指向高阶思维能力培养的英语师范专业课程建设——以英国文学课程为例

On the Curriculum Construction of Pedagogical English Programs Oriented toCultivation of Higher-Order Thinking Ability:A Case Study of English Literature

一流本科课程建设背景下,英语师范专业课程建设既要注重专业性和职业性,又要坚持人文性内涵式发展道路。这一学科内涵决定了英语师范专业在课程建设中要兼顾语言学习、思维训练以及人文价值塑造。其中,高阶思维训练则是课程建设的重中之重。高阶思维是学生思辨能力和创新能力的体现,需要在课程学习中不断养成。因此,英语师范生高阶思维能力的培养与课程设置和课程内容的选择密切相关。高校要探索以进阶性、拓展性和跨学科性为原则的课程体系,以批判性和意义生成为导向的课程学习内容,在纵向优化课程设置和横向深化教学内容的基础上,达到培养学生高阶思维能力的目标。英国文学课程更新教学理念、重组教学内容、创新教学方法,为英语师范生高阶思维能力的培养提供案例,也为师范生人才培养方案的制定提供启示。

In the context of first-class undergraduate curriculum construction,the curriculum construction of pedagogical English programs should meet professional and vocational requirement,and also need to stick to the principle of the intensive development of humanity.This discipline connotation is specifically exhibited in language learning,thinking training and humanistic value shaping,and the higher-order thinking training is the most important one.The higher-order thinking ability is the embodiment of the students’critical ability and creativity,and should be cultivated in curriculum studies.Against such a background,pedagogical English programs should optimize curriculum system and deepen teaching contents to cultivate students’higher-order thinking ability.This model consists of the curriculum system based on the principles of level setting,extensibility,interdisciplinarity and the teaching contents with negotiation of meaning.The course of English Literature explores the innovated teaching concept,recombinant teaching contents and creative teaching methods,which provides a special case for the cultivation of higher-order thinking ability in pedagogical English programs,and also gives some implications for setting up undergraduate program for specialty.