Where there is no hope: a teacher’s experience with homelessness

Stereotypical notions of who experiences homelessness frame how educational institutions approach policy and program development. This life history of a teacher challenges assumptions by providing an in-depth look at a mother’s struggle to find stability.     

Struggling with workload: Primary teachers’ experience of intensification

During the last two decades teachers in many countries have found themselves facing new demands and changes. In his “intensification thesis” Apple, M.W. [(1986). Teachers and Texts. A political economy of class and gender relations in educations. London: Routledge] made a powerful attempt to conceptualize and explain these changes: the growing economic oriented perspective on education leads to an intensification of teachers' work. This paper, which reports on qualitative–interpretative case studies in Flemish (Belgian) primary schools, contributes to a more refined understanding of teachers' working conditions. Using “experience of intensification” as a central concept, the authors call for a refined understanding of the complex interplay of teachers' professional selves, the cultural and structural working conditions in the school and the different “calls for change” they have to deal with. Based on multiple case studies, the authors demonstrate that the experience of intensification is mediated through processes of interpretation and sense-making that are influenced by the organizational working conditions as well as teachers' sense of professional identity.     

Challenge-based instruction promotes students’ development of transferable frameworks and confidence for engineering problem solving

ABSTRACT

Challenge-based teaching facilitates students’ simultaneous development of content mastery and strategies for applying technical knowledge innovatively. The University of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering has offered a challenge-based course on biotransport as an accelerated study-abroad learning experience in Cambridge, England. We used a mixed methods approach to characterize students’ learning trajectory, to include technical prowess, problem-solving self-efficacy, and engineering identity throughout the entirety of this course. Students developed problem solving strategies and confidence over the semester and readily transferred their acquired solution framework to technical domains outside of the course subject of biotransport. Students identified challenge-based pedagogies as their preferred methods of classroom instruction, became familiar with corresponding assessments, and identified strongly as practitioners within the engineering field. We believe this illustrative case study provides significant evidence for the effectiveness of challenge-based instruction and can serve as a model for pedagogy-sensitive classroom assessment in engineering.     

关于民族问题的思考

我国是多民族共存的国家,民族问题在客观上是一种长期的社会存在。在处理民族关系时,应该强化作为中华人民共和国公民的国家归属的政治认同和作为中华民族大家庭一员的中华民族的认同,强化公民的意识和公民的权利义务,从而促进民族团结融合,共同维护国家的统一和完整。     

中外学术文本中作者身份的构建

学术文本中作者身份的体现一直受到抑制,学术交流不能在作者和读者之间直接顺畅地进行。近20年来已经有越来越多的中外学者开始重视到作者身份在论文中的构建这个问题。为了与时俱进,并与国际期刊接轨,国内的学术写作规范也应做出进一步的改进和完善。     

关汉卿作品中女性形象的身份意识觉醒

关汉卿的杂剧代表着元杂剧辉煌的成就,他的剧本渗透着浓浓的女性关照,凸显着元代女性真实的生存状况：敢于冲破旧樊篱和改变自身命运。《救风尘》《望江亭》和《窦娥冤》三部作品中的主要女性形象赵盼儿、谭记儿和窦娥就是他们中杰出的代表,她们被社会所逼,被政权、族权、父权、夫权所逼,敢于控诉封建社会妇女地位,敢于追求爱情,敢于维护自身的尊严,具有光辉夺目的魅力。本文主要对关汉卿杂剧《救风尘》《望江亭》和《窦娥冤》三部作品中的主要女性形象赵盼儿、谭记儿、窦娥的身份意识的觉醒探析,进而深入剖析女性觉醒带来的社会意义,总结这种意识的进步和局限。     

夸克的反常磁矩

在Dyson-Schwinger(DS)方法的框架下,我们计算了夸克的反常磁矩。结果表明,在模型胶子传播子三组参数下,夸克发生手征自发对称性破缺的时候,获得了一定的反常磁矩。     

妈祖信仰与马来西亚华人社会—文化认同的视角

以信仰为载体建构认同是一个复杂的社会文化现象。妈祖信仰是马来西亚华人的主要信仰之一,在传承中国传统文化,凝聚华人共同意识,组织华人参与集体生活等方面发挥着重要功能。在马来西亚种族多样、文化异质的多元社会里,妈祖信仰通过仪式、建立会馆组织等途径建构了华人的文化认同。