“小班制”环境教育通识课程建设模式实践探索——以广东第二师范学院为例

Study on General Curriculum Mode of Environmental Education in Small Class Sizes——A Case study of Guangdong University of Education

环境教育通识课程在我国高校普及开设的紧迫性与重要性已不容置疑,但其适合我国高校体制的课程建设模式有待于创新。本研究以高校公选课为平台,利用"小班制+小学分"模式,分阶段、多形式(案例分析+社会实践+课堂讨论和辩论)开设"环境教育"公选课程,并通过学生自评及调查问卷形式进行教学效果评价。结果显示:教师通过对重大环境问题的解析,激发了学生自主学习兴趣和正确了解环境问题的方式方法;学生通过实践参观与课堂互动环节,提高自主探究性学习能力和解决实际环境问题能力;调查问卷结果显示,选课班与对照班在对专业性环境知识的理解程度方面明显存在差异,体现出了本小班制模式下的教学优势与效果。

Environmental education is very important and urgent as a general lesson to be open in our country＇s universities,just the course pattern which is suitable for the development of the special system in college and universities of our country needs to be in innovation. In this study,a new curriculum pattern of environmental education to take advantage of ＂small class sizes ＋ small credit＂and public course ware studied. At the same time, different curriculum stages and forms （such as：case analysis, so- cial practice, class discussion and debate） were conducted, followed by self--evaluation of students and teaching effect evaluation questionnaire form. The results showed that the students＂ interest in learning and the understanding ability to know correctly the environmental problems were stimulated by the teacher interpretations for those major environmental problems. The ability of au- tonomous inquiry and the ability to solve actual environmental problems of students were improved through visit and classroom interac- tion. The questionnaire results showed evident difference between elective class and that in comparative classes in consideration of envi- ronment professional knowledge, which exhibited our teaching advantage and better effect base on small class sizes.