Compulsory citizenship for the disenfranchised: benchmarking students,schools, and social and political attitudes before the Citizenship Order

This article reviews the current state of the debate about the political orientation and social attitudes of young people. After cautioning against a pessimistic view of moral decline, the article reports the results from a survey of 1249 young people in Hertfordshire. While showing evidence of low levels of political knowledge, interest, trust and efficacy, the findings do not confirm a lack of engagement with the wider social world. They show that young people contribute to social capital, by volunteering, for example, and that young people have broadly developed moral awareness. We explore students' engagement in citizenship-type activities both within and outside school; the extent to which they have covered the citizenship National Curriculum in school; and the degree to which they are active participants in their school. Our findings are generally positive, identifying reasonably high levels of engagement and integration. In short, there is a base from which to develop curricular reforms to promote political education.     

Undergraduate political attitudes: An examination of peer,faculty, and social influences

A socialization perspective is used to examine the processes through which undergraduate student political attitudes are influenced by peers, faculty, and social trends. Using the model of undergraduate socialization provided by Weidman (1989) as a framework, I examine how the normative contexts of college campuses and students' interactions with peers and faculty serve to influence the political orientations of students, net of precollege and college characteristics. Based on longitudinal data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, the results indicate that student orientations change in ways quite similar to trends observed more generally, and that peer and faculty normative contexts tend to have a positive influence of equal magnitude on political orientations of students.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1995 meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.     

The development of attitudes and social characteristics of students attending predominantly black colleges: A longitudinal study

The study was designed to assess the development of Family Independence (FI), Peer Independence (PI), Liberalism (L), Social Conscience (SC), and Cultural Sophistication (CS) among students attending three predominantly black colleges. Responses to the Attitudes section of the College Student Questionnaires were obtained from 334 students when they were entering freshmen, end-of-year freshmen, and graduating seniors. The data were analyzed with a repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance design. College, Sex, and Time were the independent variables, and the five attitude scales were the dependent variables. The tests for the main effects of time revealed overall gains on all five scales. A significant Sex × Time interaction indicated that PI scores for males increased, while females' PI scores decreased, during the freshman year; the females' PI scores increased during the subsequent three year period. Significant College × Time interactions were found for FI and CS. College × Sex × Time interactions were significant for L and CS. The results indicated that students who attended these predominantly black colleges developed greater self-reliance and autonomy and broadened interests in political, social, and cultural affairs. The extent of change in these attitudes varied, however, according to the college attended and/or sex of the student.     

The PGCE: Some Primary Concerns

The paper is set in the context of current debate on the PGCE for primary/ middle school students. It critically analyses the structure of many courses which rely on covering a number of primary school subjects and argues for the integration of these into units which will reflect the development of primary school education as a response to HM Primary Report. One way in which such integration could be achieved is outlined and the implications of this for school experience and assessment discussed.     

浅析社会转型期大学生思想政治教育的有效对策

我国正处于社会转型期,当代大学生的思想状况出现一些新特点。大学生思想政治教育工作关系到青年学生的健康成长、关系到国家民族的前途命运。通过加强理想信念教育、开展主题实践活动、注重校园文化建设、重视心理健康教育、解决学生实际困难等途径和措施,提高大学生思想政治教育工作的针对性、实效性。     

构建社会主义和谐社会视野下的大学生思想政治教育

大学生思想政治教育是思想政治教育工作的重要组织部分，是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要组成部分。和谐社会视野下，大学生思想政治教育要建立和谐的工作体系，要以人为本，坚持教育主体性原则；加强校园文化建设；要增强时代感，做到与时俱进；加强思想政治教育的理论指导；加强思想政治教育的网络建设和队伍建设；增强思想政治教育的功能建设。     

Making students part of the dataset: a model for statistical enquiry in social issues

This article reviews a flexible model for engaging students in statistical enquiry. Data from a student survey are first used to stimulate interest and introduce statistical concepts, while easing the transition to working with larger ‘real world’ secondary data.     

成人高校学生思想政治工作的思路

成人教育是我国国民教育的重要组成部分之一,其主要的招生和培养对象是已经从事工作的在职人群,这些人主要的入学目的是为了进一步的提升自身的专业水平和学历水平。由于进入成人教育学校的学生在入学前已经具备了一定的工作经验,他们带着自身的经验和对社会生活的认知进入学校,这些学生对于教育教学的目的性和实用性和有一定的要求,对于成功学的追求和欲望相比较于传统的全日制的学生更加明显,成人教育的学生对于知识的学习具有明显的职业性的要求和实用性的要求,这些学生把自己的学习看做是高等教育的延续或者是对知识和学历和投资。但是由于其自身的经历和背景,成人教育的学生具有明显的自我意识,对于教育的接受和批判明显的淡化,因此,其思想政治教育工作的教育方式明显不同于全日制的教学,长期以来,成人教育思想政治工作被忽视,在教务教学管理中的地位模糊,没有被真正纳入到成人教育的教学管理中去。     

工学交替学生思想政治教育工作研究

随着高等职业教育的发展,高职院校学生开展工学交替实习将是高职人才培养模式的重要举措.在工学交替实习中,学生思想政治教育工作经常出现一些困难,这些困难如果不解决好,将影响学生工学交替的实习,影响人才培养模式的推进.因此,要积极应对,解决好这些困难,落实工学交替的培养模式,探索出一套行之有效的思想政治教育方法.培养出具有良好的思想素质、规范的职业素质、丰富的专业知识、较强的业务技能的高素质应用型人才.     

浅析大学生思想政治教育机制

本文主要分析大学生思想政治教育机制,从大学生思想政治教育机制的基本内涵入手,详细介绍了其加强领导作用、党建工作导向以及教育机制的优化等机制,从而确保大学生思想政治教育工作有序开展。     

略论社会管理中的思想政治教育创新

随着我国社会管理在管理理念、管理制度和管理方法等方面发生的深刻变化,原有的思想政治教育在社会管理中已经很难再发挥其特有的作用。这就要求思想政治教育必须与时俱进,不断创新。在现代社会管理中,思想政治教育只有在自己的问题意识、致思方式、价值取向和人性假设方面发生深刻的转变,才能重新担当其应有的责任。     

Type of education and civic and political attitudes

In addition to increasing cognitive skills and preparing students for the labour market, one of the core tasks of education is to prepare citizens for participation in democracy. Considering the ideal of democratic equality, it is important to know the degree to which civic outcomes of education are distributed equally. One feature of the education system that can lead to differential civic outcomes is tracking, that is, the sorting of students into different types of education. In this study, we examine the relationship between type of education (general/academic or vocational) and five attitudinal dimensions of civic and political engagement between the ages of 14 and 49 years in the Netherlands. By using panel data from the Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (n = 5,312) and applying linear fixed effects models, we can observe the effect of a transition in the type of education on the within-person change in our outcome variables. The findings demonstrate that transitions in the type of education have little effect on intention to vote, trust in institutions or ethnic tolerance. However, students making transitions in general/academic education develop higher levels of interest in politics and generalised trust than do students in vocational education or people outside the education system. This point suggests that general/academic education fosters civic and political participation.     

议大学生思想政治教育的实效性

近几年大学生思想政治教育工作逐渐成为高校教育的重要组成部分,但其实效性却并未得到实质改善。本文主要通过分析当前大学生思想政治教育存在的主要问题,以及思想政治教育面临的挑战,提出相应加强高校思想政治教育实效性的一些举措。     

实践育人模式下大学生思想政治教育价值研究

在实践育人模式下,如何强化大学生思想政治教育价值,成为每一位教育者需要深入研究和重点思考的问题。文章立足于大学生思想政治教育教学现状,从强化实践环节的角度,重点分析了实践育人模式下大学生思想政治教育价值及其具体的教育教学措施。     

The Role of the HEI Tutor in Secondary PGCE rogrammes

This paper will argue that the HEI tutor has a central role in initial teacher education. It will make a case for the HEI tutor having a unique perspective of the course, the process of ‘training’, the experience of students and partnership with schools, and as having a pivotal position in facilitating student success on ‘post 9/92 PGCE programmes.’     

Changing the attitudes of high school students towards intellectual disabilities: the contribution of a social coexistence programme

Students’ attitudes towards peers with intellectual disabilities are mostly negative, and negative attitudes appear more among secondary education students than any other age group. Social coexistence programmes are intervention programmes implemented by school psychologists to manage and change negative attitudes and enforce social interaction with students with disabilities. The research sample consisted of 193 public high school students in Greece who were given the Chedoke–McMaster Attitudes Toward Children with Handicaps (CATCH) Scale. The study aimed to explore whether there is a change in the attitudes of high school students towards peers with intellectual disabilities after participation in a social coexistence programme. The findings showed that students who participated in the programme had more positive attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities after the completion of the programme. The above findings confirm the research on the possibility of changing attitudes of secondary school students towards peers with disabilities and reinforce the need for the systematic development of social coexistence programmes for the entire student population. Future research should focus on the benefits of students with disabilities from their participation in social coexistence programmes.