EcoWellness & Guiding Principles for the Ethical Integration of Nature into Counseling

Connection with nature impacts human wellness, yet few resources currently exist in the international literature to help guide clinicians in the ethical integration of EcoWellness into therapeutic processes. Ethical principles for EcoWellness practice are introduced and linked to applicable portions of the American Counseling Association’s (2014) Code of Ethics. The author presents a case example to demonstrate the application of these principles in a clinical setting and implications for counselor education and research are discussed.     

A cross-cultural exploration of ‘wild’ in wilderness therapy: Canada,Norway and Australia

This paper addresses pluralistic understandings of wilderness in the context of wilderness therapy (WT). The term wilderness perpetuates a modern worldview of place that beyond ‘civilisation’ exists an environment defined by risk, fear and an unpredictable nature. WT utilises outdoor travel and living practices during therapeutic intervention and health promotion although empirical justification for its use of wilderness for therapy is not yet established. This paper provides three cultural perspectives on wild places in relation to WT. These national perspectives are informed by local practices, historical and societal understandings of wilderness and supported by related literature from Canada, Norway and Australia. The authors (1) illustrate a number of contemporary western assumptions about wilderness enshrined in the WT and outdoor adventure literature, (2) cautiously propose core purposes for using wild places for therapy and (3) encourage further development of WT practice and research within national, regional and even across organisational contexts.     

Understanding gaps in research networks: using “spatial reasoning” as a window into the importance of networked educational research

This paper finds its origins in a multidisciplinary research group’s efforts to assemble a review of research in order to better appreciate how “spatial reasoning” is understood and investigated across academic disciplines. We first collaborated to create a historical map of the development of spatial reasoning across key disciplines over the last century. The map informed the structure of our citation search and oriented an examination of connection across disciplines. Next, we undertook a network analysis that was based on highly cited articles in a broad range of domains. Several connection gaps—that is, apparent blockages, one-way flows, and other limitations on communications among disciplines—were identified in our network analysis, and it was apparent that these connection gaps may be frustrating efforts to understand the conceptual complexity and the educational significance of spatial reasoning. While these gaps occur between the academic disciplines that we evaluated, we selected a few examples for closer analysis. To illustrate how this lack of flow can limit development of the field of mathematics education, we selected cases where it is evident that researchers in mathematics education are not incorporating the important work of mathematicians, psychologists, and neuroscientists—and vice versa. Ultimately, we argue, a more pronounced emphasis on transdisciplinary (versus multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary) research might be timely, and perhaps even necessary, in the evolution of educational research.     

From carbon to buckypaper

This article aims to highlight the amazing properties and potential uses of the more recently developed allotropes of carbon such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, fullerene, and buckypaper. This is an area offering wide opportunity for research, especially due to the multidisciplinary nature of applications.     

Counselor Educators and Qualitative Research: Affirming a Research Identity

The lack of enthusiastic research activity among counseling professionals has been a subject of professional concern for the last 2 decades. Many graduates of counselor education programs are not connected to academic research and do not establish a research identity. Qualitative research methods have the potential for creating this connection for some students. To increase understanding of the nature and potential usefulness of this paradigm for increasing counselors' connection to academic research, the authors conducted a phenomenological study to investigate the experiences of counselor education doctoral students as they encountered qualitative research. Students' positive responses were summarized as they reflected 4 themes: worldview congruence, theory and skills congruence, research identity and professional viability, and holistic nature of perceptions and experiences.     

Integrating multidisciplinary engineering knowledge

In order to design two distinct engineering qualification levels for an existing University of Technology programme, empirical evidence based on the current diploma is necessary to illuminate the nature of and the relationship between the contextual and conceptual elements underpinning a multidisciplinary engineering curriculum. The increasing focus on contextual application could result in decreasing opportunities to develop the conceptual disciplinary grasp required for a dynamic, emerging region at the forefront of technological innovation. Using the theoretical tools of Bernstein and Maton to analyse final year student practice, the research addresses the question of how multidisciplinary knowledge is integrated by students, and what this reveals about the nature of such knowledge. The paper presents a conceptualisation of multidisciplinary knowledge integration practices as a dynamic process along two axes simultaneously, shifting between different forms and levels of conceptual and contextual knowledge.     

Using Resources of Nature in the Counselling Room: Qualitative Research into Ecotherapy Practice

Ecotherapy uses the resources of the natural environment to assist clients with a variety of symptoms, and has been found to be effective with anxiety, depression, stress and attention difficulties. While ecotherapy is often practiced outside of the consulting room, it can also be incorporated into more traditional indoor counselling settings. This qualitative research explored the practices of counsellors who implement ecotherapy as a treatment modality in their consulting rooms. Thirty participants (22 females and 8 males) from six countries completed an open-ended questionnaire. Of those 30 participants eleven (8 females and 3 males) were also interviewed. Data were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Common practices reported by participants included: assigning nature-based homework exercises, facilitating an experiential connection to nature, nature guided mindfulness/meditation, and the sophisticated use of nature metaphors. This research provides insight into how nature-based techniques can be incorporated into conventional indoor counselling settings.     

Design of an integrated team project as bachelor thesis in bioscience engineering

Following the decision at the KU Leuven to implement the educational concept of guided independent learning and to encourage students to participate in scientific research, the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering decided to introduce a bachelor thesis. Competencies, such as communication, scientific research and teamwork, need to be present in the design of this thesis. Because of the high number of students and the multidisciplinary nature of the graduates, all research divisions of the faculty are asked to participate. The yearly surveys and hearings were used for further optimisation. The actual design of this bachelor thesis is presented and discussed in this paper.     

关于“左联”研究

左联研究中存在着几个重要问题，主张应当有严格意义上的左联学的学术概念，认为重要学史料的搜集整理，现代学及左翼的史料建设应当得到学术性的认可，在左联研究中要注意学评价与学史评价的区分与联系。     

A Framework for Teaching Epistemic Insight in Schools

This paper gives the rationale and a draft outline for a framework for education to teach epistemic insight into schools in England. The motivation to research and propose a strategy to teach and assess epistemic insight followed research that investigated how students and teachers in primary and secondary schools respond to big questions about the nature of reality and human personhood. The research revealed that there are pressures in schools that dampen students’ expressed curiosity in these types of questions and limit their developing epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate. These findings prompted the construction of a framework for education for students aged 5–16 designed to encourage students’ expressed interest in big questions and develop their understanding of the ways that science interacts with other ways of knowing. The centrepiece of the framework is a sequence of learning objectives for epistemic insight, organised into three categories. The categories are, firstly, the nature of science in real world contexts and multidisciplinary arenas; secondly, ways of knowing and how they interact; and thirdly, the relationships between science and religion. Our current version of the Framework is constructed to respond to the way that teaching is organised in England. The key principles and many of the activities could be adopted and tailored to work in many other countries.     

Disconnecting to Connect: Developing Postconnectivist Tactics for Mobile and Networked Technical Communication

ABSTRACT

In a networked society, humans are connected through mobile devices to always-on networks, and these technologies merge with us in new ways. In this environment, studying human-networked interactions involves an expanded type of usability. In this article, we argue that a key component of usability is how humans connect and disconnect from these networks. For this reason, the authors advocate studying how users connect and disconnect between online and offline contexts in their everyday life. Such an effort involves questioning our assumptions about the role of connection in usability and introduces methodological issues in studying these processes. These shifts require our research to be more multidisciplinary and more methodologically demanding, with major implications for the portability and durability of technical communication research.     

Cultural Sustainability in Art‐Based Interdisciplinary Dialogue

This article introduces an international and interdisciplinary summer school, ‘Living in the Landscape’ (LiLa) in 2018. LiLa's practices focused on creating dialogue among art education, anthropology and nature science and developing culturally sustainable methods for investigating cultural heritage in the Komi Republic of Russia. The article's research interest is how dialogue and cultural heritage appear in the artistic processes, artworks and final exhibition of the summer school. These are examined through art‐based action research in order to develop international, multidisciplinary and culturally sustainable art education. The four‐field model utilised in the research highlights the multidimensional role of dialogue in both individual and collaborative artistic endeavours.     

高等教育多学科研究中的一些认识问题

高等教育的多学科研究虽然被高等教育理论和实践证明是行之有效的方法,也为大量的研究者所运用,但在开展多学科研究的原因和实际做法上存在着很多误区。这些误区的存在影响着多学科研究的顺利进行,并进而威胁到高等教育研究的进展和理论的成熟。澄清这些误区,有助于更好地理解和运用高等教育的多学科研究方法。     

屠格涅夫《散文诗》中的大自然主题探析

出于对自然的热爱,屠格涅夫将自然主题大量运用到他的作品之中。《散文诗》是屠氏创作活动的最后一座里程碑,体现着作者的哲学思想,其中涵括自然主题的诗篇承载了作者的自然观。屠氏自然观复杂而矛盾,与浪漫主义情愫、悲观主义、自然神论及其爱情观有着密不可分的联系,这也决定了散文诗对自然表现的多样化。此外,屠氏自然观与中国山水田园诗人的自然观有契合和差异之处,二者的自然观皆能予当代人以启迪。     

现代西方政治传播研究述评

随着20世纪人文社会科学研究的繁荣与深入,政治传播研究作为一个跨越了传播学、历史学、新闻学、大众传播学、政治学、心理学、社会学等诸多学科的新的研究领域,已成为越来越多的国内外学者的研究旨趣.本文拟对现代西方政治传播研究的历史脉络、理论流派、研究方法以及学科构建等作一梳理和述评,以期为方兴未艾的中国政治传播研究提供一些理论借鉴.     

后现代主义文论的误区

后现代主义文论最大的理论误区在于颠倒了现象同本质的关系,从而抽空和置换了文学最本质的东西,即人性和审美。传统的文学基本命题是“文学即人学”、“艺术即人性”,“艺术即形象思维”。而后现代主义文化的主要命题是:“语言即形象”,“艺术即手法”。形象成为了“各种不同主语的固定谓语的能力”,这样就颠覆了文学的本质。他们从根本上无视文学审美与文学人性等本质性的东西,而专门在现象上大做文章,偷天换日地将文学转换成了冷冰冰的语言学,沉迷于文学语言学的学究式考据,停留于语言学分析的技术操作层,使得文论丧失了对文学指导的前瞻性与批判性。这种“玩文学”的做法竟然把文学理论变成了一场纯粹的语言学游戏,因而值得人们反思。     

制度分析与高等教育研究

制度分析不仅以制度为研究对象 ,还构成一种研究方法与范式 ,即通过制度主义视角重新审视高等教育现象与问题 ,提出制度创新的可能途径。制度分析主要源于新制度主义的启发 ,借鉴了多学科方法 ,在理论上强调制度的内生性特点 ,对具体制度做发生学研究 ,追问制度安排的合法性。高等教育制度分析具备上述特征 ,并着力探讨高等教育诱致性制度变迁的可能性 ,试图从交易成本理论、组织理论、博弈论等出发 ,揭示高等教育制度的双重性 :既是重复博弈的内生产物 ,又独立于参与者的行动选择。高等教育制度分析服从于高等教育组织特性。目前 ,当务之急是要处理好理论研究、经验研究和政策分析三者之间的关系     

'Your View of Nature is Not Mine!': Learning about pluralism in the classroom

This paper describes a multidisciplinary action research project that aimed to develop a theoretical framework and four exemplary teaching modules for elementary and secondary school that promote a pluralistic view on nature. In a 2-year study, researchers from three disciplines (pedagogy, sociology and philosophy) collaborated with curriculum developers and textbook authors. This paper presents the theoretical framework that was developed during the project. The teaching modules are described, and one of the modules is delineated. Finally, the results are discussed.     

基于觉知者的自我建构进路:自我难题试解

当下关于自我的研究方兴未艾,基于分析哲学与现象学的不同研究路径,为有无自我、自我是什么等形而上学问题提出各自分析框架,但关于自我的本体论困境、历时性与共时性的统一、第一人称性、自我是否实在等问题依然或强或弱地存在。鉴于神经科学、精神病学的长足进步以及多学科研究自我成就,应通过梳理自我的命题态度解释、叙事性自我、最低限度自我,在演化视阈下用自我的三个阶段论,用觉知者的自我重新尝试解决自我的所谓同一性、主观性和实在性方面问题。