Cultural diversity in science education through Novelization: Against the Epicization of science and cultural centralization     

Michiel van Eijck  Wolff‐Michael Roth 《科学教学研究杂志》2011,48(7):824-847

Science educators are confronted with the challenge to accommodate in their classes an increasing cultural and linguistic diversity that results from globalization. Challenged by the call to work towards valuing and keeping this diversity in the face of the canonical nature of school science discourse, we propose a new way of thinking about and investigating these problems. Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, we articulate epicization and novelization as concepts that allow us to understand, respectively, the processes of (a) centralizing and homogenizing culture and language and (b) pluralizing culture and language. We present and analyze three examples that exhibit how existing mundane science education practices tend, by means of epicization, towards a unitary language and to cultural centralization. We then propose novelization as a way for thinking the opening up of science education by interacting with and incorporating alternative forms of knowing that arise from cultural diversity. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 48: 824–847, 2011  相似文献   

Where words collide: social class,schools and linguistic discontinuity     

Gerry Mac Ruairc 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2011,32(4):541-561

The prestige accorded to standard language varieties, particularly within the field of education, together with language management role of schools with respect to the variety and the extent to which linguistic differences construct discontinuous relationships between the school and specific social groups provide the rationale for this paper. This qualitative study, based on a friendship focus group design, was conducted with two groups of 12-year-old children from contrasting ‘ideal type’, socio-economic groups over the period of one school year. Findings outline specific practices where the linguistic expectations and demands within school-space create different implications and outcomes for middle-class and working-class children as a result of their linguistic experiences in non-school space. The implications of these linguistic interactions on patterns of engagement with the school among the children in the sample are also considered.  相似文献   

On the relationship between gender and perceptual language learning styles: the case of Iranian academic EFL learners     

Mohammad Aliakbari  Khalil Tazik 《教育心理学》2011,31(6):657-674

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Promoting intercultural understanding and reducing stereotypes: incorporating the cultural portfolio project into Taiwan's EFL college classes     

Ya‐Chen Su 《Educational studies》2011,37(1):73-88

Learning about foreign language (FL) cultures is becoming an important objective in the FL curricula and national standards of different countries throughout the world. The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of the cultural portfolio project on: (1) students' concept development in their perceptions of the target language culture and their own; (2) students' evaluation of stereotypes towards English‐speaking cultures; and (3) students' self‐awareness and perception of EFL (English as a foreign language) and cultural learning process. Data were collected from students' cultural portfolio projects, classroom observation, and interviews. Results indicate that through the cultural portfolio project, students engaged in active learning, gained insight into specific aspects of the target language cultures and became more aware of the diversity within these cultures, and developed their ability to think critically instead of automatically accepting cultural information.  相似文献   

加强人文素质教育提升学生就业创业能力     

程甫  汪卫 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2011,(6):9-9

人文素质教育对于提升学生的就业创业能力来说是一个很重要的部分,目前我国教育中较为缺乏对学生人文素质方面以及就业能力的培养,我们应该抓住两者之间的紧密联系,培养学生的人文素质来提升他们的就业创业能力。  相似文献   

《新闻阅读与实践》教学探索     

杨志生 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2011,(2):125-125

本文主要从宏观和微观两个方面对高中语文选修课程《新闻阅读与实践》的教学提出建议,从而使得学生不仅能真正读懂新闻,而且能深入理解媒介,并适应当下的媒介社会。  相似文献   

激活医专语文评价体系中的能力因子     

朱绍斌 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2011,(2):243-244,257

我国的语文教育中过于强调对语文知识的记忆,而忽视实际语言交际能力的训练。传统评价实质还只停留在知识评价层面,"能力因子"处于沉睡状态没有被激活,无法完全体现学生的语言运用能力。从考试内容、方法、形式、目的等方面入手,制定以知识、技能和态度为框架的评价体系,激活语文能力因子,使其活跃,从多方面综合地评价学生的语文能力。  相似文献   

浅谈对航海英语试题题库改革与建设的几点建议     

王莉 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2011,(2):344-345

英语应用能力是航海专业人才的重要素质之一。根据行业要求和航海英语实际教学情况,为进一步完善船员适任证书的考试模式,有必要对航海英语试题题库的内容及形式进行改革,并据此提出一些建议。  相似文献   

加强大学生环保教育之思考     

李爱炳 《安徽教育学院学报》2011,(6):47-48

加强大学生环保教育,培养大学生环保意识、素质、品德是高等学校贯彻落实科学发展观,实现可持续发展的一项重要任务和责任,应将其纳入教学计划、学生素质综合测评和相关评优之中。  相似文献   

浅谈外语教学中的语料库应用     

贾一丹 《黑龙江教育学院学报》2011,(8):159-161

随着计算机辅助语言教学的深入发展,“基于语料库教学”(corpus- based language teaching)在国内已经不再是一个陌生的话题,近年来越来越多的学者已经开始重视语料库在教学中的应用.但对于普通初、高中教师而言,没有时间和机会学习语料库知识并将其应用于实践之中,因此他们对语料库的了解还不够普及.而他...  相似文献