Constructivist Pedagogy and How We Learn: Educational Psychology Meets International Studies

Constructivism and problem-based learning are two concepts that have recently been embraced by the educational community as teachers and professors are trained to meet the needs and demands of their students and the community at large. We discuss the assumptions and premises of constructivism and problem-based learning, and the findings of a study implementing these concepts with international relations as the content in a high-tech problem-based simulation called ICONS. The findings are discussed in terms of the constructivist problem-based learning model and the application to various content fields in education.     

在高校党建与思想政治教育结合中推进大学生党员先进性教育

在高校党建与思想政治教育结合中推进大学生党员先进性教育意义重大,它是当代大学生所肩负的历史使命的必然要求,是当代大学生健康成长的必然要求,是党和国家对当代大学生殷切期望的必然要求。在推进高校大学生党员先进性教育中,应充分发挥思想政治教育的主渠道作用;应提高发展党员的质量;应加强党员的实践锻炼。     

建设学习型政党的理论基础

马克思主义经典作家马克思、恩格斯和列宁关于重视理论学习的思想,是建设学习型政党的根本理论依据;以毛泽东为代表的中国共产党人,在继承经典作家相关思想的基础上所形成的一系列重视理论学习的思想,是建设学习型政党的重要理论基础;改革开放以来党的历届中央领导集体关于马克思主义理论学习的思想,是建设学习型政党的直接理论基础。     

中国共产党党建思想发展研究

建党90年来,党的历代领导核心都对党的建设进行了艰辛的探索,并形成宝贵的党建思想。这些思想既一脉相承又各有侧重,毛泽东在全面推进基础上突出思想建党,邓小平在解放思想基础上突出制度建党,江泽民在与时俱进基础上突出执政建党,胡锦涛在科学发展基础上强调学习建党,结合时代发展总结历代领导核心的党建重点思想对于总结党建规律具有极其重要的理论意义和现实意义。     

做好高校贫困生资助工作的思路

近几年,国家不断加大对高校贫困生的资助力度,构建了以国家助学贷款为主．以“奖、助、补、减”为辅的贫困生资助体系,也取得了很大成效。为进一步搞好这项工作,应把好贫困生资格认定关;完善现有贫困生资助体系,形成多层次、全方位的混合型资助体系;建立与完善贫困生资助工作监督体系;实施精神资助,践行高校育人功能;增强资助工作管理人员工作的主动性,加强管理队伍的职业道德建设。     

论学习型党校的素质强化与形象建构——学习《关于推进学习型党组织建设的意见》的若干思考

地方党校建设应该以中共中央颁布的《关于推进学习型党组织建设的意见》和《中国共产党党校工作条例》为契机,为党校的发展奠定坚实的基础,开辟广阔的空间。这是对地方党校发展的重大考验。要经受这场考验,就要在新的形势下通过加强学习,内强素质,外树形象,完善功能,提升作用,以有为求得有位。要按照《中国共产党党校工作条例》对党校所作的定位,把党校打造成合格的学习型党组织。我们要把握党校形象构建和素质强化的关系,实现学习型党校各种要素的高度统一。     

如何加强和改进高校党的基层组织建设

加强和改进党的基层组织建设要将坚持贯彻“三个代表”要求落实在行动中 ,抓好制度创新 ,建立党员教育、组织发展、作风建设等管理新机制 ,改进党的执政方式 ,发挥好党支部的战斗堡垒作用     

The Trade-Induced Learning Effect on Growth: Cross-Country Evidence

One of the important trade effects on growth is technology diffusion through learning by doing. Chuang [1998] proposed a trade-induced learning theory in which the nature of traded goods and the trading partners are two key factors determining the effectiveness of the trade-induced learning. The former conveys the characteristics that a country can learn; the latter determines the level of technology from which a country can learn. Using cross-country data, this article constructs a set of the trade-induced learning variables by taking into account trading partners and the characteristics of the traded goods and further tests the trade-induced learning hypothesis. The results show that holding other variables constant, trade-induced learning has a positive and significant effect on growth and the estimated effect implies that a one-standard-deviation increase in the trade-induced learning variable is estimated to generate an effect of between 0.4 to 1.0 percentage points on the annual growth rate. Robustness test shows that the trade-induced learning variable passes the extreme-bound analysis and also outperforms other conventional trade variables advocated in the literature.     

From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management

The education and training of international public managers is a powerful mechanism for policy learning and transfer. In a way similar to the globalization of MBA studies, which has contributed to the international diffusion of Western derived management concepts, a number of countries are investing in overseas training programs for their public servants to bring back international “know how” and good practice. Although this practice has been coterminous with the expansion of relatively easier and affordable international travel, policy learning activity in the area of administrative reform appears to have intensified.

Though largely undocumented, the UK has witnessed a sharp increase in the number of cohorts of Chinese civil servants arriving to enroll in short courses. Many of these courses are conducted outside the University system and are arranged and hosted by independent organizations. Despite this being a growth industry, the impacts are unclear and raise a number of questions, such as, what is being learned about UK public administration and how much of it is being transferred back to China? What is it about UK public administration that has particular appeal to China? Although training and development may have a multiple agenda, the assumption is that its primary purpose is to facilitate knowledge transfer. This article sets out to understand whether this recent trend constitutes an agent of international policy transfer between Britain and China. To do this, the article analyses the nature of policy learning from the UK within a cohort of senior Chinese public servants.     

浅谈新时期党员干部的学习观

在新的形势下，党员干部必须不断加强学习，“内强素质、外树形象”，树立科学的学习观，才能不断地从政治上得到成熟，从业务上得到提高。