A call to come together: why it matters and why it works

This letter to the editor is in response to Barbara Hotelling's column, "Tools for Teaching - The Power of Numbers: Transforming Birth Through Collaborations," published in the Volume 19, Number 2 (Spring 2010) issue of The Journal of Perinatal Education. Hotelling's brief overview of the history of birth activism in the United States and of current collaborations among diverse groups and individuals provides inspiration to continue efforts that improve maternity care and promote natural, safe, and healthy childbirth practices.     

The case for natality in pastoral care and why it matters

The author presents the concept of natality for consideration in terms of pastoral care and educational purpose. The discussion identifies significant threats to the future for pastoral care in schools, including the Global Educational Reform Movement and the increasing emphasis on teachers taking charge of discipline in the classroom, at the expense of relational and emotional engagement. The author proposes options for professional development and improvements in school culture with natality as a recurrent reference point in a holistic view of education.     

当代哲学背景中的大学教育

伴随着工业化发展迅速成长起来的大学教育在大众化潮流的裹挟下正在淡忘人类的终板关怀,这使得我们拥有的大学处于迷失方向的危险之中.本文试图从科技、文化以及人的发展等方面廓清笼罩在大学教育上空的迷雾,将作为个体的个人的自由和全面的发展、作为集合的人类社会对自身生存状态的超越确立为大学教育存在和发展的基础.     

Aid effectiveness in education: Why it matters

This article introduces the special issue of Prospects on “Aid effectiveness in education”. It brings together case studies of attempts in several very different contexts to improve the effectiveness of the use of aid in the education sector. By drawing on the historical evolution of the new paradigm over the last 20 years, the authors make the case for a closer focus on aid’s effectiveness in education, as well as the need to reform the aid effectiveness architecture. In particular, they identify two major obstacles that need to be overcome to improve aid’s effectiveness in education: the lack of sufficient institutional and staff incentives for coordinated and harmonized behaviour; and factors that lead to risk-aversion and discourage innovation in delivering aid effectively.     

It ain't just what you do and the way that you do it: why discourse matters in higher education communities of practice

A number of Australian universities have established and sponsored interdisciplinary communities of practice (CoPs) to develop teaching and learning. CoPs are popularly defined as groups of people who share a passion for something and, together, learn how to do it better. Without further specification, this definition is of limited use in understanding intentionally established CoPs in higher education settings. The term CoP is used and applied in a range of ways in higher education and has been accompanied by some scholarly debate about the meaning and relevance of CoPs to academe. The prevalent response to such debate has been to propose typologies. While typology can be useful, epistemology and discourse are also significant in understanding and developing higher education CoPs. In this paper I focus on discourse surrounding CoPs as a conceptual and developmental factor which has been insufficiently considered in the literature on higher education CoPs. I draw on findings from interviews with 33 CoP members and facilitators in three Australian universities. My findings indicate that discourse surrounding CoPs is significant in shaping notions of participatory value. Connecting with the literature, my findings also reveal a ‘big D’ Discourse of collegiality whereby CoPs offer social support and knowledge sharing to build capacity, as well as spaces in which a collegial academic identity can thrive. This coincides in complex and unpredictable ways with a Discourse of managerialism. I conclude that discourse should supplement typology and epistemology in adaptively shaping understandings of contemporary higher education CoPs and their future development.     

现代大学人文教育目标之我见

人文教育是现代大学重要教育内容,要根据人文教育的功能和作用,确立人文教育目标,培养学生树立正确世界观、人生观、价值观和健康的人格。     

当代大学生择业与职业心理教育

择业心理是职业心理学中的重要组成部分。我国当代大学毕业生在择业过程中产生的诸如心理困惑、偏差和障碍,必须通过加强和改善职业心理教育才能解决,家长、学校、政府和全社会都应给予高度重视。     

Understanding policy: why health education policy is important and why it does not appear to work

Drawing on research investigating the impact of health imperatives around obesity, diet and exercise on the actions of teachers and pupils in schools, this paper offers a reflexive account of the relationships between the ‘noise’ of obesity discourse in the public domain, policies forged to tackle health issues and the realities of teaching in schools. Our analyses suggest that intersections of bio‐policies, body pedagogies and human agents forge assemblages of meaning that frame and regulate but cannot determine either teachers' or young people's lives. Teachers and pupils experience the capriciousness of policies as they flow through specific school contexts and intersect with ‘local’ institutional cultures, expectations and interests. We suggest that Basil Bernstein's concepts and poststructural social theory prove useful when addressing how the aforementioned processes are emplaced, enacted and embodied.     

拓展训练在大学体育教学中的应用研究

随着经济的发展和科技的进步,社会对于人才的要求逐渐提高,并且人才之间的竞争也愈加激烈。因此,要求高校对大学生的教育方式有所改变。通过新型有效的教育方法,培养出能够独立思考探究,各方面能力强,对现代社会有贡献的专业人才。近年来,国家对于大学生的体育教学十分重视。通过拓展训练在体育教学中的应用,可以有效提高学生对运动的兴趣,从而达到强身健体、提高大学生身体素质的目的。本文将对拓展训练在大学体育教学中的应用进行研究。     

大学体育教育中拓展训练的发展趋势探究

拓展训练是通过精心设计的有针对性的一门课程,同时这门课程也具有一定的挑战性的特点。作为一种比较新颖的学习形式,依托于自然环境。拓展训练中总是会选择一些典型的场景作为活动场所,选择一些典型的活动方式进行拓展。拓展训练的目的是为了让被巡逻者在经历考验后,意志得到磨练和提升。如今大学体育教育中也在开始使用拓展训练的方法,去培养大学生具有健康的心理素质,同时也在力争让这些温室中成长的大学生具有积极进取的人生态度,拜托独生子的束缚,能够团队意识,处处为他人着想。拓展训练正是与当代大学生所缺乏的素质相适应,是一种时尚,同时也是一种历练。本文将从拓展训练的有关概念入手,分析如今大学体育教育中开展拓展训练的现状,分析拓展训练发展的前景。     

Talking of students: Tensions and contradictions for the manager-academic and the university in contemporary higher education

The paper examines data on references tostudents made by manager-academics in 16 UKuniversities whilst giving accounts of theircareers and practices, and reflecting onaspects of the current roles and priorities ofhigher education institutions. The issuesraised are of wider interest than the UK, sincethe contradictory pressures of teaching andresearch and learning versus seeking newsources of funding are common to highereducation in many countries. The focus andmethodology of the Economic and Social ResearchCouncil funded project on which the paper isbased are outlined, before discussing how thetheoretical interests of the project relate tothe student, the ways in which the student is asignificant aspect of current higher educationpolicies, and the contested status and identityof the student in higher education discourseand research. The changing nature of thestudent population, the relationship betweenmanager-academics' concerns with the studentand their institutional context, their majorpreoccupations in their roles, and how thesepreoccupations relate to level of seniority inmanagement are also considered. We concludethat whilst current UK higher education policyemphasises the student, responses atinstitutional and individual levels focus onorganisational, resource and time implicationsof the student body, rather than the studenthim/herself. Furthermore, it is noted thatsenior manager-academics roles tend to removetheir incumbents from contact with students. It is suggested that manager-academics needboth more contact with students and moreunderstanding of their situation andconcerns.     

高校体育改革中终身体育意识的培养

分析了体育教学改革的意义以及终身体育在高校体育改革中的作用,探讨了高校体育教育深化改革发展的思路.认识不足、培养模式单一等因素限制了高校学生终身体育意识的发展,就此提出一些建议和时策,旨在推动高校体育改革以终身体育为主线持续、健康、有序地发展.     

当代大学生价值观对心理健康教育课程改革的影响

高校大学生承载了我们未来的希望,大学生的价值观是否正确关系到我国未来社会主要文明的发展。由于我国社会主义不断进步、网络的普及、各种文化的涌入以及大学生个性心理特征等因素的影响,大学生的价值观正发生着深刻的变化,并呈现出全新的特点。当前,研究当代大学生价值观的特点及对策具有非常重要的现实意义。     

当代社会思潮对大学生思想政治教育的负面影响

通过分析社会思潮对大学生思想政治教育的负面影响,从思想政治教育的各种渠道以及各个相关的方面,提出引导大学生客观面对社会思潮的对策。     

构建当代中国大学和谐教育的理念

构建和谐教育是落实"科学发展观"与"建设和谐社会"的客观要求。大学在建设社会主义和谐社会中发挥着基础性、先导性、全局性的作用,构建社会主义和谐社会对我国大学的改革和发展.特别是对于建设有中国特色的高等教育具有深远的战略性意义,也指明了大学发展的方向。所以.探索建设当代大学和谐教育的理念是教育界一个非常重要的任务。     

The challenge of a distance learning professional doctorate in education

This article summarises research into the effectiveness of a distance learning doctorate in education (EdD). Drawing on an emerging literature which attempts to conceptualise professional doctorates as distinctive from the PhD, we developed a case‐study approach to investigate the EdD student experience. Four themes emerge which are developed into a model of professional outcomes: professionalisation; professional change; bridging the academic/professional divide; and professional self‐esteem. We argue none of these outcomes would have been achieved so effectively for these distance students without a highly structured but flexible support system.