Demand for private supplementary tutoring: conceptual considerations, and socio-economic patterns in Hong Kong

Despite the fact that in some parts of the world private supplementary tutoring is a huge industry with far-reaching economic, social and educational implications, the topic has been neglected by educational researchers. This paper focuses on the nature and determinants of demand for private supplementary tutoring. It first draws on literature from a wide range of countries to identify some conceptual considerations, and then presents data on socio-economic patterns of demand for tutoring in Hong Kong. It highlights the complexity of the topic, and calls for further detailed research in multiple settings.     

以校本教材为开发支点整合教育技术课程模块

针对目前五年制师范教育技术专业课程开设的现状及存在的问题，提出了面向基础教育实际开发教育技术学科校本教材的基本思路，旨在建立和完善教材建设体制与运行机制。     

企业人力资源开发的战略问题——人事管理模式

人事管理模式:市场化的、人本化的、知识化的.     

优势视角的学校社会工作辅导策略探析

优势视角理论是20世纪八九十年代兴起于西方社会工作领域的一个新的实践取向。文章介绍了优势视角理论的基本观点:建构主义的哲学基础、多元取向的分析原则、弹性灵活的操作步骤和平等合作的辅导关系。在此基础上,文章结合两年来在中学开展的现场研究,提出了优势视角的学校社会工作辅导策略:此时此地、外化提问、积极回应、寻求代替、亲身体验和回归日常,并对此进行了反思与讨论。     

我国农村社会管理体制研究现状与展望

改革开放尤其是取消农业税以来,我国农村社会管理体制问题日益引起国内学术界的关注,有价值的研究成果大量涌现并呈现出三大特点：在研究角度上。展现出跨学科及交叉研究的趋势;在研究内容上,呈现出既重视历史经验的总结又注重对现实问题的分析;从研究结果看,缺乏对经验事实的观察以及提供机制与方式的提炼,强调理论推演而缺少可行性考虑,政策指导意义不强。未来的研究仍具有较大拓展空阍,应在农村社会管理体制的理论及范围、改革中成功案例的分析、配套政策及政策评价体系等方面进行深入研究。     

美国全国教育协会与教师专业化

全国教育协会是美国最大的教师专业组织,在教师专业化发展的不同历史阶段及时采取有效策略,成为推动教师专业化的重要力量。其策略具体表现在:争取教师经济条件的改善,保障教师权益、制定教师专业伦理规范、规范教学专业标准、采取多样化的教师专业发展项目等。这为我国教师专业化发展提供了一种新视角。     

Education and Development: Era of Hope and Disillusionment

It seems almost superfluous to have to highlight formal education as a social and moral institution (historically that has been its main role) but for the fact that after the Second World War greater consciousness on the part of rich industrialized countries spawns fresh concepts and notions that education is an economic enterprise. The human capital concept popularized by the Chicago School of economics as reflected in the works of Schultz and the seminal work of Denison catapulted education into the forefront as an engine of economic development for the so-called Third World countries. Heavy physical capital investment, with the exception of Japan and Germany, which is thought to be a sufficient stimulus for economic development in classical economic theory fails to deliver the goods. The frantic search for an efficacious solution to Third World Poverty unearths the forgotten dimension of educated and trained manpower as the missing variable in the economic development equation. Education becomes the new faith for Third Worlds in their attempts to banish poverty and join the rich industrial clubs. Needless to say, the new faith which holds sway for more than a decade ends in disillusionment (reflected in the Belagio Conference of 1974) for trained manpower is a necessary but not sufficient condition for national development. The complementarity and substitutability of physical and human capital have been overlooked. But whilst the human capital formation theory holds sway, formal education becomes predominently an economic enterprise and correspondingly its function as a social and moral enterprise is reduced in importance.     

Effect of language of instruction on physics achievement

This study investigated the relationship between physics achievement and language of instruction in a situation where instruction was in the second language of both students and teachers. One hundred and seventy-six grade ten physics students (first language was Chinese) were selected from four classes of two secondary schools in Hong Kong. For three months (with four lessons per week), two classes of students learned the content material (light and sound) in Chinese and two classes learned the material in English. Group differences were controlled by using individual aptitude scores as covariates in the analysis. There were no differences in achievement, students' motivation, and effort spent in physics in that controlled teaching period. This was probably because the Anglo-Chinese group was sufficiently proficient in English so they did not encounter additional difficulty in learning physics when compared with the Chinese group.