The neo-liberal education policies of epimeleia heautou: caring for the self in school markets

The paper argues that neo-liberal education policy has capitalized on a historical concern to care for the self, or the Greek epimeleia heautou. We discuss epimeleia heautou in relation to education policies that emphasize greater choice in curriculum offerings, and in relation to school choice policies more generally. Thus, a premise of our argument is that school choice policies accommodate a much greater range of selves to be cared for. The analysis examines the neo-liberal subject, homo ?conomicus, in relation to education policy that produces choices of the self and choices for its care. We conclude by discussing conceptions of the self in relation to two aporias of neo-liberal educational equality produced through ethnic-specific schools.     

现代远程教育对大学教育的影响

现代远程教育是一种新型的教育方式。分散学习、开放性学习和自主性学习的现代远程教育正在影响着传统大学教育,给大学教育的发展带来了机遇和挑战。本文分析了现代远程教育的定位,重点论述了现代远程教育对大学的影响。     

What matters in education: a decomposition of educational outcomes with multiple measures

Significant variations in educational outcomes across both the spatial and socioeconomic spectra in Australia have been widely debated by policymakers in recent years. This paper examines these variations and decomposes educational outcomes into 3 major input factors: availability of school resources, socioeconomic background, and a latent factor that links to the specificities of the local education system such as efficiencies. The proposed method respects the multi-dimensional nature of educational outcomes by estimating structural parameters of an extended education production function with multiple outcome measures. The results indicate that all factors contribute to the variations. Nevertheless, socioeconomic factors dominate non-school-based measures such as the tertiary education enrolment rate. The study also reveals significant differences in education system efficiencies across areas, suggesting compounding factors are often responsible for poor educational performance.     

关于建国以来影响人发展因素研究的述评

从“二因素论”到“多因素论”,直到“综合因素论”和“二层次三因素论”的研究走向,表明人们对影响人发展因素的研究视域在逐步扩大,研究方法由平面走向立体、由静态分析走向动态演化,教育学立场更加鲜明;也表明随着时代的发展,影响人发展的因素本身日益凸显教育主导性、人的主动性和实践性的重要特征。     

应用型本科院校案例教学效果影响因素调查研究——以常熟理工学院市场营销专业为例

随着中国高等教育体制的改革,高等教育正在从精英化教育转向大众化教育,培养应用型人才已经成为很多本科院校的目标。本文以常熟理工学院市场营销专业作为调查样本,采用定性和定量相结合的方法研究了影响应用型本科院校案例教学效果的主要因素。结果发现,案例教学方式、学生学习态度、案例教学效果和教师教学因素等均会对案例教学效果产生影响。     

布迪厄的社会实践理论:教育史研究的新视角——以明清时期潮州民系民俗教育为例

近年来,教育史研究取得的成果是有目共睹的,但也必须承认仍存在一些不足。在布迪厄社会实践理论的视域下,我们可以借鉴资本理论从系统性视角理清学校教育、家庭教育、社会教育在培养人的过程中所发挥的不同作用及其相互影响;借鉴场域理论从互动性视角摆正教育与政治、经济、文化等因素的关系;借鉴惯习理论从深层性视角抓住赋予区域教育各具特色的根源。     

Burnout,Job Satisfaction and Instructional Assignment‐related Sources of Stress in Greek Special Education Teachers

In the literature concerning Greek special education teachers, there is little evidence regarding the perceived levels of burnout, job satisfaction, and job‐related stress factors. The present study focused on the above issues. A sample of 127 Greek special education teachers at the primary school level was tested with the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Employee Satisfaction Inventory, and the Inventory of Job‐related Stress Factors (an instrument created for this study). Results indicated that Greek special education teachers reported average to low levels of burnout. They reported moderately high levels of satisfaction with their job, the principal, and the school organisation as a whole; they also reported average satisfaction with work conditions and low satisfaction with prospects of promotion and pay. Four factors were identified on the job‐related stress factors: teaching in a multi‐category classroom, programme organisation and implementation, assessment of students, and collaborations with other special education experts and parents. The special education teachers perceived none of these issues as particularly overwhelming. Moreover, few significant effects of age, gender, and family status were identified. The above results are consistent with other studies that have focused on Greek regular education teachers, which have indicated that, in general, this group do not experience high levels of occupational stress.     

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.     

新建本科院校教育质量影响因素特殊性分析

随着教育的大众化,教育质量受到普遍重视,越来越多的人开始寻找保证和提高教育质量的策略。在这种背景下,新建本科院校作为教育界的新生力量,必须审视影响其教育质量的因素。在新建本科院校发展过程中,教育管理体制与制度、物质资源整合、校园文化建设、学科专业设置、师资队伍、学校生源质量、教育经费投入等因素具有的特殊性,很大程度上影响了其教育质量。     

Pre‐service teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion of students with high support needs in regular classrooms in Bangladesh

In the process of educational reforms for promoting equity and inclusion in education, pre‐service teacher preparedness has been identified as a vital factor that has an impact on the success of inclusive education. Bangladesh, like other parts of the world, has taken various initiatives to promote inclusive education in the country context. This study is an attempt to explore factors related to pre‐service teachers’ preparedness for inclusive education in Bangladesh. The current study is an extension of the work completed in previous studies and specifically examined participants’ attitudes and factors that influenced their attitudes. Following a mixed method design, this multi‐phase study measured 1,623 pre‐service teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education in phase 1. By applying a multiple regression procedure, several variables were identified that impacted on pre‐service teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion. The results indicated that Bangladeshi pre‐service teachers hold a less positive attitude towards the inclusion of children who have high support needs (that is, those who use Braille or sign language, or those who need to have an Individualised Academic Programme). In order to better understand the findings about apprehensive attitudes among pre‐service teachers, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with six institutional heads of pre‐service teacher education institutions. The interviews provided a new perspective on apprehensive attitudes among participants. Several curriculum reform suggestions are made that may have implications for policy‐makers and researchers in Bangladesh and beyond.     

博士生培养环境满意度对其学习收获的影响——基于某高校1350份博士生满意度调查的分析

博士生培养环境是影响博士研究生日常学习生活的关键因素,也是推进新时代研究生教育发展需要考虑的重要因素之一。通过对某校博士生满意度的实证研究发现:院校的管理服务对其学习收获的正向影响最为突出,其次是精神培养环境,包括学习氛围、就业指导与心理咨询服务等。为进一步加强博士生培养质量管理,提高博士生满意度,进而提升其学习收获,应深入分析培养环境各因素的内在作用机理,掌控改进博士研究生培养环境的要素。     

Graduate Students’ Satisfaction with Graduate Education

Various investigators have proposed that factors intrinsic to a particular situation, i.e., training, education, specific jobs, should have a significantly higher relationship with overall satisfaction than should factors extrinsic to that situation (4, 10). This study was designed to investigate the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on graduate students’ satisfaction with their graduate education. To achieve this purpose, an instrument, the Graduate Education Questionnaire (GEQ), was administered to sixty-two graduate students in business at a large, southeastern university. Essentially, they were asked to rate their degree of satisfaction with a series of variables suggested as being important to their graduate education. Contrary to expectations, the results of this study indicated that a set of variables intrinsic to graduate students’ education did not predict overall satisfaction significantly better than a set of extrinsic variables. Similar results have also been confirmed in other contexts as well (5). From the data collected, implications of the results are discussed.     

Student performance in teacher education in Norway: the impact of student,institutional and structural factors

Many education systems face a challenge in recruiting graduates as teachers. This is also the situation in Norway and the newest estimates tell us that we will lack 9000 teachers in 2020. The situation is made even worse by the high number of dropouts and low performance rates in teacher education. There are many factors which have an impact on study performance and progress. Some factors are at student level, some at institutional or programme level and others at structural level. In the present article, we will discuss how students attending two different teacher education programmes at a university college in Norway negotiate between their studies and the need to earn money and the consequences this has for their study performance. We focus on student-level factors and how the university college organises its campus programmes. The findings are based on a quantitative study among 401 student teachers.     

The developmental history of labor education in South Korea from a sociopolitical and economic perspective

Although there is a considerable body of research regarding the relationships between the sociopolitical and economic transition and its implications for the education system in South Korea, there is little known about how sociopolitical and economic factors affect labor education practice in South Korea. The premise of the study is that the development of labor education is driven not only by workers’ needs but also by the state's policy to increase productivity while keeping the labor movement and political expression under control. Since many educators often overlook the importance of labor education by excluding it from adult education, very few studies have been conducted to identify the relationship between sociopolitical and economic factors and labor education in South Korea. The purpose of the study is thus to examine the effect of particular combinations of social, political, and economic forces on the development and expansion of labor education in South Korea during the period between the 1960s and the 1990s. The results of the study can be compared with studies of other countries that underwent a similar pattern of political and economic transformation.     

西部地区基础教育课程改革现状调查研究

实际调查表明,基础教育课程改革以来,西部地区学校所面临的主要困难是：学校在教育资源、专家引领、教师培训、评价改革等几方面的不足对基础教育课程改革产生了较强的制约作用。     

Examining student immobility: a study of Irish undergraduate students

This paper explores student mobility among Irish higher education students. It specifically focuses on the profile of ‘stayers’, that is, students who have no plans to study abroad, thus addressing an underexplored topic in existing literature on student mobility. The article aims to identify factors that impact on students’ decisions not to pursue study abroad. Drawing on a national survey of students, Eurostudent V, the findings demonstrate that immobility is predicted by mother’s level of education and family income, showing the salience of socio-economic factors. Age and language proficiency are also visible factors, with the main obstacles to mobility being finances, language barriers and not wanting to separate from family and friends. Trends are also visible in the education institution a student is enrolled in, with those in institutes of technology more likely to be immobile than those in universities.     

The analytic hierarchy process of the decision-making factors of African students in obtaining higher education in the United Arab Emirates

The mobility of African students beyond national territories has become common worldwide. However, the underlying reasons motivating students to leave their countries of origin in pursuit of higher education in other developing nations and why these factors are important have not been fully explored. This study attempts to explore why and how African students travel to the United Arab Emirates for higher education. A push-pull factor theory of the international student’s choice of destination is developed to identify factors influencing the choices made by these students. The analytic hierarchy process is used to examine the relative importance of these factors. The findings of this quantitative study indicate that learning environment and geographic proximity are the two most important factors for African students, while other factors have a moderate impact. The findings contribute to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the needs and choices of existing and potential students from this continent, with a view to applying a segmentation approach to attract these students.     

社会资本因素对个体高等教育需求的影响

对中国大陆三省一市10909名高中生和香港3157名高中生的调查研究发现,学生参与社团活动、家庭教育期望,无论是对中国大陆学生还是香港学生的高等教育需求都具有显著影响。家庭中兄弟姐妹的数量、家庭成员辅导学生功课、父母与子女沟通频率等因素,对中国大陆学生的高等教育需求具有显著影响;家庭社会网络广泛度、师生沟通频率,则对香港学生的高等教育需求具有显著影响。研究还发现,一些常被认为影响个体高等教育需求的因素,如家庭社会网络资源、父母与学校的联系等,对学生的高等教育需求并无显著影响。     

安徽省高等职业院校体育教师科研现状研究

作为高职院校体育教师,是体育教育方面第一手资料的掌握者,对于高等职业院校体育教育研究方面,有着得天独厚的条件,但体育教师本身的科研水平,已经成为制约高等职业技术学院体育教育发展的瓶颈,研究体育教师科研现状及其对策,将对体育教师科研发展提供有力的依据。通过对安徽省高职院校体育教师科研现状进行深入调查和分析,总结对安徽高职院校体育教师科研的影响因素,寻求解决方法,为高等职业教育体育教育的发展提供理论支持。     

美国学前教育改革的新动向——入学准备研究

学龄前儿童的入学准备研究,是目前美国学前教育改革的一个热门话题。文章揭示了影响入学准备的两个重要因素:学生和学校,并概述当前美国各州入学准备研究的情况以及对我国学前教育改革的一些启示。