Conversational Learning: A Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Preaching

An increasing number of female students populate preaching classes in seminaries and theological schools across the United States. Based on the analysis of female students' needs and demands in preaching courses, I propose a pedagogy for conversational learning to teach homiletics. My own teaching experience and the knowledge gained through conversations with other feminist educators and homileticians are major resources upon which the principles and strategies of conversational learning are drawn. The ultimate goal for conversational learning is to enable “transformative learning” through which students transform their sense of identity, worldviews, values, ways of thinking, and enhance their unique voices in the pulpit. For this purpose, conversational learning employs student‐centered, group‐oriented, and inductive approaches in an egalitarian learning environment. Conversational learning is an on‐going process of learning preaching in a collaborative way.     

Critical Consciousness and the Christian Conscience: Making the Necessary Connections Between Faith-Based Learning and Critical Pedagogy

Critical pedagogy is a by product of postmodernism, which argues that reality is always subjective, and truth is identified through each person's experiences and environment. Can critical pedagogy be applied to faith-based education? The authors claim that it can. First, the theories and practices of critical pedagogy have strengthened faith-based education by emphasizing self-directed students, the teacher as facilitator, and well-organized learning experiences. In fact, Jesus knew that learning required an active knowledge-creating process through one's full participation in the class. He always encouraged his disciples to transcend superficial understanding. Jesus knew that learning was not simply memorizing facts or reciting the Law of Moses. His beliefs challenged the passive learning paradigm of memorizing content established by the Jewish leaders. This article concludes that both critical pedagogists and Christian teachers would endorse problem-posing methods to encourage full engagement and effective teachers' dispositions in the classroom.     

A Pedagogy of Unknowing: Witnessing Unknowability in Teaching and Learning

Using insights from the tradition of via negativa and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this paper proposes that unknowability can occupy an important place in teaching and learning, a place that embraces the unknowable in general, as well as the unknowable Other, in particular. It is argued that turning toward both via negativa and Levinas offers us an alternative to conceptualizing the roles of the ethical and the unknowable in educational praxis. This analysis can open possibilities to transform how educators think about the goals of education in two important ways. First, creating spaces for embracing unknowing in educational settings is an act of ethical responsibility that recovers a sense of the Other and his/her uniqueness. Second, rethinking the value of unknowing in the classroom may inspire in students and teachers a sense of vigilance, responsibility and witnessing. Unknowing is an act of embracing otherness and presents a curious element of redemption; in the lack of knowledge, the meaning of its absence is found.     

自我调节学习:策略型学习者实现自我效能的超越

自我调节学习与自我效能感是当今教育心理学和教学心理学的两个重要概念。自我调节学习是学习者为了保证学习的成功、提高学习的效果、达到学习的目标主动地运用与调控元认知、动机与行为的过程。自我效能感是个体对自己是否能够成功地进行某一成就行为的主观判断,它是直接影响个体自我调控的关键变量。文章在分析策略型学习者与自我调节学习的基础上,认为增强策略型学习者的自我调节学习能力,是实现教育目标的手段,也是策略型学习者实现自我效能超越的重要内容。自我调节学习也是促进学生全面发展,具备适应未来社会生活的终身学习和可持续发展的意识和能力的必然要求。     

The Ethics of Effective Teaching: Challenges from the Religious Right and Critical Pedagogy

Abstract. This essay asks: What are the ethics of engaging self‐identified “conservative” students in topics and processes of learning that may unravel their world‐view and possibly their personal lives? We should take their concerns, fear, and distrust seriously and not simply dismiss them as ignorant. We should strive to be “trustworthy” educators, guiding students through the consequences of transformative education. This paper argues that conservative students are critically examining and reacting to the liberal academy by leveling critiques similar to those found within feminist, post‐colonial and post modern pedagogies. This essay reviews contemporary postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist pedagogies, which analyze bias and power in the classroom and have sought to represent marginalized voices in the classroom in order to challenge the way education often simply serves and protects the interests of the privileged. Pedagogies centered on subject or disciplinary method cannot secure a trustworthy pedagogy since method, thinking skills, and subjects are themselves bias‐laden. But critical pedagogy offers insights to help us achieve the goal of becoming trustworthy educators for students coming from a wide spectrum of religious perspectives.     

Ethnography as Pedagogy: Learning and Teaching in a Religion Department Internship Class

Internships and other experiential education courses in Religious Studies departments particularly benefit from careful pedagogical preparation. In addition to the usual components of conceptual content and skills, these courses require knowledge about and understanding of human communication and interaction and organizational function. To be successfully collaborative in the classroom and with Community Partners for learning and service, students and teachers need tools for participant observation, integration of data and response, and reflection. This article proposes and discusses using 10 strategies of ethnography as a pedagogical frame. Developed in an internship class, these ten tools are demonstrated through teacher discussion and reflection and students’ written work. Specific connections to the field of Religious Studies are highlighted. The article is written in the hopes of stimulating additional conversations on how experiential learning and teaching, specifically the use of ethnography, can be effectively and appropriately used in Religious Studies courses.     

Engaged Pedagogy Dialogue and Critical Reflection

This article challenges faculty to adopt “engaged pedagogies” that are grounded in dialogue and critical reflection. It first situates this challenge in the academic culture where the scholarship of teaching is given little attention. Then it highlights the importance of conversation, a fundamental aspect of dialogue, and develops the radical character of dialogical teaching. The article then turns to ways in which critical reflection might foster dialogue.     

自我调控学习:研究背景、方法发展与未来展望

自我调控学习(self-regulated leaming,SRL)是学生学习成功的终极问题.本文重点考察了自我调控学习的第二次研究浪潮,即有关即时测量自我调控过程研究方法的发展,如利用电脑跟踪、有声思维口头报告法、学生学习的结构化日记和微观的周期模型分析法,利用这些自我调控法,能够体现自我调控干预培训的有效性.虽然这些即时事件测量的方法仍处于雏形发展阶段,但对于自我调控学习的因果推论提供了宝贵的信息资料.本文还对今后相关重点课题和研究方法指明了方向.     

高中生正念与学习倦怠：基于自我调节学习模型的视角

基于自我调节学习模型的视角,探究正念对高中生学习倦怠的影响,采用正念注意觉知量表、生命意义感量表、津巴多时间洞察力问卷和青少年学习倦怠量表调查863名高中生。结果表明：（1）正念对高中生学习倦怠具有负向预测作用;（2）正念通过未来时间洞察力与生命意义感的独立中介作用及未来时间洞察力与生命意义感的链式中介作用间接影响学习倦怠。因此,正念可以负向预测高中生学习倦怠,提升未来时间洞察力与生命意义感可以缓解高中生学习倦怠,促进高中生身心健康。     

Key Issues in Modeling and Applying Research on Self-Regulated Learning

Les études théoriques et empiriques sur l'autorégulation, l'apprentissage autorégulé et les concepts proches telle que la volition constituent désormais un seeteur fécond de la recherche en psychologie appliquée (voir par exemple Boekacrts, Pintrich, & Zeidner, 2000 ; Zimmerman & Schunk, 2001 ). Le résumé de Boekaerts et Corno (2005) , profond et représentatif de ce travail dans le domaine de l'éducation, présente dans l'espace qui leur est alloué des contributions importantes pour la modélisation de l'apprentissage autorégulé, une discussion de quéstions méthodologiques critiques, une vue d'ensemble des travaux empiriques contemporains et parvient enfin à proposer une orientation pertinente pour les travaux à venir. Comme je dispose moi-même d'un espace limité pour commenter cet article, je me concentre sur quelques questions que j'estime fondamentales.
Theoretical and empirical studies of self-regulation (SR), self-regulated learning (SRL), and closely related constructs such as volition have become lively areas of research in applied psycholgy (e.g. see Boekaerts, Pintrich, & Zeidner, 2000 ; Zimmerman & Schunk, 2001 ). Boekaerts and Corno's (2005 ) very thoughtful and representative summary of this work in education packs into their allotted space important contributions to modeling SRL, a discussion of critical methodological matters, a survey of modern empirical research, and manages as well to give useful direction to future research. I, too, have limited space for comment on their article, so I focus on just a few issues that I judge are key.     

Embodied Pedagogy: The Body and Teaching Theology

This essay is a reflection on my own experience of teaching undergraduates in light of research on proxemics (social and personal space) and kinesics (body language). I discuss ways to structure classroom space to encourage interaction and discussion, using Edward Hall's distinctions between three types of space (fixed feature, semi‐fixed feature, and informal). I explain the importance of body language in verbal communication and describe how I use my own body to illustrate and reinforce what I say in class. I then offer strategies to incorporate students' bodies in the learning process. I conclude by arguing that embodied pedagogy calls us to look beyond the classroom and to acknowledge the importance of our bodies in all aspects of our lives.     

学习任务要求与时间压力对实际自我调节学习活动的影响

探讨两种学习任务要求与两种时间压力是如何通过57名被试的临场情境评估状况而影响其实际自我调节学习活动水平的。结果表明,无论学习任务难易还是时间大小,被试的实际自我调节学习活动水平均存在显著差异;被试临场情境评估状况中的临场动机控制状况不存在显著差异,而临场主观目标存在显著差异;学习任务要求与时间压力对实际自我调节学习活动的影响是以被试的临场主观目标为中介的。     

优生与差生自我调节学习的对比研究

对优生与差生的自我调节学习进行了对比,力图从这一角度探讨差生学习不良的原因.被试为小学高年级学生(差生37名,优生44名),考察其目标定向、认知加工方式及失败应对策略.结果表明,两组被试在自我调节学习上存在一定差异,差生在学习活动中倾向于进行回避定向,对学习材料多进行表层加工或产生自我阻碍,遭遇失败时多采用情绪发泄的策略进行应对;两组被试在自我调节学习各成分之间的关系上也存在一定差异,最主要表现为成绩定向对优生的学习有一定的促进作用,但对差生的学习则有破坏作用.此外,两组被试在自我调节学习各成分之间的关系上也表现出一定相似性.     

反馈与情绪关系中自我调节的作用

通过考察99名中学生反馈后情绪体验、生理变化和完成假词情绪判断任务的情况,探索了反馈与情绪的关系及自我调节在其间的作用.结果表明:1)高自我调节学生在消极反馈后、低自我调节学生在积极反馈后情绪体验显著,反之不显著;2)反馈可诱发显著的情绪生理变化,高自我调节学生呼吸率和心率始终低于低自我调节学生;3)高自我调节学生反馈后假词情绪判断时间短于无反馈情况,而低自我调节学生二者判断时间差异不显著.     

初中生自我调节学习策略的运用与学业成就关系的研究

二十世纪90年代以来,自我调节学习理论的研究越来越引起西方教育心理学和学习心理学者们的关注。Zimmerman等人(1986,1989,1990,1992)的研究详细论述了自我调节学习理论的内容与结构。并开展了大量的实验研究。他们发现自我调节学习者能主动去获得知识和技能,而不依赖教师、家长或其它教育机构。自我词节学习强词学习者为达到学习目标,能依据自我效能感灵活地运用某些特殊的自我调节学习策略去促进学习。