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{"title":"Efficient English Learning for Chinese Pupils: Integrate Children’s Songs Into English Teaching Based on Cognitive Neuroscience","authors":"W. Yuqiu, Liu Wenyan","doi":"10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"The study shows that Chinese school oral English teaching is inefficient. Chinese have the tradition of reciting with rhythms, movements, and meditation, which has been proved efficient for language learning and memory. The values of children’s songs for English learning are analyzed based on neuroscience. The positive emotion and confidence for pupils’ English learning are highlighted. A project-based teacher education ecosystem is practised aided by new media. We try to integrate songs into English teaching to improve the learning efficacy and to use children’s familiar melodies to create their own songs.","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124673578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Educational Equity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence—Taking the Construction of Rural Teachers as an Example","authors":"Wang Yao","doi":"10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"There are some problems in the construction of rural teachers in the era of artificial intelligence: (a) obvious dualization of resource allocation; (b) shortage of teacher resources; (c) the irrationality of subject structure; and (d) professional quality are not high. Correspondingly, the upsurge in the era of artificial intelligence is used to optimize resource allocation and bridge the digital divide. Promote the two-way flow of urban and rural teachers and realize the integration of urban and rural teachers. The university cooperation linkages optimizes the discipline structure and improves the training mechanism of rural teachers, promote the professional quality of rural teachers and other ways to promote the construction of rural teachers so as to promote educational equity.","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132859823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Censorship out Classroom Instruction in: A Case Study of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People","authors":"A. Azodo","doi":"10.17265/2161-6248/2020.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-6248/2020.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"ideas. “Hospital” in this novel can represent a shelter, a refuge, for in it, Odili gets the needed space to rethink his life and map out a new direction going forward after his showdown with Chief Nanga. “Cadillac” can symbolize at once opulence and decadence amidst the starvation of the common people. These are by no means conventional symbols, because they do not have a pre-established meaning attached to them. They are rather created or invented symbols in the context, with the meanings attributed or attributable to them in the novel. With “name symbolism,” the teacher has opportunity to teach about personal behavior, character, and the importance of making a good name. For William Shakespeare, character and good behavior are worth more than a name, name which for him was nothing more than merely a way to distinguish one thing or a person from another. However, in the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet could care less whether Romeo was a Montague and she a Capulet; she loved him any way despite the hostility between the two families: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.” Chinua Achebe, for his part, ironically employs first name symbolism to denounce social ills, through naming some of his characters after Biblical or Hebrew antecedents. The corrupt Minister of Culture, Chief Micah Nanga, is not the Biblical prophet Micah, who denounced oppression and was angered by the conquest of Judah by Babylon. The rapacious businessman, Josiah, is not the Josiah who became King of Judah at eight years of age after his father was assassinated, and later carried out religious reforms for which he became famous. Hezekiah Samalu, though, was loved by friends and foes, much like the thirteenth King of Judah, Hezekiah, who found favor with God and was accorded fifteen extra years of life after a very serious illness could have killed him. Achebe’s women also find favor with the narrator. Mrs. Margaret Nanga’s behavior is close to that of the Biblical Margaret, Patron of expectant mothers, whose name means “Pearl.” Edna, young and beautiful, approaches her biblical counterpart, the mother of Sarah in Tobit whose name meant “delight,” “rejuvenation,” “pleasure,” or “youthfulness.” Eunice, who fights the murderers of her fiancé, Max, stoically goes to jail, and is finally exonerated and freed, and comes close to the biblical woman without hypocrisy, who was good, and joyous in victory. Mrs. Eleanor John, who is named for historical Eleanor, shows her own brand of “brightness” in explaining the difficult position of a minister; with Achebe’s tongue in his cheek about this, of course (Achebe, 1967, pp. 14-15). Then, the learned Barrister Mrs. Agnes Akilo, “She who must be obeyed,” I thought much afterwards about that proverb, about the man taking things away until the owner at last notices. In the mouth of our people there was no greater condemnation. It was not just a simple question of a man’s cup being full. A man’s cu","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123890930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Enlightenment of the Moral Education Thought of Comenius on Early Childhood Education","authors":"Zhu Yonghua, Xiao Jumei","doi":"10.17265/2161-6248/2020.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-6248/2020.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129099371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reform and Practice of the “Kindergarten Environment Creation” Course Under the Blended Teaching Mode","authors":"Feng Fang","doi":"10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121046303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stillness Speaks—An Analysis of Non-Verbal Behavior of Primary School Teachers","authors":"Li Xueqian, Xiao Jumei","doi":"10.17265/2161-6248/2020.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-6248/2020.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"In addition to using language to transmit knowledge to students, the non-verbal behaviors of primary school teachers, such as teachers’ attitude and body-posture, also transmit different information to students, presenting multi-dimensional values: establishing students’ behavior norms, stimulating students’ learning motivation, and building a harmonious relationship between teachers and students; in order to further optimize the classroom non-verbal behaviors of primary school teachers, we should improve the unity of non-verbal behavior and give full play to the flexibility of non-verbal behavior.","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121502009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experiential Learning in Secondary Education Chemistry Courses: A Significant Life Experiences Framework","authors":"Bradley C. Allf, Jesse B. Pinkman, Walter H. White","doi":"10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623x/2020.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"Significant life experiences (SLE), a framework first put forward by Thomas Tanner, is a well-known model for understanding attitudes and perceptions about the environment as ascertained through environmental education (EE) programs. The SLE framework posits that early positive experiences in the environment are strongly correlated with later pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors in adulthood. According to the model, these early experiences facilitate this change through “experiential” learning, as opposed to formal learning experiences in a classroom, or even informal learning. While the SLE framework is often used within the EE literature, it is rarely used to model behavior and learning in the classroom setting. Here, we present a new use of the theory to model experiential learning in a high school chemistry course. We present evidence that a new model of SLE being used experimentally by faculty at a high school in New Mexico has led to significant learning gains among students. Specifically, we find evidence that low-achieving students may particularly benefit from this new model of teaching chemistry in the secondary education setting through the “hands-on” process of manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine (N-methyl amphetamine). While this study cohort is small, the authors believe that the findings presented herein may demonstrate the value of SLE and experiential learning within the broader science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education field (theory) and pedagogy (practice).","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121774107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reforming Chinese Teacher Education: Findings from Training Program of Multiple-Subject Elementary School Teachers in Rural Northwestern China","authors":"Qingyun Wu, Mi Zhou, Hui-ming Zhou, Wenfan Yan","doi":"10.17265/2161-623x/2020.03.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623x/2020.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"This research analyzed the lack of education practical competency and training curriculum in teacher education, redefined two core concepts: the educational practical competency and the multiple-subject elementary school teacher. Based on these analysis and definition, this study divided the educational practical competency into three level: basic competency, key competency, and external competency. According to the education practice theory, this study divides the multiple-subject elementary school teachers’ educational practical competency into three parts: the practice to learning the practical wisdom, the practice to communicate with others, and the practice to reflect oneself. Through these review, this study designed three rounds of action research to find a practical way to promote students’ educational practical competency, combined with the action research, the classroom observation, classroom interaction, and focused group interview. This cyclic openness process is renovated every round and reach the developing goal, at last finds some reformations of teacher education in rural Northwestern China.","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124409089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethical Considerations in Undertaking Research in Higher Education: East African Context","authors":"D. Kessio, J. Chang’ach","doi":"10.17265/2161-6248/2020.03.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-6248/2020.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"It is incumbent upon educational researchers to ensure that they uphold ethical considerations while conducting their studies for the findings to be trustworthy and valid. This paper enumerated ethical consideration in data collection, principal ethical issues in human subject, identified ethical concerns in report writing and presentations, and established emerging internet research and ethical research practice. The target population was international students enrolled in selected universities in Uganda. The study adopted a mixed methods design. The method for sampling adopted was both random and purposive. The Cronbach’s alpha results obtained from the solutions statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) platform output were 0.8432, which was considerably reliable for the study. The research instruments included questionnaires, interview schedule, focused group discussions (FGD), and document analysis. The key informants were interviewed and documents were coded and analyzed thematically. The study revealed the key ethical considerations adhered in data collection, ethical issues in human subjects not often followed and; guidelines for report writing and final presentations. Results from the study would be of significance to researchers, practitioners and policy makers as they conduct studies within evolving educational context.","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133546409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rasch Analysis for Electric Circuits","authors":"Rubén Sánchez-Sánchez, C. Mora, M. Rodríguez","doi":"10.17265/2161-623x/2020.03.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623x/2020.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"We show some results on physics education research about rasch analysis and active learning for electrical circuits with high school students, developed in one school of Mérida, Yucatán at the South of México. The active learning methodologies are important, because there are good results in the literature about their implementation in different educational levels. Besides, it is a way to innovate the physics class, unfortunately in the Latin America region their effectiveness has been little studied. This brief report sheds more light on the matter. ∗","PeriodicalId":159185,"journal":{"name":"US-China education review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124464885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}