制度变迁中的校长职业与职业校长

在社会转型过程中,由制度变迁所引起的职业转变一直是社会发展进步的推动力。作为岗位职务的校长职业向作为职业能力的职业校长过渡,是实现由权力本位向能力本位的转换。职业校长存在的规定性必将通过教育理念的升华、运行机理的形成而成为教育制度创新中的优质人力资源并推动我国学校教育的跨越式发展。     

US principals’ attitudes about and experiences with single-sex schooling

Despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting the use of single-sex education, the number of US public schools offering single-sex education has increased. However, our understanding as to why decision-makers have implemented single-sex education is lacking. To address this gap, we surveyed US public school principals and assessed their attitudes about and experiences with single-sex schooling. Sixty-seven principals from single-sex schools and 193 principals from co-educational schools participated. The results indicated that principals who had experience with single-sex schooling tended to have more positive attitudes about single-sex schooling, viewed it as more effective, and more often evoked gender-essentialist rationales for the use of single-sex schooling than did co-educational principals. However, both single-sex and co-educational principals noted issues with single-sex schooling. It was concluded that single-sex schooling is not a silver bullet to educational reform and that when single-sex schooling is implemented, one set of issues and problems is substituted for another.     

Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control

Abstract

The introduction of new accountabilities and techniques of government for the purposes of educational reform have created new complexities and tensions for school leadership. Policies such as the publishing of league tables in the UK, high stakes testing in the US and the introduction of the My School website in Australia are particularly significant for school principals. In this article I appeal to the work of Foucault and Deleuze to provide an alternate approach to understanding how principals are constituted as subjects through a range of practices and discourses associated with the introduction of the My School website. I specifically draw upon Foucault’s notion of governmentality and Deleuze’s notion of societies of control to provoke new lines of thought into these government practices. I argue that it is through the performative in the education system that school principals are becoming perpetually assessable subjects.     

教师校本共同体：高校新手英语教师专业发展的新视角

本文重点讨论了教师校本共同体的内涵及构建意义。研究者以促进高校新手英语教师的专业发展为目的,分析了当前新手英语教师的发展现状,并同时提出了为促进其发展构建教师校本共同体的运行方案等。     

农村中小学校长素质二阶结构模型的建构与应用

以领导特质理论和胜任素质理论为依据,构建农村中小学校长素质二阶结构模型,从校长自信心、责任感、领导品质、奉献精神、自主学习、创新性、文化程度和身体素质等维度对农村中小学校长素质进行测评,发现部分校长存在身体素质欠佳、心理素质不高、缺乏自主学习和创新精神等问题。提高农村中小学校长队伍整体素质,必须把好入口关,切实改变形式化的选拔任用制度;建立健全有效的竞争、激励和监督机制;加快构建科学的培训体系;大力实施名校长工作室工程以及城乡结对、轮岗交流等有效举措。     

绩效工资制度下新任教师专业发展的困境与突破

绩效工资改革旨在提高教师的经济和社会地位,激发教师专业发展的能动性。而这项改革对绩效及引发的竞争,也给学校管理带来了深远的影响,侵蚀了学校作为共同体存在的基础。本文认为,重建以竞合关系为改革方向的管理文化,不仅为新任教师提供了专业发展的保障,而且有利于绩效工资改革政策目标的实现。     

Beliefs of experienced and novice teachers about achievement

The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs that experienced and novice teachers hold about school achievement. It is important to investigate these beliefs and attributions because of the significant role that teachers play in the lives of most children. A group of Greek Cypriot elementary school teachers (n = 154) and a comparable group of teacher education students (n = 159) completed the Beliefs About School Achievement (BASA) scale. It was found that, in comparison to student teachers, experienced teachers tend to attribute achievement more to factors that are biologically determined, uncontrollable by the child, and stable over time – such as intellectual ability. They also believe significantly more than student teachers that factors such as gender and family background play an important role in child achievement. In contrast, novice teachers believe more in the role that teachers play in student learning and in the importance of student effort.     

规范、精神、情感——校长培训团队文化建设的几点思考

中小学校长培训的日益专业化对校长培训团队的要求越来越高。团队文化是团队的灵魂,它在增强团队凝聚力,提高团队绩效,统一团队成员思想,激励成员行为,促进成员形成自觉性、主动性等方面存在不可估量的作用。加强培训管理团队的团队文化建设成为关系培训质量,助益中小学校长培训专业化的基础和保障因素。     

多重认同叠合机制:新教师专业发展角色冲突的和解路径

新时代教育改革情境中新教师的多重认同彰显了个体与时代命运的深度关联。本研究运用质性研究方法探究当前时代新教师面临的多重角色挑战,揭示他/她们在"成为一名教师"过程中的困境与互动,进而展现其专业发展过程中的冲突与和解。研究发现,当"多重角色"和"角色丛"交织时,个案新教师经历了角色冲突到角色融合的复杂演化过程。新教师受到工作压力、专业发展、重要他人、身份归属、职业认知、地区教育组织的培训及其政策等多方面影响,建构出多重认同叠合机制。该机制呈现阶段性动态变化的复杂性特征,同时存在"内生与外生、积极与消极、调节与制约、能动与结构"的共生状态,相互之间不断转化并促进新教师的专业发展。     

Looking for their voice: the formation of identity in the new Israeli principals’ organisation

ABSTRACT

Based on an in-depth analysis of newspaper articles and internal documents, in this article I examine the formation of a new collective and glocal identity for the Israeli principals’ organisation, Manhigim, which was established in October 2018. I show how, in the process of establishing the organisation, the leaders formed a collective glocal identity comprised of three distinct identities, namely a labour union identity, a professional identity, and a political identity. These identities respond to the question, ‘Who are we?’ As such, they have relationships to the past, present, and expected future. Each one of the identities is glocally constructed; that is, it is influenced by global norms and values, but also by local problems and concerns. My findings suggest that, by stressing the global values of autonomy, trust, and partnership, the organisation’s leaders facilitated an interesting reformulation of the principals’ professional identities. Moreover, they positioned the organisation as the most knowledgeable and important actor in the Israeli educational field. As such, the glocal identity legitimises the primacy and acceptance of the new principals’ organisation as an integral part of the system of Israeli education policymakers.