Culturally responsive teaching in China: instructional strategy and teachers’ attitudes

The aim of this study was to investigate the manner in which teachers facilitate the pedagogical process within a culturally diverse student population. The study focused on two primary schools in China; one located in a more fully developed city in eastern China (Case A), while the other was in a less developed city in rural western China (Case B). This allowed the researchers to compare and analyse the different instructional practices by means of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The findings indicate that: the teachers in Case A demonstrated overall affirmative attitudes towards ethnic minority cultures, as well as towards the students belonging to those cultures. However, the teachers also chose not to mention the specific ethnic identities and cultural differences of the students during the course of their instruction in order to ensure equal treatment for everyone. This leads to a kind of ‘cultural blindness’ in the classroom. In Case B, opinions regarding minority cultures were more varied. Compared with the teachers in Case A, more teachers in Case B found minority cultures to be inferior to the dominant Han culture. Some teachers also, counter intuitively, were of the opinion that the minority cultures were even superior. At the instructional level, school leadership developed courses on local culture and ethnicity for the teaching staff. This was done for a variety of reasons. The strongest evidence to support culturally responsive teaching in Case A does not stem from teaching and learning demands but from the necessity to pursue characteristics that make them distinctive from other schools at the same time, Case B’s practice of culturally responsive teaching was strongly supported by the government and UNICEF. Teachers in both schools indicated that they had integrated their knowledge of ethnic minority groups into the subject matter when it was necessary.     

创新人才培养视角下的高校教学管理制度研究

本文通过对高校教学管理创新与创新人才培养的关系及存在问题的分析,对高校教学管理创新的意义进行了深入的论述,并在此基础上,提出了具体的高校教学管理制度改革与创新的对策和措施。     

浅议高职英语听力教学中的衔接和连贯

本文试图从语篇的衔接和联贯的角度出发来帮助学生从语篇分析的角度提高听力理解能力。     

Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents

The authors investigated intergenerational support exchanges in relation to young adults' life course status. In a sample of 2,022 young adults (ages 18–34 years) in The Netherlands, single young adults reported receiving more advice from parents than married young adults, and those with children of their own received more practical support. Married young adults and young adults with children provided less support to parents than, respectively, single young adults and young adults without children. Congruent with the life course perspective, the authors' findings suggest that the intergenerational support network is both durable and flexible, responding to the resources and needs associated with an individual's life course status.     

Meaning of Political Controversy in the Classroom: A Dialogue Across The Podium

The abstract value of academic freedom is enjoyed (or not) in concrete settings, as interactional and emergent experiences. We examine classroom political controversy in our experiences, understandings, and values, using grounded theory methods and collective autoethnography by a team of five teachers and students. Our data were generated through electronic and face‐to‐face dialogues. Our analysis, guided by a symbolic interactionist and constructionist framework, yields a picture of Controversy in Action, whereby we navigate Barriers to Open Discussion and Costs of Controversy. Results highlight insights into taken‐for‐granted meanings unexamined in day‐to‐day classroom interaction. We attend to the relevance of the local context in which our classrooms are embedded and the interactional, meaning creating work that goes on in those classrooms, as we negotiate controversy.     

英语专业基础英语课程教学模式改革与实践

根据国家教育部2000年颁布的新《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》,本文论述了英语专业基础英语课程教学中存在的具体问题,对吉林农业大学英语专业基础英语课程教学模式的系列改革进行了分析,并总结了所取得的成果与经验。     

小议歌曲在法语教学中的运用

音乐能够调节情绪、激发兴趣,促进理解、增强记忆。法语歌曲较好地融合了语音、语言和文化知识,如果选择恰当、教学设计合理,在遵循法语语言知识的学习和各项语言技能训练的前提下,将法语歌曲作为语言学习的辅助材料,既可增加教学内容的趣味性,又可提高教学方式的灵活性。     

大学外语多媒体网络教学的应用——以大学俄语教学为例

大学外语多媒体网络教学是信息时代飞速发展的产物,是一种新型的教学方法和手段.它与传统教学模式相比,占有明显的优势,但是在教学实践中,笔者以大学俄语多媒体网络教学应用为例,分析了多媒体教学的优势及其存在的问题.     

浅谈行动导向教学法在教学中的实践

主要以怠速控制阀的结构、原理及检测学习任务为例,阐述了如何在教学中实践以培养关键能力为核心的"行动导向教学法"。     

高职院校形体训练课程的教学探讨

开设形体课程能够塑造学生健康的身体和健美的体型,提升学生文化素养。随着教育理念的更新,高职院校形体训练课程将得到全面的发展。文章讨论了形体训练课程的作用,研究了提高形体训练课程教学效果的方法,并分析了形体训练课程教学中应注意的问题。