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M.J. Barrett Matthew Harmin Bryan Maracle Molly Patterson Christina Thomson Michelle Flowers 《Environmental Education Research》2017,23(1):131-143
Using the iterative process of action research, we identify six portals of understanding, called threshold concepts, which can be used as curricular guideposts to disrupt the socially constituted separation, and hierarchy, between humans and the more-than-human. The threshold concepts identified in this study provide focal points for a curriculum in transformative sustainability learning which (1) acknowledges non-human agency; and (2) recognizes that the capacity to work with multiple ways of knowing is required to effectively engage in the process of sustainability knowledge creation. These concepts are: there are different ways of knowing; we can communicate with non-human nature and non-human nature can communicate with us; knowing is relational; transrational intuition and embodied knowing are valuable and valid ways of knowing; worldview is the lens through which we view reality; and the power of dominant beliefs (represented in discourse) supports and/or undermines particular ways of knowing and being as in/valid. 相似文献
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Sarah Barradell 《Higher Education》2013,65(2):265-276
While the study of threshold concepts is a growing area of research, their identification has not proven to be an easy process. However, identification matters because of the potential impact of threshold concepts on the learning experiences of students. A dialogue amongst lecturers and/or students is common to the literature on identification of threshold concepts. This dialogue, with the inclusion of educational developers, has been called ‘transactional curriculum inquiry’ (Cousin in Researching learning in higher education, Routledge, New York, 2009). Diverse methods across a variety of disciplines have explored the identification of threshold concepts, including semi-structured interviews, analysis of exam responses and observation of classroom behaviour. A selection of these methods and disciplines is discussed in order to highlight two main challenges inherent in the identification process: first, the involvement of the wider professional and/or public community, and second, a lack of agreement amongst research participants about the threshold concepts within disciplines. This paper proposes that the transactional curriculum inquiry process should be extended to involve parties beyond the educational realm (e.g. the professional community) and that the use of consensus methodology offers the potential to facilitate agreement across the transactional process. 相似文献
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Tim Jones 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》1999,18(1):135-142
It is argued, through the example of art education seen from a broad cultural perspective, that the concept of lifelong learning implies common terms of reference for learning in all contexts in which learning takes place, especially in schools, colleges and universities. This implies a common approach to standards at all levels of formal educational provision. The disparity of school art and art in other learning contexts is discussed, and concepts of standards currently in use are examined and found to be highly problematic. The idea of practitioner referenced standards is introduced in relation to standards derived from educational theory and practice. In the case of art these are considered in terms of ‘what it is that artists do; what it means to engage with a work of art at first hand; what people have to say about artists and works of art; and what it means to engage in learning’. Ways of relating these standards to each other and to lifelong learning in the context of a research rationale for an art curriculum are put forward. In conclusion, it is suggested that co-ordination of the current review of the National Curriculum and the developmental work on standards currently being undertaken by the QAA would represent a basis for the establishment of appropriate standards for lifelong learning, although this would require a new level of co-operation between the relevant educational sectors. Such standards would assist in reducing the possibility that lifelong learning could develop as a further isolated and self-justifying educational sector in a divided national educational system. They would also provide an opportunity for post-modern thinking to make a worthwhile contribution to educational debate. 相似文献
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20世纪的教育发生了巨大的变化，其中最根本的变化是认识论的更新，表现为：唯理性认识论向经验认识论和建构认识论的转化；整体认识论向个体认识论的转化；接受认识论向创造认识论的转化。这些变革对教育的其他变革是基础性的根本性的，促进了相应的学生观、教育观和教育实践的改进。 相似文献
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当前高师音乐教育中存在培养目标偏执、教育理念滞后、课程设置失衡、教育方式单一以及师资力量薄弱等流弊,致使教学质量大幅度滑坡,难以适应社会对高师音乐教育的诉求。要扭转与摆脱这种困境,需精准定位教育目标,倡导并培育全面性、综合性与发展性的音乐师资;摒弃陈旧教育理念,彰显音乐教学的人本价值取向;优化课程结构,构建整合的音乐教材体系;探索多元、多样的教学方法,激发学生音乐学习的兴趣和探究愿望;加强师资队伍建设,提升教师专业化发展水平。 相似文献
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This article discusses the idea of intra-generational education. Drawing on Braidotti’s nomadic subject and Barad’s conception of agency, we consider what intra-generational education might look like ontologically, in the light of critical posthumanism, in terms of natureculture world, nomadism and a vibrant indeterminacy of knowing subjects. In order to explore the idea of intra-generationalism and its pedagogical implications, we introduce four concepts: homelessness, agelessness, playfulness and wakefulness. These may appear improbable in the context of education policy-making today, but they are born of theorising our practices in the age-transgressive field of Philosophy with Children. We argue that these concepts help to reconfigure intra-generational relations, ways of being and becoming. They express the longing, corporeality and visionary epistemology of nomadic enquiry. These inventions express a non-hierarchical philosophy of immanence. We draw some tentative conclusions about educational practices more generally. 相似文献
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Cognitive foundations for science assessment design: Knowing what students know about evolution 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
To improve assessments of academic achievement, test developers have been urged to use an “assessment triangle” that starts with research‐based models of cognition and learning [NRC (2001) Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Washington, DC: National Academy Press]. This approach has been successful in designing high‐quality reading and math assessments, but less progress has been made for assessments in content‐rich sciences such as biology. To rectify this situation, we applied the “assessment triangle” to design and evaluate new items for an instrument (ACORNS, Assessing Contextual Reasoning about Natural Selection) that had been proposed to assess students' use of natural selection to explain evolutionary change. Design and scoring of items was explicitly guided by a cognitive model that reflected four psychological principles: with development of expertise, (1) core concepts facilitate long‐term recall, (2) causally‐central features become weighted more strongly in explaining phenomena, (3) normative ideas co‐exist but increasingly outcompete naive ideas in reasoning, and (4) knowledge becomes more abstract and less specific to the learning situation. We conducted an evaluation study with 320 students to examine whether scores from our new ACORNS items could detect gradations of expertise, provide insight into thinking about evolutionary change, and predict teachers' assessments of student achievement. Findings were consistent with our cognitive model, and ACORNS was revealing about undergraduates' thinking about evolutionary change. Results indicated that (1) causally‐central concepts of evolution by natural selection typically co‐existed and competed with the presence of naïve ideas in all students' explanations, with naïve ideas being especially prevalent in low‐performers' explanations; (2) causally‐central concepts were elicited most frequently when students were asked to explain evolution of animals and familiar plants, with influence of superficial features being strongest for low‐performers; and (3) ACORNS scores accurately predicted students' later achievement in a college‐level evolution course. Together, findings illustrate usefulness of cognitive models in designing instruments intended to capture students' developing expertise. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 49: 744–777, 2012 相似文献
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Discerning the purpose of the educational experience aids facilitators in choosing appropriate strategies for teaching gerontology concepts. Using the curriculum positions of transmission, transaction, and transformation, this article explains the assumptions, advantages, and disadvantages of each position and gives examples from community and education-based learning settings. The curriculum positions of transmission (conveying facts), transaction (developing cognitive skills and abilities useful in problem-solving), and transformation (facilitating personal and social change), are sometimes combined to achieve educational objectives. Additional considerations in choosing teaching strategies include knowing the audience and their cultural, social, and developmental backgrounds, learning styles, reasons for participating, and prior knowledge of the subject. The educator's philosophy and professional orientation toward the educative process contribute to creating a trusting learning environment in which learners can meet objectives. Based on research and field tested in educational and community settings, the teaching strategies suggested in this article are applicable in multiple educational contexts. 相似文献
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中国教育概念史研究刍议 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
尽管中国教育史的研究经常涉及到概念的考证,但是,系统的概念史研究还处于零星的起步阶段。为了客观地描述不同历史时期的教育状况,有必要考察教育概念在不同时期的内涵和外延;为了中国教育学的重建,也有必要发掘传统教育理论资源,搭建从传统教育概念向现代教育概念转换的桥梁。中国教育概念史的研究要避免走从概念到概念的老路,必须从概念所反映的历史事实的变化和表达概念的词语的变化两个方面入手,去探讨概念自身演变的过程及其规律。 相似文献
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This paper is offered to spark discussion about teacher educators' contestation of ‘special needs’ ideology, to disrupt discriminatory thinking that diminishes educational opportunities for labeled students. Following discussion of the overarching purpose of education and evidence of the tenacity of special needs-ism, I explore multidisciplinary pedagogical tools that may facilitate engagement with student teachers, to trouble and transform hegemonic beliefs. These include notions of dysconsciousness, critical consciousness, threshold concepts, and pedagogies of discomfort, all of which highlight the role of emotion in realizing new understandings. Recognizing the inherent human worth of all students is considered fundamental in addressing educational inequities. 相似文献
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Yam San Chee Swati Mehrotra Jing Chuan Ong 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2015,43(5):423-437
A dominant discourse on “scaling-up” small-scale innovations based on a limited number of successful classroom trials pervades the educational literature. We view this discourse as insensitive to the professional work of teachers and the human side of school change. Our research investigated how teacher professional development could be conceived and conducted to support take up of digital game-based learning in the context of a 3-week social studies unit on governance and citizenship. Students played a mobile game in their own time. In the classroom, teachers enacted dialogic pedagogy to facilitate students’ meaning-making of their gameplay experience. Our findings indicate that teacher identity, constituted by their interwoven knowing–doing–being–valuing is central to any effort to scale pedagogical and technological innovation. We modified our original model for the appropriation of innovation uptake by teachers to one that places teacher identity as the centrepiece of the model and cornerstone in “shifting” teacher practice. 相似文献
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David Reeping 《International Journal for Academic Development》2020,25(1):58-70
ABSTRACTThe framework of threshold concepts has been used across several disciplines in higher education. Although the literature surrounding the identification of threshold concepts and their nature has flourished, their conceptualization has seemingly diverged across disciplinary lines, which should be recognized by educational developers who work with multiple disciplines. Inspired by a failed implementation of one framing of threshold concepts in Engineering, this article compares the conceptualization of threshold concepts in Engineering with their framing in Writing Studies and Information Literacy by drawing on Bernstein’s notion of knowledge structures. Recommendations for educational developers are provided and situated within the framework of ‘ways of thinking and practising’ (WTP). 相似文献
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Morten Timmermann Korsgaard 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2019,51(4):445-455
This paper explores the concepts of commons and commoning from an educational vantage point. These concepts point to places and activities that are shared, communal and un-privatised, in other words they point to places and practices not yet enclosed or appropriated by capital and market logics. Education is certainly a place and an activity that is increasingly being enclosed and appropriated by these logics, but at the same time education seems to always find ways of escaping this enclosure, and teachers and students find ways of being that escapes appropriation. Exploring the concepts of commons and commoning from an educational vantage point is thus an attempt at describing schooling as an activity that takes place in common and makes something common. By sharing and introducing a subject matter to the students, the teacher offers a shared space of exploration and study that can escape the instrumental and proprietarian framework of the neoliberal education agenda. 相似文献
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怎样创新党校的函授教育 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
党校函授教育存在着办学指导思想滞后、办学模式单一、教学质量下滑、生源流失严重、管理体制不尽合理等问题。而当前经济和社会发展的形势,对党校函授教育的发展提出了新的要求,因此转变旧有的办学理念和办学模式,更新教学内容,改进教学方法,完善管理体制,创新党校函授教育,走可持续发展的办学道路已势在必行。 相似文献
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Abstract We argue that it would be possible and useful for teachers of Politics to establish structured investigations into the nature of learning. We suggest a way in which such investigations can be undertaken. These investigations are important as they would lead to a greater understanding of how students learn and suggest ways in which teaching can be improved. We discuss how such investigations can be conducted by making particular reference to procedural understanding of Politics in higher education. Procedural (or second order) concepts (such as evidence, interpretation) are distinct from substantive concepts which relate more narrowly to the study of particular issues (such as government or war). Ways in which procedural concepts can be identified are explained. We argue that students' learning will benefit if a series of levels of understanding can be proposed for each of those concepts. Work emerging from the Case Study Project based within the Department of Politics at the University of York is discussed as an example of one possible context for undertaking this necessary work. Ways of establishing an investigation are outlined and it is hoped that the article will prompt some collaborative work in the cause of more effective teaching and learning. The need for this work is obvious at a time when the space between some innovations and quality audits is not characterised by sufficiently fundamental thought on the nature of what is being taught and learned. 相似文献
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This paper reports on a case study of a supportive learning environment initiative (SLEI) for students on health and social care undergraduate programmes in one English university. It involved the development of small scale support projects that are firmly grounded in the outcomes of prior research as well as the ongoing experience of students and staff at the institution. The paper begins by identifying common themes which point towards principles and strategies for educational change though a brief review of three concepts that are central to the initiative: ‘action research’, the ‘learning environment’ and ‘change management’. The account of the SLEI focuses on some of the processes of change management that were deployed and the subsequent discussion draws on the theoretical review to reflect critically on possible lessons for the promotion and management of localised change in higher education. 相似文献
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DARRELL PATRICK ROWBOTTOM 《Journal of Philosophy of Education》2007,41(2):263-270
This paper shows that so‐called ‘threshold concepts’ have been defined in a way that makes it impossible, even in principle, to empirically isolate them. It continues by proposing an alternative theoretical framework, and argues: (1) that concepts are not reducible to abilities; (2) that acquisition of a given concept can be necessary, but not sufficient, for the possession of an ability; and (3) that being ‘threshold’ is an extrinsic property, such that what is threshold for one person is not for another. It closes by outlining two resultant problems for related empirical research. First, how is it possible to test for concepts, rather than abilities? Second, how can we tell if there is more than one possible conceptual route to the same ability? 相似文献
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杜凯 《河南师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2007,34(3):202-205
关于自我思想道德教育,西方具有丰富的思想资源。西方自我思想道德教育的观念发端于古代,以苏格拉底“认识你自己”和亚里士多德“实现幸福”的自我思想道德教育观念为代表;形成于近代,以康德的“道德主体性”和费希特的“自我完善”的自我思想道德教育观念为代表;深化于现代,以杜威的新教育观和罗杰斯的“学生为中心”教学观的自我思想道德教育观念为代表。 相似文献
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Professionalism is a core element of curricula in many disciplines but can be difficult to teach and learn. This study used audio-diary methodology to identify professionalism threshold concepts in a small group learning setting in undergraduate medicine and to understand factors that might facilitate students to ‘get’ such concepts. Fifteen students and seven tutors kept audio-diaries over two terms. Data were analysed qualitatively for content. The key themes were then cross referenced to threshold concept criteria (e.g. where language indicated that learning was troublesome, integrative or transformative). Seven potential threshold concepts were identified which centred on students’ developing professional identities including working with uncertainty, considering the bigger picture, not needing to know everything and professional culture. Reflection on workplace experiences within a small group helped students ‘get’ these concepts. The study concludes that threshold concepts and audio-diaries are useful tools for understanding lived experiences of professionalism learning. 相似文献