Purpose Of Teaching Research Articles

A Teaching Design with Ideological-Political Element on Reactions of Alkanes in College Chemistry II

College chemistry II is a basic course for normal college students majoring in science education in our university, and it is of practical significance to integrate ideological and political education into the teaching of the course to achieve the teaching purpose effectively. Taking the part “reactions of alkanes” as a case of teaching design, this paper discussed the teaching design ideas and methods of integrating ideological-political elements into the specialized course specifically in the setting of the three learning objectives, the introduction of the new lesson, the teaching of the three knowledge points, etc., and carried on the teaching reflection. By fully excavating the ideological-political elements in this course, and integrating the ideological and political education with cases related to reactions of alkanes in daily life and production practice into, it can arouse the students' attention and thinking, stimulate the students' interest in learning, and enhance the effectiveness of students' learning.

Ring Composition and the Skepticism of the De Republica

Abstract The fragmentary state of Cicero’s De Republica makes it difficult to see how it is a unified work. In this article, I argue that Cicero uses ring composition to unify the dialogue as a polemic against the Epicurean prohibition on political involvement. Cicero is following Plato in his use of ring composition, and just as Plato uses ring composition in the Republic to express his views about philosophical method, so does Cicero. Ring composition turns out to be central to a plausible skeptical reading of the De Republica, in which Cicero both tries to induce suspension of belief in the Epicurean prohibition on political involvement, as well as prevent the reader from unreflectively adopting his own provisionally held views, both consistent with his commitment to the pedagogical aims of Academic skeptical philosophy.

Implementing Problem-based Learning to Secondary School EFL learners at the International School of China for Developing Communicative Competence

As the global demand for complex talent increases, the purpose of teaching and learning is no longer simply to transmit knowledge, but also to develop students’ ability to ask questions, analyze problems and solve them (Reed et al, 2021). The traditional teacher-centered, passive learning approach no longer meets the teaching context of social development and strong international competitiveness (Ting et al., 2021). PBL (Problem-based learning) is a form of self-directed learning and group discussion that creates a genuine context for students to map out the real world, which contributes to diversifying, differentiating, and stimulating students learning (Almulla, 2020). PBL develops students’ practical skills, cultivates innovative and applied talents, and improves students’ confidence in learning (Ngadiso et al., 2021). PBL uses independent learning and group discussion to create a real-world situation for students, which can develop their learning autonomy, and improve their overall application skills, especially the listening and speaking skills (Quinn, 2019). This pedagogical report tries to design a complete PBL project for high school students in an international school of China to help students be able to use English correctly for intercultural communication by doing PBL tasks. Students can deeply appreciate the differences in word meanings, sentence meanings, associative meanings, metaphorical meanings, and other linguistic phenomena in the two different cultures of the East and the West, to understand culture from the inside and maintain their interest and enthusiasm in learning English. By PBL approach, teachers can help students to mobilize their enthusiasm and initiative for learning and cultivate students’ communicative competence to realize the co-growth of knowledge and competence (Larmer, 2016).

Disfigurement and Deliverance: Eusebian Portrayals of Martyrdom and the Letter of the Churches of Lyons and Vienne

Abstract: This study examines Eusebius’s physical portrayals of martyrs, situating them within his moral and rhetorical agenda in his Ecclesiastical History . To bring the contours of his discourse into greater relief, I first compare Eusebius’s martyr portrayals with those of the Letter of the Churches of Lyons and Vienne (one of the longest ostensibly non-Eusebian martyr narratives in the History ). After noting several minor differences between the descriptions in Eusebius’s martyr stories and those populating the Letter , I highlight one significant discursive disparity: namely, the physiognomic and sartorial details in the Letter tend to emphasize the martyrs’ divine physical restoration and glorification during their ordeals, while Eusebian martyr stories place greater emphasis on the martyrs’ gruesome disfigurement. Having made a case for the Letter ’s distinct deployment of physical details—further suggesting its authorial independence from Eusebius—the remainder of the article focuses on one particular historiographic and pedagogical aim to which Eusebius deploys these grisly martyrological images: amplifying the irrationality and cruelty of persecuting imperial leaders. From the early books of the History , Eusebius frequently catalogues imperial leaders as either pious respecters of the Christians, in step with traditional Roman mores , or impious persecutors, exemplifying their irrationality and lack of imperial virtue. The mangled bodies of the martyrs adorn Eusebius’s History , I argue, at least in part as gruesome monuments to immoral, barbaric leaders. These evil exempla , in turn, provide both an effective foil for the virtuous leadership of Christian-favoring leaders and a stern moral warning for future leaders. At various points in this article, I also bring Eusebius’s earlier narrative, Martyrs of Palestine , into the conversation to demonstrate further the relative stability of Eusebius’s physiognomic portrayals of martyrs.

Rejuvenation of the Arabic Learning Paradigm: Considering Richard Rorty's Idea as an Alternative Education Discourse

The purpose of this study is to show the educational aspects of Richard Rorty's thought that are linked to Arabic language education. This research is a type of document analysis that identifies and selects data in the form of text, then checks, sorts and evaluates the core concepts of Rorty's thinking systematically to be able to understand and interpret it in the context of learning Arabic. The research method used is literature research. Data analysis is carried out through three stages, namely data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawn/verification. The results of the study show that Rorty's Paradigm of Thinking touches on several important aspects about the purpose and method of language teaching. In Rorty's view, the function of language as a means of communication, Rorty emphasizes the role of language as a tool for social interaction and conveying meaning. In language education, Rorty's educational paradigm challenges an approach that focuses on teaching rigid and normative grammar. In addition, he emphasized the importance of education as a social construction process where students not only learn language, but also develop their perspective on the world and the way they interact with others. Thus, Rorty's thinking in relation to language education emphasizes creativity, social and cultural context, as well as a growing understanding of language and meaning.

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine: Collaborating with Extended Reality and Medical Simulation in the Metaverse

Metaverse is a term used to describe a hypothetical shared virtual space where people can interact with a computer-generated environment and each other, and there are multiple metaverses currently being developed by various companies and organizations. Cooperation in the metaverse is at the core of the ongoing digital revolution that impacts the way we design and deliver overall education and training. Medical simulation is a powerful way to deliver education and training, based on the use of technology and other techniques to recreate clinical scenarios for the purpose of teaching and training healthcare professionals and students. This article is about how to involve learners in a metaverse within the medical simulation field. The key questions that we address are as follows: What is the metaverse today? What will it look like in a few years? How do we enhance medical simulation based on cooperation in the metaverse? How do we engage learners with diversity and inclusion?

Research on the Effectiveness of Vocational Education in Special Education School

The importance of vocational education curriculum setting in special education schools cannot be ignored. On the basis of following the teaching purpose, schools need to plan school-based courses conducive to the lifelong development of students according to their own development needs. The curriculum arrangement should take students as the main body, pay attention to their long-term development needs, and provide students with more opportunities for active participation and hands-on practice, so as to cultivate their social practical skills and good habits. The overall teaching arrangement should reflect a scientific, reasonable, holistic, and practical teaching structure. In view of this, this article will analyze the effectiveness of vocational education in special education schools and put forward some strategies for reference.

Study on the Actual and Contingent Integration of Traditional Culture into Higher Vocational Education

By analyzing the historical and contemporary implications of Chinese excellent traditional culture, we analyze the actual and contingent research on the integration of traditional culture into higher vocational education from three aspects: cognitive concept, curriculum and teaching mode. In terms of cognitive concept, there exists instrumental rationalism that emphasizes pragmatism over spiritual connotation; in terms of curriculum, there exists the problem of shallow content and insufficient credit hours; in terms of teaching mode, there exists the deficiency of formalism and lack of teachers. Based on this, from the contingent level, it is proposed to adhere to the people-oriented, top-level design of curriculum ideology and politics; to integrate the combination of excellent traditional culture and professional connotation into the curriculum system; to strengthen the construction of teachers, and to innovate the teaching pedagogy in terms of the teaching purpose, content, implementation, methodology, and evaluation, and other measures. Ultimately, the aim is to achieve a balanced and appropriate development of humanistic and professional aspects of vocational education.

Investigating technology integration in English language instruction from 2018 to 2024: A systematic literature review

In-depth research on the use of technology in English language training from 2018 to 2024 is done in this complete systematic review of the literature. It explores how a wide range of digital tools are changing pedagogical methods and highlights the significance of continued professional growth and assistance. The study features the necessity for strategic implementation in line with pedagogical aims to maximize the influence of technology integration on language learning outcomes by integrating previous research and revealing insights into various approaches to technology integration. The results emphasize a general tendency in favor of digital integration, particularly for preservice teachers. In addition, this research also highlights issues revealing educators' differing degrees of familiarity with technology and the scarcity of resources. In this regard, there is an urgency in the inclusivity of digital language literacy exposure and training whether it can elevate English language teachers’ technology integration.

Subjectivity as the Purpose of Education and Teaching

Subjectivity as the Purpose of Education and Teaching

Australian Teachers’ Voices on Religiosity, Spirituality, and Their Link to Job Satisfaction

This paper is the second of a two-part report on a mixed methods study that examined the job satisfaction of teachers who worked in faith-based schools. In part one (Vodéll, 2023), 11 independent variables were identified through quantitative data analysis that impacted the dependent variable of overall job satisfaction (OJS). This led to the development of a model illustrating the factors influencing OJS. In part two, the teachers’ voices are recorded from an unframed perspective. Qualitative data were collected from a sample that consisted of nine faith-based schools in Australia. A thematic analytical approach was applied to the qualitative data (N = 94), and it was found that three major themes emerged as having a major impact on OJS: People, Processes, and Purpose for Teaching. The data from both sources was then triangulated to integrate the findings using a convergent design process. It was found that religiosity impacted OJS directly and indirectly via the mediating element of spirituality. Also, spirituality itself indirectly influenced OJS via the purpose-for-teaching element. Finally, the data indicated that OJS increased when there were positive relationships (students and colleagues) and perceived organisational efficiency within the workplace.

PolylexFLE

Abstract MWE knowledge is key in the process of learning a foreign language, but its teaching remains hindered by the lack of list of expressions connected to pedagogical aims. In this paper, we present an extended version of the PolylexFLE database, containing 4,525 French multiword expressions (MWE) of three types: idioms, collocations or fixed expressions. In order to propose exercises following the difficulty scale of the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), we used a mixed approach (manual and automatic) to annotate 1,186 expressions according to the CEFR levels. The paper focuses mostly on the automatic procedure that first identifies the expressions from the PolylexFLE database (and their variants) in a corpus of pedagogical texts (with CEFR labels) using a pattern-based system. In a second step, their distribution in this corpus is estimated and transformed into a single CEFR level. The automatic approach proposed is finally evaluated by 52 French as foreign language learners.

Path Exploration of Digital Media Top Talent Training System in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee emphasized in the vision goal of 2035 that it is necessary to build a country with strong education and talent. Building a top-notch talent training system and training a batch of top-notch innovative talents is an important foundation for building a country with strong education and talent. At the same time, the Ministry of Education proposed that virtual simulation experiment teaching is an important content of higher education information construction, and is the product of the deep integration of disciplines and information technology. The purpose of virtual simulation experiment teaching is to improve the innovative spirit and practical skills of college students in an all-round way and to share high-quality experimental teaching resources as the core. Through the new teaching form and novel way of virtual simulation, we can cultivate top-notch talents with high-quality and compound skills. Through the integration of production and education, we can achieve the natural match between the training of higher vocational talents and the needs of talents in the industry and enterprises.

Teaching, Veering, Unlearning

How does teaching veer? In what ways can we tell if a literature lesson veers constructively or otherwise? How do we determine its limits and the correlations between success or failure in our teaching when — individually or collectively — we veer in a novel, a short story or a poem? If veering, as Nicholas Royle argues, can offer us a more dynamic critical vocabulary for reading literary works by developing singular responses to risk, failure, uncertainty and difficulty, then surely it can also be a profitable way to determine the peripheries of pedagogical practice, what we can and cannot expect from the experience of education. Using the example of the short story ‘Powder’ by Tobias Wolff, and the responses from a given class in the specific context of reading this story, this article examines moments of veering and the difficulties of responding responsibly to the vicissitudes of what I will call moments of unlearning. The questions are, can we veer from theories of literature to theories of teaching? Have critique and difficulty (critique as an experience and practice of difficulty) run aground in our current context? Is it time, consequently, to veer away from difficulty as the purpose of teaching and learning? And if so, what would that veering look like as a practical pedagogical action?

Current Situation and Strategy of Integrating Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture into English Reading Teaching in Senior High School

China's excellent traditional culture, which embodies the achievements of thousands of years of civilization, is our most precious treasure. The high school period is a key period for Chinese students to shape their values, and language carries the culture of various countries. Therefore, when learning English, high school students should integrate into the excellent traditional culture of our own country while learning Western culture, so as to achieve the purpose of English teaching. The value of integrating Chinese excellent culture into high school mainly lies in the two aspects of students' English learning and English application, and the path should start from the reform of teaching materials, teachers' quality and class type.

Experience and perspective of teaching of the educations component «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production»

The mandatory component «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production» teaching purpose is complex of knowledge and skills formation and providing future specialists with the opportunity to perform multifaceted functional duties in a highquality manner.
 The aim of the work: study of modern approaches to teaching the educational component «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production» on the example of the National University of Pharmacy.
 During the work was made system analysis of the experience of providing educational services in the National University of Pharmacy according to program «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production» comparative and analytical, statistical, logical method of discipline teaching analysis; was researched scientific publications of domestic and foreign authors.
 It has been proven the relevance of teaching the mandatory educational component «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production» and presented updated structure of the educational process, the experience of teaching the components was analyzed, the need for students to acquire knowledge about the classification of cosmetic products, the mechanisms of action of assets, the influence of auxiliary substances on achieving a given level of action that ensures the planned cosmetic effect, and approaches to the development of the composition and technology of cosmetic products, which forms professional competencies of a domestic pharmacist-cosmetologist specialist, who must be competitive in the professional environment ‒ the public health care system. Motivation of students of higher education by mastering the material content of the normative component, obtaining high results during the control measures of knowledge assessment confirmed the students' sufficient assimilation of theoretical knowledge and acquisition of practical skills that help to achieve the planned goals and tasks that form the program learning outcomes that are the basis of the practical tasks of a modern pharmacist-cosmetologist, and possibly future scientist.
 The analysis of teaching experience (approaches, content, hours) of mandatory component «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production» was carried out and it testifies to that the general and classroom volume of hours, the educational component structure, it’s thematic content are able to form the necessary theoretical knowledge, and practical skills are acquired during industrial practice of educational component «Technology of perfumery and cosmetic products of industrial production» which make professional competence of the future employee, making and expanding his employment opportunities. The place of employment can be not only pharmacies, but also cosmetology establishments and perfumery and cosmetic enterprises that meet the request of employers.

A Tool to Teach Evolution of Protein Sequences and Structures

Computer modeling and protein structure visualization tools are effective and engaging ways of presenting various molecular biology concepts to high school and college students. Here, we describe a series of activities and exercises that use online bioinformatics databases and programs to search for and obtain protein sequence and structure data and use it to build homology models of proteins. Exercises in homology modeling can serve the pedagogical purpose of introducing and illustrating the concept of homology within gene and protein families, which results in conservation of the 3D structures of proteins and allows us to predict structures when experimental data are not available.

Multimodal interpersonal strategies in the new digital genre of clinical pictures: Exploring discourse and pedagogical implications for ESP-EMI team teaching

Science communication is undergoing a digital shift that results in the remediation and emergence of genres that help bring science to expert and semiexpert audiences (Luzón & Pérez-Llantada, 2019, 2022). One such genre is clinical pictures (CPs), which consist of a written and an audiovisual versión of a brief to-the-point presentation of a medical case/condition. This genre, as detailed in this study, may have a clearly stated pedagogical purpose aimed to promote diagnostic expertise. This study explores the structure of CPs, the variety of strategies authors use throughout these CPs to express stance and promote engagement with the audience, and the multimodal configuration of this genre. For this purpose, we draw on a dataset consisting of 10 CPs samples provided by The Lancet. Methodologically, we first conduct a linguistic análisis centred on rhetorical steps and interpersonal strategies, and subsequently, a multimodal analysis to identify the configuration of CPs. Overall, results show the use of interpersonal strategies throughout the two versions/formats, the added value of adopting a multimodal approach to explore data, and the complementarity of the two versions to disseminate medical knowledge among doctors and doctors in training. Pedagogically, the outcomes of the study support the incorporation of this innovative genre in ESP and EMI classes to enhance students’ multimodal literacy.

Comparing educational and dissemination videos in a STEM YouTube channel: A six-year data analysis

Didactic videos have proven to be particularly beneficial for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education challenges. This is due to their contribution to the reduction of the intrinsic cognitive load, as well as fostering connections among subjects to promote generative processing. This fact, together with the wide presence of STEM dissemination videos on YouTube, creates an opportunity both for teachers to focus on dissemination channels to acquire quality materials, and for content creators to develop specific videos aiming to serve as pedagogical aid. Aligned with such reasoning, this paper intends to evaluate the use and performance of a STEM YouTube channel that already publishes didactic videos categorized by intentionality into dissemination or educational. Using owners' data, the channel has been analyzed, considering a six-year extension period, from 2017 to 2022, and distinguishing between the two categories of contents. This dual intention of the channel allows to evaluate the educational use of dissemination channels, compared to their use for curiosity satisfaction. Through Mann-Whitney U and correlation analyses, the main channels’ metrics have been analyzed in terms of awareness (i.e., impressions, views, or subscribers), use (view duration) and interaction (comments, shares, likes or dislikes). Significant differences have been found in the performance of educational and dissemination contents, such as in views (p < 0.001), average view duration (p = 0.044) and likes (p < 0.001). Additionally, video length optimization has been found as a determining parameter influencing video performance, being educational videos more sensitive to this metric than dissemination videos. This study has shown that a STEM YouTube channel of these characteristics can benefit from publishing videos aiming to a pedagogical purpose, increasing its use compared with other STEM dissemination channels only aiming to an entertainment purpose. Additionally, this study supports previous findings that video length optimization is a determinant characteristic for audience retention rate.

The Experiences of Teachers in Teaching Computer Music in Selected Colleges and Universities in Hubei China

This study intends to determine the expectations of teachers as well as the experiences that they have had while teaching computer music composition in a selection of colleges and universities located in the province of Hubei in China. In order to gather the perception of a particular respondent in order to detect a structured pattern, this study will be based on a descriptive correlational research design. A numerical score rating will be issued to each respondent. According to Health Research Funding (2018), quantitative research enables researchers to be objective, collect data quickly, and analyze the data in a statistical format, which can provide a comprehensive perspective of the investigations being conducted. The majority of those who participated in the survey were of the opinion that students are not capable of mastering computer music production technology and need to demonstrate specific knowledge of music theory in order to develop and produce music. There was a significant amount of disagreement among educators regarding the notion that students have become more enthusiastic about participating in learning and that head teachers have already prepared multimedia courseware prior to the start of class. This courseware demonstrates the key points and difficulties involved in theoretical courses, which can directly reach the teaching purpose and optimize the organizational structure of the classroom.