Contemplative faculty in the United States

Tertiary Education and Management - Contemplative faculty are higher education professors who regularly implement contemplative approaches in their teaching to address their students’ social...     

Population education in the United States

The most significant expansion of population education in the U.S. has occurred over the past 5-year period. The environmental movement of the 1960 decade established a foundation on which population education quickly developed in the 1970 decade and gained acceptance in the population establishment and among funding agencies. During the years 1970-1976, several private organizations became actively involved in the population education field. Several viewpoints and population education approaches are now evident in the U.S. These approaches stress different aspects of the issue: extension of family planning, individual and social awareness, demography, behavioral objectives, value analysis, environmental strategy, and inquiry. Although these approaches are diverse, the U.S. has provided a basic framework for population education. Research in population education has consisted of little more than review studies, knowledge and attitude surveys, and several studies on the appropriateness of population education in the formal college school setting. Further research is needed to identify the goals, objectives, and strategy of population education, and these studies would have to be linked to the cognitive and moral development of the student.     

Teacher education in the United States of America

Teacher education in the United States, and undoubtedly in other countries as well, is more profoundly affected by shifts and developments in the wider intellectual and social world than by any changes, no matter what their magnitude, in educational theory and teaching techniques. Current practices in the preparation of teachers, therefore, cannot be understood without references to such external influences as, to cite only a few, the teacher shortage of the fifties and early sixties, the post-sputnik anxiety about how well our schools were doing, the efflorescence in the behavioural sciences, the so-called explosion of knowledge in all fields, and the concentration of educationally disadvantaged children in the central cities. Once it is assumed that teacher preparation reflects changes in the broader world, any attempt to outline recent trends and developments inevitably becomes arbitrary and partial. However, the factors enumerated and discussed below are, at least, germane to the problem. Dr. Schaefer has been Dean of the Teachers' College at Columbia University in New York since 1963. This article consists of extracts from a paper presented by the author before an expert committee which met at Unesco to consider problems of general primary and secondary education.     

美国大学最新分类标准及对中国高等教育的启示

作者对美国卡耐基促进教学基金会制定颁布的大学分类标准进行了简述,并探讨在中国对大学分类标准研究中应考虑的问题。提出应明确大学分类最大的收益者以及它对中国高等教育的发展会有什么样的长远指导意义,以制定出更适合中国高校特点的大学分类标准。     

福州地区大学城高校公共体育教师资源共享研究

剖析了福州地区大学城高校公共体育教育师资队伍建设的现状及存在的问题,提出了成立大学体育联盟设想以及实现"优势互补,资源共享"的体育教师资源校际共享途径和合理制定人才培养与人才引进计划、制定合理与规范的奖励机制等师资队伍建设的具体措施.     

Impacts of university education reform on faculty perceptions of workload

Since the corporatization of national universities, the environment surrounding Japanese universities has dramatically changed in various respects. A series of government-led attempts have intended to support the domestic colleges and universities in gaining a competitive edge by improving the quality of teaching and research as well as guaranteeing the international validity of the country's higher education system. Impacts of all the challenges that have been tackled with internal efforts in the last few years could be enormous on the personnel workload. However, little is known about the impacts of Japan's recent university education reform, particularly on the changing workload of the faculty who engage at the forefront in student teaching and advising, administrative roles as well as research activities. Using results from individual faculty interviews, this paper attempts to link the changing workload of Japanese professors with specific reasons that are rooted in the country's recent university education reform. Reviewing the effects of the reform on faculty workload provides us with important insights for the long term and guides us to prevent the derailment from the endeavour to which a significant amount of resources have been dedicated by the country.     

浅议大学素质教育中科学教育和人文教育的整合作用

本文分析了科学与人文作为整体存在的客观性,概述了造成科学教育与人文教育相对立的社会历史根源,以大学素质教育的本质要求为出发点和目标,针对大学素质教育,阐述并论证实现科学教育与人文教育整合的途径和方式。     

浅议大学生科学素质教育

科学素质教育是素质教育的重要内容。大学生科学素质教育的主要内容包含科学知识教育、科学思想教育、科学方法教育和科学精神教育 ,这四个方面构成一个有机整体。     

Academic versus vocational education in the United States

Starting from the statistically supported trend of post-secondary education in the United States from the academic to the vocational area, this author investigates:

1. the causes of this wide swing of the pendulum towards vocational education;
2. the resulting assumption that education is merely a preparation for an occupation and has no intrinsic value. Three main reasons are given for this development: First, the effort made by schools and universities to fulfil their certification function has resulted in their giving precedence to selection rather than to the education of pupils and students and to equalization of opportunities. Second, the general tendency of society to exclude youth from responsible participation in the life of adults is leading to a change in the societal work process and to a gradual breakdown in the family structure. The third factor is the increase in juvenile delinquency and criminality.

     

Speech education in the United States college of discipline

Defining gastronomic reference or mention of what public figures eat, as synecdoche, this essay illustrates how synecdoche contributes to public figures, public images and argues that synecdoche deserves attention as an important political trope.