2022 No. 3

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The Frugal Life and Why We Should Educate for It
John WHITE, ZHANG Shengxiang, JIN Shenghong
2022, (3): 5-13.
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Sylvia's life narrative shows that frugality may arise from the will and habit of simple living, or from the quality of conscious virtue. Frugality as a virtue not only contributes intrinsically to people's well-being, but also helps the humankind as a whole to alleviate crises such as the depletion of the earth's resources. There are both intrinsic and extrinsic reasons for cultivating the virtue of frugality. Education in the virtue of frugality can be achieved through close cooperation between society, the family and the school. Frugality education in accordance with "the childhood goods" not only helps children to lead a rich, healthy, fulfilling and positive life, helps them to develop daily virtues of self-restraint and belief in life, and to develop a sound character, it also helps them to pursue social justice and eventually preserve the prosperity of the earth.
What Kind of Power Does Technology Have on the Development of Education:On the Development Principle of Technical Force in the Process of Educational Modernization
YU Qingchen
2022, (3): 14-20.
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In the process of continuously promoting the comprehensive modernization of education, the issue of what influence technology has on the development of education has caused many debates and disputes. Therefore, it is necessary to deeply explore the connotation of technology and the possible influence of technology on the development of education. Up to now, technology has been a concept with multiple connotations, which can be divided into two levels:core essence and peripheral influence. At present, the influence of technology with multiple connotations on educational development is manifested in three aspects:technology enriches and upgrades educational means, promotes and changes the action efficiency and life form of educational subjects, and influences and changes the way the educational world is organized. In the process of comprehensively promoting the modernization of education, the planning and application of technological forces in education should focus on promoting the all-round development of mankind in the world, not on defeating or replacing other forces, and pursue the organic combination with other forces. In addition, continuous introspection, feedback and correction are also very important.
How Educational Theories Grasp the Reality: On the Reality of Educational Theory Based on "Theses On Feuerbach"
AI Zi
2022, (3): 21-26.
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Traditional pedagogy often sticks to the textbook system in understanding educational theory and practice, and intuitively ponders and understands the relationship between theory and practice. On the one hand, this kind of intuitive thinking regards educational practice as an intuitive representation of the concept of pedagogy, on the other hand, it regards educational theory as an intuitive reflection of educational reality, which leads to the inevitable difficulty in explaining the reality of educational theory. Marx criticized the intuitive thinking of the traditional materialism in his Theses On Feuerbach, and advocated the practical thinking through returning to history. Drawing on this thinking, only by focusing on the legal criticism of educational significance, paying attention to experience of educational practice, and adhering to the unity of history and practice can educational theory sort out the problem consciousness of facing reality and truly realize the mission and value of transforming educational reality.
An Introduction to the Comparison on Educational Thoughts of Marx and Dewey
ZHANG Jianguo
2022, (3): 27-33.
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Since 1980s, the theme of education has received attention in the comparative study of Marx and Dewey. This attention is related to the increasing importance of Marxism in the field of education since the 1970s. However, most of studies uncritically accepts the "prejudice" of the Marxist educational scholarship on the periphery of education in Marx's thought, which not only makes the researchers underestimate the tension between Marx's social and political thought and Dewey's educational thought, but also leads to the ignorance of possible conflicts within their educational ideas. The key to overcoming the above-mentioned "prejudices" is to recognize the importance of education in Marx's thought, positioning Marx as an educator, and then clarifying the divergence and convergence between Marx and Dewey's educational thoughts. The comparison of their educational thoughts is of special significance to the study of Chinese educational theories.
Sartre on the Triple Implications of Human Existence and Education
WEI Enyuan
2022, (3): 34-41.
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Man is the object of education. To understand the way of human existence is the prerequisite for human being to become human through education. From Sartre's phenomenological point of view, man's self-existence is the premise of education, the purpose of education is to awaken the self-awareness of human. Man's self-being is the point of view, the basis of the evaluation of educational value is to return to the human's living world. Man's free existence is the goal, and the principle of educational freedom is human's independent choice and responsibility for themselves. Sartre's reflections on the existence and education of human beings are instructive to reflect on the phenomenon of the alienation of human beings in the current educational practice.
How Social Support Promotes the Emotional Balance of Rural Preschool Teachers in Underdeveloped Areas:From the Perspective of Psychological Poverty Alleviation in the " Post Poverty Alleviation Era"
CAO Kai, YANG Ning
2022, (3): 42-51.
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Based on the perspective of psychological poverty alleviation in the "post poverty alleviation era", this paper aims to study the relationships between social support, understanding social support and emotional balance of rural preschool teachers in underdeveloped areas, to analyze the impact of social support and understanding social support on preschool teachers' emotional balance, and to help preschool teachers in underdeveloped rural areas with relatively poor psychological poverty alleviation. The aim is to stimulate the endogenous driving force of the relatively poor rural population in underdeveloped areas and to improve the relatively poor state in underdeveloped areas. Research methods:a questionnaire survey was conducted on 832 teachers who participated in the training of rural preschool teachers in underdeveloped areas of Guangdong Province. The results showed that:the higher the preschool teachers' social status cognition, the more positive emotions and less negative emotions they have; the negative emotion of teachers in public kindergartens is lower than that in private kindergartens; with the growth of age, the emotional balance of preschool teachers is gradually enhanced. The total score of social support and its dimensions were positively correlated with positive emotion and emotional balance, and negatively correlated with negative emotion; The total score of social support has a significant negative predictive effect on negative emotion; subjective support has a significant positive predictive effect on emotional balance; objective support dimension has a significant negative predictive effect on negative emotion. The total score of perceived social support and its dimensions were positively correlated with positive emotion and emotional balance, and negatively correlated with negative emotion; the dimension of friend support has a significant positive predictive effect on emotional balance. Finally, from the perspective of psychological poverty alleviation, this paper puts forward feasible suggestions to promote the emotional balance of preschool teachers.
Text Analysis of Picture Books of Sex Education for Children and Educational Suggestions for Creation:Coding Analysis Based on NVivo11.0
DAN Fei, ZHOU Chenchen
2022, (3): 52-61.
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Sex education plays an important role in increasing children's sex knowledge and preventing sexual assault. Picture books on the theme of early childhood sex education provide rich and important resources for the development of early childhood sex education. This study used qualitative analysis software NVivo11.0 to conduct coding analysis on 50 publicly published picture books on the theme of early childhood sex education in China. It found two core nodes of content theme and narrative type, and further proposed three suggestions on the creation of picture books of early childhood sex education cater to the needs of independent reading of children. The suggestions include:grounded in the social and cultural background, in line with the needs of local sex education; based on the premise of scientific rigor, integrating the goals of early childhood sex education; and taking the principle of vividness and interest as the premise. The eventual aim is to lay a foundation for guiding parents and teachers in early childhood sex education.
Evaluation and Prospect of the Development of Preschool Education in Guangdong Province in Recent Ten Years
LI Sixian, GUO Huiming, FENG Jingdan
2022, (3): 62-71.
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From 2010 to 2020, three rounds of action plans for preschool education has been implemented in Guangdong Province. The scale of preschool education, the level of universal benefit and the strength of teachers in the province are gradually developing in the direction of standardization. However, the development of preschool education is still faced with three major difficulties, mainly manifested as a large gap between the overall development level and the domestic economic developed areas; a long-term safeguard mechanism needs to be established; a distinctly imbalance in different regions and between urban and rural areas. In order to promote the high-quality development of preschool education in Guangzhou province, there are four suggestable aspects, including:strengthening the top-level design of legislation; coordinating the cost-sharing ratio of government, families and schools; adhere to the policy orientation of equitable development; strengthening preschool education reform and development experimental area and constructing curriculum demonstration project. That will deep the reform in the field of preschool education, achieving the improvement of quality.
The Influence of Yugoslav Educational Research Methodology on Ye Lan
LIU Lianghua
2022, (3): 72-80.
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The academic gestation period of Ye Lan's educational research methodology began in 1981. That year, Ye Lan got an opportunity to visit Yugoslavia for study. During her two-year visit to Yugoslavia (1980-1982), Ye Lan, by virtue of her academic sensitivity and academic spirituality, noticed the problem of promoting pedagogical theory by improving educational research methodology. She found the lever and fulcrum to pry educational research, and she let herself stand at the commanding height of education and educational research. The embryonic symbol of Ye Lan's educational research methodology is the Reflection on Strengthening the "Self-consciousness" of Educational Science published by Ye Lan in 1987.
Research on Education Cases:What and Why
JI Chengjun, MO Xiaolan
2022, (3): 81-91.
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Case study has been in controversy for its representativeness and generalizability. This paper, based on the methodology of case study, maintains that among the three typical research paradigms including empirical study, theoretical study and action study, case study is a comprehensive research method and should be categorized as empirical research. Case study can meet the requirements of pedagogical research paradigm and requirements of pedagogical knowledge because of its unique value and function in this field. Hence, thorough research is desperately needed to specify and normalize case study, to clarify the relation between case study and methodology and to find a bottom turtle providing support to case study, in such ways case study can form its own unique system.
The Disciplinary Community of Teacher Education in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the Context of Regional Integration:Ideas and Approaches
ZHANG Weikun
2022, (3): 92-98.
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The concept of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Teacher Education Discipline Community" is a historical reflection and practical need to aggregate high-quality resources of teacher education disciplines and cultivate outstanding teachers. The construction of a "teacher education subject community" is a subject demand of the universities, which can help integrate high-quality subject resources and help maintain the long-term prosperity and stability of the region. Geographical affinity and natural location advantages help to form the value resonance and cooperation consensus of universities in the three places and to provide a continuous internal drive for the achievement of discipline cooperation goals. To improve the disciplinary structure of teacher education in the Greater Bay Area and to build a community of teacher education disciplines, it is important to abandon the inertia and steadfast determination. A new "synergistic and symbiotic" relationship between the governments of the three regions, universities, educational intermediaries and the regional communities, as well as their rules of action, are needed to maintain and realize an integrated development concept and a symbiotic expression system, in order to contribute to the overall improvement of the competitiveness of the Bay Area teacher education disciplines.
The Strategies of Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macau Greater Bay Area Higher Education Cooperation:Inspirations from the Bologna Process
LI Jing, ZENG Jin
2022, (3): 99-105.
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The Bologna process provides a comparative perspective on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area higher education cooperation strategy. It has similarities with the latter in terms of cooperation basis, construction objectives and functional orientations. This article firstly summarizes the twenty-years experiences of the Bologna process, then clarifies the existing problems of higher education cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and finally examines the inspirations of the Bologna process:cultivating the Bay Area community consciousness; perfecting the exchange and cooperation regulations; building a quality assurance system; and improving the organizational and coordinative mechanisms.
A Case Study of Curriculum Reform in Basic Education in Macao SAR
CHOU Chuing, CHEN Wenwen, YANG Peixin
2022, (3): 106-112.
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Since the 1990s, the basic education reform in the world has been mainly about how to transform the quality and connotation of education. Most policies aimed at the new round of curriculum reform, such as introducing the concepts of learning literacy and learning outcomes, providing various opportunities for student development and mobility of social stratum. Since Macao's returned in 1999, the economy has developed rapidly, and the society is in transformation. There were a lot of resources which have been invested in the reform of basic education. However, in the face of challenges such as the massive outflow of local high school graduates and the limited overall scale of schools, it is urgent to establish an education system with Macao characteristics and meeting social needs. This paper aims to discuss how Macao's basic education curriculum reform should response to the requirements of talents in the new century. Through the curriculum reform experience of M middle school, a well-known one-stop school in Macao in recent ten years, this paper discusses the experience of curriculum reform and its practices, as well as the challenges encountered in the process of reform under the background of learners' diverse and different needs in the network era. Finally, this paper summarized the experience of the curriculum reform of the above case schools, which not only has an impact on Macao's basic education, but also is worthy of being a reference for other regions.