Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Alistair Ross, Curriculum: construction and critique
E.C. Wragg, G.S. Haynes. C.M. Wragg, R.P. Chamberlin, Failing Teachers?
C. Winch, Education, Work and Social Capital: Towards a New Conception of Vocational Education
Carol Vincent, Including Parents.
Theo Co, (ed), Combating Educational Disadvantage.
Celeste M. Brody, Kasi Allen Fuller, Penny Poplin Gosetti, Susan Randles Moscato, Nancy G. Nagel, Glenellen Pace and Patricia Schmuck, Gender Consciousness and Privilege
H.Altrichter and J.Elliott (eds), Images of Educational Change
David Scott (ed), Curriculum and Assessment.
Sue McGinty (ed), The Politics and Machinations of Education Research: International Case Studies
Frank Coffield (ed), Differing Visions of a Learning Society
Binns, T and Fisher, C (eds), Issues in Geography Teaching
James Arthur and Robert Phillips (eds), Issues in History Teaching
Paul Clarke, Learning Schools, Learning Systems     

高中教育收费中的价格歧视与教育公平

运用经济学中的价格歧视理论,分析了高中教育的差别收费是否为价格歧视,论证了高中教育中差别收费制度的合理性,并提出了相应建议。     

New Directions for School Effectiveness Research: Towards School Effectiveness Without Schools

School effectiveness research has made a number of valuable contributions to educational research over the past three decades. However, its validity is threatened by a number of evolutions that question the continuing centrality of its basic research object, the public school. Moves towards more flexible school organization such as networks of schools, a broader role for schools reconceptualized as community centers, the emergence of new providers outwith the public sector, the increasingly internationalised nature of research and moves towards greater use of distance learning and home schooling all mean that this focus may rapidly become outdated, potentially making school effectiveness research irrelevant.In this paper we will discuss the consequences of these evolutions for school effectiveness research and argue that, rather than lessening the need for effectiveness research, they increase the imperative for this type of research, as long as it is broadened to educational effectiveness in its broadest sense whether it takes place in the traditional public school or not, and is conducted in an empirical and open-minded way.     

教育效能与学校改进研究的引领者和推动者——国际学校效能与学校改进学会

追求"公平而卓越"已经成为当今世界教育新的发展趋势.在教育研究领域中,与教育质量以及学校绩效息息相关的是学校效能和学校改进的研究.在这方面国际学校效能与学校改进学会发挥了先锋和带动作用,其研究得到了各国政府的重视,在追求公平而卓越的教育中做出了突出贡献.     

Nitpicking: An Exploration of the Marginalization of Gender Equity in Urban School Research and Reform

The Urban Review - Why has gender been marginalized as a consideration in decisions about how conditions in urban schools should be improved? To answer this question I examine research about home...     

STEM‐focused high schools as a strategy for enhancing readiness for postsecondary STEM programs

The logic underlying inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) posits that requiring all students to take advanced college preparatory STEM courses while providing student‐centered, reform‐oriented instruction, ample student supports, and real‐world STEM experiences and role models will prepare and inspire students admitted on the basis of STEM interest rather than prior achievement for postsecondary STEM. This study tests that logic model by comparing the high school experiences and achievement of students in ISHSs and comparison schools in North Carolina. After identifying ISHS and non‐STEM comparison high schools serving students who were similar in terms of socioeconomic status and academic achievement prior to high school entry, we employed propensity‐score weighting and HLM modeling to estimate the impact of attending an ISHS on a set of outcome measures obtained from student surveys and from the state's longitudinal student data system. Analyses of student survey data found that attending an ISHS raises the likelihood that a student will complete pre‐calculus or calculus and chemistry in high school, leads to increased involvement in STEM extracurricular and out‐of‐class activities, and enhances interest in science careers and aspirations to earn a master's or higher degree. Analyses of student outcome data from state administrative records revealed a positive impact of inclusive STEM high school attendance on grade point average (GPA) but not on ACT scores. © 2016 The Authors. Journal of Research in Science Teaching Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 53: 709–736, 2016

     

教育券能否改进学校效率的分析

教育券提升学校效率的前提是学校间能形成竞争,而学校间竞争形成则需要具备相应的条件。在教育实践中,学校竞争所需的一系列条件如学校的可选择性、教育发展的均衡性、服务的异质性、信息的可获性、完善的退出机制等要素并不完全具备。且上述要件作为一种必要条件,得到满足也并不意味着教育效率的必然提高。教育券诱发的过度竞争、精英化和成本失控反而会导致教育效率的降低。     

国外择校研究的前沿图景:现象与政策

环顾全球,择校在一些国家表现为一种社会现象,而在另一些国家则体现为一项变革政策。近年来,国外择校研究继续向着广与深的方向发展,这既拓宽了我们观察全球择校现象的视野,也深化了我们对西方国家择校政策的认识。本文基于近三年来国外择校研究的最新文献,从择校现象的动因、择校政策的设计和成效方面,描绘本研究领域的前沿图景,并思考相关启示。     

School educational project as a criterion of school choice: discourses and practices in the city of Barcelona

In its advancement towards an education quasi-market, Catalonia has recently been driving the development of school educational projects in all schools (both public and private) as a tool to facilitate school autonomy and family choices. A school educational project is a formal document in which schools identify their pedagogical goals, missions and orientations, their academic resources and organisational structures. Through the analysis of 60 in-depth interviews with parents of children at the age of commencing universal pre-primary education (three years old) and data collected from surveys completed by a representative sample made up of 3245 families, this article explores the impact of this policy on discourses and practices of school choice amongst families in the city of Barcelona. On the one hand, we observe that interest in educational projects has penetrated the discourses of the most educated parents, even though, at the same time, we detect a generalised lack of knowledge of the content of such projects. On the other hand, we note that the social composition of schools is still a prominent factor in choice practices. Such findings question the ideal of the autonomous and rational citizen-consumer that underlies the policy of establishing educational projects.     

School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study

The education systems of the four UK nations are diverging, and the education system in Wales is undergoing major reform with substantially increased emphasis on health and wellbeing. Understanding the implementation of major policy and system reforms requires an understanding of system histories and starting points. This study aimed to explore the perceived roles of schools in contemporary society, and how this role has evolved over time; the aims of the reforms, with a particular focus on health and wellbeing; and perceived barriers and facilitators for implementation. Interviews were held with senior stakeholders in the Welsh education system who held a strategic role in shaping the reforms. These included senior members of government and schools with a remit in either design of the curriculum or educationalists’ professional learning, Wales's school regulatory body, and those with a multidisciplinary remit in health and education. Interviews were subjected to thematic analysis, which produced a number of themes related to each objective, including ‘a changing society and increasing expectations on schools’, ‘the perceived role of schools in supporting health and wellbeing’, ‘the aims of the reform’, ‘what will success look like?’, ‘national level barriers and facilitators’ and ‘community and school level barriers and facilitators’. Findings suggest that education system reform requires change at multiple levels of the education system. Consideration of each level, and the interactions between them, is necessary for achieving change.     

家庭教育法的立法议程、价值、原理与实施

家庭教育链接学校教育与社会教育,是教育生态体系的基本组成部分,家庭教育立法是推进教育治理体系和治理能力现代化建设的重要内容。近年来,家庭教育问题频现、政策经验逐步完备、政治关注程度明显增加,三流交汇推开了家庭教育立法的政策窗口。基于家庭教育立法,健全中国特色社会主义教育法律体系,明确家庭教育责任、规范家庭教育行为,优化配置家庭教育资源,健全家庭教育指导服务体系。家庭教育立法的原理是家庭教育私权利与公权利的认识和平衡,本质是构建全员育人、全过程育人、全方位育人的"三全"育人格局。家庭教育法律执行的关键是协同育人,学校和家庭协同,打造家庭育人主要阵地;政府和家庭协同,健全家庭育人体制机制;社会和家庭协同,构建家庭教育社会网络;妇联和家庭协同,指导引导家庭教育开展。     

高中阶段教育公平的缺失及策略思考

高中阶段教育在义务教育和高等教育阶段起着承上启下的作用。但高中阶段教育的公平准则未能较好地体现,在整体上影响了教育的均衡发展。忽视高中教育的公益性、教育发展的动态性、教育公平与效率的相互依存性,是高中阶段教育公平缺失的主要误区。解决高中阶段教育的问题应当从制度设计入手,重点发挥政府的职能作用。     

教育公平是一个独立的发展目标--辨析教育的公平与效率

教育公平从社会正义、平等、自由、人权的价值中产生,是一个独立的社会发展目标。我国教育理论界过于关注教育的公平与效率之争,是经济领域“效率优先、兼顾公平”的口号泛化的结果,也与我国“财政视角”的教育改革路径有关。教育的公平与效率问题应当具体分析,其冲突主要表现在教育资源的配置上。在义务教育阶段,公平与效率是高度一致的,但在入学机会问题上,主要是公平、公正的制度和政策设计问题,与效率无关。     

Beyond empty vessels and bridges: toward defining teachers as the agents of school change

One of the greatest challenges facing education systems is implementing the changes that make schools, and therefore, nations, internationally competitive. The resistance to change, the possibilities of change, and the roles the many and various stakeholders play in leading change have been noted by scholars on the topic of change in school. While their viewpoints may vary, one point of agreement among these authors is that change is the only constant, but stories of entrenchment and resistance remain a dominant narrative. In this article, we seek to disrupt the traditional views of school reform by redefining the roles teachers can play in school change.     

扣问教育公平——从学区房现象谈起

在城市内部出现的＂学区房现象＂是优质义务教育资源稀缺与人们旺盛的教育需求不能得到满足的矛盾引发的择校新表现。本文试图通过分析该现象的表现和形成原因,探讨如何从学校硬件标准化建设、师资流动、信息沟通和办学途径等方面实现城市内部义务教育均衡发展,遏制教育不公平现象。     

普通高中教育资源公平配置问题与对策研究——以江苏省为例

以江苏为代表的东部发达地区,虽然高中教育已基本普及,但区域之间、城乡之间、学校之间和阶层之间在资源配置上依然存在较大差距,这种差距与教育外部的区域间经济发展不平衡,以及教育内部的重点中学制度和择校制度的影响有关。要逐步消除这种差距,促进普通高中教育资源公平配置,发达地区应在基本普及高中教育的前提下,确立均衡发展的指导思想,以义务教育的高位均衡为起点,坚持高中的底线均衡,在此基准上追求高中的特色化、个性化发展。     

From Innovation to Change: Forging A Physics Education Reform Agenda for the 21st Century

Education reform cannot be limited to what goes on in the classroom. Innovation does not inevitably lead to change until and unless the innovators take back control over factors exogenous to the classroom, factors like pre-college selection, outside testing, accreditation requirements, and class size. If nothing else changes, even the most promising of the curricular, pedagogical, laboratory, and classroom innovations will fail, unless the input/output flow of students is changed as well.     

John Dewey as administrator: the inglorious end of the Laboratory School in Chicago

The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago founded by John Dewey in 1896 is considered as one of the most innovative schools of progressive education. Its history, and specifically its sudden end, is still of general interest. In sympathy with Dewey, most historians tend to put the main blame for the tragedy on University President William R. Harper who—by refusing financial and organizational support—seemingly harassed Dewey out of office. A new look at archival sources reveals a different picture. The main point of contention was not bureaucratic matters between Dewey and Harper but irreconcilable differences between Dewey’s wife Alice and the faculty of the school who complained bitterly about her social and administrative incompetence as principal pushing the school on to the brink of disaster. Because of the extreme pressure exerted by trustees, colleagues and faculties, Harper could not help but ask Alice Dewey for her resignation. Given his own inability to manage business affairs, Dewey quit his job, too, in April 1904. Without his wife as principal, he saw no chance of realizing his educational ideas and left Chicago with a sigh of relief, freeing him forever from the unloved burden of administrative duties.     

法国"面向2010年的新高中"的解析与思考

法国面向2010年的新高中改革,目的是构建使每个高中生都能成功的成功高中。改革赋予学生一种错选权,允许高中二年级学生重新定向,使高中的定向成为渐进的、可回复的。改革修正了以前的偏差,并加大了个别辅导的范围,强调建立有利于外语学习的高中。     

Meritocracy,elitism, and egalitarianism: a preliminary and provisional assessment of Singapore's primary education review

Meritocracy functions in Singapore as the key principle of governance and educational distribution. However, the concept of meritocracy itself contains a number of inherent contradictions, most evidently witnessed in the tension between its egalitarian and elitist strands. This tension is documented in the recommendations of Singapore's recent primary education review, already accepted by the Ministry of Education and to be implemented in the coming years. This article considers these recommendations against the backdrop of a tentative movement towards egalitarianism in educational distribution. Specifically, it provides a preliminary and provisional assessment of how far they would go towards providing for greater educational equity and, therefore, in recovering the ideology of meritocracy in the nation-state.