A Report On The Translation Of A Will To Learn:Being A Student In An Age Of Uncertainty

A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty is written by Professor Ronald Barnett who is regarded as a leading figure in the territory of higher education of contemporary Britain.The writer focuses on studying a series of problems such as the origin of the students' will to learn and the ways of keeping the will working.Professor Ronald Barnett has a strong interest in researching different aspects of higher education including students,teachers,curriculum system,educational philosophy and teaching methods,which has made very important contributions to the global educational field.Because of the prevailing insecurity and fierce competition in our contemporary world,education has been viewed as an important standard to measure a country's comprehensive strength and has been paid increasing attention by people.Scholars and experts around the world have made great efforts on the study of education involving wide area and a variety of research achievements have been produced by them.It is easy for us to observe such a phenomenon in higher education that the vast majority of students are able to overcome different difficulties to keep studying until they finish their school work.However,the reasons and the essence behind the phenomenon have rarely been studied.Students adhere to finish school because they have a spontaneous power from their inner heart,namely a will to learn.Holding this kind of power,students can make themselves move forward on their journey of learning.They can also face up to various challenges bravely as well as overcome all the difficulties positively so that they will be able to obtain great success eventually.Professor Ronald Barnett adopts several philosophical principles like ontology,empiricism and transcendentalism with simple examples to profoundly explain the reasons and conditions of the students' will.This book is a non-literary informative text with several outstanding features,for instance,a lot of long and difficult sentences,strong philosophical nature,rigorous language,clear logic and representative cases.Through the translating of this book,the writer has accumulated a good deal of experience and the writer's expertise has been also broadened.Meanwhile,the writer also has a deeper understanding of contemporary educational concepts.The report is consisted of five main parts.By using the Functional Equivalence Theory proposed by Eugene Nida,the writer analyzes some typical problems mainly from lexical level and syntactic level.The first part introduces the major reasons to translate this text,including the background of this translation practice process and the purposes as well as the important significance of translating the book.The second part is about the description of the translation task.In this part,the writer introduces the research field studied by Professor Ronald Barnett and simply illustrates the type and main features of this book.At the same time,different kinds of translation tools and relevant arrangement in this practice process are also described.The third part is about theory framework of this translation report.The writer introduces the content and principles of the Functional Equivalence Theory and the skills used in this report in details.The fourth part is mainly about the application of the Functional Equivalence Theory in this practice process.The writer demonstrates some examples to analyze by using the theory from lexical level and syntactic level.The fifth part is conclusion.In this part,the writer mainly summarizes the experience gained in the translation practice,also including the difficulties encountered in the process of translation as well as the writer's own deficiencies and so on.