课堂、家庭与博物馆学习环境的整合——纽约“城市优势项目”分析与启示

Link Classroom,Family and Museum as an Integrated Learning Environment:Inspiration from the Case Study of Unban Advantage Project

不同的学习环境提供了独特的教育给养,能否发挥其教育给养取决于我们对学习的理解和对学习环境的认识。本文着重介绍美国纽约市所开展的一项名为"城市优势(Urban Advantage)"的项目。该项目由纽约市政府资助,纽约教育局与博物馆等文化及教育机构联合发起,通过连接家庭、学校和博物馆,促进中学科学探究教学的项目。2004年启动至今,"城市优势"项目已惠及百余所学校的数万学生及其家庭。本文希望通过对该项目背景、运作方式、项目收益的剖析,对我国探究性课程的教学、学科教师专业发展、都市终身学习系统的构建提供借鉴。

Different learning settings provide people various educational affordances. Whether we can take advantage of these affordances depends on how we understand the learning and perceive the learning environment. The paper introduced an educational project named Urban Advantage that conducted in New York City. This project is funded by NYC government and initiated by NYC Bureau of Education and cultural institutions. The project aimed to facilitate the science education in 8th grade. More than one hundred schools and thousands of students benefited from this project science 2004. This paper analysis background, operation system of the project and hope it give the inspiration to our science education, teachers professional development and lifelong learning system design.