澳中教师评价指标体系比较研究

本文就澳大利亚与我国教师评价指标体系进行比较,对两国的相通之处和各自关注的重点予以探讨;并进一步分析澳大利亚教师评价指标体系的特点,以期对我国教师评价指标体系的科学构建和完善有所借鉴。     

澳大利亚公民教育发展的三个维度

从20世纪初起,澳大利亚公民教育经历了曲折的发展历程,其发展主要包含三个维度:社会科从产生到逐步完善、旧公民学逐步发展为新公民学、公民身份逐渐替代臣民身份。从某种程度上说,澳大利亚公民教育的发展就是一部独特的澳大利亚社会发展史。     

学生转向：澳大利亚大学教育与高职教育衔接的有效路径

澳大利亚高等教育体系由大学教育和高职教育构成,尽管这两部分存有差别。但它们有共同的目标,即为学生提供所需的技能和知识,最终帮助学生在就业方面取得重大突破．这就意味着在两种教育形式间转向不仅是可能的,而且是十分有意义的。澳大利亚政府出于教育的有效性和平等性考虑,鼓励大学与职业学校间的学生转向。     

南昆士兰大学学习与教学支持服务机构运行经验及启示

澳大利亚南昆士兰大学(USQ)学习与教学支持服务机构(LTSU)在其学校的组织框架中属于学习和教学的辅助机构,但却是该校学习支持服务以及基础性支持服务方面的关键部门。该机构在其职责以及服务内容等方面的独特经验,对于建立和完善我国开放大学的学习与支持服务机构以及支持服务的内容具有很好的借鉴意义。     

澳大利亚体育外交战略:经验与启示

分析澳大利亚政府为实现其"富有创造力的中等强国"目标而在体育促进发展、体育外交领域实施的一系列资助计划和发展战略,将澳大利亚体育外交战略规划与实践的成功之处概括为6个方面,即体育外交与国家发展战略高度关联、战略目标关注国际社会前沿议题、战略实施中建立多元合作伙伴模式、战略资金保障制度健全、重视发挥大型体育赛事作用、实施体育外交绩效评估。据此提出对中国体育外交的启示:①持续增强体育综合实力,获得广泛国际认可;②构建中国体育外交战略,坚持周边体育外交优先发展;③提供具有吸引力的体育思想,主导国际体育秩序变迁;④建立多元体育外交合作模式,充分动员各种社会力量;⑤重视体育外交绩效评估,确保实现国家核心利益。     

澳大利亚职业教育与培训体系特征

1995年澳大利亚建立了职业教育与培训的国家资格框架体系,全国统一的国家资格证书和互认的学分制使澳大利亚的职业教育与普通教育、高等教育最大限度地实现了"交互式"融通。TAFE学院为职业教育与培训的主体机构,课程面向职前、职后及不同年龄段人士设置,专业教师有3至5年的行业工作经历。行业协会参与职业教育的决策和管理,负责教学质量评估。澳洲政府出台并实施了一系列职业教育法规,政府投资占职业教育投资总额的97%。     

Years since migration and wellbeing among Indian and Sri Lankan skilled migrants in Australia: Mediating effects of acculturation

The present study investigated language, identity and behavioral acculturation experiences and personal wellbeing among 306 Sri Lankan and Indian skilled migrant employees using a cross-sectional survey. The results indicated that participants were more acculturated to their heritage culture compared to the host culture. The majority of Sri Lankan and Indian skilled migrants were moderately acculturated into Australian society, and were most acculturated in the language dimension, followed by the behavior and identity dimensions respectively. Years since migration predicted overall host acculturation but not overall heritage acculturation. While overall heritage acculturation predicted personal wellbeing, overall host acculturation was a stronger predictor. Testing of a mediation model demonstrated that overall host acculturation fully mediated the relationship between years since migration and wellbeing. Further analysis showed that only host identity and language acculturation, and not host behavior acculturation, mediated the relationship between years since migration and wellbeing. Implications of these findings are discussed.     

‘On British Felony the Sun Never Sets’

ABSTRACT

This article examines the narratives of three political prisoners transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: the French-Canadian François-Xavier Prieur, the American Linus Miller, and the Irishman John Mitchel. It shows that the three ‘politicals’ sought to portray the suffering of political convicts as greater than that of the convict majority, from which they distanced themselves in terms of class, piety and honour. It also demonstrates how the three men critiqued the British Empire and the convict system in Australia, how they wrote (in some instances, re-wrote) their lives for their audience, and how they defined themselves in the convict colonies.     

Understanding others Kellyian theory,methodology and applicationComprendre les autres la théorie de Kelly: methodologie et applicationEntendimiemto de los otros la teoría de Kelly: metodología y applicación

This article discusses Kelly's theory of personal constructs and its Repertory grid technique as means of revealing the nature of cultural differences and similarities. It shows how Kelly's theory relates to cognitive theory, implicit personality theory and subjective culture theory. According to Kelly, people and groups are best understood in terms of the ways they anticipate events. People are all psychologists since they employ constructs. These bases of discrimination are bipolar in nature and open to revision. A group's culture is summarized by its members' shared superordinate constructs. Kelly's Commonality Corollary explains that members of a group are similar because they use the same constructs to order events. Kelly's Sociality Corollary states that, in order to enter into a relationship with others, people need first to subsume the others' personal constructs. His custom-built Repertory grid elicits constructs by having a person decide how in a matrix other people, for example, are similar and different. In the rated grid form, each person or element is rated from most to least on the positive pole of each construct. Either principal components or cluster analysis or multidimensional scaling can reveal the interviewed person's superordinate dimensions of appraisal. As an emic technique, the grid is contrasted with the semantic differential and other fixed-format tests. A review of the personal construct literature shows that many individuals and cultural groups have been explained in their own terms. In this research, difference is construed as interesting and others are understood by construing their construction processes as a first step towards approval.     

Leisure and Recreation in Australia:past,present and future

IntroductionLike most western countries,and probably those in the‘east’,contemporary leisure behaviour in Australia is shapedby its past.As the logical corollary,the leisure of today willlikely shape the future.As with the past,the future will bei mpacted upon by a range of social and economic changes?some predictable,some speculative,and some for which ourcurrent state of knowledge and forecasting cannot conceivablypredict.Reflecting on the PastAustralia’s leisure history has two distinct periods.Thefirst ...