scholarly journals Study on Cultivating College Students' English Autonomous Learning Ability under the Flipped Classroom Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Yanxia Du
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
College English ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Self Learning

Since the 21st century, the cultivation and improvement of college students' English autonomous learning ability have become an important symbol of deepening the reform of College English teaching. The reform of teaching model is the critical to it. With the help of the self-constructed flipped classroom teaching model, this paper designs the corresponding teaching process, aiming at investigating the three dimensions of self-management learning ability, self-learning psychology and self-learning behavior of non-English majors. After the investigation and experiment on the control class and the experimental class for the whole semester, the experimental results show that the self-regulated learning model of College English based on the flipped classroom can greatly improve the comprehensive English level of College students, and the flipped classroom teaching model of College English can effectively improve the students' self-management learning ability, stimulate students 'motivation of autonomous learning and activate students' autonomous learning behavior. Thus, it opens up a new path for the cultivation of College Students 'autonomous learning ability.

scholarly journals Does an Upcycling Kimono Practice Support Recycle-Oriented Cultural Sustainability? Japanese College Students’ Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Minako McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Resources ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
Product Recycling

Kimono (a traditional Japanese garment worn by women) has played an important role in Japanese indigenous cultural origins. Ecological and sustainable ideas have inherently existed in kimono culture within this lifestyle. Since the United Nations announced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the Japanese government has focused on creating healthy spaces with a sustainable direction in mind. However, textile-related product recycling rates were relatively low in Japan at the time. This empirical study used SDGs as a conceptual framework to examine Japanese college students’ perceptions of kimono upcycling practices and challenges. A mixed method was used to analyze the data. An open-ended questionnaire was distributed to college students in June 2019 in Liberal Arts at a national women’s university (n=155). The findings showed that interest in kimono upcycling moderately correlated to those and an interest in western garments upcycling (.578; p<.01). The relationship between these variables was significant (Chi-square: 48.471; p <.001). In the qualitative analysis, a coding method was used to explore common themes of students’ awareness and knowledge of upcycling kimono practices and found four strong themes to be present. The students perceived that upcycled kimono items connected to preserving family memories, whereas others noted upcycled items were used for sustainable resources. Also, three common challenges were found: practicality, technical issues, and people’s awareness. Some students also associated items with Japanese cultural preservation. College students’ attitudes and perceptions towards cultural sustainability engagement could therefore be a crucial mediator during sustainable development drives.

scholarly journals Effective Teaching and Activities of Excellent Teachers for the Sustainable Development of Higher Design Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Chen Lai ◽  
Li-Hsun Peng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Quality Teaching ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
High Quality Education

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is regarded as a key element of high-quality education. Hence, the United Nations proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, in an attempt to achieve the harmony and shared prosperity between humans and the Earth, and advocate for fair and high-quality education. With the aim of exploring “high-quality sustainable teaching”, this study intends to probe into the idea and meaning of the high-quality design education for sustainable development and elaborate on the teaching effectiveness and sustainable teaching activities by the teachers of higher design education. According to the research results, the effectiveness of high-quality teaching is introduced in seven categories, as follows: (1) Faith in sustainability in teaching, (2) the trend of talent demand, (3) the teaching value of sustainability, (4) curriculum mapping, (5) teaching approach, (6) teaching evaluation, (7) the sustainable management of teaching development. The factors of high-quality teaching include: The teacher has passion for teaching, the teacher pays attention to the student’s independent learning ability, the teacher intrigues student’s interest in learning, the teacher places emphasis on furnishing the student with professionalism and confidence, the teacher highlights learning through doing to increase the student’s competitiveness in the job fair, the teacher reviews teaching effectiveness and makes progress in pursuing the value of high-quality ESD.

scholarly journals Awareness and Attitude of College Students Majoring in Landscape Architecture towards the Sustainable Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5464
Author(s):  
Soyoung Han ◽  
Yoonku Kwon
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Latent Classes ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Courses

Reflecting the interest in sustainable development (SD), researches on the attitude toward SD have been steadily conducted for various groups. To explore the characteristics of awareness and attitude of college students majoring in landscape architecture towards the concept of SD, this study has two research questions; to analysis latent classes according to the learning participation pattern (research question 1), and to explore student characteristics that influence the classification of each classes (research question 2). The latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify the combination of relationships found in the classes based on similar patterns among the characteristics of people rather than the relationship between observed variables. A total of 495 students majoring in landscape architecture, 222 males and 275 females, are participated in this study. The results of this study are as follows. First, six latent classes were extracted in relation to attitudes toward SD. Second, college students majoring in landscape architecture tend to view the concept of SD from an ‘environmental’ and ‘environmental and economic harmony’ point of view rather than from an ‘environmental, social, and economic’ point of view. Third, grades and educational experiences were found to have a significant effect on the probability of belonging to a specific latent class for SD. Finally, based on these results, we suggest a method for organizing interdisciplinary courses to comprehensively access the ‘environmental, social and economic’ areas of the curriculum.

scholarly journals Study on the strategy of improving self-learning ability of College Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Liu Ziyu ◽  
Xiao Jing
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Self Learning

College students are the main force of social development and construction in China, and at present, autonomous learning is an important topic in higher education research. Therefore, mastering autonomous learning ability is very important for contemporary college students. This paper discusses the reasons that affect college students' self-learning from the aspects of schools, teachers, students and society, and gives the strategies and measures to enhance the self-learning ability of college students according to reasons. It provides useful reference for quality colleges and universities to cultivate students.

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