“Montrose” child life protection unit: A treatment and assessment model in child abuse intervention

In New South Wales, Australia, the Department of Youth and Community Services is empowered by statute to deal with cases of child abuse and neglect. Its child protection services include the Montrose Child Life Protection Unit which is designed to support and complement the work of both the Intake Service, Field Service and most importantly the work of child protective facilities in the community. The service has intake crisis counselling and call out resources; maintains a central register; provides a facility for crisis residential care for children and families, diagnostic assessment, and a day programme. The emphasis in service delivery in New South Wales in the area of child protection is on multidisciplinary intervention. The Department of Youth and Community Services is involved in promoting interagency cooperation and co-ordination. Over and above a philosophy that underlies service delivery is the Montrose Unit's involvement in sensitising the community to the difficult and often demanding role of parenting. Montrose represents an attempt to create an environment where parenting myths can be examined from a reality base and strategies implemented for reeducation.     

Lecturers on teaching within the ‘supercomplexity’ of Higher Education

While a vast literature exists on students and their learning, work on lecturers and their teaching continues to lag some way behind. This paper explores the notion that the complexity of Higher Education (HE) today significantly impacts upon what goes on in the classroom through a two-tiered study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore lecturers’ perceptions and experiences of teaching a specific module. Interviewees raised issues pertaining to the wider departmental, institutional and socio-political context. Consequently, focus groups were run with key people in the University to explore their perceptions of teaching and learning within the current HE climate. The findings suggest that lecturers perceive numerous external factors to impinge upon their teaching and attempt to militate against these in various ways in order to achieve ongoing enhancement of learning for students.

教育要面向全体——谈《如何做好班主任工作》

要做好班主任工作，就需要遵循儿童特点，塑造美好心灵；积极改进教学方法，努力提高教学质量；开展多种形式的文体活动，促进学生全面发展．     

The effects of college students’ positive thinking,learning motivation and self-regulation through a self-reflection intervention in Taiwan

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a self-reflection intervention on college (college in this article refers to university-level education) students’ positive thinking, learning motivation and self-regulation in Taiwan. One hundred and two college students were selected to participate in an 18-week intervention forming the experimental group (EG) which emphasized providing main lecture, role-play, self-reflection activity, group discussion and group work. Another 179 college students from two other courses were selected as a comparison group. This study showed that supportive, resourced discussion with peers and instructor, self-reflection activities and assignment as a facilitative agent improved the EG students’ positive thinking, learning motivation and self-regulation. In addition, three structural equation models revealed that positive thinking had a strong and direct relation to Taiwanese college students’ pretest learning motivation (β?=?.85) and self-regulation (β?=?.77); learning motivation had a strong and direct relation to students’ pretest positive thinking (β?=?.86) and self-regulation (β?=?.81); and self-regulation had a strong and direct relation to students’ pretest positive thinking (β?=?.83) and learning motivation (β?=?.86). Instructional implications and research recommendations are discussed.     

融合国际理解教育思想的国际远程协作学习研究与实践

国际理解教育是一种引进与输出相统一的教育,其目标是通过对人才的国际化培养,最终在全球建立一种＂和平文化＂。我国当前高等教育的人才培养模式,已经不能满足社会对国际化人才数量和质量的需求,而开展国际理解教育正是实现此目标的重要培养途径之一。中国东北师范大学现代教育技术研究所与日本冈山理科大学研究所采用视频会议系统和社会性软件为中日两国学生提供了实时交流和非实时交流的远程协作平台,历时5年的项目研究表明,中方学生在知识视野、认知技能、情感态度及价值观三个层面的国际理解能力都有明显的提高。我国高等教育院校和机构在培养国际化人才的过程中,应进一步强调开放式学习的理念,创新高等教育教学模式,强化国际理解教育的人才培养目标,构建稳定的国际交流体系。     

国外远程教育研究的重点和发展趋势——基于国外远程教育研究成果的定量分析

ERIC数据库是教育领域中最大、最负盛名的国际级教育类资料库。ERIC数据库收录的远程教育类研究成果始于1972年,截至2010年,共12402篇文献。这些文献通过文献计量分析发现：国外远程教育研究已步入研究成果产出相对稳定的成熟期;文献来源渠道众多,以学术期刊为主;文献类型丰富,以期刊论文和研究报告为主;研究内容广泛,教育层次、教学设计、教学方法、相关技术的研究以及技术在远程教育中的应用研究一直是该领域的重点研究内容。当前国外远程教育的应用已经发展到大学以及研究生教育,研究逐渐向传统教育转变,开始关注教育政策、师生关系、互动、混合学习以及新技术在远程教育中的应用。     

基于复杂网络方法的远程教育网站实证研究

目前我国远程教育网站存在资源数量多,但内容联系不够紧密、信息搜索耗时长、信息的安全性与网站的稳定性较差等问题。复杂网络研究可以通过实证方法度量网络的结构特征和形成规则．进而预测网络系统的行为。中关远程教育网站经复杂网络方法实证分析发现：远程教育网站的建设要有统一的规划,要注意信息的排布、层次结构的架构以及内容的联系,提高信息的利用率,并建立有效的病毒防护和故障排除机制。利用复杂网络的链路预测方法和免疫策略还可以在远程教育网站中实现推荐机制和病毒防护。     

高职非英语专业新生英语词汇学习策略运用的研究

笔者从学生默写、作业和试卷中发现高职学生在词汇记忆和运用上存在不少问题,本文试采用问卷和采访两种方式,对高职某班非英语专业新生的英语词汇学习策略的运用进行了调查。在此基础上,本文提出了培养和提高学生词汇记忆能力和词汇运用能力的建议。     

美国维尼社区大学的职业教育概况研究

通过对美国维尼社区大学的研究发现,其高效的管理体制、灵活的招生政策、个性化的教育计划等,对中国的高等职业教育有很多可借鉴之处。美国社区学院几乎是提供了无限的学分和非学分课程、活动等,来丰富社区学院所服务地区人民的生活,满足他们的学习要求。     

澳门成人教育发展特征及未来走向探析

澳门开埠400多年来由于澳葡政府不重视教育,成人教育在推进民众教育上承担着极为重的作用。本文回顾了澳门成人教育的发展历史,分析了澳门成人教育的发展特征及存在的问题,展望了澳门成人教育的未来发展趋势。