21世纪大学经营的课题——人类经营

大学经营的三大最高理想是真育、善育和美育。“真育”是指以学生为中心的教育,养成良好基础学问教育,责任意识教育以及全人教育;“善育”是指为地区和国家社会的贡献教育;“美育”则是为国际社会和全人类的服务教育。     

Personality and Functional Specialty Preference of Prospective Counselor Educators

This study examined the personality needs of doctoral students in counselor education who preferred functional specialties as administrators or practitioners. The sample consisted of doctoral students in counselor education at 20 southern universities. Achievement, dominance, order, and social recognition needs, as measured by the Personality Research Form (PRF), were found to differentiate between the groups.     

Solving Hitchcock’s transportation problem by a genetic algorithm

IntroductionTheHitchcock’sTransportationProblem(HTP)canbeformulatedasaclassiclinearprogrammingprobleminwhichthesetofconstraintsisofaspecialstructure[1,2].TheHTPisapracticaltransportationprobleminproductiondistributionsector.Alotofpracticaltrans-portationandassignmentproblems,suchastheminimumcostroadnetworktrafficflowproblemwithsolidchargeinlogistics,canbeformulatedinthisway,anditisclearlythattheHTPmaybehasmorethanoneoptimalsolution.Itisveryimportantforadecision-makertoselectafavorableone…     

Improving Students' Learning by Developing their Understanding of Assessment Criteria and Processes

This paper reports the findings of a two-year research project focused on developing students' understanding of assessment criteria and the assessment process through a structured intervention involving both tacit and explicit knowledge transfer methods. The nature of the intervention is explained in detail, and the outcomes are analysed and discussed. The conclusions drawn from the evidence are that student learning can be improved significantly through such an intervention, and that this improvement may last over time and be transferable, at least within similar contexts. This work is a development within a longer and ongoing research project into criterion-referenced assessment tools and processes which has been undertaken in the pursuit of a conceptually sound and functional assessment framework that would promote and encourage common standards of assessment; that project is also summarised.     

庄子的平等思想对女性学走出现代困境的意义

现代的女性学把男女关系理解为相互对立和竞争的关系,试图通过竞争达到跟男性完全平等的地位,如在诸多稀少资源的分配中获得平等的机遇和利益。这样,女性的社会地位虽然得到了提高,但女性的生活也出现了许多新问题,说明女性学在现代并未构建出男女关系的理想模式,而是陷入到了一种困境之中。而庄子的平等思想为女性学的发展提供了出路。根据庄子的思想体系,男女本来就是平等和有机统一的,男女之间可以通过交互作用和协调达到理想状态。从统一体世界观的角度看,人与宇宙万物是有机统一的,而且任何一个事物都不能脱离对立面而存在,因而在男女的相互关系中,男性的存在是女性存在的根据,而女性的存在也是男性存在的根据。万物的生生不息根源于阴阳的相互交融,而人类的繁荣则根源于男女的感应和相爱。庄子的平等理论为新的男女平等观提供了思想基础,为更人性化的女性学体系的建立提供了新的视点。     

Comparing England,Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: The case for 'home internationals' in comparative research

The differences among the four education systems of the UK are often perceived as a nuisance by comparative researchers. This paper argues that they are also an opportunity. It describes the four systems and summarises their similarities and differences. It then presents five reasons for giving 'home international' comparisons a more prominent role in comparative research. These are, respectively: their potential contribution to theoretical debates; specific differences among the four systems, which touch on core problems of educational research; the practical value of home international comparisons; their potential for policy learning; and the relative ease of conducting them.