Calculating the power of alternative choices by school leaders for improving student achievement

This paper addresses a wicked problem faced by leaders wanting to be evidence informed in their choices of school improvement priorities and the most productive leadership practices to enact in pursuing those priorities. While local contexts will always be central to these choices, results of research ought to provide useful points of departure. But determining what relevant evidence recommends, local context aside, is far more difficult that the admonition to be ‘evidence informed’ seems to imply and the research community has offered few systematic solutions to the problem. This paper offers one possible solution, the calculation of ‘Power Indices’ using, for the purposes of illustration, evidence about the effects of a selected set of potential school improvement priorities (teachers’ emotions) on student learning, in combination with evidence about the effects on teacher emotions of a selected set of transformational leadership practices. Results argue for the value of a unique line of future research enabling school leaders to make choices about both school improvement priorities and how they might best pursue those priorities that systematically reflect the results of relevant evidence.     

毛泽东、邓小平领导思想比较研究

邓小平同志长期跟随毛泽东领导中国革命和社会主义建设，并在20世纪80年代初成为党的第二代领导集体的核心，特殊的经历与环境，使他对毛泽东的成功和失误既有切身的感受，又有深刻的思考，继承和发展了毛泽东的领导思想，主要表现在领导本质、领导基本原则、领导方法、领导作风、领导的选才用人、领导制度等方面。     

赛义德后殖民理论对葛兰西文化领导权理论的借鉴和改造

赛义德的后殖民理论从三个方面借鉴了葛兰西的化领导权理论，即强调在化领域进行革命的重要性，把知识与权力联系在一起以及把革命重任寄托在知识分子身上；同时又在三个方面对葛兰西的化领导权理论进行了改造，即哲学上的反本质主义改造，立场上的折衷主义改造和化上的多元主义改造。     

美国大学“共治”的两难处境及发展趋势

大学"共治"是20世纪60年代以来指导美国大学内部权力分配的重要理念与实践原则,但近年来大学"共治"对不断产生的新问题的回应不力而受到各方的质疑与责难。对此,美国联邦政府、各州政府和大学采取了促进政府与大学融合、通过立法确定大学的多重使命、建立大学与州政府的伙伴关系、重视大学的市场性行为、组建大学生组织以扩大大学"共治"的参与面等应对措施。因此,美国大学"共治"呈现出以下趋势:政府管制逐渐弱化,形式更加多样,外部影响因素不断增加,教职参与性不断降低,参与人员各司其职等。     

Leadership identity in a small island developing state: the Jamaican context

While the role of leadership in improving schools is attracting more worldwide attention, there is a need for more research investigating leaders’ experiences in different national contexts. Using focus-group and semi-structured interview data, this paper explores the background, identities and experiences of a small group of Jamaican school leaders who were involved in a leadership development programme. By drawing on the concepts of culture, socialisation and identity, the paper examines how the participants’ journeys of becoming and being school leaders are influenced by national-level societal and cultural issues, experienced at a local level. The findings suggest that in becoming school leaders, the participants perceived that they had a strong sense of agency in attempting to change the social structures within the institutions they lead and in the surrounding local communities, which in turn, they hope, will have a lasting effect on the nation as a whole.     

共产国际与上海工人三次武装起义

共产国际在上海工人三次武装起义中曾产生过巨大的影响,其中的教条主义对中国的影响早在大革命时期就已经存在;独立自主的愿望在大革命实践中也已存在,但年幼的中国共产党尚无能力摆脱共产国际的错误影响,只有对中国革命进行科学的总结,将马克思主义与中国革命的实践相结合,才能使独立自主成为毛泽东思想活的灵魂。     

Parent question use during shared reading time: How does training affect question type and frequency?

This study was designed to examine whether participation in a shared reading workshop alters the frequency with which parents ask their children questions during book reading sessions, particularly questions designed to strengthen component reading skills that they may not have known about before training. Participants in the reading workshop series (N = 57) were taught strategies for asking questions about story content and word structure to build children's language and literacy skills. Findings suggest that parents may be somewhat familiar with traditional dialogic reading strategies focused on story content and utilize them without instruction, whereas parents may be less knowledgeable about sound or print‐focused skills and do not employ strategies focused on word structure until instructed to do so. It is also notable that parents do not use all story content prompts equally. This information can be used by school psychologists to refine the messages educators share with parents about how to best support their children's reading development.     

社会主义政治文明建设的依据与走向

建设社会主义政治文明 ,是全面建设小康社会的重要目标。发展社会主义民主政治 ,最根本的是要把坚持党的领导、人民当家作主和依法治国有机统一起来。党的领导是人民当家作主和依法治国的根本保证 ,人民当家作主是社会主义民主政治的本质要求 ,依法治国是党领导人民治理国家的基本方略     

论德育过程中师生能动作用的发挥

德育过程是形成思想道德主体的过程.在这一过程中,只有充分发挥教师在德育过程中的主导作用,调动学生的积极主动性,才能促进学生思想道德品质的形成和发展.     

党的第三代中央领导集体创先争优思想论析

以江泽民为核心的党的第三代中央领导集体,在全面推进党的建设新的伟大工程中,围绕＂建设一个什么样的党,怎样建设党＂这一重大理论课题,全面分析党面临世情、党情和国情的现实形势,进一步明确了新时期在全党范围内开展创先争优活动的重要性和紧迫性,在实践中丰富和发展了党的第一代中央领导集体和第二代中央领导集体的创先争优思想,形成了新时期创先争优的思想体系。