Expanding the scope of adult education curriculum in Nigeria: a dire need for the integration of guidance and counselling services

This paper gives a brief historical overview of adult education in Nigeria and suggests that although educational guidance and counselling are only just beginning in Nigeria, there is a need to understand fully their implications and potentials in adult education in Nigeria.     

安徽成人高等教育发展趋向探讨

为促进安徽高等教育的和谐发展,在统计分析安徽成人高等教育信息的基础上,探讨了安徽成人高等教育发展的趋势,具体地说包括以下几个方面:各类成人高校仍将在高等教育大众化进程中发挥重要作用;提供灵活的学习方式将是各类成人高校服务社会的必然选择;持证进门、持证上岗的社会要求将助推成人高等教育持续健康发展;成人学习者对专业的要求将越来越贴近社会实际;教育行政主管部门的引导、指导、监控、调控仍将是各类成人高校健康发展的重要保证.     

成人院校网络文化建设内容探究

成人教育作为我国教育体系中的重要组成部分,一直以来发挥着巨大的作用,成人教育比较于全日制教育有其自身的特点和发展要求,网络的普及势必为成人教育教学提供帮助,我们在享受网络带来的便捷时,应着重考虑利用网络进行文化建设。基于此,在论述成人院校网络文化的内涵和特点、建设网络文化的必要性的基础上,重点对成人院校网络文化建设需加强的几方面工作进行了探究,以期通过成人院校网络文化建设,用社会主义核心价值体系的理论和要求加强对成人学生的教育和引导。     

高校定位与高等教育系统秩序的形成

高校定位是高校对自身发展方向和发展路径的理性选择,高等教育系统秩序的形成是建立在高校定位基础之上的组织化过程。高校分类只是对高等教育系统秩序认识的特例,仅仅用高校分类与自生秩序相结合来建构高校定位机制是不够的。高等教育系统秩序的形成是一个组织化过程,既有人类理性的安排,又有自组织方式。因而,高校定位应该由政府宏观引导、社会广泛参与、高校理性选择三者共同发挥作用。     

Psychologists,Psychiatrists and Special Educational Needs in Britain since 1944

This paper provides an historical survey of special educational provision in Britain by tracing the part played since 1944 by psychologists, psychiatrists and guidance clinic personnel in meeting the requirements of children with special educational needs. While the pre‐1944 story is covered in such standard works as Pritchard (1963), discussion of the period since the Education Act of 1944 is scattered in research journals and isolated book chapters. The present account attempts an initial synthesis, outlining the history of educational psychology since the appointment of Cyril Burt in 1913; the change from a medical to an educational model of special need; the growth of child guidance clinics; the role of the psychiatrist; development of new guidance concepts in the 1970s; and an outline of treatment approaches in child guidance. The paper concludes by referring briefly to the allied fields of counselling and research in education for children with special needs.     

英德两国的高等教育指导与咨询及其启示

本介绍了英德两国高等教育指导与咨询服务体系的主要特征、机构设置、任务、角色和层次，在此基础上进行了比较和总结，并结合当前中国高等教育的实际谈了启发和建议。     

Guidance and counselling in New Zealand

By conventional indices, the standards of living and education in New Zealand are among the highest in the world. Guidance and counselling services have been developing since the 1920s, and a sound research literature is now emerging. The main divisions of non-medical personnel are clinical psychologists, vocational counsellors, social workers, educational psychologists, guidance counsellors and visiting teachers. In schools, guidance networks have been developed to formalize functions and relationships for effective delivery of services. For social workers, training is provided mainly within government departments, but there are also university programmes for them and for all personnel except visiting teachers. Current needs include more programme evaluation and further development of professional supervision, but a sound indigenous basis in research, training, and service delivery has been laid.     

Adult learners in three countries: Models for counselling services

One of the more pervasive and important innovations of adult education practice in the seventies can be seen in full blossom in the educational guidance and information centre, a service which specializes in counselling adults about learning opportunities. While most visible in the United States with some 300 centres, similar organizations now exist in many other countries; one European centre in fact predates the seventies and may have pioneered the concept. In 1978 and 1979, the author visited various communities in North America and Europe in search of models for counselling adults about new careers, education options and life goals. This paper describes four centres and discusses how they exemplify aspects of a variety of models for organizing counselling services.Paper presented at Ninth International Round Table for the Advancement of Counselling, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 1980.     

芬兰高中教育成功的因素分析

芬兰高中教育的成功已引起世人的瞩目,其原因既包括长远的教育政策、健全的教育法制法规和独特的教育信任文化等宏观层面因素,也包括灵活的教学方式、高质量的师资队伍、完善的指导咨询体系和校际合作机制等微观层面因素。     

Subject disciplines and student evaluation of a degree programme in education

The primary purpose of this study is to report the evaluation of a degree programme in Education by final year undergraduate students of a university. The results show that arts and science students rated the courses, instruction and instructors in the education department significantly higher than those in their teaching subject departments; social science students rated their subject departments higher than the education department; the physical and health education students were indifferent in their ratings of both departments. The study further reveals that educational administration, educational psychology and guidance and counselling were rated in descending order as the most interesting courses in education.     

Marketizing higher education in post-Mao China

In the post-Mao era, reformers in the People's Republic of China have taken significant steps to privatize social welfare services. After the adoption of a socialist market system in the 1990s, educational development has been affected by strong market forces. It is argued that the emergence of private educational institutions, the shift of state responsibility in educational provision to families and individuals, the prominence of fee-charging, as well as the introduction of internal competition among educational institutions, clearly suggest that China's education has been going through a process of marketization. The principal goal of this paper is to examine institutional origins of the policy change in education, with particular reference to the process and implications of such changes. The paper will also appraise the Chinese experience in the light of global practices on marketization of social welfare services.     

School Counsellor Preparation in Nigeria and the USA

This paper compares and contrasts school counsellor training programmes in two institutions from different cultures: The University of Ilorin, Nigeria and The Pennsylvania State University. While the USA is an industrialised Western nation, Nigeria is a developing African nation. A comparative inquiry of this nature is likely to provide a comprehensive and contemporary view of the national conditions from which guidance and counselling concerns emerge in the two countries. The areas covered include course content, method of training, programme emphasis, and accreditation. The implication of these issues for the development and improvement of counsellor education programmes are discussed.     

Career guidance and counselling efficacy studies: an international research agenda

More efficacy studies, experimental designs, and longitudinal research in career guidance and counselling in educational and organizational settings, and for diverse cultural and economic backgrounds are needed. Research on the effectiveness of career guidance and counselling that demonstrates gains on a variety of levels is necessary to enhance the future of the field. Recommendations for internationalizing career guidance and counselling research by using a scientist practitioner model, diverse research methodology, and instruments to measure career outcomes are made.     

高等学校教育成本核算问题研究

高等学校教育成本核算是高校财务管理长期没有解决的问题.本文将高等学校教育成本界定为高等学校为提供高等教育服务所发生的实支成本,分析探讨了以此为基础的高等学校教育成本计量中有关科研支出、固定资产使用费、职工住房补贴、职工养老保险计入教育成本的问题.     

Authors' addresses

Education in Finland is facing new challenges in the form of two related trends: ‘therapisation’ and ‘projectisation’. The concept of therapisation describes the ways in which ideas, discourses and practices from counselling, therapy, psychiatry, educational and clinical psychology become internalised and normalised in education. Projectisation represents a disciplinary and productive form of power related to project-based activities that have permeated education in Finland. The alliance between projectisation and therapisation specifies the parameters of what can be said and done in project-based education. This article analyses the shift in Finnish education towards individually targeted, project-based and therapeutic activities, such as those for mental health and emotional well-being, as well as activities for emotional and psychological support and raising self-esteem. These short-term educational activities targeting youth at risk of social exclusion represent a form of regulative and productive power that intertwines with young adults’ education, guidance and rehabilitation. The article is informed by a Foucauldian discourse-analytic methodology and on an empirical study. Through analysis of interviews and ethnographic research with young people and project workers involved in education, guidance and rehabilitation activities, I draw critical attention to the alliance between therapisation and projectisation in education and some of its educational and social implications.     

高等教育投资与金融支持

随着金融体制与教育体制改革的不断深入,教育机构与金融机构的关系也越来越紧密。通过对金融融入高等教育产业的必要性与可行性等方面进行深入探讨,并对高等教育投资的收益以及对经济增长作用较为全面的研究分析,结合发达国家的成功经验,对今后金融业如何加大对高等教育产业的支持,促进高等教育发展,最终为经济发展作出贡献,提出了一些建议及对策。     

公立高等学校的社会法定位研究

公立高等学校作为全人类创造知识、传播知识、推动民族进步、促进人类文明及其社会发展的基地,它的主体定位历来都是学术界争议的焦点之一。在不同性质的法律关系中公立高等学校却被赋予不同的主体地位,定位的不同使自治权的权限模糊,所以应当以教育法体系的社会法定位,以公立高等学校追求目的,以确立为社会法的主体必要性为视角来确立公立高等学校主体性质,从社会法的角度对公立高等学校的主体进行合理定位。     

新课改与中文专业师范生的职前教育

高等师范院校的职前教育服务于基础教育,为基础教育输送合格师资。但随着新课改的实施,中小学的课堂教学得到了进一步改善,而高师职前教育明显滞后,不适应新课改对师资培训的要求。基于中文专业师范生的职前教育的现状与反思,旨在重建高师职前教育的理念和行动策略,使高师院校所培养的未来基础教育语文教师能适应教育发展的需要。     

多维视野中的高校形象战略

我们已经进入了形象的时代，对于具体对象的评价与接受，是以形象认可为前提的。高等院校由其固有的垄断色彩所决定，还接受着计划经济的余温，但随着高等教育走向大众化和教育市场的打开，激烈的竞争态势已现出端倪。当公众真正意识到自己手中选择的权力时，形象的价值将直接同生存联系在一起。我们的思考正是从这里开始的。如果说我们的思考有一些瞻望，只是因为多了几个审视自我的角度，而提前感受到了一步步向我们高校走来的生存危机。