教育价值取向的大众化及其思想流变——对敦煌蒙书中道德规范与思想的考察

本文通过对敦煌蒙书中道德规范与思想的考察,探讨了其大众化倾向的生成背景、思想的流变。在敦煌蒙书中,道德教育作为教育的一种内在的思想贯穿于整个教育之中,表现出极强的大众化的特质。日常社会生活作为道德的"基础事实"和道德教育的鲜活场景与道德"一体"存在于现实之中,并在这一过程中对当时的人们进行着道德规训和教化。     

A large-scale donor attempt to improve educational status of the poor and household income distribution: The experience of PEDC in Vietnam

In 2003, donors combined together in Vietnam to support the provision of quality primary schooling for 226 disadvantaged districts (about a third of the country). US$160 million was invested in infrastructure, materials and training across the 226 districts. The programme has been commended by donors and received good press inside Vietnam. Comparison of achievement surveys in 2001 and 2007 showed, however, that there had been a decline in performance in the targeted districts. This article explores various hypotheses as to how this could have happened; and in particular the increasing amounts spent by better-off households on their children's education.     

Social exclusion and inequality in higher education in China: A capability perspective

Following calls for further research in education inequality beyond input and output measures, especially with a qualitative approach, and building on the implications of capability deprivation on equality (0375 and 0380), we extend the findings of 0305, 0310, 0315 and 0320 capability approach to higher education (HE). This article employs social exclusion theory as the analytical framework to examine educational inequalities in China posed by the HE admission system in Post-Mao era. This paper is driven by certain key motivations and makes a significant contribution to the extant literature. Firstly, the paper seeks to outline a usable definition of social exclusion in the context of HE enrolment. Following this, 0305, 0310, 0315 and 0320 capability approach is adopted for the first time as a theoretical construct to examine the situation facing HE in China. Sen's approach facilitates an appraisal of the process of exclusion in HE enrolment. The importance of the capability approach is that it allows one to recognize different needs and choices confronting different social groups by distinguishing between different types of social exclusion in this area. Finally, this information is used to evaluate responses which are available to the existing issues within the current Chinese HE enrolment mechanism i.e. that the mechanism is fundamentally flawed and risks reducing, rather than enhancing, capability by excluding certain groups of students from fair competition in terms of access.     

Social justice,capabilities and the quality of education in low income countries

The paper sets out a theoretical approach for understanding the quality of education in low income countries from a social justice perspective. The paper outlines and critiques the two dominant approaches that currently frame the debate about education quality, namely, the human capital and human rights approaches. Drawing principally on the ideas of Nancy Fraser and Amyarta Sen the paper then sets out an alternative approach based on a theory of social justice and of capabilities. The paper develops an overall understanding of how education quality can be understood in relation to the extent to which it fosters key capabilities that individuals, communities and society in general have reason to value. It then analyses three inter-related dimensions of the quality of education from a social justice perspective. Each dimension is considered in relation to contemporary policy debates and research including the work of EdQual. The first dimension, that of inclusion draws attention to the access of different groups of learners to quality inputs that facilitate the development of their capabilities, the cultural and institutional barriers that impact on the learning of different groups and priorities for overcoming these. The second dimension, that of relevance, is concerned with the extent to which the outcomes of education are meaningful for all learners, valued by their communities and consistent with national development priorities in a changing global context, whilst the third dimension, that of democracy considers how decisions about education quality are governed and the nature of participation in debates at the local, national and global levels. It is argued that a social justice framework can provide an alternative rationale for a policy emphasis on quality that encompasses but goes beyond that provided by human capital and rights approaches; that through emphasising the importance of context and through providing a normative basis for thinking about quality in relation to development, it provides a useful starting point for re-conceptualising education quality and how it can be evaluated; and, that it draws attention to the central importance of public dialogue and debate at the local, national and global levels about the nature of a quality education and quality frameworks at these levels.     

How home gets to school: Parental control strategies predict children's school readiness

At-risk families’ control style (autonomy support and coercive control) was examined in relation to children's school readiness; children's social skills and mastery motivation were hypothesized mediating variables. In two different, low-income samples from diverse ethnic backgrounds, one preschool sample recruited from Head Start (N = 199) and a school transition sample composed of children entering elementary school (N = 344), parental control styles were related to children's academic readiness modestly but significantly in the preschool sample and weakly in the school transition sample. Children's social skills and mastery motivation skills (persistence and goal orientation) were significantly related to the academic measures of school readiness, and fully mediated the association between parents’ use of coercive behavioral control and academic readiness. Such mediation could not be tested for parental support of children's autonomy. The results indicate that a developmental cascade exists between parental control strategies and academic indices of school readiness, emphasizing the importance of family context models of school readiness. Furthermore, strong correlations between the domains of school readiness were found in both samples, reinforcing calls for a multidimensional approach to supporting school readiness in early childhood education programs.     

地理教材编写感悟

中小学地理教材的研究和编写工作是一项意义深远的伟大事业。可以说,人教版地理教材50年(1950~2000年)的建设史,就是新中国基础教育地理教材前50年的建设史。在这一探索和实践的过程中,作为教材的编写者有一些心得和感悟,主要包括以下四个方面。(1)中小学地理教材的编写工作,始终在国家的各种方针、政策,以及教育行政部门制定的课程计划和教学大纲的框架下进行。为国家教育培养目标服务,体现国家意志是基础教育教材特有的性质。(2)教材编写是建立在研究基础上的。研究团队的建设是教材编写的组织保证;地理科学和地理教学的理论和实践是我们编写教材的两个重要支撑。(3)教材编写是一个不断探索和完善的过程,注重实践,坚持学习是保证教材质量的关键。(4)教材编写是一个极具挑战的研究课题,每一版教材都是其中的一个阶段性成果,而这项课题的研究也将永远持续下去。     

日本新修订高中学习指导要领与理科课程的新变化

2009年3月日本文部科学省公布新修订《高中学习指导要领》,高中阶段的理科课程设置结构、课程类型、修业方式均出现了新的变化,不仅新设了科学与人类生活和理科课题研究两门综合性的课程,而且物理、化学、生物、地学各科课程的目标、内容构成以及学习方式也在新课程理念的影响下发生了新的变化。     

略论西南联大对中国经济学发展的两大贡献

国立西南联合大学被誉为中国近代教育史上的奇迹,其第一大学院法商学院对中国近代经济学的发展做出了不可磨灭的贡献。他们一方面培养了大批的经济学人才,使经济学薪火与联大精神一起得以传承,另一方面则促进了中国近代经济学学术水平的提高,持续影响着中国经济学学术发展的路向。     

萧萐父先生与近代蜀学

所谓近代蜀学,是指廖平及受他影响的蜀中学人之文化共同体,在清末至民国之文化转型期,对中西文明所作的深刻反思之学,以蒙文通、刘咸炘、唐君毅等为代表。萧萐父先生通过其父萧仲仑先生深受近代蜀学的影响。近代蜀学具有中西文化相资互补之属性,其特色在于:传统学术的根底厚实,特别是深通经史之学,而又堂庑宽广、心态开放、兼容并包、不囿成法,在表达上颇具诗性特质,做到哲诗互济,在人格上追求完美,仁智双彰。百多年来,学界多以欧洲文明作为唯一判准评论中华文明,有很多不相应的方面,亟需重识重估。中华文明源头孕育之中华各民族历史上的诸多属性仍未被我们所认识。萧先生的近代蜀学研究,启发我们发掘中华文明及其进程的独特性,不可本末倒置,丢掉中华文明之根。     

The contributions of Bernstein’s sociology to education development research

Global and national agendas to improve the ‘quality’ of Education For All have brought focus to pedagogic processes in developing country contexts. How can development research pay attention to the social and political significance of pedagogical projects and understand the micro-processes of classroom reform? This paper considers how Basil Bernstein’s sociological theories helped develop a nuanced account of pedagogic reform in a study of Indian primary education. I explore how the analysis encouraged by Bernstein’s concepts of recontextualisation and educational codes may contribute to current thinking on the role and significance of pedagogy in development research and evaluation activities. The paper also raises caution about the selectiveness and limits of efforts to capture, identify, measure or assess pedagogic processes and change. A Bernsteinian research approach is not immune from producing the kinds of reductionist accounts of pedagogy of which the analysis is wary.