Semiotising the student perception of learning outcomes in British higher education

This article presents a semiotic analysis of the student perception of learning outcomes in British higher education. It centres on three annotated images in Frank Furedi’s article “The Unhappiness Principles”, published in Times Higher Education in 2012. Drawing upon Peircean semiosis and iconicity, it provides a rhetoric-infused interpretation of the word–image complementarity exhibited in student participants’ written commentaries on the three images. This leads to a dialectical view of formative and summative assessment, in which process and product create each other through the same continuum of learning and teaching. In highlighting intellectualism as central to the ethnography of university life, this article argues that learner autonomy and the potential for transformation is deemed essential to the student experience in higher education.     

Does U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Training Constitute a Type of Civic Education?

In what respects can military basic training affect veterans’ civic identities? According to a 2015 report published by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), military service positively affects civic health. While social scientists have also noted this possible connection, little attention has been paid to how and why this link might exist. To test the purported relationship between military training and increased civic capacities, I explored the United States Marine Corps’ (USMC) Recruit Training program. I conducted 20 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 17 enlisted Marine veterans and Marine drill instructors (DI) to ascertain their perceptions of the pedagogical aspirations of their service’s recruit training. The study’s participants reported that Marine Corps Recruit Training does seek to inculcate skills, values, and habits that are consistent with a civic identity as discussed in the civic-engagement and civic-education literature.     

Multiculturalism and trust in Japan: educational policies and schooling practices

Abstract

Japan's foreign population is growing, and policy-makers need to address the manifold challenges of an emerging multicultural society. Most importantly, this concerns the task to prevent societal frictions from occurring. This article puts Japan's preparedness to face the challenge of trust-building between members of different ethnic groups to test. The realm of educational policies and schooling practices will stand at the center of interest. It will be argued that the Japanese approach of an integration policy, with its strong focus on the concept of multiculturalism on a national level of policy-making, falls short of creating opportunities for trust-learning among the members of the societal majority and various minority groups. On a subnational level, however, e.g. in Kanagawa Prefecture, some best-practice examples of trust-learning across ethnic boundaries can nevertheless be identified, and may serve as starting points for future policy reforms.     

论公安院校学员管理工作中的情感教育

在公安院校学员管理工作中,学员管理工作者要特别重视与学员之间情感的培养。良好的情感教育能够充分地调动学员的积极性和主动性、有效地促进学员人格力量的形成和发展、增强学员的集体责任感,同时也有利于形成集体愉悦和谐的人际氛围,从而促进学员管理工作的健康发展。文章认为应当从三个方面开展情感教育工作：一、通过了解、关心、尊重学员,建立深厚的师生情感;二、情感教育过程中讲求教育方式、方法;三、为人师表,树立情感威性。     

警察院校大学生廉政意识教育长效机制的构建

警察院校大学生预备警官的特殊身份,决定了其廉政意识教育尤为重要。廉政意识教育是一个系统工程,需要建立科学的长效机制,文章着重从建立适合警察院校特点的学员思想政治工作管理体制、建立符合警察院校学员特点的教育体系和不断完善警校学员廉政意识教育的监防体系方面进行了探究。     

哲学教育与大学生创新能力培养

高校的哲学教育应当承担起培养大学生创新思维和创新能力的重任,但是,我们的教育大多还是传统的知识“传-接”型教育,没有发挥出哲学教育应有的特点和功能。高等院校要突出大学生哲学教育和创新能力相结合的培养,哲学教育应注重大学生的创新思维能力的培养。从哲学的学科性质以及哲学教育的本性和方法论意义来看,发展学生的创新思维能力是哲学教育的重要功能。辩证唯物主义哲学给了我们进行创新思维的世界观基础。     

思想政治教育文本的风格初探

思想政治教育文本作为思想政治教育的基础之“源”,为整个思想政治教育实践活动提供了理论之基。思想政治教育文本具有着不同于其他学科文本的风格,如载体的多样性、内容的意识形态性、价值的实践性、目标的明确性。研究思想政治教育文本的风格,对于有效开展思想政治教育工作,发挥文本在思想政治教育中的作用,增强思想政治教育活动的实效性,拓展思想政治教育新的研究领域,开辟新的研究视角,都有着积极的理论意义和现实意义。     

新时期大学生感恩教育的缺失与对策研究

营造感恩气氛,培养感恩意识,学会感恩,并不是要做付出与所得的价值交换,而是要更懂得尊重和珍惜。深化感恩的层次,强化感恩意识。①教会学生识恩、知恩。②教会学生知恩图报。③教会学生施恩不图报。拓宽感恩途径,实践感恩。感恩教育不仅要让学生识恩、知恩,更重要的是要学生报恩、施恩,养成感恩的品德和行为习惯。     

高职院校艺术设计专业教学模式浅析

高职院校艺术设计专业教育应该强调以学生就业为导向,从专业教育的培养目标、课程设置、教师职能的发挥以及实践基地建设等入手,进一步加强教学模式的改革,因为教学模式改革已成为高职艺术设计专业发展的必然趋势。     

关于大学新生入学教育模式的思考

近年来,大学生入学后不适应大学生活的问题日益突出,严重影响了学生的成长成材和高校和谐校园建设,因此重视和加强对大学新生的入学教育刻不容缓,势在必行。针对当前我国正处于社会转型期的实际,高校新生入学教育是高校思想政治教育工作的第一步,是高校教学环节中的重要一环,必须在教育内容、教育方法和教育模式上具备科学性、针对性、时效性、生动性,形成一整套完善的教育体系,才能确保入学教育取得实效。