Families,Schools, and Aspirations

The study examined relations between adolescents’ perceptions of school environments and their educational and occupational aspirations at different family environment levels. Data were collected from 16-year-old Australians from Anglo-Australian, Greek, and Southern Italian families. Regression surfaces were constructed from models that examined possible linear, interaction, and curvilinear relations among the variables. Generally, the findings indicate that while the school environment measure had moderate concurrent validities in relation to aspirations, it had either negligible or modest unique associations with aspirations after taking into account the family environment influences. The study did indicate, however, ethnic group differences in the relationships among the variables which suggests that results from investigations of family-school influences on children’s school outcomes should not necessarily be generalized across social groups.     

Schools, skills and risk

Skill development involves important choices for individuals and school designers: should individuals and schools specialise, or should they aim for an optimal combination of skills? We analyse this question by employing mean–standard deviation analysis and show how cost structure, benefit structure and risk attitudes jointly determine the optimal investment strategy. With combined data from DOT and CPS, we establish an upward sloping mean–variance opportunity frontier in skills space.     

学校:学生的乐园?

学校本应是学生的乐园。但在当代学校教育中,学生的自身成长不再是学校活动的主要目的,教育内容也不是按照学生成长的需要来设定,教育方法更是简单、失当,学生为日益失去应有的快乐,而倍感压抑和苦恼。     

Schools, families and children's achievements

Investigations of children's learning contexts have typically shown that, in relation to family environments, school measures have weak associations with children's achievements. Much of the research is restricted, however, by an inadequate conceptualization of both contexts or, if one of the environments is assessed by proximal social-psychological variables, then the other is generally defined by gross social indicators. In the present study a selective evaluation of prior environmental investigations is presented. Then two analyses are considered which attempt to overcome some of the restrictions of previous research. In the two studies regression surfaces are plotted to examine relations between school environments and children's achievements at different family environment levels, with both environments defined by proximal social-psychological variables.     

Schools,social capital and space

This paper reports on the significance of social capital in relation to education, exploring its relevance to teachers and other professionals as well as among young people. It draws on aspects of five case studies undertaken by the Schools and Social Capital Network, within the Applied Educational Research Scheme in Scotland. These case studies focused on: an Inclusive Learning Network of teachers and parents of disabled children and young people concerned with inclusion; students from refugee families in one primary and one secondary school, working in association with Asylum Seekers Support Project units; young participants in a local authority youth club; independent (private) schools and a Get Ready for Work Programme. A framework for accounting for bonding, bridging and linking social capital as practices was developed and space was an emergent theme from these case studies.     

全纳教育、全纳学校、全纳社会

全纳教育是一个全新的教育理念 ,也是国际教育研究的一个新领域。全纳教育的理念需要全纳学校来实践 ,因而全纳学校是不同于以往的普通学校和特殊学校、也不同于后来的一体化学校 ,它是一种新型的教育模式 ,在教育、社会、经济方面均具有极大意义。全纳教育理念和全纳学校实践的目的是要促进形成一种追求社会公正、机会平等和民主参与的全纳社会。为此 ,在现存社会中对阻碍这种追求的任何障碍都应该加以确认、质疑和消除。全纳教育的理念指导我们实施全纳学校 ,全纳学校的实践促使我们走向全纳社会。     

'Lookism', Common Schools, Respect and Democracy

The Common School should promote a sense of the distinctive worth of all human beings. How is the respect thus owed to every individual to be properly understood? This familiar question is explored by discussing ‘lookism’, a form of discrimination on the grounds of appearance. The treatment is located within a wider analysis of stereotyping. Ultimately stereotyping overlooks persons as sources of actions with moral significance and as potential owners of moral virtues. The Common School could profitably approach traditionally emotive issues such as racism indirectly by helping students to understand in some depth how ‘lookist’ attitudes deny agency. It could then encourage students to apply these insights to traditional forms of discrimination.     

论私立学校也是弱势群体

本文讨论了私立学校存在和发展的法律依据,着重分析了影响我国私立教育发展的制度性原因.同时,文章还探讨了民工子女教育和私立学校的关系.作者不赞成目前一些城市公立学校扩大招收民工子女比例的做法,认为应该保护弱小的私立教育,使民工子女和私立学校都能摆脱弱势群体的困境.