Reclaiming Kindergarten: Part II: Questions About Policy

Part II of “Reclaiming Kindergarten” continues the discussion related to responding to the crisis in today’s kindergarten. In Part II, two policy questions are posed, the answers to which seek to respond to this continuing crisis. The questions center on issues related to engaging families in kindergarten and the need to consider a new early childhood paradigm where kindergarten is part of a continuous and seamless educational experience spanning prekindergarten through third grade. As in Part I, examples of classroom practice are used to illustrate the effective implementation of these principles in a kindergarten classroom.     

中国语文教材变革的史脉与沉思

以百年中国语文教材的变迁为反思对象,剖析"经文之分、文白之辩、言文之用、文道之争、道之变迁、言文分立、文道再争、道之异化、新题旧义、世纪之问"等变革中的主题,建议为中小学语文教育的改革和教材的编写确立基本框架.     

国际文凭中学项目的特征与启示

国际文凭组织倡导国际理解和多元文化,注重中学项目与其他教育体制的兼容性,给国际文凭学校提供了创造性地实施的空间.项目以学生为学习中心,以平衡为基点,追求学生全面发展;通过课程理念、体系框架和案例的引导,外部评估和督导的指导,以及培训和资源的支撑来推进书面课程、实施课程和评估课程的一致性.     

重话传统德育

推进现代德育及其现代化建设,必须对传统德育加以批判的继承。不可忽视的是在对其进行继承的超越过程中,对传统德育的认识理解存在一些问题,主要表现在：主流认识中存在着共时态层面传统德育研究的窄化倾向与历时态层面儒家德育研究的泛化趋势,以及大传统德育与小传统德育的两种不同认识。此外,也存在传统德育与德育传统的混淆以及对“传统德育”这一学术基础用词的错用甚至是滥用。这些共同构成了重话传统德育的现实机缘。     

The building of weak expertise: the work of global university rankers

University rankers are the subject of much criticism, and yet they remain influential in the field of higher education. Drawing from a two-year field study of university ranking organizations, interviews with key correspondents in the sector, and an analysis of related documents, I introduce the concept of weak expertise. This kind of expertise is the result of a constantly negotiated balance between the relevance, reliability, and robustness of rankers’ data and their relationships with their key readers and audiences. Building this expertise entails collecting robust data, presenting it in ways that are relevant to audiences, and engaging with critics. I show how one ranking organization, the Times Higher Education (THE), sought to maintain its legitimacy in the face of opposition from important stakeholders and how it sought to introduce a new “Innovation and Impact” ranking. The paper analyzes the strategies, methods, and particular practices that university rankers undertake to legitimate their knowledge—and is the first work to do so using insights gathered alongside the operations of one of the ranking agencies as well as from the rankings’ conference circuit. Rather than assuming that all of these trust-building mechanisms have solidified the hold of the THE over its audience, they can be seen as signs of a constant struggle for influence over a skeptical audience.     

电动车能量再生技术

1　Introduction　Therateddistanceisoneofkeyfactorstolimitthedevelopmentofelectricvehicle (EV)sinceEVwasin vented .Itisawayforincreasingtherateddistancetoputtheadvancedenergyregenerationtechnologyintouse .Manyexperimentsprovethattheactualrateddistanceofaelectricscooterunderthecityroadsur roundingsisabout 35 - 45kmwhileitisabout 5 5 - 6 5kmunderthestandard proving ground .Moreover ,JapanToyotaalsoprovedthattherateddistancecouldbeincreasedby 2 0 %whenusingtheenergyregenera tionsysteminEV .Soi…     

Redefining Adult Education in an Emerging Economy: The Example of Shenzhen,China

At a time of economic transition, when jobs are continually disappearing and emerging, adult education and training in the workplace have developed very rapidly to meet the needs of skills development. This paper looks at how firms and their employees deal with workplace changes in the Shenzhen conurbation, site of China's earliest experiment in introducing a market economy. The author finds that adult education and on-the-job training are taking on new roles in aiding development. He argues that, while learning to reorganise production, firms have taken charge of meeting the demand for human capital in a changing workplace. At the same time, individual employees are becoming conscientious learners and accessing adult education as a means of personal development in their work lives.     

Erosion behavior and mechanism of boronised steels

Boronising of steels is a hardening process to get high surface hardness. The erosion resistance of boronised steels was researched with the use of four kinds of erodent, i.e. glass, alumina, quartz and silicon carbide. The erosion rate increases rapidly with erodent hardness and severe erosion occurs with high impacting angle range of hard particles. SEM analysis indicated that chipping is caused by repetitive impacting of glass and quartz, whereas by alumina and silicon carbide impacting, chipping, and that plastic flow take place simultaneously and the erosion rate reaches the peak value when the impacting angle is above 60°.     

On international trade in educational services: an interpretation of the regulations and China’s WTO commitments

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) covers educational trade services. Hence, all the regulations of the GATS have to be followed in the international trade of educational services. Having acceded to the WTO, China is starting to fulfill the rights and obligations as a member by completely respecting international trade, services and intellectual property laws. At the same time, it is also starting to fulfill some of the commitments it made in the GATS, such as expanding activities on trade in educational services. Comprehending the fundamental regulations and China’s commitments is significant towards promoting China’s international trade in educational services. __________ Translated from Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Sciences), 2004 (1)     

赤壁电网电压及无功优化控制系统研究

电压无功优化是一个复杂的非线性规划问题,本文从赤壁电网的特点出发,选择一种编程方便、通用性强、收敛性好、计算快速的SQP方法,应用在赤壁电网电压无功优化控制中.实践证明,它的应用提高了电压质量、降低了网损,取得了较好的效益.