Mathematics education in Hungary today

Mathematics education in Hungary today     

Adult education and the empowerment of civil society: the case of trade unions in Botswana

The paper examines the potential role of adult education in the empowerment of civil society in Botswana. It shows that adult education can be instrumental in the empowerment of trade unions as organs of civil society in a liberal democracy. It argues that the country's democratic tradition can be sustained by a strong civil society. The paper traces the history of trade unions in Botswana showing that the state has mostly weakened them through legislation. It is contended that individuals participate in trade unions as their mouthpiece when they are in trouble with capital. Most trade union members reported not being aware of adult education activities in Botswana. The paper explores some of the weaknesses of the unions and suggests how adult education provision from adult basic education to adult and continuing education at the university could help to redress the workers' problems. It concludes by mapping out some practical ways in which adult education could empower the unions in Botswana as it has done elsewhere.     

Knowledge society discourse and higher education

The growing importance of knowledge, research and innovation are changing the social role of universities in the globalized world. One of the most popular concepts used to approach these changes in post-industrial and post-modern societies is the concept of ‘Knowledge Society’. In this paper, we will analyse the roles higher education is expected to play with regard to various knowledge society discourses. We will begin with analyzing the uses of knowledge society as an intellectual device and continue by reflecting on how changes in higher education are related to knowledge society discourses in national, regional and global levels. In the final section we will reflect on current challenges and expectations generated within these discourses for higher education and the implications these expectations have for higher education research.     

试论学习社会中的社区教育与终身教育

学习社会是一个人人都能终身学习和受教育的社会，终身教育是实现学习社会的途径和手段，而社区教育则是实现并完善终身教育体系必不可少的教育理论和实践形式。     

论和谐社会与和谐教育

和谐社会与和谐教育二者是相辅相成、共同发展的。一方面，和谐社会为和谐教育的发展创建良好的社会环境和奠定雄厚的物质基础，另一方面，和谐社会的构建则需要和谐教育为其培养大量的合格人才。因此，构建和谐社会必须以科学发展观为指导，发展和谐教育。     

Adult education and social planning

ABSTRACT

This article examines the participation of ‘third-sector’ organisations in public education in England. These organisations act as a cross-sectoral policy network made up of new kinds of policy experts: mediators and brokers with entrepreneurial careers in ideas. They have sought to make education reform thinkable, intelligible and practicable in terms of a computational discourse consisting of code, networks, interactivity and feedback, and related ideas of decentralisation, open methods and personalisation. What characterises this style of thinking is an ‘anti-political’ preoccupation with computer-coded systems and the idea of networks as a model for new political and educational forms.     

小康社会及其教育抉择

用财富的眼光看小康,小康似乎与文化没有任何关联。在这样的观念之下,小康给我们带来了财富却遮蔽了我们的理性。今天,当教育面对小康的拷问时,我们再也不能回避人文领域的反思。只有当小康被放置于社会、历史与文明的进程中时,小康的教育价值才能真正得到显示。在小康的世界中,教育的价值不仅在于解决生存的需要,同时也超越于单纯的浪漫温情的生命关怀,小康的教育意味着一种文化、政治与伦理的历史变迁。     

试论当前社会转型中的信仰危机与重建

历史的变迁,社会的转型必然会带来程度不同的信仰危机,信仰危机是社会转型时期客观存在的精神现象,只有大力发展社会生产力,建设好有中国特色的社会主义,努力提高人民群众的生活水平,加强对公众的信仰教育,才能从根本上解决当前中国社会的信仰重建问题。