美国高校Service-Learning教学初探

美国20世纪中期,传统教学模式"重理论、轻实践"的局限性比较突出,如何提高高校学生解决问题的能力成为各方研究的对象。服务性学习(Service-Learning)将学校学习与社区活动挂钩,让学生在实践中学习。该模式逐步被美国高校所接受,成为提升学生实践能力、联系学校与社区之间的重要纽带。

An Information Systems Project Management Course Using a Service-Learning Model

This paper describes the implementation of an Information Systems （IS） capstone project management course that is a requirement for graduating seniors in an undergraduate Computer Information Systems （CIS） program at a regional university. The description provides a model which includes the culmination of students＇ academic training in an IS curriculum which is part of a Bachelor of Business Administration （BBA） program in an accredited college of business. The course requires an application of technical and business skills, as well as systems development and project management skills--while students are working on an actual IS project for an external sponsoring organization. Rationale for implementing this type of course includes the benefits it provides to the students, the project sponsors, and the IS department providing the course. Feedback from the course is used as integral part of the C1S curriculum assessment process used for accreditation purposes.

Service-Learning Practices and Reflections in the Perspective of Nel Noddings’Theory of Caring Education:The“Care for the Elderly”Service-Learning Program as an Example

Nel Noddings’ethics of care is an important lineage of Western moral education thought,which contains deep humanistic values.Service-learning advocates the equal importance of service and learning,and emphasizes more on the discovery of educational connotations in practice.Based on the social background of aging,this paper takes the“Care for the Elderly”service-learning program as an example,attempts to take the care ethics as the entry point,adopts interviews,questionnaires,and other research methods,and opens-up the service-learning practice path under the threshold of Nel Noddings’care education theory.

“社区康复”课程思政教学探索

高校课程思政建设是实现“以人为本,立德树人”,全面培养高素质人才的重要途径,只有将思想政治教育融入专业教育,才能实现育人与育才的统一。从“社区康复”课程思政教学出发,阐述了“社区康复”课程组实施课程思政教学的实践和探索,分析了思政教学的实施成效,旨在为康复相关专业课程融入思想政治教育、发挥好课程思政作用提供参考。

Relational Leadership:Promoting Lifelong Service and Meaningful Learning

In 2015,a university in rural Maryland offered an undergraduate service-learning leadership course,which collaborated with a service-learning community of practice.This interdisciplinary leadership course initiated and sustained personal and critical reflection and social interactions by integrating Computer-Medicated Communication(CMC)technology through Blackboard to provide support to students as they interpreted their service experiences.The design of this study was to describe the perceptions of the service-learning students’use of CMC technology to reflect on their service experience and social interactions within the service-learning community.In this descriptive case study,the in-depth content analyses of collected data from private journals and public discussions in Blackboard led to the distribution of a questionnaire to all participants and the execution of interviews regarding the participants’lived experiences.Once the participants responded,the researcher transcribed and assessed the results,coded emerging themes,and analyzed the trends.The triangulation of sources maintained the reliability of the findings,which demonstrated increased student engagement as result of social interactions and reflection in Blackboard.As the participants shared their lived experiences,they predominantly reflected on their personal growth and development,a strong community of practice,the value of relationships,and how technology enhanced their communication.

Engaging College Students in Experiential Learning： Learning Through Serving, Inspiring Through Experience, and Creating Identity Through Bilingual Poetry

Experiential learning is the opportunity to meld teaching with experience; ＂to do＂ the things students learn about in the classroom, yet outside the classroom walls. I am an instructor that embraces experiential learning. Every other year, I lead a Chican@ Literature class which, after the semester is finished, culminates with a two-week excursion to New Mexico. While on-campus I highlight specific themes within Chicano narrative and poetry. Discussions focus on several key aspects regarding Chican@ Literature whose purpose is to create a voice for those whom have been marginalized within mainstream American culture. Chican@ Literature emphasizes a concept of origin which is reiterated in New Mexico through a sense of place in nature. A second topic often addressed in Chican@ Literature is the idea of aprendizaje. This is a journey of knowledge. In each episode experienced, the narrative voice gains a broader understanding of identity. This aprendizaje is also shared by my students as they gain a sense of self as defined by their own community in juxtaposition with their New Mexican fieldwork and the bilingual poetry they write. Lastly, Chican@ Literature often reveals an author or poet＇s personal culture clash or cultural fusion within the creative work itself. Once again, my students write about their own perspectives in a poetry workshop and presented their pieces during a poetry slam. Some of these pieces are included in this manuscript.

On the Application of Service Learning in Translation Teaching

Service learning includes preparation, service, reflection, and evaluation, which can speed up the process of knowledge internalization and improve students＇ ability to apply knowledge through service practice. This paper reviews the current development of translation teaching in China through exploring the problems and puts forward some suggestions on the application of service-learning in translation class