Teachers or learning leaders?: where have all the teachers gone? gone to be leaders,everyone

This paper traces the dramatic proliferation of leadership roles in English primary and secondar schools, due mainly to central government education policy of the past two decades. This has transformed schools from relatively simple to highly complex organizations and has impacted on the working conditions of, and demands on, teachers, together with many aspects of schooling. These changes are illustrated with typical examples of schools' leadership structures and their functioning. Interview data provide teachers' views on, and reactions to, the changes in school leadership. The paper also reviews the ways in which teacher education institutions have responded in terms of providing initial and in‐service education and training to equip the profession for this new and developing challenge. It examines the reception of such programmes by teachers and the reported impact on schools' management and the role of leadership within it.     

Young people’s views about their involvement in decision‐making

This paper reports on research conducted over a two‐year period in a large Educational Psychology Service (EPS) in England. Researchers were keen to ascertain the views of young people and EPS members about young people being directly involved in educational decision‐making and how their genuine involvement in such decision‐making might be best achieved. Focus groups were employed as a means of gathering data which were analysed using Content Analysis. Young people and EPS members ultimately identified “culture”, “attitudes”, “environment”, and “systems” as being the most important factors in ensuring the genuine involvement of young people in decision‐making.     

Development and validation of the sources of parental anxiety in children’s education scale

Parental anxiety in children’s education is closely related to children’s developmental and educational outcomes. The current study reported the development and validation of a self-report instrument to evaluate the Sources of Parental Anxiety in Children’s Education (SPACEs). Qualitative analyses suggested that the construct of parental anxiety in children’s education was multidimensional, representing learning performance anxiety, educational environment anxiety, educational input anxiety, and educational outcome anxiety as four primary sources. The results from exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported this four-factor structure comprising 17 items to capture this multidimensional construct. The scale also demonstrated adequate internal consistencies, convergent validity, discriminant validity, criterion-related validity, and test-retest reliability. A series of multi-group tests across age, locality, and children’s grades provided evidence of measurement invariance. Overall, the SPACE scale appear to be a reliable and valid tool to measure educational anxiety in parents in the Chinese context.     

教育技术学专业人才能力素质体系的重建——信息时代教育技术学专业课程体系研究(一)

随着信息时代的到来,教育技术学专业原有的人才培养能力素质指标体系已不适应信息社会对教育技术学专业人才的需求,必须从人文素质、理论素质、应用素质、创新素质四方面重新构建具有时代性、前瞻性、灵活性的能力素质体系,培养大量适应信息社会需求的教育技术专门人才,为教育现代化铺平道路。     

技术炒作曲线的教育价值及其对教育技术学科发展的观照

技术炒作曲线是一条呈现新兴技术从提出到成熟运用于某一领域期间在每一个时间段受到媒体关注度的曲线,是用于整体把握技术创新发展态势、评估技术创新成熟程度、选择创新介入时机、预期技术创新后发优势的有力工具。运用技术炒作曲线透视技术创新在教育领域内的扩散轨迹,有助于人们理性认识和把握新兴技术在教育中扩散的基本规律和内在价值,更好地推进信息技术与教育的深度融合。纵观教育技术领域内各种技术融入的发展脉络,不难发现大多数技术融入进程都停滞在低谷期,进而在领域内销声匿迹。这归根结底源于我们没有处理好技术、教育与人的发展三者之间的复杂关系,没有为技术在教育领域内的应用确立真正的价值追求。面对技术浪潮下层出不穷的各种新技术,教育技术领域的专业人员应秉持应有的学术定力与专业精神,从技术融入教育本身的规律出发,真正意识到其复杂性与长期性,扎实地推进基础研究,并致力于把基础研究成果向实践应用领域转化,以帮助技术在向教育领域扩散的过程中成功通过炒作曲线。     

校本课程开发中的叙事研究小议

校本课程开发已成为我国当前课程改革的一项重大举措。在实践中,要保证校本课程开发、实施的质量,教师的研究能力是一个重要的条件。要让教师成为校本课程的开发者和研究者,进行教师“叙事研究”是一条有效途径。     

关注公民教育中特色教育资源的个性化服务——延安红色教育资源数字化服务模式构建

延安红色教育资源是新时期开展公民教育的特色教育资源。延安红色教育资源地处陕甘宁边区,在教育的价值与意义上,是中华民族共有的精神财富。为突破延安红色教育资源应用受地域的限制,在新媒体环境下提升公民教育中特色教育资源的个性化服务,利用互联网面向学校与社会公开共享特色教育资源,旨在促进红色教育资源在公民教育中的有效应用。延安红色教育资源数字化建设具有一定的特殊性,其个性化服务是一项长期系统的工程,原有的资源建设与应用模式很难适应新媒体环境下红色教育资源数字化服务的要求,因此需要重新构建延安红色教育资源开发与应用的新模型。基于该模型制定延安红色教育资源数字化建设的标准和规范,设计和分析红色教育网络平台模块的功能、素材建设等,实施网络平台开发;根据对网络教育平台的推广,研究红色教育资源应用模式,深化延安红色教育资源在学校和社会中有效应用的个性化服务。