Parents of Traditionally Aged Community College Students: Communications and Choice

Five suburban community colleges in a metropolitan area collaborated on a survey to parents of high school graduates of the class of 2002 who attended the colleges in fall 2002. The study was undertaken to learn more about parents roles in their students selection of community colleges, to give insights and information about this important community college constituency, and to assist community colleges to shape more effective ways to foster positive and supportive opinions among parents of potential students. Parents want the community college to provide students with credits and grade point averages enabling transfer, overestimate their students academic skills as measured by course placement tests, engaged in a number of college-choice activities, and indicate that factors associated with lifestyle and money were major reasons for selecting the community college. Associations between parents social capital and perceptions of their students academic abilities were found for a number of dependent variables examined. The study also revealed important differences in how participating institutions record and calculate key measures such as credits earned and grade point averages.     

郴州市学校体育场地开放现状的调查研究

通过文献资料、问卷调查、座谈等研究方法,对郴州市11个县(市、区)的40所学校体育场地的开放情况进行调查,结果表明:学校体育场地设施在保证正常的教学前提下,课余时间向本校学生和周边广大居民开放,使之发挥更大的作用,从而可以缓解全民健身活动中体育场地设施不足的矛盾,促进学校体育和社会体育和谐发展.     

城市群发展与地方政府间关系模式

城市群是中国区域经济发展和城市发展的重要战略举措。现阶段城市群发展所面临的问题凸显中国地方政府间关系的不适应性。城市群发展需要重构地方政府间关系,其基础是确立地方政府间相互依赖与合作的伙伴关系,重点是形成一种新的地方府际管理模式,关键是创建地方政府间新的治理机制。     

宽容的深度--浅析西方后现代主义思潮对中国当代油画的影响

后现代主义思潮对中国当代油画产生了深刻的影响。对此我们应采取有原则的宽容态度,去粗取精,作出自觉而明智的选择。同时积极思考如何在中西文化碰撞中,弘扬本民族的文化理想和民族精神,创造出具有民族性、时代性、独特性的中国油画艺术。     

教师背景变量对山区农村教师身心健康的影响

课题组采用《中学教师自测健康评定量表》对307名不同化程度、不同婚姻状况、不同家庭住址的山区农村中学教师自测健康情况进行了比较分析：较高的化程度对教师的身心健康具有促进作用;婚姻状况是教师身心健康的一个不可忽视的因素;家住农村的中学教师健康状况存在较多问题。     

当代社区开展民族传统体育项目的研究

民族传统体育是休闲性的民俗游戏,很少有与古希腊大规模竞技相同和类似的成分,即使是竞技性较强的项目,也与“更高、更快、更强”的奥林匹克竞技导向格格不入。它极具生活情趣,以人为本,运动休闲,突出了丰富的娱乐内容,是社区体育取之不尽的素材。为推动社区体育的发展,以《全民健身计划纲要》为指导思想,结合工作实践经验,对民族传统体育与社区体育的发展进行研究探讨,提出发展对策和自己的看法。     

从综合实践活动课程的实施看教师学习共同体的成长

本文试从如今正在进行的新课程改革中,寻找一个视点即综合实践活动课程的实施中,存在的与教师有关的问题出发,结合新课程改革的精神和教师专业发展的要求,探索教师共同体的构建与成长过程,并提出了以若干教师共同体促进综合实践活动课程发展的新思路。     

美国教育领域“肯定性行动”为何要转向--兼论新时代的教育公平观

美国教育领域"肯定性行动"目标群体态度、价值观念与执行路线的新转向源于少数族裔与主流族裔、亚裔与教育机构以及教育机构与政府之间的相互博弈,其转向背后反映"个体平等"与"差异公平"理念的同时,体现了利益群体对新教育公平观的诉求。在我国新时代社会主要矛盾转向的当口,借鉴美国教育领域"肯定性行动"转向呈现的经验与教训,铸牢中华民族共同体意识、增进教育治理中的跨文化理解能力、以"公平而有质量的教育"为目标构建多样性治理模式,对有效优化教育公平结构和构筑我国新时代的教育公平理论具有重大意义。     

发挥电大优势为社区教育提供社会化服务

社区教育是终身教育的一部分。在我国构筑终身教育体系，创建学习化社会，应立足于社区。电大以自己的系统优势、设施优势和教育资源优势为社区教育提供全方位的支持服务，完全有能力参与和推动社区教育。在实现教育的大众化普及化，促进全民终身学习的同时电大又可以得到自身的发展。     

Roma women’s higher education participation: whose responsibility?

There are striking gaps between Roma and non-Roma higher education (HE) participation rates, with less than 1% of Roma possessing a tertiary-level qualification [United Nations Development Programme, World Bank and European Commission. 2011a. “The Situation of Roma in 11 EU Member States.” Accessed 3 April 2015. http://issuu.com/undp_in_europe_cis/docs/_roma_at_a_glance_web/1#download]. As the Decade of Roma Inclusion (2005–2015) closes, this renders the present a salient moment to reflect on Roma students’ HE experiences. Widening educational access for marginalised groups raises specific questions about where responsibility for doing so lies – with tensions between individualised articulations of raising aspiration and notions of collective responsibility framed in a social justice agenda. Drawing on interviews with five Roma women students, this paper unpacks the contradictions between desiring access to HE for individual self-betterment and concurrent pulls towards educating for the wider benefit of ‘improving’ Roma communities. Using Ahmed’s [2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press] work on institutional belonging, we explore the specifically gendered nature of these narratives in how ‘doubly’ marginalised bodies are positioned as outsiders, in receipt of an educational gift.