孙二军、王嘉铭主编的《教育文论选读》的设计理念与编写特点主要体现在以下几个方面，即“方向明、特色强、选材精、设计活、内容全”。“方向明”强调英语教师教育人才培养的适用性，在教材的编写中突出“复合型”、“应用性”和“实践性”的课程开发方向；“特色强”强调在教材编写中突出“英语+教育”的融合与兼顾，突出英语语言素养与教育素养的双重提升；“选材精”强调题材内容、体裁类型的多样性和教育内涵的丰富性，重视教材对学生未来专业发展的知识引领；“设计活”强调学生的学习兴趣和学习习惯，在教材编写中加大互动性、趣味性的教学环节；“内容全”强调教材编写要围绕教育名家、教育热点问题、学生发展、教师发展、英语学习、英语教学等方面，向学生呈现出较为系统化的教育主题学习。

本教材在编写之初就确立了创新、求变的思路，经过课题组成员的共同调研和思考最终形成了以ESP(特殊用途英语)为基本理论，结合CBI(内容依托教学)和现代教育理念的课程教材建设思路，并在教材编写中不断实践和创新。

上篇

Unit 1 Educators Philosophies and Learning Theories

 Introduction: Nature of Learning

 Text A: Of Studies

 Text B: What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?

 Text C: The Differences between Learning by Instruction and Learning by Discovery

 Learning Skills: Library Skills

Unit 2 My Perspectives on Education between China and America

 Introduction: Defining Comparative Education: Conceptions

 Text A: Re-education

 Text B: The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions

 Text C: Is College Really Worth the Money?

 Learning Skills: Oral Presentation

Unit 3 Education and Students' Development

 Introduction: Student Diversity

 Text A: MI(Multiple Intelligence), IT (In Structional Technology) and Standards: The Story of Jamie

 Text B: The Man Who Couldn't Forget: the Story of Solomon's Memory

 Text C: The Boy Who Needed to Play: The Story of Dibs

 Learning Skills: Academic Report Skills I

Unit 4 English Language and Learning

 Introduction: Learning English

 Text A: Mother Tongue

 Text B: Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Second Language Acquisition from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive System

 Text C: Development: Some General Principles

 Learning Skills: Academic Report Skills II

Unit 5 Learning Model-Cooperative Learning

 Introduction:What Is Happening to Cooperative Learning?

 Text A: Cooperative Learning: What Makes Group work Work?

 Text B: "The Union Is Unbroken"March 4, 1861

 Text C: To Save the Union：1861—1863 Moving toward Emancipation

 Learning Skills: Cooperative Learning Skills

下篇

Unit 6 Educators Philosophies

 Introduction: Early Teaching Models

 Text A: My Pedagogic Creed

 Text B: Jerome Bruner: The Lesson of the Story

 Text C: Curriculum Development from a Constructivist Perspective

 Learning Skills: Note-taking Skills

Unit 7 My Perspectives on Education from Pedagogies to Globalization

 Introduction: Education and Globalization: Some Hypotheses

 Text A: Tiger Moms: Is Tough Parenting Really the Answer?

 Text B: The Tutorial System: The Jewel in the Crown

 Text C: Education, the Nation-State, and Global Movement

 Learning Skills: Critical Reading Skills I

Unit 8 Education: Teachers' Development

 Introduction: Defining Teaching and Teacher Education

 Text A: The Novice Teacher: Armed and Dangerous—— A Cautionary Tale

 Text B: Teaching Teachers: Professional Development to Improve Student Achievement

 Text C: An Education President for the 21st Century

 Learning Skills: Critical Reading Skills II

Unit 9 English Language and Teaching

 Introduction: Approaches to Language Learning and Teaching

 Text A: Illiteracy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the Inability to Write

 Text B: TESOL in China: Current Challenges

 Text C: From Reading to Writing, from Elementary to Graduate Students

 Learning Skills: Academic Writing Skills

Unit 10 Learning Model-inquiry Learning

 Introduction: Bibliography of Henry VIII

 Text A: Handling Henry VIII

 Text B: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

 Text C: Who Were the Early Reformers in England?

 Learning Skills: Inquiry Learning Skills

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