MAD ABOUT IDEALS? EDUCATING CHILDREN TO BECOME REASONABLY PASSIONATE

Abstract The current public concern about radicalization and extremism challenges philosophers and particularly philosophers of education to explore questions such as “Why do adolescents with strong ideas transgress?” and “What can we do about it?” The first question can be addressed by examining the role of their passionate commitment to their ideals as well as how this passion manifests in their pursuit of these ideals. The second question refers to the role of education in orienting and directing young people’s passionate attachment to and pursuit of ideals. In this essay, Stijn M.A. Sieckelinck and Doret J. de Ruyter argue that educating children to become reasonably passionate about ideals is a justifiable, and in fact an important, educational aim. This educational aim rests upon the notion that people take a rational, moral, and prudent stance toward their ideals and that they pursue their ideals in a way limited (yet also enabled) by rational, moral, and prudent considerations. While extremism is not likely to be defeated by educational efforts only, democratic citizenship demands urgent educational attention to young people’s passion for ideals.     

浅析高校非党员高知群体理想信念教育

对高校非党员高知群体进行理想信念教育非常重要,有利于党的政策贯彻落实、高校学生理想信念坚定和新时代人才培养。但当前高校非党员高知群体理想信念教育方面仍存在一些问题,要完善理想信念教育评价考核体制机制,加强对高校非党员高知群体关怀,丰富理想信念教育内容,拓展理想信念教育途径,发挥优秀党员的先锋模范作用。     

高职学生恋爱观的现状及对策——闽西职业技术学院个案分析

面对"恋爱是大学生活的一部分"这个事实,关键的问题是如何去引导、教育、帮助。高职院校必须主动关注大学生的恋爱生活,通过理想信念教育、恋爱观普及教育、个体化辅导、网络咨询、恋爱挫折干预等方式,及时纠正不正确的恋爱观念和恋爱行为,疏导恋爱矛盾和纠纷,引导大学生客观、冷静、正确地审视自己的恋爱状况和恋爱观念,从而树立正确的恋爱观。     

略论如何做好高校专职辅导员的工作

专职辅导员在高校大学生教育的管理工作中起着至关重要的作用。因此，结合工作实践，积极探索做好专职辅导员的经验和规律，这对于进一步促进高校大学生的教育和管理工作，提高大学生的综合素质，把他们培养成为“四有新人”，具有重要的意义。     

加强当代大学生的理想信念教育的思考

我们党历来都非常重视理想信念教育,并将共同的理想和信念看作是我们革命与建设的真正优势。为了提高理想信念教育的有效性,根据当前大学生进行理想信念教育的思想状况分析,我们要强化科学理论的武装,夯实理想信念教育的基础;坚持"三贴近",批判错误思潮,宣扬社会进步;注重层次性引导,遵循理想信念生成规律。     

中国和古巴思想政治教育比较研究

中国、古巴两个社会主义国家都重视思想政治教育,重视思想政治教育指导思想的研究创新;教育内容上以本土化马克思主义理论为主体,强调爱国主义教育、理想信念教育与社会主义道德教育的融合;教育途径上,注重发挥党的作用,重视学校思想政治教育的作用,善于发挥舆论宣传作用。系统的思想政治教育为两国社会主义建设的开展奠定了良好的政治基础。     

A Justification,after the Postmodern Turn,of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals

The implementation of education programmes in different cultures invites the question whether we are justified in doing so in cultures that may reject the programmes’ underlying principles. Are there indeed ethical principles and educational ideals that can be justified as applicable to all cultures? After a consideration of Zygmunt Bauman's postmodern rejection of the possibility of universal ethics, Ι cite and extend Harvey Siegel's defence of multiculturalism as a transcultural ethical ideal. I conclude the paper with a justification of the transcultural normative reach of moral principles that I have elsewhere defended as the ethics of integrity. The paper's significance lies in its justification of educational interventions founded in these principles across different cultures.     

融美育于免费师范生职业理想教育之中

理想信念教育是大学生思想政治教育工作的核心,职业理想教育则是理想信念教育的重要内容。免费师范教育作为我国当代师范教育的新举措,是提升国家整体教育质量的有效尝试。免费师范生长期教书育人的职业理想教育意义重大,需要教育者采取多样的方式帮助其坚定理想。而融美育于免费师范生职业理想教育之中,是对其教育实效性的创造性探索。教育者需要塑造其职业理想审美意识,促进其职业理想审美创设,以实现美育丰富职业理想和创设美好生活的目的,同时促进他们的全面发展。     

Computer training and general education

Is it possible to integrate ideals of general and liberal education into computer‐training programmes? To answer this question an analysis was made of computer training programmes for adults in Denmark. The results showed that the participants expressed a positive attitude towards computers and towards learning computer technology but they only expressed few and general expectations of the courses. This is problematic according to ideals of general education and of self‐directed learning. The organizers wanted to produce courses with general and enlightening contents but the form and contents of the actual courses only to a moderate degree realized the organizers’ intentions. The participants obtained a broad learning outcome. However, they only to a very moderate degree used this outcome at work or in relation to further education. The conclusion was that it is possible to integrate ideals of general and liberal education if computer training helps the participants to develop more precise intentions, if the teaching methods are modernized, and if the contents of the courses correspond better with the possibilities in the workplace.     

评估型政府与英国高等教育改革

评估型政府的概念揭示了西欧乃至世界范围高等教育改革的实质,为我们提供了一个分析高等教育改革的全新视角。评估型政府是各国为适应高等教育大众化而采取的重要战略。评估型政府追求质量、效率与绩效,重视评估并强调评估机构的地位与作用,实现了高等教育价值理念和市场、政府与高校之间关系的重构。本文将首先阐释评估型政府的概念、背景及其理念,并以此为视角对英国以评估型政府为特征的改革进行分析和反思。     

近代商人的教育理念及其办学特色

近代商人的教育理念是教育史研究领域中一个亟待开拓的园地。近代商人在对近代中国社会形势的审思中，形成了独具特色的教育理念：教育是国家富强之基、启民智必由教育、教育是传承传统伦理道德的重要载体。在以上教育理念的指导下，近代商人的办学特色突出表现为：鲜明的时代感、浓厚的传统伦理道德色彩、追求实学实能的教育功效等。     

Characterising and developing vocational mathematical knowledge

In this introductory article, I argue why this special issue focuses on the question of how the mathematical knowledge required at work can be characterised and developed in vocational education and workplace training. After some words on the importance of this subfield of mathematics education and the need to rethink metaphors of learning in this area, I summarise the structure of the special issue and highlight a few main points raised in the various contributions.     

人文素质教育与大学生价值观的构建

大学生的价值观问题是高校思想政治教育中的一个非常重要的问题.文章通过对大学生生活的调查,揭示出大学生价值困惑迷茫的实质是理想信念的疑虑和价值观的缺失.价值观是全部精神生活的核心,价值观的缺失制约了大学生的成才.而正确价值观的形成,要以人文科学知识的学习为基础.因此,大学教育要加强对大学生的人文素质教育,引导大学生构建正确的价值观.     

A Process Approach to Community-Based Education: The People’s Free University of Saskatchewan

On the basis of insights provided by Whitehead and John Cobb, I show how the People’s Free University of Saskatchewan (PFU) is a working model of free, open, community-based education that embodies several characteristics of Whitehead’s philosophy of education. Formed in opposition to the growing commercialization at the original “people’s university,” (the University of Saskatchewan) the PFU has spawned distinctive ideals of its own. The PFU reflects Whitehead’s belief in the importance of shared knowledge fostered by community-based education, the value of abstract and practical knowledge, and the power of the imagination to establish a community of learners capable of acting freely together.     

Metamorphosis and the Management of Change

Talk of educational reform and of the importance of ‘the management of change’ in education and elsewhere is still in vogue. However it often seems concerned to persuade us that if we engage fully with change rather than resisting it we will find our lives more meaningful, thus omitting the important matter of the goal of the change in question. Change here is in any case invariably a euphemism for the impoverishment of education and the annihilation of its ideals, together with the deprofessionalisation of teachers and other educators. Recent writers about educational change tend to be less concerned with an ever‐changing, labile world than with how to make the transition—and make others make the transition—from one stable condition of things to another. Different ways of thinking about change, drawing on different literature, might help us see beyond the ways in which we are currently being asked to respond to educational change and reform.     

Educating voters: political education in Norwegian upper‐secondary schools

Research on political education in schools suggests that an emphasis on formal structure, constitutional principles, formal citizen rights, and debates on current issues is common. The Norwegian national curriculum on political education envisions a different political education emphasizing that students should be critical of political life and social structures, that they should be familiar with democratic ideals, learn how they may influence by means of various forms of political participation, and be motivated to do so. I examine whether these ambitions are realized at the classroom level. Based on qualitative interviews and classroom observations I conclude that Norwegian political education is centred on political parties and on an attempt to help students find out which party is closest to their preferences. Political education takes the form of voter training for competitive élite democracy.     

Social Studies,Social Competence and Citizenship in Early Childhood Education: Developmental Principles Guide Appropriate Practice

The purpose of this article is to examine the nature of appropriate social studies education in the Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten years. The importance of social competence development as a basic foundation of the social studies in the early years of schooling is examined, with particular attention to the commonalities shared between goals and strategies for social competence and for civic ideals and practices. Knowledge of developmental direction in child development is described and illustrated as a tool for considering the importance of using close-to-home lessons built on children’s own experiences, prior to lessons about more distal concepts. Historical foundations of developmentally appropriate social studies are revisited, and their relevance is discussed, with regard to social studies education in the kindergartens and pre-kindergartens of today.     

促进人的发展:理想教育的本质使命

理想是人的发展的结果,又反作用于人的发展.促进人的发展,是理想教育的本质规定性.理想教育促进人的发展,通过促使受教育者完成从社会理想个体化到个体理想社会化的过程来实现.     

陶行知与近代中国的交通事业——纪念陶行知先生诞辰110周年

陶行知先生作为一个有改造中国的远大抱负的教育家，他对近代中国的关注并不局限于教育领域，他对近代中国交通事业的发展也极为重视。他认为，交通和教育都是国家根本之计，都是应当提倡的。