Identifying an Educational Response to the Prevent Policy: Student Perspectives on Learning about Terrorism,Extremism and Radicalisation

School responses to the Prevent agenda have tended to focus primarily on ‘safeguarding’ approaches, which essentially perceive some young people as being ‘at risk’ and potentially as presenting a risk to others. In this article, we consider evidence from secondary school students who experienced a curriculum project on terrorism, extremism and radicalisation. We argue that a curriculum response which addresses the acquisition of knowledge can build students’ critical capacity for engagement with radicalisation through enhanced political literacy and media literacy. We further argue this represents a genuinely educational response to Prevent, as opposed to a more restrictive securitised approach.     

教师“职业高原期”的成因与迈向卓越教师的策略

从学者提出的卓越教师的特质结构与教师的“职业高原期”的成因与表现进行分析对比来看,二者有内在的相关性,即具备迎接挑战、适应变化的环境、具有抗逆能力、持续自我的反思的素质等,这是决定一个教师避免进入“职业高原期”或者面临“职业高原期”时在身心和正向发展方面积极努力并且迈向卓越的关键。     

重评“大明宝钞”

“大明宝钞”从洪武八年(1375)发行起,其购买力一直下跌,加上纸币流通不广,且认受性低,故在15世纪初期已经完全被市场淘汰,只有官府仍然有限度地使用。传统史家一般把明代纸币失败的原因,归咎于政府滥发钞票所致,这似乎把问题过于简单化,而忽略货币制度的设计与推行的问题。“大明宝钞”失败的原因除了因为发钞过多外,其致命伤更在于制度上的设计不足,特别是明政府在未建立公众信心以前,没有效法宋、元为纸币设立准备金制度,以稳固“大明宝钞”的币值。     

基于建构主义的韩中关系发展现状透视

中国和韩国都是东亚国家,双边关系互为两国最重要的双边关系之一。目前的韩中关系存在某些不容乐观的新状况,正处在一个战略转折点上,是回到良性发展的轨道,还是继续摩擦与对立,这需要引入新的视角和研究方法。对韩中关系在理论层次上进行抽象、概括、总结、分析,以建构主义国际关系理论来展开研究,可以说是一个恰当的选择。     

韩国高校终身教育政策研究

近一时期,韩国政府意识到高校能成为优秀的终身教育机构,为此在2008年颁布了《终身学习中心大学》政策,通过每年不断更新与改善该政策,韩国政府逐渐扩大该政策执行的范围。探析从2008年到2013年韩国高校终身教育政策的改革动向,深入分析其政策的特点,从中得出相关的启示,对中国终身教育的发展具有现实意义。     

Fostering communities of teachers as learners: disciplinary perspectives

Education research in learning and teaching has alternated historically between periods in which subject matter disciplines were used as the organizing framework for investigation and implementation, and other periods in which the content areas nearly disappeared in favour of a quest for generic principles of instruction that could transcend disciplinary boundaries. There are few examinations of how these factors interact in the context of specific classroom‐ and pedagogy‐centred school reform. The papers that follow in this issue of JCS examine this issue through the lens of the pedagogic reform, ‘Fostering a Community of Learners’. This introduction outlines the key characteristics of this reform and describes the main issues in subsequent examinations of teachers learning to implement ‘Fostering a Community of Learners’ in science, social studies, English language arts, and mathematics.     

Personal and Social-Contextual Factors in K–12 Academic Performance: An Integrative Perspective on Student Learning

Our extensive literature review in the fields of educational, social, and cognitive psychology has led us to identify about a dozen variables that demonstrate direct empirical links to academic achievement at the K–12 level. Those variables are grouped into four major categories: student engagement, learning strategies, school climate, and social-familial influences. We then categorize the first two variables as personal factors and the latter two as social-contextual factors. We document empirical findings that have shown particular relationships between the reviewed personal and social-contextual factors and academic achievement, mainly in the areas of reading and mathematics. Based on our conceptualization, we propose an integrated perspective that students’ personal factors in the domains of behavior, affect, attitude, and cognition as well as their social-contextual environment have to work in concert to produce optimal school performance. We conclude with a discussion on educational implications and future research to be addressed.     

课程与教学研究二十年回溯：香港与内地的视角

新旧世纪交替更迭,世界各国教育改革此起彼伏,各种理论与学说交相辉映,共同形成颇为壮阔的图景。作为教育的核心领域——课程与教学的研究在近些年同样经历着日新月异的变化。本文尝试从香港与内地学者的视角勾勒出近二十年香港课程与教学的研究脉络与发展轮廓。文章首先概述两岸三地在课程与教学研究交流发展方面所做出的不懈努力;其次,文章围绕课程改革、课程实施、教师教育、学科教育、大学教育等关键词,梳理、归纳两岸学者就香港课程与教学所进行的探索与研究;最后,文章基于对整体脉络的把握,对两岸三地的课程与教学研究提出殷切的期望与可行性建议。     

ACES's Challenges: Past Presidents Comment

Fifteen ACES past presidents recognize the Association's golden anniversary and comment about possible challenges and opportunities that members may face during the 1990s into the 21st century.     

Analytical solutions for a uniformly loaded circular plate with clamped edges

INTRODUCTION The problem of circular plates subjected to auniform load is one of the classical problems in elas-ticity theory,which also is encountered frequently inpractice.Timoshenko and Goodier(1970)presented athree-dimensional solution for uniformly loaded iso-tropic circular plates with simply supported edges.Analytical solutions of isotropic circular plates witheither clamped or simply supported edges subjectedto a uniform load,which were derived based on thinplate theory with Kirch…