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Breakthrough, Extension, and Transcendence of "Rational Knowledge": Examining the Intellectual Value of Images in Children's Educational Practice
WANG Lijia, HUANG Ruixin
2024, (4): 5-14.
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Images, as significant media for human cognition and self-perception, are continuously challenging the dominance of "rational knowledge" in education, particularly the education in school, and are presenting unique roles in the dimensions of perception, emotional rationality and self-cognition. As a mode of knowledge representation, images, in interaction with language, demonstrate their affiliated value in leading to rational knowledge as a way of "perceiving" the world. As educational resources surpass the omnipotence of rational knowledge, images, by presenting the possibilities of the world through "entering" "approaching" and "experiencing" become a beneficial source for constructing "emotional rationality". Under the guidance of education in promoting self-understanding, images, as a mode of human existence, expand the space and dimensions of children's self-cognition. The utilization of images in education requires vigilance against the crisis of intellectual vacuity while balancing perception, rationality and self-cognition. Thus adhering to the pursuit of making education enlightening and insightful for individuals.
An Explanation on the Reasons and Effects of the Independent Establishment of the Taixue in the Fourth Year of Qingli
HUANG Yiqing
2024, (4): 15-25.
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The independent establishment of the Taixue in the fourth year of the Qingli, marked the shift of the educational focus of the Northern Song court from the nobility to the common people, which opened a new era in the development of Song education. In order to make up for the defects of the talent training and selection system in the early Song Dynasty and to meet the trend of education downward, the court of Emperor Renzong, on the basis of the structure of the central governmental school system in various dynasties from the Western Han Dynasty to the Fifth Dynasty, combined with the suggestions proposed by the important ministers in the court for promoting education, continued the system of Taixue Hall set up at the beginning of this dynasty and established Taixue exclusively for the people below the eighth grade as well as the children of common people, in order to realize the purpose of cultivating talents for the country. The establishment of the Taixue as an independent school in the fourth year of the Qingli, was influenced by the environment of the educational reform at that time. It was a representative achievement through reforming the anachronistic talent cultivation and the selection system by the court of Emperor Renzong, which had an important impact on the development of education at that time and later.
An Exploratory Journey: Experience and Reflection of a Qualitative Research Methods Teacher
CHEN Xiangming
2024, (4): 26-35.
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This article presents the author's reflective memos after each of the first five lessens in teaching qualitative research methods. The themes of the memos include starting the course with an adaptive mind, realizing the hardships in raising a research question for the beginners, improving the course quality by way of post-conference, emphasizing learning by doing and the participation of all students. Although each memo discussion is a rather micro phenomenon that occurs in the process of the course, the author attempts to analyze it in-depth by linking her own life experience with the macro sociocultural environment. In this way, the readers may understand the difficulties and strategies in teaching qualitative research methods.
Growing in Reflection: Teaching and Learning of Qualitative Research Methods
CHEN Xiangming
2024, (4): 36-43.
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This article presents the author's reflective memos after each of the last three lessons in teaching the course of qualitative research methods. The themes include the teacher's practical wisdom in responding to students' replies, mutual understanding between teachers and students is a guarantee for good teaching and learning, and opening one's classes or not involves such ethical issues as the teacher's teaching autonomy. With theoretical implications and practical relevance, all these themes are related to the frequently encountered issues by teachers in classes. By sharing her experience and reflection, the author hopes to invite readers to think and dialogue about these issues in more depth.
The Framework and Path of Local Practice of Home-School-Community Cooperative Education in China: A Grounded Theory Study Based on Collaborative Innovation Cases in the Past Five Years
YANG Qiguang, ZHAN Mengji
2024, (4): 44-54.
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The research on the local practice of home-school-community cooperative education based on the local education situation has accumulated rich experience for the innovative practice of home-school-community cooperative education in China. This research adopts the grounded theory method, through summarizing 60 local innovation cases of home-school-community collaborative education in the past five years, and combs out the local framework and path of practice of home-school-community collaborative education in China. It is found that the local practice of home-school-community cooperative education basically follows the thread of "cooperative motivation-cooperative subject-cooperative carrier-cooperative effect-cooperative motivation". In addition, in the process of collaborative education, different regions in China have shown differences in educational behaviors due to different carriers, and have formed three local practical paths: project oriented, platform oriented, and platform project oriented.
Can Non-Academic Extra-curricular Tutoring Improve Chinese Children's School Adaptation: An Analysis on the Mediating Effect of Non-cognitive Ability
ZHANG Yongqiang, ZHAO Jiwang
2024, (4): 55-68.
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Investigating the impact of non-academic external tutoring on children's school adaptation in the context of the "Double Reduction" policy helps people make more reasonable and scientific judgments and choices regarding non-academic external tutoring. Based on data from the China Education Panel Survey and using a fixed effects model to examine the relationship between non-academic external tutoring and school adaptation, the results indicate that participation in non-academic external tutoring has a significant positive impact on school adaptation, and this effect is robust. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that non-academic external tutoring has a significant positive impact on non-migrant children, the children from well-off families, and those ones with below-average academic performance, while it has no significant impact on migrant children, the children from less advantaged families, and the children with above-average academic performance. Non-academic external tutoring improves children's school adaptation through non-cognitive abilities such as agreeableness, extraversion and openness. Parents can enroll their children in interest classes based on their actual circumstances and interests. Extracurricular education institutions need to provide customized services for the children with special family backgrounds, and the government should guide schools and non-academic external tutoring education to conduct in-depth cooperation in the field of after-school services to reduce inequalities in non-academic external tutoring and after-school services.
Effects of Extra-curricular Music Learning on the Non-cognitive Abilities of Teenagers: An Empirical Study Based on CEPS Data
XU Xiaowen, GUO Biao, Li Bo
2024, (4): 69-80.
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With the development of economy and the implementation of "double reduction" policy, the scale of extracurricular music learning for young people in China is getting larger and larger. Learning music can develop a healthy, confident personality and create a sense of well-being for adolescents, and affect the development of their non-cognitive abilities. Based on the CEPS data of the China Education Longitudinal Survey, the propensity score matching method (PSM) was used to explore the impact of extracurricular music learning on adolescents' non-cognitive ability. The conclusion is that participating in extracurricular music learning significantly improves the non-cognitive ability for adolescents, and boys, left-behind children and adolescents from economically disadvantaged families can benefit more. Based on this, the following suggestions are put forward: first, we should attach more importance to adolescents' non-cognitive ability should be increased, especially the cultivation of openness and extroversion. Second, the education sector should pay attention to the positive effect of music learning on the non-cognitive ability for adolescents. Finally, the cultivation of adolescents' non-cognitive abilities requires the joint efforts of parents and society.
Regional Differences in Enrollment Opportunities of High-quality Higher Education in China: A Comparative Analysis Based on 2012 and 2022 Data
CHEN Naishuai, CHEN Lihang
2024, (4): 81-92.
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At present, the development of higher education in China has entered a popular stage. However, the overall improvement of higher education enrollment opportunities did not lead to the reduction of regional differences in high quality higher education enrollment opportunities, and the regional differences in high quality higher education enrollment opportunities are larger than those in the overall higher education enrollment opportunities. By comparing the data of the enrollment opportunities of high-quality higher education in 2012 and 2022, it can be seen that the differences among provinces and regions are increasing in 2022, and the trend of polarization still exists, and the enrollment opportunities of high-quality higher education in the provinces with large population and economically less developed provinces have a large decline. It is important to establish a flexible enrollment planning system for high-quality colleges and universities, and build a warning mechanism for regional differences in enrollment opportunities of high-quality higher education, so as to achieve regional coordinated development of enrollment opportunities of high-quality higher education under the background of popularization of higher education.
"Splitting" or "Reorganization": A Case Study on Non-Teaching Time Usage of University Teaching Space
ZHONG Xiaoyu, LI Zhaoxia, NIAN Jiawen, LI Yiwen
2024, (4): 93-102.
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The use of teaching space is an important content of university management, but it faces new challenges in the digital age, such as "it is difficult to find suitable space to carry out activities independently after class" and "the approval process of online space application is cumbersome". Based on spatial sociology perspective, this study regards teaching space as both material space and social space, aiming to investigate the current use of teaching space in non-teaching time and its influencing factors, provide reference suggestions for optimizing the management of university teaching space, and provide a new perspective for understanding the specific manifestations of university administrative ethics. It is found that students are the main users of teaching space in non-teaching time, but the process of using is dominated by administrative staff. Students and administrators variously position the teaching space with different symbols and layouts, and then use the surface principle of "flexible reorganization" and the deep principle of "mechanical cutting" to allocate the teaching space. This phenomenon reflects the characteristic of institutional context and social interactions related to space use, namely a fair system under the power structure and a negotiation dilemma in the rule system.
Research on Supervisor's Consent Dispute in Degree Awarding Process
OUYANG Shuo
2024, (4): 103-112.
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In the practice of degree awarding in mainland China, postgraduate students cannot obtain degrees without the consents of their supervisors. This may damage the legitimate rights and interests of graduate students while checking the quality of dissertation. From the perspective of Hohfeld theory of legal relations, it is the privilege of the supervisor to perform the duty of consent, and no other person or organization has the right to interfere, but this privilege cannot resist the immunity of the degree granting right. The reason for the frequent occurrence of supervisor's consent disputes is that the time point of the behavior is located in the "middle zone" of the connection between graduate training activities and degree granting activities, which leads to the idling of degree granting procedures and the lack of remedies for graduate students' rights. In order to solve the problem supervisor's consent disputes further, it is suggested that supervisors should abide by the principle of equality and procedural justice when giving consent, colleges and universities establish rights relief mechanisms such as mediation and appeals, and graduate students should also obey awful duties.

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