It was the Best of Times...

<正>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch     

Editorial: A Vision of a Fair and Efficient,Diverse and Inclusive,Cumulative Science of Child Development in the Best and Worst of Times

If you have come here in search of the submission requirements at Child Development, this is perhaps not the editorial you are looking for. Consider visiting instead our revised instructions to authors . Nor does this essay simply detail the priorities of the incoming board and the initiatives we will be implementing over the next 6 years, though these are summarized in Table 1. Rather, this editorial was written to articulate clearly the scientific values underlying current plans and policies at the journal in support of publishing the highest quality and highest impact research on child development. I emphasize two interrelated themes: (a) our plans for continuing to emphasize and enhance diversity and inclusion in research on child development and (b) our policies that remove impediments to cumulative developmental science. Discussion focuses primarily on how we are incentivizing efforts to achieve these widely held yet too often neglected goals, taking as its point of departure emerging challenges to a fair and efficient editorial process at the journal. In so doing, I mean to highlight the essential work of continuously cultivating editorial structures that firmly embed in developmental science fundamental scientific values, principles that make it possible for research on child development to flourish in both the best and worst of times.     

Post-Modernizing Education on the Periphery and in the Core

The political economics of educational change are central to understanding reform in developing countries because of the role that education plays in relationship to economic and social policies. Given the uncertain association between the expansion of education and economic development, this paper explores the role which modernization policies of the State play in promoting contemporary conflicts between private and public interests in education. By first introducing Best's concept of the "New Competition" this paper examines the economic consequences for education in the larger context of the global market. Through case examples of Mexico and the US state of Oregon the effects of modernization policies are examined to understand how modernization policies are inappropriate to meet the social, political, and economic needs of both the periphery and core countries. The paper concludes by addressing the potential consequences for the public good of modernization efforts that promote the privatization of education on the basis of human capital theory rather than on that of a more comprehensive and humanistic approach to the development of social capital.     

科学研究与美国研究型大学

本文追溯了美国研究型大学的历史发展,分析了科学研究在美国研究型大学形成中的作用以及取得今日成就的原因,描绘了其当前面临的挑战,并指出了要继续谱写辉煌所需应对的问题.     

It was the best of times. it was a waste of time: university of kentucky students' views of writing under KERA

A survey was administered to University of Kentucky freshmen enrolled in introductory composition courses. Former Kentucky high school students were asked to describe their high school writing experiences since the 1990 passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) and the implementation of its controversial testing and accountability component. The survey revealed much that is positive. Almost three-quarters of the students reported writing daily in high school in a variety of disciplines. Approximately one-half rated their writing abilities as “above average” or “excellent” and felt prepared or somewhat prepared to write in college. Most reported regularly employing writing process strategies. Few, however, mentioned consideration of purpose and audience as part of their approach to writing, even though these are the two most important criteria for scoring the portfolio. Some two-thirds of the students responded that compiling the portfolio was not a useful activity. These findings suggest that KERA's accountability system may be undermining the instructional improvements it was intended to foster. In its haste to implement mandated reform, the state failed to take into account students' willingness to assume new roles as “creators, authors, and owners” of writing portfolios. Students' negative attitudes toward writing under KERA may reflect a more widespread misunderstanding among teachers and administrators of the theoretical bases for the writing portfolio. Professional development might help to dispel some of this negativity, but classroom teachers alone cannot bear responsibility for ensuring that students see “real world” value in the writing portfolio. Public schools, post-secondary institutions, and employers must work together to find authentic uses for the portfolio.     

城市边缘区:城乡统筹、城乡一体化的核心部位

城市边缘区是处于城市建成区与乡村之间的部分,呈现典型的二元结构、圈层结构、动态性、复杂性、依附性、带动性、过渡性等特征.城市边缘区是城乡统筹、城乡一体化的首选之地.为促进城市边缘区的发展,必须改革户籍制度,完善失地边缘人补偿制度和社会保障制度,编制分区规划,适时调整行政区划,严格土地管理制度.     

论大学校长领导力及研究型大学校长的核心领导力

基于研究型大学于国家发展的重要意义,"研究型大学校长"已然成为学术界讨论的热点之一。通过分析大学校长领导力的逻辑起点、基本概念、必要性探讨以及学术界现有的研究进展,认为:研究型大学的性质、宗旨及其构成成员的特殊性决定了研究型大学校长的核心领导力是基于学术的领导,而其实现条件包括对大学内部(包括"物"、"人"、"事"、"文化"及其关系)的引领与对大学外部关系(包括政府和市场)的协调。研究结论为:党委领导与校长负责的真正结合,基于内外部和谐基础上的学术发展是研究型大学校长核心领导力的根本实现。     

论近代学制与大学教育学科的发展

近代中国颁布了三个重要的学制,它们对大学教育学科的建立和发展产生了重要影响.清末《壬寅·癸卯学制》的颁定和实施确立了教育学科在大学的合法地位;民初《壬子·癸丑学制》提高了大学教育学科的层次;1922年《壬戌学制》则促使大学教育学科趋向多元化和开放化.     

社会主义核心价值体系与大学生思想政治教育工作

用社会主义核心价值体系来统领大学生思想政治教育工作是大学生个体发展的内在需求和群体期望,是对"培养什么人,怎样培养人"的科学回答,对于培育和谐高雅的校园文化具有十分重要的意义。大学生思想政治教育工作要在深刻理解社会主义核心价值体系科学内涵的基础上,把握好切入点,将着力点放在改进方式方法、加强理论课教学和党建工作、培育和谐校园文化、强化日常思想政治教育等方面,推动工作上层次、上台阶,促进学生全面和谐发展。     

高校制度创新与教师核心竞争力的提升

制度创新是高校教师核心竞争力提升的必要条件,教师核心竞争力提升是制度创新的根本动力.为了提升高校教师的核心竞争力,就必须进行制度创新.现代大学制度创新、人事分配制度创新、学术评价制度创新、继续教育制度创新以及文化环境创新,在提升高校教师核心竞争力中具有重要的作用.     

社会主义核心价值体系引领大学文化建设的四维度研究

社会主义核心价值体系集中反映了当代社会主义最基本的价值取向和行为准则,具有明确的主导性。大学文化是大学作为社会主义新型组织的本质属性,它是高校在长期办学过程中形成的历史积淀、创新品格和价值取向,它以潜移默化的方式影响师生的思想行为。大学文化建设必须把握社会主义核心价值体系的灵魂、主题、精髓和基础,巩固马克思主义一元化的指导地位,切实开展大学生理想信念教育,彰显大学生精神,突出办学特色,培养良好的校风学风。     

加强高校社会主义核心价值体系建设的思考

高校是社会主义核心价值体系建设的重要阵地,加强社会主义核心价值体系建设是社会主义高校的本质要求。高校必须认清加强社会主义核心价值体系建设面临的形势和挑战,明确社会主义核心价值体系建设的内容和基本要求,发挥高校自身优势,努力在社会主义核心价值体系建设中探索新路子,迈出新步伐,取得新成效。     

知识经济时代大学科研的趋势与隐患

早期的大学科研具有强烈的"纯科学"色彩而相对缺乏应用研究的动力机制.在知识经济时代,基础研究与应用研究之间单向连接的线性模式被彻底打破,大学的研究更多涉及的是基础研究和应用研究双向影响的"巴斯德象限";原来不计功利的倾向也被对效益的频繁问责所取代.这一变化展示出大学科研的发展潜力,但也带来人们对大学能否履行知识使命的疑虑.大学应以自身实践消除人们的疑虑.     

大学精神:研究型大学的核心竞争力——以哈佛大学为例

研究型大学的核心竞争力即大学的核心能力,是大学的积累性学识,是以其资源和能力为基础,通过对学科建设、科学研究、组织管理、社会影响等要素进行战略整合,使学科获得持续竞争优势的能力.根据该理论,以哈佛大学为例,阐述大学精神是研究型大学的核心竞争力.     

大学教学:应然、实然与当然

教学是大学的首要职能,大学教学具有学术性,教学与科研是大学人才培养的共同载体,这本应是大学教学的应然形态。但大学教学地位与教学职能符合度、教师教学水平与学术水平符合度、教师教学与科研结合度存在问题却是当下大学教学的实然状况。使大学教学由实然回到应然,提高教学质量的当然策略是：认识大学教学学术性,形成大学教师多元学术评价机制,建立大学教师教学专业发展制度,构建大学生学术教育教学体系,增强大学教师教学责任意识。     

高校社会主义核心价值体系的作用论述

社会主义核心价值体系是社会主义的主流意识形态。将社会主义核心价值体系教育贯穿于高校教育的全过程,可实现高校育人与如何育人的有效对接;用社会主义核心价值体系的科学内容武装大学生头脑,通过创新高校教育功能,可实现社会主义主流意识形态与大学生日常生活意识形态的统一;对社会主义核心价值体系的认同与实践,既有助于更好地传播社会主义核心价值体系,增强社会主义意识形态的凝聚力,为中国特色社会主义建设提供强大的精神动力,也有助于用社会主义核心价值体系引领社会思潮和学术思潮,反对西方敌对势力对我国的西化和分化。     

社会主义核心价值体系视域下大学生核心价值观的构建

研究社会主义核心价值观体系视域下大学生核心价值观的构建既有利于提高大学生的思想素养和道德水平,又有利于他们形成正确的世界观和人生观。在思想政治理论课教学中,我们应积极探索大学生核心价值观形成的背景,正确理解大学生核心价值观的内涵,准确把握大学生核心价值观构建的内容和途径。