谈生态化校园的建设

生态化学校是指在生态世界观和科学发展观的视域之下,建立起来的自然环境、文化环境和社会环境高度协调的学校发展模式。"以人为本"是创建生态化校园的主旨,环境生态化、管理生态化和群体生态化是创建生态化校园的主要途径。     

The Feminisation of a School? Women Teachers in a Boys' School

This article analyses the experiences of women teachers in boys' schools by examining a case-study school. It is argued that whilst there had been a large numerical increase in women at the school, partly as the unanticipated consequence of recent government reforms, the degree of 'feminisation' was much smaller. Teaching style and negative pupils' reactions, undermining by colleagues, exclusion from staff meetings and sexual harassment emerged as important dimensions of these women's experience. The women were not a homogeneous group, however, and two ideal type groupings emerged which offered different interpretations of their situation, contrasting conceptions of what a feminised school would look like and different strategies for feminising the school. It is argued that for many of the women the women's group played an important role in enabling them to redefine their situation collectively.     

从统计学角度看我国地方高等学校办学特色

地方高等学校如何办出特色,已经成为摆在我们面前必须研究的重要问题。从我国普通高等学校的区域分布、地方高等学校与人口比较、国家与地方高等学校重要数据比较、地方高等学校的类型分布和生均预算内教育经费分布看我国地方高等学校,可以宏观地把握地方高等学校的办学特色。     

试论湖南娄底近代中小学教育办学的影响

湖南娄底近代产生了一批较有影响力的名校,如陶龛学校、春元中学、上梅中学、青峰农校等,这些学校办学历史悠久,影响深远。这些历史名校以独特的办学目标影响社会,以一流的办学条件和优美的办学环境吸引社会的眼球,以优良的教学质量备受社会关注。     

The Shaping of a Gendered School

Gender education has been emphasized in Taiwan in recent years. Related research undertaken such as textbook reviewing and teachers' gender consciousness has pointed out potential problems in regard to gender in education. The process of shaping gender in a school per se has not yet been explored. This article aims to elaborate on how school authorities produce/reproduce stratification of school organization through the differentiation of male-strong/female-weak traits and through the segregation of educational work. An examination of school discourses and institutional arrangements demonstrates the underlying gendered nature of a school culture and the reproduction of differentiation, segregation, and stratification.     

开发校本课程 创建学校特色

校本课程开发的实质是为了发展学生个性,办出学校特色,但并不等于有了校本课程自然而然就会生成学校特色。校本课程开发在体现与发挥学校办学特色,提高教育质量有着重要作用。学校的办学特色需要有与之配套的校本课程来加以保证,校本课程是学校特色的前提和基础,学校特色是校本课程的生命力所在。     

School Culture,School Effectiveness and School Improvement

The relevance of the concept of culture to school effectiveness and school improvement is explored. Two typologies are developed. The first proposes four ‘ideal type’ school cultures, based on two underlying domains; the second, a more elaborate and dynamic model, proposes two ‘ideal type’ school cultures, based on five underlying structures. Each is discussed for its heuristic, conceptual, methodological and explanatory potential in research in the fields of school effectiveness and school improvement. In distinguishing collegial cultures from collaborative styles, the article advances recent writing on collaboration. From the theory hypotheses about the relationship between school culture and school effectiveness and improvement can be derived as well as techniques to test such hypotheses.     

Linking School Effectiveness Knowledge and School Improvement Practice: Towards a Synergy

A survey is undertaken of the ‘paradigms’ of the academic communities of school effectiveness and school improvement researchers, practitioners and scholars. It is argued that the two ‘paradigms’ are very different, and that this has hindered the improvement of educational practice. Examples are given of programmes which are a ‘blend’ of the two different approaches, and detail is given as to how the school effectiveness and school improvement communities can meet the knowledge needs necessary for improving the quality of schooling.     

Creating a Culture of Peaceful School Communities

Peace Learning Center implements conflict resolution and peace education programs for a large urban school district in the United States of America. Learn ways the center teaches conflict resolution skills to youth and school staff members while creating peaceful school cultures through peer mediation programs.     

What Makes a High School a Good High School for Students with Disabilities

This article summarizes the findings and themes from the three high schools we studied. All three schools engaged in five schoolwide strategies for educating students with disabilities. They provided a broad array of academic courses and program options; provided schoolwide support structures that could be combined and customized to the needs and strengths of individual students; worked intentionally to connect students to the school and build their motivation to succeed; created a connected and caring adult community to serve students' academic and social/personal needs; and developed responsive leaders who managed the tensions inherent in the commitment to prepare students with disabilities to be successful in their lives beyond school. The article also reviews the different ways these three school instantiated these strategies. We describe the “theory of action” that integrates the five schoolwide strategies into a synergistic approach in each school and explore implications of the Good High Schools study for practice and for future research.     

School Organization and Persistent School Absenteeism: An Introduction to a Complex Problem

This article is concerned with the development of provision for pupils in a comprehensive school with special educational needs. Its main focus is on the organization and administration changes which were undertaken in connection with the recommendations of the Warnock Report, the 1981 Education Act and the development of knowledge and expertise within the school in helping such pupils.

It concentrates on five aspects: the communication of information about those pupils within the school, the curriculum available to them in the upper school, the deployment of staff, the name of the department to best fit its changing role in the school and the issues which need to be taken into account in monitoring those developments.     

学校效能研究与学校重建

追求学校教育质量与效能是当今世界各国基础教育改革的核心要旨.学校效能研究从揭示学校对学生的成就影响开始,其间经历有效学校运动到学校改进运动,其目的是改进学校,使学校成为有效能的学校.学校效能研究在40年的发展过程中在方法论上不断革新,试图揭示学校效能的因素,在实践层面为政府以及学校重建提供理论指引;同时学校效能研究面临着政治化、专门化和技术化问题,问题的解决有待于研究的进一步深化.     

强化办学特色探索特色办学

办学特色是各高等学校的一个重要命题。本文通过对办学特色及其形成要素的论述,结合校本实际,重点思考和讨论了本校办学特色形成的若干现实问题,提出了“强化办学特色,探索特色办学”的发展观点。     

中专校升格为高职后办学特色的重构

中专校升格后，原有的办学特色和社会知名度已难以保留，新的办学特色尚未形成。办学特色是高职院校生存发展的生命线，由中专升格的高职院校，必须以先进的办学理念为指导，坚持正确的人才培养目标，找准学校定位，重建办学特色，实现学校的可持续发展。     

Counselor Training in a School Center

This article describes the creation of a partnership between a local school district and a university counselor education department to train counselors while providing counseling services using counselor trainees. The partnership resulted in a counseling center located in the school, which serves the school and community and is staffed by the university. The concept of a training center constructed by a school district and staffed by trainees and university faculty to serve students and people in the community is unique. This article explores the rationale for the community school-based, training-service center and the steps leading to its establishment. Also discussed are the physical structure and the operation of the center and the advantages and problems.     

Training with a School Focus

A new one-term course which has its focus on the school, local education authorities and practical projects chosen by course members is described by Dr Brahm Norwich, lecturer in special needs, London University Institute of Education, and Elizabeth Cowne, tutor to the course for teachers of children with special educational needs in the ordinary school.     

中外合作办学的思考与探索

中外合作办学对我国社会进步和经济发展尤其是高等教育事业的良性发展具有重要的战略意义和现实意义。发展中外合作办学的策略:强化行政管理,引进优秀教育资源;强化教学管理,提高教学质量;强化学生管理,全面提高学生素质。     

浅谈初中班级学风建设

班级学风建设是班主任工作的永恒主题,初中阶段的班主任,可通过记分制、学习园地、学习小组、黑板报、美化教室环境等途径,积极建设健康向上的班级学风,努力为学生勤奋而有效的学习营造良好氛围。     

School Design: A Classificatory Framework for a 21st-Century Approach to School Improvement

As attention turns from restructuring to school design as a means of securing school improvement, a bewildering range of design programmes/models are available. How are schools to make informed choices about their relative merits? This article suggests a classification, based on 10 criteria, by which to categorize their features, and to draw comparisons between them. The particular design adopted by the case school is described and analysed in terms of the classificatory framework, and its implementation by the perspective of the school leader/change agent. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the usefulness of the framework as a heuristic “device” for characterizing school design models (SDM) and their implementation. It is argued that refinement of the classificatory framework would result from similar case studies and the perspectives of others – besides the school leader/change agent – involved in their implementation.     

Toward a Theory of School Effectiveness and Leadership

ABSTRACT

The research on school effectiveness and school improvement lacks theoretical development. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the construction of a theory of school effectiveness and leadership. The contribution made here is in the form of a typology of school effectiveness. In the early stages of theoretical development, typologies are often useful devices for organizing what is known and for focusing attention on important questions and areas for further exploration. Within the typological framework offered here, school effectiveness is supposed to be a function of three major factors: administrative appropriateness, teacher preparedness and student readiness. While parents and community effects are important, they are assumed to be mediated by these three factors. The most ineffective schools are those in which the administration is inappropriate, the teachers are not prepared to teach and the students are not ready to learn. In the most effective schools, the opposite is the case. Schools tend to move back and forth between these two extremes in stages. It is hypothesized that there are eight stages of school effectiveness, the stages ranging from the most ineffective to the most effective school.