New Public Management in an age of austerity: knowledge and experience in further education

This article originates in a piece of educational research into the experiences of further education (FE) student teachers in the West Midlands region of England. This cohort of students experienced significant upheaval in their college workplaces and placements during the 2010/2011 academic year. Pressures on FE funding were exacerbated by a Comprehensive Spending Review by the coalition government in late 2010 – prompted by the on-going global economic crisis. Some of the repercussions of these funding cuts for staff and students in the sector are discussed in this article, as perceived by this cohort of student teachers working in a range of FE providers across the West Midlands. Many of these repercussions can broadly be seen as an extension of existing managerialist practices, as the justification for an increasing squeeze on local resource allocation continues to be a wider appeal to global market ‘realities’. But we theorise that new public management (NPM) plays an important role in a reductive kind of knowledge production for policy-makers which fuels and legitimises on-going policy intervention, and we see this as an important shaping force in the emerging professional identity of these new teachers.     

Social Realism and the problem of the problem of knowledge in the sociology of education

This paper examines from a Social Realist perspective a set of issues in the sociology of education regarding the problem of knowledge. It focuses upon the issue of relativism associated with the constructionist approach that since the time of the New Sociology of Education in the 1970s has constituted in different forms the dominant perspective in the field. It identifies features shared between constructionism and the ‘positivist’ approach with which it contrasts itself. It is argued that these two positions have more in common than is often recognized and draws upon Critical Realism as an alternative to both. Social Realism explores the sociological implications of Critical Realism for education.     

Psychologism and Instructional Technology

Little of the work in critical and hermeneutical psychology has been linked to instructional technology (IT). This article provides a discussion in order to fill the gap in this direction. The article presents a brief genealogy of American IT in relation to the influence of psychology. It also provides a critical and hermeneutical framework for psychology. It then discusses some problems of psychologism focusing on positivism, metaphysics, cultural ecology, and power. The narrow psychologism in IT produces a kind of systematic blindness regarding cultural, political, and other issues. IT professionals are encouraged to engage reflectively with the power‐relations and ethical issues in which they are involved. The article points out a need for looking at psychology more comprehensively (e.g. critical and hermeneutical psychology).     

中国科学院研究所评价的逻辑模型研究

1993年,中科院开始对所属研究所进行系统评价,10多年来,中国科学院根据各研究所不同发展阶段的特点不断完善和调整评价方法.从评价逻辑模型来看,中科院研究所评价大致可分为定量排名的逻辑模型和多信号决策的逻辑模型.结合中科院研究所评价实践对这两大评价模型进行了分析,并探讨了中科院未来可能的关键指标标杆的评价模型.     

现代管理与辩证逻辑

在现代管理实践中,协调是基本任务,决策是基本职能,创新是基本要求。因此,现代管理逻辑思维必然而且必须具有总揽全局、统筹兼顾的总体综合性,尊重现实、放眼未来的具体同一性,趋得避失、善进善退的能动转化性。现代管理学习逻辑学,尤其是学习辩证逻辑是提高现代管理逻辑思维水平的重要途径。     

论学生体育学习评价的"人文化"趋向

我国学生体育学习评价受学科中心主义和竞技运动思想的影响,未能很好地反映现代教育思想的发展动态以及学校体育的功能特性。注重人文教育与重视学科教育的人文价值是现代教育的一个重要发展趋向。未来的教育评价将以人文化为最高价值追求、以实证化为方法途径、向人文化和实证化共生共融的方向发展。学校体育的功能特征应该更多的体现在能促进学生人文精神的生长。因此,学生体育学习评价人文化趋向的主要特征体现在强调对过程的评价、重视评价过程中人与人的交流与沟通、注意方法灵活与针对性、注意弘扬民族传统体育文化以及关照全面与重视“两极”相结合等五个方面。     

二三十年代的两种治史模式刍议

马克思主义史学在本世纪20年代传入中国,在中国现代史苑又新添了一朵夺目的奇葩.从而形成了马克思主义史家与资产阶级史家的两种风格殊异的治史模式,他们在治史旨趣、历史观和方法论等层面大相径庭,都不同程度地推进了中国史学的现代化进程.     

论思维创新的抽象逻辑思维形态

并非只有非逻辑思维才具有思维创新意义。抽象逻辑思维包含着形式逻辑与辩证逻辑两个层面。形式逻辑与辩证逻辑在思维创新活动中各自有着重要的活动形式与功能特性。抽象逻辑思维活动系统具有思维活动的确定性与非确定性、稳定性与灵活性、有序性与无序性、分析(分解)与综合(重构)、单向与多向、集中与发散等多方面内在统一的运动特性,是一个充满无限创新生机的思维系统。     

我国奥运旅游的安全保障体系研究

作为一种大型复杂的旅游活动,奥运旅游的顺利运作需要一套完善的安全保障体系。从奥运旅游的安全问题入手,系统探讨了奥运旅游的安全保障体系的功能结构、组织结构及其配套支持体系,并以此为基础构建出其逻辑运作模式。     

多维体的自动逻辑综合算法与实现

在逻辑表达式的逻辑综合方法中．手工综合方法是常见并十分有效的方法、但对于多个变量的逻辑表达式．手工方法就显现出很多难以克服的困难，因此利用计算机进行自动逻辑综合显得十分必要．多维体的计算机表示和处理就可以解决手工方法难以克服的种种困难。