The interrelationship of job satisfaction and similarity in philosophic view within academic departments

This study used a questionnaire to determine the effect on job satisfaction of the similarity in philosophic view between faculty members (N=198) and their department chairperson (N=30) in four-year colleges and universities in the Midwest. On the basis of the data collected in this study no relationship was found between level of job satisfaction and similarity in philosophic view between the faculty members and the department chairperson of an academic department.     

中立主席法及对我国高职英语教学的启示

中立主席法是行动研究法及课程行动研究法的重要策略。它广泛应用于教育教学的各个领域。通过对中立主席法的实质研究和对我国高职英语教学现状的剖析,提出中立主席法对我国高职英语教学的几点启示。     

A self‐study of a national curriculum maker in physical education: challenges to curriculum change

This paper captures a national curriculum maker’s experiences of revising the physical education curriculum in South Korea. A self‐study was conducted in order to make known the chairperson’s experiences concerning the various obstacles encountered in revising the national curriculum and to offer previously unseen insights afforded by the curriculum maker’s personal reflections. This study specifically offers a detailed analysis of four challenges the national curriculum maker encountered: (1) personal obstacles encountered as a young female chairperson, (2) environmental obstacles encountered as a marginally positioned chairperson, (3) professional obstacles faced as an innovative chairperson, and (4) institutionalized obstacles related to being named the official chairperson. In this self‐study conducted in the narrative inquiry tradition, several important findings emerge about the nature of curriculum making and how curriculum making transpires at a national level.     

Faculty perceptions of deans' and department chairpersons' management functions

The present study examined the patterns of perceived management functions of deans and department chairpersons in three schools: social sciences, physical sciences and medical school. In all schools, deans were perceived as paying utmost attention to outside activities, and least attention to inside activities. The study explored the relationships between personal career data and scales of perceived managerial functions on one hand, and between job satisfaction and management functions on the other hand. Articles were found to be negatively correlated with perceptions of managerial functions in all schools. Seniority, rank, and tenure were positively associated with inside activities of the dean and the chairperson in the social sciences. Managerial functions were positively related especially to satisfaction with governance. The implications of the results were discussed and elaborated.     

英语附加疑问句的语用功能及其使用频率的影响因素

附加疑问句在交谈中扮演着语用功能的重要角色,它既用于表达说话人的不确定性,又具有表达礼貌的作用。作为礼貌策略的一种实现形式,它具有寻求/确认信息、促进谈话、弱化语势等功能。女性在全是女性的会议中较多使用表达情态功能的英语附加疑问句;会议主持人比其他参会者使用更多的英语附加疑问句;参会者职务的高低与英语附加疑问句使用频率和表达无直接联系。     

Staff Development Needs of Public Community College Department/Division Chairpersons

Abstract

No administrative position appears to be more pivotal in facilitating grassroots change in the community college than that of the department or division chairperson. However, no one, until the present effort, has systematically assessed two-year college chairpersons to determine what they perceive their staff development needs to be. The results of the present study indicate that preservice and inservice training received by chairpersons was generally nominal, and that self-improvement activity appears weak. Further, the respondents reported extensive and serious needs related to knowledge of the community college, managerial skills, personnel matters, administrative matters, curriculum and instruction, student personnel services, and some 18 other possible training needs ranging from the law and higher education to the effective use of a secretary. Chairpersons were also asked to indicate what they consider to be the most convenient times and conditions for inservice training. They suggest that they would seek out substantially more training than they do if better funding, time, and site configurations were made available. Finally, concrete recommendations are made to increase the availability of training of two-year college chairpersons.     

《大学物理学》课程网络化内容设计之思考

从丽水学院的实情出发,结合主持《普通物理学》省级精品课程的经验,对高校课程网络化的特色和《大学物理学》课程网络化过程中存在的问题作了分析,并对该课程的具体内容设计提出了一些看法.     

论校长在校本课程开发中的角色、素质及职责

校长在校本课程开发中具有多种角色：校本课程体系的建设者、校本课程开发的组织者、校本课程开发氛围的造势者、校本课程开发决策人中的首席、校本课程开发条件的创造者、校本课程开发制度文化的建构者。唯有如此,中小学才有可能实施真正意义上的校本课程开发。     

Blackboard bullies: workplace bullying in primary schools

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ‘lived experience’ of workplace bullying in primary schools in Ireland. Underpinned by the qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with a class teacher, a chairperson of a Board of Management and a school principal – all of whom who believe themselves to have been targets of workplace bullying in their schools – the paper presents their personal narratives as representative inductive exemplars. Each of these case studies highlight the far-reaching impact of negative workplace interaction for both individuals and the wider school community and, in so doing, provide a voice for a hithertofore silent minority. Through a Foucauldian analysis of the complex exercise of power which is at the heart of all bullying relationships, this study reveals the key role of management and organisational cultures to both the experience and incidence of adult bullying in primary schools, as well as the critical importance of leadership in framing the nature of professional relationships in school organisations.     

The metaphorical department head: using metaphors as analytic tools to investigate the role of department head

This paper reports the results of a study that examined the ways a group of department heads in Ontario, Canada, describe their role. Despite their ubiquity and importance, department heads have been seldom investigated in the educational leadership literature. The study uses the metaphor as an analytic tool to examine the ways participants talked about their role. It was found that while department heads seem essential to the policy implementation, their role is rarely acknowledged. In the analysis, we use the term ‘Fifth Business’, originally coined by Robertson Davies, to refer to the actors in a play who were never assigned the role of heroes or villains, but whose work was to incarnate a role that was nonetheless essential to the play. The study concludes that by building on the complex ways department heads understand their role, school leaders and policy-makers could clarify their role and develop strategies to support them.     

再论经济法的地位

经济法是一个独立的法的部门。正确认识经济法与行政法等部门法的关系。经济法是一个重要的法的部门,它在保障和促进以经济建设为中心的社会主义现代化建设中发挥着巨大的作用。     

The Role of the University Head of Department

Abstract

The head of department occupies a key institutional position yet the role is a complex and demanding one which is subject to pressures, conflicts and uncertainties. This paper examines aspects of the role of the head of department through the proceedings of a day conference for heads of department at one university. It highlights issues and concerns, and analyses them in terms of the cultural and organisational characteristics of universities as institutions. Among the key issues identified are: the nature of institutional management structures; relationships with the administrative centre; and the nature and definition of the head of department's role.     

论课程行动研究—兼论头脑风暴法和中立主席法

课程行动研究是指教师和课程合作开发者的提高实践而去解决面临的实际问题，旨在提高实践者的研究意识和研究者的参与意识，本文从介绍行动研究及课程行动研究入手，重点探讨了头脑风暴法及中立主席法。     

Recent trends in religious education in England: a survey of the reactions of Standing Advisory Committees for Religious Education towards increasing centralising influences since 1988

This article is based upon data deriving from a questionnaire circulated to all local education authorities in England in Spring 2003. The questionnaire was sent to the chairperson of every Standing Advisory Committee for Religious Education, the statutory body responsible for religious education at a local level. During the past decade there has been increasing pressure from government‐appointed agencies such as the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency to assume increasing responsibility for religious education in relation to its content and delivery. This survey attempts to discern the reactions engendered for those with the statutory responsibility for religious education who found their roles and functions being consistently challenged by this exercise of centralising influences.     

高职院校系主任在专业建设中的角色定位

高等职业院校根据专业大类按系科设置管理机构,系主任在系部工作中通常扮演管理和领导的双重角色。本文就系主任在专业建设过程中的几个方面如何进行自身的角色定位做出了分析和探讨。     

新形势下高校院系办公室工作的新思路

随着高校内部管理体制改革的不断深化,院系办公室作用不断被强化,能否发挥其中枢和窗口作用,关系到院系教学、科研等各项工作的开展和院系的形象。为此必须明确院系办公室的特点和职能,切实加强队伍建设,创造性地开展工作。     

台湾台中县东势镇大茅埔之文化创意点子——以东势客家美食生产合作社为例

文化创意产业是将文化、创意与产业三个要素,成功结合成"文化资本财"(cultural capital goods)。东势大茅埔客家庄的"东势客家美食生产合作社"之文化创意点子,就是合作社理事长刘桂心女士凝聚了庆东小区的客家妇女与外籍新娘的客家族群认同意识,结合了大埔腔客家文化、旅游与网络营销创意、改良的桂花美食产业等三个元素,将桂花妈妈的"桂花小铺"经营成兼具传统与现代的"文化资本财"之文化创意产业机构。     

Smarter,Better, Faster,Cheaper

This article examines and critiques the leadership capacity of department leaders in a high school and attempts to gain a deeper understanding of how department leaders perceive their role as teacher leaders, making a distinction between what an individual department leader does in his or her position and teacher leadership as a form of continuous learning and innovation through collaboration. How do department leaders practice leadership to improve student learning? The author provides an investigation and analysis of the current level of leadership capacity exhibited by department leaders in a high school. A close look at the role and function of department leaders in this high school reveals an absence of the teacher leadership necessary to promote the broad-based leadership capacity that results in improved student achievement.     

高校院(系)改革中党总支的地位和作用

高校院 (系 )党总支是党的组织系统的基础力量 ,是学校党委和广大师生之间的桥梁。在新的形势下 ,深刻认识院 (系 )级党总支的核心地位 ,正确处理党政之间的关系 ,制定健全的制度并且切实执行制度 ,不断加强自身建设 ,是院 (系 )党总支政治核心作用得到充分发挥的基础和保障。