新教材背景下初中数学教学的实施

数学教学的核心是学生的再创造,让学生经历知识的再创造过程,培养了学生的创造性思维。学生从教师的教转向主动地学,在教师的指导下去建构数学知识,为学生能够顺利地用数学知识解决实际问题奠定了良好的知识基础。     

浅谈新课程对农村中学外语教学所形成的挑战与思考

农村中学外语教学在新课程中将面临一系列新的挑战,如何认识与应对这些挑战,走出应试教学的阴影,适应课改新形势的发展需要,全面推行素质教育,大面积提高农村中学英语教学质量,有若干问题需要思考与解决。     

浅谈体育教学中体育游戏的运用

随着我国学校体育教学改革的深入开展,体育游戏在体育教学中有广阔的运用领域,“健康第一”已成为学校体育教学的指导思想。本文对体育游戏的特点及其作用进行了分析,探讨了体育游戏的特点,提出了体育游戏在组织教学中的应用以及体育教师在运用体育游戏时应注意的问题,为广大体育教师在教学中运用体育游戏提供了借鉴。     

浅谈素质教育形势下高中体育教学的开展

学校教育正在全面推行素质教育,作为学校教育重要组成部分的体育,既是素质教育的重要内容,又是实施素质教育的重要手段,具有其它学科不可代替的作用。如何在中学体育教学中实施素质教育,促进学生全面发展,本文以素质教育的本质特征及内涵为基点,从体育教学的角度,对实施素质教育的基本要求、基本内容进行阐述。并对体育教学体制应如何适应素质教育这一根本问题提出一些看法。     

我的课堂因你而精彩——浅谈信息技术在文言文教学中的作用

多媒体的运用,为文言文教学开辟了广阔的天地。形象生动的画面,悦耳动听的音乐,充分调动学生参与学习活动的热情,充分有效地发挥教师的主导作用、学生的主体作用和多媒体的桥梁纽带作用,吸引学生参与到课堂学习活动中,使语文课更有魅力,让语文课堂教学更精彩。     

初探课堂教学气氛的调控

课堂气氛是师生心理状态的缘合反映。良好的课堂教学气氛是教师在教学过程中通过多种方法,使课堂气氛得到合理调节而形成的。课堂教学中,教室内的气氛如何都会直接影响到教学任务的完成。因此教师了解并学会如何去调节课堂气氛至关重要。本文将从课堂气氛的类型;影响课堂气氛的因素和调节课堂气氛的方法三个方面谈论课堂教学气氛。     

World Geography: Organizational and Teaching Strategies

Teaching students to develop an appreciation and understanding of World Geography is a difficult task. This article presents a number of approaches to design effective teaching methods and strategies to stimulate student learning and to develop spatial interconnections. A suggested framework for organization and study of geographic regions of the world is suggested in the article. Atlas exercises, written assignments, course objectives, and seminar projects are designed to improve the understanding of geographic relationships and spatial concepts in World Geography.     

George eliot as a type of European intellectual∗

The article examines the developments that made the legend of an Asian migration into Europe part of mainstream historiography during the eighteenth century. It was believed that the Norse god Odin was in fact a historical person, who had migrated from Asia to with the north of Europe with his tribe. The significance of this legend to how medieval poetry was received and debated in England has received little attention. The study falls into three sections. The first will trace the significance of the Odin migration legend in discovering Germanic cultural origins. The second section examines the impact of the legend on philological studies, primarily in establishing a new category: the Gothic (i.e. Teutonic/Germanic) poetic tradition. The final section will focus on the debate between two of the most important eighteenth-century pioneers of vernacular poetic tradition: Thomas Percy and Thomas Warton. Their discussion over whether the Asian foundation of Germanic (and thereby English) tradition had paved the way for later Arabian influences is instructive, as it shows how Eastern “others” were negotiated in the discovery of cultural and national roots.     

Saxton's Maps of England and Wales: The Accuracy of Anglia and Britannia and Their Relationship to Each Other and to the County Maps

ABSTRACT

From measurements of the graticules on Saxton's two general maps of England and Wales—the atlas map Anglia and the wall map Britannia—together with other evidence, it is argued that neither map was drawn according to any specific projection, but that both were effectively produced as ‘flat-earth’ maps with the graticules superimposed afterwards. Digital versions of Saxton's maps and of a modern map, the 1:1 million Ordnance Survey transport map, are used in a number of comparisons by means of the computer program MapAnalyst. These comparisons allow the scales of the two Saxton maps to be determined. They also show that the maps are of almost the same accuracy in terms of the positioning of settlements, typically within about 4.6 kilometres, in spite of a difference in scale of a factor of about 3.6. This fact and the direct comparison of the two Saxton maps in MapAnalyst show that they are basically the same map, and it is concluded that a version of the wall map was the first to be drawn and that Anglia is a reduced copy prepared for the atlas. The lengths of Saxton's miles as used on the two maps are calculated and compared with other determinations. The relationship between the two general maps and the county maps is briefly considered, and it is provisionally concluded that the relationship is a close one.     

Defending ‘the Principle of Representation’: Andrew Bisset,The English Civil War,and The History of the Struggle for Parliamentary Government in England

Abstract

Victorian attitudes to the past were varied and in some cases irreconcilable. Newer standards of expertise and objectivity coexisted with older approaches, and the idea that history should be used for present purposes remained intact. Throughout the Victorian age there were circumstances in which history was a polemical tool, designed to give one set of interpretations or values or policies an advantage over its rivals. This article explores the work of a relatively neglected figure in Victorian historiography – the reform-minded historian and lawyer Andrew Bisset (1803–1891) – whose primary goal was to illustrate and advance what he called ‘the principle of representation’. He discussed people and events of the past to this end, offending reviewers along the way because of his obvious political agenda, but also developing a rigorous source-based style, usefully evaluating for his readers the work of Macaulay, Carlyle, and others, and helping to shape Victorian opinion about, in particular, the political and religious crises of seventeenth-century Britain. Like others, Bisset believed that the disputes of that period had relevance to the public controversies of his own day. This article is designed to contribute to ongoing debates about the Victorians’ relationship with the past.