游韵:Run by others: school autonomy in Shanghai’s entrustment management reform
The promotion of school-to-school collaboration and school autonomy has popularized in the global trends of school system reform over the past few decades. This article examines the Shanghai experience by specifically taking the entrustment management reform as an illustrative example. Since 2007, the government has contracted ‘good’ schools in urban districts and private non-profit educational organizations to manage a group of relatively ‘weak’ schools in rural districts. Three ‘weak’ schools and their entrusted bodies were investigated in this study to elaborate the nature and structure of school autonomy in the new hierarchical management system. This article argues that rather than leading to substantial redistribution of the autonomy between the government and the school as stated, the reform has reconstructed the school leadership. A kind of ‘one-side-collaboration’ has emerged in ‘weak’ schools’ decision-making processes, which has in effect decreased their autonomy. Nevertheless, the reform has generally proceeded smoothly. This can be articulated through understanding Confucian moral and interrelated autonomy, in contrast to the Western autonomy premised on egoism and rationality and emphasizing the self-other tension, and in China’s political and bureaucratic contexts.
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李廷洲 等:我国公办、民办中小学教师流动的主要特征、趋势与政策分析
本文通过对全国10个省级行政区250余位被访者的访谈和1.8万份问卷调查,并结合宏观统计数据的研究发现:全国范围内公办中小学在体量上稳居主导地位;公办学校教师待遇逐年提升,民办学校教师流向公办学校逐渐成为趋势;教师在民办和公办学校间的流动呈现阶段化和类型化的特征。当前,公办、民办中小学教师流动中存在几个关键问题:民办学校从公办学校挖教学名师现象仍存在;公办、民办学校教师地位不平等,民促法相关规定尚未落实;民办学校教师退休待遇与公办学校教师存在明显差距;部分公办学校教师人事管理制度僵化,影响队伍活力和稳定性。为引导公办、民办中小学教师有序流动、共同发展,文章提出以下建议:明确对民办学校采取”积极鼓励、依法规范”的战略定位;重申公办、民办学校教师同等的法律地位,并理顺政策体系;区分不同阶段、不同类型的民办学校,分类施策;优化公办学校人事管理制度,激发教师队伍活力;以人才有序流动和良性竞争促进公办和民办学校共同发展。
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周兢 等:基于汉语儿童语料库构建的儿童语言发展测评系统
汉语儿童语料库的创建与发展为国际儿童语料库系统(CHILDES)提供了丰富的研究语料,为促进汉语儿童语言发展研究做出了突出贡献。为回应当前有关儿童语言障碍诊断工具和语言干预效应监测严重缺乏可靠工具的问题,本研究基于汉语儿童语料库构建了汉语儿童语言发展测评系统。该系统基于汉语儿童的大量语料,构建了正常儿童语言发展常模,探索了可以预期和发现不同年龄儿童语言障碍的指标系统,基本形成符合汉语文化情境的儿童语言发展监测体系,可以为儿童语言障碍诊断和干预提供有价值的基础信息。从儿童语言发展研究走向儿童语言发展评价,有助于拓展儿童语料库的功能,推动有关儿童早期语言发展诊断与干预的科学研究。