Frameworks for change: four recurrent themes for quality in early childhood curriculum initiatives

This paper reports on the first phase of a case study that investigated how early childhood teachers experience organisational change. As one of three levels of quality improvement, State government‐funded curriculum initiatives were developed with an aim to promote change. Three curriculum documents, one each focusing on literacy, pedagogy and health, were released in a short time frame. Analysis of the content of these documents reveals four themes of change that reflected the theories underpinning the waves of change flowing across New South Wales, Australia, in the years 2001–02.     

Legitimacy through alternate means: schools without professionals in the private sector

The new institutionalism predicts that professionalism is a key element of organizations’ ability to be seen as legitimate. Emphasizing the professionalism and formal credentials of its members lends legitimacy to the organization, protecting it from scrutiny. What happens when this norm of professionalism is absent? How do schools legitimate themselves, if not through professionalism? This paper examines a population of small, secular non‐elite private schools that overwhelmingly hire uncertified teachers. Using data from 60 private school principals in Toronto, Canada, I examine the ways in which private schools tap into alternate means of legitimacy. This study finds that small, secular ‘rogue’ private schools fail to invoke norms of professionalism as a means to garner constituent support and legitimacy. I argue that these schools substitute an innovative, unconventional ‘caring consumer ethos’ in place of teacher professionalism.     

我国健身俱乐部私人教练职业化的探讨

运用文献资料法和电话访谈法、实地调查等研究方法,以社会学、市场营销学为依据,并根据从事健身俱乐部工作及研究的经验,对健身俱乐部私人教练职业特点、职业化内容及途径进行了探讨,以推动和促进我国健身私人教练职业化更加健康、规范、有序、快速地发展.     

“融媒时代”新闻传播教育的现状与思考

“融媒时代”必然呼唤新闻传播的融通性人才,文章阐述了多媒体数字传播多种形态以及“融媒时代”新闻传播教育情状,指出在坚守新闻传播教育基本规律的同时提出一些看法:跨媒体的课程体系、促进评估体系的创新、跨学科培养新闻人才等。     

专业学位研究生教育改革的探索与思考

专业学位研究生教育改革要根据其职业指向性、类型多样性、学生差异性等特殊性,从问题出发,守住“基本要求”底线,确保培养质量;突破“指导性培养方案”禁锢,形成各校培养特色;以课程建设和案例教学为切入点,推进教学内容改革与教学方法创新。同时,要构建以职业能力培养和应用为导向的专业学位论文评价体系,完善“双导师制”的内在机制。     

Empowering teacher voices in an education policy discussion: Paradoxes of representation

This article investigates the problems and paradoxes of attempting to empower teacher voices within the context of an international conference of policy-makers, academic researchers and practitioners. We examine the distribution of talk within a teacher workshop: who spoke, how, and to whom did the group and broader audiences listen? We trace the emergence of ideas in the workshop discussions and their trajectory into the joint teacher-policy-maker panel in the conference and in the post-conference summary report. We identify four factors shaping the realisation of teacher voice – repertoires, social position, topics and gatekeepers – and highlight paradoxes of teacher representation.     

上海市篮球运动的现状及对策

采用问卷调查及专访等形式,就上海市篮球运动的现状及发展对策进行研究。结果显示,影响上海市篮球运动发展的主要问题是:后备队伍建设不健全;二三线教练员的工资待遇及激励机制不合理;二三线队伍的训练质量不高。为此,必须加快改革的步伐,在加强一线队员的引进与管理的基础上,重视二三线队伍的建设,增加资金的投入,改善基层教练员的待遇,调动二三线教练员、运动员的训练积极性。     

日本职业体育产业发展及其启示

通过文献资料法等，分析了日本职业体育的类型、日本职业体育的基本状况中涉及的日本职业体育产业的发展趋势和主要职业体育项目的市场规模、观众人数和票价、日本4大国营职业体育的经营、日本职业运动员的收入，以及日本职业体育及产业面临的课题。并说明日本职业体育的特征。目的是为我国职业体育发展提供一些借鉴。     

The mediating effect of trust on the dimensionality of organisational justice and organisational citizenship behaviour amongst teachers in Malaysia

Abstract

The swelling discourses on organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) have diffused into areas of management and organisational research. The existing literature encapsulates that trust will mediate the relationship between the three dimensions of organisational justice: procedural justice, distributive justice and interactional justice and OCB. Based on the literature discussions, several hypotheses were proposed and conceptual framework was formulated. A total of 411 teachers had responded and participated in the survey. The collected data were analysed using Smart Partial Least Square software. Vigorous two-stage analytical procedure was adopted. The statistical results indicated that trust significantly mediates the relationship between organisational justice and OCB as well as the dimensions of organisational justice and OCB with various degrees of mediating effects. These findings have provided new insights in the organisational behaviour discipline and shed light on trust’s mediation in the relationship of organisational justice and OCB.