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This article presents recent reform processes in Japanese higher education, concerning the tensions emerging within the system
regarding ‘excellence’ and ‘diversity’. The article particularly focuses on how Japanese universities have reacted to the
recent ‘competition’ and ‘differentiation’ policy promoted by the government, drawing on recent survey results conducted with
academic managers at Japanese universities. It is interesting to examine the case of Japan, a historically diversified and
differentiated national system, which has been changing rapidly with recent national ‘top-down’ policy reforms, followed by
more recent and new bottom-up institutional initiatives. The study shows that universities are trying to achieve excellence, fulfilling different functions at the same time, aspiring to be excellent in teaching, research and social contribution
without having institutional capacity to meet these expectations. Appropriate internal governance and external mediation mechanisms
need to be created at the institutional level to manage diversification of the higher education system as a whole. 相似文献
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The paper reviews Asia–Pacific higher education and university research, focusing principally on the “Confucian” education
nations Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong China, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam. Except for Vietnam, these systems exhibit a special
developmental dynamism—still playing out everywhere except Japan—and have created a distinctive model of higher education
more effective in some respects than systems in North America, the English-speaking world and Europe where the modern university
was incubated. The Confucian Model rests on four interdependent elements: (1) strong nation-state shaping of structures, funding
and priorities; (2) a tendency to universal tertiary participation, partly financed by growing levels of household funding
of tuition, sustained by a private duty, grounded in Confucian values, to invest in education; (3) “one chance” national examinations
that mediate social competition and university hierarchy and focus family commitments to education; (4) accelerated public
investment in research and “world-class’ universities. The Model has downsides for social equity in participation, and in
the potential for state interference in executive autonomy and academic creativity. But together with economic growth amid
low tax regimes, the Confucian Model enables these systems to move forward rapidly and simultaneously in relation to each
and all of mass tertiary participation, university quality, and research quantity and quality. 相似文献
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Sociological institutional theory views universities as model driven organizations. The world’s stratification system promotes
conformity, imitation and isomorphism towards the “best” university models. Accordingly, academic roles may be locally shaped
in minor ways, but are defined and measured explicitly in global terms. We test this proposition using data on the allocation
of working time between academic tasks at research universities in thirteen countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, UK, and the USA. We find that working time patterns differ significantly
across countries, suggesting that conditions of academic work remain heavily dependent on national higher education traditions.
Faculty members holding the highest professorial rank share more in common, with generally stronger interests in research
and a greater time dedication to research over teaching. However, in countries with comparably steep academic hierarchies,
professor positions typically entail significantly fewer teaching hours and more administration. 相似文献
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Vera Nincic 《Learning Inquiry》2007,1(3):189-202
The growing trend of the internationalization of universities has provoked an interest in the academic participation of students
coming from non-English speaking universities. Fashioned by theory and research as a group with “problems”, nonnative English
speakers are depicted as in constant need for help, and unsatisfied with Western academic practices. Consequently, the researchers
interested in the potentials of computer technologies have turned toward the ways computer technologies might facilitate students’
participation. By taking for granted the nonnative English speaking students’ dissatisfaction with traditional academic practices
because of students’ cultural/linguistic differences, this approach fails to explore how the differences between the nonnative
English speakers and other students have been established and maintained in traditional classrooms in the first place. This
paper argues that we need a better understanding of the complex nature of relations between students and academic spaces that
would challenge the approach that offers computer technologies as a “solution” to the problems of classroom participation
by nonnative English speakers and develop a new framework to consider all aspects involved in the process. Empirical component
of the paper offers several possible approaches in the analysis of nonnative English speaking students’ academic participation. 相似文献
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Amy Liu 《Higher Education》2011,62(4):383-397
Framed by historical and contemporary discussions, this article reviews the principal foundations of meritocracy and uses
the public University of California system as a point of departure for examining the connection between meritocracy and higher
education within the context of the United States. Through consideration of four dimensions that inform the concept of meritocracy—merit,
distributive justice, equality of opportunity, and social mobility—this review examines the underlying tenets of meritocracy
to better understand how higher education functions within it. In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Daniel Bell (1973) suggested that higher education would become a “defensive necessity.” However, if colleges and universities are to serve
as instruments for creating and expanding opportunity, then higher education must be more profound than simply being reduced
to “defensive necessity,” and it is important for researchers to examine more closely the theoretical concerns of meritocracy
and the higher education implications. 相似文献
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Bradley E. Cox Kadian L. McIntosh Robert D. Reason Patrick T. Terenzini 《Research in higher education》2011,52(8):808-829
In an effort to identify policies that foster an institutional “culture of teaching,” or encourage use of effective pedagogies,
this study uses data from 5,612 faculty members at 45 institutions to examine connections between institutional policies and
faculty members’ perceptions and practices related to teaching and learning. A series of multi-level models suggests that
academic policy variables have small and generally insignificant relationships to such faculty perceptions or practices. Instead,
conventional institutional characteristics, such as selectivity and Carnegie classification, appear to be more influential
factors. 相似文献
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Peter Sloat Hoff 《Innovative Higher Education》2009,34(4):203-217
In a crisis-plagued world looking to higher education for knowledge, wisdom, and solutions, higher education itself is stumbling.
Its transformational thinking has frozen up like an overstressed computer program; and we need, in effect, to “push the reset
button.” In 1953, the renowned and controversial president of the University of Chicago, Robert M. Hutchins, authored a refreshing
and provocative work, The University of Utopia, containing ideas that still challenge today’s paradigms. He argued for institutional independence over “accountability,”
“outcomes,” and “stakeholders.” He indicted educational evils he called “industrialization,” “specialization,” “philosophical
diversity,” and “social and political conformity” and suggested ways to defeat them. Although his 56-year-old thoughts on
reconceptualizing the multiversity are not a panacea, they could help higher education make a fresh start. This essay reintroduces
the modern reader to Hutchins’s iconoclastic and stimulating ideas in the hope of restarting the stalled agenda for educational
reform. 相似文献
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Steven Brint Kristopher Proctor Robert A. Hanneman Kerry Mulligan Matthew B. Rotondi Scott P. Murphy 《Higher Education》2011,61(5):563-585
This paper investigates the characteristics of US colleges and universities that were early adopters of post-1970 academic
growth fields. It examines hypotheses drawn from four analytical perspectives on sources of organizational change: organizational
ecology, inter-institutional stratification, demographic composition, and historical traditions. Focusing on 20 “newly established”
and “emerging” growth fields, we find strong support for density-dependence and organizational size as influences on early
adoption for all fields, as well as support for institutional status variables as influences on the early adoption of new
liberal arts and basic sciences fields. 相似文献
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Drawing on 60 qualitative interviews with Canada research chairs (CRCs), we explore their careers in context. We develop a
model to understand the intersection of individual and institutional factors that shape the everyday experiences of the CRCs.
The model shows the dialectical relationship between faculty identity, research, relations with colleagues and students, and
institutional practices and structures. We classify individuals’ experiences as “good,” “bad,” or “ugly.” The interviews show
that while a majority of CRCs have a positive experience, others have a negative experience that is prone to becoming ugly
when institutional practices and systemic factors impede the work of the CRC. We discuss the perceived problems with the CRC
program from the standpoint of Chairholders, and the implications of our findings for the CRC program and universities. As
well, we propose that additional research on the professoriate is needed to determine whether or not the model from our study
is generalizable beyond our sample. 相似文献
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Inés Aguerrondo 《Prospects》2008,38(1):47-63
Besides “inclusion” meaning incorporation within the education system, there is also “inclusion” signifying the incorporation
of knowledge, two distinct processes which went hand-in-hand to start with but which, as education systems expanded, have
begun to drift apart. While the population as a whole, including the more deprived sectors, has improved its educational level
over past decades, in more recent times there has been little to show for the considerable efforts made. It is as if the process
had reached a ceiling, owing to practices of educational marginalization that are so embedded that they perpetually recreate
themselves. The education system has lost its bearings because a new approach is needed with the emergence of the information
and communication society, which implies a new definition of knowledge, cut off from its origins. The idea of “including”
must also be a key notion in relation to the search for a fairer, more democratic society. This implies developing a number
of viewpoints or fundamental attitudes when we consider inclusive education. There is the ideological/political point of view—which
means developing the ideal of justice and democracy within the framework of education as a right; the epistemological aspect—which
entails supporting the new educational approach in the very latest developments of the theory of complexity; the pedagogical
aspect—which entails adopting the advances made in the new learning sciences in order to develop a new “technology of educational
production” (didactics) that will guarantee the entire population’s ability to reason; and the institutional point of view—which
requires reviewing the notion of a “school system” and incorporating other institutional spaces by considering the whole of
society as offering potential “learning environments”.
Inés Aguerrondo (Argentina) Sociologist. Lecturer, Universidad de San Andrés and Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Former Under-Secretary of Programming at the Ministry of Culture and Education (1993–1999) in charge of substantive aspects of educational changes in Argentina. For 30 years she worked as a technical adviser at the Ministry’s Educational Planning Unit. She has been a consultant for many international organizations (including OAS, OREALC, IDB and OECD-CERI), while engaging in writing many books and articles. Currently, she is a consultant-researcher for UNESCO-IIEP in Buenos Aires. 相似文献
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Inés Aguerrondo (Argentina) Sociologist. Lecturer, Universidad de San Andrés and Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Former Under-Secretary of Programming at the Ministry of Culture and Education (1993–1999) in charge of substantive aspects of educational changes in Argentina. For 30 years she worked as a technical adviser at the Ministry’s Educational Planning Unit. She has been a consultant for many international organizations (including OAS, OREALC, IDB and OECD-CERI), while engaging in writing many books and articles. Currently, she is a consultant-researcher for UNESCO-IIEP in Buenos Aires. 相似文献
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Trevor Gale 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):5-23
The field of Australian higher education has changed, is changing and is about to change, repositioned in relation to other
“fields of power”. It is a sector now well defined by its institutional groupings and by their relative claims to selectivity
and exclusivity, with every suggestion of their differentiation growing. The potential of a “joined-up” tertiary education
system, of vocational education and training (VET) and universities, has the potential to further rework these relations within
Australian higher education, as will lifting the volume caps on university student enrolments. Moreover, Australian universities
now compete within an international higher education marketplace, ranked by THES and Shanghai Jiao Tiong league tables. “Catchment
areas” and knowledge production have become global. In sum, Australian universities (and agents within them) are positioned
differently in the field. And being so variously and variably placed, institutions and agents have different stances available
to them, including the positions they can take on student equity. In this paper I begin from the premise that our current
stance on equity has been out-positioned, as much by a changing higher education field as by entrenched representations of
social groups across regions, institutions, disciplines and degrees. In taking a new stance on equity, the paper is also concerned
with the positioning in the field of a new national research centre with a focus on student equity in higher education. In
particular, the paper asks what stance this new centre can take on student equity that will resonate on a national and even
international scale. And, given a global field of higher education, what definitions of equity and propositions for policy
and practice can it offer? What will work in the pursuit of equity? 相似文献
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Golnar Mehran 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2009,53(2):541-559
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, female higher education has been characterised by a paradoxical combination
of discrimination and exclusion, on the one hand, and increasing equality and empowerment, on the other. This study focuses
on the triangle of education, equality and empowerment, using Sara Longwe’s women’s empowerment framework to analyse the interplay
between the three. State policies to Islamise the universities during the 1980–1983 Cultural Revolution determined the “gender
appropriateness” of each specialisation and led to the exclusion of women from “masculine” fields of study during the early
years of the revolution. Despite such discriminatory measures, women today represent the majority of students in all fields,
except engineering. Women, however, remain underrepresented at graduate levels of education and as faculty members. An important
challenge is to understand why men are not entering different specialisations and whether there is a possibility of “re-doing
gender” – this time in addressing male inequality and disempowerment at undergraduate levels. 相似文献
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This study investigates the effective research-based characteristics of professional development (ERBCPD) of the National
Science Foundation’s GK-12 Program—a program which partners institutions of higher education with local school districts and
places science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates in the K-12 classroom with teachers. Final evaluations
of 26 GK-12 sites were analyzed with a priori and emergent content analyses, which included rigorous inter- and intra-reliability
testing. The results of the a priori analysis demonstrated that the GK-12 program incorporates all ERBCPD, but to drastically
varying degrees (76–5%). The a priori characteristics that appeared most often were “Treats Fellows as professionals,” and
“Professional development is on-going.” The two emergent characteristics included “Improves communication skills” and “Has
real world application.” 相似文献
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Adam Scrupski 《Academic Questions》1999,12(3):36-49
Summary A movement among universities noted for research and for rigorous scholarship that would have insured a significantly improved
education for prospective teachers was transformed in a short time, about ten years, into another agency of centrally inspired
“school refrom,”
The Holmes Group’s initial program called for prospective teachers to undergo five years of general education and teacher
education, devoting the undergraduate years largely to arts and sciences. It also called for a closer collaboration between
teacher educators and arts and science faculty in order to prepare preservice teachers to teach more rigorous pedagogically
organized subject matter. Included in the early Holmes agenda was the concept of a professional development school as a public
school site for pedagogical application, under the direction of veteran teacher cadres. However, as a consequence of an increasingly
liberal academic ideology, informing a persistent criticism of Holmes’s original proposals as elitist and insufficiently activist,
the Holmes group came in a short time to underplay its call for a five-year program, to back off from a closer collaboration
between teacher educators and arts and sciences faculty, and to transform its concept of an affiliated public school from
a site for pre-service pedagogical classroom practice into an exemplary school-to-be.
Some hope may remain: the Holmes staff recently distributed the “Conference Proceedings” of the January 1998 annual convention
held in Orlando. On page 42 of those proceedings, Arthur Wise, the peripatetic head of NCATE (National Council for Accreditation
of Teacher Education—now a Holmes “partner” at the national level) found Holmes neglectful of an appropriate concern for arts
and sciences education for prospective teachers. Wise was a “ranconteur” in Orlando; as such he was expected to provide a
“reflective response” to the conference. He said, apologetically, I might offer my one sound of criticism ... I just worry
when I see that ... we may be paying too much attention to the external aspects of school and maybe not enough to the guts
of the matter which is, after all, content and how to teach it. 相似文献
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Dr. Kathleen Densmore 《The Urban Review》1995,27(4):299-320
This paper begins by tracing the development of critical scholarship in the sociology of education, focusing on its attempts
to explain academic failure for low-income youth. Next, it examines contemporary theoretical work in “critical” literacy—work
that appears to have benefited from this sociological scholarship. Third, a brief account is offered of three historical instances
of when critical literacy was practiced. Finally, the author concludes by arguing that the needs of culturally diverse and
low-income students will be met to the extent that educators and students actively challenge the societal power structure
within which they live. 相似文献
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Understanding and predicting faculty intent to leave is important to the development of improved conceptual frameworks of
faculty success as well as the implementation of effective retention strategies for academic leaders and institutions that
invest considerable resources in recruitment, institutional support, and compensation. This study examined the relationship
between various research-based factors and faculty intent to leave by integrating components identified in the extant literature
for employee turnover more generally and faculty intent to leave more specifically. The results of binary logistic regression
models identified workplace stress, being in a “soft-pure” discipline, fewer years of service at the university, and higher
research productivity as key predictors of faculty having considered leaving for another institution. Key predictors for faculty
having considered leaving academe altogether were being in a “hard-applied” discipline, not having a spouse or partner, a
perceived lack of support, a perceived lack of fit, stress of raising a family, and dissatisfaction with certain aspects of
the “faculty job”. The implications for research, policy, and practice are discussed. 相似文献
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Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education: Issues of Trust, Control, Professional Autonomy and Accountability 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Andreas Hoecht 《Higher Education》2006,51(4):541-563
This article explores the issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability in higher education quality assurance
in the UK. The main part of this article is conceptual, but it includes results from semi-structured interviews with academic
staff that were conducted at two “new university” business schools. Both institutions are broadly similar in their key characteristics
and have experienced a transformation to university status in the early 1990s. The article argues that there has been a change
from informal “light-touch” quality control systems based on local practices and a significant amount of trust and professional
autonomy in the early 1990s to a highly prescribed process of audit-based quality control today. The article argues that accountability
and transparency are important principles that academics should wholeheartedly embrace, but that the audit format adopted
in the UK introduces a one-way accountability and provides “rituals of verification” (Power 1997) instead of fostering trust,
has high opportunity costs and may well be detrimental to innovative teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Charles Haynes Ed.D. Pamela Hook Ph.D. Paul Macaruso Ph.D. Etsuko Muta M.Ed. Yoichi Hayashi M.A. Junko Kato M.D. Tokuko Sasaki M.Ed. 《Annals of dyslexia》2000,50(1):213-238
This study compared U.S. and Japanese grade school teachers’ perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of children in their
classrooms identified as fitting commonly used criteria for a learning disability. U.S. teachers identified 4.0 percent of
their children as meeting the criteria and Japanese teachers identified 1.5 percent. The teachers then rated these children’s
abilities in the areas of listening, speaking, reading/writing, reasoning, mathematics, social, and study skills. Overall,
U.S. and Japanese teachers’ rating patterns were similar on 70 percent of the skills. In most areas where significant differences
were found—listening, speaking, reading/writing and study skills—U.S. teachers rated higher percentages of their children
as “weaker” than Japanese teachers. A noteworthy exception was the area of social skills where Japanese children received
higher percentages of “weak” ratings. U.S. and Japanese teachers also differed in their perceptions of causative factors leading
to their children’s learning difficulties. We discuss the findings in terms of U.S.-Japanese differences in writing systems
and cultural expectations. 相似文献
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This article is written to inspire curriculum developers to centre their efforts on the learning processes of students. It
presents a learning-based paradigm for higher education and demonstrates the close relationship between curriculum development
and students’ learning processes. The article has three sections: Section “The role of higher education (HE) institutions”
presents a discussion of the role of higher education in the knowledge society. Section “Contextual learning” presents the
paradigm of contextual learning which we see as a useful foundation for curriculum development. Section “Curriculum development
in practice—the BETA course” shows how a particular course in Business Economic Theory and Analysis has been developed using
this paradigm. The article will be of interest to all academics interested in students’ learning processes but is especially
relevant to those responsible for curriculum development. 相似文献