English University Education Research Articles

Research on Construction of General Education Curriculum System of College English in Universities of Science and Technology

College English teaching focuses on course knowledge and grade examination, with a serious shortage of humanistic education, whereas general education focusing on humanistic spirit can just make up for its deficiency. In order to improve the educational goal of humanistic personality accomplishment, by understanding the relationship between general education and college English teaching, the problems in college English teaching are found out and the direction and measures of college English reform put forward. With general education as a guide, general education curriculum system is improved, scientific college English examination and teaching evaluation systems are constructed, and humanistic education is strengthened, to promote the development of college English education in universities of science and technology.

Construction of College English Wisdom Classroom under the Internet

At present, in the process of accelerating the overall development of China’s society, the educational cause has embarked on the road of the latest reform. More and more effective education ideas have been put forward, which has optimized the effect of students’ knowledge learning and laid a foundation for students’ subsequent growth and development. This paper focuses on the actual situation of English classroom teaching activities in universities and colleges. It discusses the construction strategies of college English wisdom class under the background of the Internet. It will be able to really use high-tech technology and to find a powerful development path for the smooth development and implementation of the internal English education in universities and colleges. It will make great contribution to the future healthy growth of our university students.

Strategic Analysis of English Teaching Reform in Universities and Colleges under the Background of the“Belt and Road”Strategy

In recent years, the "Belt and Road" as a newly proposed economic strategy has not only created a new type of economic development model, but also brought some reforms to the current English education in Universities and Colleges. Based on the analysis of the relationship between the "Belt and Road" and the English teaching in universities and colleges, the author makes suggestions for the innovation of teaching ideas, aiming to cultivate more outstanding talents for the strategic development of the "Belt and Road".

Praktyki studenckie w zakresie nauk pedagogicznych w polskiej i angielskiej edukacji akademickiej. Pragmatyczny aspekt akademickiej edukacji pedagogicznej

The presented comparative analysis of internship systems typical of university stud-ies in the pedagogy of early childhood education in Poland and the United Kingdom aims to indicate the significance of this sphere of practical expertise for the process of future teachers’ university education. Theoretical knowledge, which is acquired due to the participation in university lectures and classes, must be supplemented by practical skills that can be only attained due to participant observation and taking relevant ac-tions in educational facilities. The number of hours spent on pedagogy internship for future teachers differs significantly in the Polish and English university education, which becomes evident when one realizes that UK students spend nearly ten times more hours on pedagogy internship than Polish students. Does it mean that a pedagogy student educated in the UK is better prepared for their future vocation than his/her equal in Poland? Since pedagogy internship constitutes a very significant (albeit not the only one) element of university education in pedagogy, the following analyses and considerations aim to initiate a debate concerning the issue. At this point, one has to emphasize that the sheer number of hours spent on pedagogy internship is definitely less significant that the quality, diversity, adequacy and orientation towards practical issues that characterize a given type of traineeship.

Poulett Scrope on the Volcanoes of Auvergne: Lyellian Time and Political Economy

Early in 1826, at the age of 28, Charles Lyell began writing the first of a series of articles for J. G. Lockhart, the new editor of theQuarterly review. These articles gave him his first opportunity to express to the educated public his views on the state of science in general, and of geology in particular, in English society. According to the convention of theQuarterly, each article was nominally a review of one or more recently published works, but like other reviewers Lyell clearly chose them as ‘pegs’ on which to hang his own arguments. In content, the articles form a kind of ‘gradualistic’ series, rather like his own later interpretations of geological phenomena. At one end of the series (though published third) was an essay on the place of science in general in English university education. Another article (the first to appear in print) focused on some of the English institutions specifically devoted to science. Here there was a hint that the need for reform in the place of science in English society was not unrelated to a similar need for reform in Lyell's chosen branch of science. The next article enlarged on this hint by examining the publications of the Geological Society of London, on which Lyell had recently served as Secretary. This essay expressed for the first time in a general context Lyell's characteristic emphasis on the need for actualistic comparison between present and past. Finally, what he needed to complete the series was an article in which he could show in detail the positive explanatory advantages of following this method in geology. The ‘peg’ which he chose for this purpose was a single work, George Poulett Scrope'sMemoir on the geology of central France.

Boat-races at Athens

In my paper on ‘Boat-races among the Greeks’ (above, pp. 90—8) I brought together a considerable number of testimonies to prove that boat-racing was a Hellenic sport. As I was to a great extent breaking new ground, it can scarcely arouse surprise if I failed to make my collection of authorities complete. Since the paper appeared friends have been good enough to point out to me two or three fresh passages of writers bearing on the subject of boat-races. Of these the most important is quoted by Mr. Ridgeway from Pausanias. That writer speaking of the town of Hermione, says, ‘Near by is the temple of Dionysus Melanaegis. In his honour is yearly held a musical festival, with swimming races, and boat-races (καὶ πλοίων τιθέασιν ἆθλα).’ Hermione is situate on a very sheltered bay at the extremity of Argolis, and so admirably adapted as a site for swimming races and for races of small boats.A far more interesting reference than that I have mentioned I owe to the courtesy of Dr. Hirschfeld. He points out to me that in the valuable series of Ephebic inscriptions recently discovered, mention is more than once made of boat-races engaged in by the Attic Ephebi, as a regular part of their training. I could scarcely have missed these mentions had not Dumont misled me by calling the races joutes nautiques. To us they are specially interesting because the system of training of Ephebi at Athens, which we can trace upwards to the third century B.C., corresponds more closely to a modern English University education than anything else in antiquity.