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 the Curriculum Seriously

Critics argue that formative assessment, an educational intervention that has been embraced globally and researched extensively, lacks a theoretical frame. In this essay, the author argues that because formative assessment is embedded in the learning that takes place in the classroom, the theory that underpins formative assessment would have to be a theory of learning and not of assessment.     

Creating Green Citizens? Political Liberalism and Environmental Education

This paper considers whether the promotion of an environmental ethic in schools is compatible with the political liberal's commitment to ‘neutrality’. A new account of the implications of John Rawls's political liberalism for the ‘basic structure’ of education is developed. The prima facie incompatibility of political liberalism and the promotion of an environmental ethic is misleading. Rawls's political liberalism requires—as a matter of intergenerational justice—the promotion of the ‘sustainability virtues’. Moreover, it permits the promotion of ‘greener’ ideals.     

Political Liberalism and Civic Education: The Liberal State and its Future Citizens

This article evaluates the conception of citizenship embodied in political liberalism as the core ingredient of a national syllabus designed to provide an uncontroversial yet substantial education in moral and political values in a liberal democratic state system. I argue ( pace recent work by Stephen Macedo) that Rawls's paradigmatic version of political liberalism fails to avoid begging the political question against those who do not share liberal values. I contend in particular that Rawls's defence of the distinction between comprehensive and political values and his assignment of priority to the latter, invokes an idea of what is politically reasonable that involves a comprehensive and therefore controversial liberal conception of the person.     

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.     

国际环境教育与可持续未来——澳大利亚环境教育国际会议综述

本文介绍了1999年澳大利亚环境教育国际会议在“环境教育与可持续未来”、“培养了解和关心环境的公民”以及“营造各层次可持续发展共同体”等方面 ,对环境教育的现状、目标、对策、国际与合作的讨论 ,并介绍了澳大利亚环境教育的基本情况     

以环境教育为契机的可持续发展人才培养策略

以西南大学附属中学为例,探讨了以跨学科环境知识渗透可持续发展教育理念、与大学及国际接轨的环保人才培养策略为契机,开展以环保科研项目为载体的研究性学习活动,并总结了以环境教育为契机的可持续发展人才培养策略的成效。     

高校大学生环境教育刍议

坚持科学发展观、实现我国的环境治理,必须拓展高校德育的内容,进行大学生环境教育.本文论述了开展高校大学生环境教育的必要性,阐述了开展高校大学生环境教育的目标、内容、方法和途径,并在借鉴发达国家高校大学生环境教育经验的基础上,提出了推动我国高校大学生环境教育的对策.     

A Framework for Quality Assurance in Globalization of Higher Education: A View Toward the Future

In this paper we theorize a framework for discussing quality assurance of globalized models of education used internationally. The philosophical assumption that homogeneity of perspectives achieves objectivity in practice is argued against using the examples of (a) Brain drain, and (b) Profit over quality. We present a coherent real world scenario for the abstract ideas on inequities in Sriraman and Adrian (Interchange Q Rev Educ 39(1):119–130, 2008) with a meta-analytical support of the literature.     

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.     

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.     

关于素质教育目标体系的构架问题

本文针对素质教育活动中目标体系的细化有序化问题 ,进行初步建构。     

Influencing the Future Through Innovations in Environmental Engineering Education

Global scenarios for the next 30 years indicate increasing population, greater demand for higher standards of living, and more consumption, leading to increased air, water and land pollution; climatic change; and the depletion of and competition for natural resources. To avoid global catastrophes and conflicts, sustainable systems are required that integrate cultural and technological change. Engineers and technologists have a key role not only in developing sustainable technologies but also in promoting the cultural changes needed. High quality environmental education and training is essential if engineering professionals are to become pro-active rather than reactive, to influence the future. This paper describes examples of innovative educational and training systems, partnerships and networks with regional, national and international objectives.     

农村环境教育体系:一个理论框架的构建

农村环境教育是当前环境教育的重点、难点,在社会转型的特殊时期和农户分享改革成果的愿望日益强烈的关键阶段,迫切需要构建一套完整的农村环境教育体系。在科学把握农村环境教育体系内涵基础上,从参与主体、供给模式、内容构成等方面对农村环境教育体系进行了重新构建。通过合理的农村环境教育供给模式,建立政府——农户双向沟通机制,达到资源的优化配置,为我国农村环境教育战略的顺利实施提供理论借鉴和决策依据。     

试论成人教育的“根”与“归”——关于成人教育未来走向的思考

成人教育扎根于人类的生活实践,并在实践中形成了一套自己的独特的生活文化模式,本质上是为生活服务的。本文从人类文明发展的几个有代表性的时期,即蒙昧时期、农耕文明时期、工业文明时期和后工业文明时期分析了各个历史时期的文化思想和哲学思想对成人教育的影响,分析了当前成人教育所遭遇的困境,从而预测未来成人教育应该回归生活。     

我国成人教育未来之路——基于六次世界成人教育大会的研究

世界成人教育已兴起了近一个世纪,成人教育理论与实践都有了一定的积淀。特别是六次国际成人教育大会的召开,为成人教育的发展总结了经验、指明了方向。本文试图参照六次大会的发展,简析我国成人教育的发展趋势。     

Taking Students Seriously: Their rights to be safe at school

In a broader study of students' rights at school, high school students in New Zealand were asked about whether gay/lesbian/bisexual students would feel safe at their school. Data are reported from a nationwide survey of 107 high schools involving 821 students (aged 15-16 years) and 438 staff who responded to a questionnaire. The article focuses on how students and staff describe attitudes to lesbian/gay/bisexual students, and identifies the most prevalent discourses, including a counter-discourse of acceptance. Although attention to a discourse of acceptance risks the effect of undermining the implications of extreme violence against lesbian/gay/bisexual students, it also challenges the pervasive construction of lesbian/gay/bisexual students as victims. The authors argue that attention to discourses of acceptance might open up further discursive and material strategies for working towards the safety of all school students, including lesbian/gay/bisexual students.     

“以学为主”教学模式初探

本文从分析传统教学模式对于学生创新能力的培养存在不足入手，提出了“以学为主”的新的教学模式的构想，并阐述了这种教学模式的主要特点以及运用“以学为主”教学模式应意的问题，从理论上证明了“以学为主”的教学模式是院校教育系统改革的一个重要环节，也是开展以“创新教育”为核心的素质教育的必要要求。