Recapturing a Usable Past: Knowledge and Skills in the High School American History Curriculum

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry N. Scheiber
2020 ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
K. V. Rozov

The article presents the structure, content and results of approbation of the C++ programming course developed for the 10th grade students of physics and mathematics profile and implemented as part of the academic subject “Informatics”. The aim of the course is to develop in the student not only knowledge and skills in programming, but also his algorithmic culture and programming culture as important qualities of a potential IT-specialist. This is facilitated by special control of educational process by the teacher, which consists in monitoring the activities of students in writing programs and timely correction of this activity. The assessment of the level of development of student algorithmic culture and programming culture relative to the basic level of their formation (when mastering the basics of algorithmization and programming in the 9th grade) was carried out on the basis of a number of criteria presented in the article. The results of approbation showed that the specially organized teacher activity makes it possible to increase the level of algorithmic culture and programming culture of high school students when studying the basics of programming in C++.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-130
Author(s):  
Vladimir Stolojan

The last two years of Ma Ying-jeou's (Ma Yingjiu) presidency saw the eruption of a controversy surrounding proposed revisions to the high school history curriculum. Although not the first time that the subject of history has exacerbated the tensions between holders of a China-centred view of Taiwan's history and those favouring a more Taiwan-centred approach, this crisis, which took place mainly between 2014 and 2015, was undoubtedly the fiercest witnessed by the Taiwanese society in the sphere of educational issues. By putting the 2014–2015 dispute into perspective through a review of the different attempts made by the pro-Taiwan independence Chen Shui-bian (Chen Shuibian) and the pro-unification Ma Ying-jeou governments to edit the history curriculum, this article will underline the specificities of this particular controversy. This contribution will, therefore, help to shed new light not only on the perception of Taiwan's history promoted by the Ma administration, but also the policy-making process which characterised the last years of Ma's presidency.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Mohammed H. S. Al Ashry (Ashry)

Colleges in Saudi Arabia receive many college applicants with all sorts of high-school education, knowledge and skills. A large percentage of these applicants have a weak background in the English language, math and science. As a result, most Saudi Universities have a precollege year labeled the preparatory year. During this year accepted applicants are scrutinized to weed out the less qualified, and prepare those with limited deficiencies for college. It is important for a freshman to acknowledge his/her lacking and or lagging in any of the mentioned fields above. Such recognition facilitates the learning process for those who realize their deficiencies. This paper presents samples of a course structure that meets the needs of those with inadequate background in all or two of the three mentioned subjects. The paper offers examples of two curriculum courses in the two main topics, English and math, and suggests a basic curriculum set of courses for the physics discipline. The first semester introduces fundamental material in the two subjects, with more in depth intermediate courses in the second semester. The paper presents a few simple examples for both semesters.


Author(s):  
Tetiana Molchanova

Relevance of the study. The article analyzes the state of contemporary art culture with an emphasis on the modernization of special vocational education and the determination of the priority of a competent approach to the training of a competitive specialist. The concept of «vocal coach» is introduced. The conditions focused on updating the motivated direction of obtaining this profile in the context of continuity of the pianist-concertmaster’ training are revealed and substantiated. The content and methods of purposeful acquisition of immanent knowledge and skills of «vocal coach» are considered, which ensures the use of all resource possibilities of the learning process. The purpose of the article is to outline the algorithm of mastering the relevant knowledge and skills that are the basic concept of obtaining the specialty «vocal coach». Methodology. The methodology of system analysis was applied, which combined the following methods: analytical (thorough research of the process of preparing the musician of this profile in the scientific articles of world music literature on this specialty); comparative (for consideration of theoretical questions in order to determine the essence and structure of the specialty «vocal coach»); hermeneutical (in the interpretation of the concepts of the specialty «vocal coach» and a number of formulations that make it possible to differentiate the analysis of phenomena associated with this performative variety) and observational (observation and self-observation method) (own pedagogical analysis and experiment : analysis of the educational process in the classes of chamber classics (zespόł kameralny) of the music educational institutions of Poland (Wroclaw, Katowice, Częstochowa), the music department «Misgav High School» (Israel), the introduction of the masters of the Lviv Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy in the concertmaster class of the vocal coach course with the study of foreign languages (4 modules), the basics of vocal at the department of solo and chamber singing (due to pedagogical practice as a vocalist-beginner). Conclusions. The necessity of revising the directions of training for a pianist-concertmaster in Ukrainian high school musical institutions in the context of professional continuity of this musician has been stated. On the basis of the argumentation of the need to prepare vocal coach, an algorithm for acquiring the relevant knowledge and skills that are fundamental to this profile is determined. The concept of training vocal coach as a special course or a training course is offered. The introduction of the course is dictated by the urgent need to prepare a competitive specialist.


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