Managing diversity: academic’s perspective on culture and teaching

As UK Higher Education institutions continue to accept students from ethnically diverse backgrounds, there is now an onus and an expectation for academics to provide learning environments and experiences that are inclusive, validating and affirming. The aim of this paper is to explore, through the lens of the academic tutor, the pedagogical methods employed towards the implementation of ‘cultural branching’, which we define as helping ethnically diverse students to build bridges between their pre-existing knowledge and what they are expected to learn. To investigate this in more detail, the researchers interviewed 22 academic tutors across three UK Higher Education Institutions in the North of England. The findings suggest that current curriculum structures and pedagogical approaches favour the dominant non-ethnically diverse learner. Our research proposes that additional emphasis needs to be placed on developing a practical and functional approach which embeds cultural branching via technological platforms.     

Teaching social research methods after the critical turn: challenges and benefits of a constructivist pedagogy

An increasing challenge for teaching methods courses in the social sciences is the ‘critical turn’, which has encouraged some students to adopt an anti-empirical orientation. We present a case study of a compulsory undergraduate methods course in a political science department strongly influenced by post-structuralist philosophies. The first author redesigned the course to implement four constructivist pedagogical principles: (1) develop a full understanding of students’ pre-existing perceptions of political science research methods; (2) encourage students to see methodology as an inevitably contested field; (3) provide space for students to choose a methodological approach that best aligns with their personal stance on knowledge; and (4) encourage students to view research as an ongoing ‘conversation’. We critically reflect on the implementation of these constructivist pedagogical strategies and argue they improve students’ critical engagement with course material, increase linkages between methods teaching and other disciplinary subject matter, and accommodate diverse student perspectives and needs.     

关于建立物理学科教育学的探讨

本文拟通过对建立物理学科教育学的实践基础与理论基础的透析,探讨其研究方向,力求阐明它走向成熟的发展方向.     

“语文课程与教学论”课程的历史沿革与现实境遇

“语文课程与教学论”作为一门年轻的学科,自近代起历经了国文教授法、国文教学法、国文教材教法、语文教学法和语文教材教法并存、语文教学论、语文教育学和语文课程与教学论等八个主要时期,一路坎坷地成长起来。由于语文课程与教学论先天对教育学的依附,使得它至今难以完全独立;又因为它对语文学的依托,其综合性和实践性特征明显。当下,语文课程与教学论仍为边缘学科,可谓境遇尴尬,亟待有识之士戮力同心,使其再现辉煌。     

“But I’m not a racist!” Phenomenology,racism, and the body schema in white,pre-service teacher education

In this article, I call for a phenomenological turn in educating white, pre-service teachers. As opposed to dominant pedagogical models which focus on changing one’s beliefs about race, phenomenology points toward the importance of pre-conceptual, pre-critical forms of racial embodiment. Here I draw upon recent work on the different between body image (beliefs about the body) and body schema (what the body can do). The worry is that existing forms of anti-oppressive education miss the centrality of the schema, and thus do not go far enough in uncovering the embodied, perceptual roots of racism.     

论面向教育的实践

无论是“教育实践”在人类实践体系中的地位,还是教育学在人类学科体系中的地位都不高.教育实践是一种“生命·实践”,它应该成为人类实践体系的中心和基础.以教育实践作为研究对象的教育学,也可能成为一门中心学科.教育学的地位和命运取决于教育实践的地位和命运.应从“面向实践的教育”转向“面向教育的实践”,确立探究实践的教育立场、教育眼光和教育尺度,探寻人类实践的“教育逻辑”和“教育基础”,完成实践的“教育转向”,重建基于教育实践的实践哲学,寻找实践论哲学发展的教育方向和教育学方向,进而建构教育学历史本体论.     

教育理论思维的公共性诉求

思维方式深层影响着教育理论研究.从方法论的维度看,公共性的极至崇拜和公共性的完全消解的相异思维方式同时影响着教育理论思维.为避免在两极间徘徊,应寻求一个基于实践的公共的教育理论论域,以基于实践的公共性诉求来理解、探求教育理论,并以爱教育的人间关怀使研究充满活泼的生命力.     

中国教育学研究中几个问题的探讨

一段时期以来,学者对中国教育学进行了卓有成效的探讨。考察教育学有没有必要中国化的认识状况;分析以往中国教育学探讨中存在的问题,并对中国教育学的若干问题———中国教育学的学科性质、独立性依据、实现的途径或方法、诞生或成熟的标志———进行具体考察,不仅有利于理出中国教育学清晰的发展"线",而且更有益于中国教育学的构建与发展。     

心理素质教育的教育学基础

心理素质教育有其深厚的教育学基础 :(1)教育人性观是心理素质教育必须遵循的根本思想 ;(2 )心理素质教育目标的确立必须符合素质教育总体目标的要求 ;(3)心理素质教育的内容理应是学校素质教育的重要内容 ;(4)心理素质教育模式的构建必须遵循素质教育模式的规范。     

加强和改进教育学公共课实践性教学环节的探讨

作者根据多年的教学经验和对在校师范生、中小学青年教师的调查，认为加强和改进实践性教学环节是当前教育学公共课改革的一个关键问题。文章分析了实践性教学环节的涵义、特点、方式、功能等理论问题，概括了师范生对教育学公共课实践性教学环节的几个具体问题的评价，并提出了拟深入研究的若干重要问题