关于中国国际友好城市问题的探讨——以中澳友好省州/城市为例

截至2009年底,我国与五大洲125个国家建立了1683对友好城市关系。自1979年广东省与澳大利亚新南威尔士州建立第一个友好省州关系以来,中国与澳大利亚友好省州/城市关系在数量和质量上都取得了突破性进展。友好城市关系在我国对外交流和发展中发挥了重要作用:消除不同国家之间在文化上的隔阂,促进双方理解和交流;推动国家和地方政府间的经济与贸易合作;成为国家和政府间外交的有益补充。虽然目前中国国际友好城市关系在促进中外文化交流和对外经济发展方面取得了一定成绩,但也存在许多问题。以中澳友好城市关系为例:首先,财政问题是影响友好城市关系发展的重要因素;其次,友好城市关系缺乏严格统一的管理机构;第三,政府在友好城市关系中尚未发挥其应有的作用。为进一步拓展对外结好工作,更好地发挥友好城市在对外交流和地方经济发展中的作用,特提出如下建议:首先,应慎重选择友好城市的结好对象;其次,要从民间和政府两个层面扩大友好城市之间的交流;第三,要以友好城市关系为重要桥梁和渠道,进一步加强经贸领域的合作。     

澳大利亚职业教育迅速发展的原因探析

20世纪70年代以来，澳大利亚职业教育迅速发展的主要原因是：重视职业教育，建立完整发达的职业教育体系，加大职业教育改革的力度，采取多种措施，加强政府统筹和宏观调控；确立能力本位的职业教育思想，引入竞争机制，建立市场化机制，采取形式多样的灵活的办学体制，不断增加职业教育投资，多渠道筹措职业教育经费，重视职业教育师资队伍建设。     

韩国现代化发展历程对中国现代化的借鉴意义

韩国的现代化发展经历了开始、高潮和平稳三个阶段,积累了一定的经验和教训,针对我国现代化发展的问题也有一定的借鉴意义,本文从政府与市场的关系、政府和企业的关系、出口贸易和国际市场的关系、生产和科研的关系等四个方面总结出了韩国现代化发展历程对中国现代化的借鉴意义。     

What successful black South African students consider as factors of their success

Black South African students have a poor success rate in school leaving mathematics examinations. Attempts have been made to shift teachers' practices from teacher-centredness to learner-centredness, in Black schools, in order to improve the situation. So far, the attempts failed to yield the desired results. This paper reports on the findings of a study that aimed at learning from students and teachers in Black schools, as to what classroom practices lead to success in school mathematics, in their impoverished context.This revised version was published online in October 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

ADHD: The Untold Truths of the ADEP (Australian Deficit in Educational Policy)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that predominantly results in behaviours associated with hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention that are frequently not conducive to successful learning and academic performance. Children who display these behaviours often require extra assistance, adjustments, and accommodations in the classroom in order to achieve their full potential. This article reviews Australian and New South Wales Discrimination, Disability and Education legislation, policy and procedures with respect to the education of students with ADHD. This review illustrates the need to standardise the definition of disability used throughout Australia, and to more firmly clarify an education provider’s responsibilities toward students with disabilities. With more clarity, students with ADHD will be provided with the additional educational and behaviour support they need in order to realise their full potential.     

苏南地区社会保障一体化构建研究

苏南地区社会保障一体化的构建是城乡一体化和经济一体化的必需要求。因此,该地区应当打造立法、管理体制、监督机制、金融体系、资金筹集与运作以及信息等六大平台。     

关键能力培养及评估:澳大利亚的认识与实践

关键能力培养及评估是20世纪木国际职业教育界重点关注的问题之一。澳大利亚对此较早进行了理论与实践探索，其学者、职业教育与培训机构和学生从不同角度对关键能力的培养及评估提出不同认识，不同类型职业教育与培训机构的实践模式也各具特色。为应对面临的挑战，澳大利亚各界仍要经历较长的探索过程。     

Revisioning professionalism from the periphery

Abstract

The issue of who should be included and recognised as professionals in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) service system is both contested and pressing in the current policy climate. At stake is a high-quality early childhood care and education service system that is both responsive and appropriate to the constituency it serves. A review of the history of ECEC professionalism reveals complex entanglements and debates regarding professional belonging. Services that deliver education and care to children and families living in high poverty contexts are often excluded from ECEC professionalism debates. Drawing on notions of rationality, emotionality and criticality presented in recent accounts of ECEC professionalism, we use data collected from interviews with service providers delivering services to children and families living in high poverty contexts in Australia to develop an account of criticality that is pertinent to current funding and policy contexts. We argue that these service providers’ perspectives about their own professionalism have much to offer broader debates.     

The “A” factor: Coming to terms with the question of legacy in South African education

This paper attempts to offer an alternative framework for assessing education delivery in South Africa. Its purpose is to develop an analytic approach for understanding education delivery in South Africa in the last 11 years and to use this framework to pose a set of strategic questions about how policy might be framed to deal with delivery. The paper begins with a quick review of the country's achievements and challenges in education and shows that a failure to produce a high quality education system remains the country's primary challenge. The broad approach that is taken is to suggest that dominant approaches for understanding this lack of performance underplay the specificity of the country's context and specifically so its apartheid legacy. This legacy, it is argued, continues to be determinative in shaping, and accounting for the character of current social behaviour in the country, including the performance of children in schools.