From the Washington to the Post-Washington Consensus: The influence of international agendas on education policy and practice in Malawi

Education is receiving ever-increasing priority in the post-Washington consensus era, which views education as both a means to and end of development. However, justification for the attention given to education continues to be centrally focused on the notion of human capital. By consequence, marketisation and privatisation of education are becoming increasingly significant. With the World Bank and WTO joining forces to create a vision for a 'global education industry', emphasis is placed on free trade in educational goods and services. The paper examines critically the implications of this international education agenda for developing countries, focusing on the experience of Malawi.     

Issues relating to curriculum,policy and gender raised by national and international surveys of achievement in mathematics

Scottish schools have provided performance data for five international surveys of attainment in mathematics since 1990. Performance measured against national targets and progression over time and between age‐stages have been monitored nationally, on a regular basis, for 20 years, within the Assessment of Achievement Programme (AAP) (Scotland). The 1994 AAP mathematics survey findings facilitated interpretation of the age 9 and 13 TIMSS results for Scotland. Both studies were influential in formulation of national policies to improve learning and teaching of mathematics, at ages 5–14. Research available to support policies recommended in 1997 is examined. Concerns about validity and reliability of findings from international studies are discussed in the context of a collaboration undertaken between Scotland and France in 1994. It is concluded that simplistic comparisons ignore important cultural and curricular differences. Outcomes of more recent national and international surveys are reported and performance findings from 1988–2000 that relate to gender are reviewed.     

大众传媒对我国群众性排球运动普及推广的影响

通过应用访谈法、问卷调查法和文献法对大众传媒对我国群众性排球普及推广的影响进行调查,初步了解媒体对排球运动的宣传现状;提出媒体的宣传导向对群众性排球普及推广的帮助和支持：形成一个“大众传播——辅导员宣传指导——活动参与者”的一个“二级传播”结构。促使形成由“二级”扩张至“N级”的传播机制,达到宣传、普及群众性排球运动的目的。     

Analysing the differential impact of the Bologna Process: Theoretical considerations on national conditions for international policy convergence

Although there is a growing interest of policy makers in higher education issues (especially on an international scale), there is still a lack of theoretically well-grounded comparative analyses of higher education policy. Even broadly discussed topics in higher education research like the potential convergence of European higher education systems in the course of the Bologna Process suffer from a thin empirical and comparative basis. This paper aims to deal with these problems by addressing theoretical questions concerning the domestic impact of the Bologna Process and the role national factors play in determining its effects on cross-national policy convergence. It develops a distinct theoretical approach for the systematic and comparative analysis of cross-national policy convergence. In doing so, it relies upon insights from related research areas—namely literature on Europeanization as well as studies dealing with cross-national policy convergence.

试论改革开放后中国与国际组织关系的变化

新中国与国际组织的关系是一个变化的过程,以改革开放为界,中国对国际组织的认识由浅入深,实践上由被动转为主动。这种变化是国际、国内诸多因素共同作用的结果。随着中国综合国力的稳步提高,国内制度、政策、观念的进一步完善和发展,未来中国与国际组织的合作将更加富有成效。     

Mathematics teacher change in a collaborative environment: to what extent and how

This article reports on a study into how collaborative contexts influence the professional development of an early-career primary teacher, Julia. We describe the process of change by which Julia manages to make her planning to teach mathematics more flexible so as to adapt to student difficulties, and we analyse the role that joint reflection plays in promoting this change. In order to understand the how of this influence, we carried out an analysis of the interactions within the group from Julia’s point of view, following a dialogical approach to discourse. We believe that it is in and through the interactions that Julia constructs her interpretation of the opinions, critiques and suggestions expressed. This interpretation conditions the extent of her involvement and moulds the influence of the context on her professional development. The presence of skilled collaborators proved decisive in promoting this development.     

实事求是地看待新形势下台湾问题特点与大陆对台政策构想

解放思想,实事求是,使我们党能够以一种开放的心态,辩证地看待台湾岛内政局和社会的变化,能够自觉地站在新的历史起点上来思考中华民族的伟大复兴.在当今日益复杂的国内外形势下,台湾问题出现了新的特点,对大陆对台工作提出了新的时代任务.本文浅析实事求是的思想路线和新形势下的台湾问题特点,提出大陆对台工作的几点意见和建议,以期在“一个中国”的前提下,逐步地实现祖国的统一大业.     

浅谈如何发挥民族高校图书馆馆藏优势

高校图书馆是各种教育资源的汇集点,它是高校的文献情报中心,担负着为教学和科研服务的双重任务,是培养人才和开展科学研究的重要基地之一。而对于民族高校来说,其图书馆拥有的不仅仅是教育、教学资源,更拥有着对于民族文化传承、民族文化学习等有着重要意义的资源,如何让民族高校图书馆可持续发展,切实发挥出其馆藏优势成为了民族高校图书馆眼下亟待解决的首要任务。     

对土地政策参与宏观调控的若干思考

阐述了土地政策参与宏观调控的必要性及主要内容,认为土地政策参与宏观调控,还应注意与“国家财政货币政策”、“国家产业政策”、“国家区域发展政策”等宏观调控政策有效配合。     

民族地区高职高专非英语专业听力现状及其改进方法

本文通过分析民族地区高职高专非英语专业学生的听力现状以及存在的问题,根据民族地区的教育现状和民族地区学生在英语听力上学习的特点,提出了重基础、改进教学方法和培养学生自主学习等提高听力水平解决方法。     

论钙对人体健康的影响及合理补钙

钙在人体中起着重要的生理调节功能,它几乎参与了人体的所有代谢过程,体内缺钙会影响健康,甚至引起疾病,而如何补钙又是很多人所未知的,所以出现了很多盲目补钙的现象。应全面认识缺钙的原因及危害,并了解如何合理而经济的补钙,把握补钙的正确途径。     

高新技术产业政策的国际比较及对我国的启示

世界各国都在运用各种政策支持高新技术产业发展,各国的政策各有侧重,本文通过对高新技术产业政策的国际比较分析,探讨其共性和个性,并对我国高新技术产业政策及教育政策提出了几点建议.     

Teachers learning how to use data: A synthesis of the issues and what is known

This article provides a synthesis of the articles found in the special issue on data use. The synthetic piece contextualizes how the articles contribute to the knowledge base of how teachers use data. It synthesizes the findings by identifying key common themes. It then describes gaps in the current knowledge base and identifies the requisite steps needed to address those gaps.     

Sweating the small stuff in educational psychology: how effect size and power reporting failed to change from 1969 to 1999, and what that means for the future of changing practices 1

Methodologists have written for years about the importance of attending to important details in quantitative research, yet there has been little research investigating methodological practice in the social sciences. This study assessed the extent to which innovations and practices are adopted by researchers voluntarily. In particular, I use the case of power analysis and effect size reporting as the primary example, but I also examine other reporting behaviours. Results show that while observed power and effect sizes in the educational psychology literature tend to be strong, researchers do not seem eager to adopt practices such as reporting effect sizes and power, and neither do they tend to report their testing assumptions or the quality of their measurement. There is room for much improvement in how we attend to the basics of quantitative research, and it does not appear that persuasion and professional communication are effective in changing practice.     

新媒体对高校思想政治课教学的影响及改革研究

新媒体对高校思想政治课教学发展不断突破,也逐渐成为大学生思想政治教育的新阵地,同时给高校思想政治教育所带来影响,需要我们作出新的概括并提出解决措施,是高校思想政治教育工作者的新使命。     

Working against globalisation: the role of the media and national education in Singapore

This article discusses how the media and schools are used as disciplinary apparatuses to resist and work against globalisation in Singapore. Aihwa Ong calls the deployment of state ideological apparatuses, such as the media and schools, acts of ‘reassemblage’, when technocrats resort to assemble institutions, diverse Government practice and political values to engage in citizenship production. The National Education curriculum package introduced to Singapore schools is one example of ‘reassemblage’, which aims to reinvent subject‐citizens who are perceived as lacking cultural mooring and a national identity. I argue that in the context of globalisation, this cultural experimentation of constructing a national identity and creating a sense of belonging is fraught with ruptures, as ‘youthscapes’ and new communication technologies are potentially the liminal spaces where other sources of identities are up for grabs. These liminal spaces further allow youths to perform ‘elective belonging’ rather than a sense of belonging bound by the ‘national’ and ‘local’.