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Johan Muller 《比较教育学》1998,34(2):177-193
This article considers the curriculum reforms of outcomes-based education and the mechanism of a national qualifications framework in South Africa, also referring to New Zealand, in terms of the kind of learners they instantiate and therefore the kind of teachers needed for learners of that sort to be able to learn. Distinguishing between performance and competence models of pedagogy and analysing their implicit pedagogical logic, the article arrives at the conclusion that the curricular reforms initiated in South Africa embody incompatible logics, which can only lead to confusion. The article ends by reflecting on the ideal of the self-regulating learner pursued by much contemporary curriculum reform, concluding that there are distinct and different kinds of selfregulation fostered by different pedagogical models. 相似文献
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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(2):298-322
AbstractIn 2006, Mathematical Literacy (ML) and Life Orientation (LO) were introduced into South Africa's Grade 10 national curriculum. The implementation of the ML programme in schools stemmed from a need to improve the level of numeracy of the general population of South Africa, while LO was introduced to equip learners to solve problems and to make informed decisions and choices. The research objective of this study was to investigate and describe Grade 10 learners' perceptions of the two new learning areas. This investigation was situated within the ecosystemic paradigm. A mixed-method design was applied, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, using non-experimental and phenomenological designs, respectively. Data were collected by means of observation and questionnaires from 193 Grade 10 learners from three types of schools: private schools, former Model C schools, and disadvantaged schools in the Nelson Mandela Metropole adhering to the required ethical measures. The questions were grouped into five themes for each learning area, namely the learners' attitude towards the learning area, the resources available and used for teaching and learning, the learners' empowerment through the learning area, the significance of the learning area, and enriching experiences in the learning area. Recommendations were made in line with the findings. 相似文献
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Catherine McLoughlin 《Distance Education》2002,23(2):149-162
How do educators and instructional designers assess the effectiveness of the learning environments they design? One important means of ensuring the effectiveness of instruction in distance and face-to-face settings is through provision of learner support. Increasingly, as learners utilize the World Wide Web for collaborative learning, support systems contribute to the processes of learning and assist the learner in developing competencies and confidence in self-regulated learning and social interaction. Originating in the socio-cultural perspective of Vygotskyan theory, the term scaffolding refers to learning support based on social constructivist models of learning. As the World Wide Web becomes increasingly integrated into the delivery of learning experiences at primary, tertiary and secondary levels, the concept of scaffolding needs to be reconsidered because it is not readily translated into contexts where the teacher is not present, such as in online learning environments. The aim of this paper is to offer a conceptualization of the term scaffolding in distance learning, to provide examples of how learners can be supported in the processes of constructivist inquiry in a range of learning settings, and to offer principles for the design of learning support that can be applied across a range of instructional settings. 相似文献
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Managing teaching and learning in South African schools 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Tony Bush Rika Joubert Edith Kiggundu Jean van Rooyen 《International Journal of Educational Development》2010
This paper examines the significance of leadership and management in enhancing classroom practice and improving learner outcomes in two provinces of South Africa. It is increasingly recognised, internationally and in South Africa, that managing teaching and learning is one of the most important activities for principals and other school leaders. Managing teaching and learning is one of the core modules in South Africa's new national qualification for school principals. Drawing on case studies of eight schools, mostly in disadvantaged contexts, the paper shows that managing teaching and learning are often inadequate, and largely fails to compensate for the social and educational problems facing learners and their communities. 相似文献
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Kyungmee Lee 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2018,66(5):1255-1268
A constructivist learning paradigm emphasises authenticity as a required condition for learning. However, the design of an online learning environment is ultimately separate from learners’ real-life environments, it is inevitably challenging to make online learning authentic. In this article, the author aims to propose an alternative way of conceptualizing online learning and its boundaries, based on a double-layered Community of Practice model as a means to facilitate authentically constructivist online learning. The model conceptualizes online learning as interlinked processes of participation and socialization in multiple communities across online- and offline-“layers” of learners’ lives. The model guides online course designers in expanding the perceived boundaries of the course environments they design to include learners’ offline learning contexts. Instead of having an exclusive focus on providing learners with constructivist learning opportunities within a non-authentic course environment, the model suggests helping learners to engage in more personalized social learning activities situated in their everyday lives. The paper presents data from a series of case studies drawn from the author’s work that has examined students’ learning experiences in different kinds of online courses, unpacking and answering the central question of what authentically constructivist online learning looks like in each case. With a more holistic conceptualization of online learning, which recognizes and supports online learners’ simultaneous presence across internal and external communities, instructional designers may be able to facilitate learners’ more authentically constructivist learning experiences. 相似文献
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徐世猛 《现代远程教育研究》2012,(2):33-37
针对教学研究领域的三个主题：教学设计、课程设计、信息通信技术与媒体,国际教学设计研究领域的学者们主要关注如下研究热点：认知和学习心理学研究成果为教学设计模型提供了新的理论基础和创新途径,课程开发和信息通信技术需要进一步整合到教学设计模型中;课程开发及其对教学设计模型的影响;信息通信技术对教学设计和课程开发的影响,从更加整合和全面的视角来看待学习、教学、课程和技术之间的关系。《教学设计中课程、规划和进程的国际观》从以上三个方面展示了国际观点。当前教学设计研究和实践逐步形成以下发展趋势：一是教学设计研究越来越呈现出跨学科特点;二是运用技术创建有效学习环境成为教学设计研究的重要领域;三是欧美学者在教学设计研究领域既共享众多核心观点,又在研究角度、内容上各有不同,使得整体研究成果深度交融。 相似文献
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教学结构设计是教学设计的重要内容。利用ISM结构解释模型法来分析教学结构各要素之间的层次关联,论证以学生为中心的教学结构的一般模型,为建构主义学习理论下的教学实践活动提供直观模型,促进其操作性。 相似文献
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Jacqui Gingras 《Learning Inquiry》2009,3(3):177-191
Inquiring into the theoretical underpinnings of dietetic curriculum provides a means for further understanding who dietitians
are (identity) and what dietitians do (performativity). Since dietetic curriculum exists as a structural influence on the
dietetic student identity, it is worth inquiring into how such a structure is theoretically informed, especially considering
that until now, this process has not be undertaken. This research attempts to illuminate how dietetic knowledge is generated
and how various institutional structures reinforce this knowledge. Since dietetic education in Canada is standardized by a
means of national accreditation, the accreditation texts were analyzed following a poststructural discourse analysis method.
Those aspects of the Accreditation Manual concerning dietetic education were scrutinized to illuminate the presence/absence of curricular theory, knowledge assumptions,
and educational values. Findings of the discourse analysis indicate that there is no explicit curricular theory framing dietetic
education, learning processes are sequential and apolitical, and dietetic knowledge is decontextualized from the social world.
These findings have implications for dietetic education, the scholarship of teaching and learning within the profession, and
dietetic epistemology. With further attention to these issues it is hoped that dietetic educators will be encouraged to reflect
on the historical and theoretical foundations of their curricula and will consider how teaching and learning, and ultimately
dietetic knowledge could be enhanced through a socially integrated feminist science of food and nutrition. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Educational Research》2004,41(6):445-465
The goal of this chapter is to outline a theoretical and empirical perspective on how learners’ conceptions of educational technology might influence their learning activities and thereby determine the power of computer-based learning environments. Starting with an introduction to the concept of powerful learning environments we outline how recent developments in information and communication technologies might be used to implement these environments technologically. In the next step we refer to several exemplary empirical studies to argue that the power of computer-based learning environments will largely depend on very detailed aspects of the learning activities within these environments. In order to design these environments so that they elicit effective learning activities, it is necessary to analyze the factors that determine learners’ goals and their choices of processing strategies. The focus of this paper is on one of these factors, namely on learners’ instructional conceptions with regard to educational technology and its use in instruction. Up to now, there has been nearly no research conducted within the educational community addressing the issue of how this particular type of instructional conceptions determine learning activities. Therefore, we review several relevant findings from neighboring fields like epistemological beliefs, attitude research, human computer interaction, or cognitive modeling. We use this review to demonstrate that there are numerous findings outside the educational technology community that deserve much more resonance in this community than they currently receive. 相似文献
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Thelma de Jager 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(1):80-94
Despite previous research and recommendations in South Africa, secondary-school teachers still encounter economic, social and cultural challenges in implementing differentiated learning activities in the classroom. The diversity of learners with learning barriers inevitably leads to an increase in workload for the teachers. This article draws on data generated from the research conducted in South Africa and from questionnaires completed by secondary-school teachers who identified existing challenges to implementing differentiated learning activities, as well as on student teachers who implemented three differentiated learning activities (for the slow, average and gifted learners), and reflects on their experiences of good and bad practices. The literature review and specialists' views were integrated to determine how to overcome the challenges that the implementation of differentiated learning faces. Several challenges to the implementation of differentiated learning were highlighted by the research. The research indicated that a total of 97% of teachers never or seldom use a flexible curriculum and extra time to accommodate the diverse learning needs of learners. This article provides guidelines on how to implement differentiated learning activities in secondary-school classes and offers ideas on how to start with differentiated teaching. 相似文献
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自组织理论及其教育研究应用前景探析 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
自组织理论包括新三论(耗散结构理论、协同学、突变论)和超循环理论、分形理论、混沌理论,是系统科学发展的第二阶段研究成果。在教育技术领域内,教学设计的产生直接得益于系统科学研究的第一阶段成果——"老三论",遂将其置于四大理论基础中的首位。近几年,后现代课程研究中已经率先引入了自组织理论分析研究教育教学理论与实践,教育技术领域引介与应用这一重要的科学研究思想方法也势在必行。当前引入与借鉴的落脚点,主要表现在自组织理论为数字化学习理论——关联主义(Connectivism),以及教学过程中的协同学习、协作学习提供核心理论支撑,并对整个教育技术的研究方法具有重要指导意义方面。如果在一个更开阔的研究视野下看待自组织理论与教育技术研究的结合,发现人脑(或认知结构)中知识的自组织演化问题也很有研究价值。 相似文献
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Michael J. Hannafin Kathleen M. Hannafin Susan M. Land Kevin Oliver 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1997,45(3):101-117
A variety of instructional approaches has been studied and implemented across educational and training settings. Vastly different
design practices have been proposed that reflect fundamentally different philosophies, beliefs, and biases. Yet, evidence
of mismatched frameworks and methods are widespread. This has become particularly problematic in advancing emerging constructivist
learning environments. In this paper, we advance the concept of grounded design, a process that involves linking the practices
of learning systems design with related theory and research. The purposes of this paper are to introduce the fundamentals
of grounded design, to describe how underlying foundations and assumptions can be aligned with the corresponding methods,
and to introduce examples of grounded constructivist learning environments. 相似文献
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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(2):60-74
Abstract As outcomes-based education forms the foundation of the new school curriculum in South Africa, educators are confronted with the challenge of not only meeting the different needs of individual learners, but also of helping learners (many of them previously disadvantaged) to achieve their maximum potential. One way of realising this ideal is by applying Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences in the classroom. The article provides a discussion on both Gardner's multiple intelligences theory and outcomes-based education in South Africa, as it is believed that together they can contribute to solving some of the present problems in South African education. The article defines the use of MI theory in an OBE classroom and suggests specific ways in which educators worldwide could incorporate the different intelligences in their teaching and learning activities. 相似文献
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Zanele Buthelezi 《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2018,70(3):364-383
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in South Africa has undergone major institutional, structural and curricular changes over the last fourteen years. Drawing on figurational sociology by Norbert Elias, the study worked within a qualitative research paradigm and used open-ended interviews to investigate lecturers’ experiences of TVET challenges in the post-apartheid educational reform era. Findings revealed lack of compatibility between curricular reforms, student type and lecturers’ adaptability to the reform. Research further disclosed unintended consequences of educational change and existence of tensions between perceptions, vision and experiences of lecturers and students with the national vision of skills development for the country’s economic benefits. 相似文献
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华南师范大学数学科学学院为适应数学教师专业化发展和基础教育新课程改革的需要,为提高师范生的综合素质和能力,在课程体系设置上进行了较大幅度的改革,增加了教师教育类课程的门类与学时,实行模块化、动态式的课程结构体系,合理地处理好教师教育类课程与数学专业类课程的关系、数学教育理论学习与数学教学实践训练的关系,取得了较好的成效． 相似文献
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Although many researchers have pointed out that educational robots can stimulate learners’ learning motivation, the learning motivation will be hardly sustained and rapidly decreased over time if the amusement and interaction merely come from the new technology itself without incorporating instructional strategies. Many researchers have identified that the sustainability of the learning motivation is closely related to the instructional strategies. Accordingly, learners must be well guided by suitable instructional strategies to enhance and sustain their learning motivation. In other words, suitable instructional strategies are required even if introducing educational robots to learners can stimulate learning motivation at the beginning of learning activities. Literature also suggests that systematic instructional strategies can be designed with the use of the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) model. As the rapid development of robotics, it has become feasible to apply the educational robot for enhancing learning. A robot teaching assistant (RTA) was designed to enhance and sustain learning motivation for the learning of English reading skills. A quasi-experimental design and the Instructional Material Motivational Survey questionnaire were used for data collection and evaluation. The findings showed that the design of the RTA-based learning activities guided by the ARCS model for learning English reading skills can significantly improve learners’ learning motivation, learning performance, and continuance intention. 相似文献
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“满怀激情地探究感兴趣的问题”——戴维·乔纳森博士访谈 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
戴维·乔纳森博士现为美国密苏里—哥伦比亚大学教育学院杰出教授。自 1976 年取得坦普尔大学教育媒体与教育心理学博士学位以来，乔纳森先后在世界上多所大学任教，例如美国的宾夕法尼亚州立大学、科罗拉多大学、北卡罗纳大学，荷兰的特温特大学，巴西的巴西利亚大学，新家坡的南洋理工大学，挪威的卑尔根大学等。乔纳森教授发表了 27 本专著以及大量的文章、论文，其研究领域涉及视觉文化、认知风格、教学设计、基于计算机的学习、超媒体、建构主义、建构主义学习环境以及认知工具等。最近编辑出版的专著有：《学习环境的理论基础》（2000）、《学会用技术解决问题：一个建构主义者的观点》（2003）、《教育传播与技术研究手册》（2004）和《学会解决问题：教学设计指南》（2004）。乔纳森博士当前的研究主要关注认知建模与认知任务分析、问题解决、建构主义学习环境设计、学习中认知工具的开发等。乔纳森教授的个人网站：http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~jonassen 相似文献
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Jace Pillay 《Africa Education Review》2018,15(2):32-48
This article reports on a study that investigated the problem of hope for the future and literacy achievement in a sample of impoverished South African primary school children. data was collected through a quantitative survey that was administered to 160 learners from four classes of grades 5 to 7 at a school in Soweto township, Johannesburg, South Africa. The survey comprised five literacy tests that were standardised by Do-IT Profiler, an institute based in the United Kingdom (UK), and Shape the learner, a South African based consultancy. The results showed a statistically significant relationship between hope for the future and literacy scores, with learners who had less hope for the future scoring significantly lower on the literacy tests used in the study. Specifically, learners with less hope for the future performed noticeably lower in the real word test, followed by spelling, words spelt correctly, reading fluency, and non-word spelling. Based on social constructivist learning theory, positive psychology, and hope theory, the author discusses the implications of the findings for literacy achievement in children living in poverty. Several important recommendations are made, namely: the use of a methodological tool to identify specific literacy skills in children; the support that could be provided by educators and school psychologists; and a multilevel focus in targeting poverty eradication. 相似文献