Fostering Social and Emotional Skills for Well-Being and Social Progress

Children need a balanced set of cognitive, social and emotional capabilities to adapt to today's demanding, changing and unpredictable world. OECD countries and partner economies recognise the importance on the holistic development of individuals. However, there are big gaps between stakeholders' knowledge, expectations and practices on how to foster such skills. This paper presents evidence on the importance of social and emotional skills; on how policy makers and schools are currently enhancing and monitoring such skills; and, on the existing gaps between knowledge, expectations and practices to mobilise these skills. The paper concludes by pointing ways in which education stakeholders can do more to better develop and mobilise the skills that drive individual's well-being and social progress. The paper draws on findings and frameworks that are being published in a full OECD report entitled ‘Skills for Social Progress: the Power of Social and Emotional Skills’ in the first half of 2015.     

Deconstructing the Metanarrative of the 21st Century Skills Movement

Abstract

If Neil Postman, were alive today, what would he say to Prensky, the originator of the term, ‘digital native’, about the ways in which teachers should approach the wonders and perils of e-learning in their classrooms? As the Dean of a faculty of education which is devoted to both creating and critiquing a variety of digital teaching and learning strategies in K-12 and adult education contexts, I have kept a close eye on the developing metanarrative of the twenty-first century skills movement. Arguments and anecdotes from the movement’s proponents concerning teachers’ technological accountability and competencies are attractive and compelling to some educators at the same time as they are oppressive and disturbing to others. In order to deconstruct the technophilic discourses of Prensky, Trilling, and Fadel, I juxtapose their work with Postman’s cautionary tales about totalitarian technocracy in schools. Postman wants educators to question their taken-for-granted assumptions about the ways in which they and their students should interact with technology. Prensky and his followers wish to provide educators with effective ways to involve their students in experiential learning partnerships through the use of serious gaming, e-books, crowdsourcing, and Facebook. As the views of Prensky and Postman are contrasted, a number of interesting issues emerge. What, for instance, is the nature of moral development and cultural identity formation when collective intelligence, hypertexts, and virtual relationships displace traditional textbook and face-to-face modes of learning? In this article, therefore, I attempt to synthesize the opposing perspectives of Prensky and Postman in order to establish a balanced and yet critical theory of the nature of e-learning.     

从艾森豪威尔到肯尼迪:美国对日政策的转变

1960年日本"安保危机"之后的困局促使美国对日政策从"占领者"心态向"平等伙伴关系"心态转变。艾森豪威尔时期的美日关系虽然得到了很大程度上的改变,但是,美国对日政策仍带有很强的"占领者"色彩。肯尼迪时期,美国适应新形势的需要,着手调整对日政策,采取了"单边"贸易自由化、美日事前协商框架等政策,开始向"平等伙伴关系"转变,试图重构美日关系。     

Migrating product structure bill of materials Excel files to STEP PDM implementation

It is important for manufacturing companies to provide a standard for product data exchange between diverse computer systems. Past attempts to develop neutral format standards for data exchange have had limited success, and have led to the development of STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product) as a data exchange standard. The STEP standard makes it easier to integrate systems that process various product life-cycle functions, such as design, engineering, manufacturing, logistics support, and will help to facilitate concurrent engineering. The goal of this paper is to facilitate the computer-readable exchange of the product bill of materials (BOM) information for product data management (PDM). In this paper, the STEP ISO 10303-21 is implemented to share the product data information in a manufacturing environment. A structural product bill of materials is first transformed into an Excel file format, then a PDM Schema Exporter is utilized to export a BOM Excel file to a STEP Part 21 file. A C# program decodes the STEP file into BOM information to update the PDM databases in SQL server for product data management. Also, SAS code is written to generate the indented bill of materials from the BOM information, to draw a tree diagram to present an accurate structural view of a product, and to export to PDM databases for product data structural view.     

A dynamic auction for multi-object procurement under a hard budget constraint

This contribution revisits the problem of allocating R&D subsidies by government agencies. Typically, the applicants’ financial constraints are private information. The literature has recommended the use of auctions in order to reduce information rents and thus improve the efficiency of how scarce public funds are allocated. We propose a new open clock auction for this procurement problem. This auction is strategically simple, as it exhibits truthtelling in dominant strategies and satisfies ex-post rationality, while observing the budget constraint. We test the auction in Monte-Carlo simulation and discuss its applicability and limitations. Moreover, we highlight connections to recent advances in computer science.     

J2EE视角下的高校图书馆管理系统应用研究

文章对J2EE技术进行概述并分析J2EE在图书馆管理系统中的业务特点,在此基础上,分析J2EE技术的相关内容,并对J2EE视角下的高校图书馆管理系统设计应用做具体分析。     

从“健康日本21”计划实施看日本社会国民健康的管理与服务

“健康日本21”计划是日本社会从2000年到2010年间进行的第三个国民健康促进十年计划。本文对“健康日本21”计划实施过程的国民健康的管理与服务的现状进行译评,并对我国目前正在实施的“健康中国”战略计划进行分析,提出了进一步完善我国国民健康的管理与服务体系的建议。     

MARC21 2005简明版的新变化

介绍了MARC21 2005简明版的新变化，并对其进行简要分析。     

AACR2 2002年最新修订本简介

简要介绍了AACR2 2002年最新修订本的出台、特点、新增内容和重要改变。     

未来普通高校体育教师人才素质的构成要素

采用文献资料与问卷调查等研究方法,探析了21世纪我国普通高校体育教师人才素质的构成要素。结果显示,品格、治学、科研、教学、专业知识、综合知识、跨学科学习、竞争、协作与掌握操作工具等方面的能力,是高校体育教师人才素质构成的重要因素。