Changing knowledge regimes: Universities in a new research environment

This paper takes an apparent knowledgeparadox as its point of departure. `Knowledge'has acquired a more all encompassing meaningtoday, yet this has not strengthened thesupport for and confidence in higher educationinstitutions. On the contrary, it is oftenclaimed that they have outlived theirusefulness. In trying to understand thedevelopment behind this paradox, we deal withthree issues. We discuss first thewidening concept of knowledge and the claimthat there is emerging a new mode of knowledgeproduction. Secondly the widening concept ofknowledge is put into a social and politicalcontext, where massification and its socialimplications are discussed. Thirdly we developa theoretical framework based on the concept ofknowledge regimes. In this part wediscuss how the concept of knowledge regimesand the related concepts of knowledgeinterests and knowledge alliances may behelpful in understanding the complexities andambiguity of higher education development.Finally we discuss some implications regardingknowledge's role in social development. Wequestion the assumption that there is anecessary relationship between a wideningconcept of knowledge and a given form ofknowledge development.     

教育政策评估研究热点的共词可视化分析

研究以中国知网作为文献数据来源,利用Bicomb软件及SPSS软件绘制了我国1985-2015年教育政策学中关于教育政策评估226篇文献的热点知识图谱.研究结果表明,教育政策评估主要围绕农村义务教育均衡发展的政策评估、教育政策评估指标体系、农村义务教育与两免一补的教育政策监测与评估及其执行、教育政策评估标准、国外教育政策评估机制、教育质量评估政策的制度分析和教育政策绩效评估及其政策建议等七个领域展开.当然,我国教育政策评估研究还需要在评估方法、预评估、评估模式和评估类型等方面不断拓展研究领域,从而促进教育政策评估研究愈加完善和成熟.     

Who shapes education reform policies in Lebanon?

Many Arab countries are currently undergoing significant education reform. However, there is a paucity of research on how reforms are crafted and educational policies constructed. Lebanon has witnessed two education reforms since the Taif Agreement in 1989. This paper examines the role of research centres in influencing the last two education reforms. It selects a case study of an independent, non-governmental educational association and studies the role it played in these two reforms. The study found that contrary to the conventional wisdom, policy makers did call on research institutes when designing their reform. Yet there is a haphazard relationship between policy makers and researcher centres influenced by a number of factors, such as personal relationships, policy brokers, donors, and the availability of reputable research centres. The study also showed reluctance amongst some academics to play a direct role in influencing policymakers decisions.     

New Directions for School Effectiveness Research: Towards School Effectiveness Without Schools

School effectiveness research has made a number of valuable contributions to educational research over the past three decades. However, its validity is threatened by a number of evolutions that question the continuing centrality of its basic research object, the public school. Moves towards more flexible school organization such as networks of schools, a broader role for schools reconceptualized as community centers, the emergence of new providers outwith the public sector, the increasingly internationalised nature of research and moves towards greater use of distance learning and home schooling all mean that this focus may rapidly become outdated, potentially making school effectiveness research irrelevant.In this paper we will discuss the consequences of these evolutions for school effectiveness research and argue that, rather than lessening the need for effectiveness research, they increase the imperative for this type of research, as long as it is broadened to educational effectiveness in its broadest sense whether it takes place in the traditional public school or not, and is conducted in an empirical and open-minded way.     

我国学前教育政策研究的回眸与展望:价值取向、研究范式与核心主题

在我国学前教育事业不断走向科学化和规范化的过程中,学前教育政策研究发挥了非常重要的作用。回顾我国学前教育政策研究的历史,可以发现相关研究者在价值取向上始终坚持学前教育政策研究应呼应国家重大政策、服务时代与社会变革需求、关注事业发展中的关键问题,体现了对公平和质量的持续求索,日益关注弱势群体及精准扶贫,并从宏观探讨逐渐转向对关键政策点的研究,重视多元利益主体的诉求。在研究范式上,我国学前教育政策研究经历了从结构功能主义到批判性分析范式、从理论思辨到实证研究的转向,实现了多元研究范式的并存和互补,研究视野随之逐渐开阔,并积极引入了跨学科视角。学前教育管理与办园体制、财政投入与师资队伍保障机制,学前教育资源扩大与均衡配置、弱势群体扶助、普惠发展,学前教育政策规范、质量保障及立法等是今后一段时期内我国学前教育政策研究的核心主题。     

美国教育政策研究机构的分类、功能及发展趋势

美国教育政策研究机构是从事教育研究、开展教育学术活动、培养人才和进行学术交流的重要组织形式.本文介绍了美国四种类型的教育政策研究机构,即政府性质、公司性质、社团性质和大学的研究机构,对美国教育政策研究机构的功能进行了分析,并对其未来发展的新趋势作了展望.     

教育研究、教育的科学研究与我们的选择——我国教育研究的现状分析与趋势研究

教育研究,特别是教育的科学研究的重要性已为世界各国所公认。在概念上,教育研究和教育的科学研究是有区别的。就教育的科学研究而言,国际教育界已经形成了一套通行的研究方法:提出问题、形成研究假设、搜集资料、分析资料、检验假设并形成研究结果。我国教育研究与世界教育研究相比,存在很大差别,具有群众性参与、行政参与和以思辨为主等特点。一方面,可以说,我们形成了中国特色的教育研究体系,另一方面,在中国加入世界的进程加快的大环境下,我们不得不遵从教育研究的通行规则和方法。提倡基于科学的教育研究,规范研究方法,提高研究质量应该成为我们的选择,从而使教育的科学研究真正地科学化,为教育实践和教育政策制订提供真实可靠的依据。     

加强我国高等教育政策研究的若干思考

随着高等教育在国家经济和社会发展中地位的日益提高 ,高等教育政策研究的重要性也日显突出。通过加强高等教育政策研究来提升政府在高等教育领域的决策能力 ,是当前高等教育发展中面临的一个十分重要的问题。在此基础上 ,作者提出了加强我国高等教育政策研究的几点建议     

The roots and routes of environmental and sustainability education policy research – an introduction to a virtual special issue

This article introduces the themes of a virtual special issue (VSI) of Environmental Education Research (http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/ed/ceer-vsi) focused on policy research in environmental and sustainability education (ESE). The broad purpose behind preparing the VSI was to consider the challenges involved in linking particular concepts of environment and sustainability with key themes in educational policy, and how this remains a heavily contested practice. Examples drawn from two decades of studies published in the journal show how these might be illustrated, addressed, problematized and possibly transcended. The introduction traces how ESE researchers have dealt with key trends, complexities and issues in the policy-practice-research nexus both conceptually and empirically. It also illustrates how researchers within the field might reimagine and reinvigorate policy research on ESE, and how working with researchers from other fields who offer different perspectives, ideas and expertise might aid the cross-fertilisation of a complex terrain of ideas, policy and practice. In so doing, we hope the accompanying VSI inspires renewed interest into the (at times, fickle) relationship between ESE, and the dual worlds of possibility and tension that take place both within, and surrounding, their fields of policy and research.     

论增进实践性学识的高等教育研究方法

高等教育研究要回归高等教育生活世界,解决实践问题,增进实践性学识。实践性学识具有内隐性、非系统性和缄默性等特点,获得实践性学识主要通过行动研究的方式进行。因此,质的研究是增进实践性学识的主要研究方法论,实地研究是其主要研究方式;在具体研究方法与技术上,主要通过观察、访谈、调查来收集资料,通过理解来分析资料,通过教育日志、教育叙事、教育案例、教育反思、教学课例等形式来整理资料和表达研究成果。     

Expanding doctoral education in South Africa: pipeline or pipedream?

The purpose of this paper is to discuss both the status of the PhD in South Africa and the feasibility of the country's aspiration to increase by fivefold the production of PhDs by 2025. Based on the first empirical studies on doctoral education in South Africa, it argues that in order to move towards this target, an expanded and coordinated effort is necessary. This includes the removal of barriers that hinder the expansion of the South African higher education system. In particular the paper highlights insufficient funding, policy that stands in the way of expansion, scarcity of students, limited supervisory capacity and lack of recognition of the value of the doctorate and higher learning, as well as limited and inadequate partnerships. The main question is whether South Africa can achieve the desired outcome by following international trends or whether the expansion target is merely a pipedream.     

韩国高等教育的发展趋势与政策研究

新世纪以来,韩国高等教育发展迅速,出台了许多重大的改革政策,从中可以看出,韩国高等教育的改革趋势主要体现在四个方面：推动高等教育体系的创新改革;提高大学的学术与专业研究能力;加大对产业一学界联盟的支持力度;推动高等教育的国际化发展。     

韩国大学特色化政策的误区及其启示

政策误区通常会导致政策陷入持续性失败的困境。当前韩国大学特色化政策误区的根源在于对大学特色化内涵的狭隘认识,在政策的价值取向、路径选择与变迁方式等方面也都存在具体的误区表现。这已经成为政策发展的瓶颈,使韩国的大学特色化发展难以取得根本性的突破而显得步履维艰。在大学日益强调特色发展的今天,我国对大学特色化的政策性关注逐渐增多,客观认识韩国大学特色化政策的误区有助于我们探索正确的政策方向。