Universities and the knowledge-based economy: perceptions from a developing country

This paper considers the role of universities in the creation of a knowledge-based economy (KBE) in a developing country, Pakistan. Some developing countries have moved quickly to develop a KBE, but progress in Pakistan is much slower. Higher education plays a crucial role as part of the triple helix model for innovation. Based on the perceptions of university leaders and academic staff, the paper examines how the transformation towards a KBE in Pakistan is viewed within higher education and identifies some of the blockages and contradictions that hinder development. In particular, the paper suggests that a more integrated education system bringing together primary, secondary and tertiary education to work for a common purpose will be essential.     

Teaching and learning centres: towards maturation

Approximately 70% of Australian Teaching and Learning Centres have been restructured and/or have undergone leadership changes in the last three years. The volatility of this environment reflects the number of significant challenges faced by Teaching and Learning Centres. In determining what makes Centres successful, the issues that are likely to impact on their ability to succeed were examined. It emerged that a myriad of factors influence whether or not a Centre was recognised as being an integral and valued part of the university's teaching and learning community – a hallmark of having reached maturity. This paper identifies four factors as being critical to the ability of Centres to succeed, noting that a combination of other factors, appropriate to each unique context, must also be in place in order for Centres to maximise their value.     

新形势下应用型本科高校思想政治理论课面临的挑战

近两年,随着中央和各级教育主管部门对于高校思想政治理论课的进一步重视,各地都采取多种举措强化了思想政治理论课的地位。应用型本科高校的思想政治理论课建设获得了前所未有的发展机遇,也起得很大的发展。但是作为应用型高校的思政课同时也面临着巨大挑战:思想政治理论课的地位还有待提升,人才培养模式和思政课教学理念的矛盾需要克服,应用型本科高校思想政治理论课教学方法仍需探索。     

论完善党委领导下的校长负责制的路径选择

国家举办的高校实行党委领导下的校长负责制,是我国高校内部领导体制长期探索和实践的经验总结。在新的历史阶段,坚持和完善党委领导下的校长负责制,需要进一步准确把握党委领导下的校长负责制的本质内涵,正确处理“党要管党”与“党管学校”、党委与校长之间的关系,大力推进党内民主和学校民主建设,切实改进党委领导方式,合理配置高校内部权力,实现科学治校、民主治校、依法治校。     

浅谈高校领导干部非职权性影响力的培养

随着高校改革的深入,对领导干部的素质、修养和作风提出了前所未有的新课题。作为高校发展中坚力量的领导干部,提高非职权性影响力的问题,是增强党的执政能力的重要方面;而提高高校领导干部非职权性影响力的原动力还来自于其自身素质。     

新形势下牢牢把握高校意识形态领导权的探索与实践

意识形态工作是党的一项极端重要的工作,关乎旗帜、关乎道路、关乎国家政治安全。高校作为意识形态引领的主阵地,目前不同程度存在着对意识形态工作的重要性认识不足的问题,文章通过探索高校基层党组织如何加强党对意识形态工作的领导,切实解决长期存在的基层党组织弱化问题,全面提升高校教育工作者意识形态工作的能力和素质,不断增强意识形态领域主导权和话语权,让主流价值观念在校园文化发展中繁荣起来,让主流意识形态在校园网络行动起来,让网络“清朗”起来,为推动大学生的自由而全面发展提供政治滋养和政治营养。     

重视和加强教育领导学的研究

教育领导就是确定教育组织的发展方向与共同愿景,对全体成员施加积极的影响,使其积极主动地为实现组织目标而努力工作的过程与活动。带领、指导、教育、劝说和激励等是施加影响的重要手段。教育领导学是研究与提高教育领导活动的合理性、科学性和有效性相关的一般性的主要的领导问题的理论体系。我国的教育领导学研究应主要包括学科性质、基本要领领导行为、领导能力等内容,并且要采取适当的措施,加强教育领导学的学科建设与推广工作。     

The permeable university: Academic life in an age of special interests

Universities, like other institution, are both governed and managed. The processes of govermance within American universities have changed dramatically in recent years. To a significant degree, both the causes and the nature of the changes track changes in the larger surrounding political environment. In the final analysis, the future success of universities rests on the ability of university presidents to play the kind of leadership role that the national policy requires of the President of the United States.     

Rethinking ‘leadership’ in education: a research agenda

Knowledge production in educational leadership, management and administration has been, and continues to be, seduced by fads. One of the most significant trends in recent decades has been the ascendancy of ‘leadership’. In this introductory paper, I both introduce the contributions to this special issue and, more importantly, locate this collection within the intellectual tradition of disruptive Australian scholarship and the discourses of JEAH. Specifically, I argue that this collection of papers provides new ways for thinking about leadership, leaders and leading grounded in histories not bounded by historical categories, images and metaphors. This issue is however not the final word, and I encourage the reader to think with, beyond and where necessary against what is argued in the spirit of the intellectual enterprise.     

西方质的教育领导研究的兴起及其启示

在国际范围内,教育领导研究已由过去的实证主义独尊,发展为今日的多元范式并陈。其中,质的教育领导研究已成为一股重要的力量。反观我国,教育领导研究的多元范式尚未形成,对质的研究的认识还存在颇多误区。通过回顾国际上质的教育领导研究的兴起以及国内质的研究地位的分析,本文呼吁开展更多扎根田野的质的研究,为教育领导研究探索一条新的方法论路径。     

高校档案干部队伍建设刍议

目前,高校档案干部素质存在诸多不足,加强高校档案干部队伍建设,提高档案干部队伍素质,建立一支有专业知识、有文化素质、政治强、业务精、纪律严、作风好的档案管理干部队伍,是新时期做好高校档案管理工作的需要,也是高等教育发展的需要。     

从多伦多大学看高校领导力建设

高校领导班子的领导能力与整体素质,是学校得以改革发展的决定因素之一。多伦多大学领导层的领导理念与实践证明,注重高校领导班子素质的培养与提高,是明确合理发展定位、形成科学办学理念、提升先进领导观念、绘制合理管理方略,从而最终促进学校发展的关键。     

规范权力关系：高校党委领导权力质量的实现路径

贯彻和落实党的十七大精神,其中最主要的工作就是全面加强党的建设,而加强党的建设的关键在于持续提高党委领导权力质量。高校党委领导权力质量是领导权力满足高校各类顾客及相关方发展需要所呈现出的向好和趋善。就高校实际而言,规范高校内部权力关系,乃是高校党委领导权力质量得以实现的核心问题。这种领导权力质量最主要的实现路径在于规范高校党委领导权力与行政权力、学生权力、学术权力和教师权力的关系,其落脚点在于建立现代大学制度。     

This is Not an Article: a reflection on Creative Research Dialogues (This is Not a Seminar)

Abstract

This is Not a Seminar (TINAS) is a multidisciplinary forum established in 2012 at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia to support practice-led and practice-based Higher Degree by Research students. The Faculty of Education and Arts at ECU includes cohorts of postgraduate research students in, for example, performance, design, writing and visual arts. We established the TINAS programme to assist postgraduate research students in connecting their creative practices to methodological, theoretical and conceptual approaches whilst fostering an atmosphere of rapport across creative disciplines. The pilot programme conducted for six months in 2012 comprised dialogues with experienced creative researchers; critical reading sessions on practice-led theory; and workshops in journaling, ethics and copyright. This article is a reflection on the strengths and limitations of TINAS and future projections. More than an additional teaching and learning service, the programme has become a vital forum for creative dialogue.     

百年来中国的大学自治与社会干预

中国现代高等教育制度自1904年确立以来,面临的重要命题之一就是调适大学自治与社会干预的关系。中国的大学自治经民国初年奠基之后,一直未能得到充分发展,社会干预尤其是政治干预始终保持着强劲态势。这既与中国现代化的特殊路径和背景有关,更有着深刻的教育的内部原因。但在新的时期、新的条件下,中国的大学自治与社会干预的关系出现了值得注意的新动向。     

大学校长:学术领导力的中世纪起源

以校长为核心的领导体制是现代西方大学的普遍特征,但不同国家的大学在校长领导体制上又存在各自的特色和差异,考察大学校长这一职位及其领导力在中世纪的起源和发展,有助于我们正确认识和理解各国大学校长领导体制之间的共同点与差异,对于重视与落实我国大学校长的地位与职权具有重要意义.     

基于变革型领导理论的高校教育创新机制研究

变革型领导理论作为一种科学的领导学研究与实践的范式,应用到高校教育理论与实践中去,具有十分重要的现实与理论意义。它有助于加深和丰富高校领导理论的内涵,有助于提高高校领导理论的品质,有助于构建高校教育创新机制。     

对教育学家成为当代中国大学校长的思考

大学校长在大学中的重要性已经为历史和现实所证明。但由于我国大学校长的任用机制尚不够完善,一批拥有深厚教育学理论素养和丰富实践经验并对教育事业有无尽热情且愿意贡献毕生精力的教育学家,虽其终身致力于高等教育事业,却很难有机会成为大学校长。本文分析了我国高校校长任用机制的特点,结合世界先进国家相关现状,并运用领导学的相关理论,力图证明教育学家可以且应该是当代中国大学校长的来源之一。