论教育管理中的经济理性主义

经济理性主义作为西方主流经济学的理论基石之一，使传统的教育管理不管是在手段上、方法上还是在效率上都得到了科学的提升。教育管理在收获效益的同时，其自身的价值和意义却遭到了颠覆，对人的漠视、社会价值的失落、目的的异化，使经济理性主义受到强烈的批评和质疑。而作为现代教育管理又不能不追求效率，所以如何匡定经济理性主义在教育管理中的边界便受到了越来越多的关注．于是道德理性便自然地回应了这一理论诉求。教育管理效率与价值的博弈要求经济理性主义必须在道德理性的框架内寻求理解和应用，唯其如此，教育管理在寻求效率的过程中才不会失去应有的价值。     

工具理性视域中的道德教育

工具理性以其特有的逻辑，型塑现代社会和现代道德教育。工具理性的宰制导致了道德教育的危机——边缘化和工具化。工具化的道德教育不仅未能教化人，反而成为规训人的重要力量，这是现代道德教育存在的深层危机。     

理性主义、功利主义对现代高等教育发展的影响

在现代高等教育发展中,理性主义、功利主义发挥了巨大影响,这种影响体现在思想观念、政策制度、组织行为、教学与研究、资源配置等各个层面。这两种思想一方面相互排斥:理性主义大学教育思想不屑于社会发展对大学的影响,追求大学的独立自主和学术自由。功利主义则相反,倡导大学对社会的适应,为社会服务,追求实用价值。另一方面又相互融合:现实的困境迫使理性主义大学教育思想不再远离社会发展和国家建设,功利主义大学教育思想逐渐借鉴大学为本的办学理念,共同推动高等教育和社会的发展。     

Becoming scientific and becoming professional: towards moderating rationalism in the initial teacher education curriculum

The aim of this mainly theoretical article is to sketch a curriculum model, based upon Stenhouse (1975), for the education of primary school teachers with a focus on their teaching of science. Arising from practical concerns, the purpose is to outline a framework for creative compliance with the more retrogressive characteristics of the national requirements. A distinction between training and education leads to a conceptualization of education as a process of becoming. This is applied to aspects of science and to aspects of education separately, and then brought together to envisage a moderated approach to the teaching and the assessment of student teachers which could guide practice.     

American education and American politics

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The politics of knowledge in education

This article contributes to the growing social realist literature in the sociology of education. A world systems approach is used to explain the shift to the various forms of localisation, including the emphasis on experience in the curriculum, as a strategy of globalisation that contributes to the decline of universal class consciousness and progressive politics in the contemporary period. Limiting the curriculum to experiential knowledge limits access to a powerful class resource; that of conceptual knowledge required for critical reasoning and political agency. Knowledge that comes from experience limits the knower to that experience. The shift to localised knowledge fixes groups in the working class to a never ending present as schools that use a social constructivist approach to knowledge in the curriculum fail to provide the intellectual tools of conceptual thinking and its medium in advanced literacy that lead to an imagined, yet unknown, future.     

Neo-liberalism and the politics of higher education policy in Indonesia

This paper examines Indonesia's experience with neo-liberal higher education reform. It argues that this agenda has encountered strong resistance from the dominant predatory political, military, and bureaucratic elements who occupy the state apparatus, their corporate clients, and popular forces, leading to continuation of the centralist and predatory system of higher education that was established under the New Order. The only areas in which neo-liberal reform has progressed have been those where the neo-liberal agenda has aligned well with that of popular forces and there has been little resistance from predatory elements. In presenting this argument, the paper illustrates the role of domestic configurations of power and interest in mediating global pressures for neo-liberal higher education reform. It accordingly suggests that Indonesia needs to construct a model of higher education that simultaneously fits with the reigning political settlement and produces better research and teaching outcomes than the present model.     

The politics of education and the misrecognition of Wales

Abstract

This paper examines the positioning of the Welsh education system within contemporary policy debate and analysis. It begins by outlining some of the ways in which education policy and provision in Wales differs from that of its neighbour, England, and then goes on to critique how these differences have been represented in both the media and by members of the educational research community. Indeed, the paper argues that these representations constitute a form of misrecognition. It is tempting to counter this misrecognition with assertions of the superiority of the ‘Welsh way’—and certainly pronouncements of a ‘crisis’ in Welsh education appear to be as much politically-driven as evidence-based. However, such an approach would underplay the very real challenges that face Wales—challenges which are both like and unlike those facing England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The paper concludes that we need a serious engagement with national divergences across the four nations of the UK—as well as elsewhere. The case of Wales highlights the need to undertake not only comparative analysis but also relational analysis if we are to enhance our understanding of the changing politics of education.     

The politics of education policy in England

In this appreciative discussion paper I provide an overview of the reforms made to education in England, and engage with the politics of education through examining the simultaneous and inter-related processes of politicisation, depoliticisation and repoliticisation of educational matters. I engage in a discussion of the papers in this special issue through this framework.     

Democracy,inclusive schooling and the politics of education

Drawing on a variety of social and political theories about the nature and future of democracy, this paper develops athesis about the politics of inclusive education. It concludes with a brief preliminary evaluation of the potential of the UK Labour Government's Education Action Zones policy for the development and governance of inclusive schools.     

思想政治课实施素质教育初探

素质教育就是全面提高学生素质的教育。目的就是使每个学生在德、智、美、劳诸方面得到全面发展。本对思想政治课如何实施素质教育，培养学生过硬的政治素质，良好的道德素质，健康的心理素质以及较强的创新能力从多方面进行阐述和探索。     

探析大学思想政治教育工作应如何改进

大学思想政治教育工作,是我国社会主义建设一个重要环节。因此我国必须对大学思想政治教育工作给与足够的重视,但是我国现阶段大学思想政治教育工作还是存在着一定的问题。故而本文主要是探讨我国现阶段大学思想政治教育工作中存在的问题,提出必要的改进策略。     

Knowledge and power in research into the politics of urban education

This essay discusses the importance of the relationship between power and knowledge for research into the politics of education. Based on this discussion, the author proposes research questions regarding the poor, effective schools, restructuring, and the influence of business on schools. Of particular concern is the effect of the relationship between power and knowledge on the education of children from poor families, and dominated racial and ethnic groups. In addition, the essay suggests an interrelationship between the political and economic interests of educational researchers and the types of research questions that they ask.