论高校教务管理人员队伍建设

高校教务管理是学校管理工作的核心,是保障教学秩序、提高办学质量、扩大办学规模的基础。建设一支高素质的高校教务管理队伍,是迎接知识经济时代的挑战、深化高校改革和发展的必然要求。     

邓小平现代教育思想

邓小平在领导我国改革开放和社会主义现代化建设的过程中,对我国的教育问题进行了长期的探索和深入思考,发表了一系列重要论述,形成了系统的现代教育思想。教育优先发展是邓小平现代教育思想的基础。科教兴国是邓小平现代教育思想的战略目标。“三个面向”是邓小平现代教育思想的核心。素质教育是邓小平现代教育思想的基本要求。利用现代科技发展教育是邓小平现代教育思想的实现手段。     

在哲学与政治之间：高等教育哲学的走向——解读约翰·S·布鲁贝克的《高等教育哲学》

以认识论为基础和以政治论为基础的高等教育哲学之分野是高等教育主旋律下的多重变奏,二者从不同方面深化并发展了高等教育哲学,尽管都有一定的现实针对性和历史合理性,但也都具有各自不足之处。高等教育哲学的走向是整合认识论高等教育哲学和政治论高等教育哲学,即在“哲学”与“政治”之间保持“必要的张力”,进而寻求“理性的平衡”。     

Policy as Boundary Object: A New Way to Look at Educational Policy Design and Implementation

Policy implementation research in general and educational policy in particular is loosely connected to policy-making processes. There is a gap particularly in the field of vocational education. This often leads to conflicts and contradictions between policy-maker objectives and end-user implementation. To avoid such a disconnect, the relation between the world of end users and the world of decision-makers should be carefully constructed. This might be done through connecting the process of decision-making to implementation and carefully developing methods that encompass the demands of decision-makers and the needs and informational requirements of end users. Our intensive case study research on the process of a vocational education reform in the marine sector confirms that the lack of robust connection and active engagement of implementers as the end-users in the design of the policy created challenges for its implementation. Using a theoretical framework based on the notion of boundary objects we bring an alternative to current practice by creating the potential to illuminate and remove tensions and challenges for policy implementation. From there we infer that adopting this concept for policy design may prevent such conflicts and contradictions and result in successful implementation.

Undermining critical consciousness unconsciously: Restoring hope in the multicultural education idea

The main goal of multicultural education is to transform the structural factors in the educational system in order to redress inequalities and inequities for historically underprivileged populations (Banks 1997). This article addresses theories and practices that frame multicultural education in teaching and learning contexts. How do teachers interpret the purpose of multicultural education? I suggest that educators are more likely to interpret multicultural education using the functionalist meta-theoretical framework (Burell and Morgan 1979) and the positivistic epistemology (Turner 2006). Ironically this kind of interpretation subverts the original goals of multicultural education as a transformative movement. The process of transforming curriculum and instruction in learning contexts encounters what I would call a “double jeopardy.” On one hand, curriculum processes run into political impediments that are often pervasive, complex, and invisible, whereas on the other hand they encounter a positivistic epistemology that reduces complex phenomena to simplistic, neutral, objective, and universal standards. I make a case for a radical humanist paradigm that privileges the investigation of social and political relations of power and places critical consciousness at the center of educational structures and pedagogy. I attempt to make critical consciousness visible and to show how it can be employed to change schooling opportunities and the lives of those who fall in the “Other” category of social theory.     

Educational research for innovation and quality in education: a report of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) conference 2008

This is a report of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) 2008 conference, held at the National Institute of Education, Singapore (NIE), from 26 to 28 November 2008.     

A new microelectronics curriculum created by Synopsys, Inc.

Rapid changes in integrated circuits （IC） technology and constantly shrinking process geometries demand a new curriculum that meets the contemporary requirements for IC design. This is especially important for 90nm and below technologies and the use of state-of-the-art EDA design tools and advanced IC design techniques. The creation of new curriculum is laborious and requires a combination of effort from many specialists from different countries to obtain the best quality. This paper describes the experience in developing a new microelectronics curriculum, based on using Synopsys EDA tools, that is successfully deployed in leading technical universities around the world.     

教育博客的教育传播特点探析

博客已经成为影响力很大的主流媒体,是继E-mail、BBS、ICQ之后出现的第四种网络交流方式。从2003年起,国内教育工作者尝试把博客应用于教育领域。本文将从教育传播视角出发分析教育博客作为一种教育传播方式的特点和存在的问题。     

教育均衡下福建农村公办幼儿园师资状况调查

农村幼儿师资队伍建设的不均衡现象,直接导致了农村学前教育的失衡。调查结果发现,福建省农村公办幼儿师资队伍中男女教师比例悬殊,教龄呈低龄化,第一学历,目前学历、职称系列、编制结构、教师资格证拥有率及教师资格证对口比例、工资待遇、培训级别、多媒体使用存在差异。对政府及教育主管部门提出,做好人力资源规划、合理调整绩效考核要求、适当增加薪酬福利、提高农村幼儿教师的培训层次、加强现代信息素养的培养等策略来均衡建设农村公办幼儿教师师资队伍。     

Regional Differences in Higher Educational Choice?

This paper examines geographical differences in choice of field in higher education. Formerly, educational attainment differed considerably between rural areas and urban centres. Today these differences are pretty much offset. What kind of education students from different geographical areas pursue is however less well known. This article examines this question. It analyses data from public administrative registers on the entire Norwegian population born between 1955 and 1983. It finds that people who have grown up close to a university more often study at a university, whereas people who have grown up near a university college more often study at a university college. Corresponding differences are found in the choice of educational field.