Sep 2008, Volume 3 Issue 3
    

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  • Educational equity and institutional safeguards —an analysis of compulsory education for Chinese rural migrant workers’ children
    FAN Xianzuo , PENG Pai
    2008, 3(3): 321-330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0021-7
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    The educational inequity of rural workers’ children is a unique social problem in the transition stage of China. Based on the specific survey in such provinces as Hubei, Henan, Anhui, and other provinces, a conclusion can be drawn that the reasons for the educational inequity of rural worker’s children are very complicated, among which the system is the most essential factor. Therefore, institutional safeguards should be provided to realize the education equity of rural worker’s children.
  • On studies of moral socialization of students: Progress and perplexities
    ZHANG Renjie
    2008, 3(3): 346-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0023-5
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    Moral socialization of students consists of five elements: process, subject, agent, content and pattern. This paper discusses the studies of the former three: their progress and perplexities, covering the following puzzles: “Why does the youth socialization take longer time?” “Are there any critical periods in student socialization?” “How do we identify over-socialization?” “Is ‘Education is student-based’ a scientific statement?” “How do we assess the contribution percentages of the four key agents of student socialization?”
  • The identity and identity identification of teachers
    QU Zhengwei
    2008, 3(3): 386-397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0025-3
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    When we tend to analyze the living conditions of teachers, system arrangement and identity identification can be considered a significant method for analysis. In reality, there appears a phenomenon of overlapping identification in t
  • The roles of research universities in indigenous national technological innovation
    FENG Zhuolin , ZHAO Wenhua
    2008, 3(3): 398-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0026-2
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    The world is increasingly merged into a global market economy, and the government’s intervention power in economy has rapidly given way to that of science and technology. For the world’s major economic powers, indigenous technological innovation has become a national strategy for enhancing competitiveness. Investment in scientific and technological innovation has become the most important form of strategic investment and strategic technological industry has become a forward-looking deployment and key priority in innovative national building. Research universities may have critical strength in and important social contribution to indigenous technological innovation. An innovative government may achieve this by making use of the research university’s mechanism and characteristics of technology transfer, clarifying the university—industry relationship and providing relevant policy incentives. The article concludes with an analysis of the advantages, problems and making strategies of Chinese research universities in indigenous technological innovation.
  • Tracking the development of China’s top universities using scientometric indicators, 1997–2005
    CHENG Ying , LIU Niancai
    2008, 3(3): 415-428. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0027-1
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    This study reviews the developments of 9 Chinese top universities supported by “985 Project” during 1997–2005 based on the analysis of a series of scientometric indicators, including the total number of publications indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, the cumulated impact factor of publications, the number of publications divided by the number of faculty members, the average impact factor of publications, percentage of publications in top 20 percent journals, the percentage of internationally collaborative publications, the number of publications in six broad subject fields and the Index of Disciplinary Balancing. The findings are helpful to the understanding of the achievements of Chinese top universities during this period as well as the remaining gaps between them and world-class universities.
  • Malmquist index analysis of the dynamic changes in scientific research productivity of some Chinese universities before and after merger
    HU Yongmei , LIANG Wenyan
    2008, 3(3): 429-447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0028-0
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    This paper describes the dynamic changes in research productivity of Chinese higher education institutions (HEIs) before and after merger with Malmquist index, and decomposes the total factor productivity change index into catching-up effect, scale effect and frontier-shift effect. The main finding is that technological improvement and innovation are important factors to improve scientific research productivity of Chinese HEIs.
  • Study on life education for college students —a survey on students in Guangzhou
    XIAO Xingyan
    2008, 3(3): 448-459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0029-z
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    Due to the social environment of China’s reform and opening up, as well as China’s education system with knowledge impartation as its focus, some college students lack the humanistic care and education of value and significance of life. Universities should plan effective activities to make students realize the importance of life. They should provide students with such education as life conscience, failures in life, the ability to make a living and the values of life in order to have a clearer knowledge of life education, so that the students can set up a positive, healthy and correct life view, realize the value and meaning of life, and finally learn to respect life.
  • Perceptions of teachers’ and parents’ regarding school readiness
    ZHANG Xiangkui , GAI Xiaosong , SUN Lei
    2008, 3(3): 460-471. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0030-6
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    In order to investigate the teachers and parents’ perceptions of school readiness, 218 parents and 370 teachers were surveyed. Based on the areas of “physical well-being and motor development”, “social and emotional development”, “approaches to learning”, “language use”, “cognition and general knowledge” and “family”, the study attempts to examine and compare kindergarten teachers’, elementary school teachers’ and parents’ beliefs about school readiness. Results are as follows: (1) on the whole, parents and teachers attach great importance to health, attention, parental rearing patterns, confidence, learning interest, etc.; (2) kindergarten and elementary school teachers share a similar outlook on school readiness while elementary school teachers emphasize more on areas such as compliance with teacher authority, parents’ educational level, manners, self-centralization, the ability to express and so on, and (3) the difference exists among parents, kindergarten teachers and elementary teachers’ perceptions of school readiness.