ICPSR meets OAIS: applying the OAIS reference model to the social science archive context

This paper reviews the archival process at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a repository of digital social science data, and maps ICPSR’s Ingest and Access operations to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. The paper also assesses ICPSR’s conformance with the archival responsibilities of “trusted” OAIS repositories, with the proviso that audit criteria for archival certification are still under development. The ICPSR to OAIS mapping exercise has benefits for the larger social science archiving community because it provides an interpretation of the reference model in the quantitative social science environment and points to preservation-related issues that may be salient for other social science archives. Building on the archives’ long tradition of shared norms and cooperation, we may ultimately be able to design a federated system of trusted social science repositories that provides access to the global heritage.

Income is not enough: incorporating material hardship into models of income associations with parenting and child development

Although research has clearly established that low family income has negative impacts on children's cognitive skills and social-emotional competence, less often is a family's experience of material hardship considered. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (N=21,255), this study examined dual components of family income and material hardship along with parent mediators of stress, positive parenting, and investment as predictors of 6-year-old children's cognitive skills and social-emotional competence. Support was found for a model that identified unique parent-mediated paths from income to cognitive skills and from income and material hardship to social-emotional competence. The findings have implications for future study of family income and child development and for identification of promising targets for policy intervention.     

中小学校长在实施素质教育中的办学角色定位

在中小学教育中,面对家长的强烈诉求、社会的压力,不少校长的办学角色定位产生了偏差,导致学校育人价值功利化,素质教育不能在学校真正实施。实施素质教育必须明确校长是第一责任人,校长办学角色定位必须立足于学生发展,纠正中小学育人价值的功利化取向,营造学生四会的良好学校环境。     

亚欧会议教育进程述评

亚欧会议是亚洲与欧洲之间级别最高、规模最大的政府间论坛。为推动亚欧高层教育战略磋商,拓展亚欧教育交流,第六届亚欧首脑会议决定启动亚欧教育部长会议机制。自2008年柏林会议以来,亚欧会议教育进程开展了一系列重要活动。亚欧会议教育进程时间虽短,但已经取得显著成效。亚欧合作中,欧盟仍是强势和主导的一方,但和谐共处、共同发展的教育理念得到充分的体现。目前,建立质量保障框架和认可机制是亚欧会议教育进程的核心工作,中国要积极为推动亚欧会议教育进程做贡献。     

公共教育服务体制创新:治理的视角

为了满足多元化的公共教育需求,解决公共教育产品短缺和公共教育服务不到位等问题,有必要从治理的视角重新思考政府在公共教育产品与服务中的角色和作用,运用治理的理念和精神变革公共教育服务体制,实现公共教育服务供给主体的多元化、公共教育治理权力的多中心化和公共教育服务结构的多样化。     

情感:情境教育理论构建的命脉

儿童时期是一个人一生奠基的关键时期。30年来,我不懈地追求儿童发展的规律,初步构建了以儿童为主体的、自成体系的情境教育理论框架。情感,让我迈出情境教育的第一步。在此基础上,我提出了情感活动与认知活动结合起来的教育主张,构建了情感与认知结合获得教学高效能的课程范式。在回顾整理情境教学的探索历程中,我概括出情境教学促进儿童发展的五要素,构建了情境教育的基础模式和基础原理,并对情境课程进行了网络构建。回顾情境教育理论构架的历程,我的爱与儿童的情的交融,构成了情境教育理论构架的内核。情是教育的魂,是情境教育的命脉。     

教师教育重心后移:动因与走向

教师教育由职前为重向职后为重转移成为一种新趋势。在实践转向的新潮流中逐步形成了教师教育新中心。教师本位的确立是教师教育实践化转向的内在要求,以课为本的研修是教师专业发展的立基点,遵循教育实践的内在逻辑是教师教育改革生命力的保证,找回教育情景是教师教育实践化的具体体现。     

高校教学与科研互动:问题、归因及对策

教学与科研是高等学校不可或缺的两大职能。当前的高等教育实践中,高校的教学与科研存在失衡、相互脱节和评价失准的突出问题。这一方面归因社会观念影响,另一方面来自高校及教师对教学与科研的认知与评价。应通过完善国家相关政策和制度建设,明确高校自身定位,引导教师多元发展等措施加以改进。