The “A” factor: Coming to terms with the question of legacy in South African education     

Crain Soudien 《International Journal of Educational Development》2007

This paper attempts to offer an alternative framework for assessing education delivery in South Africa. Its purpose is to develop an analytic approach for understanding education delivery in South Africa in the last 11 years and to use this framework to pose a set of strategic questions about how policy might be framed to deal with delivery. The paper begins with a quick review of the country's achievements and challenges in education and shows that a failure to produce a high quality education system remains the country's primary challenge. The broad approach that is taken is to suggest that dominant approaches for understanding this lack of performance underplay the specificity of the country's context and specifically so its apartheid legacy. This legacy, it is argued, continues to be determinative in shaping, and accounting for the character of current social behaviour in the country, including the performance of children in schools.  相似文献   

远程教育的全球化趋势——论远程教育系统（四）   总被引：6，自引：2，他引：6  

丁兴富 《广播电视大学学报》2001,(4):110-113

开放与远程教育的全球化趋势和现状，在趋同与一体化的同时，多元化与多样化是全球化中同时并存、相辅相成的两大趋势，中国加入世贸组织后，人才共享、教育共享将加速中国的现代化进程，同时使我们对人类明的进步作出更大的贡献。  相似文献   

利用现代教育技术实现优质本科教育     

张红燕 《现代教育技术》2007,17(7):26-28

通过在教学过程中对美国优质本科教育七原则的实践,提出有效运用现代教育技术,辅助传统课堂教学,构建教师指导下的以学生为中心的新型教学模式,以实现优质本科教育。  相似文献   

Eye movement analysis of information processing under different testing conditions     

Ronna F. Dillon 《Contemporary educational psychology》1985,10(4):387-395

The study reported herein was designed to use eye movement data, collected during solution of complex figural analogies, to test the premise that enhanced feedback mechanisms and opportunities for dual coding of figural stimulus information result in the allocation of an increased percentage of information-processing resources to rule application activities. Subjects were given items from the Advanced Progressive Matrices under elaborated feedback, subject verbalization, or standard procedures. Results indicate that elaborative testing conditions, involving elaborated feedback or subject verbalization, enhance the rule-governed nature of information processing during inductive reasoning by augmenting feedback and dual coding.  相似文献   

Does prior mathematics knowledge really lead to variation in elementary statistics performance? Evidence from a developing country     

George Woodward  Don Galagedera 《International Journal of Educational Development》2006,26(6):631-639

A model incorporating prerequisite mathematics performance and other variables deemed to be associated with learning elementary statistics (ES) is developed. The relationship between ES performance and the explanatory variables is well represented by the logistics form. Aptitude, effort and motivation are the only significant explanatory variables of ES performance. Since prerequisite mathematics is not significant, statistical thinking at the tertiary level may be mostly intuitive and non-mathematical. Students with low aptitude experience increasing returns to effort over the first half of the feasible effort interval, while high-aptitude students experience diminishing returns at all levels of effort. The levels of effort required to achieve a minimum pass are interpreted.  相似文献   

学校亟需信息主管     

熊才平  吴瑞华  蔡铁军 《现代教育技术》2002,12(4):26-28,67

改革传统教学模式,培养未来公民的信息素质,规范各类教育信息资源,学校管理创新等,在教育信息化进程中,学校亟需信息主管从深化教育体制改革的战略高度统筹规划。学校信息主管应做好教育信息化网络平台建设,教育信息化资源建设,教育信息化在教学、科研、管理行为中的渗透,学校教育信息化氛围的形成四个层面的工作。学校信息主管应同时具备教育技术学、计算机科学、现代教育管理等方面的知识。  相似文献   

Educational Inequity from the Perspectives of Those Who Live It: Urban Middle School Students’ Perspectives on the Quality of their Education     

Mark G. Storz 《The Urban Review》2008,40(3):247-267

In interviews with over 250 urban young adolescents, many students make it clear that they are acutely aware of the educational inequities that exist in their schools and that these inequities are having a negative impact on their education. Student voice is used to highlight urban middle school students’ perspectives on the quality of their education particularly in terms of curricular issues, teacher quality, and lack of resources.

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新课程理念下物理学史再认识     

陈世鸥 《集宁师专学报》2004,26(3):22-26

在新课程理念下物理学史与以往相比具有更多的教育功能，因此有必要对物理学史进行再认识，从克服传统物理课程弊端的角度来讲，需要将物理学史运用到物理教学中，而教育重演论为物理学史的应用提供了直接的理论依据。在新课程理念下将物理学史融入物理教学中，可以激发学生的兴趣，有利于学生的“终身学习”；帮助学生理解物理规律，提高问题解决的能力；提高学生的整体科学素养；发挥物理课的德育功能并促进学生的社会性发展等。可以说，物理学史在教学中是对知识与技能，过程与方法，情感、态度与价值观三维目标的有效整合。教师应更新观念；克服三个不利倾向：重视近、现代物理的发展；在教学上灵活处理。  相似文献   

现代日本教育改革的政治学分析     

广田照幸  张晓鹏 《复旦教育论坛》2008,6(2):66-70

战后日本政治势力之间的权力结构及其变化给教育政策制定带来很多影响,而且这种影响在政治和教育发展的不同阶段略有不同。从政治势力对立结构的变化及其对教育政策的影响出发,可以把战后日本教育改革划分为四个不同的阶段。  相似文献   

Conceptual change through vicarious learning in an authentic physics setting   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Derek A. Muller  Manjula D. Sharma  John Eklund  Peter Reimann 《Instructional Science》2007,35(6):519-533

Recent research on principles of best practice for designing effective multimedia instruction has rarely taken into account students’ alternative conceptions, which are known to strongly influence learning. The goal of this study was to determine how well students of quantum mechanics could learn ‘vicariously’ by watching a student-tutor dialogue based on alternative conceptions. Two video treatments were created to summarize key aspects of quantum tunneling, a fundamental quantum mechanical phenomenon. One video depicted a student-tutor dialogue, incorporating many of the common alternative conceptions on the topic, and resolving inconsistencies in reasoning through discussion. The other presented the same correct physics material in an expository style without alternative conceptions. Second year physics students were randomly assigned to one of the two treatments and were tested before and after watching the video during a lecture. Results show a statistically significant (p < .01) advantage for the learners in the dialogue treatment (d = 0.71). Follow-up interviews of students yielded insight into the affective and cognitive benefits of the dialogue video.  相似文献