Doing Feminist Educational Theory: A post-modernist perspective

This paper arises from my work as a teacher of courses in feminist educational theory in a New Zealand university. Students usually encounter educational theories as disembodied abstractions scattered in fragments in various, often seemingly unrelated, courses. In a crowded curriculum there is little space for them to create their own educational theories or to reflect on the processes of educational theorising. In this paper I speak with two voices as a means of modelling - for students and teachers of feminist courses - a process of doing educational theory. It is written in two columns. In the left-hand column I speak with an academic voice. I begin by reviewing some theoretical writings of post-modernist theorists who have drawn attention to the ways our educational and social theories are generated by our circumstances - biographical, historical, cultural, generational, and geographical. I then argue that post-modernists have seldom practised what they preach - their abstract, and often inaccessible, writings remain severed from the lived realities at their base. In the right-hand column I speak with a more personal voice. I introduce some everyday experiences which are usually rendered invisible in academic writing in order to demonstrate how a few moments of 'lived reality' can be generative of feminist educational theory. The paper also contains ideas about how its unorthodox form can be used to trigger multiple and idiosyncratic readings and as a trigger for students' writing.     

Educational Leadership Reconsidered: Re-Invoking Authority in Schools

By far the most challenging task faced by schools in post-apartheid South Africa, has been the distance educational leaders were mandated to put between the educational institutions and the apartheid legacy of racial discrimination and exclusion. It is therefore not surprising that there are two dominant approaches to educational leadership, namely the transactional and transformational leadership paradigms that were considered as apposite to ensure the implementation of new educational policy and curriculum developments. Indeed, the theoretical debates about educational leadership have extended expositions of the concepts of transactional and transformative leadership that are often perceived as forms of educational leadership that can enhance the democratisation of educational institutions, such as schools. However, after the demise of apartheid all attempts to move beyond authoritative practices have been shown to be undesirable; and the transactional and transformative forms of educational leadership might have too hastily and prematurely abandoned authoritative forms of leadership. Therefore, in this article the authors argue in defence of authority as constitutive of transformative leadership in schools by reflecting on current leadership practices in schools.     

教育领导学科理论的概念化问题

概念问题是学科理论构建的基础,概念化问题是教育领导学科理论的重要特征。当代教育领导学科的理论取向及其基本概念的形成是多元性的,以此为前提,可以析出教育领导学科理论概念的形成和发展不仅与教育领导主体的实践活动、理论阐释及研究方法关系密切,而且其概念化问题在认知形式和呈现方式上兼具符号性、经验性、共时性和历时性特点;由于教育领导母体学科的分化和学科理论的进一步完善,受不同学科研究范式的影响,教育领导学科概念在形成过程中,存在特殊的内在和外在关联及逻辑递进。对教育领导学科理论概念化问题的反思,可以引导教育领导学科理论研究在不同领域的拓展,并在容纳多元研究范式的同时,强化或聚焦学科的研究指向。     

女性主义视角下的教育理论与实践

女性主义视角是一种以服务于妇女解放为宗旨的研究。女性主义的教育理论和实践比较集中地体现在批判传统教育中存在的性别偏见和追求社会性别公平化教育两个方面。运用女性主义视角考察我们的教育,可以得出两个结论:一是教育中既存在显性性别歧视现象,同时也存在隐性性别歧视现象;二是应重视因性施教。     

Educational Practice in Leadership Mentoring: The Singapore Experience

Findings of a study on the practice of school management learned through mentoring reveal that leading surfaced prominently as the prime aspect of what could be learned through formal mentoring and could be put into practice on the job. These principals, who have the opportunity to learn through mentoring, suggest their learning and practice of leading primarily through relating with people. The three features involved are: leading through relating with people actively, promoting trust in relating with people, and serving as worthy models in their dedication to service. As such, the learning of leading through formal mentoring could be of significance in the professional development of aspiring principals. It highlights a known practice of leading, learned through leadership mentoring, for an unknown future. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

社会公正领导:当代西方教育领导研究的新重心

社会公正领导是当代西方教育领导研究的三大主流综合范式之一。它的兴起植根于全球化和多元化时代,代表了当代教育领导的范式转型。社会公正领导聚焦学校教育领域平等和公正伦理问题,并通过积极的行动创建更加公正的学校教育环境,以促进每个学生获得学业和社会成功。近几年,社会公正领导的内涵呈现多元化的理解,并发展起校长在学校中推进和实施社会公正的一系列行动策略。     

在高级语言程序设计课程中融入软件工程思想的教学改革思路

在高级语言程序设计课程教学中采取以下教学方法：融合软件工程的思想,贯彻结构化程序设计方法,结合软件工程的基本方法进行课程综合练习,适时点拨程序设计中的编程安全问题。通过该教学方法,老师把深厚的工程经验传递给学生,开阔了学生的思维和眼界。     

Educational Micropolitics and Distributed Leadership

This article critically reviews two bodies of literature that potentially share common concerns, yet rarely overlap: distributed leadership and educational micropolitics. Alternative explanations for the split between these two analytical approaches to school organization are explored in sections on problem framing, methodology, and the marketplace of educational research and publishing. The article concludes that the separation between explorations of educational micropolitics and distributed leadership is both consequence and reflection of an increasingly prevalent managerialism required in the current policy context, which emphasizes smoothing out micropolitical conflict rather than examining it or learning from it.     

教育领导力模式变迁之反思

自上个世纪以来,教育领导力的研究一直被教育学界所关注,出现了数十种教育领导力模式。每一种教育领导力模式在彰显其优越性的同时也暴露出局限性。伴随着教育领导力模式研究的发展和变迁,新的教育领导力模式的完备性逐渐增强,呈现出统整其它模式的趋势。我国教育领导力模式的研究应该紧跟国际潮流,加强本土化开发,注重理论联系实际。     

Labels and Labelling in the Field of Educational Leadership

This paper reports on theorising based on developing histories of the field of educational leadership in higher education in the UK. These histories are being constructed through the collection of professional biographies of field members, reading the outputs of the field in the form of journals and books, and analysing the papers from the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society. In this paper I focus on how the field has changed its label over the last forty years from “educational administration” to “educational management”, and more recently “educational leadership”, and the link between labels and knowledge claims. In particular I argue that while there is a continuity of knowledge underpinning this relabelling process there is also a mutation in the form of management in education that has become performance leadership in schools. The latter is official government policy and practitioners are being located in an all‐embracing training framework. The paper argues that knowing about knowledge claims and field labels is an important means by which we can control our practice and identities. Through Bourdieu's theory of practice I describe and explain the development of the field and the struggle to be located and to stay located within higher education. By putting Bourdieu to work in this way I also seek to analyse how habitus and field can contribute to the development of explanatory frameworks regarding the power structures underpinning knowledge production.     

Partnership for Faith-Based Leadership Development: An Educational Model

Parochial school leaders traditionally rise from the ranks of the teaching staff into the principal position, even if unprepared. Through a unique collaborative model, an outside partner and a university developed a program for formally preparing individuals to be Jewish day school leaders. The process of creating this model resulted in a reconceptualization of school leadership.     

重视和加强教育领导学的研究

教育领导就是确定教育组织的发展方向与共同愿景,对全体成员施加积极的影响,使其积极主动地为实现组织目标而努力工作的过程与活动。带领、指导、教育、劝说和激励等是施加影响的重要手段。教育领导学是研究与提高教育领导活动的合理性、科学性和有效性相关的一般性的主要的领导问题的理论体系。我国的教育领导学研究应主要包括学科性质、基本要领领导行为、领导能力等内容,并且要采取适当的措施,加强教育领导学的学科建设与推广工作。     

Critical Leadership and Music Educational Practice

The difference between systemic change and the micro level engagements or modest kinds of successes that teachers hope for is a largely unaddressed issue in music education policy and leadership. This article outlines a few propositions that place the notion of critical leadership as a central element in music and education focusing on the notion that any educative action must amplify our capacity to ‘hear’ others, and empower a sense of autonomy where teachers can expand their ability to enact their speech and see that speech rendered credible by others.     

教育领导研究方法论刍议

对于学科建设,方法论责无旁贷。方法论的缺位使整项研究失之毫厘谬以千里。教育领导研究在我国所走过的历程尽管短暂,却形成一条从人文科学研究范式经过自然科学研究范式直至当今流行的社会科学研究范式并走向综合的演变轨迹。但是,元框架的缺失往往导致研究只知其然而不知其所以然。以社会化为元框架,以校长专业发展为研究对象,本文试图为教育领导研究探索一条创新性的方法论路径。