The Global Partnership for Education’s evolving support to fragile and conflict-affected states

In this study, we trace the history of policy development within the Global Partnership for Education to discern the drivers behind the uptake of its shifting policies relating to education in fragile and conflict-affected states. In order to elucidate how and why this international organization has altered its policy stance and funding modalities, we employ a process tracing analysis of document and interview data. Moreover, we provide three country case studies of Global Partnership for Education financing to Liberia, Madagascar, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.     

An Education Worth Having: The Aspirations and the Development of the Whole Education Network in England

The Whole Education National Network is a dynamic national not-for-profit partnership of schools and organisations that believe that all children and young people are entitled to an education that supports the development of wider skills, qualities and characteristics to enable them to thrive in life, learning and work, as well as conventional academic achievement. The article outlines the background to the development of the growing network of some 150 schools plus partner organisations and its core aims. It then considers what the Network is achieving and what it is learning about its approach as it grows. It offers and is seeking to embed and sustain an approach to school development that is ‘values-led, evidence-informed and impact-focused’. It is also predicated on a commitment to and belief in peer-to-peer collaboration, inspired and encouraged by the work of leading academics, thinkers and practitioners. Whole Education is also a response to what many observers and commentators identify as a weakness of the English and many other systems: the gap between the outcomes achieved by the more disadvantaged and other students. Part of its moral purpose is to help to narrow that gap, underpinned by a belief that focusing on immediate outcomes and test scores is not enough on its own. The Network operates in the belief that it will only be through the commitment to an entitlement to a ‘whole education for all’ that any school or system will truly narrow the gap and make a real difference to the life-chances of all young people. School leaders and schools that have gravitated towards Whole Education seek like minds to share and, more importantly, develop both their thinking and strategies employed to help achieve their goals. At the heart of the change model underpinning Whole Education is the development of effective communities of practice that develop professional capital and unleash the creativity of teachers. Creating, embedding and sustaining a national self-funded school-led network committed to achieving longer-term aspirations rather than immediate needs is both inspiring and challenging. The pressure to respond to short-term targets in terms of student outcomes and accountability pressures has meant that the energy and resource tend to be focused on the immediate rather than the medium- or longer-term needs. Whole Education provides a powerful example of how schools that share common aspirations can seize the agenda, have real impact on students and demonstrate the potential of a self-improving school system.     

语文课程爱国价值观教育的历时演变与当代实现

语文设科以来,爱国价值观内涵演变可以分为三个阶段：激励救亡图存的20世纪前期、树立制度自信的社会主义初期、展现国家自信的改革开放时期。在百年发展历程中,语文课程爱国价值观教育的目标要求详略不一,在语文教材的呈现范围日益广泛,但缺少切实的教学过程指导。这些特点启示当今语文课程改革要确立总分一致的爱国价值观教育目标,多角度丰富语文教材的爱国观教育内容,多方面增强语文教学中的爱国观教育效果。     

西周园林：从娱神到娱人的美育思想

西周园林反映了我国先秦美学思想从娱神到娱人的转变,即从崇拜神到肯定人的主体性,这种转变深深地影响了此后中国人的精神气质。一方面中国人极其重视个人的德行修养,另一方面又将这种自我修养与入世精神相结合,既富有深情,又执着,但又不至于走向自我否定的极端境地;既有一种“天下”情怀,以天下事为己事,又有一种“悲天悯人”的情怀,始终不曾远离底层。这些都是先秦美育思想在这一时期转变的结果。     

思想政治教育专业应用型人才培养模式的重构思考--以乐山师范学院为例

在中国高等教育大众化的背景下,培养应用型的专业人才是高校的主要任务,当前以应用技术为导向提升本科培养质量的转型发展成为紧迫任务。思想政治教育专业是我国高校一个特殊重要的专业,培养更高质量和适应社会发展需要的应用人才,调整培养定位和转型发展,是普通本科院校培养思想政治教育专业人才的必由之路。本文在认真分析总结思想政治教育专业培养经验和成效的基础上,依据社会发展需要,探讨专业培养定位调整,构建精细化、个性化人才培养模式以及实现路径和策略,以期全面提高人才培养质量。     

安徽乡村文化生活现状的调查与思考--以枞阳县与颖上县的村落调查为基础

从调查的结果来看,目前安徽乡村文化生活在省民生工程的支持之下,广播电视“村村通”、农家书屋、基层文化馆站等纷纷展开,农村数字化电影放映与文化信息资源共享等建设项目在逐步进展之中,文化基础设施局部得到明显地改善,但文化投入不足、文化设施利用率不高、文化发展不平衡的现象广泛存在,农村文化事业队伍与管理体制不健全,乡村常住人员日益减少,传统乡村文化面临着无人传承的困局;从文化建设立场上来说,要在以尊重乡村为主体的基础上并以借鉴与汲取其他优秀文化成果来进行,新农村文化生活建设的主力军应该是农民,要充分调动其积极性与主体性来进行乡村文化生活的建设;从国家管理者来说,管理者要做到整合、协调乡村文化生活资源,充分发挥乡民创造与享受文化生活的积极性与主动性。     

从应试教育到课程改革:教育现象学观照

教育现象学是一门追求教育生活中具体现象的学问,悬置成见、回归生活和反思性理解,是教育现象学的三个重要关键词。从教育现象学角度观照,应试教育存在的主要问题包括:教师讲授对悬置的忽视,标准答案情结对学生生活世界的遮蔽,缺乏师生对教材、他者与自我三者关系的反思性理解;课程改革的路径选择包括教师精通教材与悬置的运用,教师主动倾听让学生的生活世界得以显现,教师运用教学机智推进学生关于教材、他者与自我三者关系的反思性理解。     

Critical thinking as room for subjectification in Education for Sustainable Development

Issues of sustainability are complex and often steeped with ethical and political questions without predefined or general answers. This paper deals with how secondary and upper secondary teachers discuss these complex issues, by analysing their aims for Education for Sustainable Development. With inspiration from discourse theory, their articulations about students as political subjects are analysed. Critical thinking emerged as a nodal point in teachers’ discussions. In this study, critical thinking is articulated as having various qualitative meanings related to different epistemological views. On one hand, critical thinking is articulated to invite room for subjectification; but on the other hand, room for subjectification is challenged when critical thinking is articulated through the educational aims of qualification and socialisation. A consequence of changing epistemological view might be that political and ethical issues take a back seat.     

红学历史现状谭

1954年的"批俞"是新的社会背景下,迫切要求对古典文学遗产重新认识和评价的反映。形势需要给《红楼梦》以新的评价,这就是政治;如何给《红楼梦》以新的评价,才是学术。自王国维1904年发表《红楼梦评论》,开启了理论探讨和艺术研究的新生面。胡适构建以"自叙传"为核心、以"曹寅家世"说和"高鹗续书"说为支柱的"新红学"体系,扔给大家一个永远解不开的死结,使《红楼梦》研究偏离了正确方向。对胡适的批判是必要的;如果需要反思,不表现在以政治取代学术的极"左",恰恰表现在学术的先天不足。从1991年起对"脂砚斋重评石头记"的证伪,不过是将1954年对胡适的批判纳入了纯学术的正道,与俞平伯的自我更新、自我发展是完全同步的。     

浙江省基层医疗卫生事业单位绩效工资制度实施现状与对策研究

根据绩效工资制度的政策初衷及基本要求,对浙江省基层医疗卫生事业单位实施绩效工资情况进行调查,在总结其改革现状与剖析所存在问题基础上提出了相应的促进对策。