reclamation legislation have lent a new legitimacy to chiefly powers, and inspired hundreds of phantom – and time-consuming – quests. Another massive development which has gone on around us but whose internal dynamics have never been observed is the rise of game hunting and ranching all over the interior of South Africa. This is a monster subject which is likely to have influence on all of our lives into which our group is now in a position to offer insights. A change of equal proportions is the rise of mining all over the interior Bushveld Igneous Complex – Mokopane is a good example of this and the huge social consequences this has brought in its wake. One final theme which embraces all the communities that we have studied is the local histories of transformation – collectively the most important – since 1994. This is almost entirely hidden to a wider world, including the transformed positions of local Indian residents.