Whose space is it anyway? Learning about space to make space to learn

The significance of the environment in which children learn has long been recognised as one of the key elements that can have an influence on the experience and success of education. Usually understood from an adult perspective, here children’s views are interpreted on the educational space that was designed for them. These perspectives are illustrated through using Lefebvre’s Triad model. This includes the perceived, conceived and lived spaces, including the added dimension of time interpreted through an educational lens. The data demonstrates the value of children’s renegotiation of functional space through visual narratives. Deeper understanding of the uniqueness of individual children’s experiences offers opportunities to re-examine the space in alternate ways, which Lefebvre’s model has facilitated. Whilst recognising that the school space needs to be functional, the negotiation of space with children can be approached creatively and still support unique yet diverse pathways to learning.     

Why do students leave school early in OECD countries? The role of regional labor markets and school policies

This paper examines the determinants of early school leaving (ESL) in a panel of 371 regions of OECD countries observed between 1998 and 2019. The empirical analysis includes both local factors previously emphasized by micro-economic studies and national-level factors such as education policies. We find that labor market opportunities for young people, as captured by the youth unemployment rate or the size of low-skill sectors, can pull students out of school. Conversely, late access to a large number of vocational education tracks, high preprimary enrollment and continuous training for teachers are strongly and negatively correlated with ESL rates.     

Connecting high school and university teachers in national and international contexts: perspectives from the 2012 Bangalore workshop of the AAG-CGGE

This paper focuses on the Center for Global Geography Education teaching workshop held in Bangalore, India, in March 2012 which served as a collaborative forum linking geography teachers in secondary and higher education in the USA and India. It considers the inclusion of the Advanced Placement Human Geography teachers from the USA and the building of global teaching content in collaborative teams as a useful way to connect geography teachers across institutional contexts. Based on a survey of workshop participants, it also highlights some of the issues that need to be addressed for further strengthening of high school–university linkages within national and across international contexts.     

“I do not know if Mum knew what was going on”: Social reproduction in boarding schools in Soviet Lapland

ABSTRACT

This inquiry into the history of boarding schools for indigenous and quasi-indigenous, tundra-connected children in the Soviet part of Lapland tries to answer why children were sent to a boarding school despite their parents living in the same village, and also why an additional school for mentally disabled children, a school half as big as the boarding school for “regular” children, was opened. Data from oral history interviews among former pupils and teachers, both indigenous and incomers, are combined with archival materials. Using the concepts of cynical knowledge as well as the Bourdieuan notions of social exclusion and reproduction, concealed functions of the boarding school system are identified, among which are the attenuation of housing shortage and the operation of the school out of economic interests, alongside with ethnocentric and paternalist patterns. The stigmatization of mostly Sámi children from relocated families as mentally disabled is set in a frame of individualization of the negative, which sought to present failures of the state’s social engineering as personal fallibility.     

浅谈课堂教学的情境创设

学生的学习积极性顺利完成学习任务的心理前提。而学习积极性又是学习动机伴随学习兴趣形成的,第斯多惠说：“教学的艺术不在于传授的本领,而在于激励、唤醒、鼓舞。”教学实践证明,精心创设各种教学情境,能够激发学生的学习动机和各种好奇心,培养学生的求知欲望,调动学生思维活动的积极性和自觉性,促使学生为问题的解决形成一个合适的思维意向。以下是我在数学课堂教学中的尝试。     

研讨中考审题策略

有这么一个故事：宋朝绘画之风盛行。宋子房做画院博士时,曾以“深山藏古寺”为题让考生作画。画作中有的着意表现“深山”,有的着意表现“古寺”。然而,束子房认为这些画作都很平庸,其原园就是不切题,因为最关键的“藏”字并没表现出来。那“藏”该如何表现呢？一考生是这样画的：苍郁的群山,代写语文教育论文中问露出庙里的半截旗杆,一条羊肠小道蜿蜒曲折,直通到山下水涧边,有个小和尚正在担水。这样就把“深山藏古寺”之“藏”字表现得淋漓尽致。这幅画的成功之处就在于真正抓住了“题眼”,即能集中传达旨趣的关键字——一“藏”。审题审得准、立意立得妙。作文如作画。作画要审题。作文更要审好题。审题,是作文的第一步。     

浅析高中班主任老师与学生和谐关系的建立

班主任与学生的关系成为了学校教育中最主要的关系,从某种程度上来讲,班主任老师与学生关系的好坏直接反应了班级文化建设的优劣,甚至直接决定班级建设的成败。     

新信息环境下党校图书馆的定位与发展

党校图书馆有别于一般高校图书馆,有其自身的优势,也存在相应的问题。在新信息环境下,党校图书馆需要有新的定位,需要不断推进数字化建设,利用网络发展信息服务,同时进一步实现图书馆系统的信息资源共享。     

金代书院考

金中后期,在辽、北宋书院发展基础上,受南宋书院影响,金修复和新建了一些书院。本文经考证得出金有书院11所,其中新建书院6所、修复和延续前朝书院5所。这些书院集中分布在中原地区的山东、河南、河北、山西等地,是汉人地区的办学行为。从办学途径看,均为民办书院,其建筑与当地的传统民居相结合,呈现出地域特点和民俗风格。同时概因私家积书之多而建书院,故金代书院藏书亦应不少。修复和新建书院,是金代文化教育事业发展的标志,对后世元、清等少数民族政权书院的发展具有深远的历史影响。     

新课改下中学德育工作的开展

在新的历史、新的课程改革下,中学的德育工作也面临着全面、深刻的变革趋势。德育作为中学教育的重要组成部分之一,对于中学生的健康成长和中学教育的发展都具有重要意义。而在近几年随着教育改革进程的加快、力度的加大,德育工作却显得相对滞后,未能有效的做到与时俱进,与教学工作相辅相成、相得益彰。要加强中学德育建设,就必须对中学德育存在的问题有深入的了解和把握。因此,对目前中学德育存在的闯题进行分析十分必要,在分析问题的基础上提出解决问题的可行性措施。本文就新课程下德育工作的开展进行讨论,提出问题,分析问题,解决问题。