Taking Political Autonomy Seriously: a reply to Ian Gregory

This paper raises some questions about academic authorial honesty under the headings of Plagiarism (including self‐plagiarism), Theft, and Collusion. Compared with the medical sciences, the social sciences in general and education specifically, lag behind in terms of critical attention being paid to the problem of plagiarism, the peer review process and academic authorial ethics. The ubiquity of the Internet, the ever intensifying demand to publish or perish, and maybe, a general shift in perceptions of what constitutes ‘bad’ plagiarism and collusion which challenge traditional notions of what constitutes authorial honesty, mean that the time may be ripe for a consideration by academic writers and journal editors of how they regard and deal with the whole area. This paper makes an early contribution to the discussion.     

应认真对待农村女童的受教育权

受教育权是宪法规定的一项基本权利,其行使有赖外界的协助.贫困、学困、校困和师困诸因素阻碍了农村女童受教育权的真正实现.国家应制订倾斜政策,深化农村教师人事制度并完善工资保障机制,调整农村中小学课程内容,加强女童实用技术教育;修改完善相关法律,增强法律的可操作性和可诉性.     

Taking WGU Seriously: Implications of the Western Governors University

After much attention during its development, the continued importance of the Western Governors University (WGU) has not been significantly addressed since it opened in 1998. While certainly not dominating the higher education environment as predicted by its founders, it has nonetheless demonstrated a new competency-based distance education model for higher education. For that reason, the implications of WGU should be taken seriously. Three potential implications for colleges and universities are outlined: accreditation policies, organizational models, and faculty roles. While its survival as an institution is questionable, the concepts behind WGU remain important in changes in American higher education.     

Taking Human Capital Investment Seriously: Reflections on Educational Reform

This paper presents the 2002 Junior College/Upper Secondary Review in Singapore in the context of the nation-states commitment to human capital investment. It discusses how these changes have led to a radically altered upper secondary educational landscape through the implementation of the Integrated Programme, the establishment of Specialized Schools in Sports, Maths and Science, and the Arts, and the introduction of Privately Funded Schools. These rapid changes have greatly diversified the educational opportunities available to students in this relatively centralized educational system in a short period of time. The concluding thoughts section concludes with implications of such educational change for parents, students and teachers and issues to be considered while they negotiate such educational change.     

提高学生实验兴趣和实验技能的途径

在分析化学实验教学中,可以通过满足好奇心、设置问题情境、鼓励学生学以致用等方法提高学生的实验兴趣,通过加强预习、强化训练、客观有效地进行评价等方法提高学生的实验技能,使学生变被动学习为主动学习,提升教学质量.     

Students,parents, educators: An approach to conflict of rights

Summary The two main approaches available for conflict resolution — in education as elsewhere — suffer from serious defects. The fundamental rights approach, popular with groups advocating certain real or fancied rights, presupposes that each individual or class of individuals has basic, over-riding entitlements. In the absence of an arbitrary or compelling consideration, however, this approach is torn and immobilized by inflexible, absolutistic claims. Our analysis in this paper shows no justification in the rhetoric of children/student rights' advocates, parent power movements, or beleaguered educators that their respective rights should be regarded as pre-eminent in educational conflicts. The second approach, intended to balance competing interests, either capriciously gives undue weight to one competing claim or leads to uncritical decisions based on unarticulated value presuppositions. Hopefully, a third approach could remedy these difficulties. The reconstructed Millian-Utilitarian approach suggested in this paper combines the use of balancing and of substantive principles based on defensible utilitarian values and pre-suppositions. In making this suggestion, the paper hopes to highlight the necessity for justices and decision-makers to deliberate more consciously, adequately, and rigorously on the values that undergird educational and social policies.     

中小学心理健康教育亟待重视和加强

心理健康是现代人的立身立业之本,是当今社会对高素质人才的基本要求.中小学生的心理健康教育应成为当前中小学校素质教育的重要内容.但当前中小学校心理健康教育仍是一个薄弱环节,务必引起全社会的高度关注.     

提高英语阅读能力及应试技巧教学谈

鉴于阅读理解在各级考试中的重要性,作者在本文中详细介绍了各种阅读技巧及相关的应试策略,旨在帮助学生尽快提高阅读应试能力.     

认真对待身份权——以身份权的存在基础为视角

一个重要的法律概念往往有其特定的社会关系和思想理论的背景。身份权作为民法学的基础概念之一,其存在有两个重要基础:身份关系和平等人格。身份权应当是民事主体因特定身份而享有的权利;身份权的客体为此身份所产生法律上的某种特定利益;身份权的类型深受立法影响。     

Taking Comics Seriously: Children’s Periodical Reading in England in the 1990s

Periodicals, that is newspapers, magazines and comics, have always represented a substantial proportion of children’s reading outside school. They have not always been accepted or considered as reading within schools. Martin Coles and Chris Hall here present the results of the most recent survey to shed light on the periodical reading which is actually happening among today’s children. They present some important findings which have the potential to alter significantly the ways teachers see this kind of reading and its possible contribution to the development of literacy.     

Taking the Future Seriously: On the Inadequacies of the Framework of Liberalism for Environmental Education

International reports on environmental policy promote 'education for sustainable development' as an instrument for realising environmental awareness, values and attitudes consistent with the liberal concept of 'sustainable development'. In this paper the ethical and political-philosophical assumptions of (education for) sustainable development will be criticised. First, it will be argued that (Rawlsian) liberal ethics cannot include obligations towards future generations. Second, the commentary focuses on the economic perspective underlying this liberal framework, its anthropocentric bias and the hierarchical distinction between public and private spheres. Third, to offer a more adequate framework for environmental education, some fruitful ideas within neo-republicanism will be examined.     

How to Motivate Students to be Active in Class

Motivation is regarded as the greatest single factor contributing to academic success.Students may vary in ability,in experience and in reaction to learning,but their quality ofperformance will depend on how much they are motivated to perform.Some will study orpractice for hours,while others devote less time and possibly accept a lower level ofperformance.Problems in teaching EnglishIn China,it is very common for students to be treated as passive recipients in class.They are trained in this …     

课堂的使命:为人生播种希望的种子

课堂的使命是为人生播种希望的种子。通过解放学生和放飞学生来为学生人生播种希望的种子：解放学生的眼睛，让学生学会观察；解放学生的头脑：让学生学会思考；解放学生的嘴巴：让学生学会表达；解放学生的双手：让学生学会创造；解放学生的耳朵：让学生学会倾听；解放学生的心灵：让学生学会感悟。通过解放与放飞，最终学生收获的将是“聪明”与“智慧”。     

学好高中数学并不难

本文通过问卷调查,发现高一许多的学生觉得数学难学,进一步通过分析造成这种现象的原因,提出了几条建议。     

Students with special educational needs: transitions from primary to secondary school

This article looks at the experiences of young people with Statements of special educational needs prior to and following moves from primary to secondary school. Pam Maras and Emma-Louise Aveling of the University of Greenwich, London, used interviews to develop six qualitative case studies focusing on the transition process. Findings from these case studies reveal that the young people varied in their expectations and needs during the transition to secondary school, and that schools differed in the quality and efficacy of the support systems they provide. Parents' and carers' responses suggest that additional support services were not necessarily the most beneficial way to provide for all of the young people. What did appear to be beneficial was continuity of support throughout the transition to a new school, and the provision of a dedicated space within the school, such as a special needs unit. Several of the young people adapted easily alongside their peers without special educational needs, while others required more structured support. Pam Maras and Emma-Louise Aveling suggest that effective communication between support services, the young person, and their parents can facilitate successful transitions by allowing support to be tailored to individual students' needs.     

Voices of home and school on democracy and human rights education at the primary level: a case study

The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of home and school concerning ideally implemented primary democracy and human rights education. In this qualitative study, data were collected from six voluntary classroom teachers and 16 parents in a selected school through interviews. The results of the interview yielded five major themes: physical and environmental issues, instructional process, teacher characteristics, assessment practices, and communication patterns for teaching democracy and human rights ideally. Most of the participants also indicated the lack of partnership between home and school. The results showed that there are gaps between the existing and desired conditions of democracy and human rights education in schools.     

大学生素质教育中的自学能力培养探析

对大学生自学能力的培养与素质教育的问题进行综述。探讨了培养大学生自学能力的必要性、可能性及具体方法,这在提倡素质教育的今天具有极为重要的意义。     

Learning to be 'Tough': The fostering of maleness in one primary school

In recent years there has been an increase in studies on masculinity and schooling. The focus has largely been upon boys' experiences of secondary schooling and how schools actively produce a range of masculinities. This paper explores the interrelationship between masculinity, primary schools and the local community and culture. The data is drawn from a year-long ethnographic study of an inner-city primary school in the north-east of England.