The problems with a ‘fact’-focused approach in environmental communication: the case of environmental risk information about tidal flat developments in Japan     

Hiromi Yamashita 《Environmental Education Research》2015,21(4):586-611

One of the main approaches used in communicating environmental issues to citizens is conveying ‘factual’ information about a particular environment. However, despite previous research and recommendations made by critical environmental educators, there still seems to be a belief that the more ‘factual’ information one can convey, the more citizens will become aware of the issue, and this will prompt them to change their behaviours. In this article, I will argue that continuing with a ‘fact’-focused practice in Japan and elsewhere could be problematic for three key reasons: (1) it ignores diversity in the ‘facts’ provided to people; (2) it reinforces the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’; and (3) it ignores the ‘myth of nature’ among information receivers and senders. Key recommendations for incorporating a critical environmental education approach include utilising locally available environmental information on contentious environmental issues; investigating particular terminology used and missing information (including tacit knowledge); and encouraging critical learning about statistics and pictorial representations.  相似文献   

Incorporating a transformational learning perspective in action learning sets     

Pamela Ajoku 《Action Learning: Research and Practice》2015,12(1):3-21

A field study focused on learning capabilities within action learning sets was used to evaluate potential opportunities between action learning and transformational learning. The use of action learning as a methodology for the acquisition, sharing and transfer of information while integrating an added perspective for transformational learning within the action learning set was investigated. There could be occurrences of transformation within action learning and critical action learning sets. However, there could be the added possibility of using action learning as a potential vehicle for an enhanced or more specific focus on transformational learning. It is useful to explore this potential, especially when there is an increased awareness regarding associations between action learning and transformational learning. Within such learning environments, there could also be the increased potential for outcomes that transform an individual, group or organization. The use of transformational elements based on discussions and resulting themes that occur within action learning sessions are discussed with the aim of encouraging personal development, enhancing skills and engaging in adult learning that could lead to organizational development. Recommendations for these environments are also presented.  相似文献   

外语专业研究生与非外语专业研究生评判性思维能力培养研究     

阮珊珊  袁平华  方丽君 《齐齐哈尔师范高等专科学校学报》2015,(3)

评判性思维能力乃研究生创新能力的重要基础,是其从事科学研究必备的基本能力。在历时一年的研究调查中发现,研究生教育的培养方式能够促进学生评判性思维的提高,同时,外语专业研究生与非外语专业研究生评判性思维能力培养过程的差异性导致了他们之间评判性能力存在差异。  相似文献   

综合英语人文化课堂教学模式探讨--以综合英语第五册第一课《七月四日》为例     

徐伟 《海外英语》2015,(6)

综合英语作为英语专业的核心课程,既要训练学生的综合语言技能,又要培养学生的人文素养。该文探讨提出人文化课堂教学新模式：课堂教学进行人文内容拓展结合课外人文教学的研究型任务拓展,进而深化英语专业改革。  相似文献   

如何培养本科翻译专业学生的批判性思维--以两堂汉译英翻译赏析课为例     

招晓杏 《海外英语》2015,(4)

近年来,不少外语界专家认为外语专业的学生缺乏批判性思维。在本科笔译教学中,笔者发现刚接触翻译的学生尤其如此。他们容易相信网上的译文,把外教和教师的话当做权威,做翻译的过程中缺乏批判性思维。因此,该文中探讨两节汉英翻译赏析课中如何采用案例教学和数据驱动方法帮助学生培养批判性思维。  相似文献   

大学英语专业学生批判性思维能力的培养     

邱谊萌 《海外英语》2015,(2)

当今世界,各国对创新型人才的竞争愈演愈烈。创新型人才的显著特点是具有批判性思维。长期以来,我国大学英语专业教学存在的重知识传授、轻思维能力培养的倾向,直接影响着创新型英语人才的成长。为了提高我国的国际竞争力,满足社会发展对创新型英语人才的需求,大学英语专业面临着一场以培养学生批判性思维能力为核心的教学改革。这场教学改革成功的关键在于：坚持“以学生为本”的教育观;营造自主学习的育人环境;调整课程设置与拓展教学内容;加强学生批判性思维能力的训练。  相似文献   

An interview with Professor Barbara Comber     

Barbara Comber 《Literacy》2023,57(2):88-93

As part of this special issue on ‘Literacy for social justice’, and at this moment of post-pandemic transitions in education, we invited Professor Barbara Comber to reflect on the needs for and trends in critical literacy education, both in her local context, in Australia, and internationally. In September 2022, we met with Barbara online to discuss her thoughts about what critical literacy educators need, how scholars and educators can work together to produce change, and where we can see hope in critical literacy and social justice education right now, as part of promising anti-racist, decolonizing, and intersectional literacy frameworks and practices.  相似文献   

Assessing and developing critical-thinking skills in higher education     

Dirk Van Damme  Doris Zahner  Olivia Cortellini  Teresa Dawber  Kelly Rotholz 《European Journal of Education》2023,58(3):369-386

Generic skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and communication are essential for students' success in higher education and their careers. This article presents findings from an international study of students' (n ≈ 120,000) generic skills from six countries using a performance-based assessment. Results indicate that higher education students, on average, gain generic skills between entry and exit. However, learning gain is less marked than could be expected and varies significantly among country samples. Various background variables such as gender, ethnicity, parental level of education, and primary language are also explored. The authors conclude that it is feasible to reliably and validly measure generic skills in a cross-cultural context and that assessment of these skills is an essential component of best practices in higher education.  相似文献   

Investigating science teacher educator identity through the politics of domestication and critical positional praxis     

Alberto J. Rodriguez  Sara Tolbert  Sheron L. Mark 《科学教学研究杂志》2024,61(3):625-644

The focus on identity in the field of teaching and learning continues to grow, especially when it concerns equitable outcomes for students. While most attention is placed on students' identities and increasingly those of teachers, lesser addressed are the identities of the teacher educators and researchers broaching the issue of identity. Additionally, identity research is not often linked to relationships between self, others, and transformative action. We recognize these as gaps to be addressed and offer critical positional praxis (CPP) as a response. CPP is the public manifestation of the insights gained through our sense of identity and reflexivity. More specifically, CPP is the actions (or inactions) that express who we are in response to an event in any given social context—especially oppressive ones. In this article, we draw from our own critical autoethnographies, as a context for putting CPP into practice in identity research. Our collective analysis of these critical autoethnographies revealed how our identity development was inseparable from the ways in which we have each resisted the politics of domestication. Our autoethnographies further point to the role of dissent as central to our experiences of becoming critical science teacher educators committed to equity, diversity, and anti-racism in education. We draw from this analysis to offer recommendations for how identity and positionality can move beyond theoretical constructs toward transformative personal and collective change in science education.  相似文献   

Introduction to the Special Forum on Critical Making as Research Program     

Matt Ratto  Sara Ann Wylie  Kirk Jalbert 《The Information Society》2014,30(2):85-95

This special issue spotlights the growing diversity of critical making practices in a range of disciplinary contexts both inside and outside of the academy, and begins to develop perspectives that will foster the emergence of critical making as a coherent field. On one hand, we see great value in incorporating material practices into existing information systems (IS) and science and technology studies (STS) research programs. In particular, forms of material engagement can help overcome the ineffectual linguistic bias of traditional critiques of technoscience. On the other hand, we believe that current material practices can benefit from the conceptualization of knowledge and social organization that are foundational to IS and STS research. In this introduction to the special issue we call attention to the mechanisms by which such practices may combine representational and material work to foster and support the development of new knowledge-making communities and institutions. We believe such work can serve as a framework for others engaged in critical making practices to better contextualize and expand the relevance of their work. We intend this special issue to serve as a “stake in the ground” for research on new forms of material-conceptual critique and their incorporation in the repertoire of critical technoscience scholarship.  相似文献