An ambiguous, contested terrain: governance models for a new South African education system

This paper reviews the development of education governance in South Africa during the 1990s. It outlines ambiguities within and between competing policies, tracing the historical trajectory and explaining its outcome. Apartheid governance, the attempts to reform it, policy options originating within the anti-apartheid movement, and the law passed in 1996 by the new Parliament, are discussed. Trends in South Africa during this decade have been consistent with trends in international education: decentralization, ‘rolling back the state’, privatization, increased class and/or regional disparities, and greater parental governance responsibilities.     

关于广西文学批评的现状和发展的一些意见

要繁荣文学就必须调整好文学批评姿态,广西的文学创作逐渐走向成熟,成果颇丰,“百花齐放”的局面似已形成,但此时我们也希望文学批评“百家争鸣”的时代的到来,尽管我们的文学批评已经取得一定成绩, 但也存在一些遮蔽或失衡。本文就广西本土文学的批评现状和存在的不足,以及如何进一步通过文学批评推动文学健康发展,提出自己的看法。     

南非高等教育语言政策的演变与现行多语制政策的实施困境

语言在南非的教育领域始终是一个有争议的问题。在高等教育层面,南非的语言政策经历了英殖民地时期的单语制、南非联盟时期的添加型双语制、种族隔离时期的减少型双语制,到民主新南非的多语制。目前,南非多语制的政策主张和高校的语言实践存在着很大的差异:英语的地位日益显赫,阿非利加语的地位不断下降,而非洲本土语言被边缘化。语言实践中的单语倾向日趋明显。本文在系统梳理南非高等教育语言政策发展历程的基础上,从历史、政治、经济、文化、教育和法令政策等多个角度分析了现行多语制政策的实施困境。     

日本高等教育领域中的奖学政策探析

在日本,高等教育领域的奖学政策是一项重要研究课题。日本的大学,特别是私立大学的学杂费保持较高水平,已造成一些学生家庭经济负担沉重,因此日本正在调整奖学政策,对大学生和研究生采取不同的奖学政策。另外,社会人入大学本科课程和研究生课程学习,带来了终身学习的费用负担问题,目前日本正在对这一问题展开研究。并采取了一些解决对策。     

Institutionalising campus diversity in South African higher education: Review of diversity scholarship and diversity education

Increasingly the social, educational, cultural,linguistic, religious and racial diversity ofSouth African society is finding expressionwithin South African institutions of highereducation. Consequently, ``diversity'',``diversity issues'' and ``diversification'', havebecome part of the education debate and policy,and pose new challenges to South Africantertiary institutions. Most institutions areattempting to respond to these challengeswithin the context of a transformation processwhich impacts on every aspect of academic lifefrom student access and support, outreachprogrammes, staff recruitment and retention, toacademic programme development, research,scholarship and the social and learningenvironment on campus. This paper looks at howSouth African higher education institutionshave met these challenges. It highlights howthe ideas, initiatives or practices arounddiversity have been appropriated and made partof the mainstream intellectual and academicdiscourses. It also investigates the social andepistemological conditions of possibility formeaningful scholarship and curriculum practicesin addressing the challenges posed by socialdiversity on campuses. More specific questionsin this regard include: What counts asknowledge in diversity scholarship? Whoproduces and disseminates it? Who accesses itor utilises it? What is its space in thecurricula?     

大学知识联盟中知识创造的动态过程

知识创造的动态过程是在显形知识与隐性知识相互转化的过程中不断螺旋上升产生新知识的过程，它可以发生在个人、群体、组织、组织与组织之间四个层面。大学作为一个正式知识组织必然需要知识创造的过程。从组织与组织层面来探讨大学应如何促进知识创造的发生，目前大学知识联盟是一种比较好的制度安排。     

Dropping out from doomsday

Abstract

This paper discusses some problems with the field of educational studies and considers the role of post‐structuralist theory in shifting the study of education away from a ‘technical rationalist’ approach (as evidenced in the case of much research on educational management and school effectiveness) towards an ‘intellectual intelligence’ stance that stresses contingency, disidentification and risk‐taking.     

Expanding doctoral education in South Africa: pipeline or pipedream?

The purpose of this paper is to discuss both the status of the PhD in South Africa and the feasibility of the country's aspiration to increase by fivefold the production of PhDs by 2025. Based on the first empirical studies on doctoral education in South Africa, it argues that in order to move towards this target, an expanded and coordinated effort is necessary. This includes the removal of barriers that hinder the expansion of the South African higher education system. In particular the paper highlights insufficient funding, policy that stands in the way of expansion, scarcity of students, limited supervisory capacity and lack of recognition of the value of the doctorate and higher learning, as well as limited and inadequate partnerships. The main question is whether South Africa can achieve the desired outcome by following international trends or whether the expansion target is merely a pipedream.     

Language-in-education policy in South Africa: The challenge of sign language

Abstract

Although there is an extensive and growing literature that addresses issues related to most aspects of language-in-education policy in South Africa, one area in which the literature remains fairly sparse has been that of the implications of current government policy for South African Sign Language (SASL). This article presents an overview of the complex issues presented by the case of SASL for language-in-education policy, and offers a series of recommendations for how these issues might best be addressed. Given the relatively small research base that currently exists dealing explicitly with SASL, the article makes use of both the South African research literature and the far more substantial international research that addresses issues of sign language, education, and language policy.     

南非私立高等教育的发展及政策干预

纵观历史,南非私立高等教育一直处于主流高等教育之外,在边缘地带发展.20世纪90年代后,在有利的政策环境和经济利益驱动下,主要借助公私高校伙伴关系,南非私立高校获得了新的发展机遇,但南非政府随之加大了对私立高校的监管,政府的政策干预在南非国内引发了激烈的争论.     

高校奖学金政策变革及评审存在的问题

国家奖学金自设立以来,经过了几次调整与完善,本文就发展与变革进行探讨,以及高校在评审国家奖学金时存在的问题及困难进行分析,并就存在问题提出应对之策。     

略论图书馆知识管理

章论述了图书馆知识管理的基本涵义和知识类别——社会(共有)知识、组织(所有)知识、个人知识,及图书馆实现知识管理过程中应重点解决的问题——氛围营造、条件准备、实施重点、绩效评估等。