Assessing ethics education through national tests—an advantage or not?

The purpose of this study is to describe, critically analyse and discuss the Swedish system of assessing ethics education in compulsory school through national tests. The publicly available tests from 2013 for grades six and nine have been studied as have the assessment instructions for teachers. Staff responsible for the test construction have been interviewed. The aims, core content and knowledge requirements of the curriculum were also studied. The concept ‘ethical competence’ was used as an analytical tool in the qualitative content analyses. Through the design of this study, the actual test, its process of construction and the curriculum were examined. The results suggest that ethics education, given (a) the curricular construction of what ability to assess, (b) complexities of test construction in ethics and (c) possible teach-to-the-test effects, runs the risk of being limited to an argumentative, conceptual competence, with ethics education being emptied of crucial content. However, being included in national testing can strengthen the position of a school subject. Is it then an advantage for ethics education to be tested in this way? The critical problems the study raises make the author conclude it to be a disadvantage for ethics education to be tested through national tests.     

我国贫困地区普及义务教育制的可行性分析

我国普及义务教育工作取得了很大成绩,但尚未实现全国普及。目前普及义务教育的重点是农村,农村的难点是贫困地区。本文着重分析了制约贫困地区义务教育普及率不高的各种因素,同时提出从经济、法制方面如何解决义务教育全面普及的思路,从而肯定我国贫困地区全面实现义务教育的可行性。     

略论现代远程教育在社区高职教育中的运用

实现高等教育大众化是我国高等教育的发展目标，高等职业教育作为高等教育的一个类型，在实现高等教育大众化的进程中起着举足轻重的作用。社区教育是高职教育触角的延伸，运用多种现代教育技术手段发展社区教育，是其发展之必然。以网络为主流现代远程教育是社区高职教育的重要组成部分，在今后的发展中具有很大的优势。     

以远程教育推进职业教育的均衡发展

在中央提出建设和谐社会的宏观背景下，教育均衡发展，越来越引起社会各界的高度关注。本文认为我国教育发展不均衡的主要特征是城乡教育的二元结构，即城乡教育差距大，它是制约拳国教育发展和实现代化的瓶颈，依托广播电视大学办学系统发展远程教育是实现我国教育均衡发展的战略选择，并切实提出了以远程教育推进我国教育均衡发展的思路。     

On international trade in educational services: an interpretation of the regulations and China’s WTO commitments

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) covers educational trade services. Hence, all the regulations of the GATS have to be followed in the international trade of educational services. Having acceded to the WTO, China is starting to fulfill the rights and obligations as a member by completely respecting international trade, services and intellectual property laws. At the same time, it is also starting to fulfill some of the commitments it made in the GATS, such as expanding activities on trade in educational services. Comprehending the fundamental regulations and China’s commitments is significant towards promoting China’s international trade in educational services. __________ Translated from Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Sciences), 2004 (1)     

客家教育与云南

客家崇尚化，重视教育的传统是历代客家英才辈出的化基础。云南现有一万余客家人。得益于客家教育和受到客家教育思想熏陶的客家人来到云南以后，对云南作出了奉献，同时也有一的比客属知识分子在云南这片红土地上成长为祖国的高级专业技术人才，有的还是全国知名学。     

探索高校学生工作新思路

面对高教改革的日益深入，高校学生工作要适应新形势的需要，树立全新教育理念，在学生工作管理体制运行机制上培养超前思维，努力探索学生工作新思路、新模式。     

Winning the Battle,Losing the War: Bilingual Teachers and Post-Proposition 227

The implementation of Proposition 227 has created chaos, uncertainty, and a hostile environment for bilingual education teachers. This study describes the experiences of 20 bilingual education teachers in Southern California. In in-depth interviews, teachers speak out about the challenges, frustrations, fears, and the increasing animosity they face on a daily basis, and how they resist and contest the language enforcer role in various ways. Out of the chaos that has been created by Proposition 227, these bilingual teachers have emerged as the language civil rights activists of the new millennium.     

从农村职业教育视角论新型农民培养

21世纪初,我国农民整体素质有了明显提高,但与有文化、懂技术、会经营的新型农民之间不存在着很大差距。本文从分析农村劳动力整体状况着手,探讨农村职业教育在培养新型农民过程中的作用,提出了大力发展农村职业教育培养新型农民的几点对策建议。     

提升就业质量:职业教育发展的新视角

职业教育应努力追求“充分的、生产性的和自由选择的就业”目标的实现;不能仅仅关注毕业生的“就业率”,而更要将“提升就业质量”作为发展的新视角。所谓“就业质量”,一般概括为职业社会地位、工资水平、社会保障、发展空间等四大方面,具体体现在职业声望、职业期望满足程度、职业成就、职业锚、专业方向与职业的适应性、人职匹配诸方面。提升就业质量途径和措施主要概括为:首先,重视提高职业咨询或职业指导的质量;其次,基于就业质量的提升,改革职业教育课程与教学;再次,借鉴发达国家和地区的“现代学徒制”理论和实践经验,创设“本土化的”产学合作现代职业教育模式。