Moving forward: Inclusive education as the core of Education for All

This article attempts to shed light on what is meant by the statement that inclusive education is the core of the Education for All (EFA) agenda. Against the backdrop of some fundamental concerns relating to the EFA goals expressed by UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, the article highlights the necessity and pertinence of inclusive education within the EFA agenda. It also suggests how we can move the concept of inclusive education forward in this context, while illustrating some key features for our understanding of inclusive education as the core of EFA.     

A new opportunity for general education

Renewed interest in general education has provided colleges and universities with an opportunity to reassess the goals of undergraduate liberal education. Before rushing ahead educators must carefully decide what is to be taught, how it will be taught, and to whom it will be taught. Distribution requirements assure no unity. A team teaching structure with an interdisciplinary orientation synergistically transforms the curriculum and which also considers the needs of different student populations is proposed in this article. This plan is administratively and financially expedient and urges that colleges be willng, at least at the freshman level, to delay specialization and preprofessional training.     

后现代课程观视野下的幼儿教育课程改革

后现代主义对传统的课程理论进行了系统的批判与反思,从新的课程理论视角和价值观念来理解课程,构建了一系列有价值和启发意义的课程体系。本文对后现代课程的基本理念进行了阐述和分析,并透过它所提供的新视角,重新审视当前正在进行的幼儿教育课程改革。     

Emergent curriculum in basic education for the new normality in Peru: orientations proposed from mathematics education

Educational Studies in Mathematics - The Peruvian basic education and its curriculum have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, certain trends and phenomena have emerged, which shape...     

网格教育:现代远程教育的新浪潮

网格是继传统Internet、Web之后的新的网络技术,被称之为第三代互联网.传统的网络教育已无法适应信息社会对教育提出的挑战与要求,而基于网格技术的网格教育能够克服当前网络教育的局限.本文分析了网格的特点、网格教育的创新,预言网格教育必将掀起现代远程教育的新浪潮.     

论心理科学视野下的学校创新教育

本从探讨创新教育与心理科学的关系入手,介绍用心理科学研究创新教育的最新成果,并从心理科学角度提出了学校实施创新教育的五点操作性策略：营造创新心理氛围,塑创新人格特征,开发创新心理潜能,矫治创新心理障碍,培养创新心理素质。     

Contextual career education for urban youth: A new look at experience based career education

This article describes a model career education program for urban youth. The program exemplified promising practices in career education by providing all career education experiences in the context of real life experiences. Work site supervisors' ratings of youths' initiative and responsibility significantly increased over the course of the seven week program.     

A new indicator for higher education student performance

The debate on academic achievement is a heated issue that involves all the higher education contexts. This paper attempts to provide an indicator that can make the measurement of university student performance easier and that can be easily applied to different systems, making comparisons more fair. The Italian University System is used as a starting point to make several considerations on the current measures and to build up a new performance indicator. Then, a generalization for other marking systems is shown and finally a quantile regression is performed to investigate some determinants of the new performance indicator, also with respect to the current one.