我国理工科院校文科生的就业之困与解决之道

近年来,随着我国高校扩招政策的持续,一方面,它满足了我国社会经济突飞猛进发展态势下对人才的需求;另一方面,它加剧了我国就业市场上大学生就业的竞争。高校毕业生就业形势出现严重分化现象:理科生优于文科生,综合类院校文科生优于理工类院校文科生。文章将结合当前就业总体形势,从理工类院校文科生的教育培养模式入手,着重分析当前理工类院校文科生就业困境之原因,并从专业定位、课程设置、就业指导和学生自身综合素质培养等方面提出建议,期望能够对理工类院校文科生就业起到促进作用。     

浅谈青少年科学素养教育的外部环境构筑

青少年科学素养教育的重要性已无须争议。随着社会的不断发展,环境影响科学素养教育也日趋明显,如何构筑良好的外部环境迫在眉睫。本文认为要用爱心、借助科学、强化法制建设来为青少年科学素养教育构建良好的外部环境。     

武汉：“清风”温武纪宣活动形成品牌效应

近年来，湖北省武汉市纪委开展了以“清风”为品牌的系列廉政文化教育活动，在广大党员干部和人民群众中引起了热烈反响，得到了社会各界的好评。     

浅析大学英语教育中的文化教学

语言教学离不开文化教育,本文通过对在大学英语教学过程中进行文化教育的必要性、内容及方法的论述,阐述了文化教育在提高大学生语言实际运用和交际能力等方面的重要意义。     

中国公众科学素养调查结果公布 每千个中国人仅14个达标

１０月２３日，中国科协对外公布了２００１年中国公众科学素养调查的结果：２００１年中国公众具备基本科学素养的比例为１．４％，即每千人里有１４人具备了基本科学素养。这一数字比５年前的调查结果提高了１．２个百分点。 调查显示，男性具备基本科学素养的比例为１．７％，女性的比例为０．９８％。我国公众利用科普设施获得科学技术信息的比例较低。在过去的一年内，没有参观过科技馆和自然、历史博物馆的公众达８５．９％。我国公众认为应该优先发展的科学技术领域依次为：“农业与食品技术”、“人口健康与环境保护”和“国防科学…     

科技是监狱进步的重要支撑

随着社会的进步,监狱需要更多的科技知识。科技的贡献不可或缺,它将使改造工作更趋科学、文明,效益突出、成本降低。当前监狱亟等引进监管建筑、心理学技术、监管医学及电子监控成本。     

廉石精神与文化张力

近年来，江苏省苏州市围绕“廉石”开展了一系列生动有效的廉政文化教育活动，近日“廉石”又被国家工商总局注册为廉政宣传教育商标。目前，在历史悠久的吴文化中，“廉石文化”已经呈现出迷人的品牌效应。     

盗窃珍贵文物犯罪宜纳入妨害文物管理罪章节

刑法第二百六十四条将盗窃珍贵文物“情节严重”的行为作为盗窃犯罪进行了规定,笔者认为不妥,应将盗窃珍贵文物犯罪纳入妨害文物管理罪章节。其理由是:一、盗窃珍贵文物犯罪侵害的主要客体是国家对文物的管理秩序。珍贵文物对国家具有重要的科学、历史、艺术价值,是国家开展科学研究、进行历史文化教育、爱国主义教育的宝贵财富。因此,文物不同于一般的财物,《中华人民共和国文物保护法》对受     

科学兴趣多与少——X市公众科学素养报告分析

通过对2006年X市公众科学素养的调查,分别从性别、年龄、文化程度、收看科技信息的次数等方面就公众对科学技术信息感兴趣的程度作了群体性差异分析。为进一步提高公众对科学的兴趣提供若干参考意见。     

试论劳教所文化教育模式的建立与完善

新的劳动教养管理模式要求有相应的文化教育模式,文化教育模式的建立与完善是在明确教育目标的前提下体现在文化教育实践中。文化教育模式的建立与完善需要在观念、制度和物质上得到保障。     

新高职英语教学刍议

我国高等职业技术教育是高等教育发展的一项重大举措 ,是一种新的教育类型。新高职的教学更注重基础知识与基础理论教育 ,突出职业能力和技能训练的培养。本文针对高职学生的特点 ,在英语教学中以听说、词汇、阅读理解能力等为主要内容 ,坚持以学生为中心的原则 ,提出一些行之有效的教学方法 ,从而提高学生对语言知识与技能运用的能力。     

The Public University's Performance in State Arts Policy: Lessons from Virginia

This article investigates the extent to which public higher education institutions participate in state-level arts policy through a history of selected budgets and a textual analysis of performing arts presenting centers at public higher education institutions in Virginia. Evidence from this research suggests that the arts policy field is altered by the emergence of public higher education institutions as policy actors. The findings have financial and decision-making implications for arts policy makers, university administrators, and arts agencies as the participation of public higher education institutions affords new opportunities and challenges for the state encouragement of the arts.     

Public Higher Education Institutions' Investment in Performing Arts Centers

Although commonplace in academic settings, performing arts centers are multifaceted and remain unexplored. Framed by resource dependency theory, this research sheds light on the motivations of higher education institutions in a resource-scarce environment. Specifically, why do these institutions—with limited resources—prioritize the co-curricular arts? This study employs process research to understand the origination, funding sources, and purposes of performing arts centers at higher education institutions in Virginia. Evidence suggests that these institutions invest in the co-curricular arts to not only fulfill their public service missions, but also to capitalize on and acquire resources.     

Nonprofit Cultural Alliances: Initiatory Qualitative and Empirical Examinations of an Emergent U.S. Phenomenon

This study examines the recent spontaneous emergence of nonprofit cultural alliance organizations in the U.S. Cultural alliances are community-based associations, formed by arts/cultural organization members, which provide member interaction, collaboration, networking, resource sharing, and professional education opportunities. This research accomplishes three objectives: (1) generation of a body of knowledge about cultural alliances, (2) development of a cultural alliance member satisfaction model, and (3) quantitative analysis of member survey data to assess services provided, service quality, and member satisfaction. The results indicate that the survey instrument is an important assessment tool for use by association boards of directors and executive directors.     

Light and Darkness in the Pankisi Gorge

The resolution of the June (1963) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee emphasized the importance of training highly qualified personnel for the economy, science and culture, of shaping a Marxist-Leninist world view and communist consciousness in such persons, and of developing lofty qualities of citizenship. The progress that will be made by higher education, and especially the quality of the training it provides, will depend to a considerable degree upon the school faculties. It is precisely the teachers of the higher schools who are called upon, in their daily work, to equip the youth with scientific knowledge and scientific methods of research, to rouse in them a love and passion for constant self-improvement in their fields, and for creative inquiry. Only a teacher who himself works energetically and thinks creatively can teach. Lenin, in his letter to the students of the school on Capri pointed out that "all ‘curricula,’ ‘rules’ and the rest, are hollow words unless the teaching staff matches up to them." (1) Therefore, the Communist Party and the Soviet government, concerned with the advancement of the Soviet school in every possible way, give special attention to the training of research and teaching personnel and to the improvement of their scholarly qualifications.     

Higher education facing the challenges of the information age

It is claimed that traditional higher education has become obsolete. It was justified as long as knowledge was concentrated in the hands of a few experts and in not-easily accessed libraries. However today, the three pillars of higher education - the production of new knowledge, teaching, and the preservation of knowledge - can easily be and more efficiently replaced by electronic means. One can learn whatever and wherever one wants. This can make the diffusion of knowledge far more affordable, more democratic, and less elitist. However, there are a number of social, psychological and societal factors that need to be taken into consideration, serving as counter-forces to the rush to provide electronic replacements to higher education. These factors cast strong doubts on the true value and efficacy of virtual higher education. The solution may lie neither in the wholesale abolishment of institutions of higher education nor in ignoring the opportunities afforded by novel information technologies, but rather in pursuing differentiation between virtual universities and regular ones such that each will excel in its own way. Similarly, we will have to think of differentiation within our institutions so that we come to harvest the new technological opportunities to improve existing higher education. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Teaching Arts Management: Where Did We Lose the Core Ideas?

In light of the need to start clearing the methodological confusion in the field of arts management, this article provides a critical overview of the teaching curricula in the field. Distinction is made between programs that copy directly from business management; programs that focus on the technological process of producing an artwork (usually run by practitioners); those that interlink cultural management and cultural policy (highlighting the role of public governance as a higher principle); and programs that focus on an entrepreneurial approach to arts management, connecting it to issues of creativity and innovation. The author calls for clear goals to educate administrators and arts or cultural managers. The suggestion is made to follow what I call the Janus syndrome: looking toward managerial and economic realities but primarily focusing on the arts—the aesthetic and the social aspects of the field. A question is raised about the position of art in arts management curricula, as well as the organization of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the field.     

Professionalizing Arts Management in Healthcare Facilities

An urgent need exists for trained specialists to manage organizational policies and practices involving arts programs and activities in healthcare facilities. This article introduces the field of arts in health and argues for what is currently needed within the academic and professional field of arts management to advance this emerging arena of arts management theory and practice. The authors integrate key references from existing scholarship alongside additional survey data to offer recommendations for developing professional management of the arts in healthcare facilities like hospitals, hospices, and long-term care centers. The article provides an overview of the responsibilities of arts managers in healthcare institutions, as well as insight into the knowledge, competencies, and skills that arts managers require to effectively work in these settings. The article concludes with articulating a conceptual framework for a long-term research trajectory to inform further advancement of this distinct sub-field of arts management.     

Can Audience Development Promote Social Diversity in German Public Arts Institutions?

Despite generous public funding, arts institutions in Germany are primarily serving a small, educated section of the German population. This article presents findings from arts participation surveys, research from an empirical study on “Intercultural Audience Development” in public theaters and museums, and an analysis of cultural policy debates to reveal the role of audience development in overcoming the social imbalance of audiences in German cultural institutions. Research findings suggest that traditional concepts of audience development do not lead to sustainable changes in the social structure of the audience. More substantial institutional changes are necessary, supported by new cultural policies.     

The Synergies of Artistic and Entrepreneurial Action

Arts Entrepreneurship education as a field continues to grow, but misperceptions of entrepreneurship seem to cause confusion among arts students, faculty, and administrators regarding the value of entrepreneurial training to higher education arts programs. These misperceptions are explored to determine if entrepreneurship, for artists, is harmful or helpful. By articulating the theoretical essence of entrepreneurship, it is suggested that entrepreneurial action is profoundly synergetic with artistic action and purpose, and that arts faculty and administrators can embrace entrepreneurship education and its value to aspiring professional artists.