Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adopting Open Educational Resources in an Introductory American Government Course

In this article, we present findings from a grant-funded initiative to replace traditional, proprietary textbooks with an open content textbook under a Creative Commons license in the introductory American government course (POLS 1101) at Middle Georgia State University. We find that the use of an open content textbook led to somewhat negative effects on student learning outcomes and student course satisfaction, although the associated lower textbook cost increased textbook accessibility to students. We conclude with some suggestions to those adopting textbooks in this course and to the wider discipline regarding measures that may lead to more unequivocally positive outcomes than those experienced in this study.     

My Career as a Teacher and a Political Scientist: If I Knew Then What I Know Now

This article addresses my professional development as a teacher and political scientist throughout the span of a 15-year career in political science. Also included are reflections on graduate education and the compatibility and necessary dual focus on both political science and teaching in the academy today as it relates to my present-day professional position.     

‘A Sick,Weak, and Ignorant People’: Public Health Education and Prevention in Rural Colombia, 1930–1940

This article analyses Salud y Sanidad (Health and Sanitation), a government journal edited in 1930s Colombia. It examines the state's model of public health, which proposed education and prevention as strategies to guarantee the success of its programmes. It argues that despite the journal's more progressive approaches, editors and contributors reproduced stereotypes about Colombia's rural inhabitants that contradicted state rhetoric and showed the limits of public health models that do not address the underlying social inequities that drive the propagation of poverty and disease in rural areas, and that ultimately continued to blame victims for their illness and misfortune     

贯彻实事求是思想路线 全面加强公安队伍建设

实事求是的思想路线是我们党的根本思想路线 ,是毛泽东思想、邓小平理论的精髓 ,对公安队伍建设有着非常重要的作用。当前公安队伍建设中存在着很多违背实事求是思想路线的问题。对此 ,应通过狠抓公安机关的理论建设 ,加强公安队伍的政治建设、思想道德建设、素质建设、管理机制建设等措施加以解决。     

大学生思想教育的新特征

大学生思想道德教育工作在现阶段已出现与以往不同的特征 :更加突出理论性与思想性、系统性与综合性、适应性与超前性、全面性与民主性等。把握大学生的新情况、新特点 ,有助于建立新的大学生思想教育模式     

积极推进素质教育 促进学生全面发展

积极推进素质教育是高等学校贯彻落实第三次全国教育工作会议精神、实施科教兴国的实际行动。高校教育工作者必须提高认识,树立开放的索质教育观并着力做好确定本校素质教育的目标体系,构建新的人才培养模式,改革专业课程体系,强化创新精神和实践能力的培养,加强学生政治思想品德、科学文化、美学和身心健康教育等项重点工作。     

当前大学生恋爱中不良倾向的分析与思考

当前在大学生恋爱中存在的低龄化、休闲化、时尚化、体验化、实用化、“快餐化”和放纵化等不良倾向,对大学生的成长和成才构成了很大威胁。学校必须加强对大学生恋爱的教育、管理和指导。     

试论青少年思想政治教育

面对即将进入21世纪的国际国内经济、政治、文化发展的深刻背景,青少年思想政治教育已经处在关系国家和民族前途命运的地位上。理想信念教育是思想政治教育的核心内容,认识思想政治教育的内容特点,要从理想信念与思想政治教育的关系中认识;理想信念教育应包含信仰教育,对青少年来说,最现实、最切近的精神动力是理想。建立在教育规律基础上的思想政治教育原则,对思想政治教育具有直接的指导意义。     

高校素质教育重在养成

深化教育改革,全面推进素质教育,成为第三次全国教育工作会议的主题。素质教育重在养成,需要高校各方面相互配合,共同努力,营造良好氛围。课堂教学是素质教育的主渠道,校园文化建设、校园环境、图书馆等在素质教育中具有特别重要的作用。     

高等教育实施素质教育的一点思考

实施素质教育不能搞短期行为 ,不能沿袭过去的工作路数、照搬传统工作模式。在高等教育实施素质教育的初级阶段 ,应该认清形势 ,明辨是非 ,把握方向 ,规范自己的教育行为。