成人法学教育中法律职业伦理关怀的构建

在成人法学教育中倡导法律职业伦理关怀,有利于提高法律人的道德伦理自决能力,保障现代法治的良性运行。法律职业伦理关怀不同于普通的伦理关怀,它基于法律职业的特殊性而具有其应然内容。通过重构成人法学教育理念,改革成人法学教育路径和教育方法,实现成人法学教育中法律职业伦理关怀的构建。     

论大学生学习伙伴交往伦理的养成与教育

随着高等教育的信息化及大学师生交往的疏离,大学生学习伙伴交往的诚实、尊敬、友爱和信任伦理渐渐成为影响大学生成长成人成才的重要条件,培育大学生学习伙伴交往伦理是教育者的责任,是大学生精神成人的需要,也是大学生自我成长,道德觉解不断提升的结果。     

浅析成人高等教育公共管理伦理的缺失

公共管理伦理是公共事务实施管理活动中所应确立的伦理精神和应当遵守的伦理行为规则,成人高等教育公共管理活动需要公共管理伦理作为重要的理论支持。本文尝试从公共管理伦理的视角,来分析成人高等教育目前所存在的问题,并思考未来。     

论成人高等教育制度建设的价值取向——基于制度伦理的视角

制度伦理是成人高等教育制度建设的理论基础,成人高等教育发展需要制度伦理作为重要的理论支持。本文尝试从制度伦理视角解决成人高等教育发展中面临的一些问题,并在此基础上探讨成人高等教育制度建设的若干价值取向。     

教学伦理冲突类型与教师解决能力提升研究

教学不仅是一种"认识"活动,也是一种"至善"的事业。区分不同类型的教学伦理冲突类型,有利于教师正确对待各种教师职业道德的要求。相同价值序列和不同价值序列的教学伦理之间会产生各种冲突,需要教师不断提升解决教学伦理冲突的智慧和能力,唯有在"教学至善"目标指引下,教学伦理冲突的解决才能有利于学生的健康成长,有利于教师的专业发展。     

教育伦理向教师德性生成的机制与路径

教育伦理是以学校教育、家庭教育、社会教育中的道德关系为研究内容的伦理学科,教师德性是教师对职业意义、精神归属、教育伦理等体认后所形成的精神品质与道德境界。教育伦理是客观的,是外在的道德规范;教师德性是主观的,是内在的道德情感和道德意识。在师德建设中,应将教育伦理转化为教师德性,以提高教师的道德素质与敬业精神。从教育伦理与教师德性的内涵出发,分析教育伦理向教师德性的生成机制,探究教育伦理转化为教师德性的方法路径,具有积极的意义。     

论翻译对于成人学习者学习英语的意义

基于对成人学习者学习特点的分析,从“学“尤其是“自学“的方面探讨了翻译对于具有一定英语基础的成人英语学习者学习英语的积极意义.成人英语学习者研习翻译有利于对所学内容的深透理解,真正提高英语水平;有利于培养英语自学能力,提高学习自信心;有利于将所学英语知识转化为英语应用能力,学以致用.同时也指出了成人学习者翻译自我训练应注意的问题.     

当代伦理学研究的发展及其对成人德育的启示

规范伦理的外显性和易操作性深刻影响了道德教育实践，其道德教育模式带有明显的“知性特点”，显得抽象枯燥和苍白。德性伦理以挑战规范伦理的面目兴起，反映了当代道德理论研究的最新进展。德性伦理重新找回了道德的根基，即人本身，有着现实的合理性，它与规范伦理有着密切的契合性，两者互为补充。德性伦理运动的出现对我国当前的成人道德教育也有着重要的启示作用，必须重视成人教育的德育功能，并且要在规范伦理和德性伦理之间找寻合适的道德教育模式。     

美国高校环境伦理教育探析

环境教育的最终目标之一是改变人们的环境行为,而环境教育研究表明,单一的“知识-态度-行为”转化模式是难以取得预期效果的,环境行为的核心涉及到人们的环境态度和伦理责任,环境教育的重心也需放在环境伦理教育上。美国高校自20世纪70年代初就开展了环境伦理教育,在30多年的发展过程中积累了很多值得我们学习的经验和教训。     

伦理学视域下的单亲家庭大学生成长困境与救助

单亲家庭大学生作为高校学生一个不容忽视的群体,具有独特人生态度和行为方式,同时也面临着其特有的伦理困境和压力。本文从社会的公平伦理、学校的关怀伦理及个体的品质伦理等伦理视角出发,对单亲家庭大学生所处的成长困境及救助工作进行了探讨,以期有利于帮助单亲大学生走出成长困境。     

Incorporating a transformational learning perspective in action learning sets

A field study focused on learning capabilities within action learning sets was used to evaluate potential opportunities between action learning and transformational learning. The use of action learning as a methodology for the acquisition, sharing and transfer of information while integrating an added perspective for transformational learning within the action learning set was investigated. There could be occurrences of transformation within action learning and critical action learning sets. However, there could be the added possibility of using action learning as a potential vehicle for an enhanced or more specific focus on transformational learning. It is useful to explore this potential, especially when there is an increased awareness regarding associations between action learning and transformational learning. Within such learning environments, there could also be the increased potential for outcomes that transform an individual, group or organization. The use of transformational elements based on discussions and resulting themes that occur within action learning sessions are discussed with the aim of encouraging personal development, enhancing skills and engaging in adult learning that could lead to organizational development. Recommendations for these environments are also presented.     

Development of Professional Identity for Counseling Professionals: A Mindfulness-Based Perspective

Professional identity development (PID), which involves transformational learning, is crucial for counselors and trainees. However most current training approaches focus more on specific tasks related to PID without focusing on the transformational learning aspect. Mindfulness is an important component for transformational learning; however, limited effort has been focused on its likely impact on PID. This conceptual article describes the need for integrating mindfulness into PID, and explains applications of mindfulness practices in assisting counselors to enhance development of a professional identity in the course of completing transformational tasks through a transformative learning process. Recommendations for future practice and research are included.     

The role of organizational learning in transformational leadership and organizational innovation

Leadership is an important factor affecting organizational innovation. Many studies show that transformational leadership has positive and significant influence on organizational innovation. Based on a literature review and previous work, this study aims to investigate the influence of transformational leadership on organizational innovation and to examine whether organizational learning is a mediator between their relationships. Structural equation modeling was used to test the model. The research sample consisted of 330 teachers in charge of administration in postsecondary schools. The findings of this study provide evidence that transformational leadership and organizational learning have significant positive relationship influence on organizational innovation. The research also demonstrates that there is significant effect on the role of mediation in organizational learning on the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation. The study suggests that if school principals use the strategies of transformational leadership and organizational learning at the same time, organizational learning was highly effectiveness to achieve organizational innovation in the postsecondary schools.     

Transformational leadership,professional learning communities,teacher learning and learner centred teaching practices; Evidence on their interrelations in Mozambican primary education

This study examines the routes via which transformational leadership, professional learning communities and teacher learning lead to more learner centred teaching practices. By means of structural equation modelling (path analysis with latent variables) a conceptual model was tested, using questionnaire data from 518 teachers in 95 Mozambican primary schools. The data analysis shows that the effect of transformational leadership on teaching practices is substantial but indirect, running via professional learning communities and teacher learning. All in all, the impact of professional learning communities on teaching practices is particularly strong. Its effect is both direct and indirect, running via teacher learning. The findings show the relevance of the concepts transformational leadership and professional learning communities in an African context.     

Exploring School Principals’ Leadership Styles and Learners’ Educational Performance: A Perspective from High- and Low-Performing Schools

School leadership is fundamental to the educational functioning of schools and their improvements of results. The study employed a qualitative approach to explore school principals’ leadership styles and the educational performance of learners in high- and low-performing schools in Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa. The participants were purposefully selected from 10 secondary schools in terms of their performance. Focus group interviews were conducted with five teachers from each school. The interview data was transcribed and analysed, and identical patterns of coded data were grouped together under emerging themes. The overall results of the study indicated that the democratic leadership style together with the transformational leadership style contribute to high educational performance of learners. School principals from high- and low-performing schools employ a democratic leadership style and differ only in the sense that the latter are permissive or lenient towards learners’ behaviours or conduct. The study recommends that school principals engage teachers as members of a disciplinary committee in order to deal with those learners whose conduct is not conducive to successful teaching and learning. It is recommended that school principals from low-performing schools strengthen their democratic leadership by not being lenient to learners’ behaviour which is not conducive to successful teaching and learning.     

Fostering teacher learning in VET colleges: Do leadership and teamwork matter?

This study explores teacher learning in Vocational Education and Training colleges, combining organizational and psychological factors, such as transformational leadership, teamwork, and self-efficacy. 447 teachers participated in a survey study. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to test 7 hypotheses derived from previous research. The results show that transformational leadership has direct and indirect effects on teacher learning as mediated by teamwork processes. Moreover, the impact of teamwork processes on teacher learning was mediated by self-efficacy. The study contributes to research on workplace learning by giving insight into the role organizational and psychological factors play in stimulating teacher learning.     

What lies beyond effectiveness and efficiency? Adventure learning design

Educational technology and instructional design research has focused on evaluating interventions and innovations in terms of their effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal. While such indicators of learning outcomes are important, designers should also strive for engaging, socially just, and transformational instruction. To illuminate the capabilities of adventure learning, we evaluate three such projects in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, engagement, social justice, and transformational capability. Findings indicate the diverse impact adventure learning has had on K-16 learners and teachers.     

Stimulating teachers' reflection and feedback asking: An interplay of self-efficacy,learning goal orientation,and transformational leadership

The goal of the study was to investigate how teachers' reflection and feedback asking – two crucial components of professional development – can be explained by occupational self-efficacy, learning goal orientation and transformational leadership. A survey study with data from 456 teachers from a Dutch College for Vocational Education and Training shows that occupational self-efficacy and learning goal orientation are positively related to reflection and feedback asking. Furthermore, learning goal orientation mediates the relationships between occupational self-efficacy and reflection and asking feedback. Finally, the positive relationship between transformational leadership and reflection and asking feedback appears to depend on learning goal orientation.     

Transformative learning of mentors from an immigrant workplace connections program

Mentorship programs have been deployed within immigrant and settlements services to integrate newcomers to the Canadian labor market. These programs are often assessed for their impacts on immigrant mentees. Little attention has been paid to how they may have influenced mentors. In this context, this study, from the perspective of transformative learning, examines the experiences of 19 mentors who were involved in a mentorship program designed to enhance the employment prospects for immigrant professionals in Canada. Findings indicated that in the process of mentoring immigrants with diverse backgrounds, mentors engaged in both informational and transformational learning. Through informational learning, the mentors expanded their cultural and work-related knowledge, hence their life horizons. For some mentors, their learning was also transformational. Some developed new awareness of and relation to the self. Some also started recognizing the structural and cultural barriers facing newcomers, and sometimes taking actions to effect social change. Both kinds of learning – informational and transformational – we argue, may contribute to disrupting relations of inequality between newcomers and the host society. The study suggests ways through which mentoring programs can contribute to a two-way process of integration involving changes and learning for both newcomers and the host society.     

Teacher Education Is the Key to Changing the Identification and Teaching of the Gifted

In this response, I emphasize the importance of teacher education for making changes in identifying the gifted. As a European scholar and teacher educator, I reflect on Dr. Sternberg’s ideas. Educating for a growth mindset in learning is crucial for the development of creativity and risk taking. Teachers also need a clear goal for gifted education to give them purpose in educating purposeful gifted students. Purpose is needed for transformational leadership, passion, and skills in ethical thinking. Ethical sensitivity is necessary to be able to combine excellence and creativity with ethics. A hacker ethic with passion is introduced as a suitable approach for high-ability students with a strong inner drive to excel. Teachers are identified as key agents in making the change in identifying and teaching the gifted. Researchers in gifted education should take the leadership in this change and commit to cooperation with schools.