Elements and symptoms of an ineffective higher education system: evidence from a Greek university

University studies in Greece are characterised by a symptom usually described as ‘prolonged student status’. This refers to students who prolong the period of their studies beyond the expected length for degrees, sometimes by many years. This article, as well as recording the distribution of the duration of studies in a public institution, reveals that a longer period of studies is strongly and negatively associated with academic performance. It then seeks to identify the causes of the symptom by examining two hypotheses. The first attributes prolonged student status to the operation of some objective factors such as differences in students’ initial abilities and differences in students’ socio‐economic background. The second hypothesis associates a long stay at the university with the educational setting. The existing evidence lends support to the second hypothesis.     

人本主义课程理论下课堂情景的特征及启示

人本主义思潮影响下,人的需要、潜能、价值受到广泛关注.我国传统教学对人一定程度的忽视让我们不断反思怎样在课堂上贯彻人本思想.从这个立意出发分析现代教育课堂情景的三个特征,即生活化、开放性、安全感,将对改善传统课堂抽象、封闭的状态具有重要意义.     

试论艺术体操运动员音乐节奏感的培养

音乐在艺术体操中具有十分重要的地位，而音乐节奏是音乐语言表达中最重要的因素之一。节奏是音乐的精髓，也是动作力度的感情基础，在艺术体操中，一切动作如跑、跳、转的速度，都是以音乐旋律中的节奏为依据的。因此，在艺术体操的训练中应更加重视节奏感的培养。在节奏感的培养中，应循序渐进，并根据不同运动员的特点选择不同的音乐节奏，从而更好地使艺术体操与音乐完美结合，使艺术体操运动员发挥最佳水平，赛出更好的成绩。     

当代进化心理学评析

进化心理学是西方心理学中近年来出现的一种新的研究取向,它的发展既有一定的意义,同时也存在一些局限,其意义是:它的发展与当代科学发展趋势相一致;其研究促进了对人性和心理的进一步思考;它开辟了心理学的一些新的研究领域;对其它学科的研究具有重要的启发作用。进化心理学的局限是:具有遗传决定论的倾向;对心理机制模块性的看法存在着局限性;其方法论亦有一定的缺陷等等。     

Informing in the Information Age: How to Communicate Measurement Concepts to Education Policy Makers

Current educational policies rely on educational assessments. However, the technical aspects of assessments are often unknown to policy makers, which is dangerous because sound assessment policy requires knowledge of the strengths and limitations of educational tests. In this article, we discuss the importance of informing policy makers of important psychometric issues that should be considered whenever tests are proposed for specific purposes. We discuss the types of information that are important to communicate to policy makers, how to best convey this information in a manner in which it can be understood, and how to be seen as a valuable source of information to education policy makers. We end with some specific steps organizations such as NCME can take to inform policy makers and advocate for valid educational assessment policies.     

民办高校需要先进文化

本文论述了什么是文化,什么是高等学校的文化以及民办高校需要什么样的文化和民办高校如何进行文化建设等问题。搞好民办高校的文化建设才是民办高校立于不败之地的根本。     

数学课堂教学活动性初探

数学课堂教学活动性既表征于"活动"的具体形式和观念要求,又体现了数学意义和教育意义的双重约束,它存在于数学课堂诸多相对教学关系的平衡,并于其中产生应有张力,可以用来整合对峙双方的力量,促进课堂教学质量的提高。作为一种行动指南,数学课堂教学活动性引导我们在"注重实质""淡化形式"的基础上追求数学课堂"形神兼备""情韵和谐"的理想境界,能积极防范和克服数学课堂教学中的低效现象、异化现象。     

To be one’s own confessor: educational guidance and governmentality

Educational guidance is often seen as something good and empowering for the individual. In the present article, such taken‐for‐granted ideas will be destabilised by analysing educational guidance as a practice in which confession operates as a technology that fosters and governs specific subjectivities. White papers produced by the Swedish Ministry of Education will be analysed drawing on Foucault’s concepts of technologies of the self and governmentality. I shall argue that the practice of educational guidance fosters our will to learn through the technology of confession. We are not only confessing ourselves to, and are the confessors of others, we are also our own confessors; that is, we confess our inner desires to ourselves, thus participating in shaping desirable subjectivities. Our desires in life coincide with the political ambition to govern, and thus we govern ourselves.     

现代化的人与音乐审美教育

音乐作为人类创造的灿烂文化之一,以其揭示人类生存状态和精神世界的特殊而又巨大的功能,成为人类精神世界的伊甸园,也成为实现人类自身价值的的重要手段和途径。它能使人从异化的现实世界中找到精神慰籍和心灵的愉悦,是现代化的人的主要审美对象之一。