“十五”期间继续教育课程方案(征求意见稿)

按有关文件精神 ,以大连市中学教师教育教学现状的调查研究结果为基础 ,提出大连市“十五”期间中学教师继续教育培训课程方案。     

学费上涨与高等教育机会公平问题分析-基于结构性和转型性的视角

1997年,中国普通高校在收费制度上进行“并轨”,开始实行全面收费制度。此后,普通高等教育的学费水平迅速上涨,学费占居民家庭收入的比例大幅度提高。学费的快速上涨有可能对高等教育机会公平性产生负面影响。在考虑收入水平、学费水平、高等教育机会公平之间的关系时,现有的研究较多地侧重于微观层面的分析,而对宏观层面的结构性因素和转型性因素的影响探讨不多。本文试图根据有关中国收入分配以及高等教育制度改革的研究,就结构性和转型性因素与高等教育机会公平性之间的关联进行初步的探索。     

国家助学贷款与诚信教育一体化有效性研究

诚信教育与助学贷款分离、诚信教育诸多错位、助学贷款办理信用缺失等问题，影响了助学贷款政策的正确执行。必须在处理好集中与个别教育相结合、诚信教育延伸、银校和谐舍作等问题的基础上，推进国家助学贷款与诚信教育的一体化。认清国家助学贷款特点，抓住教育关键时期，广泛开展经常性的诚信教育和宣传，认真做好贷款资质审查，严格监督助学贷款资金使用、适时进行诚信再教育等措施，落实对贷款学生的自强教育、创业教育、激励教育、真情教育、心理调适教育，是实现国家助学贷款与诚信教育一体化有效性的关键所在。     

SUPPORT SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULT TUITION PROGRAMS

Although there has been a proliferation of free and reduced tuition programs for older adults in institutions of higher education, the existence of support services to facilitate these programs has not been well documented. In this follow‐up to their 1979 study, the authors indicate that a general lack of support services is common among institutions. Support services examined included simplified registration, counseling, special programs, organized older student groups, and outreach activities.     

论学分制与高等教育质量

本文论述了学分制有利于教学质量的提高,学分制实施中存在的问题,部分发达国家学分制实施状况以及我国高校应立足实际建立学分制运行保障机制。     

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A SINO-ENGLISH COMPARATIVE STUDY IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

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GERONTOLOGY AND EDUCATION: A CASE FOR COLLABORATION

Too little consideration has been given to the potential dangers underlying program development for older adults. These dangers are exemplified by the inability of program designers to share their expertise. A close examination of current educational efforts serving the older adult reveals that past inadequacies and present growth trends demand more realistic approaches. More people are going to reach the age of 65; shifts in population demand shifts in priorities.

This paper attempts to focus on emerging problems associated with program development. Territoriality becomes a central issue in determining who should develop and implement programs for and about older people. The audiences to which this paper is addressed are educators and gerontologists. The prime question raised is: “Can collaborative efforts between gerontologists and educators improve current program quality?"     

EMPLOYED CAREGIVERS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ISSUE FOR GERONTOLOGICAL EDUCATION

The importance of the employed caregiver in the maintenance of functional independence has only recently begun to be recognized. The demographic changes that will shape the next few decades will require a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding caregiving than is currently available in the curricula of existing gerontology programs. By incorporating course offerings aimed specifically at the caregiver role, gerontological education could extend its influence into the business community and attract students from a wide variety of other disciplines. Providing future corporate executives with a basic gerontological education could broaden the scope of gerontology and, ultimately, improve the quality of the lives of older care receivers.     

CONTINUING EDUCATION: A FACTOR IN PREPARING FOR RETIREMENT

This study focuses on the role of formal continuing education in helping persons prepare for retirement. The subjects were 206 classified, university employees between the ages of 50 and 65. The Retirement Preparation Indexes were used to measure behavior, information, and attitude toward retirement. Using the analysis of variance (a = .05), participants in formal continuing education (N = 46) scored significantly higher on the indexes community activity behavior, health care issues, psychological adjustment information, preretirement zest attitude, total behavior, total information, and the complete retirement preparation index. Preretirees involved in lifelong learning were found to be more concerned about their own development regardless of age and more aware of the options available to them upon retirement.     

A CHANGING EUROPE: CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH

The subject of the 1990 Brussels CHER annual meeting is introduced and analysed in relation to the themes of the papers presented by the various participants. Significantly, the freeing of higher education in eastern Europe from the rigours of Communism, democratic centralism, and command economies have come about while the higher education systems of the West have been strengthening their commitment to the market principle (voluntarily and/or imposed from without). The resulting situation is significant, mutually reinforcing, and ambiguous. It offers great opportunities, both East and West, for the further development of higher education research as a distinct field even while it is accentuating the precariousness of the other so‐called value sciences. Certainly a major opportunity comes from the fact that higher education researchers and their supporting institutions are being increasingly called upon to aid their respective governments in the understanding and the possible application of the higher education strategies and methods of other climes. The meeting has suggested markers for a future research agenda, and it has helped integrate the various methodological and technical perspectives as well as the insights of participants representing both East and West.     

GERONTOLOGICAL EDUCATION: PROPOSITIONS FOR CURRICULUM PLANNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Higher education has not properly responded to employment needs in the field of aging. This paper suggests that any endeavor to infuse a gerontological component in the curricula of colleges and universities should take into account four basic propositions: the policy adjustments to the demographic “aging” of our society; the phenomenological reappraisal of an extended individual life cycle; the social‐experimental quality of new gerontological social policies; and the emerging concern for ecological determinants of human behavior, as a means for generating alternatives to institutionalization. Employment needs and projections are related to the increasing demand for short‐term training programs and the emerging interest in lifetime learning approaches to adult education.