Using Our Understanding of Families to Strengthen Family Involvement

The purpose of this article is to help teachers become more responsive to the changing needs and contexts of families in their efforts to establish relationships and encourage family participation. Through this article, the authors describe the changing landscape of parenting and the stressors experienced by contemporary families. The authors then provide a review of research that describes strategies that have been successfully employed by teachers of young children to foster increased communication and family involvement. The article concludes with suggestions to help early childhood professionals change their paradigm of parent involvement from a school-centric perspective to one that is more family-centric.     

Creating inclusive learning communities: the role of student–faculty relationships in mitigating negative campus climate

This study examined student perceptions of their learning environments at 130 American colleges and universities. Results indicate that students of color, women students, and gay/lesbian students are the most likely to observe and experience prejudice and discrimination within and outside of their classrooms. Fortunately, the development of strong student–faculty relationships significantly mitigate negative campus climate and support the formation of inclusive learning communities. Institutional implications are discussed.     

校长协调人际关系的人本原则和策略

健康和谐的人际关系对提高管理效能,实现学校管理目标至关重要。校长要协调好学校的人际关系,必须树立以人为本的理念,遵循心向一致、心理投入、心理相容、心理平衡、信息沟通的原则;改进管理方法,尊重教职工的主体地位;讲究协调策略,以真诚赢得教职工的接纳和信赖,为促进学校事业持续健康发展营造良好的人际环境。     

关于毛泽东文艺思想的两个重要观点--读《毛泽东文艺论集》新识

文章主要依据新出版的(毛泽东文艺论集),对关于毛泽东文艺思想的两个有争议的重要观点提出了新的认识。(1)关于毛泽东的文艺批评观。文章阐明政治和艺术的统一,内容和形式的统一,对思想性和艺术性的同等重视,是毛泽东品评作品的一贯要求,是作为科学体系的毛泽东文艺思想的批评观和批评标准,而“政治标准”“第一”、“艺术标准”“第二”是毛泽东文艺论述中的“个别词句”,可以把它与作为科学体系的毛泽东文艺思想区别开来。(2)关于毛泽东的文学与经济、政治关系观。文章阐明政治“决定”文艺是毛泽东文艺论述中的不确切表述,而在总体上毛泽东是继承、坚持了马克思主义关于文学与经济、政治关系的唯物史观的。     

苏南苏北企业联系与区域经济发展

企业的运行过程与区域经济发展的过程紧密相联,其中企业联系日益成为影响区域经济发展的重要因素。苏南苏北现有市场拓展型、成本节约型、产业转移型等3种企业联系模式。进一步建立和发展以上模式的企业联系对缩小苏南苏北经济差距、实现区域共同发展具有重大意义。     

Data use by teachers: the impact of motivation,decision-making style,supportive relationships and reflective capacity

There is a growing expectation that schools should systematically collect and analyse data as a point of departure for decisions. However, research shows that teachers themselves are less convinced that they need to base their decisions on data, as they mainly rely on their intuition and experience. This article examines the extent to which teachers use data as a source of information for decisions at classroom level and what motivates them to use these data. We will also look at what impact the teacher’s decision-making style, supportive relationships and the reflective capacity of the school team have on teachers’ motivation for using data. Our research data was collected by means of an online survey of 408 teachers in 52 primary schools in Flanders. The results demonstrate that the quality of teachers’ motivation for using data is a key element in promoting data use in schools. Teachers who feel autonomously motivated will make greater use of data than teachers with a controlled motivation. We found that the use of a rational decision-making style by teachers, supportive relationships within the school and the reflective capacity of the school team all lead to an increase in teachers’ autonomous motivation for using data.     

告别校园融入社会——论毕业生如何适应角色转换

毕业生告别校园走向社会,从学生到职员,角色发生重大转变.只有摆正心态,处理好方方面面的关系,成功地迈好第一步才能为将来的有为有位打下基础.     

Transforming teacher–family relationships: shifting roles and perceptions of home visits through the Funds of Knowledge approach

Education has embraced the idea of an ‘asset approach’ to working with families and children, creating a focus on developing collaborative relationships with families by building on what they bring to the table. In this paper we explore what happened when early childhood teachers entered homes to learn from families and identify their Funds of Knowledge. The findings show how issues of power and perception surfaced when teachers attempted to shift their role from that of teacher to learner. In analyzing teachers’ experience before, during, and after ethnographic home visits we saw their general desire to adopt an asset-based mentality. However, the hegemonic structure of schooling, previous experiences, and traditional teachers’ roles shaped their experience with the Funds of Knowledge framework. We end by discussing the implications for teachers and teacher educators who are interested in using home visits to develop an asset approach to their work with families.     

高职生人际关系状况调查——以对张家口职业技术学院在校生的调查为据

通过对张家口职业技术学院在校学生的调查,了解到高职学生的人际关系状况总体良好,大部分学生人际关系和谐。但也有部分学生存在着明显的人际交往障碍。造成人际关系不良的原因有多种,需要从多方面加以改进。     

Gendered capital: emotional capital and mothers’ care work in education

This paper is concerned with the inequalities experienced by mothers in the performance of educational care work for their children. It is argued that the caring work carried out by mothers at transfer to second‐level schooling is shaped by their ability to activate the significant resource of emotional capital; a gendered resource involving emotional skills, knowledge and experiences. Drawing on an in‐depth study of mothers’ routines of care, it is suggested that the possession of emotional capital subjects mothers to a normative order of care. Moreover, in exploring the idiosyncratic differences between mothers’ capacities to activate emotional capital it is argued that the activation of this care resource is facilitated in the context of solidary relationships but also by mothers’ access to other capitals. It is concluded that in order to tackle care inequalities those working in education need to recognise the significance of emotional resources, and need to challenge traditional codes of practice and policies around ‘parental’ involvement.