Linguistic influences on professional communication and recognition: A study of chemists and engineers in two Quebec universities

Linguistic influences on networks of professional communication and recognition among engineers at two Quebec universities were examined. It was hypothesized that chemists and engineers affiliated with the French medium University of Montreal and the Ecole Polytechnique would be less active in research and more likely to obtain scientific recognition locally and to feel professionally unrecognized outside Quebec compared to their colleagues at McGill University. The findings suggest that the localizing effects of using a medium of scientific training which is not the predominant language of international scientific communication and recognition (French) are ambiguous. Although chemists and engineers at the French medium institutions were less active researchers, their language of professional communication with other scientific communities was English and there was little sense of isolation.This research has been supported by grants from the Canadian Council and the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. The authors also wish to thank Miss Madeleine Palmer, Miss Daniella Quiniou and Miss Rosalba Casas for their help in data collection for this paper.     

Management Education for Engineers: the case of Saudi Arabia [1]

This paper investigates the continuing education needs and career path development of engineers in Saudi Arabia. A survey of practising engineers in the Kingdom teas conducted. This was supplemented by in-depth interviews with experts in industry. The paper focuses on three issues: (i) the changing job responsibilities as engineers move into management; (ii) the actual, recommended and required undergraduate preparation for engineers in management topics; and (iii) the specific topics in management of merest to engineers. It is recommended that universities and private/public organisations should join together in providing continuing education to the professional engineer. This is necessary for the engineer to fulfil both his technical and managerial responsibilities.     

Contribution d'une Ecole d'Ingénieurs au Développement de la Formation Continue: 1'exemple de 1'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

Most French engineering schools have implemented continuing education activities in the 1960s. This movement was linked to the growing awareness of firms that continuing education for engineers and staff was necessary. They were originally quite limited, but have gradually been structured now to represent about 15% of the overall training activities of such schools. Among the first to show interest in continuing education, ENPC organises each year, in France or abroad, around 220 sessions intended for staff belonging to one or several organisations. They represent a linle more than 120,000 trainee-hours and account for nearly 25% of ENPC budget. After analysing the rationale of such an implication of engineering schools in developing continuing education, this paper attempts to sort out specifics of their actions and to define their advantages. In particular it shows how managing continuing education activities in a private-like manner allows for both high scientific, technical and pedagogical standards of proposed programmes and their continuous adjustment to new realities and evolution in the professional spheres involved.     

高校继续教育的利益相关者分析

利益相关者理论起源于企业管理的研究,它挑战传统的股东利益至上论。认为企业的目标应该是为所有的利益相关者服务。应用利益相关者理论逐一分析所有涉及高校继续教育的利益群体（高校中的继续教育主管机构、高校继续教育机构的行政人员、内聘和外聘的师资团队、委托培训组织和学员、合作机构等）,有利于明确高校继续教育机构的性质、功能和管理制度本质,进一步理清高校继续教育的各个利益群体之间的相互作用关系。     

Environmental Studies in Chemical Engineering Curriculum at Tallinn Technical University

The roles of chemical engineers and environmental engineers in the post-socialist society are discussed. Details of the environmental education system at Tallinn Technical University and within its Chemical Engineering Faculty are presented. The importance of teaching the basics of ecology and environmental technology, as well as cleaner technology for chemical engineers are emphasized. The list of specialized courses for chemical engineers interested in environmental problems for undergraduate and postgraduate studies is given and the content of some more important courses characterized. The possible changes to the study plan in connection with transferring to a 4-year BSc curriculum are discussed. The importance of continuing environmental education and cooperation between different universities in the field of environmental education is emphasized.     

制度与人文：教师继续教育管理的双主线

制度管理与人文管理是辩证统一的,教师继续教育工作必须推行制度管理与人文管理的双主线．文章提出教师继续教育管理要坚持以制度管理为基础,善于调动参训教师的积极性,增加继续教育中人文课程的比重．大力推行发展性培训,锻造优秀的教师继续教育工作队伍,促进管理与服务和谐统一．     

机电领域卓越工程师培养质量监控及管理体系研究

教学质量监控及管理是卓越工程师培养规划的重要研究内容之一,以天津职业技术师范大学机电技术教育专业卓越工程师培养为研究对象,进行了教学质量管理概念及现状的分析。     

A Follow-Up Study of School Counseling Graduates Specializing in Work with Hearing Impaired Clients

This study evaluated the adequacy of training provided to more than 80 graduates of a school counseling program for specialists with hearing impaired individuals according to employment demands and continuing education needs. Results indicated that almost all graduates were employed in settings consistent with their training. Continuing education needs in the areas of consultation skills, networking strategies, and administrative and management training were similar to results obtained in studies of generic counselor education programs.     

Continuing vocational training in the space industry: a Siberian case study

The development of a continuing vocational training programme at the Information Satellite Systems Joint-Stock Company (ISS JSC) during the transition from the planned Soviet economy to what is now called the Russian market economy is briefly outlined. How the collapse of a planned economy led to the degradation of engineering higher education (HE) is shown. The present system of engineering HE is criticized as a degraded relic of the Soviet one and an argument is made in favour of continuing vocational training in businesses like the ISS JSC, where the engineers are engaged in innovative activities. The schematic programme of training, retraining and improving the professional skills of the company’s personnel is presented. Some work assignments of the centre for personnel management at the ISS JSC are examined, in particular the preparation of target students along the ‘school–HE–industry’ chain.     

关于教师继续教育整体功能的探讨

继续教育是一项系统的继续工程教育。如果我们能站在整体的高度来认识继续教育,工作中努力做到优势互补,形成1+1>2的整体合力优势,定能走出一条科学、高效的师资培训之路。本文从培训目标、培训内容、培训形式、培训管理等几个角度来管窥教师继续教育的整体功能,为提高教师素质作有益的探讨。     

农村继续教育体系的不足及完善

中国农业产业化的最终实现要依赖中国农民自身素质的提高,而农民素质的提高除正规学历教育外,更需依赖农村继续教育体系的完善。为此,需要从推广农业科技的继续教育体系、促进农业产业化协作的继续教育体系、农村治理机制的科学引导体系、农村剩余劳动力的非农职业技能培训体系以及以"农民大学"为代表的普及型继续教育体系几个方面来实现对农村继续教育体系的整体完善。     

新媒体形势下我国学术期刊编辑继续教育培训的问题及对策

在媒体融合时代,期刊编辑传统的工作方式,已为各种新媒体技术所替代,加强互联网思维和技术,创新新媒体形势下工作途径是当前编辑亟须解决的问题,而继续教育培训是提升编辑能力最直接快捷的方法。目前已有的继续教育培训存在内容陈旧、形式单一、师资力量不佳、环境氛围及评价体系缺乏以及编辑思想观念不积极主动等问题。加强完善编辑继续教育培训体系的管理,加强时代性和实用性业务知识的内容培训,开展分层分类多模式培训,发展中青年授课专家,才能真正适应时代的需求,更好地促进传统期刊的转型升级,实现期刊的可持续发展。     

中学化学教师继续教育课程开发的研究

中学化学教师继续教育要达到预期的教学目标,必须要有相应的课程,并运用一定的教学手段,把课程内容变成学员的能力.本文,结合中学化学教师继续教育的特点,并根据<化学课程标准>及新教材的新理念,确立了中学化学教师继续教育课程的分类目标和分层目标,对于化学新课程培训下的继续教育,具有一定的现实意义和借鉴作用.     

美国继续教育机构评估标准建设研究

美国继续教育发达,对继续教育机构采取的是"注册"与"认证"相结合的管理模式,其中认证又是保障继续教育质量的核心。文章描述了美国继续教育机构的管理现状,介绍了继续教育机构认证的基本类型,重点对继续教育与培训认证委员会的认证标准、评估方法等进行了系统说明。美国在继续教育机构标准建设方面的成功经验值得我国借鉴和参考。     

Continuing Engineering Education in Japan

Japan has always given a high priority to continuing education of engineers ( CEE) and the training of skilled technicians. As engineering education in the universities is oriented more to basic comprehension of engineering sciences, education and training activities inside enterprises and self-education have been the major part of CEE Now almost all the major enterprises in Japan have well established education programs and facilities for CEE, and these systems have been developed with close linkage to the following characteristics of the industrial and socio-economic system of Japan: ( i) life-time employment system; ( ii) transfer of job and job rotation; ( Hi) seniority system; ( iv) improvement of education systems.     

Evidence and its consequences in educational research

We begin by arguing that the continuing dominance of ‘evidence-based’ thinking in educational policymaking does serious harm to the notion of evidence itself; also that it brings a loss of coherence to education as a practice that might wish to be regarded as a coherent and research-informed one. The second section of the article suggests that the invidious consequences of ‘evidence-based’ thinking are likely to continue unless energetically challenged by a vibrant and robust understanding of education as a practice in its own right. In elucidating such an understanding, we investigate closely the notions of practice and practitioner, and their intrinsic connections, drawing on landmark researches on practice by authors like Alasdair MacIntyre and Joseph Dunne. Building on the understanding of education as a practice in its own right, the third section argues that the Dewey-inspired notion of justified warrant, rather than proof or replicability, is more appropriate to research claims made in education. Here we focus in particular on action research, which has experienced recurring difficulties in having its research credentials recognised.     

Verbal-visual preferences of working engineers

ABSTRACT

Many have argued for increased continuing education for working engineers, but relatively little research has been done on how to most effectively teach that group. Many have also recommended using learner characteristics to enhance learning, but relatively little is known about the learner characteristics of working engineers. In the study reported here, 116 engineers at a medium-sized US manufacturing company were surveyed to determine their verbal-visual preferences as defined by the Verbal-Visual Learning Style Rating instrument. There was a much higher percentage of visualisers in the engineering sample compared to the general population. This suggests that instructional designs for continuing engineering education should be highly visual.     

The relationship between resistance to change and Romanian teachers’ attitude towards continuing education: the moderating role of conscientiousness

Previous research highlights that personal factors are more important than contextual factors in explaining teachers’ behaviours in relation to learning participation. The present study explores the relationship between two personal factors (dispositional resistance to change and teachers’ attitude towards continuing education) and the moderating role of conscientiousness on this relationship. The data have been gathered from 142 teachers from the field of special and public education, using three questionnaires: Revised Adult Attitudes Towards Continuing Education Scale, Resistance to Change Scale and IPIP-50. The main results show that, firstly, conscientiousness has a moderating role on the relationship between dispositional resistance to change and enjoyment of learning, and secondly, teachers in special education consider their continuing education as being more important than teachers in the regular system. Knowing this, we can predict and increase teachers’ participation in continuing education and can improve training design.     

能力建设:继续工程教育人才培养新思路

快速变化的全球工作环境对工程师在解决复杂工程问题能力、多学科整合与创新能力以及合作与多元文化交流能力等方面提出了需求。能力建设为继续工程教育人才培养提供了新思路,即以学习者为中心,注重能力建设,从宏观政策支持、职业生涯规划、学习成果认定、执业资格培训、专业能力提升以及融合实践学习等六个方面全方位构建继续工程教育人才培养框架,并从政府、行业、企业、学校、个人等不同利益相关者的角度科学合理地设计其实现路径,以满足社会经济发展对工程师知识更新和能力提升的需要。     

对我国继续工程教育政策的研究与建议

教育作为政府提供的一种公共产品,有很强的社会性。教育的政策、投入以及规划对教育的发展起举足轻重的作用。以我国继续工程教育法规建设的历程为主线,从政府职能、市场规律、经费管理、法律保障等角度进行分析,对我国继续工程教育政策和政策出台后对工程技术人员继续教育的影响进行深入分析,提出对我国继续工程教育政策的建议。