Between two Advisors: Interconnecting Academic and Workplace Settings in an Emerging Field

This article examines a new training design for continuing professional development that aims to support the learning of the novel knowledge and skills needed in emerging professional fields by interconnecting academic and workplace settings. The training design is based on using two advisors, one from working life and the other from an academic context. The article examined whether participants’ personal orientation to adaptive expertise predicts the success of a guidance process. The interconnection of workplace and academic contexts was expected to occur through guidance practices. In addition, the features underlying the most successful guidance relationships were analysed. Data were collected by conducting repeated semi-structured interviews with 18 course participants, eight academic advisors and eight workplace advisors in the context of a 1-year energy efficiency training programme. The results indicated that a trainee’s personal orientation towards adaptive expertise is a significant component in successful guidance processes. An interconnection of workplace and academic knowledge and practices was hardly found in the guidance provided by each participant’s academic and workplace advisors. The feature underlying the most successful guidance relationships are related at the personal, dyad and context levels. An excellent match between the expert profiles of the learner and the advisor appears to be especially critical for successful guidance and powerful knowledge exchange in emerging fields. However, finding matching advisors is often challenging. Many problems are presumably solved if these ‘right persons’ can be found and if the trainees are themselves oriented to utilise the novel resources provided to them by the advisors.     

Novice teachers’ learning and knowledge building during the induction programme

This paper explores the Estonian novice teachers’ learning and knowledge building (LKB) practices in the extended professional community during the induction programme using well-known knowledge conversion model. The assumption in this study is that a teachers’ participation in the extended professional community facilitates their professional development. The survey was conducted with 101 novices after their induction programme. The patterns of novices’ LKB practices in the professional learning community during the induction programme were explored. The analysis showed to what extent extended professional community may be formed during the induction year. LKB practice patterns among the novices were identified. We discovered that many novices felt that there was insufficient support from other teachers and from university experts. It appears that it is challenging to develop a coherent induction programme as the extended professional community of educators, where different partners collaborate and share professional knowledge is challenging.     

论高校电子学籍档案的归档与保护

电子档案的归档与保护是档案管理工作的新课题,文章主要阐述了高校电子学籍档案的归档途径,着重分析了从法规制度的健全、信息保护以及环境保护三个方面加强电子学籍档案的保护工作。     

简论民国初年教育宗旨的嬗变——由“五育并举”到“四育并提”

五育并举是蔡元培教育思想的重要组成部分,也是民国初年四育并提教育宗旨的理论基础。民国初年教育宗旨的制定,体现了推翻帝制后教育观念由臣民向公民的现代转变,而其形成过程,更是当时教育思想纷争讨论的一个侧影。探讨民国初年教育宗旨的嬗变问题,不仅可以深化对我国近现代教育史的认识,而且对当代教育也有一定的借鉴意义。     

STEM领域中女性生涯选择影响因素研究述评

中国国际“互联网+”创新创业大赛不仅是我国推进创新创业教育的一个新举措,而且还是促进高校科学技术成果落地转化的新路径。“互联网+”双创大赛融合科学教育与科学传播的优势,“互联网+”双创大赛既是一种项目导向式创新型科学教育,也是一次面向大众的科学传播活动,对于高校教师、在校大学生和高校管理者都有重要意义。     

农村教师专业发展的保障状况与对策——基于浙江省的调查研究

《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010-2020)》提出以农村教师为重点,推进中小学教师队伍建设。农村教师专业发展保障现状成为关注的焦点。我们通过对浙江省的问卷和访谈调查发现,农村学校教师专业发展制度保障完善,但是专业学习时间、专业发展经费和专业引领等资源保障缺乏。解决这些问题需要,建立城乡教师编制双轨制,创新专业发展经费保障制度,构建城乡合理的教师交流机制,以及探索近身专业援助的模式。     

In the red? Debt levels at higher education institutions in China

Borrowing from banks has become a common practice among Chinese higher education institutions (HEIs), and operating with a heavy debt load has become a characteristic of Chinese higher educational development. Substantial financial commitments acquired by HEIs during their rapid expansion since 1998 are now having serious consequences: numerous universities and colleges have found themselves with major debt problems. Some are even facing insolvency. This paper describes the background of Chinese HEIs’ debt problems, assesses the present debt and repayment situation, and suggests a possible solution for the university debt crisis, using empirical evidence from one HEI in China.     

Overall plan and design of the task management system of ternary optical computer

In this paper an overall scheme of the task management system of ternary optical computer (TOC) is proposed, and the software architecture chart is given. The function and accomplishment of each module in the system are described in general. In addition, according to the aforementioned scheme a prototype of TOC task management system is implemented, and the feasibility, rationality and completeness of the scheme are verified via running and testing the prototype.     

工作记忆与失语症关系的研究进展

工作记忆与失语症的关系近来受到研究者的广泛关注.工作记忆四个成分的缺陷 都将导致失语症患者的语言障碍,工作记忆的测量方法在失语症研究中得到广泛应用.应 结合汉语和汉字的特点开展工作记忆与失语症关系的研究.     

学习科学与教育政策——2011计算机支持的协作学习国际会议回顾

2011计算机支持的协作学习国际会议于2011年7月在香港举行。此次会议的主题是计算机支持协作学习的研究与教育政策和实践的链接,旨在促进CSCL研究对各级正规和非正规教育领域的政策和实践带来新启示。会议集中了全球学习科学、教育技术与协作学习领域的前沿科学家,是一次有关学习科学的盛会。除了在香港的研讨会,本次会议还增设了在广州、上海和北京的连锁会,因此在大陆也吸引了不少学者参与。作为2011CSCL会议的前奏,主办方在香港举行了一个小型的全球教育政策论坛,20位成员之中,一半是前沿的学习科学研究人员,另一半则是各国际机构的教育政策领军人物,他们就教育的微观与宏观研究,做了别开生面的对话。我们相信,有关学习科学的研究,必将成为教育领域的基础研究。