农民工培训:职业教育面临的机遇与对策

当前,随着我国城市化进程的加快,大批农民转移到城市中,农民工的培训势在必行。农民工的培训为职业教育摆脱困境带来了机遇。职业教育应抓住运一机遇,在国家宏观政策的扶持与引导下,采取相关对策,实现自身的良性发展。     

学校道德教育面临的新问题

本论述学校道德教育的目的，阐述在社会主义市场经济体制下学校道德教育面临的新情况、新问题，并提出学校道德教育的方法在新形势下应实现的三个方面的转变。     

少子化与日本的学校教育改革

当前日本已进入少子化时代，伴随着少子化，日本人口出生数量显著减少，合计特殊出生率也急剧下降，这无疑给以“人”为对象的教育的发展带来巨大的影响。本文就日本的少子化给予教育以怎样的影响，以及学校教育为此而采取了哪些改革等问题作一全面阐述。     

当今美国移民儿童学校教育存在的问题

当今美国移民儿童的学校教育在受教育机会的平等性、移民儿童的学校适应性、学校的教育质量等方面存在一些问题，这既与移民的文化适应模式及受教育程度有关，也与社会环境外部因素有直接关系。     

Collaboration Between School Personnel in Special Education and Hispanic Families

Building collaborative relationships between school personnel in special education and Hispanic families is a challenge being faced by many professionals today. This article profiles the issues that are paramount in understanding the values and beliefs of the Hispanic family. A four-step collaboration action plan is proposed that includes (a).promoting a positive attitude toward school personnel, (b) assisting school personnel by providing training, (c) gathering information on the family, and (d) developing a culturally sensitive program based on need. School personnel who take the time to understand the unique values and beliefs of the Hispanic culture will more adequately provide culturally sensitive services to Hispanic families and their children with disabilities.     

Intergenerational Communication in Immigrant Punjabi Families: Implications for Helping Professionals

This paper is an extension of the primary author’s post-doctoral research on the Sikh diaspora in Vancouver, Canada. Drawing upon the orality, literacy and ‘analytics’ (critical inquiry) paradigm, the paper delineates the distinctive communication patterns that characterize each of three generations in the Punjabi community in that location. A sample intergenerational dialogue in the counselling context is provided to demonstrate the nature of fluidity in communication, and the implications for helping professionals are discussed.     

中小学教师继续教育面临的困难及其对策

中小学教师继续教育是建立一支高素质教师队伍,全面推进素质教育,促进我国社会、经济、科技迅猛发展的战略性措施.但这项工作的开展当前面临着师资、经费、认识不足等方面的问题,解决这些问题的对策就是转变认识、加速教育立法和构建科学的继续教育课程体系.     

成人教育的忧虑与希望

被削弱的成人教育 记者:整个继续教育体系目前都面临着内在变革的需要,并且也在缓慢变革之中.您是否可以大致介绍一下,目前社会发展的形势对于成人教育有何影响?在整个教育体系中成人教育处于怎样的位置?     

Hope and Education

This essay reviews David Halpin's Hope and Education, which aims to bring theories of hope and utopia to bear on the practical processes of schooling in contemporary Britain, and which sees education as an intrinsically hopeful and future‐oriented process. It argues that the properly utopian character of Halpin's project is subverted by his espousal of a currently fashionable pragmatism, represented by Richard Rorty and Anthony Giddens, which insists that ‘good’ utopias must be realistic and practical. Utopian hope for a better world, in which a transformed educational process will be central, is ambushed by this pragmatism and reduced to managerialism.     

中学生家庭教育与学校教育间张力的社会学分析

家庭和学校作为承担对个体的教育功能的最重要主体,在共同促进个人的社会化方面存在着许多张力。家庭教育的非制度性与学校教育的制度性造成的教育内容分离的张力;对教育资源的追求与现实状况之间的张力;对个体的教育期望不一致造成的张力以及两大教育主体的相互期望不一致造成的张力。在对这些张力做出了理论分析的基础上,提出了相应的对策。     

教育的希望:科学人文主义教育

现代人在获得了物质、思考的极大自由的同时 ,感到了与自然、社会和信仰的隔离 ,感到了价值、文化和意义的危机 ;他渴望着和平、安宁和真正的人道 ,要求加强与提升精神生活。唯理式与机械式的科技社会导致人的价值的沦落和生活内在意义的丧失 ,以及教育过度地服务于实用和功利是造成现代人困惑的两个主要原因。人类的理想追求和社会发展的要求都呼唤着新的教育 :变人为的教育为为人的教育。祈望真正人道的教育、重塑人的价值、重塑人的信心、谋求新的精神境界 ,已成为现代人越来越普遍的心态。从一定意义上讲 ,科学人文主义教育正是人们的希望所在 ,也是新教育的希望所在。     

Confronting the Evolution Education Abyss

This article discusses recent evolution education literature and highlights key themes and perspectives recognized in the scientific community but only minimally exposed within either the science classroom or the science education research agenda. Examples include: macroevolution, expressed as the history of life on earth; the microbial dominance of most of earth time as a learning tool and theme organizer; sym-biogenesis and frequently accompanying horizontal gene transfer; Lamarck and the roles of others traditionally ridiculed in evolution study; and new views of fundamental evolution topics such as speciation. Several recommendations are given to address these important omissions within the science educator community.     

Issues Confronting American Higher Education

The American system of higher education — massive, decentralized, and diverse —faces a number of critical issues in the years immediate ahead. This paper considers four of those issues — the impact of demographic change; the long-term implications for higher education of the national movement to reform secondary education; the growing interest in the character and quality of undergraduate education; and the role of universities, especially research universities, in economic development — and suggests a few of the directions American higher education may take in response to them.     

The Bridge Project: Connecting Home,School, and Community for Mexican Immigrant Children

This study examines the academic and psychosocial effects of the Bridge Project after-school program on 25 prekindergarten through 6th-grade English language learner Mexican immigrant children and their families living in an affordable housing complex in the San Francisco Bay Area. The results of the study show that the program increased the children’s reading comprehension by an average of 2.8 grade levels and increased children’s English proficiency an average of 2.8 California English Language Development Test levels over a 2-year period. Parents also observed their children’s growth in confidence, social skills, motivation, responsibility, and the ability to ask questions.     

Hope in the Shadows: Testing the Immigrant Optimism Hypothesis Among College Aspirational Latino Students

Scholars have proposed that immigrant optimism explains why some immigrant students outperform their United States-born peers academically. Yet, immigrant optimism has not been directly measured. This study aims to test the immigrant optimism hypothesis by operationalizing it using the Children’s Hope Scale. Using structural equation modeling, the author examined the associations between hope, immigrant generation, citizenship status, and academic outcomes among a sample of 2,369 Latino 14- to 17-year-old students. Though no difference by immigrant generation was found, undocumented students were more hopeful than their documented peers. This finding suggests that the documentation status has an indirect relative effect on academic outcomes via hope. This article reexamines the immigrant optimism as a resource that could be fostered among Latino youth, regardless of immigrant status.     

The Academic Achievement of Adolescents from Immigrant Families: The Role of Family Background, Attitudes, and Behavior

The goal of this study was to determine the relative impact of family background, parental attitudes, peer support, and adolescents' won attitudes and behaviors on the academic achievement of students from immigrant families. Approximately 1,100 adolescents with Latino, East Asian, Filipino, and European backgrounds reported on their own academic attitudes and behaviors as well as those of their parents and peers. In addition, students' course grades were obtained from their official school records. Results indicated that first and second generation students received higher grades in mathematics and English than their peers from native families. Only a small portion of their success could be attributed to their socioeconomic background; a more significant correlate of their achievement was a strong emphasis on education that was shared by the students, their parents, and their peers. These demographic and psychosocial factors were also important in understanding the variation in academic performance among the immigrant students themselves.     

Self-Regulatory Development in Children from Chinese Immigrant Families: Evidence for Commonality and Specificity

A central theme of acculturative specificity is the heterogeneity of the immigrant experience. This study integrated this application of the Specificity Principle with intergenerational transmission models of self-regulation and identified both common and specific pathways in the self-regulatory development of Chinese American children in immigrant families (N = 169, M_age = 9.2 years). Consistent with intergenerational transmission models, results indicated associations between parents’ and children’s effortful control, with the mediation of these associations via authoritarian parenting. Parental education, family income, and children’s bilingual proficiency were also uniquely associated with children’s executive function and effortful control. Together, findings provide new directions for research with ethnic minority immigrant families, and underscore the utility of within-group approaches in advancing research on ethnic minority children’s development.     

Starting School: Welcoming Young Children and Families into Early School Experiences

Throughout the world, young children and their families anticipate the start of school with expectations and hopes, as well as concerns. Although the approaches and customs differ from one nation, region, or culture to another, one constant is the recognition that a collaborative effort is needed to welcome young children and their families into formal schooling experiences. The transition process should be proactive and responsive to the children’s needs. This article addresses four key components of appropriate support for young children who are starting school: (1) a consideration of the developmental characteristics of young children, (2) a recognition of factors that affect adjustment to new situations, (3) the establishment of relationships with families, and (4) the implementation of strategies that assist young children in making this important transition. Strategies for assisting children who are beginning their school careers are shared.