¡@In view of the political economy of education, the purpose of this thesis is to study the educational thought of Martin Carnoy, who is a political economist and an educationist in the U.S. We are concerned with the relationship between education and capitalist state.¡@Central to this thesis is the state theory and discuss the functions and roles of education in different context, including colonial period, developing countries and advanced capitalist state. ¡@Since the spread of imperialism in colonial period, the colonial schooling is dominated by the colonizer and rationalizes the colonialism. The colonial schooling is therefore a liberating force to help the colonized against the colonizer. According to Lenin¡¦s imperialism, Carnoy explains the relation between colonial education and colonizer in the colonial period. ¡@In developing countries, both the conditioned capitalist state and transition state, the state bureaucracy makes national economic growth its first priority and so does the educational goal. People desire their children to learn more knowledge, however, to increase mass education rapidly. Based on educational dependency theory, Carnoy accounts for the roles of education in the Third World state. ¡@In advanced capitalist state, the state is a product and shaper of class struggle. Thus, the source of education change is pressed by economic reproductive and democratic dynamics. According to the last thought of Poulantzas, Carnoy constructs the ¡§social-conflict theory¡¨ to predict that economic development and social movements influence the education policies. ¡@It should be concluded, from Carnoy¡¦s educational thought, that the core of Carnoy¡¦s education work is the state theory. He criticizes the problems of capitalist education and approves the positive functions of schooling.

A Study of Research and Publishing Patterns among University Faculty Members in Taiwan Huei-Yu Huang Abstract The main purposes of this study were (a) to investigate if the research and publishing patterns of university faculty members in Taiwan indicates the educational dependency phenomenon; and (b) to compare if the research and publishing patterns of the faculty with different variables (including gender, the country where faculty members acquired the highest degree, rank, years of service in university, career orientation, reputation of the departments and organizational context, academic discipline, and time spent on research or instruction) has significant differences. The subjects of this study consisted of the active researchers in natural science, social science and art & humanities in the past 3 years (1999~2001), and these subjects were selected from the local and foreign citation database of SCI, SSCI, A&HCI, TSCI, TSSCI,and THCI. Through the survey of paper and cyber questionnaire of The Survey on the Research and Publishing Patterns among University Faculty Members in Taiwan, 329 samples responded. Most analysis methods were descriptives, t-test, chi-square test, and one-way ANOVA. The findings and conclusions of this study were as follows: 1. The publishing preference of university faculty members in Taiwan indicated a center-periphery phenomenon that the educational dependency theory suggested. The research findings were published mainly in journals issued in western countries. Besides, the academic journals were also their first choice to make their research finding public. 2. The literature citation preference of faculty members in Taiwan revealed a center-periphery phenomenon that the educational theory suggested. The literature written in English and academic journals have been the main source for citation. 3. The local and foreign academic publishers did not discriminate non-resident scholars or non-local subjects during their review processes; while it was usually an effective tactics to co-work with foreign scholars or to follow the mainstream issues in order to have the academic papers successfully published. 4. The faculty members in Taiwan commonly had the attitudes of endorsing the local citation index database. However, most subjects still deemed the journals of foreign database as the preferred sources of reference in their promotion processes of professorial ranks, and insisted on submitting their papers to foreign journals. 5. The research and publishing patterns of the faculty members with different variables (including gender, the country where faculty members acquired the highest degree, rank, years of service in university, career orientation, reputation of the departments and organizational context, academic discipline, and time spent on research or instruction) had significant differences. Finally, some suggestions were proposed by the researcher for related institutions, faculty members, and further studies.