清末赴日官绅教育考察研究综述

甲午战败后,清政府开始大规模地选派官绅赴日考察教育,这对中国教育制度和思想的转变产生了深远的影响。对这一问题,学界进行了较深入的研究,并取得突出的成果。从考察过程、考察笔记和考察者教育思想等方面对清末赴日教育考察研究作一简要综述,有助于为进一步开展研究工作提供有益参考。     

谈教师人格的教育价值

教师人格始终与教育构成有机的整体而影响受教育者。教师人格是一种教育影响,它既具有社会价值,又具有教育价值。教师在教书育人的过程中,应动用自身的人格力量,有计划、有目的、有系统地加入对学生进行人格教育的内容,使教师人格的教育价值得到有效发挥。     

《增广贤文》对青少年的教育价值

《增广贤文》作为我国古代一种重要的蒙学教材,是由格言和谚语汇集而成的,其中的道德价值观、惜时读书的思想和处世之道的人生哲学对于当今的青少年仍有重要的教育价值,在中国教育史上具有重要的意义。     

Introduction to “Racial Inequality and Education: Patterns and Prospects for the Future”

Abstract

American society is in the midst of profound economic and demographic changes. At the same time that the racial and ethnic composition of American society is changing, disparities in income and wealth have grown wider and more pronounced than ever before. This article explores the ways in which race is implicated in the widening gaps in wealth and opportunity, and how these inequities impact educational achievement.     

两岸文化教育交流新趋势之形而上臆谈——完整的“中国人”观念之积淀

中国大陆和台湾两岸文化教育交流新趋势,在形而上学的意义上是形成完整的＂中国人＂观念,两岸文化教育交流不仅仅是中国人的家事,而且应该成为影响世界格局的人类大事,也是中国恢复自己亚洲文化宗主国的历史,同时还是中国从农耕文明走向海洋文明的历史进程。     

The ‘collateral impact’ of pupil behaviour and geographically concentrated socio‐economic disadvantage

Schools in areas of concentrated disadvantage tend to have below‐average attainment, but there is no consensus on why. Mental and behavioural disorders in children are correlated with socio‐economic disadvantage. This paper puts forward the hypothesis that the first phenomenon can at least partly be accounted for by the second phenomenon through the concept of ‘collateral impact’ – collateral impact refers to the effect of externalising or internalising behaviour by a pupil on other pupils' learning and attainment. The argument developing the hypothesis is presented. An analysis of where evidence to support the hypothesis is most likely to be found identifies primary schools in areas of concentrated disadvantage, although testing of the proposed hypothesis would best be conducted by independent researchers to pre‐empt questions of confirmability. Potential implications for policy and practice are discussed, particularly managing difficult group behaviour in primary schools.     

Beyond a battery hen model?: a computer laboratory,micropolitics and educational change

This paper investigates what happened in one Australian primary school as part of the establishment, use and development of a computer laboratory over a period of two years. As part of a school renewal project, the computer laboratory was introduced as an ‘innovative’ way to improve the skills of teachers and children in information and communication technologies and to lead to curriculum change. However, the way in which the laboratory was conceptualised and used worked against achieving these goals. The micropolitics of educational change and an input–output understanding of computers meant that change remained structural rather than pedagogical or philosophical.     

Educational policy in Scotland: inclusion and the control society

This paper sets out to examine educational policy and practice in Scotland, showing how the ‘comprehensive and coherent programme to promote social inclusion’ – inculcating ‘readiness to learn’, ensuring that education equips the young for adult life, creating a demand for lifelong learning, above all through the presumption of mainstreaming – is indicative of and constitutive of a change in the way in which we are subject to governance in Scotland. This shift can be read as consistent with a move from a predominantly ‘disciplinary’ society as set out by Michel Foucault towards the ‘control society’ as elaborated by Gilles Deleuze – a society which does not operate through confinement but continuous control made possible by cybertechnology. Although it specifically draws on Scottish legislation and policy, it should be recognised that this is itself subject to emergent global education policy and so its relevance goes beyond these borders.     

The Management of Integrated Educational Environment Resources: the factors to be considered

Today, as educational organisations have become large and complex systems, education managers play a greater role in developing the most efficient educational environment. This article analyses the strategic background for educational management in relation to creating a constructive educational environment aimed at supporting a sustainable learning process. It also attempts to describe the diversity of resources that the educational environment comprises. We propose a model for managing the educational environment resources (MMEER) to guide the resources allocation within this multi-level system. The article stresses the need to create an encouraging and motivating environment to use the material and non-material resources as well as the intellectual capital of an educational institution most efficiently, student motivation being an indispensable prerequisite for enhancing quality and increasing the performance of an educational organisation.     

Action research as a tool of professional development of advisers and teachers in Croatia

Whilst educational action research is not unknown in Croatia, its use is not widespread. In part, this might be because action research assumes a high level of autonomy for practitioner–researchers, and a constructivist view of knowledge, neither of which are traditional characteristics of the Croatian system. This article reports on a capacity building programme in which 18 senior advisers from the Education and Teacher Training Agency developed action research projects in Croatian schools. The article outlines the context of the programme, describes the programme itself, and presents an analysis of the advisers’ action research projects. This shows that action research was used by advisers, supporting teachers, to effect change in schools. The principles of action research were generally understood, and produced evidence of practical change, collaboration and mutual understanding. Although action research is generally understood as a ‘grassroots movement’ this article suggests that action research can lead to desirable change, even when imported from elsewhere. Thus action research holds one answer to the question, how to promote beneficial life‐long learning among education professionals.