In view of students’ weak professional knowledge reserve and insufficient opportunities for teaching practicum, as well as out-of-date instructional mode and limited morals and values education resources, this study takes the English-major graduate course “Foreign Language Teaching: Theories and Practices” as an example to explore the implementation paths of integrating the morals and values education into the whole process of teaching. The course design is optimized with a problem-oriented in-c...

Educational Reform  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

The great German poet, thinker, and distinguished aesthetic theorist Schiller pointed out in his most important aesthetic work “Letters on Aesthetic Education” that human nature can be transformed and elevated through aesthetic education. The transformation of eras and societies can be achieved through the means of artistic beauty, rather than violent revolutions. This article will analyze Schiller’s thoughts on aesthetic education, thereby discovering the artistic value of beauty, understanding...

Higher Education 

The relationship between maternal employment and the academic performance of adolescents has been a subject of growing interest, particularly in India, where traditional family structures and evolving economic roles of women intersect with educational outcomes. Maternal employment refers to the labor force affiliation of mothers with children 0 - 18 years. This term, however, includes a wide variety of labor force participation patterns, from full-time work to part-time work, including contract ...

Psychology  Higher Education 

This conceptual study explores the integration and application of digital literacy (DL) in the training of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) preservice teachers at Chinese normal universities. It reflects on the current digital competencies of preservice teachers, the challenges they face in integrating technology into their pedagogy, and the effectiveness of existing teacher preparation programs (TPPs) in fostering essential digital skills. By critically analyzing the alignment of teacher tra...

Language Education  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

The article presents the process of conceptualization, design, and production of immersive resources, as well as the results of their implementation and evaluation of an experience with immersive technologies at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Educational innovation is presented in the form of technology-aid “time travel” to provide students with an evolutionary vision of the origin of the concepts of Citizenship and Democracy. Immersive learning allows the students to have the feeling of being part o...

Educational Reform  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

This study explored the intercultural contact of a cohort of undergraduate students within the framework of the Sino-German study program at a double first-class construction university in Shanghai through an online anonymous survey. It found that these students’ intercultural contact was achieved mainly through indirect contact, among which the indirect cultural product contact and indirect interpersonal contact were the most frequent, whilst the direct oral contact and written contact were rel...

Sociology  Higher Education 

This study conducted a questionnaire survey to collect 202 college students’ perspectives on the washback effect of the listening test of College English Test Band 4 (CET4) on students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) and used SPSS 25.0 for data analysis. The findings indicate that a majority of the participants agree that the CET 4 listening test has a positive washback effect on their SRL attitudes, learning approaches, and learning habits. Additionally, some participants believed that the diffi...

Higher Education 

Music education plays an important role in cultivating students’ aesthetic ability and emotional expression ability in primary and secondary school education. Music, as an art, can inspire students’ aesthetic perception and understanding of beauty. The specific school music teaching practice is closely related, and the arrangement of teaching content, the choice of teaching method and the design of teaching process are all guided by the curriculum standards. From the three directions of curricul...

Higher Education 

Open universities are currently in a phase of active transformation, inte-grating into society through education, research, service, and other ave-nues to strengthen their social service functions and enhance social par-ticipation. Faced with challenges in the transformation of social service connotations and functions, as well as difficulties in quantifying social benefits, open universities need to adhere to social orientation, strengthen partnerships, emphasize practicality and community inte...

Higher Education 

Young people are the future of the motherland, and educating them on core values is related to the future and development prospects of the country. Both the Chinese and Singaporean governments attach great importance to the education of core values for young people. This paper analyzes the characteristics of the core values of young people in Singapore, in order to enlighten the education of core values for young people in our country.

Language Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Higher Education