中国青年干部院校发展之探索

顺应时代需求而诞生的中国青年干部院校,在深化教育改革的今天遇到了严峻的考验,面对实力雄厚的普通高校以及民办院校、国外教育机构的挑战,青年干部院校必须既要看到自己的弱点,更要认识自己的优势,应探索出一条适合青年干部院校的生存和发展的道路。     

用科学发展观指导学校思想道德教育工作

用科学发展观指导学校的思想道德教育工作、实现学生思想道德教育的“他律”与“自律”的辩证统一,是新时期学校思想道德教育、工作创新的重要内容。     

Women Law Professors – Negotiating and Transcending Gender Identities at Work

This paper reports a research project on womenlaw professors in the U.K. Despite theirsimilar social and educational backgrounds,successful women legal academics disclosemarked differences in their perceptions of theinfluence of gender on their work identities.Many emphasise the caring and pastoral rolesthey adopt, or are expected to adopt.Organisational cultures also emerge as asignificant factor in determining the genderexperiences of women law professors. The fewwith experience as head of school downplay thesignificance of gender while simultaneouslyacknowledging the influence of genderconstructions and expectations.     

墨学的文化特色和当代文化价值

诸子文化中墨学之为“显学”,必有过于和异于诸学之处。文章从文化视角探讨了墨学的主要特色,即“爱无差等的平民性质”、“独树一帜的科学精神”和“非攻备御的军事思想”、“折服古今的人格魅力”;并阐述了墨学“追求平等”、“主张互利”、“重视自然”、“崇尚创新”、“向往和平”等思想的当代价值。     

论依法治校的内涵和途径

我国的教育改革与发展已进入到前所未有的攻坚阶段 ,学校作为最基本的教育主体担负着教育发展的重任 ,学校能否发挥应有的作用 ,很大程度上取决于学校的管理理念和方略。各级各类学校的管理者 ,必须确立依法治校的办学思路和治校方略 ,把学校管理纳入科学化、规范化、法制化轨道     

PEOPLE & POINTS

正MILITARY LEADER ExPELLEDXu Caihou,former Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission,was expelled from the Communist Party of China(CPC)following a three-and-a-half month investigation,the Party’s Central Committee announced on June 30,one day before the     

PEOPLE & POINTS

正E-CommErCE PIoNEEr GoES GlobAl Ma yun(better known as Jack Ma),Chairman of the Board and co-founder of Alibaba Group,has vowed to make his e-business company known to the world with its initial public offering on the New york Stock Exchange."Today,15 years have passed,and we’ve grown so significantly and have become a household name in China,"Ma said in a promotional     

The Performance of Nursery Schools in Italian Municipalities

In a neo-liberal approach, the need to increase levels of cost saving, effectiveness, and quality in producing local public services is correlated to awareness of the limited resources available and is an economic issue that has been much debated in recent decades. Ways of measuring and evaluating public services have stimulated academic interest for several years now. In this context, evaluating the levels of performance of public services provided by non-profit organizations (NPOs) as a consequence of contracting-out by public administration is an essential variable in rationalizing—both in terms of quantity and quality—public expenditure.

The aim of this article is to measure multi-dimensional aspects of nursery school services offered by Italian municipalities and to verify whether using different management models makes a difference in the results obtained. We examine data contained in final accounts of main Italian municipalities in order to evaluate effectiveness, cost saving, and quality aspects of the nursery school service supplied.

Regarding overall performance, the distinction between direct management and contracting-out has not brought out significant differences in terms of effectiveness and cost saving, even if the direct management solution is better than the externalized one. By contrast, as previous research showed, quality levels for externalized services are on average lower than for directly managed services.     

Searching for Certainty: Rugby and Male Identity in a Former Model C School

This essay investigates the significance of rugby in a former “Model C” high school in South Africa. It examines the ideological and practical connections between rugby and disciplinary practices in this school under apartheid, and it traces those connections to the present day. By doing so, it argues that rugby owes much of its contemporary importance in such schools to the fact that parents, teachers, and coaches can watch as boys respond to the sport’s combination of immediacy and violence. In an era of desegregation and changing educational regulations, rugby’s structural dependence on immediacy and violence allows the sport’s disciplinary potential to remain tantalizingly stable and definitive. Recent concerns about “the scourge of steroids” in school rugby and schoolboys “playing for professional scouts rather than for their school,” however, present new threats to rugby’s apparent stability. These concerns are not random. Rather, they are born of a specific combination of the agentive decisions of schoolboys, the intense importance that adults place on rugby, and the economic and social contradictions that sustain former “Model C” schools. As such, this essay argues that the performance of schoolboy rugby produces an unexpected result in post-apartheid era: the greater the sport’s importance in these schools, and the more parents, teachers, and administrators depend on rugby for displays of discipline and certainty, the starker and more troubling the social contradictions within these schools could become.     

Law Enforcement Officers in Schools: An Analysis of Ethical Issues

The use of law enforcement officers in American schools has rapidly expanded since its inception in the 1950s. This growth can in part be attributed to the Safe Schools Act of 1994, the establishment of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, and tragic events that have occurred in our nation's schools. Law enforcement officers in the school environment traditionally have primary roles of protection and enforcement, although many have ancillary roles of educating and mentoring students. However, the use of police in schools has also been associated with the formalization of student discipline and the criminalization of minor misconduct. Specifically, an increase in the number of officers in schools has mirrored an increase in the number of arrests and citations for relatively minor offenses. We argue that officers' socialization and training create role conflict in that the duty to enforce the law competes with other duties to mentor and nurture students. We present several hypothetical dilemmas and then illustrate how the “right thing to do” is determined by the perceived duties of the school safety officer. We conclude by presenting some modest suggestions on how to address the potential role conflict experienced by law enforcement officers working in schools.