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Daffodils bloom and chocolate eggs melt as the long Easter weekend draws near. Alongside such pleasures is another, equally seas
Daffodils bloom and chocolate eggs melt as the long Easter weekend draws near. Alongside such pleasures is another, equally seas
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2016-07-10
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Daffodils bloom and chocolate eggs melt as the long Easter weekend draws near. Alongside such pleasures is another, equally seasonal: the annual outpouring from the teaching unions’ conferences , whose massed pedagogues can always be relied on to provide a few news stories to delight the headline writers.
Guaranteed are lamentations about parents and pupils, both inferior to those of yesteryear in various, not always consistent, ways. Fairly standard attempts to blame the raw materials rather than inadequate workmen, but these moans are given a ready hearing because they confirm the fears of many readers(and not a few editors)that the nation’s moral fibre is in shreds.
Also lapped up are the crazy conference motions, such as the proposal in 2007 for a curriculum based on fancy "skills" rather than fusty "knowledge". Union activists in most walks of life are well to the left of those they represent, and teaching-union loyalists are no exception. But such stories resonate because they fit the widespread stereotype of teachers as sandal-wearing, Guardian-reading lefties. It is one that has little evidence to back it up. The Guardian is indeed the profession’s favourite newspaper, but not by miles. And teachers, tendency to vote Labour is of recent origin, and may not last.
In the run-up to the 1979 election that brought Margaret Thatcher to victory, most teachers told pollsters they intended to vote Conservative. When in 1987 they defected, disillusioned by low spending on schools, they turned first to the Liberal-Social Democratic Party Alliance, the third party, before coming round to the charms of Tony Blair. In 1997, fifty-nine percent intended to vote Labour, nearly four times more than fancied the Tories. But fewer have voted Labour in each subsequent election. In 2008, the Times Education Supplement found overwhelming disapproval among teachers of Labour’s school policies and a shift in voting intentions.
Teaching is in some ways a natural job for the conservatively inclined. Like the police, teachers see too much of human nature to remain starry-eyed. And even the dogged idealists privately admit that traditional right-wing policies, such as physical punishment and academic selection, would make their jobs easier.
But teachers’ politics are also shaped by those who train them and by the nature of the work. Both are changing. While teachers were voting Tory in 1979, education academics were intoxicated with child-centred education and discovery learning, and were turning out new teachers in that mould. The academics are still pretty left-leaning, but nearly a quarter of new teachers now train in schools rather than universities, up from a handful ten years ago. All are coming to grips with a very different profession: one shaped by a national curriculum with tests and targets.
It can be concluded from the last paragraph that
选项
A、teachers’ training has been improved in the past ten years.
B、teachers are politically inclined towards left-wing policies.
C、child-centered education and discovery learning tend to be out of date.
D、influence of academic training on new teachers has been lessened.
答案
D
解析
推理题。题目问的是“从最后一段可以总结出什么?”。从最后一段最后两句“The academics are still pretty left—leaning,but nearly a quarter of new teachers now train in schools rather thanuniversities,up from a handful ten years ago.All are coming to gripswith a very different profession:one shaped by a national curriculumwith tests and targets.”可知,培训教师是在十年前就有所提高,而不是在过去的十年里提高的,故排除A项。“The academics arestill pretty left-leaning,”,教师在学术上左倾,并不是在政治上左倾,故排除B项。由最后一段第三句“While teachers were votingTory in 1979,education academics were intoxicated with child—cen—tred education and discovery learning,and were turning out newteachers in that mould.”看出以孩子为中心的教学方式不会过时,故排除C项。综合第四段,学术训练的影响逐渐在减弱,故选D。
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