Technical and vocational education and training in Uganda: A critical analysis

This article undertakes a diagnostic study of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sub‐sector in Uganda, with a view to characterizing the sub‐sector and identifying its potential strengths and weakness. We undertook a cross‐sectional pre‐survey of purposively selected key stakeholders in the TVET sub‐sector. We selected performance indicators following their importance in influencing the TVET reform process. Both qualitative and quantitative data was solicited from the stakeholders. Quantitative data was collected through stakeholder‐specific structured questionnaires, whilst qualitative data was collected through desk review and field visits, individual focused interviews and focus group discussions. Our findings indicate that financing and planning constraints have resulted in poor quality equipment, under‐ and ill‐trained staff, limited adoption of a competence‐based education and training (CBET) curriculum, not to mention the supervision inadequacies of TVET institutions. Besides, the limited TVET sub‐sector interaction with the private sector has incapacitated TVET curriculum development to nurture skills demanded by the private sector. Furthermore, backward technology use in the private sector has equally inhibited the success of student attachment programmes. Finally, legal ambiguities have perpetuated a qualification jungle and overlapping curricula.     

晚清私寓的戏曲传承活动

晚清私寓是戏曲史上的一种独特现象,它既是一种培养艺人、传承戏曲的组织,同时又具有浓厚的娱乐性,形同歌楼酒馆。私寓弟子演戏之外,亦凭借自身姿色,兼营侑酒等娱乐活动,同时具有倡、优两种身份。因而,与普通的科班、戏班等传承组织相比,私寓在弟子的来源与选择、培养方式、师徒关系等方面,均有鲜明的特色,并对后世戏曲的面貌产生了深刻的影响。     

高等院校职业化教育培养要素及其差异探究

我国高等院校开展职业化教育的重要性已被国内高等教育研究者广泛关注,但缺乏职业化教育培养体系的研究。高等院校职业化教育应以职业化的评判标准为基础,其核心是职业综合素质的培养。职业素质培养是高等院校职业化教育的最终目标,职业素养培养是高等教育职业素质培养的重要环节。可以根据不同类型高等院校的学生特点和培养目标开展适宜的职业化教育。     

幼儿快乐阅读习惯的培养路径

阅读是一种良好的习惯,它对人的一生发展起着十分重要的作用。近年来，学前阅读的重要性受到了社会的高度关注，大家纷纷开展多种形式的幼儿阅读活动,然而,如何在学前阶段培养幼儿良好的阅读意识、阅读方法，为他们进入学校后开展书面语言学习及终身学习打下良好的基础，是目前幼儿教育工作中的一个重要问题之一。因此,我们积极地开展了以培养幼儿快乐的阅读习惯为主要内容的探索,旨在通过为幼儿创设适宜的阅读环境,激发幼儿快乐开展阅读活动。     

论大学生创新能力的培养

从培养对象、培养者以及政府行为等 3个方面 ,分析培养大学生创新能力的艰巨性。依据教育的本质提出 :培养大学生的创新能力 ,应以知识为载体、传授知识为手段、将其渗透融合在教学的全过程 ;以环境建设、机会与空间、教学环节作为培养大学生创新能力的三大要素 ,系统地论述如何做好此项工作。并结合工作实践 ,介绍了在教学过程中相机培养大学生创新能力的尝试     

采矿工程专业人才培养方案优化与实践

随着全球经济一体化的发展,我国煤炭行业得到了快速发展,煤炭工业需要大量的高素质复合型采矿工程专业毕业生,因此,修订和完善采矿专业人才培养方案具有重要意义。河南理工大学采矿工程专业为了不断提高人才培养质量,对采矿工程专业人才培养方案进行了优化,2010年10月通过全国工程教育专家委员会的认证工作。新的人才培养方案已经得到实施,效果明显。     

重庆市农民工市民化的教育培训资源统筹对策

城乡统筹的实质是资源的统筹.在重庆市“千万农民变市民”的社会大试验中,教育与培训将发挥重要作用.目前,重庆市农民工的教育与培训存在较多问题,直接影响了农民工市民化的进程,根源在于资源统筹乏力.应当根据科学发展观的要求,加强重庆市农民工的教育培训资源统筹.文章对重庆市实施制度、机构、经费、师资、信息资源这“五大统筹”和统筹模式变革提出了对策建议.     

A Pilot Study of 2 Brief Forms of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Emotion Dysregulation in College Students

Abstract

Objective: To examine the feasibility and initial efficacy of 2 abbreviated dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training groups: emotion regulation skills only and emotion regulation with mindfulness skills. Participants: Participants were 24 undergraduates (aged 18–29) with significant emotion dysregulation who participated between February and May of 2010, 2011, and 2012. Methods: Participants participated in 2-hour weekly group sessions for 8 weeks and completed outcome measures at baseline, midtreatment, posttreatment, and 4-week follow-up. Results: Participants in both conditions made significant gains, with large effect sizes, across measures of emotion regulation, affect, skills use, and functioning. There were no differences between the 2 groups, suggesting no additive benefit of mindfulness skills. Conclusions: This pilot study provides support for the acceptability and efficacy of abbreviated DBT skills training in colleges, given significant improvements, positive feedback, and low attrition. Impediments to feasibility included recruitment difficulties, particularly due to scheduling constraints.     

How Japanese Families Cope with Fragile Elderly

Coping with caring for ill, fragile elderly is taxing the families in Japan, where longevity statistics predict early in the twenty-first century it will have the highest percentage of aged in the world. Interviews with 20 families revealed that although the culture mandates families care for their elderly, many are having considerable ambivalence and conflict, and caretakers suffer in the process unless they have assumed the defense of a martyr stance. Most do not seek nursing homes but are turning to government for supportive services. The trend in Japan, in spite of tradition, is for adult children to delay taking parents into their homes until they are unable to care for themselves.     

职校内生产性实训基地建设的实践与思考

结合江苏省连云港中等专业学校机电专业校内生产性实训基地建设的具体案例,从中职学校校内实训基地建设现状入手,理论融合实践进行分析,对以教育功能为主体、校办企业为基础的主导式校内生产性实训基地的建设开展实践性研究,并从管理体系、运行体系、评价体系三个方面进行了阐述。