论民办高校提高五年制高职学生的教学水平

五年制高职的学生年龄比较小,心理成熟较晚,自我约束能力较差,学习主动性较弱。针对这些特点,教师应该蹲下身子与学生交流,尊重每一个学生,了解学生的需求,注重学生品德素质的培养。     

浅谈小学语文教学中创新能力的培养

21世纪是知识经济时代,创新是知识经济的灵魂。小学语文教学作为一门重要的基础学科,则必须在发展学生语文能力的过程中,重视对学生进行创新教育。通过创新教育,开启学生创新的心扉,唤起学生的创新意识,培养学生的创新精神,提高学生的创新能力,为学生成为21世纪的创新型人才全面地打好基础。     

浅谈高校学生干部队伍建设

在高校学生工作中,学生干部是学生的领头羊,不仅是联系师生的桥梁和纽带,而且是辅导员、班主任开展各项学生工作的助手。学生干部的综合素质、工作能力等会对学生工作的整体水平产生直接影响。建设一支高素质的学生干部队伍,不但有利于发挥高校的育人功能,而且也有利于开展学校的各项工作。然而,高校学生干部队伍中仍存在部分问题有待解决。本文对高校学生干部队伍中存在的问题进行分析,并提出相应的学生干部队伍建设对策。     

中职学校化工专业学生创新能力培养的思考

创新是时代的主题,教育是培养具有创新能力的人才的关键。对于14～17岁的中职学生来说,这一时期正是他们思维能力和品质形成的关键阶段,也是学生能否具备创新意识和具备创新能力的外显阶段。在针对化工专业学生的教学中,教师需要深知学生的认知和发展规律,明确学生的思维方式和创新意识,并能够结合"双基"教育的开展为学生的化学学习打好基础。同时,教师应从学生创新意识的激发入手,以具体的教学情境来激发学生的创造潜能,鼓励学生在学习理论知识和参与实验的过程中勇于创新,并以自主设计实验的手段来渗透学生创新能力的培养。     

电子阅览室教育功能的提高

探讨如何发挥电子阅览室的功能,提高对学生的教育功能。通过分析学生在电子阅览室使用计算机的情况,提出加强对学生的上机引导工作。提高学生使用计算机的技术,提高自己的水平。加强电子阅览室的教育功能,提高学生的素质。     

以高职就业为导向 提高学生顶岗实习质量

通过分析影响学生顶岗实习质量不高的原因,总结出通过增强学生的专业技能,做好实习前学生的思想工作,强化实习过程管理,作好"双选会"的组织安排,强化实习过程管理等途径,从而改善学生的顶岗实习质量,达到提高学生就业质量的目的。     

浅谈职业学校学生竞争力的培养

职业学校要为社会主义市场经济培养人才,要为现代企业培养人才,必须重视学生竞争能力的培养。培养学生的竞争能力,职业学校应帮助学生克服困难,树立自信心;应做到教学互动,理论联系实际;应坚持产教结合,使学生积极参与生产实践;同时要努力为学生营造活跃的竞争氛围。     

开放式实验中大学生创新能力培养

本文探讨了在开放式实验中如何以学生为主体,利用现有的开放模式,为学生搭建个体化的开放平台,在提升学生实验能力和动手能力的同时,不断挖掘创新因素,培养学生创新能力。     

在会计本科教育中实施参与式教学的实验研究

目前的会计学本科教育,多采用教师讲授、学生听课的教学模式。这种模式中,教师是中心,在整个教学活动中扮演了灌输知识的角色,但是没有很好地培养学生自主学习、独立思考的能力。本研究基于会计专业本科生的学习特点,设计了一次教学实验,将课程中容易理解和掌握的一部分内容交给学生自主讲授并讨论、老师做点评。实验结果表明,在会计学本科阶段教学中引入学生参与式教学具备一定的可能性,并且有利于提高学生参与教学的积极性,锻炼了学生查找文献、组织整理信息的能力,培养了学生展示成果并表达观点的能力。     

在英语新课标下如何培养学生的创新思维能力

近几年来,随着中学教学改革的不断深入,培养学生的创新思维能力已成为广大教师普遍关注的热点.如何培养学生的英语创新思维能力,使学生跃出教科书框架,学活书本,从而使学生变得更聪明,这已成为我们教育工作者当今需要解决的重大问题.     

实施远程教育扶贫的可行性分析

对贫困地区现状及其对教育的影响进行了简要讨论,对国家政策如何在教育上向贫困地区倾斜提出自己的看法,并结合贫困地区现状和远程教育开发情况,指出计算机远程教育扶贫是一种多快好省的措施,应当在全国贫困地区推广应用。     

“四化两型”建设中现代农业生态化的探讨

在现代化和生态化并轨的“两型社会”建设中,振兴“三农”要走大农业的生态化道路。千万不要以“家庭联产责任制”所取得的历史成就沾沾自喜、固步自封。毕竟它是分散型小规模农业,抵御自然风险和市场风险的能力是极低的。在“温饱”经济向“全面小康”经济的转化过程中。它的激励机制所产生的效应在衰减,农业比较效益低、生产的基础设施差等劣势问题开始显现。要克服“三农”发展的弱势,必须形成和完善具有高度的合作化、组织化、法制化和教育化的大农业的生态化体系。     

Food price surges and poverty in urban Colombia: New evidence from household survey data

The present study simulates the impacts of price surges in 2006–2008 on poverty in the main Colombian cities drawing upon household survey data. It is found that the price surges increased both extreme and moderate poverty in urban areas, but the magnitude of poverty rise was not homogeneous across geographical locations or in terms of household characteristics, such as, education or gender of the household head. As a policy option we suggest “geographical targeting” or “demographic targeting” that will select and support poor households by locations or socio-demographic characteristics guided by the degree of household vulnerability to food price shocks.     

Spatial patterns of rural poverty and their relationship with welfare-influencing factors in Bangladesh

This study determines the spatial variation of rural poverty in Bangladesh and its relation to people’s livelihood assets affecting their ability to procure food. We estimated household income for over 1 million census households using a predictor model based on a nationally representative sample survey data set. We computed and mapped poverty indices for 415 rural subdistricts revealing distinct areas with high poverty incidence that correspond with ecologically depressed areas. However, other livelihood-influencing factors such as education, accessibility and services are significantly correlated with poverty. This indicates the need for continued focus on providing education and access to income-generating opportunities so that the poor can better meet their food needs. Geographically weighted regression analysis indicated spatial differences in the relative importance of various poverty-influencing factors. Multivariate clustering of the local parameter (β) estimates of the determinant factors revealed distinct spatial relationships, which have implications on poverty alleviation interventions specific to the different regions.     

Spatial clustering of rural poverty and food insecurity in Sri Lanka

We mapped poverty, with reference to a nutrition-based poverty line, to analyse its spatial clustering in Sri Lanka. We used the Divisional Secretariat poverty map, derived by combining the principal component analysis and the synthetic small area estimation technique, as the data source. Two statistically significant clusters appear. One cluster indicates that low poverty rural areas cluster around a few low poverty urban areas, where low agricultural employment and better access to roads are key characteristics. The other indicates a cluster of high poverty rural areas, where agriculture is the dominant economic activity, and where spatial clustering is associated with factors influencing agricultural production. Agricultural smallholdings are positively associated with spatial clustering of poor rural areas. In areas where water availability is low, better access to irrigation significantly reduces poverty. Finally, we discuss the use of poverty mapping for effective policy formulation and interventions for alleviating poverty and food insecurity.     

The Impact of the Implementation of Technology Education on In-Service Teacher Education in South Africa (Impact of Technology Education in the RSA)

In this article the impact of technology education, as a new learning area (subject) in the curriculum, on in-service teacher education in South Africa is described in order to ascertain the extent of the impact. The research on which this article is based draws on a variety of experiences and observations in the field at grassroots level (in particular an outreach project in rural communities). The envisaged impact of technology education on South African schools, communities, teacher educators and teachers, the range of in-service teacher education that is required, and the impacts in urban and rural areas are discussed. Finally a number of concluding remarks are made about the extent of the impact of the inclusion of technology education in the new National Curriculum Statement and whether the situation has changed since the implementation of a pilot technology education project in 1998. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Do poverty and poor health and nutrition increase the risk of armed conflict onset?

We analyze the effects of improving the economic, food security and health status on the risk of armed cotntectflict onset, focusing on the factors related to the millennium development goals. We employ the discrete-time hazard model that allows us to examine the time-varying effects of socioeconomic factors controlling for the reverse effect of conflict. Our results show that income poverty and poor health and nutritional status are more significantly associated with armed conflict onset than GDP per capita, annual GDP growth, and the ratio of primary commodity exports over GDP. In particular, poor health and nutritional status seems to play a key role in inducing armed conflicts in poor countries. These results indicate that, when a majority of the poor and the malnourished resides in rural areas and depends on agriculture directly or indirectly, investments in public goods for agriculture and rural areas can be effective tools to achieve the multiple goals of reduced poverty, food security and armed conflict, including riots in early 2008 triggered by high food prices. Food policy can be an effective element of efforts to maintain stability.     

Irrigation,agricultural performance and poverty reduction in China

The overall goal of our paper is to understand the impact that irrigation in China has had on grain production and incomes, in general, and income and poverty alleviation in poor areas, in particular. The paper seeks to meet three objectives. First, we describe the relationship among irrigation status, yields and household crop revenue. Second, we seek to understand the magnitude and nature of the effect that irrigation has on yields and crop revenue. Finally, we seek to understand the impact that irrigation has on incomes in poor areas. Our analysis shows that irrigation contributes to increases in yields for almost all crops and in income for farmers in all areas. The importance of crop income in poor areas and the strong relationship between crop revenue and irrigation provides evidence of the importance of irrigation in past and future poverty alleviation in China. We also show that in the majority of the villages that invested in new irrigation, returns are positive even after accounting for increases in capital and production costs.     

The Development of a National Curriculum in Technology for New Zealand

New Zealand under went major curriculum reforms in the early 1990's. These reforms were determined by the New Zealand Curriculum Framework which provides an overarching framework for the development of curricula in New Zealand and which defines seven broad essential learning areas rather than subject areas. Technology is important and should be part of the education of all students. Six grounds for developing technology education were given, namely: economic, pedagogic, motivational, cultural, environmental, and personal. This paper reports on the development of a technology curriculum in schools. The philosophy of the curriculum will be discussed, particularly crucial aspects such as inclusiveness. The way in which the technology curriculum has attempted to meet the needs of a New Zealand technological society will be examined. The general aims of technology education in Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum are to develop: technological knowledge and understanding; an understanding and awareness of the interrelationship between technology and society; technological capability. The development of seven technological areas for all students will be highlighted. This paper will discuss in detail the development of the national technology education policy and the way in which the curriculum was developed. The last section of the paper will consider issues related to teacher development programmes and areas of future research.     

Healthy food diversity and supermarket interventions: Evidence from the Seacroft Intervention Study

Supermarket interventions have been a commonly used treatment for problems of fresh fruit accessibility in areas of previously limited availability, their wide ranges of healthy products and lower-prices making them seemingly perfect for promoting better diets. Empirical studies likewise fall in favour. However, this diversity also serves to give consumers opportunity to entrench bad habits and simply purchase more of the unhealthy foods they enjoy. In this paper we develop a new health index based upon UK government guidelines and look to the Seacroft Intervention Study for empirical evidence of supermarket impact thereupon. Using fixed effects unconditional quantile regression to provide robustness to our parameter estimates against covariate specification, we reinforce the message that supermarkets are not a panacea for dietary improvement. Whilst diversity increases post-intervention it is unlikely to be healthful, entrenching poor dietary habits rather than delivering improvement as intended. Careful consideration of planning policy, health education and sector regulation is needed.