The practical connotation of school civic education is to guide the students to have a good public life. Public life is the practice that pursues public welfare and public interest in the public space. The concept of ...The practical connotation of school civic education is to guide the students to have a good public life. Public life is the practice that pursues public welfare and public interest in the public space. The concept of "student autonomy" contains the key elements of public life. Under Hanna Arendt's view of public domain theory, student autonomy in modern school education is not only the school management idea and tactic that the school administrators advocate to promote students' "self-management", but also a type of school life in which the independent and equal student individuals speak and act through the student public living space of the student union or the student associations, showing concern to school public affairs and public welfare so as to develop their public spirit. In a word, student autonomy is a necessary school public life. This paper focuses on student autonomy in the sense of public life. It mainly discusses the connotation of public life of student autonomy, the reasons why student autonomy is necessary, and how to promote student autonomy.展开更多
Blended teaching in colleges and universities can realize the effective cultivation of students’independent learning ability on the basis of respecting the students’subjective status and demonstrating the concept of...Blended teaching in colleges and universities can realize the effective cultivation of students’independent learning ability on the basis of respecting the students’subjective status and demonstrating the concept of human-centered teaching,and then drive the curriculum teaching to realize innovative changes.However,in the current environment,colleges and universities are still facing obstacles such as traditional teachers’concepts,insufficient students’motivation,irrational settings of online and offline teaching,and backward teaching evaluation system,which seriously affect the enhancement of students’independent learning ability.Therefore,colleges and universities should update the teaching concepts of teachers,improve the comprehensive quality of teachers,cultivate the interest of students in participating in blended teaching,and scientifically arrange the online and offline teaching and the integration of both sides in blended teaching to ensure the effective implementation of blended teaching.At the same time,we should pay attention to the innovation of the evaluation system of blended teaching,fully examine the cultivation effect of students’independent learning ability under the perspective of blended teaching,and provide assistance for improving students’independent learning ability.展开更多
Purpose:The purpose of this article is to analyze how to make changes to prescribed curriculum,pedagogy,activities,learning environments,and assessments to loosen control over time and space of learning to increase ti...Purpose:The purpose of this article is to analyze how to make changes to prescribed curriculum,pedagogy,activities,learning environments,and assessments to loosen control over time and space of learning to increase time for student autonomy.Design/Approach/Methods:A theoretical analysis of functions of the five elements(curriculum,pedagogy,activities,learning environments,and assessments)of schooling in controlling time and space in learning.Findings:Students'time available for autonomy is limited due to prescribed curriculum,which occupies all students'school time.Pedagogical practices that aim to efficiently implement the prescribed curriculum force and tempt students to spend all available time on the prescribed curriculum and extend work on the prescribed curriculum beyond classrooms through time concentration.Furthermore,the design and implementation of learning activities alter students'perception of time,making activities long and tedious.Moreover,students'time occupation by the prescribed curriculum compresses their space in learning environments.Finally,assessments and evaluations are typically limited to a distorted picture of students due to misplaced observers on different time scales and from an observation perspective.All these can be changed and we proposed possible directions of change.Originality/Value:This article furthers our positions in the previous article published in ECNU Review of Education——"Paradigm Shifting in Education:An Ecological Analysis."In this article,we provided a more detailed analysis of schooling from spatiotemporal perspectives and gave a uniquely fresh perspective on the changes we need in the age of Al to increase the time available for autonomy.展开更多
Purpose:The purpose of this article is to analyze educational changes,in particular transformational changes,and suggest a new approach to shift the paradigm in education using an ecological conceptual framework.Desig...Purpose:The purpose of this article is to analyze educational changes,in particular transformational changes,and suggest a new approach to shift the paradigm in education using an ecological conceptual framework.Design/Approach/Methods:An ecological analysis of two key factors in education:prescribed curriculum and student autonomy.Findings:Paradigm shift can happen in schools,but it cannot be imposed by systems and systems typically are unable to propose transformational changes.Such changes should happen within schools,but not affecting the entire school.Thus a"school within a school"approach is proposed with some examples.The small change could affect entire systems from the perspective of panarchy theory.Originality/Value:This article brings a fresh perspective on making the much needed transformational changes possible in schools.Al partnership,personalized learning,student autonomy,self-determination,and self-directed learning are all fascinating and hopeful ideas that could bring the best education possible for all students.However,implementing these would demand a paradigm shift in schools.Schools are the most resilient social entities,but they are also the organizations easiest to change.For over 200 years,the essence of schooling has not changed,but there have been significant changes in curriculum,textbooks,testing,and pedagogy.Today,we need schools to operate with a different education paradigm to enable students to have more autonomy and control of their learning in order to survive and thrive in the uncertain age of Artificial Intelligence.It seems apparent that the school system has successfully resisted paradigm shifts or transformational changes.展开更多
文摘The practical connotation of school civic education is to guide the students to have a good public life. Public life is the practice that pursues public welfare and public interest in the public space. The concept of "student autonomy" contains the key elements of public life. Under Hanna Arendt's view of public domain theory, student autonomy in modern school education is not only the school management idea and tactic that the school administrators advocate to promote students' "self-management", but also a type of school life in which the independent and equal student individuals speak and act through the student public living space of the student union or the student associations, showing concern to school public affairs and public welfare so as to develop their public spirit. In a word, student autonomy is a necessary school public life. This paper focuses on student autonomy in the sense of public life. It mainly discusses the connotation of public life of student autonomy, the reasons why student autonomy is necessary, and how to promote student autonomy.
文摘Blended teaching in colleges and universities can realize the effective cultivation of students’independent learning ability on the basis of respecting the students’subjective status and demonstrating the concept of human-centered teaching,and then drive the curriculum teaching to realize innovative changes.However,in the current environment,colleges and universities are still facing obstacles such as traditional teachers’concepts,insufficient students’motivation,irrational settings of online and offline teaching,and backward teaching evaluation system,which seriously affect the enhancement of students’independent learning ability.Therefore,colleges and universities should update the teaching concepts of teachers,improve the comprehensive quality of teachers,cultivate the interest of students in participating in blended teaching,and scientifically arrange the online and offline teaching and the integration of both sides in blended teaching to ensure the effective implementation of blended teaching.At the same time,we should pay attention to the innovation of the evaluation system of blended teaching,fully examine the cultivation effect of students’independent learning ability under the perspective of blended teaching,and provide assistance for improving students’independent learning ability.
文摘Purpose:The purpose of this article is to analyze how to make changes to prescribed curriculum,pedagogy,activities,learning environments,and assessments to loosen control over time and space of learning to increase time for student autonomy.Design/Approach/Methods:A theoretical analysis of functions of the five elements(curriculum,pedagogy,activities,learning environments,and assessments)of schooling in controlling time and space in learning.Findings:Students'time available for autonomy is limited due to prescribed curriculum,which occupies all students'school time.Pedagogical practices that aim to efficiently implement the prescribed curriculum force and tempt students to spend all available time on the prescribed curriculum and extend work on the prescribed curriculum beyond classrooms through time concentration.Furthermore,the design and implementation of learning activities alter students'perception of time,making activities long and tedious.Moreover,students'time occupation by the prescribed curriculum compresses their space in learning environments.Finally,assessments and evaluations are typically limited to a distorted picture of students due to misplaced observers on different time scales and from an observation perspective.All these can be changed and we proposed possible directions of change.Originality/Value:This article furthers our positions in the previous article published in ECNU Review of Education——"Paradigm Shifting in Education:An Ecological Analysis."In this article,we provided a more detailed analysis of schooling from spatiotemporal perspectives and gave a uniquely fresh perspective on the changes we need in the age of Al to increase the time available for autonomy.
文摘Purpose:The purpose of this article is to analyze educational changes,in particular transformational changes,and suggest a new approach to shift the paradigm in education using an ecological conceptual framework.Design/Approach/Methods:An ecological analysis of two key factors in education:prescribed curriculum and student autonomy.Findings:Paradigm shift can happen in schools,but it cannot be imposed by systems and systems typically are unable to propose transformational changes.Such changes should happen within schools,but not affecting the entire school.Thus a"school within a school"approach is proposed with some examples.The small change could affect entire systems from the perspective of panarchy theory.Originality/Value:This article brings a fresh perspective on making the much needed transformational changes possible in schools.Al partnership,personalized learning,student autonomy,self-determination,and self-directed learning are all fascinating and hopeful ideas that could bring the best education possible for all students.However,implementing these would demand a paradigm shift in schools.Schools are the most resilient social entities,but they are also the organizations easiest to change.For over 200 years,the essence of schooling has not changed,but there have been significant changes in curriculum,textbooks,testing,and pedagogy.Today,we need schools to operate with a different education paradigm to enable students to have more autonomy and control of their learning in order to survive and thrive in the uncertain age of Artificial Intelligence.It seems apparent that the school system has successfully resisted paradigm shifts or transformational changes.
