Education for Adults,Jobs for the Young

The proposals of the Holland Committee and DES Circular 10/77 favour some expansion of the further education sector to alleviate unemployment amongst young people. The uncritical acceptance of these proposals and the strength of the youth lobby may lead to even greater expansion in this sector, in the absence of alternative suggestions. In the present paper, it is argued that work could be created on a large scale by providing adults in employment with extended periods of paid educational leave. Some consideration is given to ensuring that such a policy has an egalitarian impact. A re‐ordering of educational priorities is advocated to limit the increased expenditure which such a policy would require.     

"健康第一"与校运会改革探讨

通过对校运会进行系统的观察和调查,从"健康第一"的素质教育要求出发,更新观念,改变以竞技项目为主的校运会,进行竞技体育教材化改造,把大众健身项目及与体育有关的书法、绘画、摄影纳入到校运会中来,让大多数学生参与其中,加强对健康的认识,树立终身体育的观念,促进学生德、智、体、美全面发展.     

Towards a Realist Sociology of Education: A Polyphonic Review Essay

This review essay evaluates Karl Maton's Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist Sociology of Education as a recent examination of the sociological causes and effects of education in the tradition of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu and the British educational sociologist Basil Bernstein. Maton's book synthesizes the scholarship of Bourdieu and Bernstein and complements their work with “discoveries” from the world of systemic functional linguistics to produce a new “realist sociology of education.” It does so by means of Legitimation Code Theory, defined as a “toolkit” to analyze knowledge construction in cultural fields, especially education. The authors of this review essay take a polyphonic approach in assessing this ambitious synthesis, offering four perspectives on Maton's book. Brian Barrett provides a Bernsteinian perspective; Dan Schubert approaches the book from his grounding in Bourdieu; and Susan Hood contributes a view from systemic functional linguistics. Michael Grenfell weaves these three perspectives together and provides introductory and concluding reflections. They aim, through their combined expertise, to use Maton's book as an occasion to take stock of the state of the field of sociology of education generally and to reflect on the questions: What is its nature and what type of knowledge does it express? To what uses may it be set and what is its place within the larger project of educational theory?     

论中学数学教育改革与高师数学教育专业改革

随着我国基础教育改革的不断深入，目前高师院校教育改革的深度与广度明显落后于中学的教学改革。本文对系统培养、全面发展师范生的教育教学能力和综合素质方面，提出了教育改革的指导思想与一些构想。     

体育与青少年社会化进程

体育作为一种行为教育方式，在青少年的教育培养过程中，不仅在生物学意义上，在青少年自我意识的形式，内化社会行为规范，培养公平竞争意识，满足社会交往需求，发展个性心理品质，增强社会适应性等方面，更具有十分重要的社会学意义。     

Education for Work: A Review Essay of Historical,Cross‐Cultural,and Disciplinary Perspectives on Vocational Education

In this review essay, K. Peter Kuchinke uses three recent publications to consider the question of how to educate young people for work and career. Historically, this question has been central to vocational education, and it is receiving renewed attention in the context of concerns over the ability of schools to provide adequate preparation for occupational roles and career success in a rapidly changing economic landscape. Philip Gonon's Quest for Modern Vocational Education provides a historical account of Georg Kerschensteiner's vision of the role of work as a central subject matter for all students. His approach served as the foundation for the dual system in present‐day Germany. Nancy Hoffman's Schooling in the Workplace contrasts the U.S. system of career preparation for non‐college‐bound students with that of five other OECD nations where workforce and academic preparation are more strongly connected to learning in the workplace. Christopher Winch's Dimensions of Expertise, finally, offers a conceptual analysis of central ideas of vocational knowledge and underscores the important role of learning in the context of practice. The three texts offer historical, comparative, and philosophical analyses of the complex task of preparation for work and challenge education scholars to move the subject matter into the center of contemporary educational theory.     

Ambidextrous Scholarship: A Review Essay

This essay reviews three recent works in the field of philosophy of education, each of which brings the work of a major philosophical thinker to bear on contemporary topics within education: Michael Peters, ed., Heidegger, Education, and Modernity ; Randall Curren, Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education ; and Mordechai Gordon, ed., Hannah Arendt and Education . I argue that these works are representative of a current trend in educational philosophers' ideas, including their political, social, and ethical philosophy. This approach to philosophy of education differs in significant ways from past approaches, in which the connection between philosophy and education was conceived narrowly. In the works under consideration here, education is not understood as an isolated field that is connected to philosophy only through a concerted effort; rather, education is understood as a presence within the broad constellation of philosophical questions. These books therefore not only shed light on educational matters, but they also demonstrate an elegant way to bring together theory and practice, mind and body, philosophy and education.