国内外大学校长选拔制度的比较分析

大学校长选拔制度有不同类型:选举与任命两段制、董事会领导下的学校自主遴选制、学校遴选与行政任命结合制、政府直接行政委任制、轮流出任制等等,不同类型的校长选拔制度有其优势与弊端。本文对国内外大学校长选拔制度的类型与优劣作了比较分析,在此基础上,提出了针对我国大学校长选拔的几点启示。     

论新时期我国行政文化的重塑

行政文化是行政的灵魂,对公共行政管理人员在公共行政活动中的理念和价值取向的形成、对公共行为的达成、对行政组织的形成和发展起到规范和引导的作用。目前我国正处于经济社会发展的关键时期,塑造何种行政文化对我国行政管理的发展有着重要的影响。笔者认为,从当前实际出发,应致力于塑造服务型、法治型、开放型、效能型、责任型的新的行政文化。     

独立学院持续健康发展的思考

独立学院作为一种新型的办学形式,教育行政部门该如何从政策上加以规范,是一个迫切需要解决的问题.作者认为,独立学院对我国高等教育发展具有重大现实意义,政府应采取积极支持、规范管理、科学发展的对策,对此,作者在宏观政策与微观操作两个层面作了具体分析.     

Teacher professional development through collaborative action research: impact on foreign English-language teaching and learning

In 2011 we, a group of English-as-a-foreign-language teachers at a secondary school in Argentina, decided to investigate our teaching practices through collaborative action research so as to improve our students’ learning opportunities and thus revitalise English-language teaching in our context. We implemented and evaluated the integration of content and language learning in our classrooms through the development of our own materials. The experience revealed a growth in professional development and how our motivation and autonomy influenced our students’ motivation and language development. In our attempt to disseminate our experience as a group, this report particularly focuses on the evaluation facets of our collaborative action research project so as to encourage other teachers and teacher-researchers to adopt collaborative action research to improve their own practices.     

The reality of virtual worlds: pros and cons of their application to foreign language teaching

This article presents our experience of testing the OpenSim platform as a tool in teaching French to 108 tourism students at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain). The article begins with some theoretical reflections on the behaviour of the student when using a virtual platform by means of an avatar, and with our observations of how this doubling of identity is actually the greatest asset of virtual worlds when we intend to apply them to teaching (1. Introduction). Then we move on to present our goals and method of work (2. Aims and methodology) and to analyse the development of the virtual space or sim, setting out the teaching strategies that were employed in each of the islands we created, and which correspond to reading comprehension, listening comprehension and written expression (3. Metaverse design). In order to assess the language learning results, we also devised tests throughout the experiment, which were repeated one month later. The assessment shows that the process of language acquisition is positive (4. Results analysis). Finally, we demonstrate that the rise of virtual worlds has been backed up by psycholinguistic factors, but at the same time their applicability and sustainability depend on technical aspects and very especially on theoretical and pedagogical tenets which are still to be drawn up (5. Conclusions).     

The Use of Newspaper Articles as a Tool to Develop Critical Thinking in Science Classes

The aim of this research is to identify the difficulties experienced by secondary school students (aged 15–16) with the critical reading of newspaper articles with scientific content. Two newspaper critical reading activities in relation to the study of various scientific contents were designed and carried out in two schools (61 students in total), one with a student population from a medium to high social and economic bracket and the other with students from a medium to low social and economic bracket. These activities were designed taking into account the phases of the reading process: before, during and after reading. In order to analyse the difficulties ‘Elements of science critical reading’ were identified on the basis of the ‘Elements of reasoning’ of Paul and Elder and the categories proposed by Bartz C.R.I.T.I.C. questionnaire and a scale was drawn up. The results show that the activities designed were useful in helping students to read critically. We also rated very positively the instrument created to assess the students' answers: the scale based on the performance indicators of Paul and Elder. This instrument enabled us to detect the aspects of critical thinking where students have the most difficulties: identifying the writer's purpose and looking for evidence in a text. It was also shown that the stance taken in the articles also had an influence on the results.     

幼儿园教师公正:一道艰难的必选题

幼儿园教师公正是指教师在保教工作中体现出来的公平正义.教师的保教行为不能没有公正.公正是教育的应有之义,是促进教师发展的内在要求,是促进幼儿成长的重要因素.公正的践行受制于主观教育素养、客观教育资源以及教育氛围等多种因素.公正的实现需要教师个人、行业与园方以及社会共同作出努力.     

论体育精神

此研究讨论了体育精神的各个方面,认为体育精神应包括人文精神、科学精神、拼搏精神、合作精神和审美精神,体育精神对人才的培养、人格的完善起着重要的作用。     

Developmental Changes in the Relations Between RAN,Phonological Awareness,and Reading in Spanish Children

We examined the developmental relations of phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) with reading in a cross-sectional study with 874 Spanish children from Grades 2 to 6. Our main prediction was that the RAN–reading relationship would decrease due to a gradual change in reading strategy, from serial decoding to sight word reading. Therefore, in contrast to most previous studies, we used discrete reading tasks. Serial RAN tasks for objects, colors, digits, and letters were included. First, we examined whether the RAN tasks loaded on the same constructs across time. An alphanumeric and a nonalphanumeric factor were identified, which were invariant over time. In subsequent multigroup structural equation models we found that the PA–reading relationship was low but slightly increased in the higher grades. As predicted, the RAN–reading relationship decreased for words, whereas the relationship remained stable for pseudowords.