Innovation and Enterprise in Singapore Schools

Schools in Singapore are now tasked to develop the spirit of innovation and enterprise in their students. This is in line with the national vision of ‘Thinking Schools, Learning Nation’. This policy initiative, which began in 2004, is set to change the fundamental nature of education in Singapore. This article discusses the innovation and enterprise (I&E) initiative, its major implications for schools in Singapore and the areas still to be addressed in the implementation of the policy. In particular, the article discusses the issues of teachers and school leaders as role models of I&E, I&E as an organic part of school business, the influence of the wider societal culture and values system, and the measurement of success of I&E. The challenge for schools is to go beyond the form of the initiative to bring real substantial and sustainable change through this movement.     

To jump the wave or not: teachers’ perceptions of research evidence in education

This article presents a microanalysis of how a group of primary school teachers deals with research evidence in their work. Based on analysis of a group of Norwegian teachers’ interactions over issues of educational research and research-based knowledge, we find that teachers’ representations of educational research particularly center on the following issues: educational research being perceived as circular, ‘polyphonic’, and a matter of accommodation to their experience-based knowledge. These metaphors also shed light upon the dilemmas that arise when research evidence meets teachers’ more contextual knowledge. We conclude that teachers’ practice-based evidence may take new forms with an increased policy focus on research-based evidence, as well as bringing forth challenges for teacher work and professionalism.     

孟子的仁政学说与和谐社会的构建

孟子以人与禽兽之别来规定人性,强调人性为善的道德自觉。人的"类"意识内在地规定了人性具有善的可能性。统治者从这种善性出发,推行得民心的仁政,就成为一种必须的选择。仁政包含了政治、经济、教育、人事等具体内容,它强调稳定的政治秩序,突出"民"的主体地位,对我们社会主义和谐社会的构建具有重大借鉴作用。     

依法治校：高校建设与发展的必然选择

随着科教兴国战略的实施和依法治国方略的确定,依法治校已成为我国高校管理的必然选择.依法治校的本质是学校的管理者在以法律为权威的前提下在学校的管理中体现法治精神,实施依法治校对高校建设和发展有着重大的意义,当前高校在依法治校实践过程中虽存在一定问题,但完全可采取切实可行的办法和措施.只有实行依法治校,才能促使高校管理现代化、法治化目标的早日实现.     

The de/politicization of pronouns: implications of the No Big Deal Campaign for gender-expansive educational policy and practice

ABSTRACT

Accommodating non-binary transgender people, many of whom use gender-neutral pronouns, poses a unique challenge to schools and universities, even in contexts with legal protections for transgender rights. This article explores a recent Canadian controversy around gender-neutral pronouns, and assembles a theoretical framework to analyze the argument that legal protection for transgender peoples’ pronouns poses a threat to ‘free speech.’ The framework bridges queer theory, affect theory and Deleuzo-Guattarian assemblage theory to propose a threshold between ‘extra’ and ‘excessive’ effort to accommodate social difference in everyday life. Free speech objections produce some peoples’ pronouns as requiring ‘excessive’ effort. This extra/excessive framework was exemplified by a recent Canadian social media campaign that sought to produce transgender peoples’ pronouns as requiring merely ‘extra’ effort, which entails de-politicizing pronouns. Community responses to the campaign carry significant implications for gender-expansive educational policy and practice.     

我国居民收入差距扩大原因初探

造成我国居民收入差距不断扩大的原因是多方面的,其中城乡二元经济结构、改革开放的发展战略、部门和行业的垄断、经济的高速增长所形成收入高低的分化、经济体制转轨时期形成的黑色收入、政府主持的再分配存在的缺陷等是其主要的原因.它已严重阻碍我国经济的发展,应加大力度调节收入差距.     

驻共产国际时期的王明思想探析

驻共产国际时期的王明思想是以“左”倾错误思想为指导的，他宣传世界革命“高涨论”，中国革命“高潮论”，系统地阐发了冒险而教条的主张，给中国革命带来了惨重的损失，但王明在坚持“左”倾思想的同时，随着中国抗日战争形势的发展和共产国际指示精神的变化，在一些方面也适时地调整了政策，提出了比较符合实际的新见解，对全党调整方针政策起到了一定的作用，如在统一战线，东北问题以及反对李立三“左”倾思想等方面阐述了一些可取的思想。     

社会政策理论研究综述

社会政策理论研究的成果可从社会政策的结果和过程两个方面概括,从社会政策结果的角度看,包括对社会政策的概念、学科地位、价值目标、与相关学科的关系、国外社会政策的经验等研究;从社会政策过程的角度看,包括对政治精英在社会政策制定中的主导作用、社会政策执行过程中的系统观点、正式规则与非正式规则、政策的评估模型等的研究。     

The “A” factor: Coming to terms with the question of legacy in South African education

This paper attempts to offer an alternative framework for assessing education delivery in South Africa. Its purpose is to develop an analytic approach for understanding education delivery in South Africa in the last 11 years and to use this framework to pose a set of strategic questions about how policy might be framed to deal with delivery. The paper begins with a quick review of the country's achievements and challenges in education and shows that a failure to produce a high quality education system remains the country's primary challenge. The broad approach that is taken is to suggest that dominant approaches for understanding this lack of performance underplay the specificity of the country's context and specifically so its apartheid legacy. This legacy, it is argued, continues to be determinative in shaping, and accounting for the character of current social behaviour in the country, including the performance of children in schools.