Access to Schooling in a Post-Apartheid South Africa: Linking Concepts to Context

This paper focuses on the policy issue of expanding schooling in a post-apartheid South Africa. The Project of placing about two million children of school-going age in school is viewed as central to the rebuilding of South Africa. The paper argues that this project should be located within the peculiar history of this country's educational underdevelopment. Challenging the constraining influence of the New Right context should be central in conceptualising the provision of expanded school access. Access policy should be based on a notion of educational development that is linked to the overall socioeconomic development of this society. The view is promoted in this paper that a policy of quantitative expansion of schooling should not ignore the quality of such schooling.     

发展中国家如何致力于更加公平的教育——以印度和南非为例

教育公平是国际社会的共同追求,促进教育公平是各国政府不可推卸的责任.本文选取印度和南非这两个重要的发展中国家,分别从历史、法律、政策、财政等方面,梳理了两国政府在教育公平方面做出的不懈努力,以期为中国的教育公平问题提供一定的借鉴和启示.     

Universities,professional capabilities and contributions to the public good in South Africa

The generation of a public-good, capabilities-based approach to professional education in South African universities is outlined and proposed as a contribution to wider social transformation. The relevance and importance of understanding what Amartya Sen describes as ‘capability failure' in the lives of people living in poverty is explored and, following from this, how professionals ought to contribute by virtue of their university education, and hence privilege, to making people's lives go better. The key criterion in developing and evaluating professional education is then how professionals are educated to expand the scope of effective freedoms each person has to lead a life she has reason to value, underpinned at all times with respect for human dignity. The process by which a Professional Capabilities Index (PCI) was generated theoretically and empirically is explained and the argument advanced for the PCI as a practical tool for professional education oriented to improving public services for the poor and, hence, the public good.     

The Debate on University Transformation in South Africa: the case of the University of the Western Cape

This paper examines issues in the transformation of the university system in a democratic South Africa utilising the University of the Western Cape as a case study. In particular, it questions how the University's 1982 Mission Statement, which defined its oppositional role in the apartheid period, might be revised to shape the universities radical traditions to the tasks of the contribution of a new social order.     

Education for Human Rights Democracy in Southern Africa: A Pilot Project in Mozambique,Namibia and Zimbabwe

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关于推进泉州学研究的若干思考--兼论泉州文化与闽南文化的关系

章对“泉州学”研究中所存在的问题进行了分析梳理,并从宏观方面与操作方面提出推进泉州与闽南历史化研究的对策。     

How teachers perceive the new curriculum reform: Lessons from a school district in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The meanings that a teacher attaches to the new curriculum reforms act as his or her map on the curriculum implementation journey, and these usually determine the success of the education reforms. This research article explores the meanings attached to the new Science curriculum reforms by primary school teachers in a school district in South Africa, where the perceived meanings emanated from, as well as the role they played in the implementation of the reforms in the classroom. It is argued that new curriculum reforms have to take place concurrently with other changes in order for them to have a significant and long-lasting effect. Three possible ways will be suggested that will help the teachers to avoid formulating reform meanings that are not aligned with the vision and goals of the new curriculum.     

中小学教师的理论自觉何以建构——基于教育理论方式转变的思考

教育学从原初时期到杜威时代都以寻求实践价值为目的 ,是作为实践学科的面目出现的.然而,至查尔斯·贾德主导芝加哥大学教育学院以后,教育学的理论方式发生了从育儿艺术到纯粹科学的转向.与其它经典学科一样,教育学术不再以实践功能为主要宗旨,而是以追求知识本身的生产为目的 .这是现代教育学及其理论方式改变的重要标志.伴随着教育理论方式的改变,教育理论逐渐淡化甚至抛弃教育的实践责任,将追求一流学术与成果视为学科的最高价值.这一转向给基础教育的实践带来巨大的冲击和挑战,教育理论不再像过去那样主动关注并为教育实践提供指导,中小学教师的教育研究越来越得不到教育理论的保护而处于孤立无援之中.这一趋势的进一步发展,有可能动摇基础教育的理论根基,甚至损害基础教育数十年改革的发展成果.     

论高校课外体育活动中运动损伤的产生与预防

高校课外体育活动是实现高校体育教育目标的一个重要途径 .但是活动中由于缺乏有力的预防措施 ,屡见不鲜的运动损伤正困扰着课外体育活动的正常开展 .所以只有在体育教学中传授有关运动损伤的知识 ,提出预防的措施、才可能使课外体育活动发挥真正锻炼身体、培养优秀品质 ,活跃校园文化生活的作用     

Education and skills for development in South Africa: Reflections on the accelerated and shared growth initiative for South Africa

In July 2005, President Mbeki announced the launch of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA), a new development strategy designed to help the South African state meet the ANC's 2004 election pledges, namely:

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halve unemployment;     

教育管理中的人性假设:特征、反思与转型

人性假设是教育管理思想发展的基本理论之源。教育管理中的人性假设具有以预成性人性观为逻辑基础,以生成性人性观为演绎前提,以人性自由为终极目的的基本特征。教育管理思想的演进与人们对人性认识的深化相伴而生,在西方教育管理发展史上,先后出现了"经济人""社会人""自我实现人"和"复杂人"等人性假设。经由哲学反思可以发现,它们都存在强调片面人性,忽视整体人性;重视预成人性,轻视人性生成;偏重人性"管理",忽略人性"教育"等认识弊端。实现教育管理思想的当代变迁,应首先完成教育管理人性观念从还原论到整体论,从预成论到生成论,从本体论到实践论的范式转型。     

From Protest to Challenge: Leadership and Higher Education Change in South Africa

The paper explores theemerging, and different, approaches toleadership in higher education, especially howthese approaches have shaped organisationalchange strategies at South African highereducation institutions. These issues areexamined within the context of the changes thatfollowed the promulgation of the new highereducation policy framework, as well as theemerging challenges of globalisation. Thefocus of the analysis is on the changing roleof leadership in higher education, with aspecific emphasis on the role ofVice-Chancellors in institutionaltransformation.