西北欠发达地区农村中小学校长信息化领导力调查与思考——以甘肃省Y县为例

农村学校信息化建设是一项系统而复杂的工程,影响因素很多,其中学校管理者特别是校长的信息化领导力是关键。从校长信息意识与态度、信息化知识与技能、信息化管理水平、学校的信息化投入、信息化制度、信息化文化等六个维度入手,分析农村中小学校长信息化领导力现状,并根据其存在的问题,提出进一步提升农村校长信息化领导力的建议。     

Educational Leadership and Context: A Rendering of an Inseparable Relationship

The amount of empirical research on leadership of educational organisations, and especially of schools, which has stressed the importance of being sensitive to context, is not great. This paper seeks to highlight the challenge presented by this situation. First, context is defined. Second, attention is drawn to what can be learned in the area of school leadership from the emphasis in other bodies of scholarship within the broad field of education studies on paying attention to matters of context. Third, an overview is provided of some of the key considerations arising out of the small body of work undertaken in the field by those researchers who have focussed on the broad range of issues that can arise for school leaders in distinctive contexts. Finally, five key and interconnected propositions to guide practice with regard to leadership in diverse contexts that have been generated from an analysis of the latter body of work are presented. In doing so, it is recognised that these are tentative in the absence of a much larger corpus of work. Overall, we hope that, along with providing intellectual sustenance, each of the four areas considered will also stimulate discussion on areas for further research.     

Career Choices, Job Selection Criteria, and Leadership Preferences in a Transitional Nation: The Case of Turkey

This study explored the factors that influenced Turkish university students' career choices, job selection criteria, and leadership preferences. Participated in this study were 1,213 senior and junior management students from 17 universities across 6 regions of Turkey. Data collection was accomplished through a self-administered four-part questionnaire. Findings revealed that for the entire sample, having power and authority, peaceful work environment, opportunity for career advancement, and pay were the most motivating factors in job selection, whereas close supervision and guidance, praise from supervisor, feedback on performance, and sense of belonging were the least motivating ones. Charismatic leadership was found to be the most preferred style followed by participative, paternalistic, and bureaucratic styles. Finally, career choices were mostly affected by intrinsic factors (i.e., self aspirations), whereas interpersonal factors (i.e., significant others' expectations) were least influential. Findings were discussed in light of dynamic and changing cultural characteristics of the Turkish society.     

A Breakpoint Moment: Leadership Visions and Values for Trustees of Collegiate Mission

American higher education is an enterprise of complex heritage, mission, and governance culture—an enterprise expected to serve as both cultural curator and cultural critic. Contemporary issues such as the call for accountability and the pressure of marketplace ideology present colleges and universities with a possible breakpoint change moment in both mission and leadership, as established policy and philosophic principles are challenged and leadership vision and values are similarly called to question. This article probes the particular effect of marketplace ideology on colleges and explores three metaphors of leadership role and value: the Servant/Exemplar Leader, the Steward/Trustee Leader, and the Artist/Designer Leader.This article is adapted from a keynote presentation given to the Association for Student Judicial Affairs 2005 Annual Meeting in Clearwater Beach, Florida.E. Grady Bogue is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Tennessee, is Chancellor Emeritus of Louisiana State University in Shreveport, and has also served as Interim Chancellor of Louisiana State University and A&M College. He holds B.S. in Mathematics, M.A. in Education, and Ed.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Memphis and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University in 1986     

WICS: A Model of Positive Educational Leadership Comprising Wisdom,Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized

Who are the people who become positive educational leaders? This essay presents WICS as a model of positive educational leadership. WICS stands for wisdom, intelligence, creativity, synthesized. Each of these elements is asserted to constitute one of the elements of educational leadership. Regrettably, our society is organized around a closed system of selection and talent development that emphasizes intelligence in a narrowly defined way that sometimes ignores its synthesis with creativity and wisdom.     

加拿大学校布局调整研究及其启示——基于萨斯喀彻温省的个案分析

学校布局调整是世界各国教育发展都要面对的课题。加拿大学校管理协会的相关研究向我们展示了加拿大萨斯喀彻温省模拟学校布局研究的具体情况,在学校布局调整的出发点、调整方案的制定、学校布局调整的具体实施等方面都给我们提供了许多有益的启示。     

The evaluation of school-university partnerships that improve teaching and learning practices: A systematic review

This paper presents a systematic literature review of School-University Partnerships (SUPs) that aim to promote changes in teaching and learning practices. Our analysis focuses on the evaluation of such SUPs, throughout their development process (from Exploration to Implementation and Sustainability). Our results highlight the nonlinearity of such development processes. The evaluation of the SUPs mainly relied on qualitative approaches and occurred primarily during the Implementation phase. Furthermore, the evaluation instruments used have seldom been validated or reused within the research community. Future research can focus on the development of reliable evaluation instruments, useable throughout the lifecycle of SUPs, to guide their decision-making.     

美国公立教育系统绩效管理分析与启示——基于马里兰州的研究

上世纪中叶以来,推进教育绩效评价成为美国基础教育评价改革的主要趋势。本文以马里兰州为案例,回顾了美国公立教育系统绩效管理形成的社会背景和法律框架;分析了马里兰州实施绩效管理的做法、经验和不足。在此基础上,文章提出中国可借鉴美国经验推进教育绩效管理:突出立法为先,改善宏观政策和立法工作;突出学生为本,推进教育行政部门职能转变;突出责任追究,推行组织机构的问责文化。     

铁路高职院校专业布局及优化研究——以湖南铁道职业技术学院为例

目前,铁路高职院校存在专业群不完整、硬件设施不足以及教学资源共享性差等问题,使得铁路高职院校服务行业的能力大打折扣。通过打造对接行业的“核心专业群”,构建“主体专业群”,均衡发展“辅助专业群”,重组“后备专业群”等方式,进行铁路高职院校专业的布局及优化,从而达到提升铁路高职院校服务行业、产业的能力。     

哪些课程更重要——以某高校计算机专业教师与毕业生评价为例

文章通过对某高校计算机专业教师和本科毕业生的实证研究发现:继续深造和直接就业的毕业生在课程的认识上明显不同,教师认为对毕业生重要的课程与继续深造的毕业生在认识上是正相关的,直接就业的毕业生则与教师在认识上存在较大差异。要使毕业生具有可持续发展能力,专业的课程建设应该做到既立足当前,更面向未来。     

博士生课程参与困境的诱因及其调适 ——基于“双一流”高校教育学博士生的个案研究

博士生群体构成的日益多样化呼唤博士生培养模式的变革。当前博士生课程存在学生参与度低等问题,其合理性正面临挑战。对我国三所“双一流”高校教育学专业博士生的深度访谈发现,课程制度设计的模糊性与有限性导致学生选课决策更多表现为既定约束下的次优博弈。此种选课机制与课程教学质量的不确定性相结合,最终引致学生课堂参与行为的分异。博士生通过旁听、权变等非制度化实践,一定程度上彰显了学习者在教育场域中的能动性。未来,有必要增加博士生课程制度的弹性,重申有效互动的价值。