从数学的文化价值探讨高等数学教育

文章从数学文化价值的角度出发,结合我国高等数学教育的实际,探讨了两者间的关系。     

Evaluation of the organizational personalities of the tourism schools in Cyprus: a comparative case study

The aim of this study is to compare the organizational personalities of the tourism schools in two universities in North and South Cyprus. The data were collected by means of an interview schedule and were examined using content analysis. The results showed that the tourism schools of both countries had distinct personalities due to the differences in the higher education systems, management styles, organizational structure and administrative behaviors of their universities. For both parts of the island, the results showed that international accreditations, collaborations, and dual programs with international bodies and different universities will enhance student satisfaction and the success of the current universities. The researchers suggest that both institutions should take into account the needs of the industry and improve their cooperation with the stakeholders of the tourism sector in order to promote their curricula.     

农村中小学音乐教育现状及解决措施

音乐教育对于一个人的全面发展、塑造完美人格有着不可估量的作用,而且对于一个民族整体素质的提高有着不可替代的作用。在新一轮基础教育课程改革大力推进,新的音乐教育课程标准全面推广实施的今天,农村学校音乐教育却没有得到应有的重视与发展。在几次前往湖北周边县镇的社会实践中,我就深刻认识到这一急需解决的问题:农村地区学校音乐教育得不到应有的发展,直接导致了城乡学校音乐教育之间的差距进一步拉大。     

中德汽车专业职业教育培训比较与思考

本文通过对中德汽车专业职业教育培训特点的比较,提出建立新型职业技术教育培训模式的具体建议。     

中等职业学校教学现状及发展对策

由于诸多原因 ,中等职业教育面临许多困难 ,如何走出困境 ,使中等职业教育不断地持续发展 ,这是我们需要很好地进行研究的一个课题     

中外紧凑城市发展模式比较研究

辨析了中西方不同发展背景下紧凑城市的具体含义,提出了适合中国国情的城市化发展模式———高密度紧凑城市的概念,并指出高密度紧凑城市具有以下几个特征:土地混合利用和开发强度高,人口或建筑高密度化,城市整体形态紧凑。最后,探讨了高密度紧凑城市的空间模式及其测度方法,并提出了相关的建议。     

A cross cultural study of gender-role orientation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy

The study of gender differences in entrepreneurial self-efficacy to date has produced inconclusive results. Cross-cultural studies are virtually non-existent. The present study seeks to understand the complex interplay of biological sex, socialized gender-roles, and culture on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and motivation to become an entrepreneur. Findings indicate that among American business students the traditional view of “entrepreneur as male” is fading. For the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs, a new entrepreneur stereotype is emerging that balances stereotypical feminine and masculine characteristics. These findings were not replicated in Spain where traditional gender-role stereotypes associated with entrepreneurship persist, even among business students. Implications for entrepreneurial education are discussed as they relate to the development of skills associated with venture creation.     

A two-stage double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency differences of New Zealand secondary schools

We conduct a two-stage (DEA and regression) analysis of the efficiency of New Zealand secondary schools. Unlike previous applications of two-stage semi-parametric modelling of the school “production process”, we use Simar and Wilson’s double bootstrap procedure, which permits valid inference in the presence of unknown serial correlation in the efficiency scores. We are therefore able to draw robust conclusions about a system that has undergone extensive reforms with respect to ideas high on the educational agenda such as decentralised school management and parental choice. Most importantly, we find that school type affects school efficiency and so too does teacher quality.     

国外高等职业教育发展的比较研究与借鉴

高等职业教育在德国、美国、英国、日本等发达国家都有各自不同的发展方式和特色,它们的共同特征是在人才培养方面注重技术应用与开发能力的培养,在教学方式手段方面具有很强的实践性.有选择地引入和借鉴国外高等职业教育的有益经验和模式,将对我国高等职业教育的发展具有重要意义.     

The cultural characteristic of individualism/collectivism: A comparative study of implications for investment in operations between emerging Asian and industrialized Western countries

This study provides insight into the importance of national culture, investment in operations, and performance in the context of emerging Asian economies with a collectivist orientation, which are compared to industrialized Western nations with an individualist orientation. Hypotheses are developed and tested based on the cultural concept of individualism/collectivism, the theory of performance frontiers, and the extent of economic development. More specifically, data collected from 639 manufacturing plants in nine countries are used to first assess the influence of the cultural trait of individualism/collectivism on the extent of investment in structural assets (specifically: physical and capital-based) and infrastructural assets (specifically: team-based methods and improvement programs). Second, the influence of the extent of economic development on these investment factors is measured. Third, evidence is provided supportive of the theory of performance frontiers, and the nature of resource investments in the context of the cultural construct of individualism/collectivism. And fourth, support is provided for the efficacy of this theory, as well as for its compatibility and association with the resource-based view of the firm. Overall, this study makes important contributions to both theory and practice, and provides evidence for the role played by the cultural characteristic of individualism/collectivism in determining plant level investment outcomes in emerging Asian economies.     

A comparative study of complete systems of demand functions

Ten models of consumer demand, including the indirect translog model, the linear expenditure system and the Rotterdam model, are applied to Swedish data and compared, using fit and predictive performance as criteria. Demand models tend to be superior to naive models, but nonadditive models are not clearly better than additive. Each model is estimated on two levels of commodity aggregation. The results show that the estimated structures depend on the level of aggregation.     

The comparative examination of promotion criterias of teachers in North Cyprus and Turkey as a manager and a supervisor in profession

The present study aims to examine and compare the promotion criteria of the teachers in North Cyprus and Turkey as a manager and a supervisor in their profession as well as determining its similarities and differences. Presenting the teachers’ criteria on the basis of promotion in their profession is the importance of this study. Document analysis has been used in this study in order to reach the aim. The criteria of both being a school principal and supervisor in North Cyprus and Turkey have been compared. Although it has been examined that in Turkey assigning school principals and supervisors depend on a selection based on years of teaching experience, in North Cyprus either teacher assignment or upper level assignments such as school principal and supervisor selections depend on certain rules and regulations which contain unbiased evaluation on professional portfolios and applied professional examinations set by the Public Service Commission (Kamu Hizmet Komisyonu).     

A comparative study of net entrepreneurial productivity in developed and post-transition economies

The paper develops net entrepreneurial productivity (NEP) as a complex latent construct of second order composed of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurial activity. Its parameters were estimated using the partial least squares structural equation modeling method in the selected 15 developed and 7 post-transition economies for the average values in the period 2006-2013. The results unveil the direct and indirect effects between entrepreneurial activities, and between entrepreneurial activities and NEP, as well as that the level of NEP and productive entrepreneurial activity in developed economies is at a higher level compared with post-transition economies. The results suggest that for NEP and productive entrepreneurship to take place, regardless of the group of economies considered, an effective institutional environment that supports human capital development, fair competition and transparency should be established and maintained before developing more specific entrepreneurial programs and policies.     

我国封闭式小区与西方私有社区比较研究

比较了我国封闭式小区与西方私有社区之间的异同,研究了我国小区的制度结构、主要影响因素和潜在的问题。指出我国小区和西方私有社区有着同样的制度结构,体现了物业所有者和集体品提供者的整合,两者的差别主要表现在我国小区多采用防卫性设施,小区的规约偏重于物业管理,对住房隔离的影响不大,小区面临许多公共约束等方面。最后探讨了造成这些差别的原因,并进一步讨论了我国小区潜在的问题和可能的解决对策。     

Preferences of citizens for public expenditures on elementary and secondary education

This paper presents an empirical analysis of citizens' preferences for public elementary and secondary education expenditures. Survey data collected in conjunction with a school tax referendum and a multinomial probit random utility model are used to make inferences concerning the preference mappings of citizens. These estimated mappings, in turn, imply unique estimates of the demands of citizens for public education expenditures. Citizens' beliefs concerning whether expenditures are wisely spent and will affect school quality are seen to be important determinants of demand. The impact of citizens' perceptions of tax costs is also considered.     

大学生礼仪教育初探

文明礼貌是大学生应当具备的基本素养。加强大学生礼仪教育,可以传承中华民族传统礼仪文化,促使大学生真正形成良好的礼仪规范。本文分析了大学生礼仪的现状以及礼仪缺失的成因,提出了加强大学生礼仪教育的路径。     

A comparative study of the Chinese and the Swedish principles of employment systems

A cross-cultural or comparative approach is applied in order to demonstrate the main characteristics both of the theoretic background and practice of the Chinese and the Swedish principles of employment systems. This paper attempts to point out some main/problems of the Chinese system and to make some challenges for suggested reform. After examining basic conflicts and relationships between public policy and the working of free market forces in the two countries, the paper suggests how the Chinese traditional socialist principles ought to be revised if a socialist market economy is to be developed. The key to reforming the employment system lies in changing the form of ownership and management of enterprises by allowing fair competition and bankruptcy of enterprises.     

A comparative study of the contents of personnel and human resource management textbooks

The paper reports the results of a contents analysis performed on fifty personnel and HRM texts. It suggests that there is a common set of person-nel/HRM tasks across cultures. Within this common set there are differences in the priority accorded to particular tasks. British HRM texts give priority to organizational theory, American HRM texts prioritize corporate strategy, while personnel texts prioritize industrial relations and collective bargaining. The conclusion considers as possible explanations the divergence in the systems of industrial relations of the two countries and the markets towards which the texts are oriented. It argues that a more likely explanation derives from the differential cultural values which inform managerial research in Britain and America.     

Precarious postdocs: A comparative study on recruitment and selection of early-career researchers

This paper investigates how the recruitment and selection for project-based postdoc positions are organised in the current academic landscape characterised by increasing temporary research funding and how principal investigators construct the ‘ideal’ postdoc. Our findings are based on a qualitative comparative multiple-case study in Social and Natural Sciences departments of universities in four European countries. This study contributes to the literature on the neoliberal university and academic staff evaluation by using a systemic, power-sensitive approach that examines how postdocs enter the academic system and how manifestations of precarity are exacerbated. Our critical analysis reveals three manifestations of precarity that the current academic system creates for postdocs, related to control, contracts, and careers. We discuss the effects for individual postdocs and their careers and the quality of knowledge production in public funded higher education institutions.