Massifying and internationalising higher education,changing labour markets and social mobility: challenges for education and urban governance

ABSTRACT

The major objective of this introductory article is to set the wider policy context for the present special issue with a particular focus to examine how the massification and internationalisation of higher education has taken place in Asia. More specifically, this introduction highlights the major arguments of articles being adopted in this issue. The contributions have been selected and gathered from presentations in various regional and international research events held in the last few years. Having experienced the growing pressure for enhancing their global competitiveness, governments in Asia are determined to expand their higher education systems to provide more learning opportunities for addressing pressing educational demand, putting additional resources to internationalising student experience and raising the research profile in order to quest for regional education hub and world-class university status. However, the rapid expansion of higher education has indeed created more university graduates than the labour market could fully absorb. It has become problematic when the global market currently experiences economic stagnation. This special issue sets out against such a political economy context to examine issues related to changing labour conditions, youth mobility and challenges for education and urban governance.     

摒弃“串味”现象呼唤本色回归——透视新课程背景下小学语文课堂

语文课程标准要求语文课程应致力于学生语文素养的形成和发展，应重视学生的语言实践能力，重视培养良好的语感。这就要求我们语文教学要遵循自身的规律，摒弃“串味”现象，上出语文的特点，也就是上出“语文味”——体味语文味、读出语文味、品出语文味。     

在中国图书馆学会第六次会员代表大会闭幕式上的讲话

当前 ,图书馆事业面临着很好的发展机遇。中国图书馆学会应在四个方面努力开展工作 ,即 :提高认识 ,转变观念 ,为学会发展准确定位 ;更新工作机制 ,为学会发展创造良好的内部环境 ;努力创新 ,为学会发展开辟广阔空间 ;加强队伍建设 ,为学会发展储备人才     

转变学习方式浅析

新一轮课程改革提出了"转变学习方式"的教育改革目标,教育界学者大多把"研究性学习"看作是转变学习方式的重要突破口和主要途径.但对研究性学习的本质作理性分析之后可知,研究性学习是建立在研究性学习方式基础上的课程形态,研究性学习方式是我们期望的学习方式,是转变学习方式的直接目标,而不是突破口.笔者认为,转变学习方式的关键在于建构科学的学习策略,这既是转变学习方式的本质,也是其根本途径.     

当前我国政府经济职能转变的新抉择

为适应我国社会主义市场经济体制的不断完善和加入WTO后的现实要求，我国政府经济职能必须及时作出新的转变抉择，即强化政府经济职能缺位的领域、变革政府经济职能错位的领域、退出政府经济职能越位的领域。同时，为使政府经济职能得以有效发挥，还应遵循“充分发挥市场机制基础性作用，有限的政府干预与调节以及政府行为法定化”三大原则。     

谈国外职教模式对我国高等职业教育的启示

通过对比国外高等职业教育培养模式,根据我国高等职业教育现状与差距,提出了战略调整和对应策略;阐述了我国高等职业教育在发展中的应变措施。     

深化高职教育教学改革工作的思考

高职教育深化教学改革要体现培养目标和模式，教学规模，办学途径，技能培养和师资队伍特点，牢固树立教学工作的中心地位，教改的核心地位和教学质量的永恒主题地位，教改关键在于加强和改革教学管理，改革那些与工作任务不适应的管理方法和制度，转变思想观念，突出办学特色，改革教学体系。办学体制的改革是深化教学改革的基础，加强对教改工作的领导是使工作得以顺利进行的保证。     

不确定的根基——关于杜威《哲学的改造·哲学的在变化中的概念》的部分理解

杜威在《哲学的改造·哲学的在变化中的概念》中认为，意识起源于人们的感情和兴趣，它不是客观实用的经验总结，而是主观有效的自娱结果。感情，尤其是情绪上的偏好，对意识的形成具有决定性的作用。从本源上讲，思维的根本目的是为了消磨时光，为枯燥有限的人生添加乐趣和意义。然而，意识有能力将无数的主观倾向在功利目标的引导下聚集成强有力的社会力量，而这一切又是以强化人类自我意识的中心地位为开端的。     

Managing classroom entry: an ecological analysis of ritual interaction and negotiation in the changing room

The first interactions between teachers and pupils in physical education often take place in the changing rooms, and, as such, the changing rooms are a useful place to begin an exploration of the processes and practices of negotiation in physical education. Pupils are generally required to change their clothing for physical education lessons, an activity consistently identified as negatively experienced by many young people, and particularly girls (Kay, 1995; Flintoff & Scraton, 2001); hence the changing rooms are an important location to consider in determining young people's engagement with physical education. Throughout this paper, I foreground the naturally occurring interaction between teachers and pupils in the changing rooms of one suburban UK secondary school. This is supplemented by interviews with three teachers and pupils in year 7 (aged 11–12 years) throughout the Spring term. The paper examines how the young people attempted to modify participation requirements in a way that allowed them to pursue their own agendas, and yet also comply with the school, department and teacher rules. Throughout the paper, a consideration of the way in which the teachers held the pupils accountable for their attendance and dress in physical education is present. The orderliness of interaction sequences highlights the ritual nature of pupil–teacher talk in the changing room. The analysis of naturally occurring talk is interspersed with a consideration of how the teachers understood the young people's changing room behaviour.     

浅谈“营改增”对文化产业的税负影响

近年来我国文化产业占GDP所占比重愈发重要,但与发达国家相比仍有较大差距,我们认为过重的税负在一定程度上阻碍了文化产业的健康发展。本文选取文化产业作为税制改革的试金石,分析文化企业在税负的影响,分析得出,整体税负有所下降,但不排除少数企业税负有所增加。