融入区域发展的“宁夏模式”学分银行建设研究与探索撤回

学分银行制度是我国在构建全民终身教育体系和深化职业教育改革过程中的一项创新性制度。宁夏在终身教育学分银行建设过程中,立足区域实际情况,发挥区域职业教育和开放教育优势,聚焦解决职业教育与其他类型教育相融通、教育教学标准与职业标准相衔接的问题,以及各类学习成果认证、积累与转换等问题,创建了“一体化、双载体”学分银行集成平台,形成了“多维汇聚、开放灵活”的资源整合应用模式,建设了“四维融通、中高本贯通”的学分认证标准体系,构建了“平台+标准+资源+监测+评价”质量保证体系,建立了“平台+联盟”双载体驱动运行机制及“教、学、管、服”一体化学分银行“宁夏模式”。     

“双标融合、双链对接、双态实施、双度评价”质量保证体系构建

培育校本质量文化、构建学校自主质量保证体系,是专业人才培养质量提升的持久动力和根本保证,也是质量保证工作从“他律”转变为“自律”的关键。高职院校以制定校本专业人才培养工作质量标准为切入口,构建“双标融合、双链对接、双态实施、双度评价”质量保证体系,是培育质量文化和质量自觉的有效抓手。     

学前教育职业教育集团化办学质量评价的客体

学前教育职业教育集团化办学质量的评价客体是一个集合性的概念。学前教育职业教育集团化办学质量评价的客体与集团化办学的组织状态、运行状态、办学成效和保障体系四个方面紧密关联,以四者为基础,学前教育职业教育集团化办学质量的评价客体可以分为事实客体和效果客体两类。事实客体指的是学前教育职业教育集团化办学的组织形式、环境硬件等;效果客体则是指施教者与受教者的水平提升情况以及集团化办学的社会反响等,具体反映的是办学成效。     

慕课在中职物流专业课程教学中应用的策略研究

慕课是一种在线学习资源,将慕课应用到教学中,丰富传统的教学方式,让学习者更灵活地安排学习时间.该文分析了慕课的概念,传统中职物流专业课程教学存在的问题,探讨慕课在中职物流专业课程教学中的作用,总结慕课在中职物流专业课程教学中应用的有效策略,以提高中职物流专业教学质量,推动我国物流职业教育.     

提升南宁市物流发展的探讨

分析广西南宁物流发展的基本条件、优势和存在问题,通过加强物流科学建设,创造现代物流发展,改善物流管理技术,提高服务质量,面向东南亚,推动南宁物流发展。     

职业教育教学质量评价模型与预警观测研究

职业教育教学活动有着独有的产业属性,其质量评价模型的构建需要选取更科学的评价主体、依据更直观的评价标准和执行清晰可行的评价流程.该文在广义的校企合作视角下基于PDCA循环理论,采用核心"基点"将职业教育教学质量评价全过程流程化,并从中选取各质量预警观测点,用于职业教育教学体系的自我评价与优化,以期实现精准评价,重塑教育教学生态.     

职业教育创新创业教育评价体系建设与实践探索

以现代人才发展需求为切入点,在布鲁姆教育目标分类理论、当代教育评价理论以及消费者导向理论的基础上,融合了职业教育的实际特点,探究了创新创业教育评价体系的目的、内容、主体、方式、标准构建方式,为职业教育创新创业评价体系的优化发展奠定基础,同时也推进职业教育人才培养模式的创新.     

农村剩余劳动力转移中的职业教育研究

我国农村剩余劳动力的数量正在不断扩大,如何成功实现农村剩余劳动力的转移是一个迫切需要解决的问题。通过加强职业教育培训,增强农村剩余劳动力的文化素质和就业能力是推动我国农村剩余劳动力转移的一个有效方式。本文主要探讨了农村剩余劳动力转移与职业教育的关系、农村职业教育的困境以及加强农村职业教育的对策等问题。     

粤港澳大湾区职业教育生态承载力研究

职业教育生态承载力是指职业教育系统在一定时间范围内,能够承受和维持其所包含的各种要素,以及其所支持的人类社会和经济发展的能力,具有教育资源的丰富性、产业链的完备性、教育体系的协调性、创新能力的强劲性、国际化程度的高低等特点。粤港澳大湾区职业教育生态承载力现状仍存在一些挑战和问题,受到政策、市场、技术、人才、文化等因素影响,可以采取建立健全的教育生态系统、培养高质量的人才、加强职业教育与市场需求的匹配、引进先进的教育技术手段以及加强国际交流与合作等方面着手提高粤港澳大湾区职业教育生态承载力。     

我国职业教育创新的三维视阈

坚持科学发展观,促进职业教育可持续发展,是实施科教兴国提高国民素质的基本策略.立足我国职业教育现状,借鉴发达国家发展经验,从历史的角度考量中国职业教育在发展过程中存在的问题,实现职业教育创新的三维视阈在于:1.依据我国有关职业教育发展的法律法规及战略规划,认清职业教育的本质,服务于经济、社会发展,坚持以人为本,树立技术技能和能力本位的终身职业教育观,实现职业教育理念创新.2.通过深化改革,促进政府职能转变,实行"大部制",优化资源配置;通过精准定位,规范适度,保证质量,实现强势发展;通过加强师资队伍建设,扩大"双师型"教师数量,全面提高师资素质,实现职业教育管理创新.3.改变当前职业教育教学模式和学制单一状况,推行工学结合、校企合作,导入项目教学,引入公司制,创建校内师训基地,实现职业教育模式创新.     

Considering Improvisation: Play,Transitional Space,and Discovery

This article explores the concept of improvisation in the therapeutic setting as a complex construction when elaborated in the idiom of jazz music. A composite clinical case is offered that illustrates an impasse and how improvisational thinking offers a way forward. Improvisation has recently been conceptualized through the metaphor of theater improvisation, dance, and rhythm. The therapeutic hour is considered an improvisational dialogue with the main theme (melody) and counter melodies, and harmonic possibilities that underlie the rhythmic pulse of the hour. Improvisation requires a reflective/interpretive process that draws on patterns, structures, and experiences reformulated in the relational field of the participants. The client initiates the call and response pattern, from which improvisation emerges as a mutual process of discovery. A more relaxed, receptive, and reflective posture extends Winnicott’s 1971 notion of play to integrate classic understanding and relational interaction.     

Objective Tests versus Subjective tests

objective test has only one correct answer, while subjective test has a range of possible answers. Because of this feature, reliability will not be difficult to achieve in the marking of the objective item, while the marking of the subjective items is reliable. On the whole, a good test must contain both subjective and objective test items.     

Comments on the National College English Test

College English Test is an important national test for Chinese college students, this paper introduces the distribution of scores, time of examination, and analyses the four parts in CET ,such as listening comprehension, reading comprehension, integrated testing, and writing based on testing theories.     

Abstracts of theses: Smith College School for Social Work,July 1954

Abstract

Many clients relate in ways that elicit emotional responses in practitioners and may also feel pressure to intervene when appropriate action is not yet clear. Practitioners must develop sufficient self-awareness so their own reactions do not interfere with the work they do with clients. Educators exhort their students to be self-aware, but locating methods that foster the capacity can be difficult. Infant observation is an elegant training model that helps to develop self-awareness. The method described here makes use of regular observation, supportive small groups, and repeated detailed examination of what is seen in training both generalist and specialized practitioners. It has become a prototype for the observational study of several kinds of specific populations. Because it attends to people in their own environments and demonstrates a flexible, reflective, multi-modal manner of information-gathering, infant observation is particularly useful in the education of social work practitioners.     

India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act: Assessing the quality of access and adequacy of benefits in MGNREGS public works

The extension of social protection to all has become a central policy objective, both nationally and internationally. A considerable number of middle‐ and low‐income countries have undertaken substantial efforts to extend social protection, while the international community reaffirmed its commitment to the extension of social protection through the adoption of the ILO Recommendation concerning National Floors of Social Protection, No. 202 (2012). This article reviews the legal provisions and the implementation of the Indian Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), legislated in 2005, and does so in the light of the more recent provisions of ILO Recommendation No. 202. Since its introduction ten years ago, MGNREGA has provided a source of income to rural workers, increased wage rates, achieved high female participation rates and created durable assets. India's local governance bodies, Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI), have been empowered and involved in the processes of planning and monitoring. However, despite successes, there have been considerable shortcomings in implementation. This article highlights two central themes: first, the innovative policy framework of the Act, which brings together rights‐based entitlements, demand‐driven employment, and citizen‐centred monitoring. Second, it assesses the accessibility and adequacy of benefits in the implementation of MGNREGA. We conclude that MGNREGA offers potential for South‐South learning, both in terms of policy‐design and implementation.     

From “Either‐Or” to “When and How”: A Context‐Dependent Model of Culture in Action

In this article, I outline a framework for the sociological study of culture that connects three intertwined elements of human culture (cultural motivations, resources, and meanings) and demonstrates the concrete contexts under which each most critically influences actions and their subsequent outcomes. In contrast to models that cast motivations, resources, and meanings as competing explanations of how culture affects action, I argue that these are fundamental constituent elements of culture that are inseparable, interdependent, and simultaneously operative. Which element provides the strongest link to action, and how this link operates, must be understood as a function of the actor's position within wider social contexts. I argue that on average motivations have the most discernable link to action within a social strata, cultural resources provide the strongest link across strata, and meanings have the greatest direct influence when codified and sanctioned. I then offer a reframing and synthesis that reintegrates previously “competing” theories of culture into a more holistic context‐dependent model of culture in action. Finally, I use evidence from prior empirical research, as well as new data from an ongoing ethnographic study of health behaviors among the aged, to show how various elements of culture are concretely linked to action in eight different social contexts. In doing so, I provide a roadmap for the transition out of the “either‐or” logic underlying much of cultural theory and reemphasize the importance of the classical sociological concern for “when” and “how” various aspects of culture influence action and outcomes in concrete social contexts.     

The gender gap in pensions in Latin America

Lower female lifetime labour market participation rates, greater interruptions during their working lives, and wage gaps contribute to create gender gaps in pensions at the time of retirement. The design of social security systems may reinforce or attenuate these gaps. This article provides new evidence on gender gaps in access to pensions and in pension income in four Southern Cone countries in Latin America and analyses their evolution between 2000 and 2013, showing significant improvements in both gaps, with differential patterns by countries. The decrease in the gender gap in pension income has been particularly significant in Argentina and Brazil. In both cases, the largest increases in pension values during the period correspond to the lowest income percentiles, where women are overrepresented. The application of redistributive policies in these countries, aimed at reducing poverty and inequality but not necessarily focused on gender equity, has had positive and probably unintended consequences in terms of reduction in gender gaps in pensions.     

Is subsidiarity a conditio sine qua non for sustainability?

This paper argues that subsidiarity is a condicio sine qua non for sustainability. Through the complexity paradigm, the paper provides a historical reconstruction of both concepts to the end of elucidating their interdependence. The main thesis is that subsidiarity to sustainability is what self-organisation is to emergence. The paper ends with a sketch of future global governance structures based on a subsidiarity where cities take the lead on sustainability.     

Global employment and decent jobs, 2010–2030: The forces of demography and automation

Globally, an estimated 734 million jobs will be required between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or below 4 per cent for adults and at or below 8 per cent for youth. The facts that most new jobs will be required in countries where “decent” jobs are less prevalent and workers in many occupations are increasingly subject to risks of automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to create the jobs that are needed through 2030 would put currently operative social security systems under pressure and undermine efforts to guarantee the national social protection floors enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).