Following is a transcript of an interview by our staff reporter with Zhou Ji, Minister of Education, on a range of questions concerning China's education. These include how China is reforming its education system,...Following is a transcript of an interview by our staff reporter with Zhou Ji, Minister of Education, on a range of questions concerning China's education. These include how China is reforming its education system, what the Chinese Government has done to protect the right of citizens to education, as well as the investment made by the state in education.展开更多
It is urgent and necessary to implement international understanding education in local application-oriented colleges and universities.Improving the international competitiveness of talents and cultivating global citiz...It is urgent and necessary to implement international understanding education in local application-oriented colleges and universities.Improving the international competitiveness of talents and cultivating global citizens is one of the goals of higher education.This paper discussed the problems of international understanding education in local application-oriented colleges and universities,including weak policy orientation,insufficient practical exploration,aphasia of national culture,etc.It is recommended to implement the international understanding education from two ways:subject penetration and project-based professional courses.In addition,the introduction of Chinese culture cannot be ignored to prevent the absence of national culture in cross-cultural communication.展开更多
At the present time, mass me- dia and new media play an important part in establish- ing and constructing a civil society. This paper will focus on educa- tional roles of the media and will probe the major experiences...At the present time, mass me- dia and new media play an important part in establish- ing and constructing a civil society. This paper will focus on educa- tional roles of the media and will probe the major experiences and challenges related to constructing news events with human rights as the framework.展开更多
Are we riding the fourth wave of democracy,as predicted by Toffler(1984)and Huntington(1991),a post-capitalist,post-global wave?Western liberal democracy is currently responding to the dramatic change in the economic ...Are we riding the fourth wave of democracy,as predicted by Toffler(1984)and Huntington(1991),a post-capitalist,post-global wave?Western liberal democracy is currently responding to the dramatic change in the economic system after capitalism,the coronavirus pandemic,and the growing power of nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies.Does this process indicates a change in Western democracy or is it the end of democracy and what is the role of civic education within it?In Israel,as in other Western countries,the nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies(gained strength,undermining liberalism)threaten the conception of global citizenship and strive to shape a model of an illiberal democracy.In Israel,contrary to other Western countries,they also threaten civic equality and the very existence of the democratic rule.In the absence of a constitution and consensus,Israel is experiencing culture and religious war over values,identity and the concept of“citizenship”as a legal,political,and social framework.Thus,the struggle over civic education reflects the struggle over educational hegemony,as well as over national hegemony.In this process,nationalists and fundamentalists initiate anti-democratic legislation,violate human rights,obstruct government supervisory mechanisms,and expand ideological education in order to change Israel‟s character to a Jewish state rather than a Jewish and democratic state.展开更多
The global flow of citizenship education in China has spurred much discussion in Chinese academic circles.This study explores the interaction between citizenship education and China’s the existing political-ideologic...The global flow of citizenship education in China has spurred much discussion in Chinese academic circles.This study explores the interaction between citizenship education and China’s the existing political-ideological education and moral education as a space is negotiated a space in the current“ideoscape.”A qualitative approach is adopted to synthesize the literature coming from China on citizenship education from an interpretive and critical perspective.The research findings suggest:(a)The territory of orthodox political-ideological education is being narrowed down as its relationship with citizenship education is configured;(b)citizenship education and moral education are represented using different images to delineate their distinctions;and(c)the introduction of“global citizenship education”includes many new topics and competencies that expands the current ideoscape.This study argues that the ongoing debates on citizenship education are deeply rooted in China’s structural transformation,in which society tends to be separated from state.In negotiating its own territory,citizenship education reshapes China’s ideoscape in the education field.The paper concludes by suggesting that citizenship education should make a unique contribution to facilitating young citizens in a reexamination of the values imbedded in political-ideological education and moral education with a new social consensus being reached through the communication of ideas.展开更多
文摘Following is a transcript of an interview by our staff reporter with Zhou Ji, Minister of Education, on a range of questions concerning China's education. These include how China is reforming its education system, what the Chinese Government has done to protect the right of citizens to education, as well as the investment made by the state in education.
基金Supported by the Project of Sichuan International Education Development Research Center in Sichuan Provincial Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities"Research on the Construction of International Education Practical Teaching System in Local Application-oriented Colleges and Universities"(SCGJ2021-04)the Project of Sichuan International Education Development Research Center in Sichuan Provincial Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities"Research and Practice of International Understanding Education in Agricultural Higher Vocational Colleges in the New Era"(SCGJ2022-17).
文摘It is urgent and necessary to implement international understanding education in local application-oriented colleges and universities.Improving the international competitiveness of talents and cultivating global citizens is one of the goals of higher education.This paper discussed the problems of international understanding education in local application-oriented colleges and universities,including weak policy orientation,insufficient practical exploration,aphasia of national culture,etc.It is recommended to implement the international understanding education from two ways:subject penetration and project-based professional courses.In addition,the introduction of Chinese culture cannot be ignored to prevent the absence of national culture in cross-cultural communication.
文摘At the present time, mass me- dia and new media play an important part in establish- ing and constructing a civil society. This paper will focus on educa- tional roles of the media and will probe the major experiences and challenges related to constructing news events with human rights as the framework.
文摘Are we riding the fourth wave of democracy,as predicted by Toffler(1984)and Huntington(1991),a post-capitalist,post-global wave?Western liberal democracy is currently responding to the dramatic change in the economic system after capitalism,the coronavirus pandemic,and the growing power of nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies.Does this process indicates a change in Western democracy or is it the end of democracy and what is the role of civic education within it?In Israel,as in other Western countries,the nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies(gained strength,undermining liberalism)threaten the conception of global citizenship and strive to shape a model of an illiberal democracy.In Israel,contrary to other Western countries,they also threaten civic equality and the very existence of the democratic rule.In the absence of a constitution and consensus,Israel is experiencing culture and religious war over values,identity and the concept of“citizenship”as a legal,political,and social framework.Thus,the struggle over civic education reflects the struggle over educational hegemony,as well as over national hegemony.In this process,nationalists and fundamentalists initiate anti-democratic legislation,violate human rights,obstruct government supervisory mechanisms,and expand ideological education in order to change Israel‟s character to a Jewish state rather than a Jewish and democratic state.
基金The research was funded by an Hong Kong Institute of Education Internal Research Grant(RG72/2011-2012).
文摘The global flow of citizenship education in China has spurred much discussion in Chinese academic circles.This study explores the interaction between citizenship education and China’s the existing political-ideological education and moral education as a space is negotiated a space in the current“ideoscape.”A qualitative approach is adopted to synthesize the literature coming from China on citizenship education from an interpretive and critical perspective.The research findings suggest:(a)The territory of orthodox political-ideological education is being narrowed down as its relationship with citizenship education is configured;(b)citizenship education and moral education are represented using different images to delineate their distinctions;and(c)the introduction of“global citizenship education”includes many new topics and competencies that expands the current ideoscape.This study argues that the ongoing debates on citizenship education are deeply rooted in China’s structural transformation,in which society tends to be separated from state.In negotiating its own territory,citizenship education reshapes China’s ideoscape in the education field.The paper concludes by suggesting that citizenship education should make a unique contribution to facilitating young citizens in a reexamination of the values imbedded in political-ideological education and moral education with a new social consensus being reached through the communication of ideas.