Cultural Transmission and Inter-generational Interaction

A number of educationists have attacked the concept of cultural transmission as being unable to cover adequately the complex process of interaction that takes place in education. This attack poses a serious challenge to educational research, which generally assumes that cultural transmission has an important place in the educational process. Should this assumption prove to be unfounded, the foundations of educational research would be undermined. This article defends the concept of cultural transmission against the three main criticisms that have been levelled against it, and concludes that it remains a valuable one for educational researchers.     

Cultural capital and gender differences in parental involvement in children's schooling and higher education choice in China

This article employs the concept of cultural capital to examine the ways in which social difference in terms of gender are played out in parental involvement in children's schooling and higher education choice. The intention has been to provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which Chinese mothers and fathers are involved in the process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 47 secondary school students and 50 parents in Beijing. This article reveals that the transmission of cultural capital is gendered. Mothers have a different and more direct relationship to the generation of cultural capital than fathers. This article reveals that patriarchal relationships are common among Chinese families, with fathers having a controlling role and mothers having a servicing one. I suggest that the traditional cultural norms, such as that based on Confucian patriarchy, have had influences on gender relationships in the transmission of cultural capital to children's educational achievement.     

教育管理的文化转向

从20世纪60年代开始,科学观出现了文化转向,整个人文社会科学研究开始走向对文化的关注。人是文化的动物,教育管理的核心是对人的管理,教育管理也凸现文化转向。今日教育管理理论却走上了一条构筑大帐篷的道路。这种多元综合实质就是教育管理文化转向的体现。教育管理的文化转向具有一系列的表征,在教育管理观、管理组织、管理职能、管理的民族性和研究方法上有所显现。     

Immigrant teachers: stories of self and place

Teachers’ lives have been the focus of much recent research on teaching, and we now have rich, detailed understandings of how teachers develop a ‘teaching self,’ in the context of concrete details of biography, school settings, relationships and educational systems within which teachers work. What we lack is a sense of the teacher in a place—a specific location that holds meaning, that matters to those who inhabit it. The concept of ‘place’ has been neglected in contemporary education, yet it seems to be an important one for postmodern times. This article will examine the stories of immigrant teachers in Israel, people who have undertaken to teach in a culture different from the one in which they themselves were educated. Teachers who have made a transition from one cultural setting to another are likely to have developed an awareness of teaching and schooling in the new culture that other teachers may not have. Their stories reveal what it means in the chosen culture to tell one’s story and give an account of one’s career and work as a teacher. The stories of seven immigrant teachers, in dialogue with the researcher’s story, highlight losses and gains in the journey toward a new teaching self, and reveal something of what the process of finding or making a place for oneself—both in the new culture and as a teacher—is like.     

Educational Spaces of Cultural Capitalism: The Concept of Consumer Culture as a New Framework for Contemporary Educational Research

This article introduces a specific concept of consumer culture into the international and European discussion about new concepts and categories in comparative education. Basic meanings of consumer culture are presented in reference to consumer research, consumer culture theory, and a revisited concept of world polity. In addition to general reflexions, two educational programs from UNESCO—on sustainable consumption and lifestyles, and on cultural diversity and national cultural heritage—are analyzed to show how education and educational research can benefit from the concept of consumer culture. The article proposes to conceive consumer culture as the educational space of global cultural capitalism.     

Reconstructing Imagined Finnishness: The Case of Art Education through the Concept of Place

This multidisciplinary article presents a methodology, a research project and selected outcomes from an environmental art education course for teacher students. The course is part of an art education minor at the University of Helsinki, Department of Teacher Education. The students were asked to construct their place through an intertextual art method that provided them the means to study their place open‐endedly as a space of plural cultural meanings. Applying the results from their intertextual process, they reconstructed their place artistically. The end product was a personal work of art that included traces of their chosen places, and created a new meaning for it. The outcome is a visual space of compacted meanings from different places. Places contain history and memories important to identity construction. The results show that the intertextual reading extends the students’ concept of place as a space for relational and plural cultural meanings. Foucault's concept of heterotopia, as it applies to otherness of places and spaces, was used alongside the intertextual art method.     

Art and Lifelong Learning

It is argued, through the example of art education seen from a broad cultural perspective, that the concept of lifelong learning implies common terms of reference for learning in all contexts in which learning takes place, especially in schools, colleges and universities. This implies a common approach to standards at all levels of formal educational provision. The disparity of school art and art in other learning contexts is discussed, and concepts of standards currently in use are examined and found to be highly problematic. The idea of practitioner referenced standards is introduced in relation to standards derived from educational theory and practice. In the case of art these are considered in terms of ‘what it is that artists do; what it means to engage with a work of art at first hand; what people have to say about artists and works of art; and what it means to engage in learning’. Ways of relating these standards to each other and to lifelong learning in the context of a research rationale for an art curriculum are put forward. In conclusion, it is suggested that co-ordination of the current review of the National Curriculum and the developmental work on standards currently being undertaken by the QAA would represent a basis for the establishment of appropriate standards for lifelong learning, although this would require a new level of co-operation between the relevant educational sectors. Such standards would assist in reducing the possibility that lifelong learning could develop as a further isolated and self-justifying educational sector in a divided national educational system. They would also provide an opportunity for post-modern thinking to make a worthwhile contribution to educational debate.     

Struggling for the soul of education: Towards accountability policy research

This chapter summarises the findings of the chapters above and derives research questions. It identifies potential domains of future policy research in accountability. Since beliefs about what constitutes knowledge and how learning can be demonstrated determine how educational accountability is to be accomplished, it concludes that such research will be central in the struggle for the soul of education. It also recommends cooperative methodologies that attend simultaneously to technical, economic, cultural, political, strategic and philosophical dimensions of a communitarian concept of accountability.     

Using Bourdieu’s concept of doxa to illuminate classed practices in an English fee-paying school

Especially in research on the ‘classed practice’ of educational decision-making, it is striking how the Bourdieuian concepts of habitus and capital have dominated. With a tendency to focus on the middle-classes’ ability to accumulate and deploy cultural capital, less attention has been given to the role of the educational institution and its place in the field. This article draws from interviews and field notes taken from time spent within a fee-paying school in the south of England. I argue that the school and parents are engaged in the production, display and consumption of cultural capital. Through Bourdieu’s notion of ‘doxa’ we gain an understanding of how the school and parents negotiate a very particular classed practice.     

文化育人理念下高职院校思想政治教育探究

文章主要对文化育人理念下高职院校思想政治教育工作进行探究,并指出文化育人理念下的思想政治教育工作对于学生的积极作用非常明显,应引起有关人员的重视。文章首先对高职院校现阶段思想政治教育情况进行了分析,而后对文化育人理念下的教育意义做了说明,最后对具体的教育内容及方法进行探究,以期为有关人员提供资料方面的参考。     

The issue of the arrangement of new environments for science education through collaborative actions between schools,museums and science centres in the Brazilian context of teacher training

We present, in this article, an investigation about the potential of the relationship between formal and non-formal educational environments. Therefore it is not an empirical research, but an essay on the topic. This paper demonstrates the concept that science education and science outreach can be privileged by actions that are developed by closer relations between formal and non-formal places. Currently, non-formal environments such as museums and science and technology centres are considered potential educational resources within the reach of schools. Educators from museums have conducted studies which demonstrate a predominant model of the utilization of these institutions by teachers, which consists of illustrative visits during the exhibitions, but does not feature a collaborative relationship or partnership between schools and these institutions. In Brazil, the main examples of approaches to collaboration between these places and schools have been taking place through the initiatives of teachers or through projects developed by the educational sector, aiming to broaden the dialogue between their institutions and the school community. Another approach mechanism relates to research and extension projects developed by university researchers, sponsored by state and federal funding agencies. In this case, the universities and university museums appear as new social actors that stand in the way of the schools and the cultural environments, complicating the relationship and, at the same time, bringing new questions to the field of educational research. We believe that the discourse in this paper should bring about further discussions in the initial teacher training courses to contribute to the understanding of practices related to the extension of the field of activity of the school.     

An Empirical Study of Gender Difference in the Relationship between Self‐Concept and Mathematics Achievement in a Cross‐Cultural Context

The reciprocal relationship between mathematics achievement and self‐concept is examined in this study to expand the existing knowledge to a cross‐cultural setting. Based on analyses of educational data two years before and after Hong Kong’s sovereignty switch in 1997, this investigation shows a weak reciprocal relationship among the eighth‐grade students across gender categories. With the introduction of a new policy to promote Chinese instruction, changes in the perceived importance of English have been assessed by education stakeholders, and the results are used to indicate a latent factor of “English push” behind the learning process. In the context of cross‐cultural transition, gender differences have been found in path coefficients toward mathematics achievement and self‐concept. Limited by the four‐year research period, one may speculate whether it would take longer to demonstrate a large effect size in the reciprocal relationship.     

Female education and the cultural transfer of pedagogical knowledge in the eighteenth century

In the eighteenth century, the German pedagogical discourse took place within the broader framework of an international circulation of pedagogical concepts and ideas. The trans-cultural nature of these intellectual exchanges is particularly evident in the thoughts and writings on female education. Translations of books and essays played a significant role in this transfer of pedagogical knowledge. The article focuses on the manner in which educational thought circulated across borders by studying one case in detail. The examination of John Burton’s Lectures on Female Education and Manners (1793), which was published in German in several editions, will place particular emphasis on the manner in which educational ideas emerging from a specific cultural context are adopted into a different discursive system. The research methodology is based on the concept of “cultural transfer”, an approach that has proven fruitful in transfer and comparative studies in recent years. It refers to key aspects of transfer theory, especially the consideration that ideas do not spread autonomously, but must be carried by intermediaries. Thus, the mechanisms of importing foreign cultural assets and the context of its reception will be at the core of this work.     

非物质文化遗产“衍生态”衍生之传播根源探寻

诸多非物质文化遗产在传承过程中,产生了与原生态相异的"衍生态"并依此重获了生命力。究非物质文化遗产"衍生态"衍生之源,与其公共文化属性传播不无相关。以公共文化存在的非物质文化遗产经由传播后源生的意义由解码过程决定,由于该解码环节发生于接受者对文化原义部分认同、部分对抗的协商立场中,最终产生的将是一种经过修整的意义。由此,非物质文化遗产经由传播后发生意义变迁进而产生"衍生态"成为了一种必然。     

文化的教育思考

文化固然是“内涵相对稳定与窄小的”专业化概念 ,但更应是关涉着人类“生活样式”之塑造和人生“意义之网”之编织的生活化概念。立足人类“生活样式”塑造和人生“意义之网”编织的文化解读 ,将给我们教育与文化关系的认识提供一个新的支点 ,即文化的教育思考。这一思考 ,不单关涉到教育理念的设定、教育构成要素的文化解释 ,还将推进我们教育文化学的学科建构     

教育研究的政策价值之反思

教育研究的政策价值是目前颇受关注的教育研究应用功能之一。长期以来,研究人员热衷于政策导向研究,政策部门希望得到结论或者处方,这种研究应用的工具模型带来双方的失望乃至指责。教育研究与教育政策活动是两种不同的社会精神实质和文化,研究在政策过程中的作用不是解释、论证、提供处方,而是启迪观念、推进知识和促进理解。教育研究要实现其政策价值,应当坚持学术批判精神,改进研究方式和提升学术品质。     

大学生幸福观误区及教育路径

大学生幸福观是一个值得探究的重要人生问题。当前大学生幸福观存在着注重物质、个人、结果、虚无幸福,忽视精神、社会、过程、现实幸福的误区,主要由社会环境复杂化、学校教育异己化、家庭关怀淡漠化、个人感知弱化等因素所致。引导大学生形成健康的幸福观,可以通过价值融入、预警导航、文化渗透、情感体验等多种路径实现。     

民办高校与和谐文化建设

民办高校既是文化机构,又是教育机构,因此它在和谐文化建设中担负历史责任.民办高校建设和谐文化的途径,一是培养和谐人才,为和谐文化建设提供人力资源;二是通过校园文化建设,发挥"和谐文化辐射源"作用.     

京剧行当翻译中的文化传递

在京剧行当的翻译中,所要传递的是中国传统文化的精髓。翻译时,必须以中华文化作为中心文化进行翻译,以此达到传递文化的目的。文章阐述了翻译与文化传递的关系,以及文化传递中的中心文化,分析了现存京剧行当翻译中存在的一些问题,指出在京剧行当术语的翻译过程中,没有任何一种方法可以通用。只有充分理解其文化内涵、结合相关内容,译名才能更好地传递中华文化,让中华文化为更多人所了解。