The cultural politics of constructivist pedagogies: Teacher education reform in the United Republic of Tanzania   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Frances Vavrus 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

This article examines recent educational reforms in Tanzania by looking at the cultural politics of pedagogical change in secondary and teacher education. It presents an ethnography of a teachers college founded on the principles of social constructivism in a country where formalistic, teacher-centered pedagogy is the norm. Using data collected through a year of participant observation, it argues that the cultural, economic, and political dimensions of teachers’ practice need to be considered alongside efforts to reform the country's educational system. It offers contingent constructivism as an alternative to the international consensus on a single model of excellent teaching.  相似文献   

Exploring literacy and growth: An analysis of three communities of readers in urban Senegal     

Mariko Shiohata 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

This paper consists of two parts. The first part reviews how the arguments supporting literacy education have changed over the last five decades. Although there has been a shift in emphasis from economic to socio-cultural and personal dimensions, literacy is still considered mainly as an instrument for economic growth and poverty alleviation. The second part presents a case study of three different establishments which provide reading materials in urban Senegal. The analysis indicates that people are more likely to practise reading when they have access to materials which genuinely interest them. These materials are not necessarily about development or livelihood—themes often judged as ‘appropriate’ for socio-economic growth by policy makers and practitioners. People read stories and history books for their own pleasure – rather than out of a sense of duty – to transcend the mundane routine of their daily lives. This ‘reading for pleasure’ aspect needs to be taken more account of in literacy education.  相似文献   

Local-language literacy and sustainable development in Africa     

Barbara Trudell 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

In discussions of Africa in the global North, the term ‘development’ is one of the most often used—though its meaning can be remarkably difficult to pin down. The sustainability of development processes and outcomes is also of current concern in development discourse. If sustainable development can be described in terms of ongoing, enhanced human well-being as well as continued national economic growth, then it requires the full participation of the target community. Development that is ‘done to’ people has little chance of sustainability.  相似文献   

Qualitative inquiry into local education administration in Pakistan     

Taro Komatsu 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

The level of educational development in Pakistan is low. A decentralisation reform was introduced in 2000 to improve the delivery of basic education by designating the local government body with primary responsibility for administering it. A qualitative field study on local education administration at the North West Frontier Province found problematic issues which may be significantly hampering efficient and effective delivery of education, such as the transfer of teachers. Conversely, the informality of the interpersonal relationships was found to be a potential asset for advancing stakeholder networking and improving the delivery of educational services.  相似文献   

Reading vocabulary influences in phonological recoding during the development of reading skill: a re-examination of theory and practice     

Michael F. McKay  G. Brian Thompson 《Reading and writing》2009,22(2):167-184

Children’s skill at recoding graphemes to phonemes is widely understood as the driver of their progress in acquiring reading vocabulary. This recoding skill is usually assessed by children’s reading of pseudowords (e.g., yeep) that represent “new words.” This study re-examined the extent to which pseudoword reading is, itself, influenced by orthographic rimes (e.g., eep) of words of the child’s reading vocabulary, during the development of reading skill. In Study 1, children with word reading levels of 6–10 years read matched pseudowords that do and do not share an orthographic rime with words of their reading vocabularies. Study 2 was conducted to further examine such a comparison for children of the 6- to 8-year word reading levels. There was a small and constant advantage of shared lexical orthographic rimes for children with reading levels 6–8 years but from 8 to 10 years that advantage increased significantly, as expected by Ehri’s phase account of word reading development. The pseudoword reading of children learning to read English involves use of lexical orthographic components as well as context-free recoding of graphemes to phonemes. This implies a qualification to the common interpretation of pseudoword reading as a measure of context-free grapheme–phoneme recoding. Such a measure should use selected pseudowords that do not share orthographic rime units or other multigrapheme components with words of the children’s reading vocabularies.  相似文献   

固原市中小学教师教育技术能力现状分析与对策     

张晓梅 《宁夏师范学院学报》2009,30(3):102-108

通过问卷调查、访谈等方法对固原市中小学教师教育技术能力的实际情况进行调查、分析和研究,发现固原市中小学教师教育技术能力整体不高,在教育技术标准的四个指标中,没有一个指标完全达到要求．教师在教学中使用教育技术的意识不强,能将教育技术恰当用于教学过程的很少．应在加强交流合作、教师队伍建设和改善办学条件等方面不断努力．  相似文献   

论科学课教师自身教育资源的开发     

吴茂江 《宁夏师范学院学报》2009,30(3):109-112

科学课教师自身的教育资源包括了科学精神、科学知识、科学研究方法、科学行为习惯、教育理念、教育科研能力、科学教育技能、信息处理能力等,这些教育资源,在新课程理念支配下,在科学课程的实施和实践过程中循序渐进的开发形成,它的形成不但是科学课教师自身素质的提升,而且有利于新课改的全面开展,尤其是有利于科学课的全面推开．  相似文献   

地方师范大学可持续发展的若干思考     

杨一江 《内蒙古师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2009,38(3):9-14

特色、协调、创新互助互动构成现代大学科学发展观的核心以及可持续发展的支撑环境和内在动力机制。地方师范大学可持续发展的基本思路是：按照大学的标准来办师范大学;坚持综合化的办学目标;坚持教师教育的优势;坚持特色办学,以特色求发展;改革和完善人才培养模式,提高人才培养质量;实现规模、质量、效益协调发展。  相似文献   

实现“政府主导”,防止“挤出效应”     

曾晓东  周惠 《幼儿教育》2010,(30)

经过10多年的论争,我国学前教育事业发展战略终于确定了政府主导的原则。从财政投入制度设计来说,在明确了政府主导的原则后,还需要考虑如何有效履行政府主导的责任,具体来说,就是考虑为谁提供、提供什么服务以及通过什么方式提供服务的问题。在现有体制下,忽视这些问题可能会产生挤出效应。因此,在贯彻落实《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010～2020年)》确定的政府主导原则时,要注意防止挤出效应。  相似文献   

唐代安西都护府渭干河西岸遗址群的调查与研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

邢春林 《新疆师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2010,31(1):115-123

龟兹是唐朝安西都护府的驻地,是当时西域的政治军事经济中心,唐朝时期丝绸之路空前繁荣,其政治、军事、交通、贸易体系的建设是必不可少的,其中军事体系建设尤为重要。库车、新和、沙雅、拜城所处的渭干河流域是龟兹中心地域．新和县、沙雅县位于渭干河西岸,唐代46处古城、烽燧、佛教等遗址分布在该区域,是一处目前保存较为完整的军事体系遗址群,其中主体部分在新和县境内。,丝绸之路文化和龟兹文化的研究涵盖军事、政治、经济、屯田、文化等领域,其中古城遗址的信息更为丰富和重要,尤其是军事、政治、贸易体系建设方面的调查及研究需要加强,文章对遗址群的地理环境、形制、定位等问题进行了探讨。  相似文献