What will be in the Engineering Pipeline in the 1990s∗

An adequate supply of engineers is essential to maintain a competitive position in a highly sophisticated global economy. Population dynamics and student career choice trends presage a protracted period of shortage of bachelors and doctoral engineers in the USA in the 1990s. Actions to alleviate the shortage have been proposed by the Engineering Deans’ Council of the American Society for Engineering Education.     

Community education in the 1980s: What can we learn from experience?

The last ten years have seen a revival of interest in ‘community-oriented’ forms of education as a result of wide spread disillusionment with the trends of social change which have been experienced both in developing and in more highly developed countries. Much of the recent thinking about the dysfunctional nature of conventional schooling in poorer countries has emphasised its alien nature, regarding it as an importation ill-adapted to the development needs or cultural context of these countries. It is too often overlooked that problems of reforming or replacing conventional educational patterns largely derive from the fact that these patterns are in fact firmly rooted in the local situation and up to this time have drawn much of their strength from their very considerable success in performing the tasks allocated to them by their various clienteles. In this paper it is argued that whilst there may well be a pressing need for reform in order to meet changing circumstances and, notably, the mass education situation in which we now find ourselves, we are unlikely to achieve successful reform unless we examine the roots of our problems more thoroughly than we have often been inclined to. There is real danger that we may be carried forward on bandwagons of doubtful relevance to our real situation and that we may once again be distracted from the careful analysis of our own experience without which our judgements and decisions may well prove ill-founded.This paper seeks to examine some of that experience in the hope of identifying some of the considerations we should bear in mind as we consider the potentiality of forms of community education which are currently being urged upon us.     

Reading: What Children need to learn and how teachers can help them

Note A fuller version of this paper, entitled Words and Worlds: Reading in the early years of school is published in booklet form jointly by the National Association of Advisors in English and the National Association for the Teaching of English, and is available from NATE at 50 Broadfield Road, Sheffield S8 OXJ for £3.50 to non members and £2.95 to members.     

How to lose friends and turn people against you. Organisational development tools: what they are and how we use them in higher education

This paper is based on a keynote speech delivered to the AUA Annual Conference, Belfast, April 2006     

What is happening when we assess,and how can we use our understanding of this to improve assessment?

In an attempt to gain a fuller understanding of the basis of grading, ten assessors each assessed two portfolios drawn from the course archive which had been produced by participants on a course in teaching in higher education. Assessors gave a grade or judgement on each of a portfolio's 75 portfolio elements, reasons for each judgement they made, and recorded any alternative judgement they had considered. There were substantial differences between the judgements made during the study and those made when the portfolios were originally assessed. This article explores the differences between the original and experimental assessments, and then analyses reasons given by assessors for the judgements made. Beyond these particulars, the paper suggests some fundamental and problematic issues about the conduct and the reform of assessment, and offers a process which can be used to investigate and improve the quality, in particular the reliability, of any summative assessment.     

高等职业院校如何抓住地方经济发展的机遇促进自身的发展

就业是高职院校的生命线,2008年1月,国家批准实施《广西北部湾经济区发展规划》,广西经济进入快速发展时期。本文通过对广西经济大发展对各类专业人才类型、人才数量的需求以及人才需求的特点分析,研究广西高职院校如何抓住地方经济发展提供的强盛的就业机遇,调整办学结构、加强专业建设、提高人才培养水平,促进自身的发展。     

珠江三角洲旅游业若干问题与对策

近２０年珠江三角洲旅游业迅速崛起并初步实现产业化，但目前面临社会认识与行业规划相对滞后、环境污染日益加剧、人造景观低水平重复等不容忽视的问题。为此，本文从统一规划、合理开发、倡导生态旅游、优化旅游业整体素质等方面探寻了有关应对之策。     

试论《我们现在怎样做父亲》体现的教育思想及其当代意义

本文阐述了鲁迅先生《我们现在怎样做父亲》一文所体现的教育思想，以及它对我国当前教育改革的一些启示。     

“重返八十年代”的成绩与问题

“重返八十年代”是近年来中国当代文学研究中的一个热点。文章认为“重返八十年代”的原因主要有两个：一是构建80年代文学与政治之间的复杂关系,消除80年代文学与50—70年代文学之间的简单对立,进而建立当代文学的整体性话语系统;二是通过将80年代“问题化”,打破已经被人们视为常识的自80年代以来一直支配当代文学研究的思维模式。“重返八十年代”的成绩主要是揭示了当代文学史叙述中的“八十年代”意识,“再现”了那些被“遗失和扭曲”的文学现场。“重返八十年代”的问题主要表现在三个方面：1．“打捞”历史的做法难以实现揭示80年代文学“政治性”的目的;2．被“打捞”上来的历史及其“政治性”有可能对另外的历史及其“文学性”产生新的压抑;3．“重返八十年代”研究依然带有“二元对立”的思维倾向。     

Why we Need Certification Standards in Criminal Justice Education and what the Impacts will be: a Response to the Concerns of JDs

In 2005 the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences approved ACJS Certification Standards for Academic Programs. This was the culmination of two decades of efforts on the part of criminal justice educators to establish minimum standards for the discipline. These standards were developed to improve the quality of criminal justice education at the associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degree levels. Section C, which establishes faculty qualifications for teaching at the various program levels, has been criticized by educators holding JDs as an effort by PhDs to push them out of the profession. The President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences responds to specific concerns of JDs and then discusses the general impacts of the ACJS certification standards on criminal justice education.