Rupture and adaptation: British technical expertise to the Singapore Polytechnic and the transition to a nation-state

The Singapore Polytechnic underwent a period of both rupture and adaptation as British advisers worked with the post-colonial government to facilitate technical education reform and Singapore’s transition to a nation-state. Established in 1958 and based on the metropolitan model, the Singapore Polytechnic constituted an imperial project for orderly development and decolonisation. It encountered criticisms from nationalists for its colonial links and a brief period of conflict between the advisers and the post-colonial People’s Action Party (PAP) government, underlining colonial Singapore’s uneven transition to its post-colonial future. However, the PAP quickly repaired its relationship with the advisers to plan the next phase of the Polytechnic’s development into a technical university in the 1960s. Unlike many other cases, the history of the Singapore Polytechnic suggests that technical experts, while tied to political interests, did not always fail.     

线性分式规划的Frank-wolfe优化算法

线性分式规划在经济管理领域有着广泛的应用,但分式规划是非线性优化模型,相对复杂。利用Frank-wolfe优化方法,将带有线性约束条件的一类线性分式规划转化为线性规划,求得此类线性分式规划的局部最优解;同时给出了算法的步骤,讨论了收敛性定理;通过数值实验,发现该算法具有迭代次数少等优点。     

略论基础教育的特点及其意义

现实当中出现的大量分化现象和失衡现象表明,一些力量或因素似乎正在把基础教育变成另外的样子,而这使我们回到了一个基本问题上,即基础教育应该是怎样一种教育?本文简要论述了基础教育的基础性、全民性和全面性等主要特点,借以重述对该问题的看法。     

Implicit theories of creativity: a comparison of student‐teachers in Hong Kong and Singapore

This study attempts to uncover the beliefs regarding various aspects of creativity among trainee‐teachers in Hong Kong and Singapore. Trainee‐teachers from Hong Kong (N = 188) and Singapore (N = 127) completed a questionnaire on beliefs about creativity. The 30‐item questionnaire covering 15 aspects of beliefs regarding creativity was presented to the respondents as a set of six‐point Likert scales. Through factor analysis, creativity was found to have five dimensions: (1) physiology, (2) generality, (3) culture, (4) individuality and (5) youth. Hong Kong respondents were found to hold more rigid views of creativity than their Singaporean counterparts. In particular, Hong Kong respondents believed more strongly that creativity is dependent on birth order, effort, health, logical thinking and youth and that there is a critical period beyond which creativity may not develop.     

关于学习困难学生帮扶机制的思考

由于缺乏相应的运行和保障机制,导致大部分有学习困难的中小学生没有得到所需的帮助,从而对义务教育的公平、质量与效率产生了不利影响。因此必须从法律法规制定、教育资源配置、教师培训等方面健全学习困难学生的帮扶机制,使每个学生都能获得平等的发展权。     

Scientific Understanding,Control of the Environment and Science Education

The concerns of this paper are two-fold. First, the paper addresses the allegation made by the indigenous science movement that violence is evident in the control of nature because science is inherently violent. This charge, if not refuted, undermines the claim that science is neutral. Next, the article considers the shortcomings of a school science curriculum based on traditional social values of control.