以人为本--中小学校长推行新课程的策略

中小学当前推行的新课程正在引起基础教育领域的一系列革命。在这场革命浪潮面前，作为中小学决策者的校长，如何引发广大师生生命激情与智慧的进发，推动素质教育高水平的实施，确实关系着这场革命的成败。本文试从基础教育学校管理的层面分析，认为中小学校长推行新课程的策略应该是：以人为本，依靠教师，支持教师建功立业，关注学生，帮助学生搭建成功的舞台，促进人(学生和教师)的全面发展。     

构建和谐社会公共政策之应然价值取向

党的十六届四中全会明确提出构建社会主义和谐社会。和谐社会的基本特征表现在五个方面:政治民主、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然的和谐相处。在当前的形势下构建社会主义和谐社会自然成为全社会的奋斗目标,而作为实现党在新时期执政理念的手段,公共政策的制定理应体现这一趋向,遂相应地被赋予某些价值的特征和取向。本文主要是讨论新形势下构建和谐社会中公共政策的应然价值取向,旨在为构建和谐社会中公共政策的发展提供一个理论导向。     

鞍山市足球产业发展政策体系的构建

运用文献资料法、专家访谈法等对鞍山市足球产业发展政策进行了研究。鞍山市在制定足球产业发展政策时应遵循坚持服务群众、坚持产业发展远景规划和坚持批判性借鉴成功经验的基本原则。建立足球产业后备人才培养政策、完善市场调节政策、制定宽松合理的税费价格政策、优化足球产业组织政策和调整足球产业结构政策是构建足球产业发展政策体系的基本内容。     

关于高职院校定位的思考

高职院校是职业教育与普通高等教育衔接的关键环节，它的发展使传统的职业教育在其上端重新归入国民教育体系，既完善了职业教育本身，也完善了国民教育体系。作为过渡性教育，高职院校既要有技能培养优势，又不能忽视个人的可持续发展，教育教学实施比普通高等教育更为复杂，教育教学模式创新十分迫切。     

湖南"双师型"教师队伍建设的问题与对策

制度建设不完善，来源渠道单一，竞争激励机制与培训机制不健全是当前湖南省职业院校“双师型”教师建设的主要问题。建议制定“双师型”师资建设整体规划，构建相关资格认证体系，并从编制政策、来源渠道、培训体系、评审标准等角度进一步完善“双师型”教师培训保障体系。     

Objectivity as standardization in data-scientific education policy,technology and governance

ABSTRACT

New data-driven technologies appear to promise a new era of accuracy and objectivity in scientifically-informed educational policy and governance. The data-scientific objectivity sought by education policy, however, is the result of practices of standardization and quantification deployed to settle controversies about the definition and measurement of human qualities by rendering them as categories and numbers. Focusing on the emerging policy agenda of ‘social and emotional learning and skills,’ this paper examines the practices of ‘objectivity-making’ underpinning this new field. Objectivity-making depends on three translations of (1) scientific expertise into standardized and enumerable definitions, (2) standardization into measurement technologies, and (3) the data produced through measurement technologies into objective policy-relevant knowledge, which consolidates a market in SEL technologies. The paper sheds light on knowledge-making practices in the era of big data and policy science, and their enduring reliance on the precarious construction of objectivity as a key legitimator of policy-relevant scientific knowledge and ‘evidence-based’ education governance.     

毛泽东、邓小平、江泽民三代领导人关于我国教育方针的哲学理念探析

新中国成立以来，我国的教育方针是在毛泽东、邓小平、江泽民三代领导人亲自关心领导下提出、确立、发展和不断完善的。同时，三代领导人对教育方针的理念都有各自新的创意和不同的哲学思考。     

Enacting Informal Science Learning: Exploring the Battle for Informal Learning

Informal Science Learning (ISL) is a policy narrative of interest in the United Kingdom and abroad. This paper explores how a group of English secondary school science teachers, enacted ISL science clubs through employing the Periodic Table of Videos. It examines how these teachers ‘battled’ to enact ISL policy in performative conditions at the micro-scale, and how this battle reflected macro-scale epistemological and political considerations. Data from the study suggests that for some, ISL was low stakes as it was seen to have negligible impact upon performance data. As a result, there was some resistance towards enacting ISL and conflict between the formal and informal curriculum processes. Nonetheless, analysis indicates that the informants highly valued ISL despite the requirement for them to justify it over more formal and ‘effective’ approaches to learning science.     

The scholarship of teaching: A comparison of conceptions held by experts and regular academic staff

Over the past decade the scholarship ofteaching has received considerable attention inthe higher education literature as a reactionto the widely cited Carnegie Foundation'sreport ``Scholarship Reconsidered'; however, theconcept has remained devoid of a unifieddefinition. A recent Delphi study conductedwith a selective group of scholars whoseexpertise lies in the area of universityteaching and learning indicated the extent towhich these ``experts' agreed with each other onimportant features and unresolved issues theyassociate with the scholarship of teaching. Building on the results of the Delphi study,the present article discusses the results of asecond survey comparing these ``experts' 'conceptions with those of a larger group ofscholars whose expertise lies in a differentacademic field (``regular academic staff'), inorder to identify the similarities anddifferences in the conceptions of thescholarship of teaching held by each of the twogroups. While regular academic staff werefound to associate the scholarship of teachingmore with good or effectiveteaching ``experts' pointed to notions such aspeer review and scholarly standards. Thediscussion of the results focuses on the notionof consensus reached within and betweenthe two groups. It is argued that in order topromote changes in policy with respect to whatis to count as scholarship, identifying andreporting ``experts' ' conceptions, thoughclearly necessary for promoting moreenlightened discussions on the issue, willremain insufficient. Policy change in academeis more likely to ensue as a result of thewider academic community reaching consensus onthe meaning, and nature, of the scholarship ofteaching. The wider academic community includes``experts', as well as colleagues in departmentsand disciplinary associations. The articleconcludes by exploring the notion of consensusthrough the lens of critical social theory.     

Sex Education Legislation and HPV Vaccination Rates among Adolescents in the United States

Abstract

This study sought to determine if human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates are associated with teaching requirements for abstinence in state sex education laws and policies. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted assessing the association between abstinence education legislation and HPV vaccination rates in adolescents (aged 13–17?years). After adjustment for insurance coverage and household income, the level of abstinence education was not significantly associated with vaccination rates. However, a higher percentage of individuals uninsured was significantly and negatively associated with the vaccination rate. This suggests that HPV vaccination rates are associated with insurance coverage, but not with the degree to which sex education laws or policies emphasize abstinence.