Gender and the academic profession in contemporary Tajikistan: challenges and opportunities expressed by women who remain

This article attempts to describe the deleterious impact of higher educational changes affecting female faculty members working in Tajik universities in the post-Soviet era. Over the past two decades, the social and economic position women gained during Soviet times has significantly eroded, bringing enormous challenges to education and higher education access, completion and staffing. The demographic and cultural marginalization of women here has negatively impacted university teaching opportunities and the status of women faculty members. Ethnographic interviews – along with relevant secondary data – reveal that despite various official gender-equity policies announced by the state, female participation issues remain prominent in the university. Our interviewees also report continued difficulty entering higher faculty ranks and leadership positions in university. However, significant numbers of women are still to be found there, and they report a workable compromise between being professional educators and trying to navigate a local culture that is becoming more ‘traditional’.     

高职技能型人才培养模式新探

依据合肥通用职业技术学院的办学实践,提出了高等职业教育必须树立主动适应市场需求,培养高素质技能型人才的观念,并以此为指导,对具有高职特色的人才培养新模式进行了探索.     

对高等职业教育教学质量监控和评价体系的研究

高等职业教育作为高等教育的特殊类型,其教学质量监控和评价标准与其它教育类型有较大区别。由于高等职业教育在我国起步晚、发展时间短,在教学质量监控和评价方面存在一些问题;加强对高等职业教育教学质量监控和评价的原则、实施办法以及评价内容的研究,建设和完善符合高等职业教育需要的教学质量监控和评价体系,是高等职业教育健康发展的必要保证。     

"用工荒"与"就业难"并存形势下高职校企合作人才培养研究

＂用工荒＂与＂就业难＂同时存在的现象,其实质上是人才结构、产业结构的问题。高职校企合作是职业教育人才培养与经济社会发展需求相适应的重要途径。我国的高职校企合作大多是低水平、浅层次的,为此,应大力培育和发展行业协会,加快推进高职院校人才培养机制创新,建立健全政府主导、行业指导、企业参与的办学机制,促进校企合作制度化,建立起一个可持续发展的校企合作的良性循环机制。     

探析警务英语教学中学员自主学习能力的培养

培养学生的自主学习能力是现代外语教学倡导的一个科学理念,也是高等职业教育中一个很重要的方面。教师在警务英语教学中要积极地介入学生自主学习能力的培养过程,通过分层教学增强学生自主学习的意识,改变教学方法提高学生自主学习的兴趣,在"教、学、做"一体化的教学训练中创建自主学习的氛围,借助现代化教学技术和"校局联动"机制搭建学生自主学习的平台,多角度、多途径培养学生自主学习的能力,为警察的职业能力发展和终身学习打下良好的基础。     

African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Human Rights: Implications for Higher Education,Based on the South African Experience

ABSTRACT

Africa has rich traditions and knowledge systems founded on the principles of caring for one another and the spirit of mutual support embedded in the African philosophy of Ubuntu. These collective values tend to be marginalised in international human rights standards built on western values. The standards were developed without broad-based consultation of the different value systems in Africa. Therefore, in order to inspire sustainable implementation among diverse cultures, dialogue to develop universal human rights and obligations based on the diversity of cultures and ways of knowing is needed. Using South Africa's experience at two universities, the extent to which these institutions have attempted to incorporate African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) and human rights into the higher education curriculum is investigated. The implications for higher education and the human rights and development paradigms built on western knowledge systems are investigated. North-West University has been the pioneer of integrating AIKS into higher education in South Africa and is the only higher education institution in South Africa with an accredited IKS Teaching Programme at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels – which has been notably successful, albeit with some challenges. AIKS has also been integrated into research and teaching at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has registered significant successes since 2012. The need to embed AIKS in the curriculum of higher education institutions is affirmed.     

The American University in Bulgaria and U.S. Agency for International Development Relationship

Abstract

Upon recognizing a need for a center of western oriented university education, an initiative committee including representatives from the Republic of Bulgaria, the city of Blagoevgrad, and the University of Maine obtained support from philanthropist George Soros's Open Society Institute and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to start a university in Bulgaria in 1991. The hallmark of its existence was that its programs would be oriented toward teaching democratic values through the American liberal arts tradition. Instruction would be in English so it could draw on students throughout the region if they were proficient in English. The university has grown from a small enrollment of 208 students to over 700 students in several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. As the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) has become a regional institution, the AUBG–USAID relationship has been crucial. Now it is beginning to offer an EMBA program and has developed an excellent reputation through its graduated students.     

贵州民族地区农村中小学数学教师专业化发展对策研究

本文应用调查法、访谈法、文献法等研究方法,对贵州民族地区农村中小学数学教师专业发展进行了调查研究。在深入调查现状的基础上,制定出符合该地区实际的对策:高等院校的引领;开展校本研究;充分发挥数学教研组在的作用;养成质疑反思的习惯;加大对教师的队伍建设和考核力度;发展民族地区农村现代远程教育等。     

职业学校数学教学中的人文教育

如何在专业教育中灌输数学人文教育,如何将二者有机结合在一起,使得所培养的学生不仅是专业方面的"科学人才",也是更宽泛意义上的"文化人才",是数学教师的一项基本工作。对此,本文从三个不同的层次和角度,提出一些建议。     

数学教育多学科融合的思考——陈建功教育思想对当代数学教育的启迪

如今大学数学教育分科教学和脱离实际的现状在一定程度上是学生丧失学习兴趣、学习效率低下、分析问题与解决问题能力较差的原因。本文受陈建功先生的教育思想的启迪,分析了高等院校数学教育的原则和目的,我们认为现在的教育模式在一定程度上违背了数学教育的原则,削弱了数学的工具作用。虽然综合数学的教学模式相对分科教学具有很大的优势,然而由于现在对综合数学教育模式缺乏系统的教育体系和切实可行的教育手段,当前在高等院校实行综合数学的教学模式有一定的困难。本文提出了在教学中"渐进融合各科数学知识"的教学形式:在不改变当前教学模式的前提下,随着学生对各门数学知识的学习,任课教师应该有目的的加强所授课程与学生已学课程之间的联系,有目的的在内容上突出数学的整体性和实践性,并指出了在教学中要做到"融合各科数学知识"需要注意的事项。这种教学形式不仅可以降低分科教学的不利影响,而且可以突出综合性教学对学生学习数学的积极作用。