Enhancement and constraint: student-mothers’ experiences of higher vocational education,emotion and time

Student-mothers who study vocationally related higher education programmes are a relatively under-researched group. Specifically, there is a paucity of research into the emotions that these learners experience. This article discusses a qualitative investigation that examined the emotional narratives that a group of vocational student-mothers offered. They were studying for a foundation degree for teaching assistants at a university in the North of England. The student-mothers were largely found to have experienced positive emotions. However, familial and workplace guilt had also been encountered. These emotions emanated from notions about how family and workplace time should be used. Student-mothers managed this cognitive dissonance by stressing the reciprocal relationships that existed between their studies, family lives and school work. However, for many of these learners familial and workplace guilt was a strong and continuing emotion.     

大学教育目标如何在学生评教中得到体现——以24所世界著名大学为例

学生评教是国内外大学普遍采用的改善教育质量的手段。本文在终结型——发展型教育目标的理论框架下,整理并考察世界一流大学的学生评教指标,实证分析评教指标背后所体现的大学教育目标及模式。研究发现,国外大学的学生评教与教育目标之间具有一贯性,其指标设计同时融合了终结型和发展型取向的评教内容,后者略占优势;在地区差异上,欧洲大学偏向于发展型的教学目标,而亚太大学中终结型模式仍然表现强势。分析结果也提示我们,应更深入地理解国外大学评教指标,促进学生评教与教育目标的整合性,推动先进教学模式的形成,从而提高我国大学学生评教的有效性。     

Cultural values and attitudes toward immigrants and multiculturalism: The case of the Eurobarometer survey on racism and xenophobia

The current paper uses archival data to examine variations in Schwartz's and Hofstede's cultural value orientations and their relationship to attitudes toward immigration and multiculturalism reported in the Eurobarometer Survey [Attitudes towards minority groups in the European Union: a special analysis of the Eurobarometer 2000 opinion poll on behalf of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. Eurobarometer Opinion Poll. Retrieved September 1, 2003, from http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm] on racism and xenophobia. The results demonstrated that mastery, masculinity, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and collectivism were associated with weaker support for policies that promote social co-existence. Masculinity and mastery were also linked to more pessimistic attitudes towards multiculturalism, and increased harmony was correlated with less desire for cultural assimilation. The results largely converge with research undertaken at the individual-level of analysis, and the data suggest four clusters of cultural values related to immigration attitudes: humanitarianism-egalitarianism, conservation, collectivism, and instrumentality.     

稀见本清初诗歌总集《离珠集》及其文献价值

由于《离珠集》在清乾隆年间遭到禁毁,致使其现存刻本稀见。南京图书馆藏本《离珠集》,诗不分体,共收岳端、博尔都、索芬、朱襄、张潮、释元乘、释广莲诗210首。就诗学意义而言,辑评者王仲儒欲借此选矫正宗宋诗风之弊,恢复风雅传统。同时,从文献角度说,《离珠集》具有较高的辑佚、校勘和文学史料等价值。     

A “Deleterious” Driver: The “First Teacher” Reform in Sweden

This article investigates the implementation of the “förstelärare” or “First teacher” reform in Sweden. We draw upon the insights of a superintendent, union official, principal, three First teachers, and two of their colleagues in one school, and recent literature on career development reform. We employ Michael Fullan’s overview of the “right” and “wrong” drivers of educational reform to analyse the extent to which the First Teacher initiative cultivated productive “professional capital.” The research reveals: how broader national policy aims were in clear tension with municipal-wide school development, and school-level development efforts; the perverse effects of a strong focus upon salary on professional conduct; and how an emphasis upon teachers’ roles per se undermined the espoused policy focus on enhancing teaching. The research cautions against the problematic effects of the initiative on more profession-oriented prerogatives, and how more external, “deleterious,” drivers of reform militate against more productive professional capital.     

大学生常见挫折及教育对策

大学生在校期间会受到日常的学习、人际交往、生理、恋爱、家庭等方面这样或那样的挫折,教育工作者要做好教育和引导工作,帮助大学生积极应对挫折,战胜挫折。     

贵州省优化教育资源配置及其政策选择

通过大量数据、资料分析贵州省学校教育资源、教育经济资源与教师人力资源配置状况,寻找出贵州省优化教育资源配置过程中存在教育经济资源缺乏、教育投入严重不足,教育条件保障和教师人力资源配置水平偏低,教育发展不够协调、教育结构亟待优化,学校教育资源不足等问题,同时又面临扩大规模与提高质量的＂双重使命＂的挑战。为此,尝试提出贵州省优化教育资源配置主要应优化配置学前教育资源、普及高中教育和扩大高等教育规模等八大政策选择。     

校长问责制的定义探析

校长问责制是在借鉴美国教育问责制和我国行政问责制理论的基础上,对我国校长负责制权责不等根源的探索实践中构建出来的一种范式。它指的是校长以调动教职工潜能为基础、培养高素质的学生为目的、以履行对公众的教育承诺为己任、以追求效能为宗旨、全面接受责任追究的监督体制。它与我国中小学正在实施的校长负责制是互补和兼容的。     

Managing Disagreement while Managing not to Disagree: Polite Disagreement in Negotiation Discourse

This paper explores the exercise of politeness by Malays in business negotiations with Japanese. The study looks at how disagreement is realized linguistically. Its linguistic configurations in the form of speech acts and discourse strategies and their underlying politeness strategies are identified and described. The study also reports on how Malay cultural values are reflected in the language use. The implications of the study for negotiation in general and the expression of disagreement in particular are then discussed. The findings are significant for an understanding of disagreement by Malays, particularly when interacting in English. Additionally it provides insights into how Malay cultural values impinge on Malay interaction styles vis-à-vis styles of disagreement. The findings work towards an understanding of how Malay values are manifested in the discourse of disagreement in oral communication.     

以创新求是精神全面深化高等体育院校教育综合改革--兼论我校学科专业特色与人才培养目标

面对我国高等体育教育发展新形势,围绕高等体育院校改革与发展进行分析和阐述。文章联系成都体育学院教育综合改革实践认为,专门(专业)体育院校必须协调好“体育特色鲜明”与“多学科协调发展”的关系,在人才培养方面必须牢牢把握“体育”这一“根本”专业特色;进一步强化术科(含艺术类)专业技能和专项技术水平的提升,推进体育术科人才培育质量的再提升,解决行业话语权问题;进一步主动对接社会对体育多元化的需求,并紧紧依托具体竞技运动项目平台,解决“体医渗透、体文结合”办学特色的落地问题;进一步创新人才培养模式,坚持特色,形成优势,实现学科、术科融合发展。