地方全民健身法规建设研究

根据文化学和现代社会学业已研究证明的中层制度文化、外层物质文化和内层精神文化密切相关的理论,从法制的角度研究在社会最基层筹建小型全民健身服务体系的法规保障问题,主要运用文献资料研究方法、专家咨询和座谈等调查法,就全民健身体系的概念、在全民健身纲要实施中的地位和作用以及对我国现有地方全民健身法规建设进行分析,研究结论是:全民健身服务体系建设呼唤地方法规要提速建设,促进中层制度文化与外层物质文化、内层精神文化相互之间的推动与发展.     

A Systemic Change Model for Leadership, Inclusion, and Mentoring (SLIM)

The Systemic Change Model for Leadership, Inclusion, and Mentoring (SLIM) concentrates on systemic changes occurring in child care organizations where the director builds caring, consistent relationships with the total system and empowers the staff and others through leadership. The model recognizes the importance of focusing on system changes by the organization's director. Leadership qualities related to concepts used in business organizations are included in the training. A mentoring program will help the director focus on his or her leadership capabilities in moving the organization to change. An important collaboration component of the model is working with inclusion of children with special needs. Included in the model are: collaboration components, systemic change, director leadership role, business model related to child care, mentoring, and inclusion of children with special needs.     

非正式听证在高校管理中的适用性分析

非正式听证有利于提高依法治校管理效率,降低管理成本,有利于促使各方主体广泛参与。在高校管理中,对涉及众多师生利益的重大事项,如教学、科研、招生就业、学生的德智体量化考核等,可以广泛适用非正式听证。非正式听证形式较为广泛,可采用意见征集、座谈讨论、网络舆情分析等形式,而后对所收集的各方意见进行决策论证。     

基于长尾理论的网络非正式学习可行性分析

伴随着Web2．0技术的发展,利用网络环境进行非正式学习已经成为人们主要的学习方式之一。基于对部分网络用户的调查分析,研究学习者的学习现状并提出网络非正式学习的必要性;根据长尾理论的几个根本性条件如生产工具普及、降低成本、连接供给与需求来分析利用网络进行非正式学习的可行性。     

高校创业教育的现状、问题及发展对策

对国内高校开展创业教育的历程进行回顾,可以总结出我国目前开展创业教育取得的阶段性实践成果,进而可以发现一些高校开展创业教育面临的关键问题。发展高校创业教育,必须围绕创业教育的核心,树立以创业精神、创业知识和创业能力并重的大学生创业教育理念,把创业教育融入人才培养全过程,构建系统化的创新创业教育实施体系,完善创业指导服务体系。     

Self-Study of a Teacher's Journey toward Standards-Based Mathematics Teaching

The authors describe a journey of self-study during which one author shifted from traditional, teacher-driven approaches to a more problem-based inquiry approach to teaching mathematics. He videotaped a series of lessons taught to sixth-grade students over a semester and analyzed his teaching during discussions with his mentor at the university. The shared analysis helped him learn to involve his students more directly in their own learning. A major lesson learned was that understanding the potential value of a problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics does not guarantee corresponding changes in the classroom. Two vital elements of lesson development emerged as focal points for self-study. After first learning how to prepare worthwhile mathematical tasks, the teacher also learned the importance of implementing effective questioning strategies to help students think more deeply about the mathematics they were learning.     

Facebook use in the learning environment: do students want this?

The Net Generation (those born in or after 1980) rely heavily on ICTs for social and professional interactions, and it has been suggested that they have the expectation that technology will be an integral part of their education. At the same time, it is argued that Facebook has educational potential, and that today's learners should be encouraged and supported to use Web 2.0 technologies for learning in formal education. However, there is growing evidence that the value of Facebook in the educational context does not relate to formal learning at all, but to the ‘social networking’ elements of the site. This Viewpoint article discusses the results of a study to explore students' views towards the use of Facebook in the university setting, especially with regard to learning and integration into university life. The findings suggest support for informal rather than formal learning use of Facebook within the university setting.     

College Student-Teacher Relationships

Mentoring is a process in which one person, usually of superior rank and outstanding achievement, guides the development of an entry-level individual. Colleges and universities historically have had new faculty orientation programs and methods to support new faculty matriculation. Mentorship programs, if well developed, can integrate new faculty into the university community and are characteristic of good educational practice. This article provides a rationale for, as well as features and benefits of, a new faculty mentorship program at a comprehensive university.     

Item Analysis in Introductory Economics Testing

Abstract

An interdisciplinary mentoring program for graduate teaching assistants, the GTA mentoring program, offers the needed support for graduate students in their training as teacher-scholars. Authors outline the vision and structure of the program and highlight student, faculty, and institutional benefits. This program involves regular meetings of small teams consisting of graduate students and a faculty mentor, as well as larger group meetings of all participants. Benefits include the development of personal and professional relationships, an open forum for the discussion of teaching and research issues, increased professional support, and greater confidence in classroom instruction.     

The Making of a ‘Good Deal’

Economic rationality and reciprocal help are values that are often posed as contradictory within exchanges. However, there are instances when these values work in tandem, such as when justifying informal purchases of work, svart arbete, in contemporary Sweden. Svart arbete are omnipresent exchanges in Swedish society, and there are many reasons for performing them. On the one hand, a good deal is part of everyday social life when people help each other. On the other hand, a good deal also reinforces views that economic rationalities are values that do not exclusively adhere to formal markets. This article focuses on the values that construct the ‘good deal’ when getting your car fixed informally. These overlapping and somewhat contradictory values in theory, but commonplace in practice, illustrate how notions of reciprocity and economic calculations interweave and are difficult to entangle one from the other. The ‘good deal’ thus concerns how illegal, yet licit purchases of services are made acceptable when posing them as cheap and simple transactions that simultaneously invoke a realm of closer relations.