Policy borrowing,policy learning: testing times in Australian schooling     

《Critical Studies in Education》2013,54(2):129-144

This article aims to contribute to current debates about political power and agency relationships in education and other public sectors. In a recent clarion call for a major redirection of political principal–agent theories (PAT), Terry Moe has argued that standard information asymmetries ought no longer to be regarded as the sole foundation of bureaucrat power. According to Moe, current theories largely overlook the direct electoral power of agents and their unions (EPA) in voting for their own bureaucratic principals. Therefore, they are biased systematically towards underestimating agent power. We critically address both Moe's theoretical arguments, and his empirical applications to Californian school board elections. We conclude that Moe overestimates the power consequences of EPA on both counts. We outline a more balanced version of ‘multiple‐role’ PAT and of its potential implications for our understanding of the political power of public school teachers and bureaucrats more generally.  相似文献   

Hope and fear in education for sustainable development     

《Critical Studies in Education》2013,54(2):154-169

Education for sustainable development represents a politically prioritized area of knowledge in contemporary Swedish education and as such it has acquired a prominent position among the governing values of educational policy. Insofar as education for sustainable development is directed at securing the future of human well-being, this article suggests that it concerns a moral discourse where notions about what may or may not happen in the future plays an important role in the governance of practices and behaviors in the present. Since the future is shrouded in uncertainty, it is suggested that the emotions of hope and fear may be understood in terms of tools for governing the everyday lives of children, invoking alluring and deterrent images that influence their decision-making. Besides seeking to gain a better understanding of some of the preconditions of education for sustainable development, the aim of this article concerns an investigation into some of the effects that education for sustainable development may have on the lives of children. To this end, it looks at how hope and fear are being put into play within the discourse as strategies for governing individuals in relation to the uncertainty of the future.  相似文献   

101 Things to Know or Do as a Wyoming County Library Board Member     

Staff of the Wyoming State Library 《Public Library Quarterly》2013,32(1):48-59

Created by the staff of the Wyoming State Library, this online “flip list” of 101 items is an introductory checklist of fiscal and policy oversight responsibilities and communication efforts that all trustees of libraries ought to know and carry around in their heads as they function as governance spokespersons for their various systems.  相似文献   

The Transformation of Singapore's Public Libraries: A Case Study     

Durda Rajsic  Kristina Bucher  William Osei-Poku 《Public Library Quarterly》2013,32(3):267-280

This article is an overview of the vast changes that were made in Singapore's public libraries, focusing especially on how leadership made the reforms both relevant and healthy for the future of the system.  相似文献   

A Brief History of the OCLC Members Council     

George Needham  Richard Van Orden 《图书馆管理杂志》2013,53(6):575-584

ABSTRACT

On May 19, 2009, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Members Council held its 90th and final meeting. It was the end of an era that began in 1977, when the Ohio College Library Center changed its name to OCLC and adopted a new governance structure that extended membership in the cooperative to libraries outside Ohio. In the ensuing 30 years, libraries around the world elected 450 delegates to attend three Council meetings each year at OCLC.  相似文献   

Politicking for the Public Library     

Josie Barnes Parker 《图书馆管理杂志》2013,53(6):731-737

ABSTRACT

In today's current political environment raising support for millage renewals, bond campaigns or even millage continuations for public libraries is affected by national politics, and a tendency towards tax aversion on principle across the country. The lessons we can learn from the governing boards of small and rural public libraries are worth raising up to a greater national consciousness. Board governance, community consciousness, and facilities management are clear and logical tools that elected boards of public libraries can use to politick for support of libraries.  相似文献   

浅析中国式小康社会的特征     

李虹茹  范永旭 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2013,(11)

小康社会理论是邓小平理论的重要组成部分。中国式现代化即小康社会由邓小平提出,目的是为了将中国式现代化与发达国家的现代化相区别。中国式小康社会的提出已经有30多年的时间,但是现在正是我国全面建成小康社会的关键时期,重新讨论中国式小康社会的特征对我国建成小康社会的定位具有一定意义。  相似文献   

作为一种动力向度的中国文化     

裴德海  陈光 《安徽师范大学学报(人文社会科学版)》2013,(3)

时下在国内学界,言说中国文化已成为一种时尚。改革开放30多年的巨大进步举世瞩目,成就了"中国经验""中国道路"和"中国模式"之辩,但对作为中国改革内在驱动力的文化却关注不够。中国文化正形塑着中国当下的存在,中国的传统文化也在改革中自我更新。作为新动力源的能量供给不足,这样的文化形态呈现出明显的自身内在紧张。因此,面对新一轮中国的改革进程,认真总结和深刻反思改革中文化的动力和贡献,以及有效扩充其动力源是无法回避的重要问题。  相似文献   

How history becomes a cross-border matter: death foretold of a French–German–Swiss textbook     

Bruno Dupeyron 《Curriculum Journal》2013,24(4):345-364

The middle of the 1990s saw the creation of a French–German–Swiss history textbook supported by the European Commission. Disseminated to school instructors in the Upper Rhine, it received generally positive reviews, but ended up on the dusty shelves of school libraries. This result was due to several factors, which are analysed in this article. This acknowledgement of failure leads to the argument that European cross-border cooperation is constrained by a key paradox, referred to as ‘low gravity’, i.e. the attraction of small projects toward the local and regional levels, while major projects are pushed up to the national level.  相似文献   

集权趋向与治理失衡--农村义务教育供给机制变革的制度分析     

陈静漪  宗晓华 《辽宁教育研究》2013,(9):35-39

近30年来,中国农村义务教育在供给方面发生了集权趋向的持续改革。随着财政供给主体和管理权的上移,农村义务教育逐渐脱离了乡村社会,造成了农村义务教育之于乡村社会的“悬浮”以及相应的治理机制失衡。为提高农村义务教育供给水平和质量,在供给机制设计上不宜进一步集权,而要提高县级政府对农村义务教育的重视程度,途径是促进县乡政府向公共服务型政府职能转型,并提高县级政府可支配财力,同时对乡村社会进行制度化赋权,重构农村义务教育基层治理结构。  相似文献