Institutional hierarchies and research impact: new academic currencies,capital and position-taking in UK higher education

Abstract

Globally, performance-based research funding aims to support the most deserving academic institutions and researchers. However, overcoming entrenched assumptions about quality is a persistent challenge for higher education research policies worldwide; traditionally powerful institutions tend to maintain dominance. Research impact as a performance criterion presents an opportunity for position-taking through success according to non-academic criteria. Could impact-oriented research funding challenge institutional hierarchies? The UK university system presents an instructive case study for exploring this question. However, exposing the effects of such performance-based funding on institutional stratification requires focusing on the interface between institutions and disciplines. A Bourdieusian analysis of 53 cases of research-based impact on higher education policy/practice revealed the differential capital that researchers from more and less ‘prestigious’ universities mobilise when generating research impact. By uncovering how impact reinforces disparities in research power between UK institutions, the study contributes to understanding of sectoral reproduction through discipline-level mediation of research policy.     

主体教育论的若干构想

“主体教育论”研究的主旨在于，寻求一种立足于今天时代特点和我国社会走向的实现马克思人的全面而自由发展思想的教育学理论。为使这一研究走向深入，需进一步阐明“主体教育论”研究的基本思路、所要探讨的基本问题及其层次结构。     

基于.NET框架的地理信息决策支持系统的模型研究

决策支持系统(Decision Support System，简称DSS)是以现代信息技术为手段，为管理者做出正确决策提供帮助的系统。地理信息决策支持系统的出现改变了决策者论断的方法，也引起了Web GIS实现体系的变革。本文首先对地理信息决策支持系统的现状及Microsoft．NET战略的核心——Web Service技术进行了分析，对其关键技术及系统模型进行了详细的剖析和探讨。然后以Microsoft．NET框架为基础，提出了一个基于．Net框架的地理信息决策支持系统模型的解决方案。     

The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as an illustration of Baudrillard’s hyperreality

ABSTRACT

This article examines the ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’ (TEF) for UK universities through the lens of Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality. I argue that the TEF is a hyperreal simulacrum, a sign which has no traceable genealogy to the practice of learning and teaching.     

跨学科整合视角下国内外STEM课程质量比较与优化

STEM教育的不断发展,催生了对跨学科整合型课程的迫切需求。然而当前我国的STEM课程建设更多注重形式规范,总体质量堪忧,因此从跨学科整合视角来开发优质的STEM课程以指导教学迫在眉睫。比较与借鉴是提质增效解决问题的重要途径。为提升我国STEM课程建设质量,借鉴权威的STEM课程整合评价工具,从课程背景、工程设计挑战、科学内容整合、数学内容整合、教学策略、团队合作、交流、评估、组织等9个维度对58个国内外STEM优秀课程案例进行定性与定量对比分析后发现,我国的STEM课程案例在课程背景、科学内容整合、教学策略和评估四个方面较国外STEM课程存在明显不足。这在一定程度上制约了我国STEM课程建设和教学质量提升。未来我国STEM课程建设应从以下四个方面加强:一是提升对社会问题的响应度,培养学生的社会责任感;二是鼓励有效失败,营造真实的科学体验;三是丰富以学生为中心的策略,放大学生的思维过程;四是注重非正式评价,促进学生综合能力的发展。     

区域框架的典范:欧洲资历框架的发展与转化——兼谈对“一带一路”区域资历框架建设的启示

当今世界范围内教育合作不断深化,建立区域资历框架以推动区域内教育文化的合作与交流已成为未来教育发展的必然趋势之一。欧洲资历框架(EQF)作为区域资历框架的典范,被认为是发展最为成功的区域资历框架之一。全面理解EQF的内涵、意义及发展现状,深入分析其转化原则与经验,能够厘清区域框架发展的脉络。当前,“一带一路”区域资历框架在建设过程中还存在诸多问题,如理论基础不完善、教育体系之间对话不畅通、学习成果积累与转换系统不完备、质量保障体系不健全等,而欧洲资历框架可以为“一带一路”区域资历框架建设的外部支撑、框架内容、运行操作提供经验基础与启发借鉴,从而实现其进一步发展与完善。     

构建基于Microsoft.Net Framework的组件化Internet应用系统

介绍了 Microsoft .Net Framework的技术架构和三层应用解决方案,从系统体系结构、组件技术两个方面综合考虑,结合一个实际的应用系统的实例提出了构建Internet应用系统的方案.该方案便于开发维护,并且性能优良.     

“苏格兰学分与资格框架”的质量保障机制研究

质量保障机制应成为资格框架建立及运行过程中的核心问题。作为涵盖苏格兰311个组织11500个“资格”在内的“苏格兰学分与资格框架”,其质量保障机制的特色是“‘共担责任’的质量保障模式”“坚守质量保障‘原则’”以及“将‘学分评级机构’作为资格框架质量保障的核心和关键环节”。“苏格兰学分与资格框架”的质量保障机制,对推动“苏格兰学分与资格框架”成为国际上最成熟的资格框架之一功不可没,其经验可以为我国尚处于探索阶段的国家资历框架建设提供重要的借鉴。     

Supporting multidisciplinary networks through relationality and a critical sense of belonging: three ‘gardening tools’ and the Relational Agency Framework

This article focuses on the Relational Agency Framework (RAF), an analytical tool developed for an Australian review and evaluation study of an early years’ policy initiative. We explore Anne Edward’s concepts of relational expertise, building common knowledge and relational agency to explore how Edwards’ concepts, which she refers to as ‘gardening tools’, and the RAF work together to support early years multidisciplinary networks. We argue that early childhood professionals who come together in a multidisciplinary network develop their collective capabilities through relationality and a focus on belonging. The RAF embeds Edwards’ relational concepts and enables the exploration and articulation of how network participants’ individual, discipline-specific knowledge and expertise augments to support collectively transformative practice within their network, their place and wider community. We conclude that a sense of belonging is foundational to the emergence of such relational agency in networks. Tools such as the ‘gardening tools’ and the RAF offer possibilities for addressing the challenges of how to support collaboration between government, early years professionals and communities to work holistically in the best interest of all children and their families.     

基于Web2.0的网络课程功能架构和开发技术研究

基于Web2.0的理念、方法及其技术应用,结合网络课程的特点和不足,围绕以学生为中心的现代教育理念,提出了基于Web2.0的网络课程设计构想,并对课程功能模块和开发技术进行了分析和探讨。