ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
What Makes an &quot;Effective&quot; Leader: The Application of Leadership
Author: Notar, Charles E.
Date: 2008-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leadership Effectiveness,Leadership Qualities,Strategic Planning,Teamwork,Participative Decision Making,Leadership Role,Leadership Responsibility,Partnerships in Education,Institutional Research,Policy Analysis,Time Management,Organizational Development

This article is based on the premise that leadership is leadership, whatever the profession. A number of &quot;leaders&quot; from various enterprises are discussed to determine the basic tenets of leadership. The nine tenets of leadership are: (1) Think and Act Strategically. (2) Understand and Demonstrate the Elements of Teams and Teamwork. (3) Master Small Group Decision Making. (4) Clearly Define Roles and Relationships. (5) Establish and Abide by a Leader-Subordinate Partnership. (6) Implement Systematic Evaluation of Policy. (7) Allocate Leader Time/Energy Appropriately. (8) Set Clear Rules and Procedures for Meetings. (9) Learn and Develop Continuously as a Leader.
An Analysis of the Localization of School Social Work in the Chinese Mainland: Comparison among Three Patterns in Operation
Author: Li, Shaowei
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Social Work,Operations Research,Change Strategies,Caseworker Approach,Caseworkers,Cluster Grouping,Integrated Services,Specialists,Student Personnel Services,Administrative Organization,Comparative Analysis

School social work is in its infancy in China, yet it has its special advantages in overcoming some increasingly evident social problems among contemporary college students, and it has become the necessary supplement to strengthening and promoting the ideological and political education in colleges and universities. According to the ownership of school social workers, this paper classifies them into three categories: engagement pattern out of school system, coexisting pattern within school system, and integration pattern within school system. After thorough SWOT analysis, the author puts forward that the integration pattern within school system is the best choice for the localization of school social work in China.
Explore the Human-Based Teaching for the Professional Course of Materials Science and Engineering
Author: Zhao, Yiping
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Engineering Education,Engineering Technology,Teacher Qualifications,Professional Education,Teacher Competencies,Capacity Building,Classroom Techniques,Educational Practices,Individual Differences,Student Development,Teacher Student Relationship,Knowledge Base for Teaching,Humanistic Education,Higher Education

As viewed from two sides such as teacher and student, in this article, we explore the human-based teaching reform for the college professional course of materials Science and Engineering, point out the qualities and conditions that professional teacher should possess in the process of human-based teaching reform of professional course and the teaching measures and methods that they should adopt, analyze the responsibilities that students who are the main bodies of professional teaching should assume in the human-based teaching of professional course.
Market Distortion and the Tuition Pricing Mechanism of Higher Education in China
Author: Huang, Wei
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Tuition,Cost Indexes,Student Costs,Higher Education,Commercialization,Educational Policy,Public Sector,Educational Demand,Educational Supply,Educational Resources,Efficiency,Change Strategies,Finance Reform,Financial Policy,Funding Formulas,Educational Practices

Higher education in the market economy is inevitable affected by the higher education market. The tuition of higher education in china had become the personal price performance of higher education in certain degrees and exerts some certain functions of price mechanism. Because the higher education market distortion that tuition pricing cannot completely become market behaviour. Tuition pricing had been affected by some factors such as the externality of higher education, the monopoly of higher education resources, the demand of higher education had lack elasticity, the information among the market main part are asymmetric and the price regulation of government. Therefore it is a practical choose for the tuition pricing at present stage that government should effectively intervene the higher education market and supervise the tuition of higher education.
Chinese Environment or Western Environment: Which Choice the Art Education Should Make at the Crossroads?
Author: Qiao, Yingying
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Asian Culture,Western Civilization,Art Education,Global Approach,Educational Change,Artists,Cultural Differences

In twenty years since reforming and opening up, China has developed an active and stable road of reform belonging to her, and the art circle has immediately become the swiftest industry. Especially in the 21st century, with the development of globalization, the economic strength of China is continually strengthened and the comprehensive national strength is continually enhanced, which offers the extended platform for art education and a new opportunity for the development of various colleges. At the present time, China art education is in the new primary stage of continual improvement and reform, and the change of environment compels we must reconsider the challenges what we face. Whether the education system under traditional mode can adapt the development of new situation? Whether it is feasible to blindly exclude external culture? Facing new problems, we must adopt new methods. As viewed from artists' views, this article analyzed problems existing art education from various aspects, and aiming at the combination of different art education types with the social education mode on multiple layers such as science, ethic and culture, we introduce the new education concept of &quot;ecological view of art&quot; and study that from our own opinions.
Challenges of Chinese Language Education in Multi-Lingual Societies: Hong Kong and Singapore
Author: Tong, Ho-kin
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multilingualism,Foreign Countries,Educational Policy,Social Change,Mandarin Chinese,Language Role,Political Influences,Sino Tibetan Languages,Language of Instruction,Economic Factors,Foreign Policy,Native Language,Literacy,Second Language Learning,Cultural Context,Language Skill Attrition

This paper aims to study the current challenges of Chinese language education in the multilingual societies of Hong Kong and Singapore through policy documents. After the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the role of &quot;Putonghua&quot; is far more important than before due to political and economic reasons. However, the medium of instruction for the Chinese Language subject in Hong Kong has long been Cantonese since the British colony days. A change in the medium of instruction from mother-tongue Cantonese to &quot;Putonghua&quot; is a shift from L1 to L2. This paper will discuss the feasibility of this long term policy of Hong Kong Education Bureau with reference to Singapore's experience. Currently, Singapore faces the problem of declining standard of reading and writing in &quot;Huayu&quot; (&quot;Putonghua&quot; in China) and this paper will investigate the reason for that and suggest possible remedies.
Optimization of Multimedia English Teaching in Context Creation
Author: Yang, Weiyan
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multimedia Instruction,Teaching Methods,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Skill Development,Educational Benefits,Foreign Countries,Context Effect,Educational Environment,Inferences,Cooperative Learning,Computer Mediated Communication

Using multimedia to create a context to teach English has its unique advantages. This paper explores the characteristics of multimedia and integrates how to use multimedia to optimize the context of English teaching as its purpose. In this paper, eight principles, specifically Systematization, Authenticity, Appropriateness, Interactivity, Coordination, Pluralism, Intelligibility, and Penetrability, are summarized to fulfill this purpose. Through using multimedia and the creation of context in optimizing English language teaching, the study also hopes to improve students' competence in thinking and practicing, which can be adopted to provide an effective method of using multimedia in English teaching and learning.
Reading Strategies' Variations Can Boost Overall Language Competences' Enhancements of Senior Middle School Students
Author: Chen, Yong
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Strategies,Middle School Students,Language Proficiency,Grammar,Language Tests,Teaching Methods,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Reading Habits,Teacher Effectiveness,Educational Benefits,Reading Comprehension,Foreign Countries

Language competences are based upon the accumulation, assimilation and utilization of the learnt language, whose acquisition depends upon the practice amount and practice opportunities of the language, so students are supposed to plunge into the activities of language practice actively and habitually by acting on their initiative. I think strengthening the guidance on reading strategies is a satisfactory solution to the pressing question of providing Ss with adequate self-experience opportunities, because reading can provide Ss with adequate self-experience and practice opportunities for the comprehensive acquisitions of language skills due to reading's intrinsic characteristic.
Research and Exploration into the Development of Students' Practical and Innovative Abilities in Engineering Colleges
Author: Wang, Xiumei
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Engineering,Engineering Education,Innovation,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate Study,Teaching Methods,Experiments,Educational Change,Simulation,School Business Relationship,Teacher Student Relationship,College Administration,Extracurricular Activities

Practical teaching plays an important role in developing students' practical and innovative abilities. Starting from the idea of &quot;emphasis on practice and ability&quot;, this article proposes to take a series of measures to improve students' practical ability in undergraduate teaching. In addition, a platform should be built to develop students' innovative abilities. Our practice has shown that these measures have taken favorable effects.
Rhythm in Translations
Author: Ding, Renlun
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Translation,Language Rhythm,Grammar,Second Languages,Foreign Countries

This research is an attempt at the elucidation of the significance of rhythmic in translations. According to Eugene A. Nada's functional equivalence, the comprehensive effect which the receptors of the versions get should be the same as the one the readers of the original get, and since rhythm is an integral part of the style, rhythm should be realized in translations.
The Skills of Teacher's Questioning in English Classes
Author: Ma, Xiaoyan
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Questioning Techniques,Teaching Skills,Teacher Student Relationship,Verbal Communication,Feedback (Response),Language Teachers,Classroom Techniques,Theory Practice Relationship,Error Correction,Foreign Countries

English is a main subject in Chinese English classes, which requires plenty of practice, needs cooperation between the teacher and students in class to jointly fulfill the verbal communication and the teaching-learning procedure. Classroom questioning, the skill of the elicitation method of teaching that is student-oriented and advocated today, gives an incentive to communicative activities in English. Raising questions effectively is a major method of the teacher who guides his students to think actively, fostering students' ability of analysis and creation. It is also an essential way for the teacher to output information and obtain feedback, and an important channel to exchange ideas between the teacher and students. Therefore, the teacher must pay great attention to the skill of asking questions in English class. Each question must be presented to accomplish the teaching objective and task. Only in this way may the English teachers ask question effectively and improve the skill of questioning so as to make contribution to our Chinese English education. To begin with some elemental definitions, this paper discusses some basic knowledge of questions, and then explores the skill of questioning in English class about the preparing, designing, controlling and evaluating of questioning. Finally the benefit of the skill is studied with abundant teaching cases. The paper analyzes tentative in English class by integrating theory with practice. Thus, the skills of questioning are further understood in English classes.
The Feasibility of Applying PBL Teaching Method to Surgery Teaching of Chinese Medicine
Author: Tang, Qianli
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Medical Education,Surgery,Problem Based Learning,Teaching Methods,Role,Questionnaires,Clinical Diagnosis,Foreign Countries,Experimental Groups,Educational Quality,Sampling,Medical School Faculty,Medical Students,Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes

The traditional classroom teaching mode is based on the content of the subject, takes the teacher as the center and gives priority to classroom instruction. While PBL (Problem Based Learning) teaching method breaches the traditional mode, combining the basic science with clinical practice and covering the process from discussion to self-study to re-discussion and re-self-study, and students become into the active role of learning under this teaching method. This research finds that PBL teaching method is welcomed and accepted by most of the students and teachers, and it will improve the abilities such as understanding, comprehensive analysis, diagnostic identification and treatment application. It is feasible to apply PBL method in teaching surgery of Chinese medicine.
Probe into the Elements of Leisure Sports Practice
Author: Li, Kaixian
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leisure Education,Physical Activities,Educational Practices,Exercise,Physical Environment,Time on Task,Skill Analysis,Physical Education

This paper probes into the basic elements of leisure sports practice by referencing literature materials and logic analyses. Studies show that leisure sports practice consists of six elements, including leisure sports ideas, leisure sports environment, leisure sports time, leisure sports activity, leisure sports skill, and leisure sports state. All these six elements connect with and restrain one another. Absence of any element will affect the application of leisure sports.
Study on the Intuitive Introduction in Calculus Teaching
Author: Dai, Jianxin
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Calculus,Mathematics Education,Teaching Methods,Performance Factors,Feasibility Studies,Mathematical Applications,Educational Practices,Foreign Countries

In the popularization course of higher education, students entering into the higher colleges are not those excellent students with excellent achievements in the senior school, so the teaching of college mathematics in higher colleges should transform from the learning emphasis to popularization emphasis for traditional excellent higher education. In the transformation process, as a main basic course for the students of the engineering course, the calculus has many problems in the teaching. Based on many years' teaching practice and theoretic research, in this article, we first analyze the problems and antinomies faced by calculus teaching, demonstrate the feasibility of intuitive introduction method from the mathematical essential and the rule of human thinking, and finally explain the implementation method of the intuitive introduction combining with concrete teaching cases.
The Sexism in English and Its Rebuilding
Author: Xu, Xiang
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English,Gender Bias,Language Usage,Cultural Influences,Ideology,Social Bias

Through lots of examples, the passage exhibits the phenomenon of sexism in English and its reason, its main display and its rebuilding, and explains the importance of eliminating it.
Teaching Comprehension Skills Using Context-Based Texts in Second Language Learning at Tertiary Level
Author: Samah, Hajah Siti Akmar Abu
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Instruction,Reading Comprehension,Context Effect,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Undergraduate Students,Reader Text Relationship,Barriers,Foreign Countries

Content-based reading texts play a vital role in the acquisition of knowledge and information in various fields of studies. Reading these texts at higher institution demands a great deal of effort from the students who are learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). These students who are generally school leavers, whose level or reading exposure is confined to Bahasa Malaysia-based text in their primary and secondary education, have to tackle on their own the tremendous demand of reading and comprehending the English content-based texts. These texts are derived from reference books or lecture notes, which are in English and may pose language barriers for the ESL learners. These are also ESL learners when first enter tertiary level; have met a minimum requirement of at least a credit in English as a second language at secondary school level. These reading materials pose comprehension difficulties when they are streamlined into specific field of studies. This paper attempts to look into the training of selected comprehension skills that language lecturers, particularly new ones in the teaching field, can apply the teaching skills to help learners to alleviate the comprehension challenges when reading content-based texts. This paper is also intended to assist new language lecturers who are embarking in ESL teaching of reading comprehension using content-based texts.
Theory and Practice of Chinese-English Bilingual Teaching in Circuit Course
Author: Chen, Xiao
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Chinese,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Physics,Thinking Skills,Science Instruction,English for Science and Technology,Competition,Second Language Instruction,Bilingual Education,Innovation,Talent Development,Teaching Methods,Educational Quality,Information Technology,Instructional Materials,Engineering Education,Foreign Countries,Course Content

The Chinese-English bilingual teaching in the circuit course is an important approach to foster innovational talents for the electronic industry in the new century. In this article, we analyze the background, applicability and feasibility of bilingual teaching in the course of circuit and the difficulties facing in the process of implementation. We explore various approaches and methods to overcome these difficulties and obtain better effects from many aspects such as teaching materials, teachers, teaching method and students. Taking the teaching contents of the first chapter in the course of circuit as an example, we adopt new Chinese-English bilingual teaching system and modes to make students grasp the basic theory and method of circuit, foster students' English thinking abilities, combine the theoretic teaching of scientific and technologic English and the theoretic teaching of circuit, and enhance students' international competitive consciousness and international competitive ability.
Thoroughly Applying Scientific Outlook on Development Implementing Sustainable Development Strategy in Higher Vocational Colleges
Author: Li, Zhi
Date: 2008-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Vocational Education,Vocational Schools,Higher Education,Colleges,Educational Improvement,Educational Quality,Sustainable Development,Leadership,Scientific Attitudes,Orientation,School Business Relationship,Educational Change,Curriculum Development,Foreign Countries

To make breakthroughs, obtain further development, and win in the fierce competition, higher vocational colleges must apply scientific outlook on development, set up students-and-teachers oriented educational concept, enhance connotation construction, create competition advantages so as to fully improve education and teaching quality and realize sustainability development.
On the Characteristics of Higher Education in Canada and Its Inspiration
Author: Xu, Qingyun
Date: 2009-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Influences,Motivation,Educational History,College Administration,International Education,Educational Finance,College Credits,Government School Relationship

Higher education in Canada has rich features: the unique system of educational administration and policy; the distinct features of university management model; dynamic international education; and flexible and diverse in the school system and the financing system. Drawn from the four aspects, it could be used for reference in China's higher education reform: to strengthen macro-control; to expand university autonomy; to establish the credit system as the main content of teaching management system; to continue to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation; to ensure the government's main body of investment in higher education and to establish the systems of multi-channel financing.
Analyzing Exertion of Hardy's Tragic Effect in &quot;Tess&quot;
Author: Yang, Wei
Date: 2009-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Literature Appreciation,Literary Criticism,Fiction,English Literature,Didacticism,Tragedy,Literary Devices

This paper begins with a brief introduction to [Thomas] Hardy's whole life and his works, especially this novel &quot;Tess [of the D'Urbervilles]&quot; and points out the tragic effect's importance and Hardy's tragic idea. Linked to this tragic effect, this paper analyzes the nice application in &quot;Tess.&quot; At last, we can understand more the fame of tragic effect and how it applies in Hardy's works.
A Survey of Graduates' Employment and New Venture Creation in China in 2008
Author: Zhang, Hongyi
Date: 2009-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,College Graduates,Career Planning,Career Education,Employment Opportunities,Entrepreneurship,Employment Statistics

&quot;Graduates employment&quot; is always the focus of society in China. At present, the hardness of graduates employment is an important issue for the development of China's higher education, which has already aroused more attentions from the Communist Party of China and the government. Graduates' views on career-choosing, family backgrounds, specialties, curriculum, recognitions to new venture creation, and many other factors impact their employment and new venture creation. Therefore, in order to solve the graduates employment issue, colleges and universities should build up innovative education ideas, offer courses of employment, especially courses of career planning and new venture creation, help college students form complete employment and new venture creation knowledge structures, expand their thoughts on employment, cultivate their consciousness of independent new venture creation and self-care ability, contributing to the social harmony and development.