Educational Research for Policy and Practice in Japan – With Particular Reference to Youth Education

Based upon the Fundamental Law of Education, Japanese school education system has long been a source of pride for the country as a result of the high school participation rate, the homogeneity of compulsory education throughout the country. However, the confidence of the people in its schools is now showing severe signs of strain and fatigue. In recent years, there have been many reports about the growing seriousness of a number of educational problems having to do with young people in their childhood and adolescence. Since the mid-1970s, a number of problems have been highlighted. They include violent behavior, juvenile crimes, bullying, refusal to attend school, dropping out at secondary level of education, and corporal punishment. Against the above background, based on recommendations from such advisory bodies as the Central Council for Education and the National Commission on Education Reform, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) has adopted a range of policies and launched a series of educational reform programmes. For instance, what is called “Rainbow Plan”, based on the final report submitted by the National Commission on Education Reform, provides the country with basic guidelines for the educational reform in the near future. Roles of educational research for making policies have been of significance. Research initiated by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER) and the National Federation of Educational Policy Research Institutes (NFERI) is an example of contributions to the development of educational qualities in the country. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Models and Paradigms in Kuhn and Halloun

In Modeling Theory in Science Education, Halloun (2004) adopts the word ‘paradigm’, but his use of the term is radically different from that of Kuhn. In this paper, I explore some of the differences between Kuhn’s paradigms and Halloun’s paradigms. Where Kuhn’s paradigms are public, community-defining exemplars of practice, Halloun’s paradigms are private, individualized ways of thinking. Where Kuhn writes of the paradigm shift as a revolutionary, vision-altering conversion experience, Halloun writes of a gradual evolution from one way of thinking to another and an easy back-and-forth switch between paradigms. Since Kuhn’s paradigms are self-enclosed and incommensurable, there is no objective standard by which one paradigm can be shown to be superior to the other. But Halloun uses ‘viability’ as a standard for paradigm choice. Underlying all of this is the more basic question of whether the history of science is an appropriate metaphor for student progress in the classroom. I conclude with some brief thoughts on this question.     

基于魔灯(Moodle)的研究性学习模式初探

本文探讨了利用魔灯学习管理系统进行研究性学习的特点,并就以魔灯为中介的师生、生生之间的互助合作,提出了一种基于魔灯的研究性学习模式。     

图书馆管理现状研究综述(2002～2003年)

本文搜集了2002～2003年有关图书馆管理方面的文献，通过研习和总结，对图书馆管理的理念、方法，数字图书馆管理等诸多方面及管理创新一些观点进行了横向的概括，勾勒出近年来图书馆管理研究的大致轮廓。     

日本设置外交档案管理员的分析及启示

本文从日本设置"外交档案管理员"新闻案例引入,梳理日本注重档案研究能力的表现,重点分析日本开展外交档案内容研究的原因--服务国家利益、发挥档案价值、提高档案职业认同和契合档案专业目标。最终提出相应启示--重视学科融合与研究成果、建立研究职能与培训制度、推动将研究能力纳入法规标准与职业认定。     

基于科学数据管理流程的科研机构职责分析

2018年3月国务院发布《科学数据管理办法》,强调科研机构作为科学数据管理的责任主体,应部署本机构科学数据的管理与服务体系。科研资助机构数据政策为科研机构明确了管理科学数据的过程中需要完成的任务与目标,可以有效推进科研机构的科学数据管理实践。按照科学数据管理流程的核心环节,系统分析并梳理国际科研资助机构的数据政策,将政策要求转化为科研机构在数据管理核心环节的职责与任务,以为我国科研机构有效部署科学数据管理工作提供参考。     

商务印书馆早期成功因素简析

本文从商务印书馆早期出版经营活动入手,从把握机遇、树立强烈责任心、重视人才、实行股份制形式、重视发行等方面,研究总结了商务印书馆早期的成功因素.     

Hyperactive Grey Objects

Previous papers on grey literature by the authors have described (1) the need for formal metadata to allow machine understanding and therefore scalable operations; (2) the enhancement of repositories of grey (and other) e-publications by linking with CRIS (Current Research Information Systems); (3) the use of the research process to collect metadata incrementally reducing the threshold barrier for end-users and improving quality in an ambient GRIDs environment. This paper takes the development one step further and proposes “intelligent” grey objects. The hypothesis is in 2 parts: (1) that the use of passive catalogs of metadata does not scale (a) in a highly distributed environment with millions of nodes and (b) with vastly increased volumes of R&D output grey publications with associated metadata; (2) that a new paradigm is required that (a) integrates grey with white literature and other R&D outputs such as software, data, products and patents (b) in a self-managing, self-optimizing way and that this paradigm manages automatically curation, provenance digital rights, trust, security and privacy. Concerning (1) existing repositories provide catalogs; harvesting takes increasing time ensuring non-currency. The end-user expends much manual effort/intelligence to utilize the results. The elapsed time of (1) the network (2) the centralized (or centrally controlled distributed) catalog server searches (3) end-user intervention becomes unacceptable. Concerning (2) there is no paradigm currently known to the authors that satisfies the requirement. Our proposal is outlined below. Hyperactive combines both hyperlinking and active properties of a (grey) object. Hyperlinking implies multimedia components linked to form the object and also external links to other resources. The term active implies that objects do not lie passively in a repository to be retrieved by end-users. They “get a life” and the object moves through the network knowing where it is going. A hyperactive grey object is wrapped by its (incrementally recorded) formal metadata and an associated (software) agent. It moves through process steps such as initial concept, authoring, reviewing and depositing in a repository. The workflow is based on the rules and information in the corporate data repository with which the agent interacts. Once the object is deposited, the agent associated with it actively pushes the object to the end-users (or systems) whose metadata indicate interest or an obligation in a workflowed process. The agents check the object and user (or system) metadata for rights, privacy, security parameters, and for any charges and assure compatibility. Alternatively the object can be found passively by end-user or system agents. The object can also associate itself with other objects forming relationships utilising metadata or content. Declared relationships include references and citations; workflowed relationships include versions and also links to corporate information and research datasets and software; inferenced relationships are discovered relationships such as between documents by different authors developed from an earlier idea of a third author. Components of this paradigm have been implemented to some extent. The challenge is implementing—respecting part two of the hypothesis—the integration architecture. This surely is harnessing the power of grey.

校企合作式的电子商务实训模式实践

广东科学技术职业学院电子商务专业与多家公司进行了校企合作办学,开设"企业教学班"。该举措使学院教学体系更趋先进完善,实现了"订单式"人才培养。探索如何在合作中学校、企业、学生三赢,以求实现资源共享。     

国际创业教育研究前沿的可视化分析

本文立足于Web of Science中的SCI-E、SSCI数据库,以1945年至2010年间国际创业教育领域的2000篇文献为研究对象和计量单元,将定量分析和定性研究相结合,运用国际新兴的CiteSpace软件和可视化方法进行知识计量和知识谱图绘制。在可视化图谱定量分析的基础上进行国际创业教育的研究前沿方面的定性研究,从而为国际创业教育领域的研究开拓了全新的视角和平台。