The politics of similarity within difference: A pedagogy for the other

The cultural political struggles of five female teachers in a heavily populated minority urban school in Southern California depicts bothsimilarity anddifference. Similarly, each teacher struggles to help overcome her own and students' oppression, subordination, and alienation. Through understandingsimilarity, different teacher and student voices make understanding the other easier. It is argued that understanding similarity within difference opens space for a democratic imaginary, that, while not clearly articulated at any one moment, acts to variously challenge the oppressive forces existing within and outside of schools.     

Social difference and the politics of schooling in Africa: a Ghanaian case study

This paper examines the implications of ‘social difference’ for schooling in African contexts. It highlights theoretical and philosophical engagements with ‘difference’ that could help explore and search for viable educational options in Africa. The paper engages voices of university students interviewed in a longitudinal ethnographic research study on schooling done in Ghana. Issues and questions about knowledge production, identity development and representation in pluralistic schooling contexts are raised. Insights about local knowledges, individual agency and resistance as they relate to possibilities for rethinking schooling and education in Africa are also explored. The students' narratives reveal how dialogues about school and educators' practices about difference and diversity are [not] addressed with respect to the students' schooling. Lessons on the possibilities of inclusive schooling environments are offered.     

Education,citizenship and difference in the South African transition: policy,politics and practice

The article looks at three approaches to analysing the relationship between education, citizenship and difference that have been evident in the transition to democracy in South Africa. First, it examines the position that education moulds good citizens and overcomes discriminatory differences, which is evident in the South African Education Policy Act. (This position is similar to that expounded in the Crick Report.) Second, it looks at the view that education is an enactment of citizenship and a celebration of difference. This is articulated in the new South African Curriculum 2005, which celebrates the school as just one of a number of learning spaces, but which is only slowly being implemented with considerable difficulty in overcoming deeply entrenched and multifaceted discriminatory views. Third, it looks at the view, articulated in the South African Constitution of 1996, that education is a relatively autonomous space and that in this particular institutional space education, difference and citizenship are in tension. While there is potential for a creative dialogue to emerge in this historically formed space, preliminary research findings indicate how difficult and diffuse the process of transformation is likely to be.     

浅论政法类高职院校的教师师德建设

国家对职业教育的重视程度也达到空前的关注,近年来,随着政法类高职院校教师的不断扩充,教师队伍的日益壮大,而其中部分老师在师德方面也存在着不少问题,应当引起我们的重视。     

论加强社会主义民主政治建设

分析了民主政治的一般特点和社会主义民主政治的本质，阐述了社会主义民主政治的五大目标要求，进而从理论和实践的结合上论述了社会主义民主政治建设的六大任务，即确立主体地位、制约公共权力、发扬党内民主、改进人大工作、加强政治协商和扩大民主自治。     

政治与伦理的统一：华北抗日根据地和睦家庭的建设

抗战初期,华北抗日根据地妇女运动中出现了政治与伦理相分离的问题,用粗暴的斗争方式解决家庭纠纷,形成了妇女主义偏向,激化了性别矛盾和代际冲突,以至影响了抗战.1939年后,华北根据地党组织开展了和睦家庭建设运动,把政治取向融合于伦理情谊之中,改良家庭关系,既从家庭束缚中解放了妇女,又巩固了农民阶级统一战线,较好地发挥了团结抗战、造福民众的历史作用.     

高水平大学建设要重点处理好的八个关系

如何建设高水平大学是高等教育领域的热点。中国高水平大学建设要处理好适应与引领、卓越与特色、学术与行政、教学与科研、学校与院系等八个基本关系。解决好这八个方面的问题,需要大学管理者、高等教育研究人员深入细致的思考与务实的研究。     

高校创业教育差异化指导体系构建探讨

创业教育是高校人才培养的重要途径。大学生个体的差异性造成了学生在接受创业教育的需求层次、目标定位和教育基础等方面的不同。因此,高校要积极构建以教育对象差异化为纵向、辅以实施差异化的平台建设为横向的创业教育分类指导体系,最终促进创新创业型人才的培养。     

自主学习下政治复习课堂的构建

自主学习是新课程改革的主题方向,它强调在教育过程中全面促进人的发展。促进学生的自主学习和培养自主学习能力是知识经济社会和素质教育的必然要求。在课堂教学实际当中"激发学生自主学习兴趣,增强自主学习意识;搭建学生自我展示的舞台,锻炼自主学习能力"。     

Making a difference in poor communities: relations among actors in Mexican schools

Even in marginalized towns it is possible to find school communities that have developed relationships that encourage the construction of institutional cultures and management structures prone to superior academic performance compared to others within the same context. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research project conducted in 8 towns and 16 schools in Mexico. The analytical framework is based on Kenneth Gergen’s social constructionism. The paper highlights the role of the school’s principal in the construction of relationships in the school community and the build-up of practices leading to shared meaning and goals. The desire and ability of the principal to promote dialogue and provide spaces for it are central, as well as her or his ability to interpret and translate the needs of parents and community, and the systemic norms from the Ministry of Education, to the reality of the community and the parents.     

The Intersectionality of African American Mothers in Counselor Education: A Phenomenological Examination

Using phenomenological inquiry, this study explored the lived experiences and intersecting identities of 8 African American counselor educators who are mothers. Six themes were identified: race, professional strain, work–life balance, support, internalized success, and mothering pedagogy.     

Domestic Violence Among the Black Poor: Intersectionality and Social Justice

There are striking gender, race, and class variations in rates of domestic violence. Some leading family theorists called for an intersectional analysis of how gender, race and class systems interact to improve domestic violence theory. This article improves domestic violence theory by: 1) using the discourse, or language, of intersectionality; 2) developing a metadisciplinary ecological model of the intersectionality of gender, race and class to investigate domestic violence in lower-class Black communities; and 3) listing implications for counselors that are derived from the perspectives of intersectionality and social justice. These implications are applicable throughout those regions where, historically, colonialist enterprises established racial hierarchies, with enslaved Africans at the bottom.     

统一战线在现阶段中国民主政治建设中的作用

现阶段,建设社会主义民主政治是历史的必然和全国人民的愿望和要求。统一战线作为凝聚全社会力量的纽带,在我国民主政治建设中的独特作用充分体现在建设民主政权、民主政治制度和民主政治文化这三个层面上。在民主政治建设中统一战线应该发挥自身的优势,进一步推进我国民主政治建设进程。     

Marking-out normalcy and disability in higher education

This article advocates for socially just pedagogies in higher education to challenge senses of normalcy that perpetuate elitist academic attitudes towards the inclusion of disabled students. Normalcy is equated here with an everyday eugenics, which heralds a non-disabled person without ‘defects’, or impairments, as the ideal norm. This article attempts to mark the pervasiveness of normalcy in higher education by presenting findings from a systematic experience survey of disabled students and non-disabled students within one higher education institution in the United Kingdom. The findings indicate that disabled students who have institutional disability support express more difficulties in their learning and assessment than students with no known disability. However, it was found that there was no significant difference in academic achievement between the two cohorts of students. In relation to the latter point, the evidence also shows that disabled students who do not receive institutional disability support underperform.     

Preconceptions and relations used by children in the construction of food chains

This study shows two aspects: the predator–prey relations and the preconceptions held by children (9–10 years old) on the construction of food chains. The subjects of the study were 506 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade children from the Mexican education curriculum. The conclusions are based on a single application of an instrument after a lecture in the classroom. The instrument consists of three tasks. The outcome showed that the classification of herbivorous and carnivorous is based in children's preconceptions of size and ferocity. These preconceptions guide the children's selection of the higher-level predator in the construction of a food chain. Another element used by children is the predator-prey relation in the construction of a food chain. The results shed light on the difficulties students have at higher education levels in the resolution of food webs and the relationships with ecosystems.     

加强高校廉政文化建设构建和谐校园

加强高校廉政文化建设,对于搞好高校和谐校园文化建设、推进和谐校园建设进程、培养社会主义合格建设者和可靠接班人具有十分重要的意义。加强高校廉政文化建设必须通过抓学习抓教育。培育崇廉拒贪的思想意识;抓载体抓引导,营造浓厚的廉政文化氛围;抓机制抓落实,形成廉政文化建设合力。     

论高校全员育人思想政治教育机制的构建

新时期对大学生思想政治工作提出了新的要求,构建全员育人的高校思想政治教育工作机制是符合大学生发展需要的工作模式。本文结合当前高校思想政治工作的实际,从全员育人机制的内涵、高校大学生思想政治教育工作现状与构建高校全员参与的育人机制等方面进行了探讨与研究。     

Childhood and normalcy: classification, numerical regularities, and tabulations

This chapter is about the changing status of childhood at the turn of the century. By status, the author means substantially two things. The first is the emergence of the child as a social actor in a given society, which is a tremendous change from a previous period where he or she was deprived of most rights and responsibilities. The second is a reconfiguration by scientific investigation of what is a normal child, since the question of normalcy was not very relevant to the area of childhood before. The systematic scientific investigation of childhood that began in the 19th Century had a certain number of effects, the most important of which was the construction of the normal child. This chapter examines parts of this scientific literature, describing the various forms that redefine the normal child in the fields of public hygiene, pediatrics, and child psychology.