Curriculum stasis: the disconnect between music and technology in the Australian curriculum

Technology is a dominant mediating factor impacting on current human behaviour and social change, which both acts on and is acted upon by other phenomena. This changing social landscape, along with new expectations and requirements, drives our educational priorities and curriculum agenda. There is no denying the prevalence of technology found in the statements and guidelines of the national Australian Curriculum. Further, the National Review of School Music Education identified the importance of technology in school music education in 2005. The curriculum guidelines illustrate an understanding of technology in Music and the Arts that is both vague and limiting. In 2015 we are at a point of curriculum stasis, an equilibrium that highlights a disconnect between music, technology and Australian music education. This article investigates current secondary school Years 7–10 (ages 11–15 years) Music and Arts curriculum statements concerning the use of technology and compares this to the general capability information and computer technology (ICT) curricula. There is wide recognition that digital technology is essential in teaching and learning, but this is not reflected in contemporary Australian Arts and Music curricula.     

On strategies of educational innovation: Between substitution and transformation

The innovation of education seems to beself-evident. Boosted by a wide range of newtechnologies, educational institutes all overthe world are innovating their educationalsystems, in order to extend their services, toimprove their performances or to reduce costs.The apparent self-evidence of educationalinnovation hardly prompts the educational staffto reflect on the very idea of innovation andits consequences. This paper treats the basicprinciples that support the phenomenon oftechnology-induced educational innovation. Itaims to contribute to a better insight andunderstanding of its implications to anyoneengaged in education. It also aims to effect agrowing awareness of the premises on technologyand to support the right attitude to realiseimprovements in practice. The paper goes intostrategies of change, while discussing bothsubstitutional and transformational strategies.It explains its supposed differences byreferring to the philosophical frameworks ofJaspers, Heidegger and Borgmann. Starting fromBorgmann's ``devices paradigm', four principlesfor educational innovations are formulated,referring to the transparency and interactivityof educational technologies, the socio-culturalsignificance of products, the importance ofvalues beyond efficiency and the political biasinvolved with technological innovation.     

外商对华直接投资问题与调控

外商对华直接投资存在着产业结构不合理,地区分布“东重西轻”等一系列问题。其原因在于政府层面上的多头管理、分散决策、缺乏监督。有必要选择以产业政策为导向、以最优化指标为依据、“梯度推移与发展极相结合、产业倾斜与地区倾斜相结合”的发展战略,健全和完善宏观调控决策、实施、监督体系。     

Edulabs AGIRE project – evaluation of ICT integration in teaching strategies

The AGIRE project, under the Edulab concept, aims to promote the adoption of innovative teaching practices. This paper reports the support strategies used to evaluate the teacher practices at the end of a teacher training course (TTC) and analyse its impact on teacher technology integration, using a design-based methodology. Teachers’ initial perception was gathered using an online questionnaire comprising ICT personal and professional competencies. The questionnaire results and the classroom observations showed that the majority of teachers were at the level of ICT adoption, before attending the TTC, reaching the adaptation level of integration of ICT, after the TTC. A variety of teaching strategies (flipped classroom, collaborative work, …) and technologies (interactive white boards, tablets, videos, …) were explored. The results sustain the thesis that, with proper support, ICT can be integrated in educational contexts in an innovative way and contribute to the development of teachers’ digital literacy.     

宏观创新系统中知识密集型服务业的功能研究

随着信息技术和知识产业的迅猛发展,知识密集型服务业开始被纳入创新研究的范畴,本文旨在从宏观层面分析知识密集型服务业在构筑国家创新系统和全球创新系统中的功能,提出知识密集型服务业不但承担了宏观创新系统中知识扩散子系统的功能,还扮演了知识基础设施的重要角色。为此,如何系统考察知识密集型服务业在宏观创新系统中的地位,如何构筑起知识经济时代的宏观创新系统,成为宏观创新系统设计的重要课题。     

国外企业危机管理理论研究综述

本文对国外主要的企业危机管理理论研究进行了较为全面的梳理。本文识别了研究者在本体论层面对危机本质形成的三种认识,并以此为线索区分了研究者关注的三类焦点问题、研究中的主要变量,分析和评价了形成的主要学术视角,指出其对企业从事危机管理,尤其是全面认识危机管理成败的指导意义。     

城市基础设施建设与房地产业发展研究

城市基础设施建设与房地产业之间存在着密不可分的内在联系。我国城市基础设施建设和房地产开发之间存在诸多问题。从城市基础设施建设的角度出发,促进房地产健康发展的有效对策应该是树立理性的评价思维,建立合理的基础设施投资对房地产的价格溢出分配机制,完善规划体系等。     

我国基础建设上市公司股权结构的实证分析

根据2007—2010年上海证券交易所发行A股的所有基础建设上市公司的年度报告中关于内部控制股权结构情况,采用统计分析的方法,对我国基础建设上市公司的股权性质、集中度、董事会结构等现状进行分析,发现我国基础建设上市公司内部控制股权结构存在一些问题,诸如股权高度集中在国家手中以及董事会结构不健全等。从政府、法律、公司等角度进行原因分析,对机构投资者、公司自身、国家等方面提出相应的改进措施,以期完善我国基础建设上市公司内部控制。