This paper is based on the findings of a survey on 120 students involved in the Interdisciplinary Course on Intercultural Competences (ICIC), a three-year EU Lifelong Intensive Program project aimed at developing in...This paper is based on the findings of a survey on 120 students involved in the Interdisciplinary Course on Intercultural Competences (ICIC), a three-year EU Lifelong Intensive Program project aimed at developing intercultural competency in the education, social work and health care professions. The Program approached intercultural competency as a culturally aware ability to cope with unfamiliar situations continuously arising in the current ever-changing society, in which learning has become an "endemic condition", and the new media have created symbolic resources for actively expressing and constructing identities as an in-progress and negotiated project. Intercultural competency is therefore rethought from a holistic perspective as a part of an educational mission that particularly values one's communicative and social experiences as a strategic resource for facilitating learning processes and enhancing professional competency. The presented data show sociality as a clustering factor for intercultural learning and displays a factorial structure, from which a model for intercultural education is inferred, in which bridging social capital, media practice and reflective attitude become crucial for gaining and valuing competency in terms of human capital.展开更多
Compared with the traditional examinations, the paperless examination of the computer elementary course can not only realize the assessment of the theoretical knowledge, but also can carry out the assessment of the ac...Compared with the traditional examinations, the paperless examination of the computer elementary course can not only realize the assessment of the theoretical knowledge, but also can carry out the assessment of the actual operations of some of the operational computer subjects, which can make it more comprehensive. Through the computer evaluation, we can make the results consistent, and get rid of the human interference as far as possible, and thus it can prevent the emergence of the human errors, to ensure fairness and justice of the tests. This issue is analyzed and discussed in the following.展开更多
文摘This paper is based on the findings of a survey on 120 students involved in the Interdisciplinary Course on Intercultural Competences (ICIC), a three-year EU Lifelong Intensive Program project aimed at developing intercultural competency in the education, social work and health care professions. The Program approached intercultural competency as a culturally aware ability to cope with unfamiliar situations continuously arising in the current ever-changing society, in which learning has become an "endemic condition", and the new media have created symbolic resources for actively expressing and constructing identities as an in-progress and negotiated project. Intercultural competency is therefore rethought from a holistic perspective as a part of an educational mission that particularly values one's communicative and social experiences as a strategic resource for facilitating learning processes and enhancing professional competency. The presented data show sociality as a clustering factor for intercultural learning and displays a factorial structure, from which a model for intercultural education is inferred, in which bridging social capital, media practice and reflective attitude become crucial for gaining and valuing competency in terms of human capital.
文摘Compared with the traditional examinations, the paperless examination of the computer elementary course can not only realize the assessment of the theoretical knowledge, but also can carry out the assessment of the actual operations of some of the operational computer subjects, which can make it more comprehensive. Through the computer evaluation, we can make the results consistent, and get rid of the human interference as far as possible, and thus it can prevent the emergence of the human errors, to ensure fairness and justice of the tests. This issue is analyzed and discussed in the following.