‘The customer is always right?’: Student discourse about higher education in Australia

Changed funding arrangements and views of education have resulted in a re-prioritization of activities and practices in Australian universities. While considerable research attention has been given to the consequences of these changes for university policies and the activities of academic staff, less attention has been given to how students perceive these changes. In this paper, undergraduate students’ experience of the commodification of higher education sector are explored. The evidence suggests that the changed context is beginning to affect how students perceive university priorities and their effects on teaching and learning.     

保障见义勇为行为的另一种思路--在法律与道德之间寻求和谐

本文从中国首例见义勇为赔偿案作为切入口，提出了见义勇为的概念，分析了见义勇为行为的性质，并提出见义勇为行为存在着复杂的法律关系，远非一种法律关系所能概括，见义勇为行为的立法保障应定位于社会保障法范畴，由国家对见义勇为行为人负补偿责任，然后由国家向有关行为人追偿。     

Pictorial representations of simple arithmetic problems are not always helpful: a cognitive load perspective

This study examined immigrant parents’ involvement in early years mathematics learning, focusing on learning of multiplication in in- and out-of-school settings. Ethnographic interviews and workshops were conducted in an urban city in Japan, to examine out-of-school practices of immigrant families. Drawing from sociocultural theory of learning and the concept of appropriation (Wertsch, 1998), the role of power and identity was examined in relation to children’s appropriation of an informal multiplication method that was taught by their parents. An intergenerational analysis, between immigrant parents and their children, revealed heterogeneous perspectives towards appropriation. Immigrant parents in this study framed their involvement in their children’s early years mathematics learning in relation to their positional identities and the pressures to conform to the mainstream practices of their host country. During their early years of schooling, students in this study were already aware of academic tracking in the school and were aware of what was believed to be legitimate in school mathematics learning. The significance of diversifying mathematics curriculum and pedagogy was discussed to affirm the knowledge and identities of immigrant students and families.     

Word-learning skills of deaf preschoolers: the development of novel mapping and rapid word-learning strategies

Word-learning skills of 19 deaf/hard-of-hearing preschoolers were assessed by observing their ability to learn new words in two contexts. The first context required the use of a novel mapping strategy (i.e., making the inference that a novel word refers to a novel object) to learn the new words. The second context assessed the ability to learn new words after minimal exposure when reference was explicitly established. The children displayed three levels of word-learning skills. Eleven children learned words in both contexts. Five were able to learn new words rapidly only when reference was explicitly established. Two children did not learn new words rapidly in either context. The latter seven children were followed longitudinally. All children eventually acquired the ability to learn new words in both contexts. The deaf children's word-learning abilities were related to the size of their vocabularies. The present study suggests that word-learning strategies are acquired even when children are severely delayed in their language development and they learn language in an atypical environment.     

The mind is not a black box: Children's ideas about the writing process

We studied children's conceptions of the writing process while the complex cognitive activity of writing is carried out through a pictorial representation of the writing process. Sixty children attending Kindergarten, first grade and fourth grade in Bariloche, Argentina, were presented individually with a sequence of four questions about the content of a child's thought at four key moments of writing production (anticipating, writing, revising, rereading), which were depicted on picture cards. Textual analysis, the application of Simple Correspondence Factorial Analysis (SCFA) and Modal Response procedures, indicated significant developmental changes in the focus of children's ideas about writing. More specifically, we looked at children's conceptions of the nature of thinking while writing, given cognitive processes of increasing complexity and internalization. Main educational implications indicate the need to rethink practices for teaching writing at initial and primary school levels in order to promote teaching interventions directed at getting pupils to be explicit, revise and redescribe their conceptions about the writing process. We suggest that learners' conceptions of writing processes outline a tacit learning curriculum of writing, which operates by guiding learning efforts and self-evaluation standards.     

"杀盗非杀人"命题的法文化诠释

"杀盗非杀人"是墨家的一个重要命题,不仅具有逻辑学上的意义,而且延伸到伦理学、法学等相关领域。从法文化角度分析这个命题,对犯罪人问题的研究、对人权保护有十分重要的现实意义,对协调公共惩罚与私人惩罚之间的关系也具有积极的借鉴作用。     

不作为与大作为:转型期的电大定位

经过27年的发展,电大进入到改革发展的关键期。在进行了回首历史,温故知新;纵横思考,审慎定位;冷静面对,有所不为;顺应时代,大有作为;理顺关系,和谐发展等诸方面分析论述后得出:转型期的电大定位,必须处理好不作为与大作为的辩证关系。     

破解见义勇为难题——从道德与法律的二维视角

见义勇为者“流血又流泪”和见义不为是对见义勇为的否定,不仅表征社会公德的沦丧,也昭示法律正义的迷失。见义勇为成为难题,既有传统道德观念和法律意识的消极影响,也有人们道德敏感性、道德感悟力的下降和缺乏法律保障等现实原因。健全对见义勇为和见义不为的道德赏罚机制,增强法律支持力度,是当前破解见义勇为难题的合理路径。     

权利本位：依法治国的观念基础

权利本位就是以权利作为法律的出发点、重心，其基本含义是指义务应当来源于权利服务于权利并从属于权利。主张权利本位具有理论依据和现实依据。在我国，权利本位为依法治国方略的观念基础，对于依法治国具有十分重要的意义。要确立这一观念，必须澄清各种模糊认识。     

心理教育≠道德教育:一种德育学辩护

心理教育不等于道德教育。二在目标指向、理论依据、运行机制、工作方式诸方面存在重大差异。若将心理教育放大至道德教育或以心理教育取替道德教育，定然遭致德育含义的扩展、外延的膨胀与泛化等结局，从而降低德育的实效；不独如此，这种观念与做法还极易使人错解心理教育的原旨，委弃其要旨，从而带来不必要的理论视差。将心理教育混同于道德教育，从深层追究，其实是混淆了非道德范畴与道德范畴的界限，潜存着德育泛化的危险，势必给心理教育与道德教育同时带来损害。     

21世纪是一个人才主权时代——海信集团董事长周厚健访谈录

记者:做为国内有影响的著名企业家,您在对人才的认识上有许多独到的见解,提出"21世纪是一个人才主权的时代"的观点。在您看来这一时代的标志是什么?我们是不是有必要重新认识人才的价值? 周厚健:所谓人才主权时代,就是说人才在我们这个时代有了更多的就业选择权和工作的自主决定权。资本在企     

由“韩寒现象”引发的思考———“韩寒现象”不只是文化现象

“韩寒现象”中的韩寒代表了现今一部分某一方面有特长的学生的另类式的发展模式。“韩寒现象”是一种多元化价值取向的文化现象, 同时也是一种教育现象和敢于反叛与创新的社会现象。     

The role of special schools for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties: is segregation always best?

The education of young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties continues to raise challenges and controversies. In this article, Ben Simmons, an ESRC funded PhD student and research assistant, and Phil Bayliss, programme director for the masters degree in special education and disability, both based in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Exeter, describe their research into provision for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties in a special school in the south west of England. Their work, based in an interpretivist, qualitative approach, set out to illuminate issues relating to the inclusion of pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The findings presented here suggest that the school, in spite of its strong reputation, struggled significantly to provide appropriate learning experiences for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Ben Simmons and Phil Bayliss discuss the need for improved staff development opportunities focused on enhancing current levels of knowledge and skills. They conclude by calling for a reappraisal of the established view that special schools necessarily provide the best learning environment for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties.     

The development of the concept of alive by preschoolers through a cognivive conflict teaching intervention

The aim of this research was the conceptual change and transformation of the intuitive conceptions of preschoolers concerning life through a cognitive—conflict teaching intervention. Young children use the criterion of movement to justify the classification of objects as living or non-living, that is classify plants as non-living because they are immobile and mobile non-alive objects as living. The concept of life includes many sub-concepts and movement is a secondary and not a universal characteristic of living organisms. The subjects of this research were chosen according to their replies concerning the classification of plants as non-living. Subjects of the experimental group received a teaching intervention aiming at the change of their conceptual context about life and focusing mainly at the dependence of an organism to its environment. In the teaching intervention we used the procedure of cognitive conflict through the juxtaposition of live organisms to dead ones and mobile simulations. Our results show that all the children of experimental group presented a conceptual change classifying the plant as alive and using explanations including the dependence on environment and other functions, increasing the number of criteria used for justification of the animal as living.