The Impact of Globalization on Teacher Education: The Philippine Perspective

This qualitative study is an attempt to describe how administrators, teachers and researchers in a select group of teacher education institutions (TEIs) in the capital of the Philippines collectively view globalization. Specifically, concepts of a globalized teacher education, impact of globalization in teacher education, and problems of teacher education in the context of globalization were the delineated factors investigated in this study. A total of 23 respondents comprising 13 university teachers, 6 deans and 4 educational researchers were asked to participate in an audio-taped interview and written responses. Data yielded by the interview were transcribed and categorized based on saliency, meaning and homogeneity. Clearly, this study has disclosed efforts initiated at both pre-service and in-service education levels in response to the challenges of globalization consistent with the collective view of the various sectors. This research segment is part of a research project submitted to the Asia-Pacific Education Policy Research Initiative/KEDI (AP-EPRI/KEDI) and funded by the World Bank/GDN.     

全球化与中国现代化战略抉择

:当今时代 ,全球化已经成为人类社会历史进程中一股不可阻逆的潮流。全球化的影响已经超越了民族、国家、地区的界限 ,在经济、政治、军事、文化等领域不断渗透 ,深刻地影响着 2 1世纪世界各国的发展进程 ,也影响着中国现代化的进程。全球化一方面是现代化的深化 ,另一方面也为一个国家实现现代化带来了机遇和挑战。我国应顺应这一历史趋势 ,作出积极的战略抉择 ,争取早日实现现代化     

Integrating a moral reasoning game in a blended learning setting: effects on students' interest and performance

A new approach to moral education using blended learning has been developed. This approach involves 10 scenarios that are designed as a web-based game and serves as a basis for group moral-consequence-based reasoning, which is developed based on a hypothetical-deductive model. The aim of the study was to examine the changes in students' blended learning interest and reasoning ability in a time series experimental design. After playing the game with the 10 initial scenarios during the first week of the study, participants were subjected to five blended learning sessions that required them to discuss the consequences of one of the 10 scenarios using hypothetical-deductive reasoning. After six weeks, the data from the 110 participants were analyzed using time series statistics. The results indicated that players were highly interested in the game, although their interest had a tendency to decrease slightly over time. Repetitive game play (i.e. practice) was positively associated with the players' moral reasoning performance. The study results may lend support to the design of a game with additional or more highly complex content for players to further develop students' consequential reasoning ability.     

#Eduresistance: a critical analysis of the role of digital media in collective struggles for public education in the USA

From Facebook-coordinated high-school walkouts to compelling Internet-based protest art that has accompanied recent teacher strikes, grassroots education activism in the USA has gone digital. Despite the proliferation of research on the mediatisation of education policy, few studies have explored the ways in which activists for public education engage with Web 2.0 technologies. This paper makes a contribution to this under-researched area by exploring selected activist accounts including Parents Across America, United Opt Out National, and the PS 2013 campaign in New York City. I draw on critical, feminist, and cultural studies theories of education and social movement media to analyse activist media practices in a policy and political milieu dominated by corporate media and neoliberal governance structures. The analysis reveals that progressive education activists strategically deploy digital media to amplify voice, build collective identity, and disseminate alternative knowledge to enable direct action. A situated analysis also reveals significant differences in activist media practice which are shaped by particular political histories and geographies. The paper concludes with a discussion about future lines of inquiry into the role of digital media in collective struggles for public education.     

‘Everywhere they say that it’s harmful but they don’t say how,so I’m asking here’: young people,pornography and negotiations with notions of risk and harm

Debate about pornography and minors has mainly centred on questions of control, regulation and media policy; the urge to protect children from dangers of sexually explicit content being the primary motivator of these conversations. Instead of discussing the use of pornography by minors in the light of relevant research findings, public discourse on these issues is more usually shaped by views of sexual cultures as inherently dangerous to minors, and young people as vulnerable, easily harmed, and endangered by the media. This paper builds on data consisting of 4212 questions about sexuality that were sent by young people in Finland to experts on sexual health. Only 64 (1.5%) of these contributions explicitly focused on pornography. The small number of porn-related submissions suggests that for young people there are other more important concerns in the field of sexuality than pornography, on which adult guidance is sought. This paper argues that young people’s perceptions of pornography are more diverse than is typically assumed in public debate. Young people challenge risk talk by constantly referring to the vagueness of the alleged harm that characterises the discourse of danger that can be found in much public discussion. According to the findings of this study, blurry notions of harm bother young people more than the actual pornographic content they encounter.     

Travelling policies and contextual considerations: on threshold criteria

Educational policy borrowing has become rather common in our globalised world. However, the literature lacks contextual criteria that may be employed by researchers and policy makers to assess the correspondence of a particular policy to the local context of a borrowing system. Based on a secondary analysis of documents and research reports, this paper describes the process of policy borrowing in the Israeli and Turkish educational systems. Discrepancies were found between the basic qualities of the borrowed policies and the contextual features and processes that characterise each educational system. The lack of congruency appears to be even deeper in centralised structures where the act of policy setting is done by top-level policy makers who are isolated from local school circumstances. Threshold criteria referring to fundamental considerations during decision making are offered and their theoretical and practical implications for centralised structures are discussed.     

基于扬州“广播进公园”的场景化广播融合发展初探

5G时代,场景深耕已成为城市广播电台的兵家必争之地,传统广播自带的融合基因和城市公园自带的“场景”基因,使得场景广播成为一种有益尝试。2015年,扬州市提出“公园+”概念,推动城市公共服务主动与城市公园体系相融合。“广播进公园”构建了“公园+”的新收听场景,借力媒体融合撬动市场,重视用户体验,充分发挥广播的声音优势,提升传播效果,在公共空间打开了广播高质量发展的“扬州模式”。“公园+”集中优势聚焦重要报道,在5G时代,这一新的传播模式大有作为。     

当今全球化的特点与实质

20世纪90年代以来,随着全球化进程的加快,人类社会开始进入一个全球化的世界。经济全球化表现强劲、科技全球化趋势明显、文化全球化初露端倪、经济全球化与政治多极化并行不悖等是当今全球化的新特点。同时,当今全球化具有明显的意识形态属性,全球化已成为西方企图控制世界的手段和工具,甚至已演变为西方某些国家的意识形态。     

网络传播与受众人格心理的重构

网络传播作为一种全新的现代化传播方式，有着与传统媒体截然不同的新特征。网络传播对整个社会生活产生巨大影响。它作为数字化时代的主体应用工具，已成为人们心理上的依赖品。网络传播使受众传统人格心理构成逐渐肢解，而与网络传播特征相匹配的受众人格心理开始重构。     

金融全球化背景下我国商业银行的再造

近年来随着金融全球化的日益发展 ,全球商业银行业的变革与调整进程正在加快 ,我国银行业面临着更加激烈的国际竞争。同时 ,加入世贸组织也将对我国银行体制产生重大影响。然而 ,中国商业银行业的整体素质在很多方面还无法适应金融全球化的要求和不断变化的市场环境。因此 ,国内银行业就必须通过深化金融改革 ,进一步推进银行体系的重组与再造 ,充实资本实力 ,创新金融工具 ,培育现代银行业务体系 ,完善银行服务功能 ,提高自身的国际竞争力 ,从而跟上金融全球化的时代潮流