高校继续教育的途径与拓展

文章论述了普通学校发展继续教育的意义,分析了高校开展继续教育的现状,指出了日前存在的问题,提出了高校开展继续教育的思考和建议。     

Special education in Jordan

The purpose of this article is to provide a brief background about special education system in Jordan and particularly describes the present types of programmes and legislation provided within the country to students with special needs, as well as integration movement. Jordan has historically provided a limited number of educational opportunities for individuals with disabilities, but has recently demonstrated a movement toward a more comprehensive educational system that includes students with disabilities in general education classrooms. Nevertheless, special education in Jordan still faces many problems and challenges. Barriers to implementation, as well as recommendations to improve special education services in Jordan are also discussed.     

Gender issues in the university research environment

Recruiting and retaining females within science, engineering and technology continues to challenge many European higher education institutions. This study looks at female self-perceptions relating to effective research work and career progression. Focus groups are used to examine the attitudes and experiences of females and a questionnaire is used to explore perceptions in four main skills areas: group work; communication; personal awareness; project planning and management. The study indicates consistent female concerns on issues pertaining to effective female role models, negative work-role stereotypes and the work–life balance of an academic career. For all four skills areas, the average confidence scores of the female participants fell below those of males, but these differences were only statistically significant for perceptions on group work and communication skills and prior to an intense skills development course. Based on these findings, a student workshop on gender issues has been developed, an outline of which is presented.     

Quality assurance and accreditation of engineering education in Jordan

This paper provides a study of the quality assurance and accreditation in the Jordanian higher education sector and focuses mainly on engineering education. It presents engineering education, accreditation and quality assurance in Jordan and considers the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) for a case study. The study highlights the efforts undertaken by the faculty of engineering at JUST concerning quality assurance and accreditation. Three engineering departments were accorded substantial equivalency status by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology in 2009. Various measures of quality improvement, including curricula development, laboratories improvement, computer facilities, e-learning, and other supporting services are also discussed. Further assessment of the current situation is made through two surveys, targeting engineering instructors and students. Finally, the paper draws conclusions and proposes recommendations to enhance the quality of engineering education at JUST and other Jordanian educational institutions.     

Health and education expansion

In this paper I exploit a reform that expanded UK post-compulsory education during the 1980s and 1990s to examine the effect of education on health. The expansion resulted in a rapid increase in education over the whole education distribution. I find evidence that education had an effect in reducing body mass index, waist circumference and weight. For other health measures (self-reported general health, long term or limiting illnesses), blood pressure and health behaviours (smoking and drinking) there were small to no improvements. There is suggestive evidence that the mechanisms driving these results are improvements in labour market and social status.     

现代大学教育与大学生现代化教育关系思考

人的现代化应成为中国现代化的基本,而人的现代化又应以思想现代化为基本.大学生的思想和理念某种程度上决定了一个国家未来的前进方向,对大学生进行现代化教育是现代大学教育的重要使命.高校思想政治教育在大学生现代化教育中发挥重要作用,从对人的现代化解读入手,探讨了高校思想政治教学工作的功能、作用、教学内容和教学改革对大学生现代化教育的促进关系.     

浅议大学素质教育中科学教育和人文教育的整合作用

本文分析了科学与人文作为整体存在的客观性,概述了造成科学教育与人文教育相对立的社会历史根源,以大学素质教育的本质要求为出发点和目标,针对大学素质教育,阐述并论证实现科学教育与人文教育整合的途径和方式。     

网络时代与大学生思想教育

本文介绍互联网络的特点及对青年学生生活方式、思维方式的正反方面的影响、思想教育工作所面临的挑战和对策。     

Teacher education for inclusive education in the Arab world: The case of Jordan

This article examines teacher education programmes in the Arab region and the extent to which teachers are prepared to work in inclusive education settings. In the Arab world, the emerging area of inclusive education faces various challenges, among them a teaching force that is not adequately prepared to teach all children. This challenge arises partly because, without content on inclusive education, current pre-service and in-service programmes produce teachers who lack the skills to work with children with special needs in mainstream classrooms. This article focuses on teacher education in Jordan, where the problems and challenges surrounding teacher education programmes for inclusive education mirror those in other Arab countries. In Jordan, training for inclusive education is very limited at both pre-service and in-service levels, both because the idea has only recently been introduced and because of limited financial resources in the country. Still, the growing interest in adopting an inclusive education system has raised awareness about the importance of providing teachers with education that enables them to work with children with special needs in inclusive settings.     

Directions and perspectives for development of engineering education in Jordan

There are rapid technological and economic changes associated with a huge accumulation of knowledge, which double every 8 years. Hence, increasing global competition is directing engineering educators to focus on several key areas, among which are development of curricula, graduate studies and continuing education, communications and teamwork research and development and promoting university-industry ties. Engineering education should address areas such as: analysis, synthesis, more applications, economic and management sciences, more effective computer utilization, interdisciplinary courses, in addition to more concern about the environment, society and ethics. Postgraduate programme are becoming necessary due to the increased need for depth. Scientific and engineering research is becoming a must. It is the main driver for technological development, which should start with transfer of knowledge and know-how, then improvement, modification, adaptation and, finally, innovation and creativity. The input to all the above-mentioned challenges in engineering is the quality of the secondary school graduate. Hence, improvements and development should tackle the whole education as a package. In engineering education, instructors should focus on interpreting, showing connections and helping students integrate what they have learned. In all these aspects, the most influential factor is the combined traits of hard work with sincerity and dedication with consciousness. This work aims to show the different measures and aspects needed for development of engineering education, and the extent of their application in the universities in Jordan.     

高校图书馆与大学生素质教育

从素质教育的重要意义出发,根据图书馆教育职能的特殊地位与作用,提出了对大学生进行素质教育应强化高校图书馆的教育职能、转化图书馆员的行为理念和深化图书馆的服务内容等措施。     

An essay on the implications of university expansion in Kenya

Although Kenya may be the most extreme example, expansion of university education is widespread throughout Eastern and Southern Africa. This article examines the irresistible rising tide of populism as it reaches the ivory tower in Kenya. Economic, political, and equity arguments supporting and opposing expansion are outlined. The conclusions, although directed at Kenya, are broadly applicable to those African nations embarking upon a program of tertiary-level growth.     

精英教育与大众教育之间的大学品格

古典的大学传统以完整的人的培养作为大学理念的核心。当高等教育从精英教育走向大众教育之时,大学必然要适应普通个人对职业教育的需求,使得古典大学教育传统难以为继,导致大学品格的俯就。我国大学品格的建设不仅面临着高等教育大众化的冲击,还面临着自身大学人文传统的重建问题。当前大学品格的建设,应注重大学自身的定位,甄定大学培养目标,并确立不同类型大学教师的发展方向。     

Gender matters in higher education

Much of the research in higher education has treated student bodies as homogeneous groups with a consequent neglect of any consideration of gender differences. To test the validity of such research a questionnaire was administered to 255 psychology students. The results showed some important differences in responses between the genders. In particular, the female students reported attaching more importance than males to pre‐course aims, rated various learning activities as more valuable and interesting than males and reported more improvement in nine of the 12 skills surveyed than the males. The males rated experiencing less difficulty for various aspects of the course than anticipated than did the females for 11 of 12 potential difficulties listed. As a consequence, it is suggested that researchers ought to be wary of conducting research into various aspects of higher education without considering potential gender differences.     

性别公正与学校教育

Gender justice includes three basic dimensions: gender equality, respect for difference, and free choice. In reality, schools construct and reproduce the gender injustice of the social culture through multiple dimensions that include the visible and the invisible curriculum, and the teacher’s behaviour. In terms of gender justice, the social culture and the school culture are like two separate “circulations”, but these two circulations are of the same inner structure. However, in pursuing the value of gender justice, we need to start from both of these two “circulations” at the same time. As a self-conscious cultural institution, the school should recognize its own small circulation, and then pursue the realization of gender justice by all possible means. Moreover, the more important contribution of the school is to help drive the larger transformation of gender justice in the social culture. __________ Translated from Quanqiu Jiaoyu Zhanwang 全球教育展望 (Global Education), 2007, (9): 33–38, by WANG Molin, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Beijing Normal University     

在大学思想政治教育中加强对学生的诚信教育

诚信教育不仅是高校在思想政治教学中必须达成的教学要求,而且是整个社会的命题。在大学思想政治教育中加强学生的诚信教育,除了充分考虑社会环境、教育环境的相关因素,也要注重个人思想道德观念的提升,在适应社会发展的前提下,努力深化学生的诚信意识,为具有中国特色社会主义国家的建设培养更多德才皆备的人才。     

试分析信息时代的大学英语教育与媒体素养教育

媒体素养可以说是综合人文素养中的一项极其重要的部分,怎样使学生在学习英语时能够有效地选择各种媒体辅助学习,这是现在的大学英语教育需要解决的一个难题。从这一角度来看,我们一定要重新的审视大学英语教育,在大学英语教育的各个环节中融入使用媒体素养教育,其中的环节具体为教材编写、教学以及大纲要求的制定、考试考核、教学考核等等,确保新形势的需要得到满足,最后将媒体素养教育以及大学英语教育这两项进行合并,共同设置成为现在大学生素养必备的一部分,使得现代社会的需求得到满足,培养出一批人文素养比较高的人才。本文主要说明了媒体素养以及媒体素养教育的基本概念、媒体素养教育的必要性、大学英语教学中媒体素养教育所存在的问题以及解决的方案。